Dark Winds (2022) s04e04 Episode Script
Ni' Ániidí (The New World)
1
Previously on Dark Winds
Why did Albert come back here?
He was looking for my
cousin, Leroy, his brother.
- How's Emma doing?
- She signed a lease in Los Angeles.
She seems happy.
You're right about Joe. He's retiring.
And he asked me to take
his place when he goes.
How long have you been
keeping this from me?
So where's my cousin Leroy?
He bought a bus ticket back to LA.
Joe, it's Bern.
Billie Tsosie is no longer
in protective custody.
Do you copy?
[DOWNBEAT TWANGY MUSIC]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[THE DOORS' "END OF THE NIGHT"]
♪
Take the highway to
the end of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
Take a journey to
the bright midnight ♪
[DOGS BARKING]
End of the night ♪
Realms of bliss ♪
Realms of light ♪
Some are born to sweet delight ♪
Some are born to sweet delight ♪
[LOCK CLICKS]
Some are born to the endless night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
[VEHICLE HUMMING]
[KEYS JINGLING]
[DOOR CLICKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[SPRAY CAN CLINKING]
[SPRAY CAN RATTLING]
[SPRAY PAINT WHOOSHING]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTING]
[PHONE CLICKS]
[DIAL TONE DRONES]
♪
[FEET THUDDING]
[GAS WHOOSHING]
[COUGHING]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
♪
You tell McNair that
I'll see him in hell!
[COUGHING]
[YELLS]
[COUGHING]
♪
[VEHICLE DOOR SLAMS]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
Here's your LA weather forecast.
Gonna be clear and a
little warmer tomorrow.
Look for lows tonight around 60.
Tomorrow's high, 89 degrees.
It'll be 69 for the beaches.
Orange County checks in at 78 degrees.
Hollywood, 69 degrees. Downtown
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[WIND WHOOSHES]
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
[FLAMES WHOOSH]
Hey, hey, Mama, said
the way you move ♪
Gon' make you sweat,
gon' make you groove ♪
[LED ZEPPELIN'S "BLACK DOG"]
♪
Ah, ah, child, way
you shake that thing ♪
Gon' make you burn,
gon' make you sting ♪
♪
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ♪
Ah, ah, ah ♪
[GROANS]
[WINCING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[GROANS]
[EXHALES]
[SIGHS]
♪
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
[ROTARY PHONE WHIRRING]
[LINE RINGING]
- [CLEARS THROAT]
- Nurse's station.
Emma Leaphorn, please.
Hang on. Let me see if I can find her.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON PHONE]
Hello? This is Emma Leaphorn.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm here in Los Angeles.
OK.
We're out here looking for a
runaway from St. Catherine's.
But mostly, I didn't want
to be out here and not call.
I didn't know if you'd
want me to, so I just
It's OK, Joe.
Thanks for letting me know.
Yeah.
♪
I have your stir
sticks with me if you
Nurse Leaphorn?
Give me two minutes.
Sorry. It's busy here.
Yeah, I understand.
I can drop them by your
sister's if that's better.
I'm sorry, Emma, I
I didn't mean to blindside
you. You're I
No. [SIGHS]
Listen, what are you doing for lunch?
There's a restaurant we go to on Sunset
by the hospital, The Source.
I have half an hour, 1 o'clock?
I wouldn't miss it.
- See you then.
- OK.
- Bye.
- Bye.
[PHONE CLATTERS]
♪
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DOOR CLICKS]
♪
[BIRDS CAWING]
♪
Morning.
Morning.
Morning.
You talk to your guy?
Nothing on Gorman, at
least that he'd share.
And turns out the FBI
doesn't give a damn
about a 16-year-old rez girl.
Where would she go?
I mean, she's got no money.
She doesn't know anyone.
This city is huge.
Indian Center.
Everybody who comes here from the rez
ends up there eventually.
Where's the Indian Center?
Wilshire and Oxford.
Meet you there.
[SIGHS]
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
Wow. [SIGHS]
There's a map in the glove box.
[THE ROLLING STONES'
"ALL DOWN THE LINE"]
♪
[DOORS SLAM]
Yeah, heard the diesel drumming ♪
All down the line ♪
Oh, heard the wires-a-humming ♪
You know, this is where
Chee and his mom came
when they left the rez?
Did you know that?
He doesn't like to talk about it,
but it's gotta be weird being back here.
If you're gonna lead people, Bern,
you gotta figure out how to handle them.
It's not just about how they
feel, it's about how you feel.
Right. And the way I do things
is different than the way you do.
Look [SIGHS]
I'm not you, Joe.
If you want me to do this,
you're gonna have to
let me do things my way
and handle him my way.
So far, your way is messy.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PHONE RINGS]
Where do we start?
Reception.
- I want to go home.
