Dark Winds (2022) s03e02 Episode Script
Náá'tsoh (Big Eyes)
1
Previously on "Dark Winds"
Sylvia Washington, FBI.
This B.J. Vines character
did you know him?
MAN: Heard you lost your gun today.
WOMAN: I didn't lose
it. Someone stole it.
I'm gonna find that van. I'm
gonna find what's going on.
I think that woman and her
daughter were being trafficked.
Ernesto Cata and
George Bowlegs were gone
when mom went to wake them this morning.
MAN: What's the deal with
you and Shorty Bowlegs?
MAN: Used to bully me at school.
Ah! Oh! God damn!
Gordo, he has something in his mouth.
[ON CAR STEREO]
My sweetheart is gone ♪
And I'm so lonely ♪
She said that she and I were through ♪
So I started out
a-drinking for a pastime ♪
Driving nails in my coffin over you ♪
- [SPITS]
- I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
Every time I ♪
Sorry about that.
I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
Lordy, driving those nails over you ♪
I was wondering when you
was gonna ask me about that.
♪
This is a goddamn gun
the one I took right
out of that holster.
Yeah, see, I was down by the river,
going after those girls.
Now, I could've got away, right?
Nobody'd ever saw me.
Then I saw that holster,
and I thought, damn.
[LAUGHS] Run down there
lickety-split and grabbed it.
They call me the Panther
silent, deadly.
Never see me coming.
♪
And I just can't quit
drinking that old brew ♪
We're here now.
I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
Every time I drink a bottle of booze ♪
I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
[ENGINE CUTS OUT, MUSIC STOPS]
Where's the crew?
[GRUNTING]
[GASPING, WHEEZING]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[SNIFFS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[GASPS]
[GRUNTS, PANTING]
Budge?
God damn it, Budge!
[GRUNTING]
♪
[HORN BLARING]
Don't leave, Budge!
[HORN BLARING]
No!
♪
♪
[HORN BLARING FAINTLY]
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[ANIMALS BLEATING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Somebody else can do this.
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
Doesn't always have to be you.
You know it does.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[SIGHS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[SOFTLY] Oh, Jesus.
- You okay?
- [BREATHES SHAKILY]
I can handle this if you want.
Thanks.
[DARK MUSIC]
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[DOOR OPENS]
♪
Coroner said the murder weapon
was likely a small claw
hammer of some kind.
[SIGHS]
Those cuts were deep,
like it was personal.
Could be the boys
fighting over something
that got out of hand
What?
The arrowhead doesn't make sense, Gordo.
- Why not?
- It's a sacred object.
Putting a arrowhead in
the mouth of a dead
♪
Oh, it's like a
Catholic defiling a crucifix.
Whoever did this isn't Diné.
George Bowlegs was our primary suspect
before we found Ernesto's body.
Nothing's changed.
What's what's
changed is the arrowhead.
And I have to assume whoever did this
is out there right
now looking for George.
I'd like to find him
before he ends up in here.
[SIGHS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Cata's parents.
♪
[MUFFLED SOBBING]
♪
[TOOL CRANKING]
[DEVICE HISSING]
You always could fix
anything, huh, Winford?
Jim Chee.
I heard you was in California
loving on all those movie stars.
We fools just stuck around
here and joined'ed the Army.
You and Shorty, you mean?
Where were you night before last?
Night before last I wasn't nowhere.
That's funny. Shorty
says that he was with you,
and you two were off hunting.
I was here.
But then we went hunting later.
I came back early.
When did, uh, Shorty get back?
I don't know.
- You know where George is?
- No.
A kid was killed that night
you say you were off
hunting with Shorty
a friend of George's.
We're investigating your cousin
in connection with that murder.
You sure you want to
be covering for him?
That makes you an accessory.
I got work to do.
That's all you've ever
been your whole life
an accessory in the life
and times of Shorty Bowlegs.
The question is, is he
worth going to jail for?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I got nothing to do with that dead kid.
Tell me what happened, Winford.
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Shorty told me to lie.
♪
- [ON CAR STEREO]
He wants to settle down ♪
Out on the edge of town ♪
Far from the neon lights ♪
Under the stars so bright ♪
[ENGINE CUTS OUT, MUSIC STOPS]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
Dr. Reynolds!
- Ma'am.
- Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Leaphorn [SIGHS]
Dr. Reynolds.
Uh, Teddi tells me you're looking
for for those two boys
George and Ernesto.
- Found one of them.
- Ah, well, good.
I'm sure the other one will turn up.
