‘Dark Winds’ Recap, Season 3, Episode 6 – ryan

Dark Winds

Abidoo’niidee (What We Had Been Told)

Season 3

Episode 6

Editor’s rating

4 Stars

Photo: Michael Moriatis/AMC

It’s not unusual, in contemporary television, for an episode to break with the season’s arc to explore a self-contained story Line; Remember that one episode of Girls Where hannah has an AFTHERNO’S AFFAIR with Patrick Wilson? But in procedurals like Dark Winds, It ‘raarer to encountial novelistic digression. AS AGENT WASHINGTON TELLS JEE DURING HIS Alternate-Dimension Wandherings, there is a murder-several wallders, if we’re counting halsey’s and cata’s on top of Vines, swimming George’s Disappearance-to be solved; There’s Hardly any time to spare, in the fiction of this world or in the writers’ room that conjures it. But that Writers’ Room Knows that What Holds Dark Winds Together Is Joe’s Changing, Complex Inner Life. This Week, We’re Given More Pieces of the Puzzle of Who Joe Leaphorn is, and more imported, why he is.

There are those interlocking Timelines to this Week Episode: A Dreamscape, The Present Reality, and Margaret’s Narration of the Battle of the Yé’iitsoh, fough by the hero twins and born for water. As Margaret’s Telling Overlaps with Joe’s Own Battle Against the Monster and His Journey through the deep recesses of His Consciousness, Joe at Times the Twins and, at Times, The Monster. Last Week, Evoking the Same Myth, He Told Margaret That He’d He’d Crossed the Line in His Heart That Separated the Two. But what makes the hero twins Heroes, Yé’iiessoh a Monster, and joe a mulberry?

In Brief, The Story that Margaret Tells, Illustrated by A Theatrical Production, Goes Like This: The Twins Wante to Go Hunting, But Their Mother was Scared that they’d Bring Back Monsters to the Hogan. Their Grandmother Advises say to go to the Sky and Visit Their Father, the Sun, who’d give say Powerful weapons to destroy yé’iitsoh and the monsters that roamed the earth. The Sun Given The Lightning and the Sunbeam, but the Weapons’ Power proves useless against yé’iitsOH. ITH’S ONLY WHEN MONTER SLARYER HAS THE Idea to Turn the Monster’s Own Kniva Against Him that they are able to defeas yé’iitsoh. But when the twins return home with his head, their mother can’t recognize. They were “Changed by what they’d seen and what they’d Done.” Monster Slayer’s Beauty was Such that it frightened his mother.

The first reflection of the hero twins that joe enCounters in his dream is the image of Himself as a child with his Young Cousin, Will. AFTER COLLAPSING FROM A DARTING ARROW HIT HIM HIM IN HIS PRESENTY REALITY, SUPPODEDly Shot by yé’iitsoh, joe wakes up in a stretch of desert orange by a blazing sun. He Follows A Trail of Blood to a priest who will turn out to be the hinge of the which episodes, not to mention joe’s moral code, and a Stray soccer Ball leads to Young and Will. He follows to his chilldhood home, where things are off-kilter: Blood Runs from the Bathroom Fauchet, ants swarm in the guest Room, his dinner is broken in two. HIS FATHER, MOTHER, COUSIN, AND YOUNGER SELF ALL ACKNOWLEDGE HIS PRESSENCE BUT CANE’t TELL HIM WHAT’S DOING THERE. Over Dinner, Young Joe Pleads to his dad, Henry, that he dosn’t want to go to church.

This Timeline Follows A Dream Logic: Places are and are swimmings, supplied in family Ways while serving alternate purposes. When Joe returns to the dream, after briefly opening hisyes to a distraughge George Warning that the monster is getting closer, joe sees the priest, now alive, delivering mass at the kayenta police station. HIS FATHER, COUSIN, AND YOUNGER SELF ALL SIT IN The Pews, but Joe Can’t Stay; He has to go back to george. The priest, whose name we Never Learn, tells Him that he can’t return to george in the desert unil he has solved his wall.

