Dark Winds (2022) s02e06 Episode Script
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Previously on "Dark Winds"
What would it take to get you to stay?
Coming down to the rez
and killing Indians
wasn't your idea, was it?
BJ Vines and his People of Darkness.
You take him now,
we'll never find out
who he's working for,
and I can't live with that, can you?
It's out of our hands.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- He got away. He got away.
- Okay. Okay.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
One more step, and the undertaker
will be picking
buckshot from your teeth.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
Do you know who I am?
♪
So how bad is it?
Well, the Navajo cop, Leaphorn
he suspects I work for you.
And it's tied to the Drumco explosion,
but he can't prove it.
♪
You sure of that?
♪
Well, the proof was in that box, right?
I took care of that.
♪
They'll be looking for
you to head to Old Mexico.
I were you, I'd go east toward Durango.
That's all I have in
the house right now.
♪
That's about $5,000.
♪
Is anyone else here?
No.
♪
Straight out this path two miles,
there's a Jeep in a shed,
all gassed up, ready to go.
♪
[GUNSHOT]
♪
[GASPING]
♪
[WHEEZING]
♪
- Yeah.
- [GRUNTS]
[WHEEZES]
♪
[HAMMERING]
Linda.
♪
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
So did you see Barbara when you came in?
Yeah, we we said hello.
You know, you always told
me it wasn't a competition.
You always got to go me
one better, don't you?
[LAUGHS]
I don't know what the
hell happened, Joe.
He was on me
before I had time to react.
Yeah.
Found your pen in the back seat.
Used it to pick the cuffs.
[SIGHS]
You
ever kill anyone, Joe?
[DISTANT TELEPHONE RINGS]
I've been involved in it
in the war.
But me personally no.
In 1957,
I get called to a domestic
and I found this guy out
back lying under a tree,
hangman's noose dangling above him.
Turns out he shot his
wife to death in their bed.
Now he can't go on living without her.
But he's afraid if he commits suicide,
he'll go to hell, so
he calls the law on hisself.
♪
I was damn near on top of
him before I seen the pistol.
He raises his arm and
points it right at me.
♪
I stayed with him under that tree.
He died
right as the ambulance pulled up.
I was the last thing he ever saw.
Now, think about that.
When you kill a man,
they're bound to you.
Wherever you go in this
life, they're with you.
Maybe the next one, too.
I don't know.
I don't know either.
Last night I laid there
with my eyes closed, playing possum
'Cause I was afraid if I opened them
He'd be the last thing I ever saw.
And I
I
You were hurt, in shock.
[INHALES SHARPLY] Uh, yeah.
Yeah. Let's go with that.
♪
[SMACKS LIPS]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Yes?
Hi. I'm, uh
Is the other maid,
Gabriella is she around?
No, señor.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
[ENGINE STOPS, BRAKE CRANKS]
[BIRDS CAWING]
Mr. Chee
I gather you've, uh,
confirmed my suspicions?
No.
But you've confirmed Tomas Charley's.
Oh? How so?
He told me you're a witch.
I don't believe in witches, but he did.
So do a lot of other people around here.
And after what I saw last
night at your little shindig,
I wonder if you're one of them.
Jorge
Take this.
♪
My spiritual adventures
are none of your business.
I advise you to not mess with
what you don't understand,
Ben.
You can steal our ceremonies,
but you'll never get off the black road.
Where's your wife?
I'll tell you what
we gave it a shot, didn't we, Mr. Chee?
Let's see, uh
you came up with nothing.
I hate paying for nothing, but
♪
A deal's a deal.
Don't worry about Rosemary.
She's dug her own grave.
♪
[THE WHO'S "LOVE AIN'T FOR KEEPING"]
♪
Layin' on my back ♪
In newly mown grass ♪
Rain is coming down ♪
But I know the clouds will pass ♪
How's [SPEAKING DINÉ]?
Maybe you ought to come
around more, find out.
Say the babe's a-sleeping ♪
I'm gonna run something by you.
I think Vines hired the blond
man to blow up Drumco well.
He's killing everybody
who can tie him to it.
You better have your sheep sheared
and your silver shined before
you go after a man like Vines.
Yeah, well, I found the geology report
for the Drumco site up on the Malpaís.
The blond man tried to burn it,
along with some other
things from Vines's safe.
The only way that Vines
could've got his hands on that report
is if Dillon Charley gave
it to him or was paid to.
Keep talking.
Dillon worked for Drumco.
He and Vines were close.
Vines supported his church.
- People of Darkness.
- Yeah.
I think Dillon was
dealing Vines information
about the Drumco drilling operation.
That explosion was
almost four years ago.
Dillon Charley's been dead two.
Why these killings now?
'Cause Emerson Charley found
out he was dying from cancer.
- It changed everything.
- How?
Emerson knew what his brother had done
and that Vines had something on Dillon
that he kept in his safe.
Emerson didn't want to die with his
brother's stain on his conscience.
So I think he asked Tomas to
get the report from the safe
so he could take it to the
authorities before he died.
