Dark Winds (2022) s03e07 Episode Script
T'áá Áłts'íísígo (Just a Small Piece)
1
Previously on "Dark Winds"
Where were you the night that
B.J. Vines disappeared, Lieutenant?
Since that night, when
I left him out there,
I have tried to keep you out of it.
You're not the only one suffering!
WOMAN: Some of the drivers are
hauling drugs in their trucks.
Run! They have to be
going out some other way.
Aah!
There's no such thing as monsters.
He's just a man.
Aah!
Aah-aah!
[GUN FIRES]
Wake up! You gotta wake up.
He's not a monster, Jim.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[RADIO STATIC CRACKLES]
Joe, it's Chee. Say again, over.
♪
Joe, do you copy?
♪
- [RADIO STATIC CRACKLES]
- Chee?
Are you there?
♪
[RADIO STATIC CRACKLING]
It's not a monster, Jim.
It's a man.
It's just a man.
♪
Natalie, it's Chee. You copy?
Go ahead, Chee. [SPEAKING DINÉ]
Coal Mine Canyon, south end.
You get any of that from Leaphorn? Over.
What I did, it didn't sound good.
- Keep this line open.
- Copy.
♪
[HORSE NEIGHS]
♪
Ya! Ya!
♪
- Natalie.
- Go ahead.
I found Leaphorn's truck, looted.
Copy. [GARBLED SPEECH]
Natalie. [SIGHS] Shit.
Chee.
Joe?
I'm down, west side of the canyon,
maybe a half a mile up.
Suspect's on foot, heading northwest.
He's wounded.
All right, hang on.
Ya!
♪
[GRUNTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Oh.
- You hit?
[MOANS] Oh, my leg.
- [SIGHS]
- Oh, shi
Yeah. All right, just
stay with me, all right?
Yeah.
Hold still. [GRUNTS]
- [INSECT BUZZING]
- Aah!
[MOANING]
Take it easy.
[GROANING]
Aah!
[GRUNTING]
- [PANTING]
- All right.
Where is George?
If you didn't see him,
he's he's gone or dead.
Hey.
- Hey.
- Yeah.
Shh. Shh.
You get the son of a bitch.
No, I got to get you to a hospital.
No. He's wounded.
It should slow him down. [GRUNTS]
Go get him. That's an order.
[GROANS]
There's a fire road up there.
If he's got a car,
that's where he's headed.
Natalie, I got
Leaphorn. He needs a medic.
We're on the west
side, about a half mile
up from the mouth of the canyon.
Copy, Felix and Bigman are en route.
- [GROANS]
- He comes back, you call me.
- [SPEAKING DINÉ]
- Got to go back.
♪
Hey! Navajo Tribal Police!
Put your hands in the air now!
Hands up!
Keep your hands where I can see them.
♪
[GUNSHOTS]
♪
[GUN CLICKS]
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
[SHELLS CLATTERING]
♪
[GUNSHOT, GLASS SHATTERING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[GROANS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[GASPS]
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[GROANING]
Mm.
♪
[SIGHS]
[GROANING]
- Hey.
- Hey, Gordo.
Well
this finally settles it.
You win.
You couldn't even get shot at
with something normal, could you?
Had to get hit with
a damn ketamine dart.
Son of a bitch shot you
with horse tranquilizer, Joe.
- Look at that.
- [GROANS] Jesus.
Guess he didn't know
what kind of thoroughbred
he was trying to put down.
Michael Halsey was murdered
in cold blood inside the NTP.
[GRUNTS]
Why didn't he come after me
the same way?
You know?
Why am I still here?
You should let us worry
about that right now.
I'm convinced
Roberto De Baca killed Michael Halsey.
I got a gut feeling about it.
[GROANS]
But he wasn't the one with me
in the canyon looking for George.
I don't think he has anything to do
with Ernesto Cata's murder.
But you should get back in bed now, man,
and stay there till Emma
comes to take you home.
[GROANS]
- She's not coming.
- What do you mean?
She's not coming, Gordo.
She kicked me out.
- Well, that's just
- It's what I deserve.
You know, there are things
that I've lost in life
That were taken from me.
And there are things that I've lost
because of the choices I made.
I made mine.
She made hers.
Can't go back and undo anything, Gordo.
I'm going forward.
I'll fix it that way,
starting at the canyon.
You ain't done nothing wrong, Joe.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY]
"When you kill a man,
he's bound to you."
Isn't that what you said?
I thought I knew what you meant.
I thought I'd never see
BJ Vines again either.
♪
But I do
every day.
You know, I convinced myself it was
it was a [SPEAKING DINÉ]
Haunting me,
that this
[SPEAKING DINÉ] Was real, but
it wasn't.
It was him Vines.
