Where was Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) for the entirety of Daredevil: Born Again Season 2? That’s a question that inevitably kept popping up as the Punisher’s absence throughout Wilson Fisk’s war against vigilantes became more glaring. Shouldn’t one of New York’s most infamous vigilantes be number one on the Anti-Vigilante Task Force’s list? Especially after he brutally murdered a bunch of them for wearing his insignia at the end of Season 1? But no, apart from a mention every now and then, Frank was a non-entity for the second season of Born Again.

The Punisher: One Last Kill, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and penned by both Green and Bernthal himself, seemed like it would answer this question. But instead, the 44-minute TV special delivers both more and less than what fans may have expected — it’s both an intense, intimate character study, and a relentlessly action-packed gorefest. But one thing is very apparent for both parts of One Last KillI: it’s way too short.