Season 4
- S4 E1 Shootout at the Diner. Bernie’s almost back!
- S4 E2 Bernie is all the way back! Shootout at the Diner again.
- S4 E3 Albert dies at his grandfather’s place. Killer has a thing for Joe!
- S4 E4 Joe, Bernie, Chee all go to LA to look for Billie. Chee is still pissed.
- S4 E5 LA hi jinks
- S4 E6 Very confusing
- S4 E7 They think Leroy is back on the rez.
- S4 E8 German captures Joe. Chee has his ceremony. Joe doesn’t retire.
E1 A blond lady all decked out like a paratrooper shoots up a diner with a Indian guy and a girl in it. Despite her fancy outfit, she’s not very good at it, because she has the element of complete surprise and her target was only lightly wounded.
- The season opens with Joe all by himself out in the desert setting up for some kind of smoke lodge ritual.
- When he goes home we realize Emma is still gone.
- She left at the end of last season. Bummer.
- Bernie is back on the rez, but NOT back on the force!
- She spends a lot of time at Chee’s.
- They can’t keep their hands off each other. It’s kinda cute!
- Joe runs into Gordo in the side of the highway fixing a flat (small world).
- Gordo’s wife has Alzheimers.
- Joe visits Bernie at Chee’s house, breaks the news to her that he’s retiring
- … and he thinks she should take his place! (not Chee!)
- This puts Bernie in a really uncomfortable spot.
- The couple that was the target in the diner at turns up at the trading post.
- The girl a runaway from the Catholic Girls School.
- The creepy blond lady that did the shooting shows up at the trading post soon after.
Joe visits his mother. What a strikingly beautiful woman she is! A feeling of calm comes over me when I see her.
I liked her last season. I really like her right now with Joe’s dad not around to take up all the oxygen with his drama. He’s in Flagstaff doing guy things. When she starts telling Navajo stories in the Navajo language (Dine) it’s so moving!
Joe visits the girl’s guardian, a long-suffering cool old guy. 🙂
The girl (Billie)has run off with her neer-do-well cousin Albert Gorman.
He went off to LA to be a tough guy.
Bernie burns her Border Patrol outfit. Pretty heavy symbolism there. It must be a Navajo thing.
She put’s on her Navajo Police outfit.
BIG cheer when she shows up at the station.
Turns out Bernie went to the Catholic Indian school that the Billie disappeared from. It was apparently a miserably place. Bernie hated it too. They all hate it.
E2 starts with the real-time version of the shootout that started the season. It’s pretty rough the second time, because I really liked the kindly diner waitress, and she was killed first thing.
Gorman takes one on the shoulder, but he and the girl get away.
The blond lady may not be an efficient killer, but she sure is good with cars! She repairs the gunshot hole in her radiator and changes a flat tire all by herself in the middle of the desert!
The girl Billie Tsotsie, gets caught trying to steal medical supplies from where Emma used to work.
Albert makes it back to his grandfather’s hogan, where he dies.
Blond lady folllows and kills the grandfather. I did not like that!
Chee goes into the grandpa’s death hogan and it gets weird. Nose bleeds and hallucinations.
E3 The uncle was given a half-assed traditional Navajo burial by the blond lady who just killed him in cold blood. Why????
Chee has the hallucination/bleeding thing again back at the office.
Chee and Bernie are having cute couples-time that evening back at his trailer. Things are going SO WELL … then she feels like she has to tell Chee about Joe’s plan to promote her but not Chee.
Boy does THAT destroy the mood!
- To recap:
- the plan is not only for Joe to retire, but to
- pre-ordain Bernie as the new Chief of the substation.
- Not Chee, not both of them, just Bernie. (“Chee’s not ready”)
- the plan is not only for Joe to retire, but to
- Chee doesn’t take it well.
Joe is usually a MUCH better manager of people than this.
He put Bernie in a horrible position and pretty much guaranteed Chee would explode.
IMO this was poor script-writing.
Joe, who is almost always gloomy, shows up in the morning in an unusually good mood. Mainly I think to play off of Chee who is still pissed off.
Chee says awful things to Joe.
The blond killer lady has a thing for Joe … which make NO sense.
Very odd sequence at the end of the episode,
E4 Blond lady in the cool van is back in LA. She kills a office worker dude in a very complicated way so it look like suicide? The victim is the partner of the guy who is running her from his prison cell.
Joe, Bernie and Chee all drive to LA. The dynamics aren’t great. They go to the Indian Center. That’s where Chee went with his mom way back on the day. Chee has flashbacks.
Chee also keeps having those weird bloody noses. Also how did he get the ugly gash on his side?
The blond lady has a hideout with a whole apartment hidden in the basement where her demented Nazi grandpa lives. (a real Nazi!) [Joe calls her “the German”, so I will too!]
Chee meets an indian dude and goes to a gang party with him. Joe and Bernie surveil it. Billie turns up there, because its a small world. FBI is there too, they jump Joe.
E5 Joe meets FBI the hard way. They beat him up and throw him away.
Joe goes to the Indian Clinic and gets fixed up by Emma, just like old times! 🙂
FBI is also looking for Leroy. The Navajos and the FBI sort of work together. Their idea is that the Navajos can have the girl, and the FBI can have Leroy!
Chee is hanging with his new best friend, a sketchy native guy (not Navajo!) that he met at the gang thing. He’s Sonny Bear Heart.
I will be interested if they can make this all make sense before we’re done, because I don’t like it. It’s like they’re run out of good ideas, so just throw in some random supernatural sh-t instead of a coherent plot line.
Billie meets a distant relative, nice young native girl. She says Billie’s mother is alive!
Chee and Sonny are in a shootout. Chee is still bleeding.
Sonny has like 8 lava lamps in his living room. I love! it!!
E6 They are back at Joes place and discover that the German has bugged it.
Joe visits McNair in prison. I saw Titus Welliver in the credits … McNair is BOSCH!!
FBI guy that got killed in his house in the hills was named Upchurch
Chee passed out and ended up at Indian Health with Emma as his nurse of course.
FBI gets Sonny killed.
Chee hallucinates his dead mom.
Emma diagnoses that Chee has Ghost Sickness. Tells him to go back to the rez and deal with it
Billie finds her mom in Hemet! She doesn’t take it well at first.
She’s kidnapped by the German (whose name is Vaggan).
Super intense
- Chee comes clean with Bern about family stuff that’s been making him sick
- Emma tells Joe she’s not coming back to the rez.
E7 End of last episode they thought Leroy is back on the rez masquerading as a guy we met in the second episode. But Joe figures out he’s NOT Leroy, Leroy’s been dead for weeks!
Everyone’s back on the reservation now.
Vaggan has captured Joe and Billlie. She’s holding them in an underground where she wants them to be the family she never had. (After meeting her grandfather I can see why she wants that. 🙂
It takes most of this unpleasant episode, but Joe gets them busted loose.
Vaggan ends up horribly disfigured in a gas fire. The producers make sure we linger over every disgusting detail. No a fan of the gore.
Chee ceremony was cool, everyone was there
- billiee and her mom
- everyone from the station
- everyone from the trading post
- even that big guy from last season that use to hate Chee!
The Navajo stuffis really cool, but this season wasn’t really that good, IMO.
Why does the German lady obsess for Joe and want to have a family with him.
Chee sickness was bullshit.
They love to show gross things, like the disfigured lady.
So many things are just shoddily done.