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The season's storyline needed him to be something more than just a nut job passing through he needed to convey an actual sense of terror and to create genuine tension, so that Veronica's arrival and the implications of Rebecca's murder could have greater impact on the final season as a whole.

Bode had a weird but convivial vibe to him вЂ“ especially when he was mixing some drinks while engaging in casual conversation with Veronica as she was waiting to have her heart cut out вЂ“ meaning he could have gone down in the annals of great Banshee weirdoes like Burton (or even the obese Brantley from 'A Fixer of Sorts'), but that wasn't to be. Bode and his horn implants, his devoted followers prone to setting themselves on fire and aiding and abetting in his ritualistic slaying of young women, then, fit the bill of a potentially great one-off episode, wherein Eliza Dushku's drug-addled FBI agent Veronica Dawson could step into the shoes of the great Dennis O'Hare when he walked into the life of one Lucas Hood as Agent Robert Phillips.ДЄll the ingredients for an off-kilter and memorable presentation were there.

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The series had always been adept at delivering offbeat elements that somehow felt congruous with the larger character arcs and themes running throughout the overarching idea of a man in search of an identity, so it was no surprise, then, that the show might try its hand at throwing the audience a curveball in its last go-round, one that would not only attempt to facilitate several satisfying endings for the cast of characters inhabiting the not-so-sleepy little Pennsylvania burg, but also work well within the behind-the-scenes changes, like the shift from filming in North Carolina to Pittsburgh, and the fact the series' usual season order of ten episodes had been cut to eight.Д«efore the season started, series co-creator Jonathan Tropper talked about some of Banshee's greatest hits, like ' The Truth About Unicorns' and ' A Fixer of Sorts' вЂ“ episodes from which a large part of the show's reputation for taking creative risks came from вЂ“ and likened the season 4 plot of a Satan-worshipping serial killer within the Banshee city limits to an extended, multi-hour version of one of those unconventional hours.

With its reputation for being a pulpy, eccentric, and often-terrific crime series, Banshee stepped into its final season with considerable expectations.