True Detective: Night time Nation has been a season packed filled with mysteries, and the finale lastly obtained to the guts of a few of our most burning questions.

However there have been additionally a number of left as much as interpretation. State trooper Evangeline Navarro’s (Kali Reiss) destiny was one of many largest, however there was one thing else you might have missed amongst the chaos: the potential for time journey.

Was it merely one other imaginative and prescient, although, or one thing extra? Let’s break down precisely what occurred, and what it’d imply.

What occurs within the finale?

We’re not going to interrupt down the entire finale right here — we’ve got a separate explainer for that — however we’re going to go over one key second that appears to reply a query raised proper at first of the present. Keep in mind within the very opening sequence, on the Tsalal Arctic Analysis Station, when scientist Raymond Clark (Owen McDonnell) is sporting a pink jacket and begins shaking whereas staring within the route of the emergency exit doorways as if he is seen one thing? He instantly stops, then turns again to his colleague and says, “She’s awake.” Then the ability goes out.

Within the finale, in the meantime, this scene will get an important callback. Whereas Navarro is strolling across the Tsalal facility shortly after Clark’s loss of life and the station’s energy going out, she turns and is instantly confronted with this scene taking part in out once more. Navarro’s beforehand seen the footage of Clark filmed on his colleague’s smartphone, picked up throughout the investigation, so she’s aware of the scene. Solely this time, Clark seems to be staring at her when he begins shaking, as if Navarro is the determine that is prompted him to be so terrified.

So is she merely having one other imaginative and prescient, or is it one thing extra?

Navarro has various visions all through “Night time Nation”.
Credit score: Michele Okay. Quick/HBO

Was Clark caught in a time loop with Navarro?

There is a unusual impact that occurs when Navarro sees Clark that makes him look nearly like a hologram. After he is shaking he instantly judders and nearly resets, earlier than turning away from her once more and saying the identical “she’s awake” line we hear within the first episode. Moments later, Navarro is seen watching nothing however the darkish kitchen of the Tsalal Arctic Analysis Station. No matter occurred is over.

Now it is definitely doable, given the variety of visions Navarro has over the course of the present, that that is merely one other one. Within the finale she’s been pushed to her restrict, and far of the time she spends within the chilly, darkish analysis station with Danvers appears like a fever dream as they get colder and colder.

However is it additionally doable that Clark truly was seeing her simply earlier than the ability went out in episode one? That each one that “time is a flat circle” discuss is literal, relatively than metaphorical?

In the end, it is unattainable to say. Night time Nation has been a season that is walked a superb line between actuality and the supernatural. It is also been a season crammed with circularity, together with the character arcs of Peter Prior (Finn Bennett) and his dad (John Hawkes), Navarro and her sister Julia (Aka Niviâna), and even the ghost of Travis (Erling Eliasson) and Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) from Season 1. Whether or not Navarro seeing Clark again within the Tsalal station was a imaginative and prescient or one thing extra, it definitely brings every thing again round full circle.

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