Kai's fate
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Cotton-mouth — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 08:03 PM)
I meant suicide run the way some do the suicide by cop thing. Proctor can't really put a gun to his own head, but this way of going out against the Cartel, making them work for it, would be the way for him reconcile the gaping emptiness that his life had become. Betrayed by his most trusted right hand man, having lost the one hope for a legacy in his life, forsaken by his people, shunned by his own father, left behind in the torment of his bitter loneliness, Proctor had no other out. None!
Hood's smiling, happy journey on the open road was the flip side of what Proctor had become. He had finally shaken the weight of his past, the regret, the anger, the guilt, the bitterness of a lost 15 yrs, the loss of that great once in a lifetime love, being denied the chance to have embraced a wife of his own, to hold his own child in his arms as sign of something greater than himself. By the end, Hood has shaken his dependence on the need to be someone else, he had finally emerged to become himself, feeling a true, genuine connectedness to others (Sugar, Job, Carrie, Devaeven Brock).
Proctor on the other hand, had no one, none left that he called friend, none to care for selflessly, none to rest his quiet confidence of assured, faithful camaraderie in. -
BrunoAntony — 9 years ago(June 01, 2016 10:50 PM)
Logically, he'd be dead.
Personally, I'd prefer to have seen a massive Scarface-style gory shootout with Kai dying on a mountain of his enemies bodies.
But it was obviously left ambiguous intentionally, like the ultimate fate of the rest of the main characters.
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chipe — 9 years ago(June 04, 2016 08:52 PM)
Yes, but earlier on the same page ( https://connect.hbo.com/influence/qa/ask-banshee-creator-jonathan-tropper ), there is this Q and A:
Q: Was Proctor's final scene meant to be ambiguous?
Tropper: No. It was meant to be more like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You know he gets killed, but we dont want to show it. -
kimmostar — 9 years ago(July 19, 2016 08:01 AM)
We can assume he either died or will die soon. The jig was up. He had nowhere left to go, and Kai Proctor isn't the type of guy to cut and run. Then again, he's Kai Proctor so if you really want him to survive, you can decide it to be so.