That's a lot of ifs you're thinking.
What else you got?
You.
Nobody knows more about explosives
how they work, what they leave behind.
If I'm going to tie Vines to this,
the first step is proving
that that blond man
blew up that well.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Look at these.
These structures this one's frayed.
This one's splintering.
He blew this one,
and the rest just fell in on themselves.
Wouldn't you put the bomb
down here where the oil is?
He wanted it to look like an accident.
He put it up high.
So, when it blew
it blew away from the derrick.
Once a bomb maker
designs a bomb that works,
he sticks with it.
It becomes his signature.
So, if he was here,
he would've used the same blue wire,
the same clock,
same Semtex he used on the doll
and on the bomb that
killed Emerson Charley.
We need to check every
penetrable surface
within 100 yards of that derrick.
If we're gonna find anything,
that's where it'll be.
I'll check those structures.
You get up that windmill.
How in the hell am I supposed to
get up there with a broken arm?
You've got two of them, don't you?
♪
Jesus.
♪
[EXHALES DEEPLY] All right.
♪
[GRUNTS, SIGHS]
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
What?
♪
Now you know
for all the good it'll do you.
♪
[ERIC CLAPTON'S "GOT TO GE
BETTER IN A LITTLE WHILE"]
♪
Don't you know what's wrong with me? ♪
What is so important about this stuff?
I'm seeing things
I don't want to see ♪
♪
What am I not getting?
♪
I'm going down fast ♪
Won't you say a prayer for me? ♪
♪
Thank you.
Here's how it'll happen.
When you go to arrest BJ Vines,
the sheriff will take him into custody
and the white judge
Vines put in the office
will release him on bail.
Vines' lawyers will work the system,
and the charges will be dropped.
No, y-you're wrong.
White Justice
Indian justice
two different things.
It's as true today as it was in my day.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The Charleys deserves
a little Indian justice.
So does my grandson.
That don't mean they'll get it.
- Times have changed, Henry.
- [SCOFFS]
Times have
but things haven't.
♪
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Okay, so Tomas was having an
affair with Rosemary Vines.
I get why these photos would
be on his camera, but
why would he have pictures of this?
If I had to guess,
I'd say that after he stole
the lockbox from Vines' safe,
he looked inside, saw it,
for whatever reason decided
to take a picture of it.
Let me see that.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
BJ Vines doctored the report
that got filed with the state.
[MAGNIFYING GLASS CLATTERS]
Tomas Charley took a picture
of this one, the original,
before it was doctored.
♪
It shows there's
uranium on that property.
And the one Dillon
filed with the state
♪
Shows there's no uranium there at all.
That's why Vines wanted
the original destroyed.
Vines blew up the well to spook Drumco
into selling it to him for cheap?
And he didn't care that it
cost six people their lives?
♪
Natalie! Find Gordo Sena.
Tell him we need a warrant for BJ Vines.
Tell him to have the judge
meet us at the office.
Bring that!
Hey, Chief, glad you're back.
♪
- What the hell?
- You're under arrest.
What's the charge?
Conspiracy to commit homicide.
I'll have my lawyers up your ass
before the sun goes down
and still there when it comes up again.
Let's go.
- How about some pants?
- Nope.
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
I read your story.
It's your story. I just wrote it down.
My son gave us more love and joy
than we'd ever known.
Maybe we wouldn't have
had any more children,
but that was my choice to make,
not the government's,
not a doctor's, mine.
To treat a whole race
of people like cattle
and just cull the herd
because you're afraid
there'll be too many of us?
What kind of person do
you have to be to do that?
What kind of country?
Publish it.
- You're sure?
- I'm sure.
Going public with what you
have done for these women
I don't want you to
be under any illusion.
It's risky.
Staying quiet is more risky.
I got a woman ♪
She's so hard to keep from crying ♪
Said she's tired of all my lyin' ♪
But it's me that's really cryin' ♪
If you knew me better ♪
You'd know I just feel like dyin' ♪
Chee!
[SPEAKING DINÉ] lady
wants to talk to you.
I've been looking for
you. I went to your house.
I spent the night at Gabriela's.
Was she there?
Of course. Why wouldn't she be?
- Where's your, um
- I don't need it.
Since when?
Mr. Chee, why must you al
[CLEARS THROAT]
I'm sure you heard about Ben's troubles.
Troubles
that's a nice way of putting it.
I told you people
were going to get hurt.
I didn't think you meant my husband.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS] You were worried that
Tomas would tell your husband
about the two of you.
That's why you hired me, isn't it
keep your affair a secret?
I hired you to try
to protect my husband.
Who is sitting in a jail cell,
possibly for the rest of his life,
if you get what you want.
You have no idea what I want, Mr. Chee.
- Don't pretend that you do.
- I know this much.
You wanted me to find
that geological report.
You knew that it was in
your husband's lockbox.
You knew that it was the
only evidence tying him
to the Drumco explosion.
You knew that if it got out,
he'd be cooked, and you'd be free.
