True Detective Season 3 Ending: 4 Biggest Unanswered Questions (& 8 Actually Explained)
4. Answered: What Was With The Teenagers?
In the first few episodes everyone’s money had been on the teenager Freddy Burns and his group of friends having committed the crime. They fit the part and, well, were teenagers which already makes nearly everyone hate them.
Rhys Wakefield played the part superbly and had nearly everyone against him. That ended up being a red herring as well, one that the writer explained in his Instagram Q & A. “Will & Julie were playing hide and seek in the woods with Hoyt’s daughter and Mr. June, WILL ran into teenagers in his bike and asks where's his sister. Teenagers stole his bike, and chased him into the woods (all in evening). Then Will comes back to the spot, and gets killed in the accident (daytime). The whole story makes no sense and doesn't fit in Freddie Burns story.”
The writer’s response feels like a bit of an excuse rather than an explanation, “It makes sense. Will was looking for his sister and couldn’t find her. He ran into the teenagers, who harassed him. When he eventually circled back to “a” spot (not “the” spot; there’s no “the” spot), he found Isabelle trying to take Julie away. There was a longer edit that showed all this in more detail.” Guess we have to take his word that it made sense.