The discomfort for Navarro is more acute, given her roots, but there's plenty of evidence in this episode that Danvers has been fighting her own conscience and is perhaps starting to lose the battle. He rages at Leah to wipe the temporary tattoo marks off her face, perhaps out of protective instinct, but they're also on Annie's face, and the weight of them seems to arouse sympathy from her.
Meanwhile, the law is applied much less delicately. It's a sharp narrative strategy to move from the flashback with Navarro and Annie to a scene in which Hank is gathering a civilian army to “search” for Raymond Clark, the missing scientist who had a secret affair with Annie. The term “search” is in quotes because Hank appears to have deliberately assembled a collection of heavily armed rednecks for a bounty hunt. He tells them that Clark is armed and dangerous and sends them on their way. When Navarro shows up to remind Hank that they want Clark alive, he responds, “Do we want him?”
For couch sleuths at home, it's worth writing down Hank's arrogant comments in your notebook. Whatever unites Clark, the dead scientists, and Annie, there seems to be some fear about what could be unearthed about the mine, and Hank seems to be hiding something. More revelations emerge later, when Danvers and Navarro review photographs found in Clark's cabin, notice the blue streaks in Annie's hair, and conclude that her hairdresser, Susan, may have known more than she revealed at the time. When Navarro questions the hairdresser at her house, she admits to taking Annie with her to get a haircut at the research station, where Annie hit it off with Clark.
Susan gives Navarro three important pieces of information: Clark was obsessed with Annie's tattoo (“She dreamed about it. In high school. Many times. When she got the tattoo, the dreams stopped”); there was another worker in the lab, Oliver, who left shortly before Annie was killed; and susana did I told the police about Clark, but no one followed up.
Navarro is furious to discover that Hank was the officer who didn't pass on that information, and is doubly furious when Danvers lets him go without a harsher reprimand. Danvers tells him to dismiss his “hillbilly friends” from the search, but there are no other consequences for him. He even ignores being called “Mrs. Robinson” in reference to Hank’s son, who only earns a drink in the face as a reprimand.