- [CAMERA FLASH WHOOSHES]
This is home now, Jim.
Everything's gonna be OK.
I promise.
[CAMERA FLASH WHOOSHES]
[SNIFFLES]
I'm gonna go hit the head.
Do you have your badge?
Yeah.
Hi, we're looking for a 16-year-old
Navajo girl, Billie Tsosie.
She might have come here looking
for her cousin, Leroy Gorman.
I'm Lieutenant Leaphorn.
This is Sergeant Manuelito,
Navajo Tribal Police.
Oh, that's cute.
Um, this is her.
Sorry.
You keep files, don't you?
Only if she registered for
assistance, food, or housing.
OK, where's that?
Thank you.
You have a warrant?
This girl's cousin and grandfather
were brutally murdered
on the Navajo reservation
just two days ago.
She managed to get away with no money,
no resources, and she's here.
And whoever killed her
family is looking for her.
So a warrant is not
going to help her. We are.
I'm sure there's a way we
could skip the red tape.
This place is made of red tape.
Sorry.
[PHONES RINGING, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DOOR SLAMS]
[SNIFFLING, PANTING]
[GROANS]
Hey, man, let me help you out.
Thanks.
Sonny Bear Heart.
What's your name? Where you from?
[SIGHS] Mike Garcia.
- Arizona, Navajo rez.
- Relocation?
Just got back from 'Nam.
There's no work on the rez, so yeah.
So you got a job out here?
If you call standing in the
unemployment line all day a job.
Yeah, well, there's generally
two kinds of jobs in LA
shit jobs and acting jobs.
And if you ain't up for
playing Indian Number One
on your favorite TV show,
you might as well go back to the rez.
- Yeah.
- Uh-huh.
Where'd you serve?
173rd Airborne, War Zone C.
1st Marine Division, Quang Nam province.
That was fun.
I heard. You boys are crazy.
[LAUGHS]
Well, tell you what.
When you get tired of standing
on the unemployment line,
come see me.
Got an office up the
street, Cliff's Side Bar.
Gotta look out for each other, right?
[CHUCKLES]
Right.
[CAR DOOR SLAMS, ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[ENGINE ROARS, TIRES SCREECHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Got us a lead.
Sonny Bear Heart, California plates.
Who's he?
I don't know yet, but he was wearing
the same kind of ring Albert had on.
Hangs out at a bar up the street,
wants to buy me a drink.
You ask him about Leroy Gorman?
Not yet.
He shouldn't go in there alone.
He didn't exactly say bring a friend.
We'll be outside.
You're not out in an
hour, we're coming in.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[JESSE ED DAVIS' "RED
DIRT BOOGIE, BROTHER"]
Can't get in touch with jazz ♪
Just plain old rock and roll ♪
Ain't got no such dream ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Just got one thing right here ♪
In my boogie ♪
Hey, you made it. What are you drinking?
Uh, beer, I guess.
All right. Sit.
That made me keep on truckin' ♪
'Cause the red dirt boogie,
brother, ain't no jive ♪
You hungry?
- I could eat.
- Yeah, me too.
So
what kind of work did
you do back on the rez?
Tour guide, Monument Valley.
Driving people around,
seeing the sights and shit?
What kind of job is that?
[SIGHS] White people
like their rocks, man.
Fuck if I know.
[LAUGHS]
So you can drive a car?
Yeah, I can drive a car.
That's a pretty good
skill to have out here.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
Uh, good enough to
get me swag like that?
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, I saw you eyeballing
it in the alley there.
Well, my buddy from 'Nam
has one just like it,
Albert Gorman. You know him?
I know a lot of people, Mike.
Most of them I call "amigo,"
'cause who can remember all those names?
Well, Albert said if I ever got out here
to look up his brother, Leroy.
Said he could help me find work.
Doing?
Something other than acting
and shit jobs, I hope.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
You got a place to live?
No.
Here.
Get yourself a room, some new threads.
I'm gonna have a party tonight.
Everyone who's anyone
comes to my parties,
including your friend, Leroy.
Chicks?
What, do you think I just hang
around a bunch of swingin' dicks?
Every hot chick that
walks through that door
will be there.
And every hot chick that doesn't,
well, they'll find their way there.
I'll be there.
Pay you back.
Yeah, one way or another.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
He's having a party
tonight. Leroy'll be there.
If Leroy's there,
maybe he brings Billie.
Even if he doesn't, if
we get our hands on him,
- we're that much closer to her.
- [ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING, HORNS HONKING]
[GROANS]
What the?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
What's going on with you?
Nothing.
Chee, I know it must
be hard being back here
with what happened with
your mom and everything
Don't worry about it.
Hey.
Why won't you talk to me?
I want to talk to you, I [SCOFFS]
I think it would be good for you
You and Joe didn't think I
could handle the truth, did you?
