Is Julie still alive?! Or is there something shady going on? As Wayne finishes going over the events of November 7 for the deposition, he’s told that there’s been a robbery in Oklahoma, which turned up a set of prints-and they belong to Julie. That’s not, however, the most shocking reveal of the episode. Realizing Will is dead, he scampers out of there, calling for backup. Inside the cave Wayne’s worst fears come true as he discovers Will, lying serenely on his back, as if asleep, with his hands in prayer position. As he continues on, another doll sits perched by the opening of a cave. Overlooking the bike is a creepy-looking bride doll made out of straw. Wayne continues his search to a stream where he finds an abandoned kid’s bike, half submerged in water and mud. Roland explains to another officer that Wayne was a “Lurp” in Vietnam (that is, Long Range Reconnaissance), who during the war spent weeks in the jungle by himself. In 1980, the canvassing continues and Wayne separates himself from the larger group. (They’re in his house documenting the story of the 1980 investigation.) He goes into his study, where he caresses the typewriter and takes a book off the shelf, his wife’s-Amelia’s. He also was stationed in Vietnam.įor some reason, retelling the “Trash Man” part of the story flusters 2015 Wayne and he abruptly ends the interview he’s doing with the true crime film crew. Next, they go visit “Trash Man” Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes), and Wayne’s voiceover from 2015 says, “Anyways, you know what happened with him.” (But we don’t!!!) The door to his place is open, and from photos inside the house, we can see that he used to have a wife and two kids. Which is about as “light and fun” as this episode gets. They may not be any closer to solving the crime, but Wayne walks away with Amelia’s phone number. Amelia leads them to Freddie Burns, owner of the Beetle, who admits to seeing the kids that afternoon, while his friend says the kids left the park at 9 p.m. It’s not all fun, games and googly eyes, though. As if hints in the 2015 time lines about Wayne’s wife-a great writer and a great teacher-isn’t enough to convince you these two eventually end up hitched, the sparks, subtle as they may be, fly when the two of them lay eyes on each other. In order to get more intel on Will, as well as the three kids in the Beetle, Wayne and Roland visit West Finger Public Schools, where they meet English teacher Amelia Reardon (Carmen Ejogo). “The general rule is everybody’s lying,” he responds and turns off the recorder. “Never occurred to you he might be lying?” Wayne is asked in 1990. The two are interrupted by an alert that two kids have gone missing. (This conversation exists to let the audience know both Wayne and Roland served in Vietnam, which permeates the entire series, and most likely all of early 1980s America.) “You’re gonna pay for it one way or another,” says Roland, proving that dating was just as fruitful three decades ago as it is today. Roland suggests they go visit a brothel, but Wayne says he can’t afford it. That evening, Wayne, himself, was doing a shift with partner Roland West (Stephen Dorff), the two of them blowing off steam at a landfill by trying to blow holes in rats (as retaliation for all the times rats nearly took out all of humankind).
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We can already guess these kids are never to be heard from again, so it’s time to take note of all the possible suspects who saw them take their last bike ride: three teen boys in a purple Beetle, random kids setting off firecrackers in a park called Devil’s Den (where surely only wholesome things take place) and a Native American man driving around town in a go-cart, a trailer full of scrap hitched to it. Back on November 7, 1980, the day Steve McQueen died, Tom Purcell (Scoot McNairy), a beer-guzzling, car-fixin’ dad, lets his kids Will, 12, and Julie, 10, ride to the playground.