Detailed Explanation
This is what I love about Night Country—it never gives you a clean answer. The murders are explained: the cleaning women killed the scientists, and the scientists killed Annie K. But the visions Navarro sees, the way the dead seem to speak through the darkness, the coincidences that lead to the truth—these remain unexplained. The show suggests that in places of perpetual darkness, in the grief of colonized peoples, in the ice and cold, something ancient might be watching. Is it real? The show's answer seems to be: does it matter? The darkness speaks. Whether you believe it is up to you.