[SCOFFS] Why do you enjoy
upsetting me so much?
You know I get spasms when you do.
[WHEEZES] Car.
♪
[CONTINUES WHEEZING]
♪
Here, let me.
- There you go.
- [SIGHS]
[SIGHS, BREATHES DEEPLY]
[CHUCKLES, BREATHES DEEPLY]
You remind me of myself, Mr. Chee.
Like me, you're all alone.
Wherever we go, we think
this'll be it.
This will be my place, where I belong.
This will be my home.
And it never is, is it?
♪
You ever been to Acapulco?
I hear it's nice this time of year.
♪
I hate traveling by myself.
♪
I think there'll be plenty
of brown people there
to help you with your luggage.
You never know.
It could be the beginning
of something good.
I'm good where I am. Thanks.
♪
Yeah, you just keep telling
yourself that, Mr. Chee.
♪
Oh, what you were talking about earlier,
your little theory?
Imagine, a frail thing
like me capable of all that.
♪
Who'd ever believe it?
♪
I would.
♪
Take care of yourself, Jim Chee.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
And, of course, Guy
knows that I love the book
"Leaves of Grass," right?
But I can't find it anywhere on the rez.
So a week later,
he shows up at my family's hogan
with a medicine pouch,
and I open it up
and it's full of blades of grass.
- [LAUGHTER]
- Yeah, that sounds like Guy.
[GIGGLES SOFTLY]
Oh.
Joe, you made him laugh.
Me? Shit, I didn't do anything.
Is that his first laugh?
You have to do an [SPEAKING DINÉ]
What's that?
When a baby laughs for the first time,
it means
he's finally a person.
So
we have a First Laugh ceremony.
♪
It's tradition.
♪
All right.
There you go.
[GASPS, GRUNTS]
♪
So you decided to be one of us now, huh?
You're a person.
♪
Let's do it here.
Been saying we need to
get things back in balance
around here.
Since I made him laugh,
I think I'm responsible.
[SCATTERED CHUCKLES]
Let's do it.
All right. [GRUNTS]
Hey, I'm going to wash up.
- You'll tell Margaret?
- Yeah.
Thanks.
Mining executive BJ Vines
was released from custody this afternoon
from the Valencia
County Sheriff's Office
and remains free on bail tonight.
Vines was charged with
conspiracy to commit murder
in the Drumco Oil
explosion four years ago
that killed six workers
a charge the millionaire
vehemently denies.
In other news, the County
Board of Supervisors
[BABY COOS]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Jesus Christ, Leaphorn.
What
what are you doing?
♪
Found it on your desk.
You should've hid it in your safe,
where you kept my son's
buckle and your other trophies.
Get out of here before you wake my wife.
She's not here.
Neither is your maid.
It's just you and now me.
The Drumco blast
Why not do it at night
when no one's around?
Why?
Why kill all those men?
I've already said on record
I had nothing to do with that.
Those six Indians died
in an accidental mine explosion.
That's the way it looks.
That's the way it is.
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
Come again?
♪
Get up.
♪
W-where are we going?
♪
Lieutenant, do you have any idea
how much trouble you're in?
Huh?
You break into my house and kidnap me.
You are in deep shit, my friend.
♪
- [TIRES SQUEALING]
- Whoa!
♪
What the hell are you doing? [GRUNTS]
W-where are we going?
♪
You know about the Long Walk?
Oh, a-are we making conversation now?
Over 200 of my ancestors,
men, women, and children,
died because they were forced to walk
across the desert barefoot
without food, without water.
♪
Out there are the
spirits of all the people
you and people like you have killed.
[SIGHS]
I want them to be the
last thing you see.
[CAR BRAKES HARD, THUDS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
♪
Get out of the car.
[GRUNTING]
Shit.
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
Walk.
L-listen, Lieutenant.
Hey, Joe. Joe, wait.
I said walk.
Killing me's not going
to bring your son back.
You know that.
How much is revenge worth to you, huh
$1 million, $2 million?
Joe, I'll give you $3
million, Joe, today.
You you know I'm the richest
man in the desert, right?
- On your knees.
- [GROANS]
On your knees.
♪
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
[GRUNTS, BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
Oh, God.
God, no, God.
Oh, no, God.
♪
Oh, God.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[TRUCK DEPARTING]
[GRUNTING]
♪
[DISTANT ANIMAL HOWLS]
♪
[BOB DYLAN'S "TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME"]
♪
If today was not a crooked highway ♪
♪
If tonight was not a crooked trail ♪
If tomorrow wasn't such a long time ♪
Then lonesome would mean
nothing to you at all ♪
♪
Yes, and only if my own
true love was waiting ♪
And I could hear her
heart a-softly pounding ♪
Yes, and only if she was lying by me ♪
♪
I'd lie ♪
In my bed once again ♪
♪
I can't see my
reflection in the waters ♪
♪
I can't speak the
sounds that show no pain ♪
I can't hear the
echo of my footsteps ♪
Or remember the
sounds of my own name ♪
♪
Yes, and only if my
own true love is waiting ♪
♪
And if I could only hear
her heart a-softly pounding ♪
Yes, and only if she was lying by me ♪
I'd lie ♪
In my bed once again ♪
♪
There's beauty in that
silver singin' river ♪
♪
There's beauty in
that rainbow in the sky ♪
♪
But none of these ♪
And nothing else
can touch the beauty ♪
♪
That I remember in
my true love's eyes ♪
♪
Yes, and only if she was lying by me ♪
Then I'd lie ♪
In my bed once again ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER,
UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Take it from me that a
man can be more trouble ♪
Than you'll ever know ♪
He'll love you some,
and when he's done ♪
He'll laugh and let you go. ♪
So they told me ♪
And they told me little else ♪
♪
But I tell you ♪
What's he want?
