Dark Winds 1.06

HózhóoNaasháa

Chee warns Manuelito (over the radio) about Whitover, who is in the car with her at the time. Chee speaks in Navajo because he knows that Whitover is with her. Chee takes off, after he is done talking to Manuelito, and heads to the canyon where she and Whitover are headed.

Leaphorn finds the cave that Tzo and Nakai have been using as their base of operations. He gets trapped in a tunnel after Tzo and Nakai realize that someone else has sneaked in to the cave. They try to smoke him out.

Manuelito loses Whitover as soon as he turns his back, after they have arrived at the canyon. Whitover runs into Chee and shoots him. Chee goes down but the bullet caught him in the arm. Whitover leaves Chee where he fell and enters the cave.

Dark Winds 1.05

Ha'iinini

Frank Nakai escapes from jail thanks to some dark magic. Jim Chee finds out that Whitover has been hiding things from him and something about the Buffalo Society's operations. Manuelito has it out with Sally Growing Thunder's mother. Joe Leaphorn learns a little more about what happened on the day that his son was killed. Whitover shows up just as Manuelito is about to go after Frank Nakai. Joe Leaphorn finds Nakai and keeps an eye on him from a distance.

Thoughts

This episode, especially towards the end, felt messy. There's a lot happening at once. Not everything makes logical sense. In some cases there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to explain why some things are happening. It feels like there is just too many things to cover and not enough time to give them all the proper treatment.

Dark Winds 1.04

Hooghandi

Raymond Begay is confronted by the Buffalo Society (Father Tzo, Frank Nakai) as he getting ready to exit the water at the reservoir. Tzo shoots and kills him. They weigh his body down and leave it in the reservoir.

Emma wants Sally Growing Thunder to stay with her and Joe when Sally gets out of the hospital.  Joe objects but Emma brings Sally home with her anyway. Joe is not happy.

Joe finds out about Chee and Manuelito. He's surprised by the reveal.

Leaphorn tasks Manuelito with finding Frank Nakai. Leaphorn and Chee dig into Father Tzo's past and find out that he had a twin brother. 

Dark Winds 1.03

K'e

A big part of this episode is a ceremony that Nanobah, Emma and Joe Leaphorn's niece, goes through. The ceremony happens because she recently had her first period. Her father doesn't know how to deal with it so she turns to Emma for help.

Joe hires Raymond Begay, who was a diver in the Navy, to see what he can find in the reservoir behind Hosteen Tso's home. It takes a while but he finally turns up something.

Lieutenant Leaphorn goes to Flagstaff to meet with Special Agent Whitover. Leaphorn tells Whitover about the missing Mormon family. Whitover is content to let Leaphorn deal with it. Joe returns home with the bodies of Anna Atcitty and Hosteen Tso. He turns Anna's body back over to her parents. He buries Hosteen Tso when he can't find his grandson, the priest.

Chee and Manuelito spend time talking and working together. They also help out with the ceremony for Nanobah. 

Dark Winds 1.02

The Male Rain Approaches

The episode opens with a flashback to three years before the heist. There was an explosion at an oil drilling site. Joe Leaphorn's teenage son worked there and was killed in the explosion. Joe Jr. was dating Anna Atcitty. Guy, Anna's father, was warned that something might happen. It is unclear but unlikely that he passed that information on to Joe Jr.

Leaphorn tricks Chee into revealing that he is an undercover FBI agent. Leaphorn asks Chee to get him some information about the two murder victims and to get a water sample analyzed. 

Leaphorn visits Sally Growing Thunder. He tries to talk her into moving to Gallup. He thinks she will be safer there. She doesn't want to leave the reservation. Later in the episode, she moves in with Joe and Emma.

Dark Winds 1.01

Monster Slayer

1971 - Fallstaff, AZ - An audacious daylight robbery of an armored car takes place. The guards are shot and killed. The robbers get away in a helicopter.

Present - Navajo Reservation - Anna Atcitty, a 19-year-old woman, and Hosteen Tso, an old man, are found dead in a motel room. She was in the bathroom. There is no apparent cause of her death. He was on the floor of the bedroom. His eyes are missing and his throat was cut. The only other person in the room was an old, blind woman. The old man had come to her for help because he was having pain in his back.

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn returns the old woman to her daughter. The 19-year-old was the old woman's granddaughter. The father doesn't want to talk. He is angry about something and is holding a grudge against Leaphorn due to some past transgression, perceived or otherwise.