Dark Winds Season 4 Trailer and Key Art Unveiled

AMC and AMC+ have released the official trailer and key art for Dark Winds Season 4, which will premiere on Sunday, February 15, at 9 pm ET/PT. The fourth season of the critically acclaimed noir thriller consists of eight hour-long episodes. New episodes will air weekly on Sundays.

Dark Winds Season 4 focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), Chee (Kiowa Gordon) and Manuelito (Jessica Matten) 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.

Dark Winds Season 4 Trailer and Key Art Unveiled

Executive produced by the late Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin and boasting a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score for its first three seasons, Dark Winds stars McClarnon (The Son, Westworld, Fargo) as Lt. Joe Leaphorn, with this season marking his eagerly awaited television directorial debut.

The series – also starring Gordon (The Red Road, Roswell, New Mexico) as Jim Chee, Matten (Rez Ball, Tribal, Burden of Truth) as Bernadette Manuelito, and Deanna Allison (Accused, Edge of America) as Emma Leaphorn – 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.

Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn in Dark Winds Season 4

As previously announced, Dark Winds Season 4 features new cast members including Franka Potente (Run Lola Run, The Bourne Supremacy) as Irene Vaggan and 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.

Also on board are Chaske Spencer (The Twilight Saga, Blindspot) as Sonny, a recruiter for a Los Angeles crime ring who through his charm and menace lure young Native American men recently relocated to the city from their reservations into a life of crime, and 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.

Franka Potente as Irene Vaggan

Titus Welliver (Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, Ricky, Abraham’s Boys) plays Dominic McNair, a ruthless crime boss who imports and exports drugs and stolen luxury goods into and out of Los Angeles, and the new season also sees the return of A. Martinez (Longmire, Days of our Lives) as Scarborough Police Department Acting Chief Gordo Sena.

Based on the iconic Leaphorn & Chee book series by Tony Hillerman, Dark Winds is created by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Returned, Almost Human, Fringe). John Wirth (Hell on Wheels, Hap and Leonard) serves as showrunner. The series is executive produced by Redford, Martin, Roland, Wirth, McClarnon, Chris Eyre, Tina Elmo, Jim Chory, Thomas Brady, Max Hurwitz, Vince Gerardis and Anne Hillerman.

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Jessica Matten as Bernadette Manuelito
Franka Potente as Irene Vaggan
Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn and Kiowa Gordon as Jim Chee