Dark Winds

What happened?

She's coming.

Who? Who's coming?

Oh.

Okay. Okay.

I'm here with you.

I'm here...

Just breathe.

Breathe.

No.

No, no.

No, no, no!

- Chee. - I'm good.

Agent.

- Riding out to Hunt's Mesa first thing tomorrow,

and I think you should come.

On the job?

No, a quick sweat.

We just turned up two bodies.

- One you inspected personally inside of a death hogan.

- Now's the time unless you want a...

To take hold. - I'm fine.

- Emma used to say the same thing to me.

She'd give me speeches like I'm giving you now.

I was too busy. There was always a case.

There always is.

- What I'm saying is I never prioritized it.

But I should have.

Because you'll never make it

in this line of work unless you do.

Neither will your relationships.

It helps if you're open to it.

Thanks.

But like I said, I'm fine.

We just gotta pull the van around for the old man.

His name is Ashie Begay.

He's an elder in our community.

We haven't examined the body yet,

so why don't you relax?

- You got as long as this takes.

- It's through and through in the shoulder,

high caliber rifle in the back.

At distance, I'd guess.

- Two rounds to center of mass, point blank range.

Same MO as the witnesses from the diner.

- Those two at the diner didn't have their hair washed

and their shoes switched like a traditional Navajo burial.

Not quite.

Ring's not on the index finger or the thumb.

Body's facing west, not north.

It's not much of a cover-up.

Then why do it?

- Let's find out what Billie Tsosie knows

after we tell her what happened to her family.

- Maybe we should go outside and talk about this privately.

Just tell me.

- I'm sorry, but Albert and your grandfather

were found dead.

No, no!

- Try and start small, the basics about Albert.

Whatever you can remember will be helpful.

- I don't remember anything, okay?

I mean, I haven't seen him since I was, like, nine or ten.

- Why did Albert come back here?

What were you doing with him for three days?

What is it?

What did he want?

Leroy.

He--he was looking for my cousin Leroy, his brother.

Does Leroy live on the rez?

No, but he was here.

Albert, he had a picture.

A picture of what?

- Leroy standing in front of an Airstream trailer

by a river with cottonwood trees and--

You still have it, the photo?

Albert had it.

- Well, we didn't find it anywhere.

I still--

I still have this.

I mean, that was everywhere we looked.

You have to find Leroy.

He's the only family I have left.

You have to find him.

- Started with the San Juan. Smart.

- It's the only major river with cottonwood trees.

Billie knows the rez.

That's why Albert needed her.

Three days?

They wouldn't just miss an Airstream parked

on the banks of the San Juan.

both: Unless--

The monsoons.

Last month.

They flooded the desert.

- It would have looked like a river to Albert and Billie

in the photo. - Mm-hmm. But it wasn't.

It was a wash.

- So we're looking for a wash on the rez,

ripe with cottonwoods.

Right here. - There.

What?

- Ahem. - Mm!

Hey. Hey.

I just needed staples...

- Right. - For my stapler.

Yeah, yeah.

Thanks, Sergeant.

Here you go, Deputy.

How you doing?

How's it going?

- Okay. - Good.

That blonde woman been back here?

- Oh, you would have been the first one I called.

Mm.

Mind if I park here and poke around a little?

- Go for it. - Thank you.

Son of a bitch.

Well, our secret's out.

Means you can, uh--

you know, we can move in together.

That's what was holding you back, wasn't it?

- We just talked about it yesterday, Chee.

Well, I'm not pressuring you.

I'm just saying.

The only thing better than solving crimes

with the woman I love

would be coming home to her at night.

I really do love you, Bernadette.

And I told you, I'm not gonna hold back.

I love you, too, Chee.

- Actually, there is one thing that could beat this--

running the NTP after Leaphorn retires--

together.

- You notice he's been, uh, spending more time in sweat

than working cases these days?

You know, I think he's finally decided he's had enough.

Between the FBI agent and Emma leaving,

it was finally too much for him.

Could be any day now.

You don't think so?

No, I don't.

That's the wash.

It was probably full of water a week ago.

Huh.

Cottonwoods, just like Billie said.

Sorry, officers.