True Detective recap: The 5 discoveries from Now Am Found

2. Junius Watts is “The Dead-eyed Man”

The last episode, Hays and Roland got the name Mr. June from the maid who worked at Hoyt’s residence. This week we found out from Harris James’s wife that his name is Junius Watts. Even crazier, the car that has been parked outside Hays’s house belongs to Junius. So after three decades, Hays and Roland come face-to-face with the “dead-eyed man.”

Once they meet with him, Junius Watts starts laying out every single hole the story they have been trying to fill since day one. He explains that Hoyt’s daughter Isabel got into a terrible car wreck which caused her husband and daughter to die. This made her mentally ill, so much so, Edward Hoyt started traveling more to avoid the issue–which probably explains why he seems so unaware on what happened to the kids. He also says that Isabel started taking lithium for her issues.

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Then one day in 1979 during a town picnic Isabel saw Julie Purcell and she reminded her of her deceased daughter Mary. Isabel asked Lucie Purcell if she could play with Julie and she agreed as long as she paid her. This means the mother knew the whole time.

Lucie also demanded the brother go with her to keep an eye on the sister. And for a time they would all play together in that quiet spot in the woods. Junius says for a while it made Isabel better and brought her happiness again. But then they had the idea to adopt Julie secretly and keep it quiet from the father.

Then Isabel quit taking her medication and started calling Julie by the name Mary. Will trying to protect her tried tom keep Isabell Hoyt from taking his sister and accidentally hit his head on the rock–killing him instantly. Junius tried to comfort Julie by saying he was okay, he just hurt his head and fell asleep. We then see Julie Purcell putting her brother’s hands in a prayer formation–which makes sense because she knew her brother to be religious.

Junius also states that Hoyt had no awareness of this happening because he was off on a safari. He then explains that he got Harris James to plant Will’s backpack at Woodard’s and also to explain the situation to the mother, who they paid handsomely. Lucie is seen crying as Harris James explains what happened to her boy.

So this explains why she felt so guilty the whole time. In the end, Lucie still gave up Julie for the money as she originally agreed.

Junius says for two years things were going great as Isabel was taking care of Julie and Junius was watching over them both. That is until he discovered she was drugging the girl with lithium and she had been doing so since she was 10. He explains that she grew up asking questions and being confused by her past and the drugs just made her more confused.

Eventually, she wanted to escape and Junius helped her run away. He made a map for her to find his home but she never showed up. Since then, he had been trying to find her and save her. Shortly after Julie escaped the “pink room” Isabel killed herself.

3. Where is Julie now?

The detectives then press Junius on whether or not he ever found Julie. Regretfully, he says yes that he tracked her whereabouts in 1997 to a shelter ran by nuns in Fort Smith. We then cut to the location and the detectives are talking to the head sister who runs the shelter and she explains that “Mary July” did stay at their residence. But her past dealings with drugs and whatever else led her to attain HIV and she died at the residence. The sister then leads them to the gravesite where Roland and Hays pay their respects to her. Hays and Roland both tell her she deserved better than them as detectives.

We then cut back to Junius who conveys his guilt over her death. He says that he feels responsible because he let her free and then she got something terrible in the real world. He tells the detectives he does not want to live with the thought of it anymore and begs for them to kill him. Roland says “do it yourself” and both of them leave Junius in his own torment.

After they leave outside the shelter, they run into a small child who looks very similar to Julie when she was young. They then meet the father, who does the landscaping for the shelter and he tells Roland and Hays he has been doing the building for many years but his father started the landscaping business. As he leaves, he tells his daughter Lucie to buckle up. Is that name a coincidence?