Dr. Reynolds, I was
hoping you could tell me
something about this.
What's that?
Ah.
Huh.
Where did you find this?
I found it in Ernesto Cata's mouth.
Found him not far from here.
He's dead.
Dear God.
Are you sure?
You're sure it's him? It's Ernesto?
I'm sorry.
Teddi.
Teddi.
This way, Lieutenant.
Let's get you a closer
look at your evidence, yeah?
- After you.
- Thank you.
[CLEARS THROAT]
New find?
Mm, Teddi found it last night
end-of-the-day miracle.
Piece of bowl.
These people were
sophisticated potters.
That, we know.
Uh, it's not my area of expertise.
Packing it up for a colleague.
Unfortunately
this, uh this arrowhead
is a fake.
A toy.
Have a look.
I haven't used one of
these since my days at ASU.
Oh, a fellow Sun Devil Teddi told me.
I, uh, did my grad work
there many years ago.
Notice the fluting along the
edges, the percussion hits?
Mm-hmm.
Well, no man with Stone Age
tools was ever that precise.
That arrowhead of yours
was spit out of a machine.
So this couldn't have
come from your site?
No, but if you want to see more of them,
head down to the Teesto Trading Post.
You know, you can buy a dozen for $10.
No, unfortunately, this
is just, uh, worthless.
I need that.
[GRUNTS]
Evidence.
Ah, yes, of course.
Thank you for your time, Doctor.
If you see George Bowlegs,
I'd appreciate a call.
Oh, I'll do you one
better. I'll drag him to you.
That would be helpful. Thank you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
Shit.
[ENGINE CUTS OUT, GEAR SHIFT CLUNKS]
[PERSON CHUCKLES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Mm.
He hates women who are in control.
It was lovely to meet
you, Mrs. Leaphorn.
- You too, Sylvia.
- Thank you.
Uh, oh, Lieutenant,
maybe we can, um, grab
some time later, hmm?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
You make a new friend?
- She's nice.
- Mm.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
Thank you for bringing my lunch.
I had no idea women could join the FBI.
She's so smart.
Yeah, they didn't send her out here
'cause she's smart, Emma.
No, just to clean up a few cases.
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
It means she'll be gone by next week.
Do you have any salt?
♪
Thank you.
♪
I invited her to dinner.
You did?
Why?
Because it's the nice thing to do, Joe.
♪
You okay?
Yeah.
♪
[OBJECT CREAKS, CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
♪
[SNARLING]
Oh, shit.
[GUNSHOT, ANIMAL GROANS]
I'm sorry if I scared you,
but I've been tracking them.
They're unpredictable when they're hurt.
Could've run you through.
You're Tom Spenser, aren't you?
You, Agent Manuelito
are the newest member of
our local Border Patrol.
- It's nice to meet you.
- And you.
What am I interrupting here?
I'm following up on a
vehicle of interest
over there.
Well, today's your lucky day, then.
Why? Because that's your ranch?
No, 'cause I'm not too
busy to take you down there,
assuming you'd like a closer look.
I would.
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
My great-great-grandpap
started all this.
He was a Santa Fe trader.
We've been here since
this land was part of Mexico.
And my great-grandpap,
real good friends with James Calhoun
the first governor.
This would have been 1850.
Not a good guy, I'm told, the governor,
but real good to my family.
And we've been pounding
this sand ever since.
Hmm.
So that's how you get
the oil out of the ground.
Well, that is
Cora Mae
the first one.
And they stink to high
heaven when they're pumping,
but they sure pay the bills.
- What's in there?
- In what?
Oh, that's a garage, darlin'.
I don't think
All right. [SIGHS]
♪
You change the plates on this van
in the last couple of days?
- Tags are current, Agent.
- Not the tags, the plates.
No reason to.
- Who drives this?
- Well, anybody who needs to.
We got probably 30,
40 vehicles out here.
Well, who was driving it two days ago?
[SCOFFS]
- Can you find out?
- I could try, but
[CHUCKLES]
If I didn't have a million
other little things to do.
- I'd like to look inside.
- Well, have you got a warrant?
♪
[SIGHS]
All right, Bobby, open the
back door for Agent Manuelito.
♪
[VAN DOOR OPENS]
♪
[VAN DOOR CLOSES]
What's in there?
It a vapor barrier.
The vents trap gases
from some of the wells
we don't run every day.
You breathe the air in there,
it's going to make you sick
in a way you don't want.
Well
thank you for your time, Mr. Spenser.
