True Detective: Night Country finale: Who killed Annie K?

We know that the True Detective: Night Country finale had many questions to answer, and of course the murder of Annie K. was a big one. It was already clear that on some level, it was linked to whatever happened at the Tsalal Research Station. The only question was to what extent, and also how much that impacted everything that happened to Raymond Clark after the fact.

So what the real killer here? The answer to that is not singular, and also a little more complicated than it first appeared.

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On the surface, it was easy to craft an argument here that the Research Station was being leveraged by both the mines and parent company Tuttle United to fabricate environmental reports that were false to keep things going for the mine. However, that turned out to be not entirely the case. As a matter of fact, the research station endorsed the pollution, as it made it easier for them to get some of the microbial data that they needed in their efforts to cure disease. Then came Annie, who found her way into the ice caves and started to destroy what they considered to be their lives’ work.

Lund was technically the first person to strike Annie but after that, she was killed by a collection of scientists. Clark was actually the one who seemed to put her to rest, but it was more as a way of giving her peace. He was not involved in the stabbing, and knew that she was going to die a slow and painful death. He then suffered, but also did not reach out to the authorities. Instead, he felt as though Annie’s spirit was everywhere — haunting him, and also causing him to state that line of “she’s awake” that coursed through the season.

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