

What I came to understand, over the course of writing the show, was that this guy who doesn’t have a name, who we called Lucas Hood, went to prison when he was so young that he never really became anyone and the minute he got out of jail, he assumed another fake identity. I was pretty sure I knew how it would end, and we made a real pivot away from that quickly. I always felt that the Lucas Hood story was a tragedy and I always felt that ultimately his redemption lay in sacrifice. No, I had a very different idea of how it would end and that only changed as we were finishing up the third season.

Tropper says his plan for Lucas persisted until the end of filming for season 3, after which he started to reconsider what the show was really about and where the character's arc should end up:
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Agent Dawson reveals that she's figured out Hood's real identity in the series finale, and Hood departs Banshee for a new destination. Identity is a recurring theme on Banshee as Lucas attempts to build a life without leaving a footprint. Despite himself, Hood gets involved in crime and searches for Rabitov's daughter Anastasiya (Ivana Miličević). The show follows Lucas's tenure living under a false identity in the remote town of Banshee, PA. Lucas ends up on Igor Rabitov's hit list for stealing from him and working in cahoots with his daughter, but lockup temporarily shields him from "Mr. The pulp-inspired action thriller about a formerly incarcerated man living under a false identity aired from 2013-2016 with four seasons total.Īfter being released from prison, the show's main character goes by the name Lucas Hood (played by Anthony Starr) to evade a gang leader (Ben Cross) who's out to get him. Four years after the series finale aired, the creator of Cinemax's underrated crime drama Bansheereveals how it could have ended differently.
