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She shares the tragic backstory of the wealthy family, which includes the daughter Isabelle losing her husband and daughter in a car crash, only to be involved in one herself years later. The retired old men then start playing cop again by interviewing an African-American woman who was a long-time employee at the Hoyt residence. When Roland says Amelia wouldn’t want him living like this, Wayne responds, “She wants me to finish this.” Wayne gets up, declaring the “story’s over for me.” He rushes over to Roland to tell him Watts’ name, not wanting to forget. “My whole brain’s a bunch of missing pieces,” he responds. After not getting much to do for most of the season, Elisa is bringing the heat, saying she’s disappointed in Wayne, who she thought would provide the missing piece.
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Elisa thinks the Purcell case could be connected to a similar group, speculating that Tom or Lucy sold the kids off. This leads her to bring up a similar case in Louisiana, which was solved in 2012 by…Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Harrelson), who we see via a newspaper story. Pulling her computer out, Elisa further explains that dolls, like the ones left at the original crime scene, are signifiers in the human trafficking underground. “This is how we do right by Tom,” declares Wayne. Roland disagrees, but Wayne uses his partner’s guilt over Tom’s death against him. Wayne wants them to handle this themselves by taking Harris out to the barn and doing it the old school way. Lucy made eight calls to Harris James’ personal line, and the clinching evidence is that the former cop flew to Vegas the day before her death and left the day after.
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Thinking he’s cracked the case wide open, Wayne rushes over to Roland’s house. “We’re burned.” Maybe not! Wayne is packing up his stuff when an officer gives him Lucy’s phone records, which prompts him to request flight records to Las Vegas on specific dates in 1988. With his wallet and car left behind, it seems unlikely he made a run for it.
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Speaking of Dan, there’s no sign of him when Roland and Wayne go to his motel room. Wayne wants to keep going with the case, but as we learn in 2015, Tom’s death put an end to it, just like Woodard’s did in 1980. Roland thinks this is their fault, believing he and his partner pushed him to it, while Wayne is skeptical about Tom writing that note. It looks like Tom killed himself, a theory aided by a suicide note, in which he apologizes, asks for forgiveness, and says he’s going to see his wife and son. Well, skip to Tom being found dead in the woods, not too far from where Will’s body was placed. Last week ended with Tom discovering the pink room at Hoyt’s mansion and Harris sneaking up behind him. The seeds to a larger Rebecca story line were planted earlier in the season, so it remains to be seen if she will come back into play. He doesn’t know what he will do without her. While it’s unclear the exact year, a solo Wayne is dropping Rebecca off at college. (It was part of our McConaissance renewal plan.)īut before we get to the episode’s big tie-in, let’s briefly start in a time period we haven’t been in. I know it was only an online photo from a newspaper, but excuse me if I’m not already picturing the True Detective Cinematic Universe and a superhero team-up of Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff, Woody Harrelson, and Matthew McConaughey. “The Final Country” will go down as one of season 3’s stronger episodes, ending with a mysterious conclusion, but it will be best remembered for connecting this installment with the original series.