What he did
what I did.
BJ Vines is bound to me now.
I've accepted it,
and I am prepared to
go on living with it.
But I'll tell you one thing.
Whoever it is that's after George,
he is on the wrong side of me right now.
Hear me, man.
You ain't alone in this.
I can't guarantee it will go well.
No, rarely does, but
we might could get lucky.
I appreciate that.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
[TRUCK DOOR CLOSES]
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
[LEAPHORN GROANING]
Looks like you got a little hitch
in your giddyup there, partner.
Yeah, what's new?
Heard you couldn't hit
the broad side of a barn,
even with a shotgun.
[SCOFFS] The guy was wearing a hood.
- Ah.
- It threw me off.
Any hits on the APB?
Got roadblocks on every major
artery in and out of here.
Got my boys running the back roads,
but so far, no sign of a shot-up sedan
or a wounded man wearing a hood.
Uh, I'll see if there's
any updates here.
- Thanks, Gordo.
- Yeah.
Any sign of George?
No, but we found his
campsite just up the wash.
Somebody, uh, looted your truck
- Yeah.
- And your wallet.
Had to be George the
guy you ran into out here.
The thing I can't figure is,
why would either one want to
loot your truck or your wallet?
I don't know.
Well this way.
Thank you.
Hmm.
[DISTANT BIRDS CAWING]
♪
Are those prints?
[GRUNTS] Yeah.
[GRUNTS]
They're the same ones
we saw at the Cata scene.
[GRUNTS]
Yeah, they ransacked the place.
♪
[CANS RATTLE]
♪
I think it was George
who looted my truck,
stole money from my wallet
[GRUNTS]
For a train ticket to Reno.
There's a train that leaves
for Reno every Friday morning.
Tomorrow.
Well, whoever you ran into out here,
they found this schedule before us.
They're going to know where
George is tomorrow, too.
♪
What the hell is that?
I don't know, but it's not coal.
Give me that pail.
[GRUNTING]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
Whatever this was
George didn't want anyone to find it.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
Where's my camera?
Hey.
You're not going to go in
there and do anything crazy.
I won't.
Good, 'cause you saw
what Budge is capable of.
You go in there half-cocked,
and I don't know what
Yeah, I hear you.
[SIGHS]
Yeah, well, we got to
figure something out
a strategy together.
Let's talk about it over lunch.
Okay.
Lunch.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
That son of a bitch.
[SIGHS]
♪
PIG.
[ALARM RINGING]
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
Ivan destroyed this on purpose?
Why would he do that?
Because he's on Spenser's payroll
along with Ed Henry
and I don't know who else in there.
Bern, we got to be careful here.
Look, I know what we saw,
and I know how they're doing it.
The girl from the river
was trying to tell me.
Tell you what?
PIG Pipeline Inspection Gadgets.
They're designed to clean oil pipelines,
but they are perfect
for smuggling drugs.
The drugs I saw in Juarez will
be on Spenser Ranch shortly,
if they aren't already.
This is our chance to get them
Spenser, Ed, Ivan, all of them.
♪
[SIGHS]
- Bern, this is
- I know.
But I can't do this alone.
You're the only one I trust.
♪
I know a judge.
She'll get us a warrant
without tipping anyone off.
Good.
You're sure about this, right?
You're sure you want to do this?
- I'm sure.
- Ivan.
Shit.
I'm supposed to go to lunch with him.
I'll get the warrant.
Meet you back at my place.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
[CAR DOOR OPENS]
Have fun, you two.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
♪
[HORSE NEIGHING]
I wanted to return these.
I was also hoping we could talk.
I have nothing to say.
Well, then, if I may.
I'm sorry to speak so
plainly, Mrs. Leaphorn.
But I believe your
husband murdered BJ Vines.
You believe it, or you can prove it?
It's his alibi I don't believe.
You said he was with you all night
the night Vines disappeared.
Is that the truth?
Why are you doing this?
It's my job.
Did your husband make you lie for him?
Because you don't strike me as a liar.
You don't know me.
I know you're a good woman,
a respected matriarch in this community.
You spent your life helping others,
especially the young
women on this reservation.
Nobody in Washington cares about us
or what happens on this reservation.
[DISTANT HORSE NEIGHS]
This is about you, isn't it?
Maybe about the reason someone sent you
all the way out here
to work on something no one cares about.
You're right.
No one in Washington cares
about what goes on out here,
except for me.
I'm here now, and I
I want to tell you, you're
on the wrong side of this.
Your husband's life is a lie,
but yours doesn't have to be.
♪
[DISTANT HORSE NEIGHS]
I'll be, uh, at the station
when you decide you're
ready to talk, okay?