A purposes some order to this alternate reality and the postsitility of an end to it: Joe can surface only long enough to tell george to take and go to his brack. That’s at the Kayenta Police Station, handcuffed to the interrogation table. He’s relieved to see Emma Walk in, but she’s furious with Him. He’d promised to build a phence for her Garden and Still Hasn’t, and the Rabbits Areting Her Vegetables. He explains, somewhat condescently, that he needs to solve the priest’s wall so that he can get to george, who is waiting for Him. But she’s through – he is always putting his first and her needs second. She fishes the handcuff key from the insides of a green pepper and swallows it. I love this moment of furry from Emma – a sense of the respectibility for their marriage is, or at least should be, part of Him. She Meets Joe’s Tenacity With Her Own Right to Be Uncompromising, An Approach She’s Just Starting to Take in Real Life.

Joe is able to force his way out of the interrogation room, but he just insists the stations Locked Cell As Will Sweeps the Floor. He calls out, but his coursin can’t hear Him. Frustration Becomes Despair when he sees the priest come in and take Will into the Office, Shutting the Door and Shutters Behind Him, Despite Joe’s Increasingly Louder Interventions. This is a heavy-hitting moment; It”s the first we’ve learned that there is child abuse in joe’s past. Beyond that, though, it resonates Becuses it has the plain, Painful Legibility of Nightmares: Bebind Bars, Joe is Helpress to Anything. He can’t help his cousin nor he knows what is about to open.

In a brief return to the present reality, joe is finally able to get the dart out of his neck and regain movement long enough to see yé’iitsoh approaching. The Monster Attacks Him; They Struggle for a while, and Joe Bludgeons Him with a rock before collapsing again. When he was wake in the dream, he’s back in the same blasphemy of desert where we are, follow the Same Trail of Blood to the priest, who run from Him. Joe Tackles and Cuffs Him, Taking Him to the Station’s Cell, Now Located in His Home Kitchen. Here, The Dreamscape, Margaret’s Telling of the Herhins Myth, and Joe’s Present Reality Align: The priest is yé’iitsoh; Joe and George Are the Twins. But another obstacle stands in the way of Joe’s final confrontation with the monster-priest. Is it any wonde that it is in the shape and purposes of a white a reproduction the interests of the United States of America?

Agent Washington rearsevo to Ask joe just what the hell he is doing; He is supposed to be solving this Man’s Murder. Joe Tries to Reason with Her: The Priest is a Child Abuser who Should Be Beind Bars. But she can’t Hear Him any more than Will Could. Instead, she instructs Him to dance with the powers that bey; The Same Powers that Can Acquit a Priest for Abusing A Child but not a diné man for seing justice for his son. Waltzing with Him, Washington Explains That Where Joe Sees Monsters, Society Sees Good Men Deservation of the Law’s Protection and Second Chances. It ‘only by Squareing the Difference Between “Real Justice” and Justice as defined by His Badge that he will be able to get rid of the monster.

Joe Wakes up in the desert just as George Runs Out of Bullets with which to fire at yé’iitssoh. As he re reads the gun, Geornge ties a tourniquet around the wound the monster had inflicted on Joe’s leg, and he loses consciousness again. He were up in his childhood Bedroom with his Younger Self, Who Tells Him he’s foot a way to stop the priest: They’ll shoot Him with Henry’s Gun. Joe Tries to Stop Him, Saying that a Young Boy Should Carry the Responsibility of Killing Someone, An Act that will you forever. But Young Joe Reminds Him They Already will; Its too late.

Gradually Dawns on Joe. “We killed Him, didn’t we?” He asks. He opens the door of the Room Into Kayenta Police Station, where he has stands face to face with the priest as, at the end of Last Week Episode, he found Himself facing yé’iitssoh. Joe’s pistol vanishes into a finger gun, and he tackles the priest, ultimately sufffocating hym. Joe figure this is the solution to the mystery: to protest his cousin, himself, and other boys in the navajo nation, he killed the priest, and memory is just now returning. But the priest regins conscioussness to explain that is not what happened. At the time, his death was presume; officiously, he went missing, just like bj vines.

