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Originally Posted by omega2K4
I didn't see much of the first season, but have been watching most of the 2nd season. Who exactly is "Management" and what the hell happened to him? He's all deformed.
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KMA summed it up pretty well. We don't know exactly who management is, but we can make some pretty good guesses.
In the first season, Ben kept having these dreams set in the trenches of World War I. Scudder and this Russian soldier seemed to be hunting each other. In one of the dreams (and I hope I get this right) the Russian is mauled by a bear. In another dream, Lodz, the blind man Ben killed at the end of the first season to save the snake lady, Ruthie, seemed to be the owner of that bear. The dreams are all symbolic, so I seriously doubt Lodz' bear really escaped some carnival and mauled the Russian in the middle of a firefight in World War I, but it's certainly something to remember. Later dreams showed the Russian soldier 'recovering' from his encounter. He lost one of his arms and both of his legs. This season we found out that Management was that Russian soldier whose name was Belyakov.
I don't want to get too far off the track, but the interesting thing about Ben's dreams was the fact that he always seemed to see things through Management's eyes and never through Scudder's. Which implies, at least to me, that even though Ben is Scudder's son, it is Management's role that Ben has to assume, which is why it was important that Ben was the one to kill Managment.