Spoiler Alert: This story contains the destroyers of the Season 3 finale "Black Wind".

Season 3 of AMC's Mysterious Series "Black Wind" reveals more layers of mystery and generational trauma - this time a horrifying explanation of the Navajo myth. While tracing a local teenager whose friend has disappeared after being murdered, Zahn McClarnon must try to escape a cruel killer who appears in the form of a monster while facing a very difficult discussion with his wife, Deanna Allison. Meanwhile, Bernadette (Jessica Matten) went astray with the Border Patrol mission, trapping her in the network of ranch owners who have very few colleagues on their paycheck.

In the dramatic, emotional final episode, "Iron Horse", Leaphorn and companion Gordo Sena (Martinez) finally find the young George Bowlegs and triangulate the Triangle and Killer at the train station. In a classic West, in a scene from Leaphorn, Chee (Kiowa Gordon) and Sena Corner and Sena Corner, the deadly archaeologist Dr. Reynolds pushed passengers aside on the train and faced him in an open plan bed. Unfortunately, he told Godo that he might never have the chance to reunite with his wife Emma. Emma left BJ Vines after frankly admitting last season that he left him after BJ Vines' death.

After a harsh moment, she is about to be buried with a pile of dirt, Bernadette is saved by her border patrol partner and loving Ivan (Alex Meraz). Although she manages to convince him to do the right thing and hand over his bent accomplices, she eventually realizes that their romance is not what to be and returns to the Navajo Country and chee.

On the way out, curious FBI agent Sylvia Washington (Jenna Elfman) brings Leaphorn a transparent cassette with Emma’s moving testimony about the death of the vine. "I hope this helps," she told Leaphorn. "What's there?" he asked. She replied, “Find your own way.”

Listening to the video, he was shocked to hear Emma was willing to lie for him-heard him maybe he still had a chance to be with her. As she said in the recording, “I hope I can forgive him one day.” The season ends with a tragic tune of Neil Young “flashing” as Leaphorn captures hope by repeatedly playing Emma’s troubled message on the tape deck.

Here McClarnon joins Chris Eyre, director and executive producer of the finale series, and John Wirth, performer of Black Wind, to help open Leaphorn's painful journey.

This season is more of a horror. How did you decide?

John Wirth: In the second season, we kind of lean towards a dark story vibe. In Season 3, we do get to know the idea of ​​Ye'iitsoh, which means the big monster among the Navajo people. So we want to tell a story about a monster.

Given the various things they do on this network - the “Walking Dead” universe and so on, we are very grateful, we are very grateful because these shows kicked off the lights for us and allowed us to make our show. We spent a lot of money on building this monster, and my first instinct was that we wouldn't see it too much, or just a vague glimpse. Then I realized, wow, why would I have all the trouble and spend on building monsters if we don't go see it? So we decided to have a little more than we originally thought.

How does Leaphorn deal with his guilt about letting BJ Vines die and grief about marriage? He said it comes with a price.

Zahn McLanon: The cost may be his relationship with Emma, ​​and his relationship with Chi and Bern, perhaps losing his freedom. The bets were high this season, with Agents entering and finding out exactly what he did with BJ Vines in Season 2. The whole season was basically an exploration of the troubled tragedy, and all the effects of the son's death, and how it affected all his relationships, his psychological state, the biggest marriage, but his marriage with Emma has the potential to affect Emma and Emma and possibly marry Emma. So, he lives a lot of anxiety this season.

When he is handcuffed and Emma enters the ketamine dream, it also reveals to him how he treats her and keeps working before their marriage and how his work consumes him. We were a little touched about this in Season 4, obviously I can't reveal it.

What is it like to shoot a train scene?

Chris Al: (Executive Producer) George RR Martin actually owns the train. It left his theater, Jean Cocteau in the Railway House. Then there is 18 miles to Lamy, New Mexico, intersecting Amtrak in the east and west. This is an explosion. I've never shot on a train before. There was drone shooting, there was a chase on the train, there was some gunfight on the train, and that was where the boy was brought back by Leaphorn. The solution to the story does indeed blend together. Therefore, this is one of the materials than other settings.

What do you want to show about the arc of Bernadette?

Al: I think this is the most interesting thing at the end of Season 3, that Bernadette makes Ivan turn the money around. She almost did what Emma did, and that's what she wouldn't hand in Ivan. Therefore, these characters have this incredible matrilineal power because they are in fact the center of family and community.