IT’S FINALLY HENRY, JOE’S DAD, WHO KNOWS THE WHOLE TROUN. JUST OUTSIDE The Station, Henry Levels Dirt on What Looks to Be A Women. When Joe Told his fault that will will be had ben abused by the priest, henry – at the time, lieutenant of the navajo tribal police, like his son – tried to justice through channels. He tried the US attorney’s Office, The Courtese, and a Judge. He couldn’t arrest the priest Himself Because and Had no jurisdiction, and the People who did have it to be. SO, like he inspired his son to do many years late, he delivered his en Indian Justice. In a world where “Our People get the workout with the protection,” Henry tells joe, “We Only have one Choice,” thiugh he knows that neother of them can be truly at Peace with the bargain. The situation is impossible, irresolute – the bj vinesses and priests of the World Shouldn’t Get to Walk Away Scot Free. But the price for justice is the weight of respectillity: it is all henry and joe telelves to live with what they did.

“There’s no Such Thing As Monsters,” Henry Tells Joe, in Response to the Episode’s Fundamental Question: In Slaying A Monster, Did Joe Become a Monster Himself? “There’s JUST People Who Do Bad Things and Other People Who Do Bad Things to Stop,” His Father Concludes. The Solution of the Priest’s Murder has the power to liberate joe becuse it light on the Truth he was missing: the line that separats monsters from can’t be crossed it dosesn’t exist. There’s nothing to separate men from monsters; Nothing, at Least, Other than The Purposes Behind A Person’s Actions. Henry and Joe Can Bear Their of their Choices they were made in pursuit of Justice; and thiugh that can’t esver be enough, it’s not nothing, eather. Henry Teaches Joe that if he is looking for a definitive ansower – where he did was right or workg.

When he was wakes up in the desert, joe tells george to run to the territory he continues to chase the monster, though sevelery injured. After missing a few rounds, he is finally able to get Him on the Shoulder. Joe Follows A Trail of Blood to a rock on which he could see the print of a human hand. The Sight Makes Him Laugh Incredulously, Deliriously. He is just able to get chee on the radio to tell Him he’s been injured and that they are puressuing a suspect who is on foot, wearing dinner cloths, About Six-Foot-Two. Most importantly, he tells chee the suspect is not a monster; he’s just a man.

One of the lsons of the hero twins myth, if we are to interpret it as a cautery tale, is that only the monster’s weapons have the power to hurt. If it is the fear of monstrosity that fuels the yé’iieshh that appears for joe, it’s only by looking into the pit of that Fear – tracing it back to where it from; Finding Peace in Its exisisance – that is able to do away with the monster. In Joe’s Present Reality, that a sign of Hope: if the monster is not, in fact, a monster but just a man, that means they have access to the Same tools. It means that joe can fight Him. He Can Continue to Seek Justice, past be damned.

• AFTER TWO-Quarters of A Season Balancing BetWeen Mythical and Human Dangers, Dark Winds NIPS The Question of Whether Yé’iitsoh is a Character or metaphor in the bud. Now the Question is this: if it is not yé’iitsoh wreaking havoc around the reservation, who is beebind the brutal murders of ernesto cata and halsey? With George on Our Side, We Might Be Finally Inching Towards Some Answers. For my Money, Spencer and that Weasel Muños have something to do it with.

• “Abidoo’niidee” solved the problem of backsory inventively: we got a lot of information about it is past through the dreams that it seamed heavy-handed if it’d any up in dialogue or in flashback. This caute about how to best drafs the contours of a character’s past remains exclusive to joe in the Dark Winds universe, though – i want to get more of chee and be Bern in the Same thoughtful Way.