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
[OBJECTS SCRAPING ON TABLE]
[SIGHS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
There's something in his mouth.
- Take it out.
- I can't.
What, uh what are you thinking?
♪
I've seen this stuff before.
Where?
Bernadette.
♪
I used a clay mold like this
when I melted down Joe Jr.'s belt buckle
into that feather I gave Bern.
♪
Give me the Cata evidence box.
♪
The arrowhead.
♪
Shit.
Can I get you anything else, cowboy?
- No, thanks.
- How about a check?
Here you go.
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING IN BACKGROUND]
If you see me walking ♪
Not hungry?
[DOOR CLOSES, BELLS JINGLE]
Nope.
If you see me staring ♪
I decided I'll back you
whatever you want to do about Spenser.
If you think I still miss you ♪
Well, I'm thinking
of taking a step back.
It's not worth the risk.
[BILLIARD BALLS CLACK]
Well, it's what you want, isn't it?
For me to drop it?
It just doesn't sound like you.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, well, watching
someone die does that.
[BILLIARD BALLS CLACK,
DOOR CLOSES, BELL JINGLES]
♪
Yeah, but if you want to get Spenser,
this may be our only shot.
♪
I don't think so.
You know, these guys make
mistakes all the time, Ivan.
And sooner or later, Spenser
will make another one.
[BILLIARD BALLS CLACK]
Hey
[CHUCKLES]
Come to my place tonight.
I'll cook.
No work, just us.
[CHUCKLES] Maybe tomorrow.
♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
- At least let me pay.
- No, I got it.
I insist.
♪
[GEAR SHIFTER CLUNKS, ENGINE STOPS]
[EMERGENCY BRAKE CRANKS]
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING, WIND WHISTLING]
Lieutenant Leaphorn,
Sergeant Chee, how are you?
You leaving?
Yeah.
We lost our grant. [SIGHS]
Dr. Reynolds left yesterday,
and I'm leaving today.
Anything I can help you with?
Yeah, this.
That's the arrowhead that we
found in Ernesto Cata's mouth.
I've seen Dr. Reynolds
use molds like this.
It's a clay polymer sandblasted coating
to protect what you dig up.
Isn't that right?
Yes, but that didn't come from here.
I've personally overseen
every single dig at this site.
There hasn't been an
artifact unaccounted for.
Dr. Reynolds told me that arrowhead
was a souvenir, a fake.
Who makes a protective mold
for a worthless souvenir?
- May I take a closer look?
- Of course.
Oh.
What is it?
When Dr. Reynolds told
me we lost our grant,
he told me to stop digging.
I didn't, not right away.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I found this yesterday.
♪
[SCOFFS]
This is a real Folsom arrowhead.
Uh, Dr. Reynolds must have brought it in
without my knowledge and
chipped off the piece and
buried it for me to find.
He's seeding the site.
Why?
'Cause he's a fraud.
♪
You said he's been trying to
prove his theory for decades.
Maybe when he realized he
couldn't make history
he decided to manufacture it.
♪
Flintknapping is a delicate process.
Only a handful of people could
flake a Folsom arrow for seeds.
I'm willing to bet Dr.
Reynolds is one of them.
♪
You said those boys worked here.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
They never thought he'd
come back that night.
[WIND WHISTLING]
♪
They had no idea they were
unraveling Dr. Reynolds' plan.
[LOUD CLANKING]
♪
Men like Dr. Reynolds
they only care about one thing
legacy.
[TRUCK DOOR OPENS]
♪
He has made his reputation
by coming to places like this
[DOOR CLOSES]
And taking whatever he needed
from us
and from our dead.
And no one is allowed to
take a thing from him
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREAMING]
♪
[WEAPON PLUNGING, SCREAMING CONTINUES]
Not George Bowlegs
Ernesto Cata
not even you.
♪
[DISTANT BIRD CAWING]
But wait.
I was with Dr. Reynolds
at a conference in Flagstaff that night.
We even had breakfast the next morning.
Flagstaff is four hours
from here, round trip.
Plenty of time to get down and back
without anyone knowing he's gone.
This his?
Mine, but he has one just like it.
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
[SOFTLY] Oh, my God.
Where are you staying?
May Lake Motel in Scarborough.
Dr. Reynolds staying there, too?
He checked out yesterday.
Go there. Pack quickly.
Drive straight to Scarborough PD.
Chief Sena will take
your statement there,
keep you safe until we find him.
Let's go.
- Reynolds is long gone by now.
- He's not gone.
He's wounded.
George is the only witness to his crime.
- Reynolds needs him dead.
- It'll be nightfall soon.
Both of them'll have
to hole up till dawn.
Yep, and we'll be waiting for 'em,
'cause we know something
that Dr. Reynolds
- doesn't know we know.
