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TE DETECTIVE DIRECTOR DEBUNKS A POPULAR NEW SEASON 3 THEORYDANIEL SACKHEIM CLEARS UP A FEW THGS.BY JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 17, 2019BY WARRICK PAGE / HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS WE HEAD TO THE HOMTRETCH OF TE DETECTIVE SEASON 3, DIRECTOR DANIEL SACKHEIM JOS VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST TO REFLECT ON THE SEASON’S MANY TWISTS AND TURNS. A VETERAN OF MASSIVE H SHOWS LIKE THE X-FIL, THE WALKG DEAD, AND GAME OF THRON, SACKHEIM TOOK OVER SOME DIRECTG DUTI AFTER JEREMY SLNIER—WHO WAS ORIGALLY SUPPOSED TO HELM THE WHOLE SEASON—LEFT THE PROJECT. ALL TOLD, SACKHEIM DIRECTED FOUR OUT OF THE EIGHT EPISOS, CLUDG THIS WEEK’S EPISO, “THE FAL COUNTRY,” AND NEXT WEEK’S FALE, “NOW AM FOUND.” THE ENTIRETY OF SACKHEIM’S TERVIEW WILL BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AFTER EPISO 7 AIRS, BUT ADVANCE OF TONIGHT’S STALLMENT, THE DIRECTOR IS HERE TO CLEAR UP A H BUT ACCURATE THEORY. IN EPISO 6, TE DETECTIVE REVEALED THAT SOT MCNAIRY’S CHARACTER, TOM PURCELL, WAS A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL WHO LEANED HARD ON THE CHURCH ORR TO TRY TO STIFLE SIR THAT WOULD HAVE MA LIFE RAL 1980S AND 90S ARKANSAS DIFFICULT. WHAT DO THIS NEW RMATN MEAN ABOUT TOM’S CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH STEPHEN DORFF’S DETECTIVE ROLAND WT? NOT WHAT SOME MAY THK.FANS EAGER TO FD CLU ANY GIVEN RNER OF THE MYSTER HBO SERI WONRED IF ROLAND’S ABILY TO SETTLE DOWN WH POULTRY SCIENTIST LORI (JODI BALFOUR) MEANT THAT HIS STRONG ATTACHMENT TO TOM WAS MORE THAN PLATONIC. THE FACT THAT HIS PARTNER, WAYNE HAYS (MAHERSHALA ALI), IS VOLLY NSERVATIVE, AS WELL AS ROLAND’S FENSIVENS AROUND WILL AND JULIE’S DAD, LED SOME TO NCLU THAT ROLAND WAS HIDG A KEY ASPECT OF HIMSELF OM HIS IEND/FELLOW TECTIVE. “ROLAND WAS NEVER ABLE TO SUCCSFULLY HAVE A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN,” SACKHEIM NCES. “THAT, SENCE, IS THE ROLE THAT TOM FULFILLS. I THK THAT’S HIS LOVE AFFAIR.” BUT SACKHEIM FURTHER EXPLAS THAT THIS DON’T MEAN THE TWO ARE ROMANTILLY LKED.“I FEEL PRETTY FORTABLE SAYG THAT NJECTURE THAT’S OUT THERE DON’T HOLD ANY WATER,” SACKHEIM SAYS. “THEY HAVE A CLOSE RELATNSHIP AND THAT NTU TO PLAY OUT FOR THE RT OF THE SEASON. NOT ANY WAY IS A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP.” SERI CREATOR NIC PIZZOLATTO RROBORATED SACKHEIM’S MENTS AN INSTAGRAM POST OVER THE WEEKEND, RPONDG WH A SIMPLE “NO” TO A MENT READG: “ROLAND’S GAY !!!” IN THE SAME POST, PIZZOLATTO ALSO CLEARED UP ANY QUTNS AROUND THE SEXUALY OF HARRIS JAM (STT SHEPHERD), WHO LEERGLY PLIMENTED WAYNE ON HIS BODY EPISO 6: “HARRIS IS NOT GAY. HE WAS MSG WH WAYNE (EFFECTIVELY) BEE WAYNE WAS MSG WH HIM.”AS STILL WATCHG -HOST RICHARD LAWSON POTED OUT ON THE PODST LAST WEEK, SEXUALY AS “PLOT TWIST” IS NOT EXACTLY A GOOD LOOK FOR A TV SERI 2019, SO WE’RE RELIEVED TO REPORT THAT TE DETECTIVE ISN’T PEPPERED WH SECRET GAY CHARACTERS. BUT SACKHEIM POTS OUT THAT TOM AND ROLAND’S NNECTN IS STILL CREDIBLY IMPORTANT. “THAT NNECTN TO TOM IS A PORT BY WHICH WE VIEW ROLAND’S HUMANY,” HE EXPLAS. “IT’S NOT SOMETHG WE GET A CHANCE TO SEE A LOT. [ROLAND’S] A CYNIL GUY BY NATURE. AS THE STORY PROGRS, HE BE MORE AND MORE CYNIL.”WE’LL SEE ROLAND’S CYNICISM POTENTIALLY REACH A BOILG POT THE FAL TWO EPISOS OF TE DETECTIVE. TUNE TO STILL WATCHG: TE DETECTIVE” AFTER EPISO 7 FOR MORE DISCSN OF THE EPISO AND SIGHTS OM SACKHEIM ON WHAT TO EXPECT OM THE FALE.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYJOANNA ROBSON
MA CHARACTERS WAYNE HAYS DET. WAYNE "PURPLE" HAYSWHAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER, YOU DON'T KNOW YOU DON'T REMEMBER.PLAYED BY: MAHERSHALA ALIONE OF TWO TECTIV WORKG ON THE PURCELL SE ARKANSAS 1980, HE HAS LEFT THE FORCE BY 1990 AND 2015 SEEMS TO BE EXHIBG MEMORY LOSS PROBLEMS AMNIAC HERO: DUE TO HAVG ALZHEIMER'S. BOOK DUMB: HE'S FAR OM DUMB, BUT HIS SELF-ADMTED KNOWLEDGE OF LERATURE RANG SOMEWHERE BETWEEN BATMAN AND SILVER SURFER. CAPTA SMOOTH AND SERGEANT ROUGH: THE "PTA SMOOTH" AT FIRST, BUT THIS GETS FLIPPED LATER THE SEASON WHEN HE GETS MOTED AND ROLAND GETS PROMOTED. COWBOY COP: PLAYED WH BEFORE BEG UNFORTUNATELY PLAYED STRAIGHT. HE REF TO AGREE WH THE AMOUNT OF LI AND EASY SPEGOATS THE PURCELL SE HAS, BUT HIS AGGRSIVE TECHNIQU AND HAB OF ABDUCTG SPECTS LEADS HE AND ROLAND TO ACCINTALLY KILL ONE, RULTG THEM BOTH HAVG TO LEAVE THE PURCELL SE. DON'T KNOW THEIR OWN CHILD: DUE TO HIS PROBLEMS WH MEMORY. SEEMS TO HAVE FOTTEN ABOUT RIFTS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND HIS CHILDREN, TH VOKG THE TROPE. IN EPISO 2, WE LEARN WAYNES DGHTER REBEC DONT LIKE [AT WAYNES HOME] BUT ISNT EXPLAED AND WAYNE DONT UNRSTAND WHY. HE ASKS AGA, TO TRAGIC EFFECT, IF SHE N E OVER AND VIS HIM. IN EPISO 5, WHEN ROLAND EXPRS ANGER AT WAYNE FOR PAST EVENTS, WAYNES SON TELLS HIM NOT TO BRG UP, BUT ALSO THAT HE KNOWS HOW FEELS. IN EPISO 7, WAYNE'S MENTIA HIM TO MISTAKE A WOMAN'S CHILD FOR HIS OWN DGHTER REBEC. ROLAND HAS TO PULL HIM OUT OF TO PREVENT THGS OM GETTG AWKWARD. DEAD PERSON CONVERSATN: IN EPISO 3 WAYNE BEGS HALLUCATG AMELIA 2015, WHO IS MORE MOCKG AND FOREBODG THAN A HELPFUL HALLUCATN. DIRTY COP: ALSO PLAYED WH. HE'S MORE OR LS THE ONLY P WHO REF TO BELIEVE THE STATED TTH ABOUT THE PURCELL SE, BUT HE IS EXTREMELY AGGRSIVE WH HIS TECHNIQU, KILLG HARRIS PURCELL AND VERG UP WH ROLAND. FAY MAN: ZIG-ZAGGED. TE LATER ON, WHEN HE RELI ON HIS SON. HE FALTERED WHEN THE SE TOOK OVER. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE IS GENUELY VOTED TO FDG JULIE'S KILLER, HE LOVED AMELIA FOREVER, BUT HE'LL STILL BE PRETTY DICKISH TO HIS WHOLE FAY, AND HE ALSO MANIPULATED ROLAND TO KILLG HARRIS JAM. