AMC’s set a February 15, 2026 premiere date for the fourth season of the critically acclaimed thriller, Dark Winds. Season four was announced in February 2025, ahead of season three’s March 9, 2025 premiere. The eight-episode third season wrapped up on April 27th.
New season four episodes will air on Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.
Zahn McClarnon leads the cast as Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Kiowa Gordon (The Red Road) stars as Jim Chee. Jessica Matten (Burden of Truth) plays Bernadette Manuelito, Deanna Allison (Accused) is Emma Leaphorn, and A. Martinez (Longmire) returns as Scarborough Police Department Acting Chief Gordo Sena.
“The series follows Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito of the Navajo Tribal Police solving mysteries on their reservation as it is besieged by increasingly violent crimes in the 1970s,” reads AMC’s synopsis. “The series’ gripping fourth season focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito from the safety of Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organized crime.”
Joining the series for season four are:
-Franka Potente (Run Lola Run) as Irene Vaggan;
-Isabel DeRoy-Olson (Fancy Dance) as Billie Tsosie, a decisive and resourceful Navajo teenager who wants nothing more than the freedom to connect with her people outside of her boarding school but quickly finds herself in over her head with only her cunning and resilience keeping her alive;
-Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga) as Sonny, a recruiter for a Los Angeles crime ring who, through his charm and menace, lures young Native American men recently relocated to the city from their reservations into a life of crime;
-Luke Barnett (The Crossing Over Express) as FBI Special Agent Toby Shaw, who arrives searching for answers to a mystery involving one of his friends; and
-Titus Welliver (Bosch: Legacy) as Dominic McNair, a ruthless crime boss who imports and exports drugs and stolen luxury goods into and out of Los Angeles.
Graham Roland created the series, based on Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn & Chee book series. John Wirth is the showrunner and executive produces along with Robert Redford, George R.R. Martin, Zahn McClarnon, Chris Eyre, Tina Elmo, Jim Chory, Thomas Brady, Max Hurwitz, Vince Gerardis, and Anne Hillerman.
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