Dark Winds (2022) s03e08 Episode Script

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Previously on "Dark Winds"
Your husband wasn't with you the
night B.J. Vines was murdered?
Yes. He was.
EMMA: I'm going to my
sister's in Fillmore.
- I'm out.
- There's no out.
'Cause of, you know, Budge.
Where's everybody?
♪♪
- Aah!
- WOMAN: This is a real Folsom arrowhead.
Dr. Reynolds must have brought
it in without my knowledge.
MAN: They had no idea they were
unraveling Dr. Reynolds' plan.
[GASPS] Aaahhhh!
MAN: George is the only
witness to his crime.
Reynolds needs him dead.
[WATER DRIPPING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
♪
[FAUCET SQUEAKING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANING]
♪
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Teddi?
I'm glad I caught you.
I I thought you left.
I was halfway home, and, you know,
I remembered that Off Reservation
Trust Land site we
we abandoned last year.
It turns out our old friend Carson
Carson Rogers he's
he's anxious to
to bankroll another dig.
So I was
[GULPS]
I was hoping you'd
well, I was hoping I could
interest you in joining me.
Oh.
Well, I I, um
I don't
That's not quite the invigorated
response I was hoping for.
No.
You know what? No.
I don't want to go with you.
Why?
[TENSE MUSIC]
Why?
Hmm.
Why?
♪
After everything you've done?
What have I done?
I believed in you.
I gave up my own research, everything,
to come out here and to work with you.
And then and then Ernesto?
What kind of a monster are you?
- Well
- Get out.
- Teddi, no! Teddi, wait.
- Stay out of here.
Teddi, Teddi, Teddi, Te
Teddi, let me explain.
Let me explain.
[GASPS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Teddi?
I'm calling the police.
No.
Don't do that. Put the phone down.
- Get out of here!
- Don't do that, Teddi.
- Put the phone down.
- Get away from me.
Put the phone put the phone down.
Give me the phone. Give me the phone.
- Give me the phone. Stop it.
- Let go.
- Listen. Stop it!
- Help me!
- Help!
- Stop it!
- Ah!
- [THUD]
Ah
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Teddi?
♪
[DIAL TONE]
[LINE BEEPING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[GROANS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR SLAMS]
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
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1040 heading to Phoenix,
coming through now.
This ain't arms.
Everybody hold.
Anybody got eyes on George?
Negative.
West Side Building, clear.
Natalie?
I've got nothing.
[HORN BLARING]
Chee, got anything?
Nothing in here.
♪
And now arriving, this
is the Western Flier.
[TRAIN RUMBLING]
Stand back from the tracks.
Please stand back from the tracks.
Reynolds is gonna want to grab George
before he gets on the train.
[HORN BLARING]
He could be armed.
He's gonna be ready.
Everyone, keep your heads on a swivel.
[GRUNTS]
Be careful. You'll tear something.
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
I don't know what's older my back,
my hamstrings, or all
the other parts I thought
would never shrivel up.
Been a while since you and Barbara
you know.
[CHUCKLES]
Been a day or two.
Yeah.
[SIPS]
[SIGHS]
How long have you two been married?
- 42 years.
- Whew.
You?
How long you and Emma been married?
24 years.
You meet on the rez?
No, we met in college.
She started a club for
Native students there,
and they'd get together once a
week for barbecuing and frybread.
One day, I decided to see
what all the fuss was about.
It sounds like you got lucky, then.
The war had pretty much
beat the Navajo out of me.
Yeah, she helped me settle down
after what I saw over there,
helped me reconnect.
[SOFT MUSIC]
She was also the most
beautiful woman I'd ever seen.
♪
Whew.
[CHUCKLES]
You don't know, but she might come back.
Women do. They blow up. They cool off.
They reverse field.
I remember one time when
Barbara went and did that.
Hold on.
It's Reynolds.
[TENSE MUSIC]
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Got eyes on Reynolds, red cap,
driving a blue Plymouth Fury,
heading north past the Legal Tender.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Gordo.
