‘True Detective’ Finale Recap: Ani & A Baby Survive ‘Omega Station’

True Detective‘s penultimate episode ended with Ani (Rachel McAdams) and Ray (Colin Farrell) sleeping together while on the run, Frank (Vince Vaughn) torching all of his former properties and the death of Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch). In “Omega Station,” Ani, Ray and Paul all seem destined to meet the same end as Paul.

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The morning after, Ani is smoking in bed with Ray, opening up about the time she was abducted and sexually abused as a child. She confesses that the man didn’t force her, that he called her pretty, and that there was something about it that made her feel proud. To this day, any sense of pride makes her feel sick. In turn, Ray admits that the man he killed in revenge for his wife’s rape wasn’t the man who raped her.

Elsewhere, Frank urges Jordan (Kelly Reilly) to leave town with the $100,000 and promises that he’ll meet her in two weeks. When she tells him she won’t go, he tries to break it off with her, claiming he’s no longer interested, but she knows that he’s just trying to protect her. Frank drops the facade, but tells Jordan that he can’t run with her yet, and that she can’t stay by his side while he makes a last ditch effort to get back his money. Jordan, realizing Frank isn’t going to budge, agrees to go.

When Ray finally gets out of bed and calls Paul’s phone Burris (James Frain) picks up. Burris tries to pin both Davis and Ray’s death on him, but Ray has something to barter with; he tells Burris he knows about the diamonds. Burris, realizing all that means, becomes eager to make a deal. Getting off the phone, Ray tells Ani that Paul is dead. Ani says he was better than them; he’d saved them three times. The two of them then quickly piece together that the set photographer they met was the son of the jeweler who were killed.

After deciding that neither is ready to run yet, Ani and Ray go to orphans Laura and Leonard’s home, where Laura is found handcuffed to the fireplace. She explains to them that she’d started doing sex work after living in foster care, and bumped into Caspere. She knew that he was one of the men responsible for their parents deaths and told her brother. Leonard ended up killing Caspere, and had handcuffed her because he now wanted to murder Holloway (Afemo Omilami) and she had been trying to stop him. Ani ends up giving the girl a bus ticket to Seattle and a chance to start a new life. Meanwhile, Ray goes to find Leonard to stop him from killing Holloway and likely himself as well. After getting him to leave – or so he things – Ray offers Holloway the hard drive and the documents in exchange for a payout and his name cleared.

Holloway ends up revealing that Caspere was Leonard and Laura’s father. Leonard, who was listening to the whole conversation from the other side of the bench, boils over with rage, jumps the bench and attacks Thompson with a knife. Burris tries to fire to protect Holloway and fires at Leonard and Ray. Before Ray could get caught in the crossfire, Ani puts a bullet into Burris’ shoulder. Ani and Ray then make a quick exit and go to Frank’s safe house. It’s the first time Ani meets Frank, who asks her to go to Venezuela in two weeks, and that if he’s not there, to tell Jordan that he wanted to be there.

In a private conversation with Ray, Frank urges him to go to Venezuela as well and explains that no matter what, he and Ani are going to need money. In order to get money, Ray can help him with his heist. Later that night, Ray goes off with Frank while Ani breaks into the Pitlor Clinic. Inside, Pitlor (Rick Springfield) is dead, and all of his files are missing. Frank and Ray successfully gas Osip (Timothy V. Murphy) and his men out of a nearby cabin, and fire as they escape. Frank personally puts the bullets in Osip’s head. On a table in the cabin, they find all of the cash and pack it up. Everything went smoothly. 

Ani calls Ray while he’s on his way back and tells him that Betty and Tony are nowhere to be found, and urges him to hurry back. He tells her he’s 40 miles out with their retirement fund and that they’ll have plenty of time to catch the boat. However, instead of going straight to her, Ray stops at his son’s school. After seeing his dad’s badge on the table, he salutes and walks away. When he gets back to his car, he realizes someone has put a transponder on it. Getting tailed down the highway, Ray begs Ani to get on the boat without him. Meanwhile, Frank takes his diamonds worth $3.5 million, but before he can get too far, he’s been taken hostage by the Mexicans.

Out in the middle of the desert, Frank offers them a flat $1 million to let him go. When he asks for a ride, one of the men goes for his suit. Frank, who has the diamonds in his suit, tries to fight him and gets stabbed in the side and left for dead. Limping his way to a road, Frank starts to hallucinate, seeing and hearing his father verbally abuse him. Some young kids are next in his visions, followed by a guy he had killed. And, finally, he sees Jordan, who tells him he stopped moving way back there. When he turns around, he sees his dead body.

Ray, meanwhile, has ditched his car, and is sprinting through the woods with a pair of guns, Burris and his men hot on his heels.  He manages to take a few of them out. Then, realizing that he’s hot of options, he steps out into the line of fire and gets riddled with bullets, his voicemail to his son unsent. On the boat, Ani, understanding that Ray won’t ever be meeting her, bursts into tears. Ray’s father sees the news of his death on TV. And, his ex-wife learns that Ray was likely the father of her son after all.

A year later, Woodrugh gets a highway named after him and Tony Chessani becomes the next mayor. Ani remains in Venezuela with Jordan. She’s decided it’s time to clear their names and hands over all of the evidence she has to a reporter. She then returns to a room where Jordan is cradling a baby – Ani’s baby with Ray.