- I don't know.
- [TRUCK DOOR CLOSES]
♪
Handsome stride and shoulders wide ♪
Disguise a heart of stone ♪
Lovers' wiles and tender smiles ♪
Hey.
What brings you by, Gordo?
Ah, got some news,
wanted you to hear from me first.
Okay.
I decided to call it quits,
end of the month.
Not gonna finish out your term?
Nah, it's either that
or get a divorce, so
You ain't got to say nothing.
I just wanted to tell you myself.
So there it is.
♪
Oh, and come Monday
judge is going to issue
a warrant for BJ Vines.
Son of a bitch skipped bail.
Kind of a strange deal, actually.
Checked his bank records,
checked the airlines
and trains and buses.
Nobody's seen the man since
he got hisself out of jail.
It's like he just
vanished.
Strange, like you said.
Yep.
Well
somebody else's problem now.
Well, take care of yourself, Joe.
- You too, Gordo.
- Okeydoke.
Oh, one one more thing
if I was you
I'd run
In the fall for my office.
Thanks, but I'm not
much of a politician.
I think I'll stay where I'm at.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Captain.
Lawrence.
♪
How long you been standing there?
Your whole life.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[TRUCK DEPARTING]
♪
Here, let me get that for you, son.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Okay.
You little monkey.
You're a little monkey.
[BABY FUSSING] Oh, there you are.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, sit down.
Ah, okay.
So, honey, you're gonna have
to make sure you help him
with the distribution of the salt, okay?
So [SPEAKING DINÉ] is gonna go first.
[BABY FUSSES]
♪
Where's mine?
[GASPS] Why, thank you.
[BABY FUSSING]
Hey.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[LAUGHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES, LAUGHTER]
♪
Thank you.
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
[ALL REPEATING IN DINÉ]
♪
- [FLATULENCE]
- Ooh.
- [LAUGHING] Ooh.
- [BABY FUSSES]
I think he just farted.
[LAUGHTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER,
DISTANT DOG BARKING]
Hey.
Thanks for coming by
today. I appreciate it.
What's going on?
I'm taking the Border Patrol job.
I thought you might.
What was it that finally
made up your mind?
Just seeing a monster like
BJ Vines walk away and
not being able to do
a damn thing about it.
Henry's right.
There's two sets of rules
one for us
and one for people like Vines.
And we're just supposed to,
what, pretend that there isn't?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm sorry, Joe.
♪
I just can't pretend anymore. [SNIFFLES]
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
You know, I
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
♪
[VEHICLE DOOR CLOSES]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
You ready?
[BABY COOING]
♪
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
Whoa. What happened?
Those leisure suits finally
wear out their welcome?
Thought I'd stick around a
while, give Leaphorn a hand.
- He'll need it without you.
- That's good.
I will have some big
shoes to fill, of course
like, huge, literally Sasquatch big.
Hey.
I'd take my big feet over
your little hands any day.
- They're not little.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Come on.
- Mm-hmm.
Keep telling yourself that.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[SIGHS]
So
this is you leaving?
This is me.
I got something for you.
More piñon nuts?
I thought you'd might
want your medicine back.
You don't need it?
Got my own.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Wow.
Okay.
I guess I rubbed off on you after all.
Not enough.
[NEIL YOUNG'S "BIRDS"]
♪
I wish you'd come sooner.
I'm sorry.
Indian time.
Who'll hover over you ♪
Beneath the sun ♪
Tomorrow ♪
See the things that never come ♪
Bye, Chee.
Goodbye, Bernadette.
When you see me fly away ♪
Without you ♪
Shadow on the things you know ♪
♪
Feathers fall around you ♪
♪
And show you the way to go ♪
It's over ♪
♪
It's over ♪
Oh ♪
[SONG ENDS]
[CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL'S]
["HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN?" PLAYING]
♪
Someone told me long ago ♪
There's a calm before the storm ♪
I know ♪
It's been coming for some time ♪
♪
When it's over, so they say ♪
It'll rain a sunny day ♪
I know ♪
Shinin' down like water ♪
♪
I wanna know ♪
Have you ever seen the rain? ♪
I wanna know ♪
Have you ever seen the rain ♪
♪
Comin' down on a sunny day? ♪
♪
Previously on "Dark Winds"
What would it take to get you to stay?