Yeah.
- That's what I thought.
- [SCOFFS]
So this is about that?
That's why you're behaving like a
Like what?
A jackass.
Mm-hmm.
See, this is exactly
what I was talking about.
Come on, don't let this
stupid job get in between us.
You're the one who won't let it drop.
You don't think I deserve it, do you?
- Sure, I do.
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, but not over you.
You left, Bern.
♪
He made the decision, Chee.
Not me.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Hi.
- Hi.
[CLEARS THROAT]
This is your spot, huh?
This is my spot.
Mm.
Oh.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
[SIGHS]
So
So
How's work?
Can't complain.
IHS is IHS no matter
what city you live in.
But it feels nice to
be appreciated again,
you know?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
And LA? You like it here?
I do.
What about you?
I want to hear all the
gossip from back home.
There's not much to tell, just
you know, work.
There's a bit of new news.
I'm retiring
as soon as I finish this case.
You're thinking about it, or you are?
I gave Largo the letter.
What're you going to do?
I don't know. Um
I've been spending time
up in the mountains,
going to sweat, talking to elders,
been doing all the things
you've always wanted me to do.
It'll come to me.
I'm happy for you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
In other news, I am happy to report
your tomatoes are thriving
under new management.
- You built the fence.
- I did.
Mmm. [INHALES]
[SIGHS]
Let me see your hand.
Mm.
[PHONE RINGS]
Yeah, I see some green.
- Mrs. Leaphorn?
- Yes?
Phone. It's Betsy from IHS.
Can I get you some coffee
while you look at the menu?
Yeah, thanks.
Hello?
♪
Big accident on the
101, multiple injuries.
Kaiser's transporting people to IHS.
Sorry, Joe. It was
really good to see you.
So you know what you want?
OK, now, what if I told you
that if you added up all
the people who have died
since the dawn of time,
it would still be less
than all the people alive right now?
We got more people than
the planet can handle.
And I'm not talking about
conspiracy theories.
No, sir. I'm talking about
[CHAINS CLINKING]
Yep, the millions breathing our air,
drinking our water,
stretching our resources thin.
So what's the solution?
What can you do right now, right today?
Well, I'll tell you.
I got a buddy in Texas
building a fallout shelter,
thick steel, custom jobs.
And all you got to do is call in now.
Tell him "Captain Midnight" sent you.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[LATCH CLICKS]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[DOOR THUDS, LIGHTS CLICKING]
Opa?
♪
[FRANZ SCHUBERT'S "DANKSAGUNG
AN DEN BACH, D 795/4" PLAYING]
♪
[GRUNTS]
Opa.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[GUNSHOT]
Ow! Ow!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Now every man, woman, and child
[STATIC CRACKLING]
It is rumored that other
commodities may suffer
[TV CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
People of this country
will be called upon
to give a meeting each Monday.
[GUNFIRE]
Ja.
America.
[PLANE ENGINES WHIRRING ON TV]
I sure said it like that,
but I wasn't saying that.
Ah, you guys!
The nation is patiently
awaiting the outcome
as they determine the
[TV CHATTER]
coming from the nation last week,
this French pronouncement.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
♪
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[SANTANA'S "EVERYBODY'S
EVERYTHING" PLAYING]
Let your head be free ♪
Turn the wisdom key ♪
Find it naturally,
see you're lucky to be ♪
[WOMEN CHEERING]
[EXCITED CHATTER]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Anything at the back door?
No. Have you seen Chee?
Yeah. He just went in.
Seems like everybody's waitin' ♪
For the new change to come around ♪
Come around, come
around, come around ♪
Waitin' for the day ♪
When the king, queen of
soul's singin' 'round ♪
Singin' 'round, singin'
'round, singin' 'round ♪
Singin' round ♪
Singin' round for everyone ♪
♪
You can understand
everything's to share ♪
What can I get ya?
Beer, anything you got on draft.
And a shot of tequila.
Turn the wisdom key ♪
Find it naturally ♪
You know that stuff will
make you go blind, right?
Promise?
I'm Tawny.
Mike.
Hi, Mike. It's nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you
- Mike Garcia!
[LAUGHS]
What's up, man?
Hey, you clean up good, man.
Come on. Hey, don't wait up.
[LAUGHTER]
Glad you came, man.
♪
[PILLS RATTLING]
[CORK SQUEAKS]
♪
Man up.
"Man up." [SCOFFS]
[LAUGHS]
All right.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SNIFFS]
[LAUGHS]
Whew! [LAUGHS]
♪
[GRUNTS] [TABLE RATTLES]
- Ooh!
- Let's dance, man.
[PRISON ALARM BUZZING]
[DOOR CLICKS]
It's done.
