Previously on "Dark Winds"...
Where were you the night that B.J. Vines disappeared, Lieutenant?
I was at home with my wife.
There is no "us."
I don't believe you.
Man: So, AGS owns an oil company here.
Spencer Oil. Tom Spencer.
Woman: What if the tankers were full of coke?
Sold the oil refinery.
[Man yelling]
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[melancholy music]
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[camera shutter clicking]
[distorted roar]
[camera shutter clicking]
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[moody guitar music]
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[tense music]
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- Special Agent Stevens will want to see your statement
soon as he arrives, Lieutenant.
I'm sure he'll want to follow up, so don't go far.
- Why aren't you on this case?
You're already here. Why bring in somebody else?
- I'm on the BJ Vines case, Sergeant,
and will be until I've turned over every rock.
In the meantime, NTP is no longer working
the Halsey case, understood?
Is that clear, Lieutenant?
Lieutenant?
- It's clear.
- Thank you.
[phone rings]
- Navajo Tribal Police.
- Joe.
Walk with me.
You need some time off.
You should go home right now and get right.
I got this.
- She's not taking me off this case.
- She don't give a damn about this case.
"BJ Vines, BJ Vines." That's all she cares about.
Listen to me.
I'm in this with you, Joe.
You ain't careful, we're all gonna end up
paying for your sins.
And that is something I surely do not want to do.
- I won't let that happen. - Well, it may not--
it may not be your choice.
- [clears throat]
- [speaking Diné] - [speaking Diné]
I'll talk to you later.
- Who's this?
- She's a medicine woman.
She's here to cleanse the station.
When she's done, we can come back in,
but we have to step out while she does the ceremony.
- We're done...
For now.
- [speaking Diné]
[melancholy music]
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- [snoring softly]
[chuckles]
That mind never stops working, does it?
Not even for sleep.
- Yeah.
Well, at least I don't snore.
- I don't snore.
- [laughs]
There's a oil refinery in Juarez.
It's owned by AGS.
It's the same company that owns Spenser Ranch and oil.
And, well...
I want to take a look.
- [chuckles dryly]
No.
- Why not?
- Well, for one thing,
you and I don't have jurisdiction in Mexico.
And if we get caught operating in a foreign country...
- We won't.
Because we won't be there on official business.
We'll just be a couple
enjoying a weekend away.
[both chuckling]
- Mmm.
We're a couple now?
- Is that a yes?
- No.
- [scoffs]
Ivan.
How else am I gonna do this?
I can't tell my boss because he'd never approve it,
because if I'm right, he's being paid not to.
- If you're right, you better tread carefully.
- Yeah, well, if Spenser's smuggling coke
into the country, I think it's worth it
to take a look to see if he's using the refinery
as a staging point, don't you?
[water runs]
[soft intriguing music]
So?
You'll come with me, right?
- If anything weird happens, I'm getting you out of there.
- Why do you think I asked you to come with me?
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[chickens clucking, goats bleating]
- Hmm?
- When I was a boy, when I went to Catholic school,
they taught us that the Devil walked the Earth with Jesus,
not--not metaphorically, but...
physically walked the Earth with Jesus.
[soft tense music]
In Diné, we're taught that the monsters walked the Earth
and were slayed by the Hero Twins.
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I can't help thinking
that we all have a line that runs
down the middle of our heart.
- Mm.
- And that line separates monsters from men.
And I'm afraid I crossed that line.
[speaking Diné]
I have crossed that line.
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- You didn't answer my question.
- No, I didn't.
[bluesy guitar music]
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- Special Agent Washington?
- Inside.
- Mm.
You look like someone I used to know.
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Are you investigating my husband's murder,
Agent Washington, or are you investigating me?
- I'm trying to figure out if the two are
one and the same, Mrs. Vines.
- They aren't.
- Even though your husband, as stated by you in court
just three months after his disappearance,
stole your family fortune after the fatal fire...
- Suspicious fire. - That killed your sister...
- Mm. - And left you,
the only other person in the house,
with permanent thermal and chemical injuries
to the upper airway-- did I get that right?
[phone rings]
- You seem like a person who can handle the truth.
So here it is.
After my sister died, I married my former brother-in-law.
Depending on your point of view,
I suppose that could be seen as suspicious.