Coming down to the rez
and killing Indians
wasn't your idea, was it?
BJ Vines and his People of Darkness.
You take him now,
we'll never find out
who he's working for,
and I can't live with that, can you?
It's out of our hands.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- He got away. He got away.
- Okay. Okay.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
One more step, and the undertaker
will be picking
buckshot from your teeth.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
Do you know who I am?
♪
So how bad is it?
Well, the Navajo cop, Leaphorn
he suspects I work for you.
And it's tied to the Drumco explosion,
but he can't prove it.
♪
You sure of that?
♪
Well, the proof was in that box, right?
I took care of that.
♪
They'll be looking for
you to head to Old Mexico.
I were you, I'd go east toward Durango.
That's all I have in
the house right now.
♪
That's about $5,000.
♪
Is anyone else here?
No.
♪
Straight out this path two miles,
there's a Jeep in a shed,
all gassed up, ready to go.
♪
[GUNSHOT]
♪
[GASPING]
♪
[WHEEZING]
♪
- Yeah.
- [GRUNTS]
[WHEEZES]
♪
[HAMMERING]
Linda.
♪
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
So did you see Barbara when you came in?
Yeah, we we said hello.
You know, you always told
me it wasn't a competition.
You always got to go me
one better, don't you?
[LAUGHS]
I don't know what the
hell happened, Joe.
He was on me
before I had time to react.
Yeah.
Found your pen in the back seat.
Used it to pick the cuffs.
[SIGHS]
You
ever kill anyone, Joe?
[DISTANT TELEPHONE RINGS]
I've been involved in it
in the war.
But me personally no.
In 1957,
I get called to a domestic
and I found this guy out
back lying under a tree,
hangman's noose dangling above him.
Turns out he shot his
wife to death in their bed.
Now he can't go on living without her.
But he's afraid if he commits suicide,
he'll go to hell, so
he calls the law on hisself.
♪
I was damn near on top of
him before I seen the pistol.
He raises his arm and
points it right at me.
♪
I stayed with him under that tree.
He died
right as the ambulance pulled up.
I was the last thing he ever saw.
Now, think about that.
When you kill a man,
they're bound to you.
Wherever you go in this
life, they're with you.
Maybe the next one, too.
I don't know.
I don't know either.
Last night I laid there
with my eyes closed, playing possum
'Cause I was afraid if I opened them
He'd be the last thing I ever saw.
And I
I
You were hurt, in shock.
[INHALES SHARPLY] Uh, yeah.
Yeah. Let's go with that.
♪
[SMACKS LIPS]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Yes?
Hi. I'm, uh
Is the other maid,
Gabriella is she around?
No, señor.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[BRAKES SQUEAL]
[ENGINE STOPS, BRAKE CRANKS]
[BIRDS CAWING]
Mr. Chee
I gather you've, uh,
confirmed my suspicions?
No.
But you've confirmed Tomas Charley's.
Oh? How so?
He told me you're a witch.
I don't believe in witches, but he did.
So do a lot of other people around here.
And after what I saw last
night at your little shindig,
I wonder if you're one of them.
Jorge
Take this.
♪
My spiritual adventures
are none of your business.
I advise you to not mess with
what you don't understand,
Ben.
You can steal our ceremonies,
but you'll never get off the black road.
Where's your wife?
I'll tell you what
we gave it a shot, didn't we, Mr. Chee?
Let's see, uh
you came up with nothing.
I hate paying for nothing, but
♪
A deal's a deal.
Don't worry about Rosemary.
She's dug her own grave.
♪
[THE WHO'S "LOVE AIN'T FOR KEEPING"]
♪
Layin' on my back ♪
In newly mown grass ♪
Rain is coming down ♪
But I know the clouds will pass ♪
How's [SPEAKING DINÉ]?
Maybe you ought to come
around more, find out.
Say the babe's a-sleeping ♪
I'm gonna run something by you.
I think Vines hired the blond
man to blow up Drumco well.
He's killing everybody
who can tie him to it.
You better have your sheep sheared
and your silver shined before
you go after a man like Vines.
Yeah, well, I found the geology report
for the Drumco site up on the Malpaís.
The blond man tried to burn it,
along with some other
things from Vines's safe.
The only way that Vines
could've got his hands on that report
is if Dillon Charley gave
it to him or was paid to.
Keep talking.
Dillon worked for Drumco.
He and Vines were close.
Vines supported his church.
- People of Darkness.
- Yeah.
I think Dillon was
dealing Vines information
about the Drumco drilling operation.
That explosion was
almost four years ago.
Dillon Charley's been dead two.
Why these killings now?
'Cause Emerson Charley found
out he was dying from cancer.
- It changed everything.
- How?
Emerson knew what his brother had done
and that Vines had something on Dillon
that he kept in his safe.
Emerson didn't want to die with his
brother's stain on his conscience.
So I think he asked Tomas to
get the report from the safe
so he could take it to the
authorities before he died.