- [ENGINE TURNING OVER]
Where George'll be at
11:07 tomorrow morning.
- Along with Dr. Reynolds.
- Mm-hmm.
Train leaves tomorrow
morning at 11:07 a.m.
There'll be a crowd waiting to board.
Make it harder to see George
but easier for us to blend in.
Yeah, it's important
to keep a low profile.
This, uh, guy Reynolds
so much as smells a cop,
and he'll run same with the kid.
So, if you see him, get
on your radio fast, yeah?
Yeah. [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Anything else, Lieutenant?
Let's bring George home safe.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Do you have a minute, Agent Washington?
Yeah, of course.
In private?
Does my office work?
Hey.
♪
[DISTANT TELEPHONE RINGING]
You were right.
About what?
I tried my best to be a good person
a good mother, wife.
When my son died
losing a child like that, it tested me.
When I found out BJ Vines
was responsible for my son's death,
I wanted him punished.
I did.
But men like BJ Vines
are never punished.
They come into our communities,
and they take, and they
take, and they take.
Surviving that kind of theft
leaves a hole in your spirit.
And in that darkness,
I found myself consumed
with violent thoughts of revenge.
But I choose not to
live in that dark place.
And my traditional ceremonies
have helped me heal.
[SCOFFS, CRYING SOFTLY]
When you found Vines' body
I started reliving the loss
of my son all over again.
♪
At first, I blamed you,
but I realized it's not you.
You are not the one
keeping the ghost alive in my home.
♪
The trauma of my son's death
has consumed my husband.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
It's taken all the room
in his heart for me
[VOICE BREAKING] And
the memory of our son
and our life together.
It's left me alone.
♪
[SNIFFLES, SIGHS]
I blame him for that
for his weakness.
I hope one day I can forgive him.
But until that day
I walk alone.
♪
Your husband wasn't with you
the night BJ Vines was murdered, was he?
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Yes, he was.
He was with me all night.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
["MELISSA"]
♪
Crossroads ♪
Seem to come and go ♪
Yeah ♪
The gypsy flies from coast to coast ♪
Emma.
- How's your work?
- It's fine.
What's all this in the back?
I'm going to my sister's in Fillmore.
- For how long?
- [SPEAKING DINÉ]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
But back home he'll always run ♪
Hey.
To sweet Melissa ♪
♪
Stop.
No one hears his lonely sighs ♪
Just talk to me.
Please stop.
♪
Lord, in his deepest
dreams, the gypsy flies ♪
With sweet Melissa ♪
♪
Mm-hmm ♪
[TELEPHONE RINGING, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DOOR CLOSES]
I could've swore my door
was closed for a reason.
I'm out.
Mm, your little
girlfriend getting to you?
What, you think I don't know
everything goes on around here?
No, the minute Spenser said
that he felt like he was being watched,
I knew it was Manuelito.
But you [LAUGHS]
You're not fool enough to
be drinking her Kool-Aid,
are you, Ivan?
You told me all I had to
do was look the other way
and let the tankers go.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I did that.
The past year, I've been doing that.
But she won't.
And nothing better happen
to her because she don't.
Now, you see, that right
there, that's the
that's the reason I
chose you for this
'cause you're the loyal type.
But, son, don't don't
confuse where your loyalties lie,
you know?
Because it
You know, with Budge
There's no out.
["GALLOWS POLE"]
♪
Hangman, hangman ♪
Hold it a little while ♪
I think I see my friends coming ♪
Hey.
Riding a many mile ♪
♪
Hangman, hangman ♪
Hold it a little while ♪
I think I see my brother coming ♪
Riding a many mile ♪
♪
Brother, did you get me some silver? ♪
Did you get a little gold? ♪
What did you bring me, my brother ♪
To keep me from the gallows pole? ♪
♪
Brother, I brought
you some silver, yeah ♪
I brought a little gold ♪
I brought a little of everything ♪
To keep you from the gallows pole ♪
♪
Yes, I brought you ♪
To keep you from the gallows pole ♪
♪
Hangman, hangman ♪
Turn your head awhile ♪
I think I see my sister coming ♪
Riding a many mile ♪
Mile, mile, mile ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
Where is everybody?
Relax. We got 'em, Bern.
I'll call the local
cops, get us some backup.
[CLATTERING]
[DISTANT BIRD CAWING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CREAKING]
♪
[CROWBAR CLANGS ON GROUND]
♪
What?
JOE: Reynolds is gonna
want to grab George
before he gets on the train,
so be ready.
I'm going to enjoy this.
[SCREAMS]
SYLVIA: I came here to tell
you something, Lieutenant.
I know what you did.
Gotta make sure that
none of this falls on me.
Stop! Navajo Police!