- I don't need a point of view to say that it does.
- My husband was an ogre, Agent Washington.
He's dead. I don't miss him.
The money is mine again,
however the universe bent to accomplish that.
- The universe didn't murder your husband.
- [breathes laboriously]
Why must you people always--
I have a condition, you know.
- Do you need some water?
- [exhales deeply]
[oxygen hissing]
[sighs]
I assume you spoke to Emily Quinn.
[soft intriguing music]
- Who?
- Oh, a very nice old woman
who suffers from insomnia
and a dog who pees in her house.
Several weeks after my husband went missing,
she mentioned that she thought something must be wrong
because she saw a police car driving out of our gate
very late on the night he went missing.
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- A police car?
- Black and white.
- Like the ones outside?
- Yes.
[chuckling] Actually, yes.
My husband was in the back, she said,
and she couldn't see who was driving,
but my husband made eye contact with her
through the window as they pulled away.
She said he seemed, um--
I don't know. - What?
- Scared.
[chuckles]
I never saw my husband scared,
not even of me-- well, especially not me.
- And you didn't feel compelled to tell this
to anyone until now?
- Well, obviously, I was saving it.
- For what?
- For a moment like this.
[music building]
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[doorbell jingling]
[Buddy Red Bow's "Reservation Cowboy" playing]
- Don't look now.
- [groans]
Thank you.
- What can I get ya, shug?
- This guy look familiar?
About 6-foot, white, late 30s, hippie type.
Maybe in here last week.
- You know how many long-haired hippie types
I got coming through here every day?
And I'm supposed to remember one from another.
[chuckles]
- Give it another look, please.
- Meatloaf.
Monday's special is meatloaf.
He had the special, sweet tea, and key lime pie.
- I thought you said you didn't recall him.
- I said, am I supposed to?
But in this case, I do,
'cause of the dude that was sitting with him in the booth.
He was a creepy dude.
Beady eyes, had on this fancy Western jacket
topstitched with leather lacing.
He just sorta sat there,
like a Mexican Norman Bates,
only meaner.
- Around what time was that?
- Had to be after 6:30
'cause that's when the specials start,
and he was still here when I left at 10:00.
- The creepy dude?
- No, just the hippie.
Creepy dude hightailed it after 15 minutes.
Didn't even touch his food.
But you see, the real reason I remembered him
was, instead of a tip,
he left me a pair of ol' baby shoes.
- Baby shoes?
- You're not gonna write that down?
[laughing]
I'm just funnin' with you 'bout the baby shoes, shug.
Oh, you should've seen your face.
[laughs] Mm.
All right, what y'all want?
[indistinct chatter, traffic noise]
- Damn. Honeymoon suite.
Almost like we planned it.
- It's nice.
It's so hot.
[Julito Rodriguez y Su Trio's "Inolvidable" plays on radio]
[banging on air conditioner]
Oh, I think it's broken.
[sighs]
- We don't need it.
- Mm.
That feels nice.
- [singing in Spanish]
[ice cube clatters]
- What happened here?
- Well...
I met this guy in Gallup,
a white guy.
Just met him at a bar I shouldn't have been
hanging around.
But I thought he would save me.
You know?
Take me away.
[melancholy music]
One day, we were driving,
and we skidded off the side of the road in the snowstorm.
And I ended up in a coma for 12 days.
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When I woke up,
my old boss was just sitting there.
He didn't call me stupid or yell at me.
Instead, he--
he took me home with him
to live with him and his wife and his son.
And he got me through school, put me through the army,
and hired me when I got out.
There.
- That sounds like a good guy, this old boss of yours.
- Yeah, you'd like him.
He follows a code, and he lives by it.
I guess that's why I'm like the way I am.
- I like the way you are.
[dogs barking]
- Can we talk?
Emma, you have every right to feel the way you do.
I should've told you what I was gonna do.
- You were hoping you wouldn't have to--
- Emma, I have tried to make this mine.
Since that night when I left him out there,
I have tried to keep you out of it.
- Now I'm in it in the worst way.
- I do not know how to undo what I did.
And I don't know for sure if I had to do it over again,
that I would do it any different, Emma.
I do not want to put this on you.
- [scoffs]
You're so selfish.
