© 2024 AMC Network Entertainment LLC. All Rights Reserved. Credit: Michael Moriatis/AMCLt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) served his own justice to the man responsible for his son’s death, but it has brought him no peace.
Dark Winds, the gritty crime drama set in Northeast Arizona’s Navajo Nation in 1971, returns for an eight-episode Season 3 beginning Sunday, March 9, at 9pm ET/PT on AMC and streaming on AMC+.
Leaphorn is reunited with former partner Sgt. Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) at the Navajo Police Department in Kayenta. Leaphorn and Chee are called to investigate the disappearance of two teenage boys, and the dearth of physical evidence leads some in the town to suspect a supernatural culprit from Navajo creation stories: Ye’iitsoh, a beast who killed and devoured humans.
“Ye’iitsoh is the translation for ‘a big thing that creates fear,’” McClarnon says. “And I think the way it’s used today, it’s more of a general word for negative energy.”
Negative energy has a hold on Leaphorn in Season 3, as guilt over being B.J. Vines’ (John Diehl) judge, jury and executioner has him losing sleep. “[Joe’s] certainly questioning some of the decisions he’s made, and he’s questioning where his moral compass is and what those choices may cost him,” McClarnon says. “That obviously would put him — or anybody — into a lot of fear and anxiety.”
Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) has left the Navajo Police to join the U.S. Border Patrol in Southern New Mexico. While investigating an abandoned white van, she encounters a terrified mother and daughter nearby. Manuelito defies orders and pursues her own leads, bringing her to believe one of the area’s most influential businessmen has ties to a human trafficking operation.
AMC has already renewed the series for a fourth season.
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