Coyote Waits (TV 2003)Two tribal cops uncover a plot involving a lost fortune, an historical artifact and a mythical Coyote on a Navajo reservation. Director:Jan Egleson |
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Coyote Waits (TV 2003)Two tribal cops uncover a plot involving a lost fortune, an historical artifact and a mythical Coyote on a Navajo reservation. Director:Jan Egleson |
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Candice Costello | ... |
Jen
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Jimmy Herman | ... |
Ashie Pinto
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Gary Kanin | ... |
Judge
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Sheila Tousey | ... | |
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Mark Kilburn | ... |
Doctor
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| Alex Rice | ... |
Janet Pete
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| Graham Greene | ... |
Slick Nakai
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Jill Scott Momaday | ... |
Mary Keeyani
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| Keith Carradine | ... |
John McGinnis
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| Sheri Foster | ... |
Blue Lady
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Jack Burning | ... |
Hosteen Nakai
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| Long Nguyen | ... |
Huan Ji
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| Paul Guilfoyle | ... |
Jay Kennedy, FBI
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Two tribal cops uncover a plot involving a lost fortune, an historical artifact and a mythical Coyote on a Navajo reservation.
Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn, and Emma Leaphorn return for Coyote Waits, the second installation based on Tony Hillerman's best selling series.
Ashie Pinto, an elderly, poor, drunken, tribesman is arrested by Chee for the shooting death of a Navajo police officer. Chee finds Pinto leaving the scene of the crime with a gun, and it's proved the gun was used to murder the officer.
Chee hesitated to respond to the fellow Navajo officer's distress call, despite his initial feeling that something bad had happened. His extreme remorse over the officer's death sets the tone for Coyote Waits.
Chee begins to suffer through personal and professional struggles. He doubts his intuition and instinct, and he doubts his abilities as a police officer and a healer.
Joe Leaphorn, on vacation from his duties to care for his rehabilitating wife Emma, is asked by her to further investigate the shooting death, in behalf of Pinto's family, whom she's related to.
Chee also decides to investigate the events behind the shooting.
What follows is a chase for a coyote running through the sands of time.
This episode is filled with dazzling, rustic-bronze coloured landscapes, colossal copper-gilded rock formations, and sweeping, vast, turquoise skies.
The musical score is a combination of traditional Native American sounds with contemporary jazz. The soothing, clear, quiet musical lines intermingle smoothly with whispered reverberations and soft, staccato rhythms.