I expect the money to hit my
account tomorrow, as usual.
[DISTANT PRISON ALARM BUZZING]
Everything you ordered
has been delivered.
But I didn't order Albert Gorman.
Albert Gorman was a problem for you.
No longer.
Then why is his cousin,
a 16-year-old Navajo girl,
running all over LA flapping her gums
about his sudden demise and
asking about his brother?
This isn't like you, Irene.
I'll take care of the girl.
My trial's in a week.
Between now and then, thanks to you,
the Feds are going to
be tripping all over
your goddamn loose ends.
Still, I stand by you.
Why?
Because I'm cute.
If that girl talks, this
whole thing unravels.
I'll find the girl.
But I need to get paid.
Then you better get a
mop and clean this up.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CLICKS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[YELLS]
[THUNKING, GLASS SHATTERING]
[TOOL CLATTERING]
[GLASS CRUNCHING]
♪
Joe, it's Billy Tsosie.
She just went in the back door.
I'm gonna go get her.
Let Chee bring her out.
Bern, do you copy?
♪
- Bern?
- [CAR DOOR SLAMS]
[JAMES BROWN'S "GET UP [I FEEL
LIKE BEING A] Sex Machine"]
Get it together, right on, right on ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Excuse me.
I'm looking for Leroy
Gorman. He's my cousin.
You know him?
I don't know you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
You said ♪
You said you got ♪
I said the feeling ♪
You got to get ♪
You give me fever ♪
So this is the spot inside the spot.
It's invitation only.
Yeah.
This, Mike Garcia, is your future.
Get up, get on up ♪
Where's Leroy?
- Are you loaded?
- [LAUGHS]
You said he'd be here.
Relax, he'll be here.
Have a drink. Meet a chick.
- All right.
- It's a new world, Mike.
Can I take 'em to the bridge? ♪
Go ahead ♪
Take 'em to the bridge ♪
I hear you were looking for Leroy.
Who are you?
Look, I don't want any trouble, OK?
I'm from the Navajo
reservation in Arizona.
Leroy's my cousin.
His brother, Albert, was there
looking for him a few days ago.
Leroy's on the reservation?
He's here now, I think.
Who told you that, Albert?
Albert's dead.
[TENSE MUSIC]
A white woman shot him.
Green van, California plates
that mean anything to you?
Yeah.
Is that woman after you now?
I don't know. I just need to find Leroy.
What did Leroy tell you
about what he was into?
Nothing. I never saw him.
OK, listen.
Listen to me. This is important.
You don't want to be here.
You don't want that
woman in that green van
to come looking for you.
These guys,
they may seem cool, but they're not.
They're a gang, criminals.
I don't know what they do,
or what's going on with Leroy right now,
but he's not the kind of
guy to disappear, you know?
If they even think you know something
You understand what I'm saying?
No.
See, you can end up as dead as Albert.
♪
[WAR'S "SLIPPIN' INTO
DARKNESS" PLAYING ON RADIO]
Slippin' into darkness ♪
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
What's happening?
♪
Slippin' into darkness ♪
Uh, the usual times two.
Take my mind ♪
I don't feel so good.
You look like shit, too.
You said Leroy'd be here.
Dude.
Every other word out of
your mouth has been "Leroy."
What's up with that?
I'm sorry.
Ah, I'm just playing with you.
- Whoa, where are you going?
- I think I might be
- Whoa!
- I'm gonna be sick.
Where are you going?
Ah!
Slippin' into darkness ♪
Yeah ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
When I heard ♪
My mother say ♪
[COUGHS]
♪
I was slippin' into darkness ♪
[DOOR THUDDING, RATTLING]
[RETCHING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
When I talk to my brother ♪
Oh, ho, ho, ho! ♪
What's he doing in there?
Who never said their name ♪
♪
[RETCHING]
♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[RETCHES]
Chee, are you in here?
[GROANS]
Oh, hey.
Hey.
What happened?
Hey, did you take something?
Mm-hmm.
- [GROANS]
- Come on.
It feels like I puked out a rib.
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
OK? Easy.
[GRUNTS]
- [GROANS]
- OK.
OK, you're a mess. We need
to get you out of here.
[WAR'S "SLIPPIN' INTO
DARKNESS" CONTINUES]
♪
I love you.
Bye!
[LIGHT BUZZING, CLICKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GROANS]
[TIRE IRON CRACKS]
[GRUNTS]
♪
Go back to Arizona before
someone puts you in the ground.
[COUGHS]
Cheeseburger.
These people won't lift a
finger to help local cops,
especially Indian ones.
But maybe Mike Garcia can.
[SPEAKING NAVAJO]
♪
- [GUNSHOT]
- Oh!
She's going to die if we don't find her.
I found Leroy.
♪
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Previously on Dark Winds
Why did Albert come back here?