Tom.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
Border Patrol, Agent Garza.
One moment, please.
Tom Spenser, line 2.
Oh, I know that face. We out of creamer?
I found the van.
Where?
Spenser Ranch.
So that whole "wait your turn" speech
it really landed, huh?
I can't wait if there's
other women at the ranch
Spenser Oil
a multimillion-dollar
corporation trafficking women,
and Border Patrol
knows nothing about it?
No.
Bernie, what you're doing
you're going to get yourself in trouble.
I was there for ten
minutes. It's no big deal.
Okay. Let me explain something.
The Spensers have been here forever.
They're responsible for one third
of the actionable intelligence
we work from every year.
Don't mess with Spenser, okay?
[PHONE BUZZES]
Yes, sir.
Boss wants to see you.
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[VEHICLES APPROACHING]
♪
Where you off to, Shorty?
None of your goddamn business.
Another hunting trip?
We're gonna search your house,
the barn, and the property.
- Like hell you are.
- Got a warrant.
You interfere, you'll be
arrested for obstruction.
My kid's out there, and you're here
turning my life upside
down Looking for anything
that could be the murder weapon, boys
Like you got nothing better to do!
- A claw hammer if we're lucky.
- Hey. You got him?
Yeah.
Clothes, blood, photographs
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[GUN COCKS]
♪
[WIND GUSTING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
♪
[DOOR CREAKING]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSICAL STING]
- Find anything?
- [GASPS, PANTING]
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
Move.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Phoenix PD, April this
year drunk and disorderly.
Tucson PD assaulting
a police officer.
Reno PD violating
a restraining order.
Two months before that Reno, B&E.
Charges dropped by your ex-wife.
Four arrests by the NTP as a juvenile.
What about the Bronze
Star and the Purple Heart?
You got that in your
little library, asshole?
What I got is a murder
weapon found in your barn
and an alibi that doesn't check out.
[FILE THUDS ON TABLE]
Ernesto Cata
[TAPS TABLE]
Slashed seven times
across the face, the neck,
and the chest.
[SOFTLY] He bled out like an animal
before he was stuffed
down a goddamn drainpipe.
[NORMAL VOICE] So it's time
to tell us the truth, Shorty.
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
Did you do this?
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Oh, man.
So turns out the blood on the hoof knife
belonged to a horse.
What? No, no, no. That can't be right.
- You run it again.
- Excuse me?
I know him. I know what
he was like growing up.
He hasn't changed.
He's our guy. I know it.
I thought you said the
killer couldn't be Navajo
on account of where you
found that arrowhead.
If anyone would get off on
doing something like this,
- it's Shorty.
- Hey, hey, hey, Jim.
All right, without a
confession, a witness,
or a murder weapon, we can't hold him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
Lieutenant, can I see you
for a minute my office?
- Yeah?
- BJ Vines.
Okay.
[CLEARS THROAT]
All that evidence
how does the judge let him go on bail?
I try not to think about him.
White man's justice.
Is there any other kind?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
Where did he go?
♪
A guy like that
old, soft,
used to his cushy life, sexy wife
where does a guy like
that go without his money?
When you find him, you can ask.
[SCOFFS] Oh, I will, believe you me
if he can still talk.
♪
[LINE TRILLING]
[LINE CLICKS]
[SPEAKING DINÉ] Navajo Tribal Police.
You're not Natalie.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Well, well
Agent Bernadette Manuelito.
Is Joe around?
He just left.
Oh.
Okay.
Something I can help you with?
Um
I don't think so.
Try me.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Well, I got this case. [SIGHS]
I don't know, the the
crimes down here are just
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
Everyone's telling me to let it go,
and I just keep stepping on my own rake.
You punch anybody in the face yet?
[CHUCKLES]
Who'd you hit?
Shorty Bowlegs.
Wow.
- Touched my badge.
- [CHUCKLING] Oh.
I'm sure it has nothing
to do with the, uh, grudge
you're still holding against him.
- Give Joe a half hour.
You can reach him at home.
Just tell him I called.
♪
Uh [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
♪
It's nice to hear your voice, Chee.
♪
[RECEIVER CLATTERS]
[SIGHS]
[SCOFFING]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[SHIVERS]
Oh, come on.
[SIGHS]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Jeez.
You need help?
No, I'm good.
Eh, you got the wrong gloves.
[SCOFFS]
[SCOFFS]
[THUNDER BOOMS]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
Ooh.
- You've done this before.
- Nah. Never.
♪
So
what kind of intelligence
we get at Spenser Ranch?
