TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.

Leaphorn and his trusted deputies leave behind Navajo Nation to search for a missing girl in Los Angeles

- BY ILEANE RUDOLPH

Crime and culture clash in Dark Winds, featuring (from far left) McClarnon and Gordon and (below) Matten; Potente (right) has a killer guest spot

"If the girl talks, this whole thing unravels."

That's the word from steely Los Angeles criminal kingpin Dominic McNair (Bosch's Titus Welliver). The girl in question? 16-year-old Billie Tsosie (Isabel DeRoy-Olson), a runaway from an Indian boarding school who's in deep—and her disappearance sets in motion the intense fourth season of AMC's Dark Winds.

Good and evil duke it out in the acclaimed crime thriller set in the 1970s at New Mexico's Navajo Reservation. Trying to save Billie (and they'll have to act fast): Navajo Tribal Police (NTP) Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and deputies Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) and Bernadette “Bern” Manuelito (Jessica Matten). Hunting the teen to keep her quiet: chilling hitwoman Irene Vaggan (Franka Potente), who's hired by McNair.

Billie is on the run alongside her cousin Albert (William Hope); both he and his brother Leroy are criminals working for McNair, only Leroy owes the kingpin a debt. As Billie and Albert sit at a favorite local diner near the reservation, Vaggan barges in and Billie finds herself caught in the middle of a lethal gunfight.