He was looking for my
cousin, Leroy, his brother.
- How's Emma doing?
- She signed a lease in Los Angeles.
She seems happy.
You're right about Joe. He's retiring.
And he asked me to take
his place when he goes.
How long have you been
keeping this from me?
So where's my cousin Leroy?
He bought a bus ticket back to LA.
Joe, it's Bern.
Billie Tsosie is no longer
in protective custody.
Do you copy?
[DOWNBEAT TWANGY MUSIC]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[THE DOORS' "END OF THE NIGHT"]
♪
Take the highway to
the end of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
Take a journey to
the bright midnight ♪
[DOGS BARKING]
End of the night ♪
Realms of bliss ♪
Realms of light ♪
Some are born to sweet delight ♪
Some are born to sweet delight ♪
[LOCK CLICKS]
Some are born to the endless night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
End of the night ♪
[VEHICLE HUMMING]
[KEYS JINGLING]
[DOOR CLICKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[SPRAY CAN CLINKING]
[SPRAY CAN RATTLING]
[SPRAY PAINT WHOOSHING]
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[GRUNTING]
[PHONE CLICKS]
[DIAL TONE DRONES]
♪
[FEET THUDDING]
[GAS WHOOSHING]
[COUGHING]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
♪
You tell McNair that
I'll see him in hell!
[COUGHING]
[YELLS]
[COUGHING]
♪
[VEHICLE DOOR SLAMS]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
Here's your LA weather forecast.
Gonna be clear and a
little warmer tomorrow.
Look for lows tonight around 60.
Tomorrow's high, 89 degrees.
It'll be 69 for the beaches.
Orange County checks in at 78 degrees.
Hollywood, 69 degrees. Downtown
[MOODY GUITAR MUSIC]
♪
[WIND WHOOSHES]
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
[FLAMES WHOOSH]
Hey, hey, Mama, said
the way you move ♪
Gon' make you sweat,
gon' make you groove ♪
[LED ZEPPELIN'S "BLACK DOG"]
♪
Ah, ah, child, way
you shake that thing ♪
Gon' make you burn,
gon' make you sting ♪
♪
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ♪
Ah, ah, ah ♪
[GROANS]
[WINCING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[GROANS]
[EXHALES]
[SIGHS]
♪
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
[ROTARY PHONE WHIRRING]
[LINE RINGING]
- [CLEARS THROAT]
- Nurse's station.
Emma Leaphorn, please.
Hang on. Let me see if I can find her.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON PHONE]
Hello? This is Emma Leaphorn.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm here in Los Angeles.
OK.
We're out here looking for a
runaway from St. Catherine's.
But mostly, I didn't want
to be out here and not call.
I didn't know if you'd
want me to, so I just
It's OK, Joe.
Thanks for letting me know.
Yeah.
♪
I have your stir
sticks with me if you
Nurse Leaphorn?
Give me two minutes.
Sorry. It's busy here.
Yeah, I understand.
I can drop them by your
sister's if that's better.
I'm sorry, Emma, I
I didn't mean to blindside
you. You're I
No. [SIGHS]
Listen, what are you doing for lunch?
There's a restaurant we go to on Sunset
by the hospital, The Source.
I have half an hour, 1 o'clock?
I wouldn't miss it.
- See you then.
- OK.
- Bye.
- Bye.
[PHONE CLATTERS]
♪
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DOOR CLICKS]
♪
[BIRDS CAWING]
♪
Morning.
Morning.
Morning.
You talk to your guy?
Nothing on Gorman, at
least that he'd share.
And turns out the FBI
doesn't give a damn
about a 16-year-old rez girl.
Where would she go?
I mean, she's got no money.
She doesn't know anyone.
This city is huge.
Indian Center.
Everybody who comes here from the rez
ends up there eventually.
Where's the Indian Center?
Wilshire and Oxford.
Meet you there.
[SIGHS]
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
Wow. [SIGHS]
There's a map in the glove box.
[THE ROLLING STONES'
"ALL DOWN THE LINE"]
♪
[DOORS SLAM]
Yeah, heard the diesel drumming ♪
All down the line ♪
Oh, heard the wires-a-humming ♪
You know, this is where
Chee and his mom came
when they left the rez?
Did you know that?
He doesn't like to talk about it,
but it's gotta be weird being back here.
If you're gonna lead people, Bern,
you gotta figure out how to handle them.
It's not just about how they
feel, it's about how you feel.
Right. And the way I do things
is different than the way you do.
Look [SIGHS]
I'm not you, Joe.
If you want me to do this,
you're gonna have to
let me do things my way
and handle him my way.
So far, your way is messy.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PHONE RINGS]
Where do we start?
Reception.
- I want to go home.
- [CAMERA FLASH WHOOSHES]
This is home now, Jim.