Blood.
Oh, shit.
Ah.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
Son of a bitch.
♪
[SIGHS]
Found the car.
It's north side of the Legal Tender.
Teddi Isaacs is in the trunk.
She's dead.
Reynolds is on foot.
Let's find him before he finds George.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[TRAIN HORN BLARING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[TRAIN RUMBLING]
[RATTLING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Southwest Chief 158 westbound
departing in two minutes.
All ticketed passengers
please board now.
Southwest Chief 158
departing in two minutes.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
George is on the platform.
Mexican poncho with a hood.
- Where?
- Coming your way.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Get back. Get back. Get back.
♪
Get back.
Move back.
- Anything?
- No.
♪
Reynolds.
There.
Hey! Stop!
Move!
I'll cover the back!
Get back!
Get back!
Cover the front.
Go!
♪
[BELL RINGING]
All aboard!
♪
All aboard.
♪
Does anybody have eyes
on Reynolds or George?
Did they get on the train?
Negative.
Lost him.
[SPEAKING DINÉ]
Excuse me, sir.
You see a tall, skinny kid,
Native kid, get on the train?
I think so, yeah.
Several kids got on the train.
I'm not sure which
one you're looking for.
Gordo?
Gotta be on the train, Joe.
[HORN BLARING]
They gotta be.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
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Shit.
[BEEPING, RADIO STATIC]
[BERNADETTE COUGHING]
[FOLK SONG PLAYING]
I did a stretch in Georgia State
Prison outside of Reidsville.
♪
[COUGHING]
I had a little transistor radio.
It could pick up WNBC
out of New York City.
That's almost 900 miles away.
And radio has a reach.
Please, Mr. Officer ♪
Let me explain ♪
Got to make it to the well tonight ♪
I'll be singing 49 ♪
I have observed a lot of
human behavior in my time
under very stressful circumstances.
Inevitably, people always fall back on,
"Why is this happening to me?
This shouldn't be happening.
I don't deserve it."
The common term for this is "victim."
But that's not really the right word.
[DOOR SLAMS]
Because you caused it.
You made the wrong choices.
Not me.
Not anyone else.
You.
[SCREAMING]
And here I thought I
wasn't going to enjoy this.
Fun times.
[SCREAMING]
[SINGER VOCALIZING]
♪
[CRASHING]
Car's dented ♪
The radiator steams ♪
One headlight, don't worry ♪
The radio doesn't scream ♪
[RUMBLING]
Got a sticker that says Indian Power ♪
I stuck it on my bumper ♪
It pulls my car together ♪
And on the circuit
of an Indian dream ♪
You don't get older,
you just get younger ♪
When you're flying down the highway ♪
Driving in an RV car ♪
[WHIMPERS]
We're on the circuit
of an Indian dream ♪
You don't get older,
you just get younger ♪
When you're flying down the highway ♪
Driving in an RV car ♪
Driving in an RV ♪
[AUDIO DISTORTS]
[RUMBLING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SNIFFLES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GRUNTING]
♪
[GRUNTING]
[SNAPPING]
[GASPING]
[GRUNTING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTING]
[SQUELCHING]
♪
This shouldn't be happening.
[CHUCKLES]
[THUDS]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[GASPING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Put your gun on the ground!
Slow.
All right.
Bern.
I know you're with them.
You, Garza, and Henry.
I'm not with them.
Okay, I I took the money.
You're right about that.
But I haven't spent a dime of it.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[HANDCUFFS CLINKING]
All right.
Take out your cuffs.
♪
Take out your cuffs!
Put one on your right wrist.
Turn around, hands behind your back.
Bern, if I was lying to you,
you'd be lying on the
ground next to him right now.
[SNIFFLES]
Okay, they didn't approach
you because they knew
you'd never sign up for this.
And what?
You were supposed to convince me?
No.
[PANTING]
Cuffs!