[GROANS] So we're working now?
[BILLIARD BALLS CLATTER]
Well, Ed Henry has me
on weigh-station duty.
And these Spenser tankers,
they run at night.
And I just I want to make
sure I don't step in it again.
♪
They drive in. You
write down their weight.
They drive out. It's pretty simple.
What, I don't I don't inspect them?
[BILLIARD BALLS CLATTER]
They're hauling oil, Bernadette.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- Hmm.
So still renting a room from Garza?
Yeah, it's cheap, and she likes to cook.
♪
So you miss home?
[GROANS] Well, my parents are gone.
But still got my sister
and my niece, Janey.
Yeah, I send money back.
♪
How about you?
Who you missing?
Um
depends on the day.
Tonight?
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
Nobody.
[CCR'S "NIGHT TIME IS THE
RIGHT TIME" PLAYS ON SPEAKERS]
♪
Wait a minute.
I think they're playing our song.
- No. No.
- [SOFTLY] Yes.
- You know the nighttime ♪
- Why do they? ♪
Oh, is the right time ♪
Excuse us.
- To be ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- With the one you love ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, said the nighttime ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, is the right time ♪
- Why do they? ♪
[BERNIE LAUGHS]
- To be ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- With the one you love ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- I said the nighttime ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, is the right time ♪
- Why do they? ♪
To be with the one you love ♪
Why do they? Why do they? ♪
♪
- Baby ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, I said a-baby ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Baby ♪
- Why do they? ♪
Come on and drive me crazy, Lord ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- You know ♪
[VEHICLE APPROACHING,
DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[BRAKES SQUEAL, GEAR SHIFT CLUNKS]
[ENGINE CUTS OUT]
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
[WHISTLING]
[HORSE SNORTS]
[CONTINUES WHISTLING]
What kind of Navajo man are you
whistling at night like that?
What do you want?
Where are you going?
None of your business.
You said I'm free to go.
I don't got to tell you a goddamn thing.
I said you were free.
I didn't say you were innocent.
I am innocent.
This is for George, isn't it?
- You know where he is.
- I already said I don't.
Now get out of here.
Where is he, Shorty?
I told you,
my son didn't have
nothing to do with this.
Then let's go see him.
He can tell me himself.
[SCOFFS] You think I'm stupid.
You've hated me for years.
I'm not going to let you
take it out on my son.
All right.
Let's say you didn't kill Ernesto.
Let's say George didn't.
If that's true, who did?
- I don't know.
- I don't know either.
But I bet George does.
That's why he's out
there running, isn't it?
That's why you're going
out there, looking for him.
[SCOFFS] I don't trust you, man.
I don't trust you either.
But your kid shouldn't have to suffer
because of the bad blood between us.
Don't be stupid,
Shorty. Let me help you.
Tell me where he is.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The cabin
He's at our cabin.
♪
I'm going to get Leaphorn.
We're going to go with you.
And I'm not asking.
[HORSE SNORTS]
[BRAKES HISSING]
[FLASHLIGHT CLICKS]
[SCALE CREAKING]
[DISTANT ANIMAL HOWLING]
- Full load?
- Yep.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Second driver, huh?
Yes, ma'am. Long haul.
♪
I'm gonna need to see his license.
♪
Let's take a look.
♪
[TAPS TRUCK]
♪
[LID CLOSES]
♪
- Looks good.
- Thank you.
♪
[BRAKES HISS]
♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
♪
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[LEAVES RUSTLING]
♪
Scare him, he'll run.
- Is there a back door?
- Mm-hmm.
Give me a minute to get back there.
Get too close, he'll hear you.
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
♪
[HORSES NEIGHING]
♪
[CLATTERING, PERSON GRUNTS]
♪
Shorty?
[HORSES NEIGHING]
♪
Shorty?
♪
George?
♪
Shorty?
♪
[WIND GUSTING]
- Shorty.
- [GRUNTS]
♪
[WIND HOWLING]
♪
- [SNARLING]
- Ah!
[GUNSHOT, THUD]
Joe?
[SIGHS] Joe.
♪
You all right?
What happened?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Joe?
♪
It's real.
Hey, Joe.
Looks like some kids
found a body in a ravine.
I bet it's everyone's favorite
fugitive, Mr. BJ vines.
Why do you have your security
riding shotgun on your tankers?
SPENSER: There's lots of lonely road.
And sometimes the
undesirables get ambitious.
- Stop, police!
- Chee.
Do you realize what you've done?
