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The bat-brandishing “Capone” continues with his bang-up reviews of “The Shield’s” final season. After tonight, only seven installments to go …
Hello again everyone. Capone in Chicago here in Coaxial. There are seven episodes and counting in "The Shield's" Final Act.
When last we left Vic Mackey, he was confronting Agent Murray about where her true loyalties lie. He also found out his daughter had arranged a major drug and sex party for her high school class mates. And Danni was serving him papers from her attorney giving full custody of their son over to her.
Title?
ANIMAL CONTROL
Writer?
Writing partners John Hlavin & Angela Russo, who both wrote one other upcoming episode this season, as well of episodes of "Day Break" and "E-Ring."
Director?
Gwyneth Horder-Payton, director of three previous episodes of this show (including one earlier this season), as well as episodes of "The Riches" and "Bionic Woman"; first assistant director of 33 episodes of the "The Shield."
What to do with that pesky blackmail box?
Aceveda wants to turn it over to the feds, but Vic talks him into holding off. He wants to pull Agent Murray's file to protect her and possibly for leverage. Vic gets Aceveda to agree to hold off turning it over for 36 hours. Vic has a plan to sell the blackmail box to the Armenians through Shane...and then tell the Mexicans where the exchange buy will happen. To drive the point home, this plan is hatched with Ronnie while they two stand over Lem's grave.
Getting the blackmail box is the third favor the Armenians get to ask from Vic, thus keeping his family safe. Meanwhile Vic tells the Mexicans the Armenian "board of directors" is meeting.
Do any voices from the past show up this week, like Forrest Whitaker or Glenn Close?
Not quite, but a gentleman named Tevon, who Shane had a run in with last season, show up unexpectedly asking shane for help capturing a rapist who vanished and has returned. Tevon suffered some memory loss when we last saw him, so I guess the question is has his memory returned
Hey, don't other people do police work at "The Barn"?
Danni sees a composite of the city Controller's murderer and recognizes it as the man who attacked her and was a suspect in the body dragging murders, earlier in the season.
Paula finds a naked man covered in blood in an alley who claims he's a sleepwalking murderer. When Dutch investigates, he suspects the man is faking.
We know things are bad in Vic's professional life. How bad are things getting in his personal life?
Shane goes to Corrine's house and finds her stoned out on sleeping pills.
What about Agent Murray?
She wants to turn herself in rather than be beholden to the Mexicans any longer.
So how does that blackmail box meeting go down? Fairly smoothly, I'd imagine.
In some of the best editing the show has ever had, all of the pieces come together. Ronnie manages to get ahold of Shane's gun just before the meeting and messes with it a little, you know, just for kicks. Vic gets cold feet about taking out Shane, Shane must leave the building where the meeting is taking place, and just by dumb luck he misses a friendly visit from the Mexican Welcome Wagon.
What I liked.
With Vic and Ronnie finally making their move to get rid of Shane, this episode sets the stage for everything that comes from this point forward. The final sequence is among the finest "The Shield" has ever staged. I also love that Ronnie, who used to be a character whose name I couldn't even remember from week to week, has so come into his own and is really showing just how smart and manipulative even he can be. He's playing both sides at this point, trying to stay loyal to Vic but also trying to remember that in likelihood Vic is gone soon and he still needs his job.
What I didn't like.
The naked sleepwalker didn't impress me. But it did give Claudette a chance to really shine. Her sit down with the possible killer is fantastic.
How does it end?
The money the Armenians brought to buy the blackmail box is gone. Vic and Shane are both on the scene and have different versions of what went down. Shane races home to wife, shows her a souvenir he took from the crime scene, and says he knows for a fact that Vic just tried to have him killed. "They think I'm too stupid to realize it."
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This season is shaping up to be one of the best. Last few seasons below par for the show IMHO.
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If it was Mackey 24/7, the show wouldn't be nearly as good. It's these escapes to other parts of The Barn that helps the show make such an impression.
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Than I thought. I started watching the last three years and it has been excellent.
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Yes, that guy who's name I don't remember.
I was the same way until about halfway through last season. But now I know the man.
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Ronnie / Vic / Shane will be dead. Julien will be the last one standing from the Strike Team.