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: UP TO 1990, ANYWAY. PUTTG ASI HE AND ROLAND'S FORT WH BEATG A NFSN OUT OF A SPECT, HE GETS RATHER UP ARMS WHEN FALLY FACED THE BACKLASH OVER HIS HABUAL "GUARANTEED RAPE PRISON" THREATS, AND SEEMS TO THK A TEENAGE FREDDY BURNS SHOULD'VE THANKED HIM FOR NOT NOT GOG FURTHER DURG THEIR TERROGATN. MAYBE MAGIC, MAYBE MUNDANE: WAYNE'S DOCTOR IS UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE HIS MEMORY LOSS AS EHER MENTIA OR ALZHEIMER'S. AS TAILED THE TIME TRAVEL EXAMPLE BELOW, HIS PAST SELV SEEM TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON FUTURE PHENOMENA, AND HIS LAST NVERSATN WH THE HALLUCATORY AMELIA ALLOWS HIM TO PUT TOGETHER JULIE PURCELL'S TE FATE. MORY POLICE OFFICER: AS A BLACK P WHO'S HAD TO PUT UP WH A LOT OF RACISM, WAYNE SE A LOT OF HIMSELF BRETT WOODARD, THE NATIVE-AMERIN FALSELY SPECTED OF BEG THE CHILD KILLER. NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: HAD HE AND WT NTUED THEIR VTIGATN OF HARRIS JAM BY THE BOOK, THEY MAY HAVE FOUND OUT THE TTH TIME AND BEEN ABLE TO PROSECUTE HIM FOR MURR AND OBSTCTN OF JTICE. INSTEAD, HE AND WT ABDUCT AND VICLY TERROGATE HARRIS, CREATG A SUATN THAT LEAV THEIR CHIEF SPECT AD AND ROBBG THEM OF THE CHANCE TO LEGALLY BRG ANYBODY TO JTICE. NOBLE BIGOT WH A BADGE: PLAYED WH. WAYNE IS UNRSTANDABLY NOT THIS ABOUT RACE (WHICH MAK SENSE), BUT HE IS WHEN HE LEARNS THAT TOM PURCELL IS GAY. HE IMMEDIATELY SPECTS HIM AND LLS HIM A "PERVERT", ALTHOUGH ROLAND MANAG TO TALK HIM DOWN. ONE-MAN ARMY: HIS ROLE VIETNAM, OPERATG EP SI ENEMY L FOR LONG PERDS, ALONE AND OUTSTANDGLY. PAPA WOLF: ESPECIALLY AS A YOUNG MAN, HE WAS VERY VOTED TO THE WELFARE OF HIS CHILDREN. SRILY COMPETENT TRACKER: HE ED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE LRRP DURG HIS SERVICE VIETNAM, AND WAS NOTED TO BE VERY GOOD AT . FOLLOWG, THE WAR HE NTUED TO HONE HIS SKILLS BY TRACKG AND HUNTG BOARS THE FORTS NEAR HIS HOME HIS EE TIME. HE PROV QUICKLY ABLE TO FD WILL PURCELL'S BODY BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE BY RELYG ON HIS WAR-HARNED STCTS. SRY BLACK MAN: PLAYED WH. HE IS CLEARLY NOT THIS TO AMELIA OR HIS CHILDREN, BUT HE HAS NO QUALMS ABOUT THREATHENG PEOPLE HE'S TERROGATG WH EXPLIC SCRIPTNS OF PRISON RAPE OR BEATG RMATN OUT OF PEOPLE IF NECSARY. STTERBRAED SENR: BY 2015 HE'S SUFFERG OM MEMORY PROBLEMS HIS OLD AGE, FETTG ANSWERS HE JT HEARD, TAILS OF HIS LIFE, AND SUDNLY REALISG HE DON'T KNOW WHY HE'S A PLACE OR HOW HE GOT THERE. HIS DOCTOR ISN'T SURE WHY. STUDYG OVER THE PURCELL SE PROMPTS LONG-FOTTEN MEMORI THOUGH. STIFF UPPER LIP: IN 1980 AND 1990, BUT FIRMLY SUBVERTED DUE TO THE TRMAS OF AGEG AND HAVG ALZHEIMER'S (OR WHATEVER IS THAT'S G HIS MEMORY LAPS). THE STOIC: AN TERTG SE THAT BE MORE SUBVERTED OVER TIME. THE WAYNE HAYS OF 1980 ULD GIVE SPOCK A N FOR HIS MONEY, BEG AS BUTTONED-UP HIS PERSONAL LIFE AS HE IS WORKG S. DOWNPLAYED 1990, WHEN CRACKS BEG TO APPEAR HIS MEANOR, LOSG HIS TEMPER WH AMELIA AND HIS CHILDREN AND GOADG WT TO HELPG HIM KIDNAP AND TERROGATE HARRIS JAM. HIS STOICISM IS ALMOST PLETELY GONE BY 2015, WH MEMORY LOSS LEAVG HIM NFED, ANX AND PRSED. THAT ONE CASE: THE PURCELL SE IS THE FG EVENT OF HAYS' LIFE, MORE THAN FIGHTG VIETNAM OR ANY POT HIS FAY. IN 1990 AND 2015, HE'S STILL OBSSED WH . TIME TRAVEL: IN 2015 HAYS PH A DOOR HIS HOME OPEN WHILE SEARCHG FOR HIS FAY A MENTIA-ED PANIC. IN 1990 HAYS SE THE DOOR PH OPEN THE EXACT SAME WAY WH NO APPARENT E, WHILE 2015 HAYS HALLUCAT THE SCENE OM 1990. TSUNRE: A RARE MALE EXAMPLE. HE GENUELY ADORED AMELIA, BUT THE ONGOG TRMA OF THE PURCELL SE AND HIS MEMORI OM VIETNAM - ALONGSI A LOT OF OTHER ISSU - MEANT THAT HE PHED HER AWAY AND OFTEN ED HER A GREAT AL OF PA, DURG WHICH SHE NEARLY LEFT HIM. THE VIETNAM VET: WHILE A MORE STABLE EXAMPLE THAN MOST, HAYS WAS EVINTLY MARKED SOME WAY BY HIS EXPERIENC VIETNAM. HE IS NOTABLY NERVO ABOUT HEADG TO THE TUNNEL WHERE HE FDS WILL PURCELL'S BODY, AND MAK REFERENCE TO SOME "TUNNEL WORK" HE DID THE WAR AS THE REASON FOR WHY HE WAS APPREHENSIVE ABOUT GOG SI. A LATER EPISO ALSO SE HIM HALLUCATG SEVERAL VIETNG SOLDIERS HOVERG OVER HIS SHOULR. BUT HE LATER ADMS THAT OM HIS POT OF VIEW, THE PURCELL SE ULTIMATELY LEFT A BIGGER EMOTNAL SR ON HIM THAN THE WAR EVER DID. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: HE ABDUCTED POTENTIAL CHILD MURRERS. THIS ULTIMATELY BACKFIRED ON HIM WHEN HE AND ROLAND ACCINTALLY KILLED ONE. WENT CRAZY WHEN THEY LEFT: OLR HAYS 2015 SEEMS TO BE UNABLE TO MOVE PAST AMELIA'S LOSS, WHICH IS IMPLIED TO HAVE STARTED HIS LONG DOWNWARD SPIRAL WH MENTIA. OR SOMETHG. WE USED TO BE FRIENDS: HAYS DID SOMETHG TERRIBLE 1990 WHICH PHED AWAY ROLAND. IT'S REVEALED THAT HE EMOTNALLY MANIPULATED ROLAND TO HELPG HIM KIDNAP AND TORTURE A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST CERTALY TIED TO ATHS AROUND THE PURCELL SE G THE MEMORY OF TOM PURCELL WHO HAD BEEN FOUND AD THE DAY BEFORE, WHO ROLAND NSIRED A GOOD IEND. AFTER THE KIDNAPPG GO SOUTH AND ROLAND IS FORCED TO SHOOT THE MAN TO SAVE HAYS, HE IS FURIATED THAT HE LET HAYS NVCE HIM TO DO , THAT THEIR ONLY RMATN LEAD IS AD, AND THAT HAYS DON'T SEEM SORRY AT ALL. BY THE END OF THE 2015 VTIGATN, HOWEVER, THEY'VE PATCHED THGS UP AND ARGUABLY BEE EVEN STRONGER IENDS THAN THEY WERE BEFORE. AMELIA REARDON AMELIA REARDON" IT'S ALMOST AS IF THERE WAS AN ELEMENT OF AFFECTN , DON'T YOU THK?"PLAYED BY: CARMEN EJOGOAN ARKANSAS SCHOOLTEACHER WHO LATER BE WAYNE'S WIFE, SHE SEEMS TO HAVE HER OWN VTIGATN TO THE PURCELL SE, RELATG TO HER BOOK ON THE SE. AMATR SLTH: IN PARISON TO WAYNE WHO IS A POLICE OFFICER, AMELIA PLAYS THIS