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If youve just finished theTrue Detectiveseason 3 premiere, you probably have some questions. Who abducted the Purcell kids? How is the daughter still alive? Credit: Warrick Page/HBO What happened to her? If youre seeing it, its reliable, Pizzolatto tells EW. So he is a reliable narrator. When he doesnt know something, we know it. You could have an idea of what happened before those events are dramatized, he said. But the full solution toeverythingthat happened…maybe somebody could....

Then came the shows much-anticipated 2015 follow-up, which was critically drubbed as a step-down. After that, the showrunner went quiet, and the future ofTrue Detectivebecame uncertain. On Sunday, the series returns for its third season. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Oscar-winnerMahershala Ali stars as Det. Wayne Hays, who investigates the 1980 disappearance of two children across three different time periods. Yet Pizzolatto himself is coming across a bit differently. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Or at various moments during our chat below....

Elisa is, at times, a ludicrous character. Her affair with Waynes son is one of the seasons most florid twists. Key motifs this season: Interrogated Men, Interrogating Women. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO; JIm Bridges/HBO Lately, though, Ive been wondering if Pizzolatto has been up to something with Elisa. Thats also Waynes story arc, of course, but Elisa is arguably a better investigator than Wayne. Like,shenever accidentally killed a major suspect after torturing that suspect in a farm....

(It was part of ourMcConaissance renewal plan.) For the first time, its not 1980, 1990, or 2015. While its unclear the exact year, a solo Wayne is dropping Rebecca off at college. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO He doesnt know what he will do without her. Last week ended with Tom discovering the pink room at Hoyts mansion and Harris sneaking up behind him. When Wayne returns home, Amelia tells him about the black man who showed up at her reading....

Sadly, the more pressing matter is finding Julie. With plenty of dead ends, Roland and Wayne bring in Woodard for an interview. The trashman has struggled since coming back from the war, even losing his family. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO He tries to bond with Wayne over their shared service time. But that doesnt last long after Roland asks him, Do you like kids generally? He rightfully snaps back, What the fs the right answer to that?...

The call came from a truck stop and prints confirmed that it was Julie. Once Wayne is done having another argument with Amelia, he and Roland start looking into Tom. Wayne says they need to get it right, take it all the way this time. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Back in 1980, Wayne gets good and bad news. Despite the shirt and backpack being found at Woodards, Wayne doesnt believe this to be the correct conclusion....

But the episode doesnt live up to the expectations and instead spins its wheels until an explosive ending. Last week concluded with Wayne and Roland reuniting in 1990, but we start here with them in 1980. Roland is suspicious of the priest, questioning any man who is celibate. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Everybodys fing something, he declares. The priest also directs them towards Patty, an older lady who made those dolls for the church fair....

Youre gonna put this on me, huh? He does and Wayne pulls the trigger. Moving forward to 1990, Roland is going over the Purcell case with his team. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Tom then unexpectedly arrives and freaks out. First, its about the graphic photo of Lucys OD. Then, its when Wayne has him look at the photo of older Julie. Hes still emotionally reeling when he goes on TV to speak directly to Julie....

And lo, the scriptures proclaim that never was there ever a detective more true than Wayne Hays. The Arkansas policeman served two terms in the Nam, long-range reconnaissance, the stuffRambodreams are made of. Now he tracks wild boar for fun, as all human males must do. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Waynes favorite comic book heroes are the Batman and the Silver Surfer, two multiverses moodiest loners. On the job he hunts by moonlight, trail-tracking missing kids and the monsters who snatched them....

Time may be a flat circle. But four years is a long time for any show to be off the air. True Detectivereturnedfor its third season Sunday night to solid-ish yet lower numbers than its second outing. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Back when season 2 debuted in 2015,True Detectivehad 3.2 million viewers for its first episode. Thenew episodes are actually getting far better reviewsthan the second season, and social media reactions were generally positive....

Keep clicking for more photos from the new season ofTrue Detective, whichpremieres Jan. 13 on HBO. Ali with Carmen Ejogo, who plays Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher. Ali on a road in the Ozarks, where season 3 is set. Warrick Page/HBO Season 3 plays out over three separate time periods. Another shot of Dorff and Ali. True Detectivereturns Jan. 13 on HBO. Warrick Page/HBO Warrick Page/HBO Warrick Page/HBO Warrick Page/HBO...

He talked about losing 5,000 men in Korea, and he talked about losing a wife and a daughter. He said so many things, and yet he had nothing to say. Im in the fing dark, he explained. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Do I look like a man with fing answers? His entire time onscreen, he slurped joylessly from a bottle labeled BOURBON WHISKEY. Roland (Stephen Dorff) ordered Bud and a shot of Jack before his barfight against the world....

We definitively know what happened to Julie and Will Purcell. Its too bad that Wayne will never know…or will he? Do you want to swap confessions? Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Hoyt then threatens Waynes family and leaves him behind to find his own way home. We wont see Hoyt again, which seems like a waste of Michael Rooker. Their time down there goes better than poor Toms. They see drawings of Princess Mary, Sir Junius, and Queen Isabel....