Bern, we have to go now,
okay, or they'll be
gone from that ranch,
and they'd have taken everything
you need to make your case.
Look, you'll have nothing.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Look, I'll help you.
But we gotta go.
[SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[TRAIN HORN BLARING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Navajo Police.
Clear the aisle, please.
Clear the aisle.
♪
Police.
Move out of the way.
[GRUNTS] Excuse me.
Sorry.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTING]
Let me go!
Help me!
No! No!
- Ah!
- Oh!
Ah!
[GROANING]
Stop! Navajo Police!
[GUNSHOT]
[PASSENGERS EXCLAIMING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Lay down.
♪
Dr. Reynolds!
[GROANS] No!
Let him go!
I'll kill him!
I'll kill him!
It's over, Doctor.
Let the boy go.
This petulant little truant!
He's ruined everything for
me, everything I've worked for.
My life's work, ruined.
He didn't ruin anything.
Let him go!
Just stay back!
Let him go.
He's just a boy.
Just let him go.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Let him go.
Let me go, please.
Come on, Doc.
There you go. There you go.
Now put the gun down.
Put the gun on the ground.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Doctor!
♪
Don't do it.
Doctor
[GUNSHOTS]
[SOFT MUSIC]
You're all right, George.
It's over.
You're safe now.
It's okay.
♪
You're safe now.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[INHALES SHARPLY]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Ernesto is dead because of me.
I made him go up there with me.
I stole the arrowhead. It's my fault.
It's not your fault, George.
You made a mistake.
You shouldn't have gone
up there that night.
That's not why Ernesto died.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
A bad man took his life,
and you couldn't stop it.
Nobody blames you.
♪
I blame me.
[SIGHS]
I know.
♪
What are they talking about, you think?
All the things us mere
mortals can't control,
I expect.
The night is far spent,
and the day is at hand.
Let us therefore cast
off the works of darkness.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Let us put on the armor of light.
[BEEPING]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
Ed.
Tom.
How's she doing?
She's fine.
Yeah?
I'm gonna tell you
something about your sister,
something maybe you didn't know.
After Warren died and Bradford
didn't come back from Korea,
I about unraveled.
Yeah, I
I remember.
We were broke.
And I was borrowing heavily
from the insurance companies.
And Charlotte, she went to
work on the ranch's books.
And she saved us when I couldn't.
Mm.
And then she got sick, and
well, the rest you know.
It's good of you to sit with her, Tom.
Offer her the good news.
All right, so how about
you give me some good news?
Well, that, uh
that Manuelito situation,
just an isolated thing.
Budge is handling it as we speak.
You know, I've been real careful, Ed.
Oh, I know you have.
No, I got deniability.
I made sure that none of
this, none of it falls on me.
None of it falls on my
grandson or Charlotte.
I know.
It gets in the papers,
it's gonna look like
like we Spensers don't know or care
what's happening on our own land.
Well, that's what you pay me for.
No, I'm paying you
so we never have
conversations like this.
Get it cleaned up.
I'm not a miracle worker, Tom.
You know, I'd advise you to shut it down
for a hot minute until it cools off.
You advise me?
[TENSE MUSIC]
I pay you for protection,
Ed, not advice.
♪
[SCOFFS]
[SIGHS]
[PEOPLE SPEAKING SPANISH]
♪
We're good here?
Yeah?
How's it going?
Almost there.
Where's Budge?
The moon, if he's smart.
Well, we're gonna need him in Juarez.
So when you see him,
tell him to call me.
All right, let's get them loaded up.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[ENGINE REVVING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
What what the hell
are you doing, Muñoz?
You like to scare the sh
[TENSE MUSIC]
What the hell are you doing, son?
[GUN COCKS]
♪
Give me the keys, Ed.
Okay.
♪
What's going on?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I'm sorry.
[SIGHS]
[GRUNTING]
Oh.
Fuck you.
[GROANS]
♪
[GRUNTS]
[SIGHING]
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
[BANGING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Hey, hey, hey.
