Hanzee Dent

Ohanzee "Hanzee" Dent is a fictional character in the FX television series Fargo. He appears very briefly in the first season, played by Mark Acheson, and then as a supporting character in season two set 27 years earlier, played by Zahn McClarnon. 2Character overview Hanzee is a mysterious Native American tracker and hitman working for the Gerhardt family having been adopted by Otto Gerhardt at a young age. Similar to Coen (or Coen-esque) villains like Anton Chigurh and Lorne Malvo, he fits the "unstoppable killer" archetype, having been responsible for several deaths during the war against Kansas City and the search for the Blumquists. However, despite seemingly being cold and remorseless, he is shown to be a complex person with a complicated, tragic backstory, suffering from the racism and ill treatment of various countrymen. When he stops by a bar en route to Sioux Falls, he happens upon a plaque outside the bar boasting about deaths of 22 Sioux Indians who were hung there, with a puddle of vomit below. He endures bigotry from the bartender despite informing him of his service in Vietnam which prompts him to kill the bartender, a few racist bar patrons and two state police officers, although one officer survived and was left in critical condition, mentioned by Lou in a previous episode. On his character's sudden betrayal of his employers, McClarnon stated "Hanzee had an agenda from the beginning. There are multiple moments that happen throughout the show that suggest he wanted to become more of an individual. I really think, though, that Hanzee is planning something from the get-go." 2Role in the series 3Season 1 Hanzee appears in two scenes in season on