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True Detective’s Finn Bennett on Pete’s ‘Biblical’ Sin


“Pete, up until this point, represents a good cop. One of the saddest things for me is that he becomes a dirty cop.”

That’s not just true for Ennis’s grieving chief of police, Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster), or Alaska state trooper Evangeline Navarro ( Kali Reis). I think in the original draft of the script, he was much more of a villain, and John Hawkes brought something a lot softer and nuanced to that character. Liz is never explicitly described as a parental figure to him, necessarily, and doesn’t act very maternal, but throughout the season, Peter has been torn between his dad and Danvers.

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