[soft dramatic music]
I'm your wife.
I'm the mother of our son.
You sit there in your closed-off little world.
I understand what you face every day.
I see what you're going through.
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You're not the only one suffering.
[sighs]
You're not the only one who's suffered.
[breathes shakily
I can't live like this, Joe.
[crying] I'm sorry.
I can't.
[car approaching]
[dogs barking]
I want you gone...
[car doors closing]
From this house.
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[knock on door]
- [clears throat]
- Lieutenant, I have a warrant to search the premises.
That includes this house, the outbuildings,
your vehicles, and your property.
[indistinct chatter]
Seize that weapon.
[tense music]
I'm sorry, Mrs. Leaphorn.
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- [sobbing]
- Sorry, boss. - Hands behind your back.
- That won't be necessary.
You don't need to.
- ♪ Oh, the truth is only
♪ Now and always what remains ♪
[camera shutter clicks]
♪ Oh, the truth is only ♪
♪ Everlasting, never changed ♪
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♪ Lock it in, block it out ♪
♪ Bury it down for a thousand years ♪
♪ Still there, laid bare ♪
♪ Diamond in the dirt so bright and clear ♪
♪ Oh, the truth is calling
♪ Deep inside my wounded heart ♪
♪ Oh, the truth is solid
♪ When the whole world falls apart ♪
- There's got to be a back way into the refinery.
[music playing quietly, indistinct chatter]
This is where the tankers fill up.
All right, the weigh station is here
and the front entrance is right here.
So if the drivers are hauling drugs in their trucks,
they have to be going out some other way.
Well, what do you think?
- I think we finish our drinks, turn in early,
then first thing in the morning,
we go home.
- Are you getting cold feet?
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
Yep. She's here.
- Hello?
- Your roommate told me where I could find you.
- Is everything okay?
- You know that guy you were telling me about down there,
the creepy one...
with the fancy leather jacket?
Well, he's a person of interest in the Cata murder
and a second murder up here.
Do you have a name for this guy?
- Yeah-- - Can I borrow your toothpaste?
- Hold on. What?
- Your toothpaste, can I use it?
- Sure.
[soft dramatic music]
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You still there?
- [speaking Diné]
- Roberto C. De Baca.
Um, that's the name I saw
on the New Mexico driver's license.
I'm not sure if it's real.
- Thanks.
- Is that it?
- That's it.
Enjoy Mexico.
[off-key] ♪ I ♪
♪ I'm so in love with you ♪
♪ Whatever you want to do
♪ Is all right with me ♪
♪ 'Cause you make me feel ♪
♪ So brand-new
[vocalizing]
- Hey, Al Green. You okay?
- Shorty.
[huffs] Sleep it off, man.
[groans] I'll write myself up
for public intox tomorrow.
- Uh-huh.
You need a ride?
- [scoffs] Ride.
[chuckles] Hell.
Do I need a ride.
[retching]
[footsteps approaching]
[dog barking]
[car doors closing]
- Mrs. Leaphorn, it is my duty to inform you
that you are at the risk of being charged
as a coconspirator to whatever crimes
the federal government is able to bring
as a result of this search.
Do you understand?
- Yes.
[car engine turns over]
- Is there any information you'd like
to share with me at this time?
- No.
- Okay.
[soft tense music]
[car door closes]
[car engine turns over]
- Thank you.
- [exhales shakily]
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[soft dramatic music]
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[coyotes yipping distantly]
- [grunting softly]
[soft intriguing music]
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[music building]
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[sighs]
[music slows and fades]
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[door closes]
- There you go.
Oh. - Ow.
[groaning]
[water pouring]
Can I tell you something?
I'm serious, Shorty.
[speaking Diné]
It's important, what I have to tell you.
[glass thuds and clatters]
[sighs]
When you're with the right woman,
you have to tell her how you feel.
Don't put it off.
You think when you just go to bed,
oh, I'll just tell her tomorrow.
Guess what?
One morning, you wake up, looking at the ceiling fan.
Guess who's laying next to you?
Nobody.
- Dude, we've all done some things
we wish we could've done different.
My boy, he's a good kid.
He's not like me.
He don't got meanness in him.
He wants to go live with his ma in Reno.
Maybe I should let him.
