Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Dark Winds Season 3 Episode 6.Throughout Season 3 of the AMC+ hit show Dark Winds, showrunner Graham Roland has been teasing the true nature of the monster plaguing Sheriff Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McLarnon). The ancient Navajo legend of the Ye'iitsoh monster symbolized different things as the season progressed, but it turns out that the mythical monster was a metaphor for something far more sinister and gutwrenching than any of us believed. The audience had been led to believe that the entity haunting Leaphorn was a version of the ancient Navajo monster known as Ye'iitsoh that had tormented the Diné people of the region for centuries. There were also theories abounding that it was Joe's underlying guilt over what he did to BJ Vines (John Diehl) at the end of Season 2 that was giving him nightmarish visions threatening to ruin his long marriage to Emma (Deanna Taushi Allison) and drive him insane. As the episodes piled up through Season 3, and the tension building within Joe just kept ratcheting up, it should have been clear that what had been tormenting the troubled sheriff was something far more serious with lasting repercussions.