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Previously on "Dark Winds"
Where were you the night that
B.J. Vines disappeared, Lieutenant?
Since that night, when
I left him out there,
I have tried to keep you out of it.
You're not the only one suffering!
WOMAN: Some of the drivers are
hauling drugs in their trucks.
Run! They have to be
going out some other way.
Aah!
There's no such thing as monsters.
He's just a man.
Aah!
Aah-aah!
[GUN FIRES]
Wake up! You gotta wake up.
He's not a monster, Jim.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[RADIO STATIC CRACKLES]
Joe, it's Chee. Say again, over.
♪
Joe, do you copy?
♪
- [RADIO STATIC CRACKLES]
- Chee?
Are you there?
♪
[RADIO STATIC CRACKLING]
It's not a monster, Jim.
It's a man.
It's just a man.
♪
Natalie, it's Chee. You copy?
Go ahead, Chee. [SPEAKING DINÉ]
Coal Mine Canyon, south end.
You get any of that from Leaphorn? Over.
What I did, it didn't sound good.
- Keep this line open.
- Copy.
♪
[HORSE NEIGHS]
♪
Ya! Ya!
♪
- Natalie.
- Go ahead.
I found Leaphorn's truck, looted.
Copy. [GARBLED SPEECH]
Natalie. [SIGHS] Shit.
Chee.
Joe?
I'm down, west side of the canyon,
maybe a half a mile up.
Suspect's on foot, heading northwest.
He's wounded.
All right, hang on.
Ya!
♪
[GRUNTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Oh.
- You hit?
[MOANS] Oh, my leg.
- [SIGHS]
- Oh, shi
Yeah. All right, just
stay with me, all right?
Yeah.
Hold still. [GRUNTS]
- [INSECT BUZZING]
- Aah!
[MOANING]
Take it easy.
[GROANING]
Aah!
[GRUNTING]
- [PANTING]
- All right.
Where is George?
If you didn't see him,
he's he's gone or dead.
Hey.
- Hey.
- Yeah.
Shh. Shh.
You get the son of a bitch.
No, I got to get you to a hospital.
No. He's wounded.
It should slow him down. [GRUNTS]
Go get him. That's an order.
[GROANS]
There's a fire road up there.
If he's got a car,
that's where he's headed.
Natalie, I got
Leaphorn. He needs a medic.
We're on the west
side, about a half mile
up from the mouth of the canyon.
Copy, Felix and Bigman are en route.
- [GROANS]
- He comes back, you call me.
- [SPEAKING DINÉ]
- Got to go back.
♪
Hey! Navajo Tribal Police!
Put your hands in the air now!
Hands up!
Keep your hands where I can see them.
♪
[GUNSHOTS]
♪
[GUN CLICKS]
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
[SHELLS CLATTERING]
♪
[GUNSHOT, GLASS SHATTERING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[GROANS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[GASPS]
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[GROANING]
Mm.
♪
[SIGHS]
[GROANING]
- Hey.
- Hey, Gordo.
Well
this finally settles it.
You win.
You couldn't even get shot at
with something normal, could you?
Had to get hit with
a damn ketamine dart.
Son of a bitch shot you
with horse tranquilizer, Joe.
- Look at that.
- [GROANS] Jesus.
Guess he didn't know
what kind of thoroughbred
he was trying to put down.
Michael Halsey was murdered
in cold blood inside the NTP.
[GRUNTS]
Why didn't he come after me
the same way?
You know?
Why am I still here?
You should let us worry
about that right now.
I'm convinced
Roberto De Baca killed Michael Halsey.
I got a gut feeling about it.
[GROANS]
But he wasn't the one with me
in the canyon looking for George.
I don't think he has anything to do
with Ernesto Cata's murder.
But you should get back in bed now, man,
and stay there till Emma
comes to take you home.
[GROANS]
- She's not coming.
- What do you mean?
She's not coming, Gordo.
She kicked me out.
- Well, that's just
- It's what I deserve.
You know, there are things
that I've lost in life
That were taken from me.
And there are things that I've lost
because of the choices I made.
I made mine.
She made hers.
Can't go back and undo anything, Gordo.
I'm going forward.
I'll fix it that way,
starting at the canyon.
You ain't done nothing wrong, Joe.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY]
"When you kill a man,
he's bound to you."
Isn't that what you said?
I thought I knew what you meant.
I thought I'd never see
BJ Vines again either.
♪
But I do
every day.
You know, I convinced myself it was
it was a [SPEAKING DINÉ]
Haunting me,
that this
[SPEAKING DINÉ] Was real, but
it wasn't.
It was him Vines.
What he did
what I did.
BJ Vines is bound to me now.
I've accepted it,
and I am prepared to
go on living with it.
