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So rancher man gets off scott free? Rude. Having actually watched now, terri was slammed into a table. she only killed herself in the sense that she got herself killed. You know he murdered a kid, you say "yes grandpa, lets go dig. no we don't call police, police schmolice" until you get to a safe place. The reality of Budge trying to bury Bernie would have taken forever, so she had plenty time to escape and if any tv show should tell you, you don't just push a truck or do the thing that "they could never survive" good assassins know you wait and watch them die. This bury in the car thing was dumb. Yay for the callback to the feather. And yay for punching roommate girl in the face.

What are the chances that you are a frikkin archeologist but have super skills for murder? Budge or whatever his name is the one who snuck into the jail and slit the throat right? And beat up Leaphorn in the desert? Archeologist boy shouldn't have been some skilled assasin type he was a nerd and escaping chee just means chee is a chump.

Was it in the dark? Cuz I found a setting on my tv that I will have to play with that adjusts black saturation I had issues with Joe Leaphorn fighting invisible guy in the dark and that always bugs me. I know we were intentionally left in the dark ... but I literally could see nothing. I know I'm blind as a bat but sometimes their "artistic" lighting is bs.

Bernie had to come home, it doesn't work as a long distance show, it wasn't connected "enough" to warrant her being off by herself. Did they ever say exactly where Bernie was? If she's from Arizona she'd be in like Bisbee or something to be close to the border, that's 7.5 hours from Kayenta.

I think they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they don't have a shoot out then they won't get the views, they'll be cancelled. Most people aint hanging around to see the traditional navajo stuff. They want boom boom. I don't feel that way but that's why virtually everything I love doesn't stick around.

I feel like in the books (have only read2 so not an expert) Jim Chee operated mostly out of Crownpoint which is new Mexico and Leaphorn was Arizona and they were generally separate kinda books, here they put them together on all cases but I don't think that's the way in the books. Crownpoint is 15 miles from where I grew up. Been to Kayenta, Chinle, and other notable places throughout. But honestly if these cops had to cover all of that? Keyenta is 157 miles from Gallup. Gallup comes up a lot like that's the "big" city. 18.000 ish the population of Gallup.

Well Chee is not a Jedi, this we know, so clearly he's only qualified to be a stormtrooper based on his aim.

I been thinking about that since day 1 but we've seen the white FBI agents before that are either incompetent or season 1 evil. They were in on it. Season 1 FBI guy was named Whitover (white over) so they are clever. Season 1 guys expected to get away with it because who was gonna tell? I do believe they are relying on someone rolling over on someone else, there is no case but they don't think the navajos will hold out against the man. No one actually cares what happened to Vines..his wife is more than happy that he's dead, thrilled she didn't have to do it. What was Dharma even returning? Stuff belonging to joe jr? I know she acted like it was a great big favor to return whatever was in the box (and it was mostly an excuse to once again get Emma alone and try to lean on her) You had no cause to take it in the first place. If you are relying on Emma, firstly don't piss her off, she was open to you in the beginning but you Dharma'd it all up.

I do think with only these last 2 episodes they do have to squeeze in a lot so this had a lot of dots connecting in maybe a less gooder way. Like boom Ivan walks into boss man's office and says I'm out because his lil girlfriend done made him see the light. So we do know errbody in on it. And duh fren fren is bad and Bernie is just rilly rilly dumb. "you're the only one I trust" is always translated into "last person I should trust". If Ivan don't die trying to save Bernie then Ima be big mad. Ok solution to how they smugglin coke in the trucks...WHAT IN THE EVER LIVING EFF NATION ARE THE PEOPLE TRAFFICING FOR???? You literally have 1 mom and 1 daughter, like wtf can they do? It appeared to be ranch hands doing the weird ball stuffing, they don't have to swallow balloons and carry anything over the boarder what exactly are the mom and daughter for? Could tell cloak dude was white and already assumed professor man but yeah Chee shoot a damn tire you fool. I'm glad Emma didn't sell out Joe, suck it Dharma.

