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True Detective Recap: The Slow Thaw
Liz can no longer deny the connection between whatever happened at Tsalal and Annie’s unsolved murder.
As she sorts through tangled Christmas decorations, the same grimy, one-eyed stuffed polar bear from episode one finds its way back into her hands, prompting memories of a younger Liz playing peekaboo with a boy who looks like he could be Leah’s half-brother. While Pete and Liz catalogue their peculiar injuries — ruptured eardrums, burnt corneas, eyes scratched out, fingers bitten off — the wider cast of Ennis PD hooligans take distasteful selfies among the dead, corroborating Connelly’s suspicions that the local police aren’t up to the task of solving this crime without creating a PR nightmare. Even if Connelly — who, depending on who you ask, either banished Liz to Ennis’s backwaters or promoted her to police chief of a uniquely demanding jurisdiction — wants to take the case to Anchorage, forensic guidelines require the bodies to be thawed first to preserve physical evidence.
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