True Detective: Who Died and Who Didn’t in Omega Station Finale

We watched the 90-minute finale of True Detective, Season 2 simply to find out who made it out alive and who didn’t, not to compare it to the finale of Season 1. So there will be none of that especially since we don’t even remember much of the finale of Season 1.

Without further ado, here’s who died:

Frank Semyon. Word! Despite all his careful plans and pre-arrangements, poor Frank forgot one loose end. The Mexicans he made that terrible deal with. They took him out to a desert, took a million dollars from him and were just going to leave him there when one dude decided he wanted Frank’s suit, as if it would even fit. But Frank wasn’t giving up a suit with 3.5 million in diamonds in one pocket so it was on. He got stabbed and the Mexicans still left him there. Frank walked and walked and walked, accompanied by hallucinations of people who did him wrong, like his father and some homies. Finally, he died and that is when he saw his wife, Jordan, in her white dress. She came to let him know that he was already kaput.

Ray Velcoro had to pay Chad one last visit before taking off for Venezuela with Ani Bezzerides and that was his downfall. It gave the bad guys an opportunity to plant a transponder under his car. He couldn’t get it off and he couldn’t lead them to Ani. So he led them out to the woods and took a few out before jumping out from behind that big tree, firing away. Our second deepest regret, after Frank’s demise, is that Ray did not manage to put a bullet in Lt. Kevin Burris.

Osip Agronov. Frank called Osip up to lay some verbal abuse on him and inform him that it would be him when the lights went out. True to his word, he personally dispatched Osip and relieved him of the $12 million he was giving to Jacob McCandless, who also met his maker.

And yes, all that money didn’t do Frank, Ray or their women a bit of good.

Len or Leonard, the orphaned son of the jewelry store owners who were executed in the ’92 robbery. Len, as previously surmised, killed Ben Caspere. He and his sister Laura (aka Erica) had the hard drive and he was supposed to exchange it for the blue diamonds with Vinci Police Chief Holloway (who still had a bandage on his neck from getting slugged with Woodrugh’s gun). Len was planning on taking out Holloway. Holloway and Burris were planning on taking out Len once they got the hard drive. The hard drive had been erased and no longer contained incriminating evidence anyway (just to underline the futility of all of this desperation). Ray managed to get to Len and convince him to tape Holloway while Ray gets him to incriminate himself. But Holloway’s disclosure that Laura was really Caspere’s daughter sent Len into a murderous frenzy that resulted in both his death and Holloway’s.

Mayor Austin Chessani ended up face down in his swimming pool with some booze and pills nearby to make it look like a suicide. Frank told Chessani’s Ukranian wife that her stepson Tony did it. Dr. Pitlor was a loose end and his murder was also made to look like a suicide.

And here’s who didn’t die:

Jordan Semyon made it to Venezuela with Nails.

Laura (aka Erica) was put on a bus to Seattle by Ani Bezzerides and told to put everything from the past behind her, including her brother, and start a new life.

Emily had Paul’s baby and attended the dedication of a highway named after him with Paul’s mother, Cynthia.

Tony Chessani became the new mayor of Vinci and Lt. Burris was still his homie.

Ani Bezzerides met up with Jordan and Nails in Venezuela. Ani was pregnant and had Ray’s baby. In an effort to clear Ray’s name, she turned over all the evidence she had over to the reporter that was going to expose the corruption in Vinci until Ray beat his ass with brass knuckles.

Other notes:

Gena got the results of the paternity test that showed Ray was really Chad’s father. At this point, she probably believed Ray killed Katherine Davis and Paul Woodrugh.

You know that opening scene where Ani talked about her 4 days in the woods and how sick she gets when she remembers the pride she felt when the man who took her called her pretty? Ray’s response was “It’s not your fault.” Note to scriptwriters: That was such a lame reply. Nobody wants to hear that because they already know it. With all the stilted dialogue in this season, Ray could have said something like “susceptibility to flattery is only a weakness in adults,” as he blew a smoke ring toward the ceiling.