Should you’re dying to see what’s subsequent for Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and crew in Darkish Winds, then you definitely’re not alone because the third season looms on the close to horizon. In anticipation of the present’s AMC and AMC+ return on Sunday, March 9, TV Insider has an unique first have a look at what’s to return with a sneak peek teaser and inside look with showrunner John Wirth.
Season 3 will ship an expanded eight-episode arc set six months after the occasions of Season 2’s finale as Leaphorn and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) examine the disappearance of two boys. With solely an deserted bicycle and a blood-stained patch of floor to go off of, outdated demons hang-out Leaphorn in his try to search out solutions. On the identical time that Leaphorn and Chee’s investigation is unfolding, Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) is settling into her new life 500 miles away from dwelling with the Border Patrol the place she stumbles throughout a conspiracy.
And that’s simply the characters followers have met from previous seasons as Darkish Winds makes manner for additions like Jenna Elfman and Bruce Greenwood in thrilling new roles. Beneath, Wirth teases the place Season 3 is choosing up, the latest characters becoming a member of the combination, and extra on what followers can anticipate in an unique Q&A.
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Plus, don’t miss the sneak peek teaser, above, and keep tuned for much more Darkish Winds Season 3 updates as we method the premiere.
Leaphorn sought revenge for his son’s dying by leaving B.J. Vines (John Diehl) within the desert throughout Season 2’s last moments. How has that selection impacted him as Season 3 picks up?
John Wirth: Leaphorn’s guilt over his resolution to depart Vines within the desert is haunting him in just a few methods: He’s shedding sleep; he’s seeing lifeless Vines in his nightmares; he’s seeing ants — all over the place — swarms of ants; and now, there’s a monster, and it’s stalking him.
What ought to viewers know in regards to the newest thriller and the way does it incorporate supernatural components?
Leaphorn is stalked by a bogeyman from his childhood. Early on, he’s unable to grasp its existence, however because the season goes on, he comes to comprehend he should confront the monster and kill it earlier than it kills him.
Bernadette is heading to the border. What are you able to tease about that journey?
Bernadette indicators on with the Border Patrol hoping to crack the glass ceiling she’s bumped up in opposition to on the Navajo Tribal Police. She stumbles onto what she believes is a human trafficking ring… solely to find that what she’s onto is extra lethal.
Jenna Elfman and Bruce Greenwood are among the many newest additions this season. What are you able to preview about their characters?
Jenna performs FBI Particular Agent Sylvia Washington. She’s been despatched to the reservation to “shut up some outdated circumstances.” This dead-end project fits her as she at first comes throughout as harmlessly inept. However issues get fascinating when Particular Agent Washington reveals herself to be a crafty investigator placing Leaphorn immediately in her crosshairs. Bruce performs Tom Spenser, a New Mexico oil baron whose wells are operating dry and has provide you with a inventive approach to proceed financing his empire.
How is Season 3 elevating the stakes?
The stakes have by no means been larger for Leaphorn as he found in Season 2 that his son didn’t die in an accident however was murdered. And he avenged his son’s homicide by crossing the rubicon of his personal ethical compass. There’s no going again and in Season 3 Leaphorn is on the verge of shedding every thing — his job, his freedom, and his marriage. For Bernadette, she abandons her rez household and strikes out on her personal to show she will make it — solely to search out herself as much as her eyeballs in a harmful case. Jim Chee finds himself again in uniform and nonetheless on the rez, however not part of both. The brand new homicide case brings up long-buried trauma from his childhood, which is exacerbated by his unrequited emotions for Bernadette.
Darkish Winds, Season 3 Premiere, Sunday, March 9, 9/8c, AMC & AMC+