There are limitations to the safety that routine and rigorous planning can bring you when it comes to life. The unpredictability of things often wins against all our aims and schemes. And in that case, the only thing that truly helps a person fight the unpredictable is adaptability. That’s something that Leaphorn, Bern, and Chee are in dire need of in the 5th episode of the third season of Dark Winds. Nothing has worked out the way they expected. While Leaphorn strives to hide a truth he thought he wouldn’t have to face again, and Chee deals with the fallout of unreciprocated love, Bern has a difficult time accepting that, at Border Patrol, she’s not amongst friends.

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A wandering Leaphorn

Flashes of Leaphorn’s internal scream may be just the right way to communicate his emotional and spiritual state in the current circumstances. Lately, even...