ROLE. COOL TEACHER: ALTHOUGH SHE QUS WORKG AS A TEACHER WHEN HER BOOK BE A SUCCS. DTERAGONIST: EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO THE STORY AS WAYNE. FRIEND ON THE FORCE: US THE POLICE NNECTN HER HBAND PROVIS THE PROCS OF WRG HER BOOK. SLTH DAT COP: THE PARTICULAR SUBTROPE. USUALLY THE SLTH IS THE MA CHARACTER, WH THE P AS A LOVE TERT. HERE, THE P IS THE PROTAGONIST, AND THE SLTH IS THE UTERAGONIST. EVENTUALLY, THEY GET MARRIED. GOOD PARENTS: SHE LOV HER CHILDREN VERY MUCH AND TAK RE OF THEM. HELPFUL HALLUCATN: SUBVERTED. UNTIL HER FAL APPEARANCE. I COULDA BEEN A CONTENR!: AMELIA MAK CLEAR TO WAYNE EARLY THAT SHE WANTS TO GET OUT OF BEG A TEACHER AND WRE HER OWN BOOK. SHE EVENTUALLY DO, ABOUT THE SE, BUT WAYNE THKS SHE WAS JT G . INTREPID REPORTER: A VARIATN OF THIS — AN VTIGATIVE NON-FICTN WRER. THE LOST LENORE: FOR WAYNE. HE NEVER REVERED OM HER ATH. MOST WRERS ARE WRERS: SHE'S AN ASPIRG THOR WHO BE A HUGE SUCCS WH HER NONFICTN ACUNT OF THE PURCELL SE. MALLM XEROX: DOWNPLAYED. GOT TO "A SCENE" WH THE BLACK PANTHERS AND RADIL ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS SAN FRANCIS HER YOUTH, BEFORE SHE MEETS WAYNE. NIGHTMARE FETISHIST: A SOURCE OF TENSN THE 90S BETWEEN AMELIA AND WAYNE IS HOW SHE BREEZILY VTIGAT THE PURCELL SE, NSIRG A PUZZLE THAT IS SPIRG HER PROFSNALLY AND WILL BRG HER LERARY SUCCS. FOR WAYNE HOWEVER IS A DARK CLOUD OVER HIS LIFE, WHICH ALSO PARALYZED HIS REER. HAYS EXPLICLY LLS HER A "GHOUL" DURG AN ARGUMENT, ACCG HER OF FEEDG OFF THE MISERY OF OTHERS ORR TO FEEL MORE IMPORTANT. IT'S AN OVERLY HARSH TERPRETATN, BUT SHE DO HAVE A MORBID FASCATN WH THE PURCELL SE, AND SENSIVELY PROB HAYS (EVEN WHEN HE'S CLEARLY TRMATISED AFTER SHOOTG WOODWARD). POSTHUMO CHARACTER: DI AT SOME POT BETWEEN 90 AND THE PRENT. WORKG THE SAME CASE: AS WAYNE AND ROLAND. ROLAND WT DET. ROLAND WT"I KNOW WHAT YOU DID... WHAT I DID."PLAYED BY: STEPHEN DORFFTOGETHER WH HAYS, THE OTHER TECTIVE WORKG ON THE PURCELL SE ARKANSAS 1980, HE LATER BE AN ARKANSAS STATE INVTIGATOR, OSTENISBLY HIS REER BOOSTED BY SAID SE. THE ALHOLIC: ROLAND ALREADY DRKS QUE A B THE 1980 AND 1990 SCEN, AND BY THE TIME HE'S AN OLD MAN 'S BEE A FIXTURE OF HIS DAILY ROUTE. HE REASONS THAT DON'T MATTER HOW MUCH HE DRKS GIVEN THAT HE'S A BACHELOR WH NO LOVED ON TO LOOK AFTER, SO HE'S NOT HURTG ANYONE BUT HIMSELF. AMBIGUOLY BI: WHILE HE IS CLEARLY ATTRACTED TO WOMEN, HE BE VERY CLOSE TO THE CLOSETED GAY TOM AND FENDS HIM PASSNATELY AND OPEN-MDLY TO ROLAND WHEN HIS SEXUALY IS REVEALED. ANIMAL MOTIFS: DOGS, AS BOTH HIS BT AND WORST TRAS MATCH UP THEM. HE'S FIRECELY LOYAL, IENDLY, AND PLAYFUL, BUT N ALSO BE AGGRSIVE, VLENT, AND SUBSERVIENT. HE'S ONLY SUCCSFUL WHEN SOMEONE ELSE IS AT THE OTHER END OF HIS LEASH, WHETHER THAT'S THE PD BOSS OR HIS PARTNER WAYNE, AND HE VERY MUCH LOOKS UP TO WAYNE AS NOT ONLY A LLEAGUE BUT A PANN. WHEN WAYNE ELECTS NOT TO BE HIS PARTNER ANYMORE, ORR TO AVOID SUBMTG TO THE BOSS WHO ARE TRYG TO HAVE HIM BURN DOWN AMELIA'S EXPOSE, ROLAND IS ABSOLUTELY HEARTBROKEN, STARTS A FIGHT A BAR, AND BREAKS DOWN CRYG OUTSI AFTERWARDS. A STRAY DOG UP TO HIM, AND ROLAND EMPATHIZ WH THE DOG, BEGNG TO SAY THAT HE AND THE DOG ARE THE SAME BEFORE BLUBBERG TO TEARS. DEADPAN SNARKER: BIG TIME. FOIL: OF RT COHLE OM SEASON 1. BOTH ARE HEROIC, BUT ANTISOCIAL CHARACTERS WHO END UP HAVG NO FAY OF THEIR OWN DUE TO THEIR LONER BEHAVR AND PERSONALY. WHERE THGS CHANGE IS THEIR ATTU TOWARDS THEIR S. RT, SPE A LONG TIME SKIP BETWEEN, IS ULTIMATELY TERMED TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW KG CULT, DUE TO THE HORRIFIC EDS THEY MTED. ROLAND, ON THE OTHER HAND, WANTS ABSOLUTELY NOTHG TO DO WH THE SE FOLLOWG THE TIME SKIP, EVEN GETTG MAD AT HAYS WHEN HE BRGS UP. NOT TO MENTN, THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN HIM AND WAYNE IS DIFFERENT TO RT AND MARTY'S. ROLAND AND WAYNE ARE ALREADY THE BT OF IENDS THAT ARE DRIVEN APART BY THE SE, WHILST RT AND MARTY ARE PARTNERS PHED TO BEG IENDS BEE OF THEIR SHARED EXPERIENC. EVEN WHEN MARTY AND RT SPL UP, WASN'T NEARLY AS DAMAGG TO EHER OF THEM AS WAS TO ROLAND. FALLY, ROLAND IS A CHARACTER EMPHASISED BY HIS LOYALTY AND PANNSHIP TOWARDS OTHERS, WHILST RT IS EMPHASISED BY HIS SGLE-MDNS AND PERSONAL EXPERIENC. HIDN DEPTHS: BENEATH HIS OL MEANOR AND SARSTIC QUIPS, ROLAND IS MUCH MORE THOUGHTFUL AND NFLICTED THAN HE LETS ON. THE 2015 SEGMENTS ARE GOOD DITORS OF THIS, AS HE HAS A MELANCHOLY OUTLOOK ON THE DIRECTN HIS LIFE HAS TAKEN, AS WELL AS HIS AND WAYNE'S FAILURE TO BRG THE TE CULPR TO JTICE. LONERS ARE FREAKS: BY THE TIME 2015 ROLLS AROUND, ROLAND HAS E TO LIVE THE WOODS WH NO FAY. AT LEAST HE STILL HAS HIS DOGS. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: THE KILLG OF HARRIS JAM PROMPTS THIS ROLAND. THE GUILT WEIGHS ON HIM HARD ENOUGH THAT HE GO OM A RPECTED STATE POLICE LITENANT WH A LOVG GIRLIEND AND NICE HOE 1990 TO A PRSED, ALHOLIC LONER 2015. NOBLE BIGOT WH A BADGE: NEARLY LLS HAYS A RACIAL SLUR AFTER A VERY HEATED CINT AND ISN'T ABOVE SULTG A FEMALE BIKER'S APPEARANCE TO START A FIGHT WHEN OFF-DUTY. HOWEVER HE DON'T ALLOW HIS HANG-UPS TO TERFERE WH HIS POLICE WORK. HOWEVER, THIS IS SUBVERTED LATER ON AFTER THE DISVERY THAT TOM IS A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL. WAYNE IS IMMEDIATELY SPIC THAT TOM MAY HAVE HAD A HAND THE DISAPPEARANC DUE TO BEG A "PERVERT." ROLAND PASSNATELY FENDS TOM AND SISTS THAT HIS BEG GAY DON'T HAVE ANYTHG TO DO WH THE SE, REASONG THAT ALONE DON'T MAKE HIM A BAD PERSON. RANK UP: BY 1990, HE'S BEE A LITENANT AND HIS REER IS GOG WELL. SOUR OUTSI, SAD INSI: HE'S VERY BSQUE AND ALMOST TO EVERYONE, AND HE EVENTUALLY LOS HIS GIRLIEND AND BIG HOE, BUT THIS IS