But I'll tell you one thing.
Whoever it is that's after George,
he is on the wrong side of me right now.
Hear me, man.
You ain't alone in this.
I can't guarantee it will go well.
No, rarely does, but
we might could get lucky.
I appreciate that.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
[TRUCK DOOR CLOSES]
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
[LEAPHORN GROANING]
Looks like you got a little hitch
in your giddyup there, partner.
Yeah, what's new?
Heard you couldn't hit
the broad side of a barn,
even with a shotgun.
[SCOFFS] The guy was wearing a hood.
- Ah.
- It threw me off.
Any hits on the APB?
Got roadblocks on every major
artery in and out of here.
Got my boys running the back roads,
but so far, no sign of a shot-up sedan
or a wounded man wearing a hood.
Uh, I'll see if there's
any updates here.
- Thanks, Gordo.
- Yeah.
Any sign of George?
No, but we found his
campsite just up the wash.
Somebody, uh, looted your truck
- Yeah.
- And your wallet.
Had to be George the
guy you ran into out here.
The thing I can't figure is,
why would either one want to
loot your truck or your wallet?
I don't know.
Well this way.
Thank you.
Hmm.
[DISTANT BIRDS CAWING]
♪
Are those prints?
[GRUNTS] Yeah.
[GRUNTS]
They're the same ones
we saw at the Cata scene.
[GRUNTS]
Yeah, they ransacked the place.
♪
[CANS RATTLE]
♪
I think it was George
who looted my truck,
stole money from my wallet
[GRUNTS]
For a train ticket to Reno.
There's a train that leaves
for Reno every Friday morning.
Tomorrow.
Well, whoever you ran into out here,
they found this schedule before us.
They're going to know where
George is tomorrow, too.
♪
What the hell is that?
I don't know, but it's not coal.
Give me that pail.
[GRUNTING]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
Whatever this was
George didn't want anyone to find it.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
Where's my camera?
Hey.
You're not going to go in
there and do anything crazy.
I won't.
Good, 'cause you saw
what Budge is capable of.
You go in there half-cocked,
and I don't know what
Yeah, I hear you.
[SIGHS]
Yeah, well, we got to
figure something out
a strategy together.
Let's talk about it over lunch.
Okay.
Lunch.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
That son of a bitch.
[SIGHS]
♪
PIG.
[ALARM RINGING]
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
Ivan destroyed this on purpose?
Why would he do that?
Because he's on Spenser's payroll
along with Ed Henry
and I don't know who else in there.
Bern, we got to be careful here.
Look, I know what we saw,
and I know how they're doing it.
The girl from the river
was trying to tell me.
Tell you what?
PIG Pipeline Inspection Gadgets.
They're designed to clean oil pipelines,
but they are perfect
for smuggling drugs.
The drugs I saw in Juarez will
be on Spenser Ranch shortly,
if they aren't already.
This is our chance to get them
Spenser, Ed, Ivan, all of them.
♪
[SIGHS]
- Bern, this is
- I know.
But I can't do this alone.
You're the only one I trust.
♪
I know a judge.
She'll get us a warrant
without tipping anyone off.
Good.
You're sure about this, right?
You're sure you want to do this?
- I'm sure.
- Ivan.
Shit.
I'm supposed to go to lunch with him.
I'll get the warrant.
Meet you back at my place.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
[CAR DOOR OPENS]
Have fun, you two.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE TURNING OVER]
♪
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
♪
[HORSE NEIGHING]
I wanted to return these.
I was also hoping we could talk.
I have nothing to say.
Well, then, if I may.
I'm sorry to speak so
plainly, Mrs. Leaphorn.
But I believe your
husband murdered BJ Vines.
You believe it, or you can prove it?
It's his alibi I don't believe.
You said he was with you all night
the night Vines disappeared.
Is that the truth?
Why are you doing this?
It's my job.
Did your husband make you lie for him?
Because you don't strike me as a liar.
You don't know me.
I know you're a good woman,
a respected matriarch in this community.
You spent your life helping others,
especially the young
women on this reservation.
Nobody in Washington cares about us
or what happens on this reservation.
[DISTANT HORSE NEIGHS]
This is about you, isn't it?
Maybe about the reason someone sent you
all the way out here
to work on something no one cares about.
You're right.
No one in Washington cares
about what goes on out here,
except for me.
I'm here now, and I
I want to tell you, you're
on the wrong side of this.
Your husband's life is a lie,
but yours doesn't have to be.
♪
[DISTANT HORSE NEIGHS]
I'll be, uh, at the station
when you decide you're
ready to talk, okay?
[DISTANT DOG BARKING]
[OBJECTS SCRAPING ON TABLE]
[SIGHS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
There's something in his mouth.
- Take it out.
