"The expanded third season, featuring eight episodes, picks up six months after the events of season two and follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) as they investigate the disappearance of two boys, with only an abandoned bicycle and blood-stained patch of ground left in their wake," said a synopsis released Friday.

And that’s just the characters fans have met from past seasons as Dark Winds makes way for additions like Jenna Elfman and Bruce Greenwood in exciting new roles. Below, Wirth teases where Season 3 is picking up, the newest characters joining the mix, and more on what fans can expect in an exclusive Q&A.

The second season of the AMC noir thriller, returning for its third installment on March 9, saw McClarnon's police lieutenant leaving John Diehl's B.J. Vines to freeze to death in the desert.

AMC Networks has shared a new Dark Winds Season 3 teaser trailer for the upcoming return of the hit thriller drama starring Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn. The next installment is scheduled to premiere on Sunday,

AMC’s second teaser for Dark Winds season three finds Leaphorn explaining that he was taught as a child that monsters walk the earth.

Dark Winds Season 3 premieres March 9, continuing the suspenseful journey of Lt. Leaphorn and Jim Chee as they solve a mysterious disappearance. With the return of familiar faces and the addition of new guest stars like Jenna Elfman,