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In episode 6, “Hunters in the Dark,” Cousin Dan reappears after years of hard living, we learn that one of our earliest guesses was right, Harris James reveals himself to be a major league creep, and we get a glimpse into a queen’s pink castle.As we do every week, we’ll run through the show scene-by-scene, pausing occasionally to reinforce important (and so often fleeting) moments and linking the present to the past. And then we’ll dive into themes and evidence, where we make our best case for (and against) everyone.

Table of contents.Amelia and Wayne in bed, 1980We pick up more or less where we left off last week: with the burgeoning couple, minus a sex scene. The gunfight at Trash Man’s house happened earlier that day. Roland’s in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.

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Then Amelia and Wayne rolled around in the hay.Wayne’s more than a little happy, which isn’t an emotion he’s prone to showing. The gunfight was less exciting than what just happened, he says.And we know why.A few episodes back, Wayne explained that he’s not into sex without emotion. And that explains why, a few episodes before that, he turned down Roland’s offer to go to, uh, get some girls.He got what he wants. He’ll spend the next few decades trying to keep it.Anyway, Wayne says he’s not judging Amelia for sleeping with him so quickly.

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2. Start your free trial to watch True Detective and other popular TV shows. (Season Three) Two suspects emerge as the Purcell missing-children case heats up in the town of West Finger, AR. The Big Never. New evidence surfaces for Hays and Roland, ten years after the Purcell crimes occurred.

He shares his cigarette with her. We learn that this the first time that Wayne fired his weapon as a cop. Amelia says she wants to know more about Wayne’s past.“Honestly,” he says, “I never give it thought.

One thing I learned in the war: Life happens now. Then later is now, you know? It’s never behind you. And I’m not avoiding the question. It’s just, I really don’t spend time remembering stuff.”Amelia doesn’t know how Wayne does that. He says he’s just lucky.At this point in his life, living in the moment and ignoring the past is Wayne’s choice.

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He’s deliberate about it, structuring his life that way. But as we know, later, as an old man, his addled brain won’t have a choice. And the irony is that he’ll want desperately to remember. Because the past does matter.

Roland, Wayne, Tom Purcell, and the cops, 1990As Wayne stares through the one-way glass at Tom Purcell in the interrogation room, we hear the woman who called into the hotline saying “tell him to leave me alone. I — I know what he did.”“That certainly sounds like an indictment,” Attorney General Gerald Kindt says. He’s ready to pounce, as usual.

He and his law enforcement croney, Blevins, point out Tom’s lack of an alibi on the night that his children disappeared, and blame Roland and Wayne for not following up on it.Roland point out, correctly, that Freddy Burns told them that he saw Will Purcell alone in the woods while they’d placed Tom back at home, working on his car. Blevins wants to pounce, too. There’s no way around it at this point. In an act of mercy, Roland decides that he and Wayne will interrogate Tom.“I don’t know what that call was,” Roland says to Wayne before he gets into the interrogation room,” But no way we could be that wrong.”The interrogation is every bit as awful as you might expect.

Tom is sad, then confused, then angry. Wayne plays the hardass, as he often does.

They talk as if Tom’s guilty, presumably to scare him into a confession. Kindt and Blevins are on the other side of the glass, so there’s no way for them to go easy. HBO via PolygonWayne brings up the “peephole” in Julie’s room.

(We’ll find out later than an earlier theory of ours was correct. Good job, us!) He also brings Julie’s parentage into question.“I held — I fed her,” Tom says nearly growling, teeth clenched, veins engorged and tracing their way up his forehead.

“Got up in the night. That child is mine.”Roland and Wayne press on, making accusations disguised as questions. Tom transitions from desk-pounding anger to monosyllabic frustration.Tom howls.Outside of the room, Wayne says he doesn’t know if Tom’s telling the truth, even though he can usually tell.Kindt, a world-class jackass, isn’t the least bit deterred, so he keeps talking as if Tom’s guilty.And yet, interestingly, Blevins asks if maybe Tom might’ve planted the evidence at Trash Man Woodard’s house.