IMPLIED TO BE BEE OF [[SPOILER: TIME SKIP: BY 1990 WT IS A STATE P AND PROMOTED TO LITENANT, WHILE BEG MORE MELLOW AND THOUGHTFUL. HE ALSO HAS A NSIRABLE LIMP LATER REVEALED TO BE ED BY A REDNECK DURG THE WOODWARD SHOOTOUT. BY 2015 ROLAND IS AN ALHOLIC LIVG A SOLARY B WH ONLY HIS DOGS FOR PANY. WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: THE BREAKG POT HIS AND HAY'S RELATNSHIP WHEN HAYS EMOTNALLY MANIPULAT ROLAND TO KIDNAPPG AND TORTURG HARRIS FOR RMATN, G A RECENTLY AD TOM AS LEVERAGE. AFTER ROLAND IS FORCED TO SHOOT HARRIS AD, HE TELLS HAYS TO FUCK OFF FOR MANIPULATG HIM LIKE THAT, AS NOW THEY HAVE AN ILLEGAL KILLG ON THEIR HAND, AND THEIR ONE POTENTIAL SOURCE FOR RMATN TO FD TOM'S DGHTER IS POTLSLY AD. THIS BREAK THEIR RELATNSHIP LASTS ALL THE WAY TIL 2015. HE ALSO GIV A BIG ONE TO HAYS 2015 WHEN HAYS SHOWS UP FOR THE FIRST TIME 25 YEARS AND ONLY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE SE, NEVER G BY TO TALK WH ROLAND OR EVEN APOLOGIZG FOR THE ABOVE STANCE. HAYS N ONLY SAY THAT HE'S SORRY AS HE DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHY THEY FOUGHT ANYONE. HENRY HAYS HENRY HAYSSOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: RAY FISHERWAYNE HAYS' SON. HE HELPS HIS FATHER SET UP AN TERVIEW WH A DOCUMENTARY CREW TERTED REVISG THE PURCELL SE, BUT SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN RERVATNS ABOUT HIS FATHER'S RELATNSHIP WH THE DUTIFUL SON: HENRY R FOR WAYNE HIS MENTIA-AFFECTED OLD AGE, SPE CLEARLY SUFFERG THROUGH . EXTREMELY PROTECTIVE CHILD: HE IS VERY WORRIED ABOUT HIS FATHER'S VOLVEMENT ELISA'S DOCUMENTARY AND WILL NOT LET HER PH HIM ONE STEP FURTHER THAN HE ALLOWS, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE SLEEPG TOGETHER. FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: TO HIS SISTER, REBEC; 'S HIM WHO TAK RE OF WAYNE HIS OLD AGE, WHILE REBEC IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN, ALTHOUGH SHE HAS HER OWN REASONS. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: LIKE HIS FATHER, HE IS A POLICE OFFICER.PURCELL FAY TOM PURCELL TOM PURCELLPLAYED BY: SOT MCNAIRYTHE FATHER OF THE MISSG PURCELL CHILDREN. THE ALHOLIC: HE SPENDS THE VAST MAJORY OF HIS SCREEN TIME DURG THE 80S EP THE BOTTLE. ARMORED CLOSET GAY: HIS REPRSED SEXUALY IS ONE OF THE MANY FACTORS HIS LIFE THAT ALIENAT HIM OM EVERYONE ELSE. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: HE AND HIS WIFE LOATHE EACH OTHER FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. AT THE RE OF IS THAT TOM IS GAY (AND NIAL OVER ) AND LUCY IS OPENLY SLEEPG AROUND WH OTHER MEN. BUTT-MONKEY: TOM'S LIFE SUCKS. HE WORKS A AD-END JOB, HIS MARRIAGE IS SHAMBL, HE'S A CLOSETED GAY MAN THE SOUTH DURG THE '80S, AND HE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY IENDS. THEN HIS SON IS KILLED AND HIS DGHTER VANISH, HE HS THE BOTTLE HARD, LOS HIS JOB, AND GETS HIS ASS KICKED A BAR FIGHT. TEN YEARS LATER, HE'S ACCED OF BEG RPONSIBLE FOR HIS DGHTER'S KIDNAPPG BY HIS ONLY IEND, HE STARTS DRKG AGA, IS EXECUTED BY HARRIS JAM, AND POSTHUMOLY BLAMED FOR EVERYTHG. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: HE CROSS FIRST WHEN HIS SON DI AND HIS DGHTER IS KIDNAPPED, BUT HE CROSS AGA, AND EVEN MORE TENSELY, WHEN ROLAND ACC HIM OF HAVG SOMETHG TO DO WH THE CRIME. HOWL OF SORROW: WHEN HE HEARS THE ACCATORY MSAGE LEFT BY OLR JULIE, TOM LETS OUT A PRIMAL AND EVEN TERRIFYG SCREAM. FAILED A SPOT CHECK: IS SO TAKEN ABACK BY THE SIGHT OF THE PK ROOM THE HOYT MANSN BASEMENT THAT HE NEGLECTS TO NOTICE HARRIS JAM SNEAKG UP BEHD HIM. FRAME-UP: THE VICTIM OF ONE BY HARRIS. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE'S EXTREMELY HOSTILE TO JT ABOUT EVERYONE, BUT 'S CLEARLY A RULT OF DNKENNS AND GRIEF. HE STILL LOV HIS KIDS, AND TEARFULLY APOLOGIZ WHEN HE GO OVER THE LE AND A RACIAL SLUR WHILE REFERRG TO HAY. PAPA WOLF: HE IS UNRSTANDABLY OBSSED FOR S OVER FDG HIS KIDS' MURRER AND KIDNAPPER, AND LEADS TO HIS ATH. HE GO TO VTIGATE THE HOYTS ON HIS OWN AND GETS KILLED FOR . HE ALSO SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY PERSON WHO TOOK RE OF HIS KIDS LIFE. PERVERT DAD: SPECTED, BUT SUBVERTED. HE IS GENUELY HORRIFIED BY ROLAND AND WAYNE'S ACCATNS AND GO TO HIS GRAVE VASTATED BY . REVERED ADDICT: IN THE 90S. TIME SKIP: BY THE 90S TOM HAS FOUND GOD, GONE SOBER AND TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND, THOUGH STILL HNTED BY THE LOSS OF HIS KIDS. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: OF THE PURCELLS. LUCY AND HER BROTHER BOTH PARTICIPATED JULIE'S ABDUCTN, BUT HE DIDN'T. LUCY PURCELL LUCY PURCELLPLAYED BY: MAMIE GUMMERTHE MOTHER OF THE MISSG CHILDREN, AND TOM'S WIFE. ADDLED ADDICT: ALL SHE RED ABOUT AT THE MIDDLE AND END OF LIFE WAS DGS. AIMLSLY SEEKG HAPPS: SHE IS PLETELY MISERABLE AND HER ONLY VAGUE DISTRACTNS OM SEEM TO BE CHEATG ON TOM (WHICH SHE BARELY EVEN SEEMS TO ENJOY), ALHOL, AND DGS. HALF-WTED HILLBILLY: THE "BRED IGNORAM" AND "BACKWOODS BIGOT", ALTHOUGH 'S WORTH SAYG THAT SHE ISN'T BRED. SHE IS HOWEVER EXTREMELY RACIST, STUPID, AND CEL. HYSTERIL WOMAN: ALTHOUGH AT LEAST PART BEE OF HER ADDICTNS, SHE IS MUCH, MUCH LOUR AND MORE MONSTRATIVE THAN TOM. LOWER-CLASS LOUT: LUCY IS EXTREMELY , AGGRSIVE, AND LOWER-CLASS, AND SHE'S ALSO BASILLY DNK OR HIGH MOST OF HER APPEARANC. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCINT: NOBODY IS REALLY SURPRISED WHEN SHE ODS THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE DOG OF HARRIS JAM.HOYT FOODS