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Previously on "Dark Winds"
Sylvia Washington, FBI.
This B.J. Vines character
did you know him?
MAN: Heard you lost your gun today.
WOMAN: I didn't lose
it. Someone stole it.
I'm gonna find that van. I'm
gonna find what's going on.
I think that woman and her
daughter were being trafficked.
Ernesto Cata and
George Bowlegs were gone
when mom went to wake them this morning.
MAN: What's the deal with
you and Shorty Bowlegs?
MAN: Used to bully me at school.
Ah! Oh! God damn!
Gordo, he has something in his mouth.
[ON CAR STEREO]
My sweetheart is gone ♪
And I'm so lonely ♪
She said that she and I were through ♪
So I started out
a-drinking for a pastime ♪
Driving nails in my coffin over you ♪
- [SPITS]
- I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
Every time I ♪
Sorry about that.
I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
Lordy, driving those nails over you ♪
I was wondering when you
was gonna ask me about that.
♪
This is a goddamn gun
the one I took right
out of that holster.
Yeah, see, I was down by the river,
going after those girls.
Now, I could've got away, right?
Nobody'd ever saw me.
Then I saw that holster,
and I thought, damn.
[LAUGHS] Run down there
lickety-split and grabbed it.
They call me the Panther
silent, deadly.
Never see me coming.
♪
And I just can't quit
drinking that old brew ♪
We're here now.
I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
Every time I drink a bottle of booze ♪
I'm just driving nails in my coffin ♪
[ENGINE CUTS OUT, MUSIC STOPS]
Where's the crew?
[GRUNTING]
[GASPING, WHEEZING]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[SNIFFS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[GASPS]
[GRUNTS, PANTING]
Budge?
God damn it, Budge!
[GRUNTING]
♪
[HORN BLARING]
Don't leave, Budge!
[HORN BLARING]
No!
♪
♪
[HORN BLARING FAINTLY]
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[ANIMALS BLEATING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Somebody else can do this.
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
Doesn't always have to be you.
You know it does.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
♪
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[SIGHS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[SOFTLY] Oh, Jesus.
- You okay?
- [BREATHES SHAKILY]
I can handle this if you want.
Thanks.
[DARK MUSIC]
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
♪
[DOOR OPENS]
♪
Coroner said the murder weapon
was likely a small claw
hammer of some kind.
[SIGHS]
Those cuts were deep,
like it was personal.
Could be the boys
fighting over something
that got out of hand
What?
The arrowhead doesn't make sense, Gordo.
- Why not?
- It's a sacred object.
Putting a arrowhead in
the mouth of a dead
♪
Oh, it's like a
Catholic defiling a crucifix.
Whoever did this isn't Diné.
George Bowlegs was our primary suspect
before we found Ernesto's body.
Nothing's changed.
What's what's
changed is the arrowhead.
And I have to assume whoever did this
is out there right
now looking for George.
I'd like to find him
before he ends up in here.
[SIGHS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Cata's parents.
♪
[MUFFLED SOBBING]
♪
[TOOL CRANKING]
[DEVICE HISSING]
You always could fix
anything, huh, Winford?
Jim Chee.
I heard you was in California
loving on all those movie stars.
We fools just stuck around
here and joined'ed the Army.
You and Shorty, you mean?
Where were you night before last?
Night before last I wasn't nowhere.
That's funny. Shorty
says that he was with you,
and you two were off hunting.
I was here.
But then we went hunting later.
I came back early.
When did, uh, Shorty get back?
I don't know.
- You know where George is?
- No.
A kid was killed that night
you say you were off
hunting with Shorty
a friend of George's.
We're investigating your cousin
in connection with that murder.
You sure you want to
be covering for him?
That makes you an accessory.
I got work to do.
That's all you've ever
been your whole life
an accessory in the life
and times of Shorty Bowlegs.
The question is, is he
worth going to jail for?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I got nothing to do with that dead kid.
Tell me what happened, Winford.
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Shorty told me to lie.
♪
- [ON CAR STEREO]
He wants to settle down ♪
Out on the edge of town ♪
Far from the neon lights ♪
Under the stars so bright ♪
[ENGINE CUTS OUT, MUSIC STOPS]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
Dr. Reynolds!
- Ma'am.
- Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Leaphorn [SIGHS]
Dr. Reynolds.
Uh, Teddi tells me you're looking
for for those two boys
George and Ernesto.
- Found one of them.
- Ah, well, good.
I'm sure the other one will turn up.
Dr. Reynolds, I was
hoping you could tell me
something about this.
