‘Dark Winds’ Stars Preview Bernadette & Chee’s Domestic Season 4 Relationship

Dark Winds Season 4 is almost here, and change is on the horizon for the characters at the center of AMC‘s ’70s-set noir drama, especially for detectives Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon).

As fans saw in the previous season, Bernadette had gone off to work at Border Patrol, where she unraveled a drug and human trafficking conspiracy before she returned to the Navajo Nation, seemingly ready to move forward with her and Chee’s will-they-won’t-they relationship. And it appears that Season 4 will finally see the pair as a full-fledged couple after dancing around the idea since Season 1.

“She’s dealing with the trauma that she just experienced from Border Patrol and literally just brutally murdering a man,” Matten tells TV Insider on the set of Season 4. “Bernadette is in between this place of internally dealing with that struggle, and then also coming back to the love of her life. And so at the beginning of the season, we look at that dynamic of Chee really being there for her, and what does that look like?”