TE DETECTIVE DIRECTOR DEBUNKS A POPULAR NEW SEASON 3 THEORYDANIEL SACKHEIM CLEARS UP A FEW THGS.BY JOANNA ROBSONFEBARY 17, 2019BY WARRICK PAGE / HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS WE HEAD TO THE HOMTRETCH OF TE DETECTIVE SEASON 3, DIRECTOR DANIEL SACKHEIM JOS VANY FAIR’S STILL WATCHG PODST TO REFLECT ON THE SEASON’S MANY TWISTS AND TURNS. A VETERAN OF MASSIVE H SHOWS LIKE THE X-FIL, THE WALKG DEAD, AND GAME OF THRON, SACKHEIM TOOK OVER SOME DIRECTG DUTI AFTER JEREMY SLNIER—WHO WAS ORIGALLY SUPPOSED TO HELM THE WHOLE SEASON—LEFT THE PROJECT. ALL TOLD, SACKHEIM DIRECTED FOUR OUT OF THE EIGHT EPISOS, CLUDG THIS WEEK’S EPISO, “THE FAL COUNTRY,” AND NEXT WEEK’S FALE, “NOW AM FOUND.” THE ENTIRETY OF SACKHEIM’S TERVIEW WILL BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AFTER EPISO 7 AIRS, BUT ADVANCE OF TONIGHT’S STALLMENT, THE DIRECTOR IS HERE TO CLEAR UP A H BUT ACCURATE THEORY. IN EPISO 6, TE DETECTIVE REVEALED THAT SOT MCNAIRY’S CHARACTER, TOM PURCELL, WAS A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL WHO LEANED HARD ON THE CHURCH ORR TO TRY TO STIFLE SIR THAT WOULD HAVE MA LIFE RAL 1980S AND 90S ARKANSAS DIFFICULT. WHAT DO THIS NEW RMATN MEAN ABOUT TOM’S CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH STEPHEN DORFF’S DETECTIVE ROLAND WT? NOT WHAT SOME MAY THK.FANS EAGER TO FD CLU ANY GIVEN RNER OF THE MYSTER HBO SERI WONRED IF ROLAND’S ABILY TO SETTLE DOWN WH POULTRY SCIENTIST LORI (JODI BALFOUR) MEANT THAT HIS STRONG ATTACHMENT TO TOM WAS MORE THAN PLATONIC. THE FACT THAT HIS PARTNER, WAYNE HAYS (MAHERSHALA ALI), IS VOLLY NSERVATIVE, AS WELL AS ROLAND’S FENSIVENS AROUND WILL AND JULIE’S DAD, LED SOME TO NCLU THAT ROLAND WAS HIDG A KEY ASPECT OF HIMSELF OM HIS IEND/FELLOW TECTIVE. “ROLAND WAS NEVER ABLE TO SUCCSFULLY HAVE A LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP WH A WOMAN,” SACKHEIM NCES. “THAT, SENCE, IS THE ROLE THAT TOM FULFILLS. I THK THAT’S HIS LOVE AFFAIR.” BUT SACKHEIM FURTHER EXPLAS THAT THIS DON’T MEAN THE TWO ARE ROMANTILLY LKED.“I FEEL PRETTY FORTABLE SAYG THAT NJECTURE THAT’S OUT THERE DON’T HOLD ANY WATER,” SACKHEIM SAYS. “THEY HAVE A CLOSE RELATNSHIP AND THAT NTU TO PLAY OUT FOR THE RT OF THE SEASON. NOT ANY WAY IS A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP.” SERI CREATOR NIC PIZZOLATTO RROBORATED SACKHEIM’S MENTS AN INSTAGRAM POST OVER THE WEEKEND, RPONDG WH A SIMPLE “NO” TO A MENT READG: “ROLAND’S GAY !!!” IN THE SAME POST, PIZZOLATTO ALSO CLEARED UP ANY QUTNS AROUND THE SEXUALY OF HARRIS JAM (STT SHEPHERD), WHO LEERGLY PLIMENTED WAYNE ON HIS BODY EPISO 6: “HARRIS IS NOT GAY. HE WAS MSG WH WAYNE (EFFECTIVELY) BEE WAYNE WAS MSG WH HIM.”AS STILL WATCHG -HOST RICHARD LAWSON POTED OUT ON THE PODST LAST WEEK, SEXUALY AS “PLOT TWIST” IS NOT EXACTLY A GOOD LOOK FOR A TV SERI 2019, SO WE’RE RELIEVED TO REPORT THAT TE DETECTIVE ISN’T PEPPERED WH SECRET GAY CHARACTERS. BUT SACKHEIM POTS OUT THAT TOM AND ROLAND’S NNECTN IS STILL CREDIBLY IMPORTANT. “THAT NNECTN TO TOM IS A PORT BY WHICH WE VIEW ROLAND’S HUMANY,” HE EXPLAS. “IT’S NOT SOMETHG WE GET A CHANCE TO SEE A LOT. [ROLAND’S] A CYNIL GUY BY NATURE. AS THE STORY PROGRS, HE BE MORE AND MORE CYNIL.”WE’LL SEE ROLAND’S CYNICISM POTENTIALLY REACH A BOILG POT THE FAL TWO EPISOS OF TE DETECTIVE. TUNE TO STILL WATCHG: TE DETECTIVE” AFTER EPISO 7 FOR MORE DISCSN OF THE EPISO AND SIGHTS OM SACKHEIM ON WHAT TO EXPECT OM THE FALE.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYJOANNA ROBSON

In Episo 6, Te Detective revealed that Sot McNairy’s character, Tom Purcell, was a closeted homosexual who leaned hard on the church orr to try to stifle sir that would have ma life ral 1980s and 90s Arkansas difficult. ” Seri creator Nic Pizzolatto rroborated Sackheim’s ments an Instagram post over the weekend, rpondg wh a simple “No” to a ment readg: “Roland’s Gay!!! ” In the same post, Pizzolatto also cleared up any qutns around the sexualy of Harris Jam (Stt Shepherd), who leergly plimented Wayne on his body Episo 6: “Harris is not gay.

MA CHARACTERS WAYNE HAYS DET. WAYNE "PURPLE" HAYSWHAT YOU DON'T REMEMBER, YOU DON'T KNOW YOU DON'T REMEMBER.PLAYED BY: MAHERSHALA ALIONE OF TWO TECTIV WORKG ON THE PURCELL SE ARKANSAS 1980, HE HAS LEFT THE FORCE BY 1990 AND 2015 SEEMS TO BE EXHIBG MEMORY LOSS PROBLEMS AMNIAC HERO: DUE TO HAVG ALZHEIMER'S. BOOK DUMB: HE'S FAR OM DUMB, BUT HIS SELF-ADMTED KNOWLEDGE OF LERATURE RANG SOMEWHERE BETWEEN BATMAN AND SILVER SURFER. CAPTA SMOOTH AND SERGEANT ROUGH: THE "PTA SMOOTH" AT FIRST, BUT THIS GETS FLIPPED LATER THE SEASON WHEN HE GETS MOTED AND ROLAND GETS PROMOTED. COWBOY COP: PLAYED WH BEFORE BEG UNFORTUNATELY PLAYED STRAIGHT. HE REF TO AGREE WH THE AMOUNT OF LI AND EASY SPEGOATS THE PURCELL SE HAS, BUT HIS AGGRSIVE TECHNIQU AND HAB OF ABDUCTG SPECTS LEADS HE AND ROLAND TO ACCINTALLY KILL ONE, RULTG THEM BOTH HAVG TO LEAVE THE PURCELL SE. DON'T KNOW THEIR OWN CHILD: DUE TO HIS PROBLEMS WH MEMORY. SEEMS TO HAVE FOTTEN ABOUT RIFTS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND HIS CHILDREN, TH VOKG THE TROPE. IN EPISO 2, WE LEARN WAYNES DGHTER REBEC DONT LIKE [AT WAYNES HOME] BUT ISNT EXPLAED AND WAYNE DONT UNRSTAND WHY. HE ASKS AGA, TO TRAGIC EFFECT, IF SHE N E OVER AND VIS HIM. IN EPISO 5, WHEN ROLAND EXPRS ANGER AT WAYNE FOR PAST EVENTS, WAYNES SON TELLS HIM NOT TO BRG UP, BUT ALSO THAT HE KNOWS HOW FEELS. IN EPISO 7, WAYNE'S MENTIA HIM TO MISTAKE A WOMAN'S CHILD FOR HIS OWN DGHTER REBEC. ROLAND HAS TO PULL HIM OUT OF TO PREVENT THGS OM GETTG AWKWARD. DEAD PERSON CONVERSATN: IN EPISO 3 WAYNE BEGS HALLUCATG AMELIA 2015, WHO IS MORE MOCKG AND FOREBODG THAN A HELPFUL HALLUCATN. DIRTY COP: ALSO PLAYED WH. HE'S MORE OR LS THE ONLY P WHO REF TO BELIEVE THE STATED TTH ABOUT THE PURCELL SE, BUT HE IS EXTREMELY AGGRSIVE WH HIS TECHNIQU, KILLG HARRIS PURCELL AND VERG UP WH ROLAND. FAY MAN: ZIG-ZAGGED. TE LATER ON, WHEN HE RELI ON HIS SON. HE FALTERED WHEN THE SE TOOK OVER. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE IS GENUELY VOTED TO FDG JULIE'S KILLER, HE LOVED AMELIA FOREVER, BUT HE'LL STILL BE PRETTY DICKISH TO HIS WHOLE FAY, AND HE ALSO MANIPULATED ROLAND TO KILLG HARRIS JAM. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: UP TO 1990, ANYWAY. PUTTG ASI HE AND ROLAND'S FORT WH BEATG A NFSN OUT OF A SPECT, HE GETS RATHER UP ARMS WHEN FALLY FACED THE BACKLASH OVER HIS HABUAL "GUARANTEED RAPE PRISON" THREATS, AND SEEMS TO THK A TEENAGE FREDDY BURNS SHOULD'VE THANKED HIM FOR NOT NOT GOG FURTHER DURG THEIR TERROGATN. MAYBE MAGIC, MAYBE MUNDANE: WAYNE'S DOCTOR IS UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE HIS MEMORY LOSS AS EHER MENTIA OR ALZHEIMER'S. AS TAILED THE TIME TRAVEL EXAMPLE BELOW, HIS PAST SELV SEEM TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON FUTURE PHENOMENA, AND HIS LAST NVERSATN WH THE HALLUCATORY AMELIA ALLOWS HIM TO PUT TOGETHER JULIE PURCELL'S TE FATE. MORY POLICE OFFICER: AS A BLACK P WHO'S HAD TO PUT UP WH A LOT OF RACISM, WAYNE SE A LOT OF HIMSELF BRETT WOODARD, THE NATIVE-AMERIN FALSELY SPECTED OF BEG THE CHILD KILLER. NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: HAD HE AND WT NTUED THEIR VTIGATN OF HARRIS JAM BY THE BOOK, THEY MAY HAVE FOUND OUT THE TTH TIME AND BEEN ABLE TO PROSECUTE HIM FOR MURR AND OBSTCTN OF JTICE. INSTEAD, HE AND WT ABDUCT AND VICLY TERROGATE HARRIS, CREATG A SUATN THAT LEAV THEIR CHIEF SPECT AD AND ROBBG THEM OF THE CHANCE TO LEGALLY BRG ANYBODY TO JTICE. NOBLE BIGOT WH A BADGE: PLAYED WH. WAYNE IS UNRSTANDABLY NOT THIS ABOUT RACE (WHICH MAK SENSE), BUT HE IS WHEN HE LEARNS THAT TOM PURCELL IS GAY. HE IMMEDIATELY SPECTS HIM AND LLS HIM A "PERVERT", ALTHOUGH ROLAND MANAG TO TALK HIM DOWN. ONE-MAN ARMY: HIS ROLE VIETNAM, OPERATG EP SI ENEMY L FOR LONG PERDS, ALONE AND OUTSTANDGLY. PAPA WOLF: ESPECIALLY AS A YOUNG MAN, HE WAS VERY VOTED TO THE WELFARE OF HIS CHILDREN. SRILY COMPETENT TRACKER: HE ED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE LRRP DURG HIS SERVICE VIETNAM, AND WAS NOTED TO BE VERY GOOD AT . FOLLOWG, THE WAR HE NTUED TO HONE HIS SKILLS BY TRACKG AND HUNTG BOARS THE FORTS NEAR HIS HOME HIS EE TIME. HE PROV QUICKLY ABLE TO FD WILL PURCELL'S BODY BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE BY RELYG ON HIS WAR-HARNED STCTS. SRY BLACK MAN: PLAYED WH. HE IS CLEARLY NOT THIS TO AMELIA OR HIS CHILDREN, BUT HE HAS NO QUALMS ABOUT THREATHENG PEOPLE HE'S TERROGATG WH EXPLIC SCRIPTNS OF PRISON RAPE OR BEATG RMATN OUT OF PEOPLE IF NECSARY. STTERBRAED SENR: BY 2015 HE'S SUFFERG OM MEMORY PROBLEMS HIS OLD AGE, FETTG ANSWERS HE JT HEARD, TAILS OF HIS LIFE, AND SUDNLY REALISG HE DON'T KNOW WHY HE'S A PLACE OR HOW HE GOT THERE. HIS DOCTOR ISN'T SURE WHY. STUDYG OVER THE PURCELL SE PROMPTS LONG-FOTTEN MEMORI THOUGH. STIFF UPPER LIP: IN 1980 AND 1990, BUT FIRMLY SUBVERTED DUE TO THE TRMAS OF AGEG AND HAVG ALZHEIMER'S (OR WHATEVER IS THAT'S G HIS MEMORY LAPS). THE STOIC: AN TERTG SE THAT BE MORE SUBVERTED OVER TIME. THE WAYNE HAYS OF 1980 ULD GIVE SPOCK A N FOR HIS MONEY, BEG AS BUTTONED-UP HIS PERSONAL LIFE AS HE IS WORKG S. DOWNPLAYED 1990, WHEN CRACKS BEG TO APPEAR HIS MEANOR, LOSG HIS TEMPER WH AMELIA AND HIS CHILDREN AND GOADG WT TO HELPG HIM KIDNAP AND TERROGATE HARRIS JAM. HIS STOICISM IS ALMOST PLETELY GONE BY 2015, WH MEMORY LOSS LEAVG HIM NFED, ANX AND PRSED. THAT ONE CASE: THE PURCELL SE IS THE FG EVENT OF HAYS' LIFE, MORE THAN FIGHTG VIETNAM OR ANY POT HIS FAY. IN 1990 AND 2015, HE'S STILL OBSSED WH . TIME TRAVEL: IN 2015 HAYS PH A DOOR HIS HOME OPEN WHILE SEARCHG FOR HIS FAY A MENTIA-ED PANIC. IN 1990 HAYS SE THE DOOR PH OPEN THE EXACT SAME WAY WH NO APPARENT E, WHILE 2015 HAYS HALLUCAT THE SCENE OM 1990. TSUNRE: A RARE MALE EXAMPLE. HE GENUELY ADORED AMELIA, BUT THE ONGOG TRMA OF THE PURCELL SE AND HIS MEMORI OM VIETNAM - ALONGSI A LOT OF OTHER ISSU - MEANT THAT HE PHED HER AWAY AND OFTEN ED HER A GREAT AL OF PA, DURG WHICH SHE NEARLY LEFT HIM. THE VIETNAM VET: WHILE A MORE STABLE EXAMPLE THAN MOST, HAYS WAS EVINTLY MARKED SOME WAY BY HIS EXPERIENC VIETNAM. HE IS NOTABLY NERVO ABOUT HEADG TO THE TUNNEL WHERE HE FDS WILL PURCELL'S BODY, AND MAK REFERENCE TO SOME "TUNNEL WORK" HE DID THE WAR AS THE REASON FOR WHY HE WAS APPREHENSIVE ABOUT GOG SI. A LATER EPISO ALSO SE HIM HALLUCATG SEVERAL VIETNG SOLDIERS HOVERG OVER HIS SHOULR. BUT HE LATER ADMS THAT OM HIS POT OF VIEW, THE PURCELL SE ULTIMATELY LEFT A BIGGER EMOTNAL SR ON HIM THAN THE WAR EVER DID. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: HE ABDUCTED POTENTIAL CHILD MURRERS. THIS ULTIMATELY BACKFIRED ON HIM WHEN HE AND ROLAND ACCINTALLY KILLED ONE. WENT CRAZY WHEN THEY LEFT: OLR HAYS 2015 SEEMS TO BE UNABLE TO MOVE PAST AMELIA'S LOSS, WHICH IS IMPLIED TO HAVE STARTED HIS LONG DOWNWARD SPIRAL WH MENTIA. OR SOMETHG. WE USED TO BE FRIENDS: HAYS DID SOMETHG TERRIBLE 1990 WHICH PHED AWAY ROLAND. IT'S REVEALED THAT HE EMOTNALLY MANIPULATED ROLAND TO HELPG HIM KIDNAP AND TORTURE A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST CERTALY TIED TO ATHS AROUND THE PURCELL SE G THE MEMORY OF TOM PURCELL WHO HAD BEEN FOUND AD THE DAY BEFORE, WHO ROLAND NSIRED A GOOD IEND. AFTER THE KIDNAPPG GO SOUTH AND ROLAND IS FORCED TO SHOOT THE MAN TO SAVE HAYS, HE IS FURIATED THAT HE LET HAYS NVCE HIM TO DO , THAT THEIR ONLY RMATN LEAD IS AD, AND THAT HAYS DON'T SEEM SORRY AT ALL. BY THE END OF THE 2015 VTIGATN, HOWEVER, THEY'VE PATCHED THGS UP AND ARGUABLY BEE EVEN STRONGER IENDS THAN THEY WERE BEFORE. AMELIA REARDON AMELIA REARDON" IT'S ALMOST AS IF THERE WAS AN ELEMENT OF AFFECTN , DON'T YOU THK?"PLAYED BY: CARMEN EJOGOAN ARKANSAS