Headscratchers / True Detective

• Why is the ice bunker in the Tsalal station hidden? Everyone already knows what the Tsalal scientists are doing: trying to extract some micoorganism intact from the ice to create a panacea. It's on their website and discussed by the police in episode one. The extraction site seems to be a pretty fundamental part of their mission, so it doesn't seem possible that they could just pretend it doesn't exist. Their secret is that pollution makes their work more efficient. If they're worried that intruders will be able to pore over their work and discover their pollution secret, wouldn't standard corporate security measures be the more applicable solution: key-card access to the extraction site, password protection on computers, no loose paper documents lying around?
• Why does the vigilante group of janitors kill the scientists but not expose their pollution secret? From the montage, we see the janitors photographing sensitive documents and putting together the whole story of how Annie K uncovered their pollution secret and got stabbed with the star screwdriver to keep it quiet. We also see that many of the scientists killed by the janitors weren't involved in the actual killing. They might not even have known about it. But they are all complicit in the pollution, so this must be what the janitors are killing them for. If that's the case, why do they go through with a mass murder instead of actually exposing the problem that is killing the whole community? Two weeks of stillbirths and riots go by, and these janitors just sit on the smoking gun.
  • Per the flashback, Lund was the first to stab her, the other scientists woke up and joined him in the stabbing, and when Annie turned out to still be alive, Clark smothered her. As for why the janitors sat on the evidence, if they did not trust authorities to bring Annie K's killers to justice, chances are that they did not trust authorities to stop the mining operation simply because they had incriminating info.
    • I don't recall all of the scientists being in the room when she's murdered. Secondly, it's one thing to not trust authorities and another thing entirely to make absolutely no attempt to save your family, friends and neighbors from being poisoned. They'll personally execute a commando raid, but they won't bother to send their findings to the media? They'll keep their enemies' secrets?
• What was the janitor army planning to do about the scientists' cell phones had they not inexplicably turned off when the power went out? A 911 call couldn't have saved the scientists in the moment, but it could have blown the janitors' cover.