[soft dramatic music]
Nah, man. [speaking Diné]
You sleep this off and get back after it tomorrow.
- [groans] Yep.
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Mm.
- Hey.
- [groans]
[door closes]
[coyotes yipping]
[mysterious whistling tone]
[sinister music]
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[mysterious whistling tone]
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[wind whistling]
[mysterious whistling tone]
- [gasps]
[wind howling]
[breathing shakily]
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[wind dies down]
[eerie music]
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[tense music]
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[camera shutter clicking]
[tense music]
- It's Budge.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Hey.
- Vamos. [indistinct chatter]
- Run!
[suspenseful music]
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[gunshots]
[gasps]
[panting]
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[tense music]
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[rocks clatter]
[crow cawing]
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- [whistling "Pop Goes the Weasel"]
[speaking Spanish]
- [speaking Spanish]
- They saw me.
- [grunts] Ah!
[grunts]
[groaning]
[panting]
Budge-- [gunfire]
- Ya estuvo.
[both breathing heavily]
Huh?
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[engine stops, parking brake cranks]
[Jim coughs]
- [chuckles] You have a rough night?
- Yeah.
Had a run-in with one too many beers.
- Yeah?
- And that guy was a better pool player than I thought.
- Yeah, yeah. - [groans]
- I was looking through the case file last night.
You know that Shorty called the station
looking for his toolbox? - Yeah.
Yeah, Shorty thinks that, uh, the Skunborough cops took it
while we were up there.
He's been asking me to get it back for him.
- I saw the toolbox in the barn.
It was there when we left.
- What are you thinking?
- You know, when I was a boy,
I wanted a Joe DiMaggio baseball card.
Wanted it bad.
So I took some of my dad's tools
and pawned them.
- George took the tools.
- Yeah, and--and George's mom lives in Reno.
I think George might be trying to put some money together,
buy a train ticket out there.
I'll go talk to Roger, see if George has been out there
trying to pawn his dad's tools.
If he has, Roger might know where he is.
- Yeah.
[groans]
Joe? - Yeah?
- [groans]
I talked to Bern last night. [car door opens]
- Yeah?
- Yeah, she says that there's, uh, this guy down there--
matches the description that the waitress gave us
for our guy.
His name is Roberto C. De Baca.
A buddy of mine in Washington says
De Baca might have been a CIA operative
doing wet work in Guatemala.
He's the kind of guy who can get into the NTP,
kill a man, and get out without you seeing him.
The Feds put an APB out on him.
- All right, good. Thanks.
[engine turning over]
[engine revving]
- If you're right and Ed Henry's in on it,
we got to go to the DEA.
We might be able to get Budge, but can we get Spenser?
Even if we do, who else is out there?
We'll be on their radar.
- Well, we'll just take it one step at a time.
- Or we do nothing.
- [scoffs] I'm not that kind of cop.
And neither are you.
- Yeah, well, I don't want to get dead.
Do you?
[tense music]
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You ready?
- Yeah.
[suitcase latches clicking]
[distant dog barking]
- Kid's been coming in all week selling me stuff.
[grunts] Was here this morning with a few things.
- He say where he's staying?
- [speaking Diné]
Doesn't talk much.
Sleeping under a tree is my guess.
Burrs in his clothes.
I offered him a shovel 'cause it looked like his hands
had been digging in the desert.
Joe, if I had any idea who he was--
- What color dirt on his hands?
- I don't know--dirt color,
uh, like brown on his hands, fingers,
and, uh, black under his nails.
- Black. - Mm-hmm.
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- Could be. Probably.
Yeah, I guess.
[horse neighs]
[horse chuffs]
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[tins rattling]
[light clatter]
[horse neighing]
[engine revving]
[tins rattling]
[horse neighing]
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[low horn blowing]
[mysterious whistling tone]
[gasps]
♪
[speaking Diné]
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[mysterious whistling tone]
Joe, you're breaking up. Say again.
Joe?
[Static hissing] [Gasps]
Joe: Am I supposed to ignore what he's done?
You're supposed to be a cop.
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You got to wake up.
Come on. He's coming.
[Gasps]
Man: We did what we had to do,
and one way or another...
[Snarling]
...we have to pay the price.
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[moody guitar music]
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