SCHOOLTEACHER WHO LATER BE WAYNE'S WIFE, SHE SEEMS TO HAVE HER OWN VTIGATN TO THE PURCELL SE, RELATG TO HER BOOK ON THE SE. AMATR SLTH: IN PARISON TO WAYNE WHO IS A POLICE OFFICER, AMELIA PLAYS THIS ROLE. COOL TEACHER: ALTHOUGH SHE QUS WORKG AS A TEACHER WHEN HER BOOK BE A SUCCS. DTERAGONIST: EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO THE STORY AS WAYNE. FRIEND ON THE FORCE: US THE POLICE NNECTN HER HBAND PROVIS THE PROCS OF WRG HER BOOK. SLTH DAT COP: THE PARTICULAR SUBTROPE. USUALLY THE SLTH IS THE MA CHARACTER, WH THE P AS A LOVE TERT. HERE, THE P IS THE PROTAGONIST, AND THE SLTH IS THE UTERAGONIST. EVENTUALLY, THEY GET MARRIED. GOOD PARENTS: SHE LOV HER CHILDREN VERY MUCH AND TAK RE OF THEM. HELPFUL HALLUCATN: SUBVERTED. UNTIL HER FAL APPEARANCE. I COULDA BEEN A CONTENR!: AMELIA MAK CLEAR TO WAYNE EARLY THAT SHE WANTS TO GET OUT OF BEG A TEACHER AND WRE HER OWN BOOK. SHE EVENTUALLY DO, ABOUT THE SE, BUT WAYNE THKS SHE WAS JT G . INTREPID REPORTER: A VARIATN OF THIS — AN VTIGATIVE NON-FICTN WRER. THE LOST LENORE: FOR WAYNE. HE NEVER REVERED OM HER ATH. MOST WRERS ARE WRERS: SHE'S AN ASPIRG THOR WHO BE A HUGE SUCCS WH HER NONFICTN ACUNT OF THE PURCELL SE. MALLM XEROX: DOWNPLAYED. GOT TO "A SCENE" WH THE BLACK PANTHERS AND RADIL ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS SAN FRANCIS HER YOUTH, BEFORE SHE MEETS WAYNE. NIGHTMARE FETISHIST: A SOURCE OF TENSN THE 90S BETWEEN AMELIA AND WAYNE IS HOW SHE BREEZILY VTIGAT THE PURCELL SE, NSIRG A PUZZLE THAT IS SPIRG HER PROFSNALLY AND WILL BRG HER LERARY SUCCS. FOR WAYNE HOWEVER IS A DARK CLOUD OVER HIS LIFE, WHICH ALSO PARALYZED HIS REER. HAYS EXPLICLY LLS HER A "GHOUL" DURG AN ARGUMENT, ACCG HER OF FEEDG OFF THE MISERY OF OTHERS ORR TO FEEL MORE IMPORTANT. IT'S AN OVERLY HARSH TERPRETATN, BUT SHE DO HAVE A MORBID FASCATN WH THE PURCELL SE, AND SENSIVELY PROB HAYS (EVEN WHEN HE'S CLEARLY TRMATISED AFTER SHOOTG WOODWARD). POSTHUMO CHARACTER: DI AT SOME POT BETWEEN 90 AND THE PRENT. WORKG THE SAME CASE: AS WAYNE AND ROLAND. ROLAND WT DET. ROLAND WT"I KNOW WHAT YOU DID... WHAT I DID."PLAYED BY: STEPHEN DORFFTOGETHER WH HAYS, THE OTHER TECTIVE WORKG ON THE PURCELL SE ARKANSAS 1980, HE LATER BE AN ARKANSAS STATE INVTIGATOR, OSTENISBLY HIS REER BOOSTED BY SAID SE. THE ALHOLIC: ROLAND ALREADY DRKS QUE A B THE 1980 AND 1990 SCEN, AND BY THE TIME HE'S AN OLD MAN 'S BEE A FIXTURE OF HIS DAILY ROUTE. HE REASONS THAT DON'T MATTER HOW MUCH HE DRKS GIVEN THAT HE'S A BACHELOR WH NO LOVED ON TO LOOK AFTER, SO HE'S NOT HURTG ANYONE BUT HIMSELF. AMBIGUOLY BI: WHILE HE IS CLEARLY ATTRACTED TO WOMEN, HE BE VERY CLOSE TO THE CLOSETED GAY TOM AND FENDS HIM PASSNATELY AND OPEN-MDLY TO ROLAND WHEN HIS SEXUALY IS REVEALED. ANIMAL MOTIFS: DOGS, AS BOTH HIS BT AND WORST TRAS MATCH UP THEM. HE'S FIRECELY LOYAL, IENDLY, AND PLAYFUL, BUT N ALSO BE AGGRSIVE, VLENT, AND SUBSERVIENT. HE'S ONLY SUCCSFUL WHEN SOMEONE ELSE IS AT THE OTHER END OF HIS LEASH, WHETHER THAT'S THE PD BOSS OR HIS PARTNER WAYNE, AND HE VERY MUCH LOOKS UP TO WAYNE AS NOT ONLY A LLEAGUE BUT A PANN. WHEN WAYNE ELECTS NOT TO BE HIS PARTNER ANYMORE, ORR TO AVOID SUBMTG TO THE BOSS WHO ARE TRYG TO HAVE HIM BURN DOWN AMELIA'S EXPOSE, ROLAND IS ABSOLUTELY HEARTBROKEN, STARTS A FIGHT A BAR, AND BREAKS DOWN CRYG OUTSI AFTERWARDS. A STRAY DOG UP TO HIM, AND ROLAND EMPATHIZ WH THE DOG, BEGNG TO SAY THAT HE AND THE DOG ARE THE SAME BEFORE BLUBBERG TO TEARS. DEADPAN SNARKER: BIG TIME. FOIL: OF RT COHLE OM SEASON 1. BOTH ARE HEROIC, BUT ANTISOCIAL CHARACTERS WHO END UP HAVG NO FAY OF THEIR OWN DUE TO THEIR LONER BEHAVR AND PERSONALY. WHERE THGS CHANGE IS THEIR ATTU TOWARDS THEIR S. RT, SPE A LONG TIME SKIP BETWEEN, IS ULTIMATELY TERMED TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW KG CULT, DUE TO THE HORRIFIC EDS THEY MTED. ROLAND, ON THE OTHER HAND, WANTS ABSOLUTELY NOTHG TO DO WH THE SE FOLLOWG THE TIME SKIP, EVEN GETTG MAD AT HAYS WHEN HE BRGS UP. NOT TO MENTN, THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN HIM AND WAYNE IS DIFFERENT TO RT AND MARTY'S. ROLAND AND WAYNE ARE ALREADY THE BT OF IENDS THAT ARE DRIVEN APART BY THE SE, WHILST RT AND MARTY ARE PARTNERS PHED TO BEG IENDS BEE OF THEIR SHARED EXPERIENC. EVEN WHEN MARTY AND RT SPL UP, WASN'T NEARLY AS DAMAGG TO EHER OF THEM AS WAS TO ROLAND. FALLY, ROLAND IS A CHARACTER EMPHASISED BY HIS LOYALTY AND PANNSHIP TOWARDS OTHERS, WHILST RT IS EMPHASISED BY HIS SGLE-MDNS AND PERSONAL EXPERIENC. HIDN DEPTHS: BENEATH HIS OL MEANOR AND SARSTIC QUIPS, ROLAND IS MUCH MORE THOUGHTFUL AND NFLICTED THAN HE LETS ON. THE 2015 SEGMENTS ARE GOOD DITORS OF THIS, AS HE HAS A MELANCHOLY OUTLOOK ON THE DIRECTN HIS LIFE HAS TAKEN, AS WELL AS HIS AND WAYNE'S FAILURE TO BRG THE TE CULPR TO JTICE. LONERS ARE FREAKS: BY THE TIME 2015 ROLLS AROUND, ROLAND HAS E TO LIVE THE WOODS WH NO FAY. AT LEAST HE STILL HAS HIS DOGS. