Wind River Page #2

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- You're from Vegas?

- No, I'm not from Vegas,

I'm stationed there.

I'm from Fort Lauderdale.

Sorry, if we're gonna keep

having this conversation...

Let's get you fixed up inside.

It's gonna be great - Thanks.

Sorry excuse me. Thanks.

See what they send us?

Thermals can make underwear wedge

up your bottom,

but I guess yours

are already there.

Here, these should fit.

You're skinny.

Thank you.

- You got gloves?

- No.

Goodness. What were they thinking

sending you here?

Thank you.

You bring them back the minute you're done.

They ain't a gift.

- You hear me?

- Yes, of course.

Hey.

I'm... bundled.

Let's go.

Okay.

Hey, buddy.

I'm gonna need a couple more hours,

for work.

A couple.

This is our day.

I promise.

- Okay?

- Okay.

- Hang with Grandpa.

- Sweeten up. Let's go.

God, there was blizzard

here 20 minutes ago.

Comes in waves. Could be sunny for an hour.

Then you're right back in hell again.

Storm will come back.

- That's something to look forward to.

- Yeah.

Over here.

- You Got a positive ID?

- Not positive, no.

Natalie Hanson.

We'll call that positive for now.

Does she lives close by?

Yeah, Fort Wakashie.

- North a ways.

- What's a ways'?

About a 30 minutes drive.

Ok, well, she didn't run from home then.

She's frozen solid.

No one reported her missing?

Her parents?

No.

Yeah, that's why we called you.

How experienced is your medical examiner?

Just to say... He stays busy.

Order a rape kit,

When he's done with his prelim,

I want her body sent to Lovelind.

Make sure her belongings

go with her... they need to get tested too.

I'm listing this as a homicide.

How well do you know this land?

Like it's my job. Which it is.

Well is there anywhere she could be

running from? Is there anything close by?

Nearest houses..

3.5 miles from here southeast.

- Sam Little feathers place is over there..

- Yep.

Those boys could use some

serious looking into.

There's no structures closer?

There are drill rigs five miles from here..

They got trailers for the workers., but...

That's closed for the winter.

So why would a teenage girl be out here?

Well kids come out here on their

snow machines.

And have a big party in the snow.

Not barefoot.. they don't.

- What do you think?

- I know what the tracks say.

- Okay, That's all we got.

- Come here, I'll show you.

Come right here. See this one..

See how the toes turned out?

..the front is much deeper than the back.

That says she was running.

Come here, let me show you.

She ran until she dropped.. here.

See the pool of blood

where her face hit the snow.?

Now it gets twenty below here

at night.

So if you fill your lungs up

with that cold air.

when you're running..

it could freeze em up.

Your lungs fill up with blood,

you start coughing it up

So.. wherever she came from,

she ran all the way here.

Her lungs burst here.

She curled up in that tree line

drowned up in her own blood.

How far do you think someone

can run barefoot out here?

Oh.. I don't know.

How to gauge someone's will to live...

... especially in these conditions?

But I knew that girl.

She was a fighter.

So no matter how far you think she ran...

... I can guarantee you she ran farther.

I got to get back to my son.

Hey, um.. Would you be willing to help me?

I can't.. I couldn't find the way

back to my car if I drive.

I really don't know how

to investigate this in...

Hey.. Can I borrow him for a few days?

What? He doesn't work for me.

You got a lion to kill, don't forget.

There's three o 'em. And I didn't.

Sorry.. what is it..

what is it that you to again?

- Hunter.

- You are a lion hunter?

I hunt predators.

Good. Why don't you

come hunt one for me then?

Okay.

Dad?

Hey, bud.

You happen to can't sleep?

I had a nightmare.

Is that right?

What is it about?

Who was she?

Come over here.

- Want some milk?

- No.

She's a girl

who's lost her way in the snow.. that's all.

What's all this?

That's work buddy.

Did she die like Emily?

She died in the cold.

So she died like Emily?

Yes, so...

I'm afraid she did.

I am sorry.

- I see you found town okay.

- Yeah.. barely.

Do the family identified the body?

Yeah.

Did they give you a reason for

not reporting her missing?

Well she stayed with a boyfriend some...

didn't think anything of it.

She was eighteen.

Free to do what she wanted.

Have you done this before?

- Observed an autopsy?

- Yeah?

Ah.. no.

Anyone who tells you it gets easy

is a goddamn liar.

Let's get

it over with.

Okay Randy, you're on the clock.

I've got about five minutes of this with me,

so let's go.

I'll be quick

Good morning, Randy Whitehurst,

the medical examiner.

- I'm Agent Banner.

- She's FBI.

Thank you, yes. I'm FBI.

- This your first autopsy?

- Yes.

Hey, gotta have a first.

Yes, it's my first on an investigation,

but... I am trained for this, so..

- if we can just get to this. Please.

- Yes, ma'am.

As you see here, she suffered a deep

laceration along her brow line.

Two separated ribs.

Frost bite in

both feet up through her ankles.

Circumstances is your field, not mine.

- Let me show you.

- No I don't need it explained

I need to find whoever...

... chased her to death in this

snow and put him in prison.

and not calling it...

Sorry.

This is very prosecutable

as a murder..

Clearly she wouldn't have been

running through the snow

if she hadn't been attacked,

but I can't list the cause

of death as a homicide.

And I can't get an FBI team

to the reservation...

... unless it's listed as a homicide.

I'm not here to solve this..

I'm here to obtain a

cause of death...

... and send a team here that can.

Look, present the rape, present the

assault and I'm sure...

Those aren't under

the jurisdiction of the FBI.

Those fall to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Sorry.

You keep saying sorry,

but you keep doing it.

Don't look at me.

Hey, I'm used to no help.

You have six officers on your

entire force...

... to cover an area

the size of Rhode Island.

Yes I know that.

No offense, but this will have to curl

up in your lap in order for you to solve it.

- I know that too.

- We all know it's a murder.

You can have a US attorney to sign off on it

I'm happy to corroborate that,

But I just can't put it

on the death certificate.

Okay.

Thank you.

I appreciate your passion.

It's not the Fed's usual response.

But Randy is on our side

My supervisor sees this report,

he's gonna want me back in Vegas.

Not that I'm much help or anything..

... but I'm all you've got.

Hey.. What's that

hunter's phone number?

Ya?

So you never met him.

No

- And she never talked about him?

- Not to me.

Why would you let your daughter stay with a

guy that you've never met?

whose name you don't even know.?

Cause I look around, I see your photos...

- She was an adult..

- Barely.

Wyuksa psi wasichu.

- What does that mean?

- It ain't good.

Um.. look.

I don't mean to offend you.

I'm trying to understand the dynamic here,

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