‘The Thunder Man’ was an interesting second episode for the second season of Banshee. Described as “Carrie moves out of Banshee; Siobhan relives a nightmare; Lucas returns Proctor’s favour”, you know there’s going to be a lot going on. So let’s attack the main points of the Carrie storyline first…
Carrie is sentenced to 30 days in a prison that’s 200 miles away from Banshee and is given only a few hours to get her affairs in order before Lucas needs to surrender her. She goes to her house to see her children but Deva tells her to go away. It’s a little hardhearted, but can you blame Deva? When Lucas and Carrie arrive at the prison, he has a hard time walking through the gates. In the car, he tried to give her advice about not letting it get to her and that 30 days will be over in no time but his demeanour shows a duality to his words of wisdom. Granted, Lucas did spend 15 years in prison, but we haven’t seen how hard that time was for him until he had to walk back over the threshold again. He certainly didn’t waste any time getting out of there and Carrie didn’t waste any time in beating the crap out of another prisoner who got just a little too close. Should prove interesting in subsequent episodes.
So let’s take a little peek in on Rebecca, who is up to her old tricks and seeking out Lucas for a little one on one time. When she fails to find him at home, she ends up being kidnapped by Nola. That gives us a nice little segue to talk about Alex and his retribution toward Proctor—the (shameful and cruel) blowing up of a cattle truck at the slaughterhouse. When Proctor finds out that Rebecca is missing, he goes to Lucas looking for her only to find out that Alex has her. He asks Lucas to get her from the casino, as a way of repaying the favour of saving his life so Lucas has to agree. And he does, reluctantly. To make this long sequence shorter, Lucas goes to the casino, breaks in, fights lots of guys (the man in a machine!) and finds Rebecca. He convinces Alex to let her go and returns her to her uncle.
This is where things get a little more interesting. Proctor knows something’s up with Lucas, mainly because he never asked if Proctor robbed the armoured truck—part of the beef (see what I did there?) Alex has with him. There’s a part of me that thinks Proctor’s been able to figure out who actually did it and that’s going to be information he’ll use in a later episode.
Now we’ll fast forward a little bit to Alex entertaining in his hot tub… Proctor comes in with Burton (Yeah!! Burton’s alive!!) and dumps a bucket or two of freshly blown-up beef into the water with him and the lady he’s entertaining. Kind of gross, but I get it, I guess. It’s a message to Alex and one I don’t think he really understood.
So now we’ll move onto Siobhan who we already knew had a troubled past. But we learn this past involves an abusive ex-husband who rolls into town asking her to remove the restraining order so that he can get a job. Reluctantly she does and her reluctance is rewarded by his continual interference in her life. There’s some more abuse, but let me tell you, she gets her own back big time. Good for you Siobhan!
Now that leaves us with the combination which I have gathered from the opening sequence: 62-7-30-99. What the heck do the numbers stand for this time around? I have a few guesses…
62 – # of fights that don’t contain Lucas Hood
7 – # of severed cow heads or # of explosions
30 – # of deaths (not including cows) or # of days Carrie spends in jail (too easy in my book…)
99 – # of fights that contain Lucas Hood (everywhere this guy goes, he gets in a fight!)
What do you think the numbers stand for this season?
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