Everything's gonna be OK.
I promise.
[CAMERA FLASH WHOOSHES]
[SNIFFLES]
I'm gonna go hit the head.
Do you have your badge?
Yeah.
Hi, we're looking for a 16-year-old
Navajo girl, Billie Tsosie.
She might have come here looking
for her cousin, Leroy Gorman.
I'm Lieutenant Leaphorn.
This is Sergeant Manuelito,
Navajo Tribal Police.
Oh, that's cute.
Um, this is her.
Sorry.
You keep files, don't you?
Only if she registered for
assistance, food, or housing.
OK, where's that?
Thank you.
You have a warrant?
This girl's cousin and grandfather
were brutally murdered
on the Navajo reservation
just two days ago.
She managed to get away with no money,
no resources, and she's here.
And whoever killed her
family is looking for her.
So a warrant is not
going to help her. We are.
I'm sure there's a way we
could skip the red tape.
This place is made of red tape.
Sorry.
[PHONES RINGING, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DOOR SLAMS]
[SNIFFLING, PANTING]
[GROANS]
Hey, man, let me help you out.
Thanks.
Sonny Bear Heart.
What's your name? Where you from?
[SIGHS] Mike Garcia.
- Arizona, Navajo rez.
- Relocation?
Just got back from 'Nam.
There's no work on the rez, so yeah.
So you got a job out here?
If you call standing in the
unemployment line all day a job.
Yeah, well, there's generally
two kinds of jobs in LA
shit jobs and acting jobs.
And if you ain't up for
playing Indian Number One
on your favorite TV show,
you might as well go back to the rez.
- Yeah.
- Uh-huh.
Where'd you serve?
173rd Airborne, War Zone C.
1st Marine Division, Quang Nam province.
That was fun.
I heard. You boys are crazy.
[LAUGHS]
Well, tell you what.
When you get tired of standing
on the unemployment line,
come see me.
Got an office up the
street, Cliff's Side Bar.
Gotta look out for each other, right?
[CHUCKLES]
Right.
[CAR DOOR SLAMS, ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[ENGINE ROARS, TIRES SCREECHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Got us a lead.
Sonny Bear Heart, California plates.
Who's he?
I don't know yet, but he was wearing
the same kind of ring Albert had on.
Hangs out at a bar up the street,
wants to buy me a drink.
You ask him about Leroy Gorman?
Not yet.
He shouldn't go in there alone.
He didn't exactly say bring a friend.
We'll be outside.
You're not out in an
hour, we're coming in.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[JESSE ED DAVIS' "RED
DIRT BOOGIE, BROTHER"]
Can't get in touch with jazz ♪
Just plain old rock and roll ♪
Ain't got no such dream ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Just got one thing right here ♪
In my boogie ♪
Hey, you made it. What are you drinking?
Uh, beer, I guess.
All right. Sit.
That made me keep on truckin' ♪
'Cause the red dirt boogie,
brother, ain't no jive ♪
You hungry?
- I could eat.
- Yeah, me too.
So
what kind of work did
you do back on the rez?
Tour guide, Monument Valley.
Driving people around,
seeing the sights and shit?
What kind of job is that?
[SIGHS] White people
like their rocks, man.
Fuck if I know.
[LAUGHS]
So you can drive a car?
Yeah, I can drive a car.
That's a pretty good
skill to have out here.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
Uh, good enough to
get me swag like that?
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, I saw you eyeballing
it in the alley there.
Well, my buddy from 'Nam
has one just like it,
Albert Gorman. You know him?
I know a lot of people, Mike.
Most of them I call "amigo,"
'cause who can remember all those names?
Well, Albert said if I ever got out here
to look up his brother, Leroy.
Said he could help me find work.
Doing?
Something other than acting
and shit jobs, I hope.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
You got a place to live?
No.
Here.
Get yourself a room, some new threads.
I'm gonna have a party tonight.
Everyone who's anyone
comes to my parties,
including your friend, Leroy.
Chicks?
What, do you think I just hang
around a bunch of swingin' dicks?
Every hot chick that
walks through that door
will be there.
And every hot chick that doesn't,
well, they'll find their way there.
I'll be there.
Pay you back.
Yeah, one way or another.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
He's having a party
tonight. Leroy'll be there.
If Leroy's there,
maybe he brings Billie.
Even if he doesn't, if
we get our hands on him,
- we're that much closer to her.
- [ENGINE TURNS OVER]
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING, HORNS HONKING]
[GROANS]
What the?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
What's going on with you?
Nothing.
Chee, I know it must
be hard being back here
with what happened with
your mom and everything
Don't worry about it.
Hey.
Why won't you talk to me?
I want to talk to you, I [SCOFFS]
I think it would be good for you
You and Joe didn't think I
could handle the truth, did you?