That's a lot of ifs you're thinking.
What else you got?
You.
Nobody knows more about explosives
how they work, what they leave behind.
If I'm going to tie Vines to this,
the first step is proving
that that blond man
blew up that well.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Look at these.
These structures this one's frayed.
This one's splintering.
He blew this one,
and the rest just fell in on themselves.
Wouldn't you put the bomb
down here where the oil is?
He wanted it to look like an accident.
He put it up high.
So, when it blew
it blew away from the derrick.
Once a bomb maker
designs a bomb that works,
he sticks with it.
It becomes his signature.
So, if he was here,
he would've used the same blue wire,
the same clock,
same Semtex he used on the doll
and on the bomb that
killed Emerson Charley.
We need to check every
penetrable surface
within 100 yards of that derrick.
If we're gonna find anything,
that's where it'll be.
I'll check those structures.
You get up that windmill.
How in the hell am I supposed to
get up there with a broken arm?
You've got two of them, don't you?
♪
Jesus.
♪
[EXHALES DEEPLY] All right.
♪
[GRUNTS, SIGHS]
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
What?
♪
Now you know
for all the good it'll do you.
♪
[ERIC CLAPTON'S "GOT TO GE
BETTER IN A LITTLE WHILE"]
♪
Don't you know what's wrong with me? ♪
What is so important about this stuff?
I'm seeing things
I don't want to see ♪
♪
What am I not getting?
♪
I'm going down fast ♪
Won't you say a prayer for me? ♪
♪
Thank you.
Here's how it'll happen.
When you go to arrest BJ Vines,
the sheriff will take him into custody
and the white judge
Vines put in the office
will release him on bail.
Vines' lawyers will work the system,
and the charges will be dropped.
No, y-you're wrong.
White Justice
Indian justice
two different things.
It's as true today as it was in my day.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The Charleys deserves
a little Indian justice.
So does my grandson.
That don't mean they'll get it.
- Times have changed, Henry.
- [SCOFFS]
Times have
but things haven't.
♪
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Okay, so Tomas was having an
affair with Rosemary Vines.
I get why these photos would
be on his camera, but
why would he have pictures of this?
If I had to guess,
I'd say that after he stole
the lockbox from Vines' safe,
he looked inside, saw it,
for whatever reason decided
to take a picture of it.
Let me see that.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
BJ Vines doctored the report
that got filed with the state.
[MAGNIFYING GLASS CLATTERS]
Tomas Charley took a picture
of this one, the original,
before it was doctored.
♪
It shows there's
uranium on that property.
And the one Dillon
filed with the state
♪
Shows there's no uranium there at all.
That's why Vines wanted
the original destroyed.
Vines blew up the well to spook Drumco
into selling it to him for cheap?
And he didn't care that it
cost six people their lives?
♪
Natalie! Find Gordo Sena.
Tell him we need a warrant for BJ Vines.
Tell him to have the judge
meet us at the office.
Bring that!
Hey, Chief, glad you're back.
♪
- What the hell?
- You're under arrest.
What's the charge?
Conspiracy to commit homicide.
I'll have my lawyers up your ass
before the sun goes down
and still there when it comes up again.
Let's go.
- How about some pants?
- Nope.
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
I read your story.
It's your story. I just wrote it down.
My son gave us more love and joy
than we'd ever known.
Maybe we wouldn't have
had any more children,
but that was my choice to make,
not the government's,
not a doctor's, mine.
To treat a whole race
of people like cattle
and just cull the herd
because you're afraid
there'll be too many of us?
What kind of person do
you have to be to do that?
What kind of country?
Publish it.
- You're sure?
- I'm sure.
Going public with what you
have done for these women
I don't want you to
be under any illusion.
It's risky.
Staying quiet is more risky.
I got a woman ♪
She's so hard to keep from crying ♪
Said she's tired of all my lyin' ♪
But it's me that's really cryin' ♪
If you knew me better ♪
You'd know I just feel like dyin' ♪
Chee!
[SPEAKING DINÉ] lady
wants to talk to you.
I've been looking for
you. I went to your house.
I spent the night at Gabriela's.
Was she there?
Of course. Why wouldn't she be?
- Where's your, um
- I don't need it.
Since when?
Mr. Chee, why must you al
[CLEARS THROAT]
I'm sure you heard about Ben's troubles.
Troubles
that's a nice way of putting it.
I told you people
were going to get hurt.
I didn't think you meant my husband.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS] You were worried that
Tomas would tell your husband
about the two of you.
That's why you hired me, isn't it
keep your affair a secret?
I hired you to try
to protect my husband.
Who is sitting in a jail cell,
possibly for the rest of his life,
if you get what you want.
You have no idea what I want, Mr. Chee.
- Don't pretend that you do.
- I know this much.
You wanted me to find
that geological report.
You knew that it was in
your husband's lockbox.
You knew that it was the
only evidence tying him
to the Drumco explosion.
You knew that if it got out,
he'd be cooked, and you'd be free.
[SCOFFS] Why do you enjoy
upsetting me so much?
