Joe Leaphorn tracks FBI agent Jay Kennedy down at the Frontier Restaurant in Albuquerque, NM.
Joe Leaphorn reveals in his conversation with Taka Ji that he graduated from Arizona State University.
The two main characters are supposed to be Navajo, but are Saulteaux Plains Ojibwe (Adam Beach/Officer Jim Chee) and Cherokee (Wes Studi/Detective Joe Leaphorn).