And that’s super interesting because the evidence planting theory that Wayne came up with in a previous episode isn’t something that they shared with Blevins or Kindt.Wayne points out that they don’t have enough evidence to arrest Tom. Blevins says to hold him for 24 hours. In the meantime, he wants Roland and Wayne to look for the evidence they don’t have. Kindt says he’ll give them a warrant to check Tom’s house. Roland, who is reasonable, wants to look into the call. Wayne and Eliza in the interview, 2015Wayne becomes confused in his interview.

Eliza asks him if it Julie made the call. Wayne says yes — and that it came from a truckstop outside of Russellville where they found Julie’s prints on a payphone.

So that’s a lock. Roland and Wayne at the truckstop, 1990Wayne says that he didn’t want to tell Blevins and Kindt his theory about the planted shirt and backpack evidence. He doesn’t know if Tom’s guilty, but he knows that telling the bigwig bozos about that would seal Tom’s fate. Amelia and Wayne at home, 1990Wayne struggles to tie his tie because he has to go back to work.

Amelia helps him. He asks where she’s going.“I’ve got things to do,” she says. “New book.”It’s a sequel to her first book, this time about the current investigation. This is the first that Wayne’s heard of it, and who can blame Amelia at this point for keeping that information from him?

Every time they talk about it, Wayne is angry and jealous.Wayne’s back on his kick about people profiting off of others’ suffering. But Amelia makes a hell of a good point: He’s in a position to profit off of the case’s reopening, too. So maybe don’t get so high and mighty.Wayne says if all goes well, he’ll be home more. Amelia’s not so sure that’s what he wants. She’s convinced that he’s avoiding being home.

He’s better as a lone wolf.And now it’s Wayne’s turn to flip the script: Amelia’s looking for a life outside of the home, too, and her new book is proof.She grabs her purse and walks past Wayne without a word. Roland and Wayne on the Tom Purcell investigation, 1990In a voiceover, Old Wayne tells Elisa what happened next: He and Roland investigated Tom Purcell. They visit people Tom used to work with, including his boss (credited as “Foreman,” as in the shop foreman, we presume) — the guy with the beard from the school bus factory.The man says that Tom quit after his kids disappeared, but he’d already checked out before that.“Caught him drinking on the job,” the foreman says.

“More than once.” That makes some sense, given that we know that by 1990, Tom’s been sober for five years.In what seems like a classic throwaway line that’s actually more important than it seems, the man says that Tom was “always asking for a loan and shit.” He also says that Tom didn’t jell with his coworkers.“I didn’t want to say anything back then, but a few of the boys we had around saw him going into a queer club,” he says. “They got on him a lot after.”Welp. It’s at least possible at this point to say that Tom wasn’t super interested in his wife if he was gay but living straight. Wayne and Roland at Tom’s trailer, 1990The last time we saw Tom’s trailer, Roland came to visit him. This time, he and Wayne are here to search it.What do they find? A bunch of past due bills.

The Alcoholics Anonymous serenity prayer framed on the wall. Books about AA.

A typewriter. Pictures of young Julie. A picture of Julie and Tom when she was a toddler.

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A cigar box filled with receipts or maybe lottery tickets and what appear to be poker chips.Let’s go ahead and remember that his wife, Lucy, died outside of Vegas. And that Tom said he never saw where she died. And also that he had her body brought back. HBO via PolygonA bunch of condoms in a drawer.

Underneath that, a pamphlet that reads “HOMOSEXUALITY CAN BE CURED!,” which is written above a Christian cross.As Roland and Wayne drive away from Tom’s place, they talk.“So he’s not the saint of all suffering,” Wayne says.“Everybody’s got weaknesses,” Roland says. “Don’t mean he did that to his kids.”“Looking less and less and less to me like they were his kids,” Wayne says.

“Devil’s Den was a homo cruising spot. They kids weren’t supposed to be out there.”Roland tells Wayne to fuck off. They know that Julie and Will were meeting someone else there. “Tom wouldn’t do that,” he says.

And Wayne says that they’ll clear him if that’s true.Wayne says they have to get this right because Kindt and Blevins are ready to pounce on Tom. And even if it’s not Tom, Wayne is hellbent on solving the case in this do-over investigation. Roland nods in agreement.

Wayne, Kindt and more at the police station, 1980. HBO via PolygonWayne sits at his desk alone in an empty office, reading the report about the gunfight at Trash Man’s house.