The last scene was so exciting, what did it do?

McLanon: As an actor who played Leaphorn as an actor, it was a surreal moment for me and realizing how much my character was in love with his wife at the time. The lines became a little blurred at that moment. There are many things and many More Emotional. Sometimes, I was sobbing and we kind of pulled it a little. And I think it works much better than Joe's crying wife leaving him.

Wirth: The story ends with his wife sitting at the table at the kitchen table after leaving him, and he is listening to the tapes given to him by Sylvia Washington, which is his wife's interview with her where she stands up for him, but she also says a lot, and I think she doesn't think she's willing to speak directly to Leaphorn. This is the power of the scene. I just looked at the way he worked in this and absorbed the pain of that, and I think in this case, such a person might want to hear it again and torture himself by hearing it. So I suggest that when he is following that line on the tape, he runs it back and listens again, then go back and listens again, then listens again and listens again. This is indeed an intuition.

Will this always be the way to end the plot?

McLanon: We have a version of Joe going to Phoenix, knocking on the door, Emma opens the door, they just stare at each other and she invites him to eat. John talked a lot with me, and he thought Joe only listened to her and pressed that button, and it was a better ending, it was a better ending.

Al: I directed that scene and I was just attracted by the way Emma and Leaphorn worked because they didn’t have a conversation. This is a very beautiful scene. But what I really understand in the end is that it offers so many solutions.

What is the prospect of Joe and Emma getting together?

Al: Emma and Joe are indeed at the heart of "Dark Wind". If Joe wasn't with her, he wouldn't be Joe anymore. He wouldn't have his own anchor that could be used to fight crime and get his job done. So I really hope they get back together so that Joe can keep working.

What do you think is the biggest twist or biggest surprise for the audience in the finale?

Al: The biggest twist may be that the monster is a man. This is an amazing metaphor, and it is the status of Navajo culture and all traditional cultures. We say in these metaphors that there is a monster there, and voila, Leaphorn thinks it's a man-it's a bad guy. Therefore, the biggest turning point is how metaphors become reality.

Wirth: I hope people won't conclude that Dr. Reynolds is a killer early this season. We tried to build several others, Sonny Bowlegs, the boy's father, Eddie Isaacs, and Dr. Reynolds, assistant archaeologist. Sometime in the process, one might think that this might be any of these people.

How do you think about showing some Navajo tradition?

Wirth: If you want to talk about Navajo culture, Navajo traditions, Navajo religions, Navajo rituals, these things are highly sensitive and private, and when Tony Hillerman wrote his novels in the 70s, 80s, 90s, the expected attitudes about these things were different than today. We have two Navajo consultants we work very closely so if we tend to run everything through them we get the prompts from them and we won't be bothered by it, we can feel free to portray it on the show, but if they're sensitive to it, we might try other ways in exchange for other ways.

Al: Jennifer and Manny Wheeler are our language and cultural consultants, both Navajo people and experts in these categories. It's exciting to try to figure these things out together. I think we are a little unfavorable for this.

Zahn, What does it mean to you to be able to work with your local crew?

MacClarnon: Many of the people behind this series are indigenous, so we want to make sure we present all tribal culture with respect, honor and authenticity. People don’t really know what Navajo culture is unless they really spend their time in the culture on the Navajo people. But if the “Black Wind” allows people to visit the Navajo people, spend time with the Navajo people, and learn more about culture, it is a positive thing.

This is something I wear a hat and is part of hiring natives like “reserve dogs.” It was a very heavy show. And we haven't. This has only happened in the past decade.

I'm so happy to see the first episode of Season 4 directed by Zahn. How did it go?

MacClarnon: We wrapped it up two weeks ago and I've finished the director's layoffs for this episode. This is very interesting. I have some great first ads and DPs that can help me with it and I have a lot of support. You know, this is my first director. I just can't miss more opportunities to learn more.

Al: I've been there all the time. I was an ally, a peer and supportive at the time and we had a real family unit.

Are you looking forward to what's next season, which will be based on Tony Hillerman's novel The Ghostway?

Al: I just want to point out that I was as excited as the audience was to find out what happened after Season 3. We're working on it now, I'm directing episode 403 and I still don't know what will happen at the end of season 4.

This interview has been edited and condensed.