Yeah.
- That's what I thought.
- [SCOFFS]
So this is about that?
That's why you're behaving like a
Like what?
A jackass.
Mm-hmm.
See, this is exactly
what I was talking about.
Come on, don't let this
stupid job get in between us.
You're the one who won't let it drop.
You don't think I deserve it, do you?
- Sure, I do.
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, but not over you.
You left, Bern.
♪
He made the decision, Chee.
Not me.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Hi.
- Hi.
[CLEARS THROAT]
This is your spot, huh?
This is my spot.
Mm.
Oh.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
[SIGHS]
So
So
How's work?
Can't complain.
IHS is IHS no matter
what city you live in.
But it feels nice to
be appreciated again,
you know?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
And LA? You like it here?
I do.
What about you?
I want to hear all the
gossip from back home.
There's not much to tell, just
you know, work.
There's a bit of new news.
I'm retiring
as soon as I finish this case.
You're thinking about it, or you are?
I gave Largo the letter.
What're you going to do?
I don't know. Um
I've been spending time
up in the mountains,
going to sweat, talking to elders,
been doing all the things
you've always wanted me to do.
It'll come to me.
I'm happy for you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
In other news, I am happy to report
your tomatoes are thriving
under new management.
- You built the fence.
- I did.
Mmm. [INHALES]
[SIGHS]
Let me see your hand.
Mm.
[PHONE RINGS]
Yeah, I see some green.
- Mrs. Leaphorn?
- Yes?
Phone. It's Betsy from IHS.
Can I get you some coffee
while you look at the menu?
Yeah, thanks.
Hello?
♪
Big accident on the
101, multiple injuries.
Kaiser's transporting people to IHS.
Sorry, Joe. It was
really good to see you.
So you know what you want?
OK, now, what if I told you
that if you added up all
the people who have died
since the dawn of time,
it would still be less
than all the people alive right now?
We got more people than
the planet can handle.
And I'm not talking about
conspiracy theories.
No, sir. I'm talking about
[CHAINS CLINKING]
Yep, the millions breathing our air,
drinking our water,
stretching our resources thin.
So what's the solution?
What can you do right now, right today?
Well, I'll tell you.
I got a buddy in Texas
building a fallout shelter,
thick steel, custom jobs.
And all you got to do is call in now.
Tell him "Captain Midnight" sent you.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[LATCH CLICKS]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[DOOR THUDS, LIGHTS CLICKING]
Opa?
♪
[FRANZ SCHUBERT'S "DANKSAGUNG
AN DEN BACH, D 795/4" PLAYING]
♪
[GRUNTS]
Opa.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[GUNSHOT]
Ow! Ow!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Now every man, woman, and child
[STATIC CRACKLING]
It is rumored that other
commodities may suffer
[TV CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
People of this country
will be called upon
to give a meeting each Monday.
[GUNFIRE]
Ja.
America.
[PLANE ENGINES WHIRRING ON TV]
I sure said it like that,
but I wasn't saying that.
Ah, you guys!
The nation is patiently
awaiting the outcome
as they determine the
[TV CHATTER]
coming from the nation last week,
this French pronouncement.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
♪
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[SANTANA'S "EVERYBODY'S
EVERYTHING" PLAYING]
Let your head be free ♪
Turn the wisdom key ♪
Find it naturally,
see you're lucky to be ♪
[WOMEN CHEERING]
[EXCITED CHATTER]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Anything at the back door?
No. Have you seen Chee?
Yeah. He just went in.
Seems like everybody's waitin' ♪
For the new change to come around ♪
Come around, come
around, come around ♪
Waitin' for the day ♪
When the king, queen of
soul's singin' 'round ♪
Singin' 'round, singin'
'round, singin' 'round ♪
Singin' round ♪
Singin' round for everyone ♪
♪
You can understand
everything's to share ♪
What can I get ya?
Beer, anything you got on draft.
And a shot of tequila.
Turn the wisdom key ♪
Find it naturally ♪
You know that stuff will
make you go blind, right?
Promise?
I'm Tawny.
Mike.
Hi, Mike. It's nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you
- Mike Garcia!
[LAUGHS]
What's up, man?
Hey, you clean up good, man.
Come on. Hey, don't wait up.
[LAUGHTER]
Glad you came, man.
♪
[PILLS RATTLING]
[CORK SQUEAKS]
♪
Man up.
"Man up." [SCOFFS]
[LAUGHS]
All right.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SNIFFS]
[LAUGHS]
Whew! [LAUGHS]
♪
[GRUNTS] [TABLE RATTLES]
- Ooh!
- Let's dance, man.
[PRISON ALARM BUZZING]
[DOOR CLICKS]
It's done.
I expect the money to hit my
account tomorrow, as usual.
