Spoiler Alert: Three Pines Episodes 1-4Streaming now on Prime Video, the new seriesThree Pinestakes us to a small town in Canada riddled with dark secrets.Based on the books by Louise Penny, the show follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache (Alfred Molina) as he investigates a series of murders in the village of Three Pines and uncovers the town’s dark past. The show is being delivered two episodes at a time and will consist of eight for the first season. So far, the first four episodes have been released, with each pair covering a new mystery in Three Pines.
Alongside his cases in Three Pines, Inspector Gamache investigates the disappearance of a young Native woman from a nearby Mohawk reserve. Blue Two Rivers (Anna Lambe) is one of many Indigenous women that have gone missing and, despite the fact that SQ continues to dismiss the case, Inspector Gamache is determined to find out what happened to her and bring her family some answers.
What Has Happened in Three Pines So Far?
Thefirst two episodestitled White Out Part 1 and 2 feature the death of a woman, CC de Poitiers (Simone-Élise Girard), who had recently moved to Three Pines. In her short time living there it seemed that Madame de Poitiers had offended many of the locals, starting with her purchase of a former residential school for Indigenous children.
During a local curling match in Three Pines, CC met her demise in a rather strange manner, via a makeshift electrocution chair. With the entire town beingwitnesses to her deathand many of them having been slighted by her, Inspector Gamache obtains a long list of suspects to investigate, introducing us to the characters of the strange and mysterious town of Three Pines.
In the Blue Two Rivers case, it seems that Blue has run away with her boyfriend Tommy, as the two were last seen getting a ridewith his brother Kevin, who has also disappeared. When they run the plates of the vehicle they discover that the truck was seen crossing the border and later a picture is found online of Blue and Tommy with a group of people in Brooklyn. Inspector Gamache then presents this information to her family, but they refuse to accept that Blue would abandon her daughter and present conflicting evidence as the jacket Blue is wearing in the photo is still in her closet at home.
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Thenext two episodestitled The Cruellest Month Part 1 and 2 begin with a local man, Marc Fortier (Daniel Murphy), going missing. As Inspector Gamache investigates the area in which Marc was last seen alive, the same residential school previously occupied by CC de Poitiers, Gamache discovers his body hidden away in a suffocating chamber. This was used previously to punish the children of the school and as it turns out, Marc’s father used to be the caretaker of the facility. Inspector Gamache makes an even more disturbing discovery when he comes to find out that there are children’s bodies buried in the basement and the fourth episode ends with the residential school up in flames.
As for the Blue Two Rivers case, the lack of effort from SQ to solve it drives Blue’s mother Arisawe (Georgina Lightning) to throw herself off the building. Inspector Gamache, with the help of his colleagues Jean-Guy (Rossif Sutherland) and Isabelle Lacoste (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), have discovered that there is more to the disappearance of Blue Two Rivers than previously believed.
Isabelle, upon inspecting the photo, discovers that Blue and Tommy have been edited into the picture with the group. This leads her to reinvestigate the home of Kevin and Tommy, where she finds bleach spots underneath a rug. Forensic evidence confirms that there are traces of blood from Blue Two Rivers. With this evidence, their prime suspect is now Kevin.
What We Hope to See Next
With everything that has happened in these first four episodes, we are highly anticipatingwhat new mysteries will be uncoveredin the remaining half of the season. We certainly expect to find out more about the past of Three Pines, how the locals will seek to right the wrongs done to the Indigenous families, and bring peace and perhaps a sense of justice to those still living in the area and the nearby reserve. Burning down the residential school was the first step, but surely there will be more to come.
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We have yet to see who might be the next victim of Three Pines, but since murder seems to be what draws Inspector Gamache into the village, we would wage to guess there is someone else on the chopping block for the coming episodes. There appears to be a theme that the victims of the town have been connected to the residential school, but now that it is gone, how will that change?
And of course, we need to know more about what happened to Blue Two Rivers. With Kevin as the prime suspect in her disappearance, and now possible murder, we want to know what happened before the three of them mysteriously vanished. Did something happen to Tommy as well or did both brothers harm Blue and then skip town? We certainly hope for more answers in this case, for the sake of Blue’s family which is slowly falling apart with tragedy after tragedy.