Several men — including District Attorney Kindt — enter the room.Someone hands Wayne photos of the backpack and the shirt. Kindt is the first to implicate Trash Man in the Purcell case. Wayne says something seems wrong — the kids were meeting someone, for starters. At the mere suggestion that isn’t the whole story, they pounce.The press is mocking those in charge of the investigation. Wayne implies that Kindt contributed to that narrative.Wayne says that, if this is true, then where’s Julie? Kindt speculates that Trash Man burned her in his homemade oil drum incinerator.“She’s dead,” Kindt says. “Let’s not draw out the family’s pain any longer.”“Our official position is that Woodard murdered both children,” a man named Warren Twiggs says.

“That’s it.”He tries to soothe Wayne, says there’s probably a medal in this. Wayne gets indignant. He just wants to solve the case. But again, those with the final say have the last word — 10 people are dead, and they have someone to blame.

Move on.Kindt tells Wayne to gather the evidence to make the case against Trash Man. He huffs out of the room telling them to keep their stories straight. If they’re pinning the Purcell children on him, then it’s 12 people dead. Wayne and Eliza in the interview, 2015Eliza shows Wayne a picture of Dan O’Brien’s body, explaining that someone found his remains in a drained quarry in southern Missouri. Does Wayne think this connects to Tom? He doesn’t know.Wayne explains what we already know: After the call, they had to interview folks because they “had to look at the possibility” that Tom planted the evidence — or that he and Trash Man worked together.“You know,” Wayne says. “It’s terrible what this world makes you ponder.

Don’t you think?” Roland and Wayne interviewing, 1990The first man they interview can’t be sure if he saw Tom. He’s the cop who was taking pictures when he spotted the pristine backpack under Trash Man’s front porch in a previous episode. He mentions Harris James, who was the highway patrolman who identified the backpack as Will’s. Roland, Wayne and Harris James at Hoyt Foods, 1990As first impressions go, Harris James’ is terrible. He’s a smug one.In 1990, he’s the Chief Security Officer at Hoyt Foods, and he filled his office with guns.Wayne and Roland don’t seem to like James, and he’s not particularly fond of them, either.

They spar about salaries, which leads to a bit of backstory.James says he moonlighted as Hoyt Foods security for about five years when he was a patrolman. He took the job in May 1981. That establishes a preexisting relationship with the Hoyts when the Purcell kids disappeared. This seems important.Roland can’t figure out why it took so long to find Will’s backpack.“Took God six days to make the world,” Harris says. “I can believe it took a bunch of GEDs two days to find a backpack.”. Dollars to donuts, that’s a Hoyt HBO via PolygonWayne looks at a picture on the wall.

It’s James and an unnamed person smiling over a buck they killed. This seems super important.

Unless and until we’re proven otherwise, we’re going to assume that this is a Hoyt — and that he and James are buddies.Harris says that, back when he was processing the scene at Trash Man’s house, he saw Tom Purcell across the street, watching them.Wayne points out that Lucy Purcell (Julie and Will’s mother) used to work at Hoyt Foods back in 1979. He said he never saw her, unless she worked 10 p.m. Let’s once once again point out that this was during the time when Harris was a trooper and working at Hoyt Foods. (Did he and Lucy hook up?)Harris implies with a ladle of sarcasm that he left the highway patrol for money. He’s a super cool dude. (He’s not.)Wayne plays bad cop.“What’s the job involve? Money like that,” Wayne asks.

“Hog thieves? People trying to steal the secret chicken recipe?”“Securing without compromise the integrity of corporate assets while guarding against hazards to daily operations,” Harris says. We strongly suspect that there’s more to this salary subtext, and we’ll discuss that in themes and evidence below.“But I’ll admit,” Harris says, “now and then I miss wilining away my days, cruising around, eating donuts.”“I don’t eat donuts.”“I can tell. You’ve got a good body, detective.”.

HBO via PolygonMaybe this is a throwaway line. Or maybe it’s designed to make us think of Tom Purcell and his indeterminate sexuality.Roland and Wayne leave the office. Wayne has a bit of criticism for God: Instead of resting on the seventh day, he should have kept at it.“I always thought he should’ve put the extra day in, instead of half-assing it.”Wayne sure likes work a lot. Wayne and Eliza in the interview, 2015Elisa says that Harris James disappeared during the 1990 investigation.

