EXCLUSIVE: John Patrick Jordan (The Accountant 2) has joined the cast of AMC‘s Dark Winds for Season 5 in a key recurring role. Production on the new season is currently underway in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Based on the Leaphorn & Chee book series by Tony Hillerman, Dark Winds is set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley and follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) of the Tribal Police as a series of seemingly unrelated crimes besiege him. The closer he digs into the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past.

He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon). Chee also has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other, and their own demons on the path to salvation.

Season 4 focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito (Jessica Matten) from the safety of the 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.

Details regarding the plot of Season 5 are currently under wraps.

Jordan will play Dale Hicks, an FBI agent newly stationed at the Sheriff’s department alongside Leaphorn and Alvarado (Paola Núñez), who quickly gets wind of interference amongst his department’s investigations, causing him to become territorial.

As we previously announced, Martin Sensmeier will be a series regular in Season 5, playing Terry Bai, a former Vietnam vet turned racetrack worker. In recurring roles, Noel Fisher will play Michael Jorie, a dangerous killer with a warped sense of righteousness, and Devin Sampson-Craig as Daniel Ironwater, Jr., a skilled ranch-hand whose time in Vietnam has left him conflicted and heading down the wrong path. 

Dark Winds is created by Graham Roland and is showrun by John Wirth, both of whom also executive produce. Additional executive producers include the late Robert Redford, George R.R. Martin, McClarnon, Chris Eyre, Tina Elmo, Jim Chory, Thomas Brady, Max Hurwitz, Vince Gerardis, and Anne Hillerman.

Up next, Jordan will be seen in Prime Video’s Spider-Noir and I Play Rocky, directed by Peter Farrelly. Jordan is represented by Zero Gravity Management.