Banshee Recap Season 3 Episode 3: “A Fixer of Sorts”

In the latest Banshee recap, Hood’s past catches up to him once again, the Redbones storm the Savoy Gentlemen’s Club and Nola Longshadow and Clay Burton fight to the death…

By Michael Stets — Staff Writer

If there is one thing to learn about the town of Banshee, it’s that the past will often come back to bite many a character in the ass, mainly Sheriff Lucas Hood. For

No matter how far the man who took on the identity of the dead lawman who proceeded his reign as head of Banshee’s police force moves forward, he can never achieve a comfortable distance away from his past. Dark clouds are often hovering over him. Taking over a town under an assumed identity wasn’t going to come easy and several repercussions have already occurred due to that fact, on top of his criminal past lurking over his shoulder.

At the end of the first season, the video of Hood fighting an MMA fighter made the rounds on Youtube and the son of the real Lucas Hood, Jason, realized it was not his actual father. Jason made his way to Banshee in Season 2 to confront Hood and in turn, brought some heat along with him: a large debt owed to a very dangerous man.

In the sixth episode of Season 2: “Armies of One,” the associates of Raymond Walton Brantley, who Jason owed the debt to, came into town looking for him. Hood felt he owed the kid a favor and in exchange for keeping his identity safe, Hood took out a very dangerous assassin known as Quentin. Jason never listened and despite getting a fake ID from Job to start a new life, he hung around too long, slept with Rebecca and ended up getting killed by Proctor.

In the latest episode, “A Fixer of Sorts,” Brantley comes into town to collect that debt, but that isn’t the only problem for Hood, because what would Banshee be if Hood couldn’t juggle more than one at a time?

After the intro of Chayton Littlestone hunting a deer and then snapping its neck (yes, you read that correctly) the episode opens as the last one ended, with Deva leaving Hood’s apartment. Hood opens the door to a gun pointed in his face. Special Agent Robert Phillips (Denis O’Hare) has picked up the investigation that Special Agent Racine could not finish and tracked down the man posing as the Sheriff of Banshee. He takes Hood away in handcuffs to go back to NY.

“You don’t seem surprised to have a gun in your face. Seems you’ve had had a life of looking over your shoulder.”—Special Agent Phillips tells Hood

At the Proctor residence, Clay Burton is tiding up outside with a power washer, cleaning up from the blood shed with the Redbones gang, when a hatchet comes flying out of the woods and lands safely inside of his shoulder, knocking back into the garage door. That is the weapon of choice which belongs to Nola Longshadow, the smoking-hot, deadly assassin from the Kinaho reservation. Burton pulls the weapon from is body while the Nola tells him her plans to murder him, Proctor and Rebecca, who she refers to as the “Little House on the Prairie niece.”

One of the most violent, intense and bloody battles in the shows history commences in Proctor’s driveway in and around his Rolls Royce. Kudos upon kudos should be bestowed upon fight coordinator Marcus Young for this episode’s fight scene. Young has brought his “A” game since Season 1, and has choreographed one epic fight scene after another. There are no cheesy David Hasselhoff jump kicks from Knight Rider on Banshee. The fighting is very involved as it is creative. Steak sauce bottles rammed down throats, arms getting snapped in half, and a healthy dose of a variety of fighting styles from Filipino Martial arts to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu are included in the melting pot of brutality among the men and the women who all throw down with conviction and authority.

Nola and Clay get after it in a rapid-paced fight scene that lasted over four minutes in length. Nola tried in vain to take out Proctor’s loyal right-hand man, but she found him to be a more worthy adversary than she expected. The fight went inside the Rolls Royce and the two broke windows with missed kicks and punches. Nola put holes in the roof with the hatchet and also flattened a tire when she missed, but she sliced and diced Clay during their deadly battle with some nasty results. Clay managed to grab a scalpel from his briefcase in the trunk (which featured a plethora of weapons to either kill or dissect a frog) to even up the flesh-wound score. When Nola went in for the finishing blow, Clay broke off the hood ornament on the Rolls and buried it deep into her throat. He then reached in with his hand and ripped her throat out, ending her life.

Sidebar: This was a major disappointment for me, because I really enjoyed Odette Annable in this role and felt a character like a super-hot Native American assassin, should be kept around for both eye candy and more epic fight scenes. Annable was terrific and she will be sorely missed.

Hood and Special Agent Phillips stopped off at a gas stop along their way to New York. While taking a trip to the bathroom, Hood frees one hand from his handcuffs and knocks the agent out. As he grabs the keys to get his other hand free, he is hit with 10,000 volts from a taser. When Hood awakens, he and Phillips are introduced to the heavy set character known as Raymond Walton Brantley, who wants Jason Hood and wants his money. The Banshee Sheriff tries to open the door and run out, but almost falls onto the highway, as he discovers he is on the back of a semi turned into a moving residence (who thinks of this stuff?).