What's that?
Ah.
Huh.
Where did you find this?
I found it in Ernesto Cata's mouth.
Found him not far from here.
He's dead.
Dear God.
Are you sure?
You're sure it's him? It's Ernesto?
I'm sorry.
Teddi.
Teddi.
This way, Lieutenant.
Let's get you a closer
look at your evidence, yeah?
- After you.
- Thank you.
[CLEARS THROAT]
New find?
Mm, Teddi found it last night
end-of-the-day miracle.
Piece of bowl.
These people were
sophisticated potters.
That, we know.
Uh, it's not my area of expertise.
Packing it up for a colleague.
Unfortunately
this, uh this arrowhead
is a fake.
A toy.
Have a look.
I haven't used one of
these since my days at ASU.
Oh, a fellow Sun Devil Teddi told me.
I, uh, did my grad work
there many years ago.
Notice the fluting along the
edges, the percussion hits?
Mm-hmm.
Well, no man with Stone Age
tools was ever that precise.
That arrowhead of yours
was spit out of a machine.
So this couldn't have
come from your site?
No, but if you want to see more of them,
head down to the Teesto Trading Post.
You know, you can buy a dozen for $10.
No, unfortunately, this
is just, uh, worthless.
I need that.
[GRUNTS]
Evidence.
Ah, yes, of course.
Thank you for your time, Doctor.
If you see George Bowlegs,
I'd appreciate a call.
Oh, I'll do you one
better. I'll drag him to you.
That would be helpful. Thank you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
Shit.
[ENGINE CUTS OUT, GEAR SHIFT CLUNKS]
[PERSON CHUCKLES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Mm.
He hates women who are in control.
It was lovely to meet
you, Mrs. Leaphorn.
- You too, Sylvia.
- Thank you.
Uh, oh, Lieutenant,
maybe we can, um, grab
some time later, hmm?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
You make a new friend?
- She's nice.
- Mm.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
Thank you for bringing my lunch.
I had no idea women could join the FBI.
She's so smart.
Yeah, they didn't send her out here
'cause she's smart, Emma.
No, just to clean up a few cases.
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
It means she'll be gone by next week.
Do you have any salt?
♪
Thank you.
♪
I invited her to dinner.
You did?
Why?
Because it's the nice thing to do, Joe.
♪
You okay?
Yeah.
♪
[OBJECT CREAKS, CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
♪
[SNARLING]
Oh, shit.
[GUNSHOT, ANIMAL GROANS]
I'm sorry if I scared you,
but I've been tracking them.
They're unpredictable when they're hurt.
Could've run you through.
You're Tom Spenser, aren't you?
You, Agent Manuelito
are the newest member of
our local Border Patrol.
- It's nice to meet you.
- And you.
What am I interrupting here?
I'm following up on a
vehicle of interest
over there.
Well, today's your lucky day, then.
Why? Because that's your ranch?
No, 'cause I'm not too
busy to take you down there,
assuming you'd like a closer look.
I would.
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
My great-great-grandpap
started all this.
He was a Santa Fe trader.
We've been here since
this land was part of Mexico.
And my great-grandpap,
real good friends with James Calhoun
the first governor.
This would have been 1850.
Not a good guy, I'm told, the governor,
but real good to my family.
And we've been pounding
this sand ever since.
Hmm.
So that's how you get
the oil out of the ground.
Well, that is
Cora Mae
the first one.
And they stink to high
heaven when they're pumping,
but they sure pay the bills.
- What's in there?
- In what?
Oh, that's a garage, darlin'.
I don't think
All right. [SIGHS]
♪
You change the plates on this van
in the last couple of days?
- Tags are current, Agent.
- Not the tags, the plates.
No reason to.
- Who drives this?
- Well, anybody who needs to.
We got probably 30,
40 vehicles out here.
Well, who was driving it two days ago?
[SCOFFS]
- Can you find out?
- I could try, but
[CHUCKLES]
If I didn't have a million
other little things to do.
- I'd like to look inside.
- Well, have you got a warrant?
♪
[SIGHS]
All right, Bobby, open the
back door for Agent Manuelito.
♪
[VAN DOOR OPENS]
♪
[VAN DOOR CLOSES]
What's in there?
It a vapor barrier.
The vents trap gases
from some of the wells
we don't run every day.
You breathe the air in there,
it's going to make you sick
in a way you don't want.
Well
thank you for your time, Mr. Spenser.
Tom.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
Border Patrol, Agent Garza.
One moment, please.
