“A Fixer of Sorts” isn’t just settling for one instantly-iconic fight scene and character death, however Hood’s entire past comes back to haunt him throughout the hour in the form of a slimy FBI agent (hey, Dennis O’Hare!), and the show’s most ludicrously awesome antagonist yet (taking the title from ol’ Pasty back in season one), Raymond Walton Brantley. It speaks to how well each character’s been developed by Nola’s final moments the final image in her mind is Chayton saving her from whatever weird drugged-out life she was living, a powerful send off for a character who was just starting to get interesting (and considering her newfound friendship with Ana, intriguing outside her Native American-based conflicts). Of the two, Nola’s arguably the more complex character Burton’s in-the-moment flashbacks only give him a background vaguely similar to the weird self-flagellater from The Da Vinci Code, a particular bit of history I don’t really need his character to have.
The only downside to the fight were the stakes established with Nola’s blade buried in Burton’s chest one of these awesome secondary characters was going to die, which happens when Burton yanks Nola’s throat from her neck (hands down the most gruesome image I’ve ever seen on television, followed closely by Burton getting a stitch later on). Ana as the greatest fight Banshee‘s ever staged, a fight that takes place around, inside, and on top of Kai’s familiar Rolls-Royce.
Forget about the Mortal Kombat ending Burton vs. Perhaps the most impressive feature of “A Fixer of Sorts” is how it turns Banshee‘s always-brutal violence into works of art. There isn’t a show that turns the dial to 11 like Bansheedoes and “A Fixer of Sorts” is wall-to-wall awesome, an episode that shows off the show’s acting, direction, production, and writing, all in one, swift, blood-drenched package. The beginning of “A Fixer of Sorts” is like a hyperactive wolf on a leash the heat has barely left Leah Proctor’s body before Nola’s hatchet comes flying out of the woods, burying itself in Burton’s shoulder and kicking off one of the most insanely relentless hours of television you’ll ever watch.
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