♪
Bern.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
What you got?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
It's what I thought.
[THUD]
Lock me up ♪
Throw away the key ♪
Till the sun comes up ♪
And sets me free ♪
I think I'm fucked beyond repair ♪
But it's okay, 'cause I don't care ♪
Take me home ♪
To the Navajo Nation ♪
♪
Let me go with a new sensation ♪
Let me shake with a new vibration ♪
Let me twist and shout ♪
Till my heart beats no more ♪
Take me home ♪
[MUSIC STOPS]
He looks mad.
It's not how he looks, George.
It's how he feels.
And right now, I'm guessing
he's glad you're home.
Just be happy you don't have to
go through life with that face.
[CAR DOORS CLOSING]
Horses need to be fed.
George.
You're a man of your word, Jim Chee.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
♪
All right, then.
Hey.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
Let's move.
Watch your step.
♪
Come on.
Yeah, this way.
♪
[ENGINE STARTS]
What are you gonna do?
Pray.
If I have anything left,
I'll pray for you too.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
They're good to go.
Thank you.
♪
What?
I didn't plan on falling
in love with you, Bern.
If there's any way I can convince you
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
There isn't.
[ZIPPING]
♪
Let's get you guys home.
[ENGINE STARTING]
♪
[HORSE WHINNYING]
So
we building this for him,
or we building it for you?
I don't know.
I just needed to build something.
[GRUNTS]
That's the first step, son.
You don't need to let
her go to let it out.
[HORSE WHINNYING]
There's a cost, Henry.
She's it.
And I accept that.
Why?
I never did.
[SHEEP BLEATING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
I'm going back to
Washington, D.C., tonight.
Well, we'll miss you.
[CHUCKLES]
That was almost funny.
Thank you.
I came here to tell you
something, Lieutenant.
[SIGHS]
I know what you did.
I know why you did it.
I know how you did it.
I just can't prove it in a court of law.
I'm sure you think what
you did was a righteous act.
I'm sure there are a
lot of people around here
who would agree with you.
I do not happen to be one of them.
I would be surprised
if you said you were.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Okay.
♪
Okay.
♪
I brought this for you.
I hope it helps.
With what?
Finding your way back.
♪
[ENGINE STARTING]
♪
I've tried my best to be a good person,
a good mother, wife.
[SOFT MUSIC]
When my son died,
losing a child like that, it tested me.
[GRASS RUSTLING]
♪
Hit him, hit him. He's open.
He's open. Shoot it!
When I'm riding down the road ♪
Shoot it. There you go!
In my car ♪
Whoo!
Traveling without you ♪
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
I can still see you sitting there ♪
But I choose not to
live in that dark place,
and my traditional ceremonies
have helped me heal.
Oncoming cars flashing
in the windshield ♪
[BEEPING]
There's a glimmer of everything ♪
That I once saw in you ♪
[SEAGULLS CALLING]
Tough love can leave
you almost alone ♪
When you found Vines' body,
I started reliving the loss
of my son all over again.
To you ♪
♪
All the feelings in your heart ♪
Come reawaken ♪
♪
Like a forest without
leaves on its trees ♪
Standing in the desert ♪
Like the light that
still leaks through ♪
When you close the door ♪
♪
Like the changes in our
life that hit so hard ♪
That day I couldn't find you ♪
There's a glimmer of everything good ♪
That once came before ♪
The trauma of my son's death
has consumed my husband.
It's taken all the
room in his heart for me
and the memory of our
son and our life together.
It's left me alone.
I blame him for that, for his weakness.
All the feelings in your heart ♪
I hope one day I can forgive him.
But until that day, I walk alone.
That once came before
[CLICKING, TAPE REWINDING]
There's still a
glimmer of everything ♪
I hope one day I can forgive him.
♪
But until that day
[CLICKING, TAPE REWINDING]
I hope one day I can forgive him.
[CLICKING, TAPE REWINDING]
I hope one day I can forgive him.
[BUTTON CLICKS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
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