Tom Spenser, line 2.
Oh, I know that face. We out of creamer?
I found the van.
Where?
Spenser Ranch.
So that whole "wait your turn" speech
it really landed, huh?
I can't wait if there's
other women at the ranch
Spenser Oil
a multimillion-dollar
corporation trafficking women,
and Border Patrol
knows nothing about it?
No.
Bernie, what you're doing
you're going to get yourself in trouble.
I was there for ten
minutes. It's no big deal.
Okay. Let me explain something.
The Spensers have been here forever.
They're responsible for one third
of the actionable intelligence
we work from every year.
Don't mess with Spenser, okay?
[PHONE BUZZES]
Yes, sir.
Boss wants to see you.
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[VEHICLES APPROACHING]
♪
Where you off to, Shorty?
None of your goddamn business.
Another hunting trip?
We're gonna search your house,
the barn, and the property.
- Like hell you are.
- Got a warrant.
You interfere, you'll be
arrested for obstruction.
My kid's out there, and you're here
turning my life upside
down Looking for anything
that could be the murder weapon, boys
Like you got nothing better to do!
- A claw hammer if we're lucky.
- Hey. You got him?
Yeah.
Clothes, blood, photographs
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[GUN COCKS]
♪
[WIND GUSTING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
♪
[DOOR CREAKING]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSICAL STING]
- Find anything?
- [GASPS, PANTING]
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
Move.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Phoenix PD, April this
year drunk and disorderly.
Tucson PD assaulting
a police officer.
Reno PD violating
a restraining order.
Two months before that Reno, B&E.
Charges dropped by your ex-wife.
Four arrests by the NTP as a juvenile.
What about the Bronze
Star and the Purple Heart?
You got that in your
little library, asshole?
What I got is a murder
weapon found in your barn
and an alibi that doesn't check out.
[FILE THUDS ON TABLE]
Ernesto Cata
[TAPS TABLE]
Slashed seven times
across the face, the neck,
and the chest.
[SOFTLY] He bled out like an animal
before he was stuffed
down a goddamn drainpipe.
[NORMAL VOICE] So it's time
to tell us the truth, Shorty.
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
Did you do this?
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Oh, man.
So turns out the blood on the hoof knife
belonged to a horse.
What? No, no, no. That can't be right.
- You run it again.
- Excuse me?
I know him. I know what
he was like growing up.
He hasn't changed.
He's our guy. I know it.
I thought you said the
killer couldn't be Navajo
on account of where you
found that arrowhead.
If anyone would get off on
doing something like this,
- it's Shorty.
- Hey, hey, hey, Jim.
All right, without a
confession, a witness,
or a murder weapon, we can't hold him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
Lieutenant, can I see you
for a minute my office?
- Yeah?
- BJ Vines.
Okay.
[CLEARS THROAT]
All that evidence
how does the judge let him go on bail?
I try not to think about him.
White man's justice.
Is there any other kind?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
Where did he go?
♪
A guy like that
old, soft,
used to his cushy life, sexy wife
where does a guy like
that go without his money?
When you find him, you can ask.
[SCOFFS] Oh, I will, believe you me
if he can still talk.
♪
[LINE TRILLING]
[LINE CLICKS]
[SPEAKING DINÉ] Navajo Tribal Police.
You're not Natalie.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Well, well
Agent Bernadette Manuelito.
Is Joe around?
He just left.
Oh.
Okay.
Something I can help you with?
Um
I don't think so.
Try me.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Well, I got this case. [SIGHS]
I don't know, the the
crimes down here are just
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
Everyone's telling me to let it go,
and I just keep stepping on my own rake.
You punch anybody in the face yet?
[CHUCKLES]
Who'd you hit?
Shorty Bowlegs.
Wow.
- Touched my badge.
- [CHUCKLING] Oh.
I'm sure it has nothing
to do with the, uh, grudge
you're still holding against him.
- Give Joe a half hour.
You can reach him at home.
Just tell him I called.
♪
Uh [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
♪
It's nice to hear your voice, Chee.
♪
[RECEIVER CLATTERS]
[SIGHS]
[SCOFFING]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[SHIVERS]
Oh, come on.
[SIGHS]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Jeez.
You need help?
No, I'm good.
Eh, you got the wrong gloves.
[SCOFFS]
[SCOFFS]
[THUNDER BOOMS]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
Ooh.
- You've done this before.
- Nah. Never.
♪
So
what kind of intelligence
we get at Spenser Ranch?
[GROANS] So we're working now?