So I guess his dad got justice for his cousin and Joe got justice for his son? Whether you believe either of those things are wrong... I hate that I can't see a damn thing in the dark. I know it's supposed to be ambiguous or metaphorical what Joe's actually fighting but I can't see a friggin thing. so blah. But ultimately the conclusion is there are no monsters, just men. And I like that even if Emma has ginormous issues with what Joe did she's still not gonna give it up to the white lady law.

Haven't watched it yet but if Robert Knepper is in it...CREEEEEEE-PEEEEEEE They are really digging into the bag of super duper creepy dudes with the casting, the only one they haven't cast yet is Joffrey of Game of Thrones.

Thats what I was thinking, you've already got a tanker smuggling whatever ( I don't think the people come in tankers, why smuggle em if they can't breath) so if they're the "packers" what are the chile farmers for? I will state again for the record I've never smuggled a darn thing in my whole life but it would seem dumb if you got the drugs over the border and THEN you need the humans to swallow the balloons and go poop them out all over the country. That just seems inefficient from my criming mind (which my criming mind is indeed incredibly naive what with the not practicing the criming)

I'm confused as to smuggling the people or the drugs. I got my coke the old fashioned way, a dude crossed the border and pooped it out. So why smuggle coke to then smuggle people or the people to the coke? are the people to pack the coke? like Heisenbergs norwegians way down deep in the ground? I don't think so. I feel like the hippies take care of that. the chile farmers. that seems fairly voluntary, I don't know why you'd need to traffic the people if the hippies are happy to do it? Clearly I'm too lazy to do the big time criming.

Didn't Manualito suggest maybe the cargo shipments were cocaine? I googled cocaine. Obviously it existed prior to 1971 but Pablo Escobar popularized it in the US in 1975 this would be some early action trafficking if so.

high five! Thats exactly what I was thinking.

That was pretty gruesome and I did think that was a rookie move on Leaphorn's part. The interrogation with the navajo man was funny to me because the big answers were in english. Which is how most conversations go, switching in and out of navajo pretty regularly. He couldn't have been evasive about GMC. I do not speak navajo but yes and no were correct. ha! I'm glad Bernie didn't go for Chee's antics. I think she needs to take the threats more seriously but didn't get all sweaty with him. but previews lead me to believe smarmy co-worker gets some action which I'm not on board with. YOU IN DANGER GIRL!

I should say I didn't trust him even before that. there's a "not trusting your date" gut feeling and he's actually "trafficking people" feeling. I'd trust my gut. I know there were no cell phones but I'd take my own car. And yes roommate on standby.

definitely chee is the damsel

I think not only boss (fake anthony michael hall dude) but co worker who seems to be hitting on manualito, I don't trust him. At the very least boss man doesn't care if there is human trafficking going on but could also be taking bribes to look the other way.

I guess we see now how they're gonna connect, they've got Manualito's picture out amongst the drug dealers so it stretches across the state for sure. It would be very hard for me to believe that captain rancher man is unaware of activities at his ranch so whether or not he's the big bad I don't know but he aint good. And maybe the chile farmer cult is the distribution who knows.

What liquid is in the truck? Yes yellowstone jr ranch honcho is a big suspect.

ok, immediately I go to Dr. Reynolds, mostly because its Christopher Hyerdahl who is just legendary creepy. He played the Swede on "hell on wheels" and he's just super full of heeby jeebies. Kinda laughed that the arrow head is fake. I had a friend whose dad owned a touristy shop off I-40 between Gallup and Grants and he'd go throw fake arrow heads out in the bushes and down this hill around their place. People would stop for gas and snacks etc and be walking their dogs and find these arrow heads and get all excited.

Sweet!

I don't really think Leaphorn had to hide what he did, essentially self defense or case could be made for self defense. But it was the early 1970's and if Hines was as well connected as they say nobody gonna believe Leaphorn. Legal? no. Absolutely the right thing to do? bingo so the dead guy in the tunnel is neither the missing boy nor the professor dig man, right?

Haven't watched it yet but I'm excited!