‘Dark Winds’ Season 3 Trailer: Zahn McClarnon Haunted by Avenging Monster

Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, played by Zahn McClarnon, is haunted by a bogeyman from his childhood in the third season teaser trailer for AMC‘s Dark Winds, which dropped on Friday.

Leaphorn appears badgered by his demons after leaving B.J. Vines (John Diehl) in the desert to freeze to death during the season season of the noir thriller. “When I was a boy, when I went to school, we were taught that the monsters walked the earth. When you kill a man, he’s bound to you. I’ve accepted it. And I am prepared to go on living with it, everyday” Leaphorn reveals in the third season trailer.

That’s followed by Tribal Police officer Jimmy Chee (Kiowa Gordon) appearing to try, without success, to get a severely wounded Leaphorn on the phone as his partner confronts a monster trying to stalk and kill him.

The third season, featuring eight episodes, also picks up six months after the events of season two as Leaphorn and Chee as Navajo cops investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake.

Meanwhile, Bernadette Manuelito, played by Jessica Matten, attempts to settle into her new life 500 miles from home but stumbles across a conspiracy involving human and drug smuggling with far-reaching implications.

The 1970s-set drama has Robert Redford and George R. R. Martin as executive producers. AMC and sibling streamer AMC+ renewed Dark Winds for a third cycle after the drama’s second season ranked among the top 10 cable dramas last year.

Season three will debut March 9 on AMC and AMC+ and once again will be based on the Leaphorn and Chee novels by Tony Hillerman. Deanna Allison and Elva Guerra also star in Dark Winds. More than 90 percent of the cast and crew for season two are Indigenous people.

Third season guest stars include Jenna Elfman as FBI special agent Sylvia Washington, Bruce Greenwood as Tom Spenser, Raoul Max Trujillo as Budge and Tonantzin Carmelo as border patrol agent Eleanda Garza.

Graham Roland (Jack Ryan) created Dark Winds, with John Wirth (Hell on Wheels) serving as showrunner.