Hood gets zip tied to a chair and is being interrogated and coerced with fists to give up the whereabouts of Jason Hood and the money. Hood tells him Jason is dead and that he will give him the money if taken back into town. The truck stops and the Brantley’s henchmen take Phillips into the woods to tie up any loose ends, leaving Hood behind. Hood sets himself free by breaking off the arm of the chair, and impales Brantley’s throat with it, before sending him through the trap door to be run over by his speeding tractor-trailer office. He then kills the driver via shotgun and takes off on a dirt bike back toward Banshee.

At this point in the day, Siobhan has already told Brock she hasn’t heard from Hood and also showed up at The Forge to tell Sugar the same thing.

“The only thing I know for sure about you is who you are not, and you are not Lucas Hood. Isn’t that right?—Brantley tells Hood after capturing him.

Proctor, who hasn’t really been involved much this season, is caring for his terminally-ill mother and seems to be growing closer to Emily Lotus (Brock’s ex-wife). Emily has been hired to be the Hospice care taker for his mother and she is now offering moral support and joint prayer with Proctor as well. Later on in the episode, Proctor’s father comes to see his mother and he let’s his father in without any argument.

Sugar and Job were busy stealing magnetic-card IDs at a company called Sterling Industries, in preparation for their planned heist of the military base. They unintentionally showcased how funny a buddy cop show would be starring the two of them. They really are quite hilarious on screen together and have developed a great chemistry.

“Some people, you can know them before you know about them.”—Sugar tells Siobhan

Despite the urging of Chayton that he was not ready, Tommy disobeys his brother’s wishes and heads into Banshee with four of his cronies to wreck one of Proctor’s businesses: The Savoy Gentlemen’s Club. Tommy and the others break in and start shooting the place up and killing the security guards. Coincidentally, Brock happens to be in the building getting a lap dance and sharing his issues about his ex-wife to one of the strippers. Brock makes the call to notify Siobhan and the newest deputy, Billy Raymond (Chaske Spencer) about the “211 in progress.”

Brock holds his own until the other two deputies arrive. As Siobhan is cuffing Tommy Littlestone, he tries to stab her, but Billy shoots him dead. This clearly shakes him up, as he is from the Kinaho reservation and knew Tommy very well. Not to mention, the death of his brother will unleash the fury of Chayton upon Banshee. As they are sorting out the mess of the Savoy, Brock says what they are all wondering about their M.I.A. Sheriff, “where the f**k is Hood?”

On his way back to Banshee, Hood lets his conscious get the better of him and saves Special Agent Phillips from getting murdered. He takes out the two men with the shotgun and frees Phillips in exchange for keeping quiet about the investigation on him the agent tried to revive. However, Phillips tells him he dropped off a file at the Cadi, that could destroy his current life if any of the others find out.

“Where the fuck is Hood?”—Brock asks Siobhan and Billy

The episode hits its climax with a montage of Hood heading back on the dirt bike to Banshee, Proctor, Clay and Rebecca observing the wreckage of The Savoy, and the old surveillance tapes of Detective Julius Bonner interrogating Hood on the night of the botched diamond heist that got him locked up for 15 years.

Hood pulls up to Siobhan’s trailer and walks inside. She has been watching the interrogation videos on Hood and has all the files that Phillips left at the Cadi open on the floor. She is clearly taken back and shaken up at what she has discovered about the man she has fallen in love with. She looks up at Hood and says, “who the hell are you?”

The info Siobhan now has on Hood could either damn him or pull them closer together, depending on how she reacts to it. That will be a huge turn in the narrative going forward. Billy Raymond has undoubtedly kicked the hornet’s nest in regards to shooting Tommy Littlestone, and Chayton is going to unleash hell once he finds out his brother has been killed. Let’s not forget that Chayton is already hell-bent on killing Proctor for the murder of Alex Longshadow. Once he finds out about Nola and his brother Tommy, all bets are off. On the flip side, Proctor will be looking for payback after the Redbones wrecked The Savoy. Three episodes are in the books for Season 3 and this town is just getting warmed up.

Bonus:

In the post-credits scene, Billy is chanting a Native American prayer over Tommy Littlestone’s dead body at the coroner.

Music:

The song playing during the closing montage is called “Can’t Play Nice (Devil at Your Door)” by Frally Hynes. (Apologies, but no video link could be found)

Tweets:

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— Matthew Rauch (@mattyrauch) January 24, 2015

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— Odette Annable (@OdetteAnnable) January 24, 2015