- I can't.
What, uh what are you thinking?
♪
I've seen this stuff before.
Where?
Bernadette.
♪
I used a clay mold like this
when I melted down Joe Jr.'s belt buckle
into that feather I gave Bern.
♪
Give me the Cata evidence box.
♪
The arrowhead.
♪
Shit.
Can I get you anything else, cowboy?
- No, thanks.
- How about a check?
Here you go.
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING IN BACKGROUND]
If you see me walking ♪
Not hungry?
[DOOR CLOSES, BELLS JINGLE]
Nope.
If you see me staring ♪
I decided I'll back you
whatever you want to do about Spenser.
If you think I still miss you ♪
Well, I'm thinking
of taking a step back.
It's not worth the risk.
[BILLIARD BALLS CLACK]
Well, it's what you want, isn't it?
For me to drop it?
It just doesn't sound like you.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, well, watching
someone die does that.
[BILLIARD BALLS CLACK,
DOOR CLOSES, BELL JINGLES]
♪
Yeah, but if you want to get Spenser,
this may be our only shot.
♪
I don't think so.
You know, these guys make
mistakes all the time, Ivan.
And sooner or later, Spenser
will make another one.
[BILLIARD BALLS CLACK]
Hey
[CHUCKLES]
Come to my place tonight.
I'll cook.
No work, just us.
[CHUCKLES] Maybe tomorrow.
♪
[CLEARS THROAT]
- At least let me pay.
- No, I got it.
I insist.
♪
[GEAR SHIFTER CLUNKS, ENGINE STOPS]
[EMERGENCY BRAKE CRANKS]
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING, WIND WHISTLING]
Lieutenant Leaphorn,
Sergeant Chee, how are you?
You leaving?
Yeah.
We lost our grant. [SIGHS]
Dr. Reynolds left yesterday,
and I'm leaving today.
Anything I can help you with?
Yeah, this.
That's the arrowhead that we
found in Ernesto Cata's mouth.
I've seen Dr. Reynolds
use molds like this.
It's a clay polymer sandblasted coating
to protect what you dig up.
Isn't that right?
Yes, but that didn't come from here.
I've personally overseen
every single dig at this site.
There hasn't been an
artifact unaccounted for.
Dr. Reynolds told me that arrowhead
was a souvenir, a fake.
Who makes a protective mold
for a worthless souvenir?
- May I take a closer look?
- Of course.
Oh.
What is it?
When Dr. Reynolds told
me we lost our grant,
he told me to stop digging.
I didn't, not right away.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I found this yesterday.
♪
[SCOFFS]
This is a real Folsom arrowhead.
Uh, Dr. Reynolds must have brought it in
without my knowledge and
chipped off the piece and
buried it for me to find.
He's seeding the site.
Why?
'Cause he's a fraud.
♪
You said he's been trying to
prove his theory for decades.
Maybe when he realized he
couldn't make history
he decided to manufacture it.
♪
Flintknapping is a delicate process.
Only a handful of people could
flake a Folsom arrow for seeds.
I'm willing to bet Dr.
Reynolds is one of them.
♪
You said those boys worked here.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
They never thought he'd
come back that night.
[WIND WHISTLING]
♪
They had no idea they were
unraveling Dr. Reynolds' plan.
[LOUD CLANKING]
♪
Men like Dr. Reynolds
they only care about one thing
legacy.
[TRUCK DOOR OPENS]
♪
He has made his reputation
by coming to places like this
[DOOR CLOSES]
And taking whatever he needed
from us
and from our dead.
And no one is allowed to
take a thing from him
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SCREAMING]
♪
[WEAPON PLUNGING, SCREAMING CONTINUES]
Not George Bowlegs
Ernesto Cata
not even you.
♪
[DISTANT BIRD CAWING]
But wait.
I was with Dr. Reynolds
at a conference in Flagstaff that night.
We even had breakfast the next morning.
Flagstaff is four hours
from here, round trip.
Plenty of time to get down and back
without anyone knowing he's gone.
This his?
Mine, but he has one just like it.
[DISTANT BIRD CALLING]
[SOFTLY] Oh, my God.
Where are you staying?
May Lake Motel in Scarborough.
Dr. Reynolds staying there, too?
He checked out yesterday.
Go there. Pack quickly.
Drive straight to Scarborough PD.
Chief Sena will take
your statement there,
keep you safe until we find him.
Let's go.
- Reynolds is long gone by now.
- He's not gone.
He's wounded.
George is the only witness to his crime.
- Reynolds needs him dead.
- It'll be nightfall soon.
Both of them'll have
to hole up till dawn.
Yep, and we'll be waiting for 'em,
'cause we know something
that Dr. Reynolds
- doesn't know we know.
