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The Nefarious Capone Has The Goods On The Last SHIELD Screener Sent To Critics!!
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Word is four major characters die in the finale hitting FX in two weeks. Will the Dutchman survive the melee? For now, the wily Capone looks at tonight's installment, the final episode sent to critics via screener:
Hello again everyone. Capone in Chicago here in Coaxial. After this week's installment (7.11), there are only two episodes of "The Shield's" Final Act, and I have not seen either of them (although some of you spoiler-ish bastards have been forwarding me summaries of the final episode that seem almost too shocking to be true, so I won't repeat them). The final episode of "The Shield" airs November 25. Who lives? Who dies? And from what I'm hearing, the fates of a few characters are left up in the air, leaving us with a terrible case of TV blue balls. I don't think there is any doubt in my mind that tonight's episode is the finest of the season and possibly one of the top three episodes the show has ever produced. And let me just conclude my portion of these "Shield" reviews by saying that it's been a total blast covering this show for the past two seasons, and the response I've gotten from fans of the show and even a few folks who work on the show has been tremendous and exciting.
Let's dive right in to 7.11...
Title?
PETTY CASH
Writers?
Jameal Turner (who I can find no information about) and Charles H. Eglee, a veteran writer of many a TV drama scripting multiple episodes of such shows as "St. Elsewhere," "L.A. Law," "NYPD Blue," "Murder One," and 12 previous episodes of "The Shield," including two this season. In addition, he and James Cameron co-created "Dark Angel," the pilot for which Eglee wrote.
Director?
Craig Brewer, director of HUSTLE & FLOW and BLACK SNAKE MOAN, and clearly one of the most inspired choices for a directing guest spot in "The Shield's" history. Brewer is also the first director I ever met (at BNAT 8) who said, "I've been reading you since I was a kid," which made me feel extremely old.
Where did we leave off?
Beltrans tells Aceveda that in light of a Pezuela's "death" that he should run his campaign how he wants to. "Just don't lose."
Claudette makes it known that all she wants is Mackey behind bars.
Mara tells Shane that Corrine is working with Claudette to bring Shane in.
Where to we pick up?
Dutch and Claudette are at Corrine's house waiting for Mara's call, which come in right on time. Mara and Claudette arrange a money drop of $100,000 using Corrine as bait to draw Vic out. Mara wants assurances that Shane will not get killed. Corrine throws in her own demands for witness protection, but refuses to testify against Vic. Keep in mind that Vic is totally unaware of this set up, so when he shows up at Corrine's the get the details of the drop, he has no idea Claudette is looking to nail him aiding and abetting Shane.
Is anyone buying the Pezuela suicide story?
Not Aceveda, who shows up at Vic's house accusing Vic of killing Pezuela, which is funny since, you know, the dude ain't actually dead. Later in the episode, Aceveda suspects the truth about Pezuela and threatens to go to Beltrans with the information. Vic counters with threats of exposing where Aceveda's campaign financing is coming from. "Let's respect each other's end game" -- Aceveda
How are Vic's job-security plans holding up?
Vic meets with the Mexican cartel leader Beltrans to sell his worth for future employment by promising to negotiate with the black gangs on Beltran's behalf, which he does. As for his other job prospect, Vic tell Agent Olivia Murray that he wants to pull Ronnie into the cartel play, and sweetens the deal for her by handing her over a certain missing blackmail file. "I need a place to land," he tells her.
While Vic is running the L.A. underground single handedly, what the hell is Ronnie up to?
Ronnie is pulled off his desk to investigate (along with the back-in-uniform Julien) the murder of a high school football player and local hero. Julien plays the faith card to get more information from the boy's family.
Ronnie does find time to meet up with Vic, and Ronnie is none to happy that Vic is playing for both teams--the Mexicans and the feds. He's clearly very nervous about how Vic's reckless behavior is going to blow up in both their faces.
Does Claudette recruit someone in the barn to help out with the sting operation against Vic?
She does.
So this $100,000 that Vic is going to give Shane through Corrine, where is that coming from exactly?
Vic approaches a drug dealer and pretends to be a supplier. All he needs is $200,000 to get the flow of drugs started. The dealer passes, but Vic "motivates" him to see things the Mackey way.
