History Recap / TrueDetectiveS4E02Part2

Per Danvers' instructions, the “corpsicle” is relocated to an ice rink to ease the process of unfreezing. She and Peter (Creator/FinnBennett) debate on the discovery, as their clothes were carefully placed together near their corpses. They question many familiars of the scientists, all of whom describe them as very reserved and uncooperative with people on the outside. In particular, Clark was deemed as a very strange person, with a local seeing him with the spiral marked on his chest as he walked naked through town. Peter tells Danvers that a non-governmental organization funds Tsalal, and the investors point to a shell corporation named NC Global Strategies, which is owned by Tuttle United. She assigns him to retrieve Clark's credit records, although Peter is scolded by Hank (Creator/JohnHawkes) over stealing Anne's file from their house.

* ArcSymbol: The spiral on the dead scientist's forehead is also tattooed on Clark's forehead.

Danvers is revealed to be having an affair with Connelly, despite their animosity. She tells him that after 19 years, their affair must end. Connelly says he must pass the case to Anchorage, as he does not believe she can handle it, and she furiously leaves when he appears to threaten her. She visits Navarro at her house, telling her that Clark got the spiral design from the victim of Navarro's unsolved case. She asks Navarro for her help, due to her knowledge in the case. Leah (Creator/IsabellaStarLaBlanc) runs away from the house and joins Peter in watching over the thawing bodies, where they talk about their parents. While visiting Qavvik (Creator/JoelDMontgrand), Navarro realizes the purpose of an RV that belonged to Clark. She finds Clark's abandoned RV and calls Danvers to join her. They find that the RV contains animal bones, Anne's phone and a shrine devoted to Anne. They go back to the ice rink to discover that there are only six bodies, and Navarro deduces that Clark is still alive.

* IceBreaker: One of the officers accidentally breaks off an arm off the frozen bodies. The body screams, as he was OnlyMostlyDead.

* ArcSymbol: The spiral on the dead scientist's forehead is also tattooed on Clark's forehead.

Danvers is revealed to be having an affair with Connelly, despite their animosity. She tells him that after 19 years, their affair must end. Connelly says he must pass the case to Anchorage, as he does not believe she can handle it, and she furiously leaves when he appears to threaten her. She visits Navarro at her house, telling her that Clark got the spiral design from the victim of Navarro's unsolved case. She asks Navarro for her help, due to her knowledge in the case. Leah (Creator/IsabellaStarLaBlanc) runs away from the house and joins Peter in watching over the thawing bodies, where they talk about their parents. While visiting Qavvik (Creator/JoelDMontgrand), Navarro realizes the purpose of an RV that belonged to Clark. She finds Clark's abandoned RV and calls Danvers to join her. They find that the RV contains animal bones, Anne's phone and a shrine devoted to Anne. They go back to the ice rink to discover that there are only six bodies, and Navarro deduces that Clark is still alive.

While the man is taken to the hospital, Danvers visits a teacher friend, Bryce, to ask him about the Tsalal crew. He states that they were reserved and were trying to sequence the DNA of an extinct microorganism that could stop cellular deterioration and find a cure for many diseases. Danvers prevents Captain Ted Connelly (Creator/ChristopherEccleston) from passing the case to Anchorage, much to his chagrin. Navarro (Creator/KaliReis) visits Rose (Creator/FionaShaw) to question her about seeing Travis Cohle, father of Rust Cohle. She in return opens up about the "ghosts" that Julia has been seeing, which included their dead mother. Before Navarro leaves, Rose questions her about the spiral, something that Navarro has seen before, and Rose claims that the spiral is not only older than Ennis, but it might be older than the ice itself.