FBI area supervisor Simmons asks the Navajo Tribal Police to help locate Andrew Thomas, a federal agent who disappeared after interrupting a Navajo ritual being performed by a group of medicine men or hataaliis. Simmons voices his displeasure when Special Investigator Ella Clah is assigned to the case he believes that Ella became an FBI agent, more than a decade earlier, due to affirmative action-and that she left because the job was too tough for her.Ella ignores Simmons pettiness, knowing that finding the missing man is the highest priority. She wont allow family issues to get in the way, so she asks her daughters father to become a full-time parent for the duration of her investigation. She even questions her brother, a hataalii himself, about Agent Thomas.