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: THE KILLG OF HARRIS JAM PROMPTS THIS ROLAND. THE GUILT WEIGHS ON HIM HARD ENOUGH THAT HE GO OM A RPECTED STATE POLICE LITENANT WH A LOVG GIRLIEND AND NICE HOE 1990 TO A PRSED, ALHOLIC LONER 2015. NOBLE BIGOT WH A BADGE: NEARLY LLS HAYS A RACIAL SLUR AFTER A VERY HEATED CINT AND ISN'T ABOVE SULTG A FEMALE BIKER'S APPEARANCE TO START A FIGHT WHEN OFF-DUTY. HOWEVER HE DON'T ALLOW HIS HANG-UPS TO TERFERE WH HIS POLICE WORK. HOWEVER, THIS IS SUBVERTED LATER ON AFTER THE DISVERY THAT TOM IS A CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL. WAYNE IS IMMEDIATELY SPIC THAT TOM MAY HAVE HAD A HAND THE DISAPPEARANC DUE TO BEG A "PERVERT." ROLAND PASSNATELY FENDS TOM AND SISTS THAT HIS BEG GAY DON'T HAVE ANYTHG TO DO WH THE SE, REASONG THAT ALONE DON'T MAKE HIM A BAD PERSON. RANK UP: BY 1990, HE'S BEE A LITENANT AND HIS REER IS GOG WELL. SOUR OUTSI, SAD INSI: HE'S VERY BSQUE AND ALMOST TO EVERYONE, AND HE EVENTUALLY LOS HIS GIRLIEND AND BIG HOE, BUT THIS IS IMPLIED TO BE BEE OF [[SPOILER: TIME SKIP: BY 1990 WT IS A STATE P AND PROMOTED TO LITENANT, WHILE BEG MORE MELLOW AND THOUGHTFUL. HE ALSO HAS A NSIRABLE LIMP LATER REVEALED TO BE ED BY A REDNECK DURG THE WOODWARD SHOOTOUT. BY 2015 ROLAND IS AN ALHOLIC LIVG A SOLARY B WH ONLY HIS DOGS FOR PANY. WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: THE BREAKG POT HIS AND HAY'S RELATNSHIP WHEN HAYS EMOTNALLY MANIPULAT ROLAND TO KIDNAPPG AND TORTURG HARRIS FOR RMATN, G A RECENTLY AD TOM AS LEVERAGE. AFTER ROLAND IS FORCED TO SHOOT HARRIS AD, HE TELLS HAYS TO FUCK OFF FOR MANIPULATG HIM LIKE THAT, AS NOW THEY HAVE AN ILLEGAL KILLG ON THEIR HAND, AND THEIR ONE POTENTIAL SOURCE FOR RMATN TO FD TOM'S DGHTER IS POTLSLY AD. THIS BREAK THEIR RELATNSHIP LASTS ALL THE WAY TIL 2015. HE ALSO GIV A BIG ONE TO HAYS 2015 WHEN HAYS SHOWS UP FOR THE FIRST TIME 25 YEARS AND ONLY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE SE, NEVER G BY TO TALK WH ROLAND OR EVEN APOLOGIZG FOR THE ABOVE STANCE. HAYS N ONLY SAY THAT HE'S SORRY AS HE DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHY THEY FOUGHT ANYONE. HENRY HAYS HENRY HAYSSOME PTN TEXT-->PLAYED BY: RAY FISHERWAYNE HAYS' SON. HE HELPS HIS FATHER SET UP AN TERVIEW WH A DOCUMENTARY CREW TERTED REVISG THE PURCELL SE, BUT SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN RERVATNS ABOUT HIS FATHER'S RELATNSHIP WH THE DUTIFUL SON: HENRY R FOR WAYNE HIS MENTIA-AFFECTED OLD AGE, SPE CLEARLY SUFFERG THROUGH . EXTREMELY PROTECTIVE CHILD: HE IS VERY WORRIED ABOUT HIS FATHER'S VOLVEMENT ELISA'S DOCUMENTARY AND WILL NOT LET HER PH HIM ONE STEP FURTHER THAN HE ALLOWS, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE SLEEPG TOGETHER. FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: TO HIS SISTER, REBEC; 'S HIM WHO TAK RE OF WAYNE HIS OLD AGE, WHILE REBEC IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN, ALTHOUGH SHE HAS HER OWN REASONS. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: LIKE HIS FATHER, HE IS A POLICE OFFICER.PURCELL FAY TOM PURCELL TOM PURCELLPLAYED BY: SOT MCNAIRYTHE FATHER OF THE MISSG PURCELL CHILDREN. THE ALHOLIC: HE SPENDS THE VAST MAJORY OF HIS SCREEN TIME DURG THE 80S EP THE BOTTLE. ARMORED CLOSET GAY: HIS REPRSED SEXUALY IS ONE OF THE MANY FACTORS HIS LIFE THAT ALIENAT HIM OM EVERYONE ELSE. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: HE AND HIS WIFE LOATHE EACH OTHER FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. AT THE RE OF IS THAT TOM IS GAY (AND NIAL OVER ) AND LUCY IS OPENLY SLEEPG AROUND WH OTHER MEN. BUTT-MONKEY: TOM'S LIFE SUCKS. HE WORKS A AD-END JOB, HIS MARRIAGE IS SHAMBL, HE'S A CLOSETED GAY MAN THE SOUTH DURG THE '80S, AND HE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY IENDS. THEN HIS SON IS KILLED AND HIS DGHTER VANISH, HE HS THE BOTTLE HARD, LOS HIS JOB, AND GETS HIS ASS KICKED A BAR FIGHT. TEN YEARS LATER, HE'S ACCED OF BEG RPONSIBLE FOR HIS DGHTER'S KIDNAPPG BY HIS ONLY IEND, HE STARTS DRKG AGA, IS EXECUTED BY HARRIS JAM, AND POSTHUMOLY BLAMED FOR EVERYTHG. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: HE CROSS FIRST WHEN HIS SON DI AND HIS DGHTER IS KIDNAPPED, BUT HE CROSS AGA, AND EVEN MORE TENSELY, WHEN ROLAND ACC HIM OF HAVG SOMETHG TO DO WH THE CRIME. HOWL OF SORROW: WHEN HE HEARS THE ACCATORY MSAGE LEFT BY OLR JULIE, TOM LETS OUT A PRIMAL AND EVEN TERRIFYG SCREAM. FAILED A SPOT CHECK: IS SO TAKEN ABACK BY THE SIGHT OF THE PK ROOM THE HOYT MANSN BASEMENT THAT HE NEGLECTS TO NOTICE HARRIS JAM SNEAKG UP BEHD HIM. FRAME-UP: THE VICTIM OF ONE BY HARRIS. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE'S EXTREMELY HOSTILE TO JT ABOUT EVERYONE, BUT 'S CLEARLY A RULT OF DNKENNS AND GRIEF. HE STILL LOV HIS KIDS, AND TEARFULLY APOLOGIZ WHEN HE GO OVER THE LE AND A RACIAL SLUR WHILE REFERRG TO HAY. PAPA WOLF: HE IS UNRSTANDABLY OBSSED FOR S OVER FDG HIS KIDS' MURRER AND KIDNAPPER, AND LEADS TO HIS ATH. HE GO TO VTIGATE THE HOYTS ON HIS OWN AND GETS KILLED FOR . HE ALSO SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY PERSON WHO TOOK RE OF HIS KIDS LIFE. PERVERT DAD: SPECTED, BUT SUBVERTED. HE IS GENUELY HORRIFIED BY ROLAND AND WAYNE'S ACCATNS AND GO TO HIS GRAVE VASTATED BY . REVERED ADDICT: IN THE 90S. TIME SKIP: BY THE 90S TOM HAS FOUND GOD, GONE SOBER AND TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND, THOUGH STILL HNTED BY THE LOSS OF HIS KIDS. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: OF THE PURCELLS. LUCY AND HER BROTHER BOTH PARTICIPATED JULIE'S ABDUCTN, BUT HE DIDN'T. LUCY PURCELL LUCY PURCELLPLAYED BY: MAMIE GUMMERTHE MOTHER OF THE MISSG CHILDREN, AND TOM'S WIFE. ADDLED ADDICT: ALL SHE RED ABOUT AT THE MIDDLE AND END OF LIFE WAS DGS. AIMLSLY SEEKG HAPPS: SHE IS PLETELY MISERABLE AND HER ONLY VAGUE DISTRACTNS OM SEEM TO BE CHEATG ON TOM (WHICH SHE BARELY EVEN SEEMS TO ENJOY), ALHOL, AND DGS. HALF-WTED HILLBILLY: THE "BRED IGNORAM" AND "BACKWOODS BIGOT", ALTHOUGH 'S WORTH SAYG THAT SHE ISN'T BRED. SHE IS HOWEVER EXTREMELY RACIST, STUPID, AND CEL. HYSTERIL WOMAN: ALTHOUGH AT LEAST PART BEE OF HER ADDICTNS, SHE IS MUCH, MUCH LOUR AND MORE MONSTRATIVE THAN TOM. LOWER-CLASS LOUT: LUCY IS EXTREMELY , AGGRSIVE, AND LOWER-CLASS, AND SHE'S ALSO BASILLY DNK OR HIGH MOST OF HER APPEARANC. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCINT: NOBODY IS REALLY SURPRISED WHEN SHE ODS THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE DOG OF HARRIS JAM.HOYT FOODS

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