[BILLIARD BALLS CLATTER]
Well, Ed Henry has me
on weigh-station duty.
And these Spenser tankers,
they run at night.
And I just I want to make
sure I don't step in it again.
♪
They drive in. You
write down their weight.
They drive out. It's pretty simple.
What, I don't I don't inspect them?
[BILLIARD BALLS CLATTER]
They're hauling oil, Bernadette.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- Hmm.
So still renting a room from Garza?
Yeah, it's cheap, and she likes to cook.
♪
So you miss home?
[GROANS] Well, my parents are gone.
But still got my sister
and my niece, Janey.
Yeah, I send money back.
♪
How about you?
Who you missing?
Um
depends on the day.
Tonight?
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
Nobody.
[CCR'S "NIGHT TIME IS THE
RIGHT TIME" PLAYS ON SPEAKERS]
♪
Wait a minute.
I think they're playing our song.
- No. No.
- [SOFTLY] Yes.
- You know the nighttime ♪
- Why do they? ♪
Oh, is the right time ♪
Excuse us.
- To be ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- With the one you love ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, said the nighttime ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, is the right time ♪
- Why do they? ♪
[BERNIE LAUGHS]
- To be ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- With the one you love ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- I said the nighttime ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, is the right time ♪
- Why do they? ♪
To be with the one you love ♪
Why do they? Why do they? ♪
♪
- Baby ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Oh, I said a-baby ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- Baby ♪
- Why do they? ♪
Come on and drive me crazy, Lord ♪
- Why do they? ♪
- You know ♪
[VEHICLE APPROACHING,
DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[BRAKES SQUEAL, GEAR SHIFT CLUNKS]
[ENGINE CUTS OUT]
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
[WHISTLING]
[HORSE SNORTS]
[CONTINUES WHISTLING]
What kind of Navajo man are you
whistling at night like that?
What do you want?
Where are you going?
None of your business.
You said I'm free to go.
I don't got to tell you a goddamn thing.
I said you were free.
I didn't say you were innocent.
I am innocent.
This is for George, isn't it?
- You know where he is.
- I already said I don't.
Now get out of here.
Where is he, Shorty?
I told you,
my son didn't have
nothing to do with this.
Then let's go see him.
He can tell me himself.
[SCOFFS] You think I'm stupid.
You've hated me for years.
I'm not going to let you
take it out on my son.
All right.
Let's say you didn't kill Ernesto.
Let's say George didn't.
If that's true, who did?
- I don't know.
- I don't know either.
But I bet George does.
That's why he's out
there running, isn't it?
That's why you're going
out there, looking for him.
[SCOFFS] I don't trust you, man.
I don't trust you either.
But your kid shouldn't have to suffer
because of the bad blood between us.
Don't be stupid,
Shorty. Let me help you.
Tell me where he is.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
The cabin
He's at our cabin.
♪
I'm going to get Leaphorn.
We're going to go with you.
And I'm not asking.
[HORSE SNORTS]
[BRAKES HISSING]
[FLASHLIGHT CLICKS]
[SCALE CREAKING]
[DISTANT ANIMAL HOWLING]
- Full load?
- Yep.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Second driver, huh?
Yes, ma'am. Long haul.
♪
I'm gonna need to see his license.
♪
Let's take a look.
♪
[TAPS TRUCK]
♪
[LID CLOSES]
♪
- Looks good.
- Thank you.
♪
[BRAKES HISS]
♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
♪
[HORSE NEIGHING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[LEAVES RUSTLING]
♪
Scare him, he'll run.
- Is there a back door?
- Mm-hmm.
Give me a minute to get back there.
Get too close, he'll hear you.
♪
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
♪
[HORSES NEIGHING]
♪
[CLATTERING, PERSON GRUNTS]
♪
Shorty?
[HORSES NEIGHING]
♪
Shorty?
♪
George?
♪
Shorty?
♪
[WIND GUSTING]
- Shorty.
- [GRUNTS]
♪
[WIND HOWLING]
♪
- [SNARLING]
- Ah!
[GUNSHOT, THUD]
Joe?
[SIGHS] Joe.
♪
You all right?
What happened?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Joe?
♪
It's real.
Hey, Joe.
Looks like some kids
found a body in a ravine.
I bet it's everyone's favorite
fugitive, Mr. BJ vines.
Why do you have your security
riding shotgun on your tankers?
SPENSER: There's lots of lonely road.
And sometimes the
undesirables get ambitious.
- Stop, police!
- Chee.
Do you realize what you've done?
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]