Season 1, Episode 9 of Cinemax’s Banshee sets us up for one heck of a finale .

Bansheecontinues to be one of the best new shows of 2013 as we head into the home stretch.

Hood has returned to the carnage and rushes Carrie to the hospital in the back of his squad car.

She is a bloodied mess, bleeding internally as well.

District Attorney Gordon is officially at his boiling point.

The stark differences between the two plays out in hilarity as the odd couple exchange barbs.

Whether this is just a vision or a memory is yet to be determined.

Either way it is pretty damn creepy.

You just know that the small army Rabbit has assembled is preparing to descend upon Banshee.

She just has that feeling that Rabbit and company will surely try and snatch them up as collateral.

She rushes to Maxs school in a hospital gown, bleedin, frantically looking for her son.

As she gets to the classroom Carrie sees that it is empty and the kids are at recess.

After Hood fesses up to doing the deed with young Rebecca, another awesome fight scene ensues.

The fight choreography is again superb and Banshee outdoes itself with their realistic and bloody battles.

Somehow they have struck an accord amidst the chaos.

Max is being held somewhere on the outskirts of Banshee and is suffering from his chronic asthma.

Back at the Hopewell residence Carrie unearths a suitcase buried in the backyard.

The suitcase is filled with her old life; guns, guns and more guns.

Gordon startles her asking how long that has been there and ifanythingabout her is real.

Carrie pulls a gun on Rabbit and suddenly worlds are colliding.

The past is quickly catching up to the present and the future looks scary.

Carrie, Gordon and Deva plead with Rabbit to return Max safely home.

Carrie transforms back into Anastasia and she begins to converse with Rabbit in Russian.

Clearly he was not just some hired gun, judging by the boss reaction.

The giant man used to work for Proctor, but they parted ways under a haze of mystery.

Also, Longshadows mysterious and comely sister somehow has a hand in the tribes future.

There is nothing sexier than a hot babe and a blade.

It is Rabbit and this looks to be the end of the road.

After he exits I noticed something in Hoods eyes I had not seen all season: fear.

He simply mutters Shit and the episode ends .

I have to say thatBansheehas really done an outstanding job setting up their first season finale.

The characters are broadly intriguing on so many levels and there are no throwaway scenes.