There are many questions, some of them metaphysical, to resolve after this premiere, but it's a promising sign that the backdrop is at least as compelling as everything happening in the foreground. As the two main characters, Navarro and Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster), the current police chief, delve into two cases simultaneously, Lopez gives Ennis interesting dimensions of his own, pausing to watch the town drunk slide across the intersection to pick up your last DUI. or notice the fragile state of drinking water. Most of the population of this working-class outpost are the native Inupiaq, who coexist uneasily with settlers who have turned a mine into a source of pollution and income.
On the fringes of the strip, 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle, eight researchers disappear from the Tsalal research station, and it appears to be black magic or an extremely ill-advised trip. We take a look at their last moments together: one scientist enjoying “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” with a bowl of popcorn, another making a video call in Spanish, and even more on a treadmill, in the laundry room, in the lab or building a ham sandwich. We then see another man shake uncontrollably and utter the words, “She's awake.”
Later, when a delivery truck arrives with supplies, the driver finds an empty building. The camera finds a tongue on the ground.
As Danvers, Foster can't help but suggest a completely disillusioned version of her most famous character, Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs,” but there's a bit of Kate Winslet's “Mare of Easttown” in her cynical, slightly bemused regional performance. . detective. This is Liz from Snowtown. At the research center, she can estimate how long these men were missing based on the consistency of mayonnaise on the uneaten ham sandwich. (“Mayonnaise doesn't turn liquid until it's been out of the refrigerator for a couple of days, but processed sausages will survive the apocalypse.”) When he examines the severed tongue, the only disturbing evidence they have, Danvers can deduce from subtle striations that they belong to an indigenous woman licking the threads of fishing nets. She's good.
Navarro is skeptical of Danvers, to put it mildly, not so much because of his ability but because of his initiative. While working as a detective, Navarro was obsessed for months with the savage murder of a young indigenous activist who had attracted many “haters” for her protests against the mine. Danvers inherited the case and left it so cold that one of his assistants, Hank (John Hawkes), ended up keeping the file box hidden in a spare room. Hank's son Peter (Finn Bennett), Danvers' baby-faced protégé, smuggles him out the window to hand him over.
