Big Hill

**Big Hill** is a lighthorseman known for his patience with petty criminals as well as for his superstitious nature.

## History

### Run-Ins with Deer Lady

As a child, Big watched as Deer Lady got into a car with Bunnie Tiger. His grandma then sent him to the store to buy her cigarettes. While he was there, he had to use the bathroom. He was in the bathroom when the store was robbed and Deer Lady killed the two robbers, then came to the bathroom to give Big toilet paper.

He met Deer Lady again at his grandmother's funeral, where she told him she was friends with his grandmother and he needn't worry about her killing him as she only killed bad men. All he had to do was stay good.

### Spotting Bigfoot

When Big was a teen, he was out in the woods with his Playboy collection when he spotted a family of Bigfoots. They stared at each other for a while and then the Bigfoots left.

### Cookie's Death

On the day that Cookie died, Big saw her boyfriend leave a convenience store drunk and get on the motorcycle with her. He followed them and pulled them over, but they took off when they saw it was just him. He chased them again, but before he could get them, they crashed and he found Cookie dead in the road as the motorcycle burned nearby.

### Truck Theft

Big came to Bear's house in order to question Bear, Elora, Willie Jack, and Cheese about a chip truck that was stolen. They denied any knowledge of the theft, even though they were selling bags of chips. He told them there'd been an increase in crime lately. He told them he was worried about the crime, but more worried about Deer Lady being spotted in the area, attempting to scare them.

Big was confused later to find a field full of dead catfish.

### Clinic Day

Big came to the clinic one Monday. He went inside and attempted to flirt with Rita Smallhill, who brushed him off. Then he went to get an energy drink out of the vending machine while simultaneously lecturing Bear on getting a sugary soda, calling sugar the white man's bullets. Big then went outside, where Willie Jack and Elora were selling meat pies. He asked if they had onions and cringed when Willie Jack said yes, because onions give him gas. Big then saw that Cheese was eating some chips of the same type that were in the stolen truck and asked him about it. Mose covered for Cheese, saying he'd given Cheese the chips. Despite his misgivings, Big ended up buying a meat pie, which he regretted when it gave him gas just after he broke up a fight between the NDN Mafia and the Rez Dogs.

### Cheese's Ride Along

Cheese wanted to become a detective, so he started by doing a ride along with the tribal police. When the lighthorseman who was supposed to take him got sick, Big stepped in to show Cheese the ropes. Their first stop was the Orpheum, where Bucky was sleeping on a bench. Big asked if he was lived on the streets, but he said he wasn't and lived nearby. He was just reading a book on string theory and fell asleep. When Cheese asked where his book was, he said someone must have stolen it. Big and Cheese went to leave, but Joe Bob and Marion, Okern cops, pulled up and taunted Big about driving an old car and not being a real cop. Big told Cheese that those were the kind of people who became detectives, so Cheese should become a lighthorseman instead.

Big then took Cheese to the field where he'd found the catfish heads. They'd been disappearing and reappearing, which Big though was because of Bigfoot. Cheese asked why Big became a lighthorseman and Big said that was personal and he'd never told anyone.

Dispatch sent them to Village 2, where Ray Ray had called in about something. They went to Ray Ray's, where he showed them a copper figurine that had just shown up at his place. His neighbors had the same thing happen. Big questioned all the neighbors and gathered the figurines.

While examining the figurines in the car, Dispatch told them to be on the lookout for a baby blue pickup that had been stolen. They pulled over the NDN Mafia, who had a broken taillight and Cheese tried to get Big to let him spray them with mace, but Big refused.

Big and Cheese went to the scrapyard to question Kenny Boy about the copper. Kenny Boy denied knowing anything about it, but Ansel revealed that some copper had been stolen from them.

Big and Cheese were eating when the baby blue pickup sped through an intersection in front of them. They followed it as the driver followed all traffic laws, but didn't pull over. Cheese finally used the radio to tell Bucky, who was driving, to pull over or be shot. Bucky pulled over, then moved over and pretended to be the passenger. Big knew he'd been driving and asked him about stealing the truck. Bucky claimed it wasn't stolen because the owners weren't using it. He also admitted to placing the figurines around town, saying they were for protection. They fought diseases like cholera. Cheese looked that up and found it was true. Bucky had stolen the copper from some meth heads, whom he said were destroying the town with their drugs. Big told Bucky to take the truck back and stop putting the figurines around town. When Cheese asked Big why he didn't arrest Bucky, Big said Bucky was one of the good guys and Big was after bad guys. Cheese decided that maybe being a lighthorseman could be pretty cool, prompting Big to tell him why he'd become one, a story of meeting Deer Lady as a child and her telling him that he was safe from her as long as he was a good man.

### Tornado

Big pulled over Brownie, who was riding on a lawn mower that he had stolen. Brownie was searching for an ax because he knew a tornado was coming and said he could make it go away if he just had an ax. While they were talking, hail started falling, forcing them to seek shelter on a porch. Big told Brownie to take the lawn mower back and Big went to the church to seek shelter from the tornado.

In the church basement, Big showed Leon Sampson a video which he claimed proved the moon landing was faked. Later, when Willie Jack stood up and called everyone's attention to celebrate her parents' wedding anniversary, Big said he remembered before they were married. They later left the basement to find the tornado had missed their town.

### Catfish

Big was bewildered when catfish heads started appearing in a field.

