Legends of the Fall

Content Warning: The source material contains descriptions of physical abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking, drug use, and murder. In addition, it utilizes offensive stereotypes of Indigenous Americans. Characters are also frequently referred to by their ethnicity. These terms are replicated in the guide only in direct quotes from the source material.

Cochran arrives in Durango and meets Amador, a former Dallas police officer and the pilot's brother's trusted friend. At the airport, an American actress grows upset about her lost cat before finding the carrier on a baggage wagon. Cochran talks to her and calms her down. Amador admonishes him, telling him that if he draws too much attention, Tibey will find him. Cochran checks into a hotel in Durango while Amador looks for a suitable house to rent and begins looking for information about the whereabouts of Miryea. Amador told Cochran about her month-long imprisonment at the brothel, but he does not know what happened to her after that. To keep up his cover while they look for Miryea, Cochran and Amador visit movie sets and look at real estate. On one movie set, Cochran sees the actress he met at the airport.

Tibey finds the man whom Miryea stabbed at the brothel. He acts as if he is going to kill the man, but instead tells him to leave town and gives him a lead on a job in another city. Miryea is still in the asylum but has withdrawn from the children she cared for and from life itself. One of Tibey's men recognizes Cochran on a movie set and reports to Tibey. The man enters the room with Tibey's bullmastiff, who has bitten off the hand of a boy who tried to poach a duck. In the past, Tibey would not have been bothered, but now he considers killing the dog. Instead, he gives the boy's family a large monthly allowance, moves them into a bigger house, and gives the father a job. Tibey responds to the news that Cochran is in the area by saying they should just watch him and kill him if he comes near.

Cochran moves into a villa but his stay in Durango is starting to look suspicious. Amador cannot find Miryea and suggests that Cochran invite the actress to dinner to allay suspicion about his identity and purpose. She comes to dinner, and they develop a platonic friendship. In the end, she moves into the villa. Miryea develops a fever and the mother superior meets with Tibey's man to request a doctor for her. Amador's nephew is watching the man and sees the meeting with the nun. Finally, Amador and Cochran learn of Miryea's location. They pack bags and leave the villa to confront Tibey and find Miryea.

Cochran and Amador travel to Tibey's hunting cabin. They wait in the truck overnight and, at dawn, Amador goes into the hills with his rifle. Cochran positions himself along the trail Tibey normally travels. When Tibey and his man ride up, they immediately recognize Cochran. Amador shoots the other man from his position in the hills. Tibey gets off his horse and points a gun at Cochran but then throws it away. He asks for an apology from Cochran, who gives it to him. Amador comes down from his position and the three of them go to the nunnery.

At the nunnery, Tibey introduces Cochran as Miryea's husband. The doctor has already arrived and says Miryea is unlikely to live. Cochran sits by her bedside for three days. On the third day, she regains consciousness. He carries her down to the garden and talks to her about their future, imagining a life and child for them in Seville. Miryea sings the folk song that she sang at dinner the night they first met, and then she dies.