You know I get spasms when you do.
[WHEEZES] Car.
♪
[CONTINUES WHEEZING]
♪
Here, let me.
- There you go.
- [SIGHS]
[SIGHS, BREATHES DEEPLY]
[CHUCKLES, BREATHES DEEPLY]
You remind me of myself, Mr. Chee.
Like me, you're all alone.
Wherever we go, we think
this'll be it.
This will be my place, where I belong.
This will be my home.
And it never is, is it?
♪
You ever been to Acapulco?
I hear it's nice this time of year.
♪
I hate traveling by myself.
♪
I think there'll be plenty
of brown people there
to help you with your luggage.
You never know.
It could be the beginning
of something good.
I'm good where I am. Thanks.
♪
Yeah, you just keep telling
yourself that, Mr. Chee.
♪
Oh, what you were talking about earlier,
your little theory?
Imagine, a frail thing
like me capable of all that.
♪
Who'd ever believe it?
♪
I would.
♪
Take care of yourself, Jim Chee.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
And, of course, Guy
knows that I love the book
"Leaves of Grass," right?
But I can't find it anywhere on the rez.
So a week later,
he shows up at my family's hogan
with a medicine pouch,
and I open it up
and it's full of blades of grass.
- [LAUGHTER]
- Yeah, that sounds like Guy.
[GIGGLES SOFTLY]
Oh.
Joe, you made him laugh.
Me? Shit, I didn't do anything.
Is that his first laugh?
You have to do an [SPEAKING DINÉ]
What's that?
When a baby laughs for the first time,
it means
he's finally a person.
So
we have a First Laugh ceremony.
♪
It's tradition.
♪
All right.
There you go.
[GASPS, GRUNTS]
♪
So you decided to be one of us now, huh?
You're a person.
♪
Let's do it here.
Been saying we need to
get things back in balance
around here.
Since I made him laugh,
I think I'm responsible.
[SCATTERED CHUCKLES]
Let's do it.
All right. [GRUNTS]
Hey, I'm going to wash up.
- You'll tell Margaret?
- Yeah.
Thanks.
Mining executive BJ Vines
was released from custody this afternoon
from the Valencia
County Sheriff's Office
and remains free on bail tonight.
Vines was charged with
conspiracy to commit murder
in the Drumco Oil
explosion four years ago
that killed six workers
a charge the millionaire
vehemently denies.
In other news, the County
Board of Supervisors
[BABY COOS]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Jesus Christ, Leaphorn.
What
what are you doing?
♪
Found it on your desk.
You should've hid it in your safe,
where you kept my son's
buckle and your other trophies.
Get out of here before you wake my wife.
She's not here.
Neither is your maid.
It's just you and now me.
The Drumco blast
Why not do it at night
when no one's around?
Why?
Why kill all those men?
I've already said on record
I had nothing to do with that.
Those six Indians died
in an accidental mine explosion.
That's the way it looks.
That's the way it is.
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
Come again?
♪
Get up.
♪
W-where are we going?
♪
Lieutenant, do you have any idea
how much trouble you're in?
Huh?
You break into my house and kidnap me.
You are in deep shit, my friend.
♪
- [TIRES SQUEALING]
- Whoa!
♪
What the hell are you doing? [GRUNTS]
W-where are we going?
♪
You know about the Long Walk?
Oh, a-are we making conversation now?
Over 200 of my ancestors,
men, women, and children,
died because they were forced to walk
across the desert barefoot
without food, without water.
♪
Out there are the
spirits of all the people
you and people like you have killed.
[SIGHS]
I want them to be the
last thing you see.
[CAR BRAKES HARD, THUDS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
♪
Get out of the car.
[GRUNTING]
Shit.
[CAR DOOR SLAMS]
Walk.
L-listen, Lieutenant.
Hey, Joe. Joe, wait.
I said walk.
Killing me's not going
to bring your son back.
You know that.
How much is revenge worth to you, huh
$1 million, $2 million?
Joe, I'll give you $3
million, Joe, today.
You you know I'm the richest
man in the desert, right?
- On your knees.
- [GROANS]
On your knees.
♪
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
[GRUNTS, BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
Oh, God.
God, no, God.
Oh, no, God.
♪
Oh, God.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[TRUCK DEPARTING]
[GRUNTING]
♪
[DISTANT ANIMAL HOWLS]
♪
[BOB DYLAN'S "TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME"]
♪
If today was not a crooked highway ♪
♪
If tonight was not a crooked trail ♪
If tomorrow wasn't such a long time ♪
Then lonesome would mean
nothing to you at all ♪
♪
Yes, and only if my own
true love was waiting ♪
And I could hear her
heart a-softly pounding ♪
Yes, and only if she was lying by me ♪
♪
I'd lie ♪
In my bed once again ♪
♪
I can't see my
reflection in the waters ♪
♪
I can't speak the
sounds that show no pain ♪
I can't hear the
echo of my footsteps ♪
Or remember the
sounds of my own name ♪
♪
Yes, and only if my
own true love is waiting ♪
♪
And if I could only hear
her heart a-softly pounding ♪
Yes, and only if she was lying by me ♪
I'd lie ♪
In my bed once again ♪
♪
There's beauty in that
silver singin' river ♪
♪
There's beauty in
that rainbow in the sky ♪
♪
But none of these ♪
And nothing else
can touch the beauty ♪
♪
That I remember in
my true love's eyes ♪
♪
Yes, and only if she was lying by me ♪
Then I'd lie ♪
In my bed once again ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER,
UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Take it from me that a
man can be more trouble ♪
Than you'll ever know ♪
He'll love you some,
and when he's done ♪
He'll laugh and let you go. ♪
So they told me ♪
And they told me little else ♪
♪
But I tell you ♪
What's he want?