### Mabel's Death

Big was among those who gathered at Mabel's house as she was dying. He sat on the couch next to Cleo and shared conspiracy videos, though they didn't convince Cleo. Big was surprised when Teenie arrived. She asked him if he ever got married and he told her he hadn't. They talked about how Cookie's death split up their group while Mabel's was bringing them back together.

### Rescuing Cheese

Big came to the group home to get Cheese after he'd been arrested and detained there. Big said he had to handcuff him. Cheese asked if he could talk shit about Big as he did and Big said that was fine, but when Cheese called him a child molester, he told him to knock it off.

Once they got to Big's car, Big uncuffed Cheese and Cheese climbed into the front seat. Big said he was taking him to his next placement and dropped him off at Grandma Irene's house, where she was waiting along with his friends.

### Acid Trip

Big started to nod off as Sgt. Parker went over the recent crime in the area. Among other things, a shipment of catfish had been stolen from Rob 'n' Cleo's. Parker believed the methheads were responsible and sent Big to check it out.

Big went to the scrapyard and asked Kenny Boy if he knew anything about the stolen catfish. Then he grabbed a nearby bottle of soda and chugged it. Once he was done, Kenny Boy's brother told him the bottle was dosed. Big was horrified and ran outside, where he made himself vomit, though they told him it was too late. Big ran away from the scrapyard. Kenny Boy drank some of the soda himself and followed him.

In the woods, Big started hallucinating, seeing his grandmother and Deer Lady. Kenny Boy helped Big stay safe as they rode out their highs. Then they heard men chanting in the distance. They found a group of men wearing catfish masks standing in front of a giant owl sculpture. Big knew they were the midstreamers, a group of white men who believed they were the rightful heirs of all Indian territory. They watched in horror as four of the men, the new initiates, stripped nude and masturbated with catfish. Big pulled out his gun and confronted them, but they didn't recognized him as a real cop. The leader took off his mask, revealing himself as Governor Wilson, and had the guards take Big and Kenny Boy away.

When Big came to again, he and Kenny Boy were zip tied together, hugging a tree. They were soon rescued by Deer Lady, who said Cookie had told her they needed help. She killed the guards and freed them. Big called for backup and they went back to find the midstreamers. They went back and arrested all of them with help from the backup.

As they were all taken away, Kenny Boy told Big he was a good man. Big said Kenny Boy was lucky Big didn't arrest him.

### IHS Visit and Flirting with Bev

Big came to the IHS for some kind of exam. While he was waiting in the exam room, nude from the waist down, he watched a UFO video on his phone. Bev heard him talking and came in, getting a glance of him naked. He came to the desk after he was done and flirted with Bev, who appreciated what she'd seen.

### Camping Trip

At the request of Irene, Big, along with Bucky and Brownie, took Cheese on a camping trip to get him out of the house when she noticed he was avoiding his friends. They took him out to the woods and taught him to fish and to notice and enjoy the nature around him. After they ate, Cheese, bewildered by the elders' declaration that they would just sit around, started a feelings circle. He shared that he was generally happy and then passed the stick to Brownie and Bucky, who expressed similar feelings. Finally, Big said he'd lost two friends and put it all on himself. As a man, he was taught not to feel things and he regretted not doing more. He started crying and Bucky and Brownie soon followed, telling Cheese that Cheese reminded them of their friend, Maximus, whom they lost because they didn't believe him and allowed it to divide them. With all three men sobbing, Cheese declared the feelings circle a success and promised not to become like Maximus. He called his friends, who brought Sonic and joined them in the woods.

### Interrogations

When Big learned that the Rez Dogs, with help from Ansel and Kenny Boy, had driven to Tulsa and busted Maximus Fixico out of the hospital, he brought them all in for interrogations. He questioned them about that day. Most of them denied their involvement. When Willie Jack told him the truth, that Maximus had come willingly, as he was allowed to do, Big didn't believe her. At the end of the day, Kenny Boy took full responsibility for what had happened, claiming the kids were never even there.

### Fixico's Funeral

When Old Man Fixico died, Big was one of the many who came to mourn him. He thanked Fixico for introducing him to a book when paying his respects. When the time came to dig the grave, Big debated with Vinny over the size of the hole they needed and Vinny told Big not to tell him how to do his job. After the burial, Big and Bev sneaked off and hooked up in the woods.

## Personality

He is is an oblivious tribal cop, a.k.a. lighthorseman, who has a keen interest in conspiracy theories, supernatural occurrences and Bear's mom, Rita Smallhill. Big may seem tough, but ultimately has a sensitive side, especially when it comes to his community.

## Notes and Trivia

* He's a fan of Redbone and calls his car Redbone 1 after them.
* He says he has Mariko Aoki.
* He claims to have had group sex at Baptist church camp when he was 12.

## Appearances

 **#02** | "NDN Clinic"
 **#03** | "Uncle Brownie"

## References

1. ↑ Come and Get Your Love, 1x05
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frankfurter Sandwich, 3x06
3. ↑ This is Where the Plot Thickens, 2x08
4. ↑ F\*ckin' Rez Dogs, 1x01
5. ↑ NDN Clinic, 1x02
6. ↑ Come and Get Your Love, 1x05
7. ↑ Satvrday, 1x08
8. ↑ The Curse, 2x01
9. ↑ Mabel, 2x04
10. ↑ Stay Gold Cheesy Boy, 2x07
11. ↑ This is Where the Plot Thickens, 2x08
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Friday, 3x04
13. ↑ Send It, 3x08
14. ↑ Dig, 3x10
15. ↑ Come and Get Your Love, 1x05
16. ↑ Mabel, 2x04
17. ↑ Mabel, 2x04