Weaving the narrative together is imperative when launching a new show.

When you dont stack the ingredients correctly, the final result will not be as palatable.

But the chefs running Banshee are no slouches in the kitchen.

(By the way, thats a metaphor; there is not really a kitchen.)

After taking off the hood in the prison laundry room, Mr. Rabbit is waiting.

He is the one who ordered this decisive action.

He looks like that jacked-up alien from last summers Prometheus; but scary as hell.

Hood is beaten to within an inch of his life and is in recovery when he meets Wicks.

A drifter and career criminal, Wicks has been in and out of institutions his whole life.

But he is a narcotics dealer on the inside and is untouchable by rapist maniacs like The Albino.

Hood offers him a deal that The Albino says would interfere with his deal with Mr. Rabbit.

He does not kill him though; he just wants to make The Albinos favorite plaything suffer.

Slowly Hood is getting stronger and stronger and he knows what has to be done.

Thinking that it is all done, Hood heads back to Banshee.

Unbeknownst to Hood, Wicks does not get on the truck to Pittsburgh.

Hood once more comes to his old friends aid, saving him from Native American justice.

You get the feeling that Sugar and Hood, both ex-cons themselves know how this is going to end.

Carrie/Anastasia calls her father, Mr. Rabbit, and tells him she is ready to bring Hood to him.

Her double life is crumbling as her son Max needs a new lung following a terrible asthma attack.

Proctor is blackmailing a local reverend who will not sell his land for the casino expansion.

Proctor then threatens to release the pictures and the video.

The reverend says, Theres a video?

Proctor retorts, there is always a video.

Looks like the man of God is moving after all.

The show misdirects back into Hoods past where he has just gotten out of the hole.

The Albino, razor in hand, forces Hood to get on his knees.

New kid in town wins.

It was absolutely brutal and taut with tension and heightened fear.

This certainly explains the nightmares and images Hood has suffered throughout the season.