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Vic takes the fall for all the strike teams' crimes to redeem himself thus clearing Ronnie and Shane. Ronnie and Shane help Vic escape to Mexico. All three meet one last time with Shane giving Vic an envelope full of cash and telling he if he comes back they will kill him. Vic says "Shane you wouldn't kill me after all I've done for you." Shane says "your right, I wouldn't". Cut to Ronnie, "But I would".Fade out.
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Why don't you just type out the entire frigging transcript.
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Are you kidding?
BTW, I disagree with you Satiago. I think season 6 was absolutely amazing. The way they finally, after 4 years, payed off the Aceveda rape. Awesome. This season is pretty weak so far. But you can sense that it's building up to something huge. -
He'd never back him.
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I doubt Ronnie would ever team up with Shane of all people. Shane has proven time and time again that he's a fuck up. It only be a matter of time before Shane would do it again if given the chance. -
I will miss this show so much. I would trade so many other shows including LOST for just for one more season of The Shield. Vic is a dynamic character that is either going to get what is coming to him or be greatly rewarded in the end!!!
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I started remembering Ronnie's name when he got his face burned on the stove!! Oww!
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i cant wait.
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Will never side with Shane, he is a fuck up and Ronnie knows it. Ronnie will stick by Vic until the risk becomes too great and then he'll do whatever he has to to protect his own skin. I imagine that going into these final few episodes, it'll be Vic vs. Shane and Ronnie will be doing whatever he can to get clear of this mess.
Also, Santiago couldn't be more wrong. Season 5 was one of the best seasons of television ever, and Season 6 was pretty excellent as well. -
Is pretty weak this season but when I saw the few glimpses of what will happen later this season I got that old stomach butterfly feeling again. I'm rewatching the whole series so when we get to the final episode I've watched all 90+ hours. The only season I ever remember being kinda blah was 3, after that it went back to being amazing...I think Vic will just turn himself in...either that or have a Godfather 3 ending of him dying (maybe after being shot) on a chair, alone. I just hope Shane gets slaughtered Denzel in Training Day massive machine gun bullets style. I just wish they did more to wrap up the other characters lives and not just the strike team...like what is Dutch gonna do? So far he's just solvin cases...what about Danny? She cant just be right hand to CCH and have that be it. Idk...I think they need just ONE more season..please..please...pleaaasseeee
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Ronnie & Shane will both be dead, possibly Vic's daughter too. Vic goes on as a cop in the clear, but he does it with no family & no friends, living with all he's done.
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At the end did Shane say "Vic and Lem just tried to kill me"?
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Fuck you for living, Shane.
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Shane has too watch his back on two fronts. That rapist's daughter looks more like she's Shane's kid than her father. The naked guy plot _was_ kinda weak; you'd think they'd give the guy more than a towel to wear after holding him all day. I was half expecting Hanlon to something typically stupid and shoot the guy during the opening sequence.
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Aceveda knows that Vic likes the ladies. What better way to finally get Vic then to dangle a hot, morally compromised, federal agent in front of him? Remember: Vic's only basis for believing her story is Aceveda's claim that she was in the box, a claim not made until the box was hidden. In fact, I'd be surprised if Justice doesn't already have the box and this whole thing is just a way to finally get Vic once and for all for Terry's murder.
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Fascinating idea.
It makes sense.
I like it!
Oh, and after last night, I'm convinced it will be Ronnie taking out Shane in the last episode.
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didnt end the way we expected
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I'd say it's been anything but. There is a lot going on and the story continues to get more and more complicated as all the variables, including Shane, Tavion and Vic's own family, continue to spin out of control. I still have absolutely no idea how this whole thing is going to end but if Vic dies I hope Ronnie makes it out unscathed. Shane needs to die badly and Mara along with him.
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Oct 08, 2008 10:17:09 AM CDT
"Shane goes to Corrine's house and finds her stoned out on sleep
by redd
You mean Vic?
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Shane is going down in a bad way!
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A sarcastic, lazy-ass cop bumbles his way through a meaningless career. Surrounded by a cast of quirky, oddball characters, it's a non-thinking man's Barney Miller.
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Im gagging for it but cant find it anywhere. Can anyone fill me in what the problem is?
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Oct 08, 2008 1:36:48 PM CDT
How is there not a Shield 706 release on the bittorrents yet!
by nalapou
AHHH!! Wait is KILLING me!!
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Finally! that took fucking ages. Out of interest can anyone advise why?
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but that will keep until future eps.Now it's finally picking up.
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