- I don't know.
- [TRUCK DOOR CLOSES]
♪
Handsome stride and shoulders wide ♪
Disguise a heart of stone ♪
Lovers' wiles and tender smiles ♪
Hey.
What brings you by, Gordo?
Ah, got some news,
wanted you to hear from me first.
Okay.
I decided to call it quits,
end of the month.
Not gonna finish out your term?
Nah, it's either that
or get a divorce, so
You ain't got to say nothing.
I just wanted to tell you myself.
So there it is.
♪
Oh, and come Monday
judge is going to issue
a warrant for BJ Vines.
Son of a bitch skipped bail.
Kind of a strange deal, actually.
Checked his bank records,
checked the airlines
and trains and buses.
Nobody's seen the man since
he got hisself out of jail.
It's like he just
vanished.
Strange, like you said.
Yep.
Well
somebody else's problem now.
Well, take care of yourself, Joe.
- You too, Gordo.
- Okeydoke.
Oh, one one more thing
if I was you
I'd run
In the fall for my office.
Thanks, but I'm not
much of a politician.
I think I'll stay where I'm at.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Captain.
Lawrence.
♪
How long you been standing there?
Your whole life.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[TRUCK DEPARTING]
♪
Here, let me get that for you, son.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Okay.
You little monkey.
You're a little monkey.
[BABY FUSSING] Oh, there you are.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, sit down.
Ah, okay.
So, honey, you're gonna have
to make sure you help him
with the distribution of the salt, okay?
So [SPEAKING DINÉ] is gonna go first.
[BABY FUSSES]
♪
Where's mine?
[GASPS] Why, thank you.
[BABY FUSSING]
Hey.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[LAUGHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES, LAUGHTER]
♪
Thank you.
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
[ALL REPEATING IN DINÉ]
♪
- [FLATULENCE]
- Ooh.
- [LAUGHING] Ooh.
- [BABY FUSSES]
I think he just farted.
[LAUGHTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER,
DISTANT DOG BARKING]
Hey.
Thanks for coming by
today. I appreciate it.
What's going on?
I'm taking the Border Patrol job.
I thought you might.
What was it that finally
made up your mind?
Just seeing a monster like
BJ Vines walk away and
not being able to do
a damn thing about it.
Henry's right.
There's two sets of rules
one for us
and one for people like Vines.
And we're just supposed to,
what, pretend that there isn't?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm sorry, Joe.
♪
I just can't pretend anymore. [SNIFFLES]
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
You know, I
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
♪
[VEHICLE DOOR CLOSES]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
You ready?
[BABY COOING]
♪
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
Whoa. What happened?
Those leisure suits finally
wear out their welcome?
Thought I'd stick around a
while, give Leaphorn a hand.
- He'll need it without you.
- That's good.
I will have some big
shoes to fill, of course
like, huge, literally Sasquatch big.
Hey.
I'd take my big feet over
your little hands any day.
- They're not little.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Come on.
- Mm-hmm.
Keep telling yourself that.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[SIGHS]
So
this is you leaving?
This is me.
I got something for you.
More piñon nuts?
I thought you'd might
want your medicine back.
You don't need it?
Got my own.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Wow.
Okay.
I guess I rubbed off on you after all.
Not enough.
[NEIL YOUNG'S "BIRDS"]
♪
I wish you'd come sooner.
I'm sorry.
Indian time.
Who'll hover over you ♪
Beneath the sun ♪
Tomorrow ♪
See the things that never come ♪
Bye, Chee.
Goodbye, Bernadette.
When you see me fly away ♪
Without you ♪
Shadow on the things you know ♪
♪
Feathers fall around you ♪
♪
And show you the way to go ♪
It's over ♪
♪
It's over ♪
Oh ♪
[SONG ENDS]
[CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL'S]
["HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN?" PLAYING]
♪
Someone told me long ago ♪
There's a calm before the storm ♪
I know ♪
It's been coming for some time ♪
♪
When it's over, so they say ♪
It'll rain a sunny day ♪
I know ♪
Shinin' down like water ♪
♪
I wanna know ♪
Have you ever seen the rain? ♪
I wanna know ♪
Have you ever seen the rain ♪
♪
Comin' down on a sunny day? ♪
♪