[DISTANT PRISON ALARM BUZZING]
Everything you ordered
has been delivered.
But I didn't order Albert Gorman.
Albert Gorman was a problem for you.
No longer.
Then why is his cousin,
a 16-year-old Navajo girl,
running all over LA flapping her gums
about his sudden demise and
asking about his brother?
This isn't like you, Irene.
I'll take care of the girl.
My trial's in a week.
Between now and then, thanks to you,
the Feds are going to
be tripping all over
your goddamn loose ends.
Still, I stand by you.
Why?
Because I'm cute.
If that girl talks, this
whole thing unravels.
I'll find the girl.
But I need to get paid.
Then you better get a
mop and clean this up.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR CLICKS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[YELLS]
[THUNKING, GLASS SHATTERING]
[TOOL CLATTERING]
[GLASS CRUNCHING]
♪
Joe, it's Billy Tsosie.
She just went in the back door.
I'm gonna go get her.
Let Chee bring her out.
Bern, do you copy?
♪
- Bern?
- [CAR DOOR SLAMS]
[JAMES BROWN'S "GET UP [I FEEL
LIKE BEING A] Sex Machine"]
Get it together, right on, right on ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Excuse me.
I'm looking for Leroy
Gorman. He's my cousin.
You know him?
I don't know you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
Get up, get on up ♪
You said ♪
You said you got ♪
I said the feeling ♪
You got to get ♪
You give me fever ♪
So this is the spot inside the spot.
It's invitation only.
Yeah.
This, Mike Garcia, is your future.
Get up, get on up ♪
Where's Leroy?
- Are you loaded?
- [LAUGHS]
You said he'd be here.
Relax, he'll be here.
Have a drink. Meet a chick.
- All right.
- It's a new world, Mike.
Can I take 'em to the bridge? ♪
Go ahead ♪
Take 'em to the bridge ♪
I hear you were looking for Leroy.
Who are you?
Look, I don't want any trouble, OK?
I'm from the Navajo
reservation in Arizona.
Leroy's my cousin.
His brother, Albert, was there
looking for him a few days ago.
Leroy's on the reservation?
He's here now, I think.
Who told you that, Albert?
Albert's dead.
[TENSE MUSIC]
A white woman shot him.
Green van, California plates
that mean anything to you?
Yeah.
Is that woman after you now?
I don't know. I just need to find Leroy.
What did Leroy tell you
about what he was into?
Nothing. I never saw him.
OK, listen.
Listen to me. This is important.
You don't want to be here.
You don't want that
woman in that green van
to come looking for you.
These guys,
they may seem cool, but they're not.
They're a gang, criminals.
I don't know what they do,
or what's going on with Leroy right now,
but he's not the kind of
guy to disappear, you know?
If they even think you know something
You understand what I'm saying?
No.
See, you can end up as dead as Albert.
♪
[WAR'S "SLIPPIN' INTO
DARKNESS" PLAYING ON RADIO]
Slippin' into darkness ♪
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
What's happening?
♪
Slippin' into darkness ♪
Uh, the usual times two.
Take my mind ♪
I don't feel so good.
You look like shit, too.
You said Leroy'd be here.
Dude.
Every other word out of
your mouth has been "Leroy."
What's up with that?
I'm sorry.
Ah, I'm just playing with you.
- Whoa, where are you going?
- I think I might be
- Whoa!
- I'm gonna be sick.
Where are you going?
Ah!
Slippin' into darkness ♪
Yeah ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
When I heard ♪
My mother say ♪
[COUGHS]
♪
I was slippin' into darkness ♪
[DOOR THUDDING, RATTLING]
[RETCHING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
When I talk to my brother ♪
Oh, ho, ho, ho! ♪
What's he doing in there?
Who never said their name ♪
♪
[RETCHING]
♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
♪
[RETCHES]
Chee, are you in here?
[GROANS]
Oh, hey.
Hey.
What happened?
Hey, did you take something?
Mm-hmm.
- [GROANS]
- Come on.
It feels like I puked out a rib.
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
OK? Easy.
[GRUNTS]
- [GROANS]
- OK.
OK, you're a mess. We need
to get you out of here.
[WAR'S "SLIPPIN' INTO
DARKNESS" CONTINUES]
♪
I love you.
Bye!
[LIGHT BUZZING, CLICKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GROANS]
[TIRE IRON CRACKS]
[GRUNTS]
♪
Go back to Arizona before
someone puts you in the ground.
[COUGHS]
Cheeseburger.
These people won't lift a
finger to help local cops,
especially Indian ones.
But maybe Mike Garcia can.
[SPEAKING NAVAJO]
♪
- [GUNSHOT]
- Oh!
She's going to die if we don't find her.
I found Leroy.
♪
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]