He sure did!Elisa connects the dots about all of the people dead or missing and speculates that maybe one day someone will find his body in a quarry, too.“I wouldn’t know, miss,” Wayne says. “But what you just did it called speculation. That leads to projection, we call it.

Twists what you see, obfuscates truth.”Elisa is undeterred. Hasn’t Wayne ever thought about all of the fatalities surrounding this case?Wayne says he needs to stop for the day. Elisa apologizes. Wayne walks away and his son, Henry, steps in to handle Elisa.As she talks about the sheer body count, Wayne looks at a picture of Amelia. Amelia and the runaway at nunnery, 1990. HBO via PolygonAmelia is conducting her own investigation for the sequel to her book.

She begins by thanking a nun who runs a house for girls who aren’t at home for a variety of reasons. The nun doesn’t recognize Julie from the surveillance photo flier.Amelia interviews a girl who recognized Julie.

Last she saw her was four or five months before that when they were in some kind of group together. Amelia asks why Julie left.“Things had gotten kind of shaky,” the girl says. One of the guys had gotten some of the girls to trick. Just got ugly.

I dropped out of the group a couple weeks after Mary.”Sometimes, Julie called herself Mary. Other times, Mary-Julie. Sometimes Mary July, “Like Julie but July. Like summertime she said. She had different names.”There’s a shot at this point out of the window of the room they’re in.

A man gets out of a blue pickup truck that belongs to Ardoin Landscaping. Could be that’s nothing, but let’s keep it in mind.Amelia asks if this Mary ever talked about where she came from.“She mentioned something about ‘living in the pink rooms.’ Or — ‘a queen in a pink castle.’ You know what I think? I think she didn’t know who she was.

I think she just pretended”The girl says that Amelia should write a book about what happens to girls “out here,” which presumably means on the street.Amelia, heartbroken, holds her hand. Roland, Wayne, and Dan O’Brien at the Waffle Place, 1990. HBO via PolygonAs they drive down a rural road, a call comes over the CB. Someone called the hotline and wants to talk to Roland.Looks like old cousin Dan’s been living hard since we last saw him. As he eats and smokes at the same time, he demands $7,000 for the information he says he has about the Purcell case. He thinks he has the upper hand, because it’s clear to Dan that the cops are just as clueless now as they were in 1980.We learn that Lucy came to live with him when she was four, after her mother died.

Dan implies that they were somewhat more than kissing cousins.“Look: I got you out here because if you’re looking for Julie again, that means that right now there are people trying to make sure that none of your questions can never been answered,” Dan says.When Wayne asks who, Dan says “People who do not renegotiate. People who in their interests make Lucy look like she OD’d.”Dan goes on to explain that Lucy had a problem that sounds a lot like low self-esteem or an extreme case of being super horny. Or maybe all of the above?“Lucy, she had this problem,” Dan says.

“Self-defeating, hm? She didn’t know when to stop pushing. She’s push until she got what she wanted, and then she’d keep on pushing until she got what she didn’t want. Y’all ever know anybody like that?”I’m voting Wayne Hays on the anybody like that ticket.As usual, Wayne plays tough cop throughout the conversation, but nothing phases Dan.

He’s got an answer to everything — and he introduces a sense of urgency when Wayne threatens to throw him in jail for a week.“You think she’s got a week?”So if they want to threaten him or beat him up, all they’ll really do is make sure that they’ll never get their answer. This is actually a really compelling reason to pause, given that we know that Roland and Way aren’t afraid to beat scumbags up.Dan isn’t the least bit afraid of Tom. In fact, Roland asking if it has anything to do with Tom is just further proof to Dan that they’re clueless. He also says that he’s “sticking his head aboveground,” which sure implies that he’s been hiding for a long time.It’s all about the kids, Dan says. And they’re not the only ones looking for Julie.Someone opens the door to the restaurant, and Dan jumps, which seems like a good indication that he’s paranoid (or that he recognized the man and he’s possibly not just making this up).He says he’ll call them the day after tomorrow. They let him go, and he thanks them for the meal.Wayne wants to get the phone records from Lucy’s hotel, going back two years. And figure out where Tom was when she died.

He also thinks they ought to get $7,000. Tom Purcell in the police station, 1990.