- [ENGINE TURNING OVER]
Where George'll be at
11:07 tomorrow morning.
- Along with Dr. Reynolds.
- Mm-hmm.
Train leaves tomorrow
morning at 11:07 a.m.
There'll be a crowd waiting to board.
Make it harder to see George
but easier for us to blend in.
Yeah, it's important
to keep a low profile.
This, uh, guy Reynolds
so much as smells a cop,
and he'll run same with the kid.
So, if you see him, get
on your radio fast, yeah?
Yeah. [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Anything else, Lieutenant?
Let's bring George home safe.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Do you have a minute, Agent Washington?
Yeah, of course.
In private?
Does my office work?
Hey.
♪
[DISTANT TELEPHONE RINGING]
You were right.
About what?
I tried my best to be a good person
a good mother, wife.
When my son died
losing a child like that, it tested me.
When I found out BJ Vines
was responsible for my son's death,
I wanted him punished.
I did.
But men like BJ Vines
are never punished.
They come into our communities,
and they take, and they
take, and they take.
Surviving that kind of theft
leaves a hole in your spirit.
And in that darkness,
I found myself consumed
with violent thoughts of revenge.
But I choose not to
live in that dark place.
And my traditional ceremonies
have helped me heal.
[SCOFFS, CRYING SOFTLY]
When you found Vines' body
I started reliving the loss
of my son all over again.
♪
At first, I blamed you,
but I realized it's not you.
You are not the one
keeping the ghost alive in my home.
♪
The trauma of my son's death
has consumed my husband.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
It's taken all the room
in his heart for me
[VOICE BREAKING] And
the memory of our son
and our life together.
It's left me alone.
♪
[SNIFFLES, SIGHS]
I blame him for that
for his weakness.
I hope one day I can forgive him.
But until that day
I walk alone.
♪
Your husband wasn't with you
the night BJ Vines was murdered, was he?
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Yes, he was.
He was with me all night.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
["MELISSA"]
♪
Crossroads ♪
Seem to come and go ♪
Yeah ♪
The gypsy flies from coast to coast ♪
Emma.
- How's your work?
- It's fine.
What's all this in the back?
I'm going to my sister's in Fillmore.
- For how long?
- [SPEAKING DINÉ]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
But back home he'll always run ♪
Hey.
To sweet Melissa ♪
♪
Stop.
No one hears his lonely sighs ♪
Just talk to me.
Please stop.
♪
Lord, in his deepest
dreams, the gypsy flies ♪
With sweet Melissa ♪
♪
Mm-hmm ♪
[TELEPHONE RINGING, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DOOR CLOSES]
I could've swore my door
was closed for a reason.
I'm out.
Mm, your little
girlfriend getting to you?
What, you think I don't know
everything goes on around here?
No, the minute Spenser said
that he felt like he was being watched,
I knew it was Manuelito.
But you [LAUGHS]
You're not fool enough to
be drinking her Kool-Aid,
are you, Ivan?
You told me all I had to
do was look the other way
and let the tankers go.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I did that.
The past year, I've been doing that.
But she won't.
And nothing better happen
to her because she don't.
Now, you see, that right
there, that's the
that's the reason I
chose you for this
'cause you're the loyal type.
But, son, don't don't
confuse where your loyalties lie,
you know?
Because it
You know, with Budge
There's no out.
["GALLOWS POLE"]
♪
Hangman, hangman ♪
Hold it a little while ♪
I think I see my friends coming ♪
Hey.
Riding a many mile ♪
♪
Hangman, hangman ♪
Hold it a little while ♪
I think I see my brother coming ♪
Riding a many mile ♪
♪
Brother, did you get me some silver? ♪
Did you get a little gold? ♪
What did you bring me, my brother ♪
To keep me from the gallows pole? ♪
♪
Brother, I brought
you some silver, yeah ♪
I brought a little gold ♪
I brought a little of everything ♪
To keep you from the gallows pole ♪
♪
Yes, I brought you ♪
To keep you from the gallows pole ♪
♪
Hangman, hangman ♪
Turn your head awhile ♪
I think I see my sister coming ♪
Riding a many mile ♪
Mile, mile, mile ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
Where is everybody?
Relax. We got 'em, Bern.
I'll call the local
cops, get us some backup.
[CLATTERING]
[DISTANT BIRD CAWING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CREAKING]
♪
[CROWBAR CLANGS ON GROUND]
♪
What?
JOE: Reynolds is gonna
want to grab George
before he gets on the train,
so be ready.
I'm going to enjoy this.
[SCREAMS]
SYLVIA: I came here to tell
you something, Lieutenant.
I know what you did.
Gotta make sure that
none of this falls on me.
Stop! Navajo Police!
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]