$200,000?
Have you ever known Vic to only ask for what he needs? Vic delivers half of the money to Beltrans, and stashes the other half somewhere where Ronnie can pick it up. There's a fantastic conversation between Vic and Beltrans about the definition of hard work. You'll love it. "You've got an action hero on your payroll," says Vic.
Does Vic's daughter Cassidy show up this week?
Yes she does.
Does the money drop to Shane go as planned?
Ha! I'm not saying shit about that. Although keep in mind, this is the first sequence possibly of the entire season where nearly all of the show's major players will be at the same location at the same time.
What I liked overall.
This season, Ronnie has moved from the background to major player, with more to come, I believe. Shane and Vic's mutual desperation is making for some truly awesome television, with more to come I believe. The dead football player case reveals that Julien has the makings of a great detective.
How does it end? [Inviso-Text]
A real estate office is robbed. A package from Shane to Claudette arrives in The Barn. Vic and Ronnie meet with Beltrans. Shane has a tough time cashing some checks.
-- Capone
10 p.m. Tuesday. FX.
capone@aintitcoolmail.com
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I can't wait to see how this is going to end.
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BTW 2nd
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Me neither. As much as I dont want it to end I'm on the edge of my seat. Four people die!?!?!
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Last seasons were shown on french tv and crept up online weeks earlier-not this year though :(
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....cat murdering,latino sexy bitch stalking bastard!
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Dutch does something stupid and it ends up getting Claudette killed. He holds Vic responsible and goes after him which will end with Vic killing Dutch...
Ronnie who has never forgiven Shane for killing Lem will track down and kill Shane and his wife and kid.
With Claudette and Dutch dead, Ronnie keeps his job as they are never able to pin anything on him before they die.
Vic never gets his badge back. I'm thinking he'll either end up dead, or working for the cartel. I think he is done forever as a cop of any kind.
Billings will get put in charge of the Barn. Julian will be promoted to detective; and will be a thorn in Ronnie's side for the remainder of both of their careers...
Of course... I'm probably way off... -
You prick! Seriously though, I can't wait. All I'm saying is if Vick goes down ala Omar on The Wire, I'm shoving my Shield dvds up Shawn Ryan's ass!
You can't build up such a bad ass character and not giving a proper send off. If Vick's punk daughter ends up doing the deed, either on purpose or by accident, I'll be royally pissed. -
Be back after 11 tonight...
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and says the ending is extremely satisfying. So, no Sopranos bugaboos here, I guess.
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It's just so damn hard for me not to read them. I was shocked (SHOCKED!) when I read that 4 people were going to die. My money's on Shane for sure. Ronnie's kind of presumed as well but I fear for Corrine and the kids. Claudette could work herself to death I suppose.
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dutchboy is gonna die by the hand of the serial kiddo of course, claudette is going to drop dead at her desk from her illness. Julien gets knifed by a jealous ex boyfriend, Mackey takes his own life to safe his family but he doesnt know shane bombed his house with corinne and the kids in it. Shane gets shot by the police in a car chase and in the crash his woman and kid die as well. Aceveda gets strangles by a mexican hoodlum friend of the guy he sucked off. Ronnie gets the death penalty and dannie chokes on a pretzel. leaving billings in charge of the barn
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I hope Vic gets away clean with a shitload of money and some hot pussy in tow.
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I can't believe how good this has gotten.
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I don't give a shit what he's done to any cats, Dutch is the fucking man. Also, no way Ronnie is going to kill Shane's kid. Hopefully Mara does die. Please please please let her die. Ronnie is a very good possibility of dying. Probably Julien, too.
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Nov 11, 2008 6:41:00 PM CST
Vic Mackey is a pretty cool guy..
by the guy who slept through everything.
eh. kills people and doesn't afraid of anything.
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Claudete, Corinne, Shane... and Aceveda all lose their lives.
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oh, that's just nasty
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Connie, Shane, Ronnie, Cassidy, everyone close to him- Gone! He walks the "Hulk end walk" but has lifetime knowing he brought this on.
I really do wanna see him walk unscathed, with a shit load of money/pussy/power -
but if Claudette and Dutch get wacked along with Cassidy and Corrine, now there's no one left to press Vic. Bittersweet, He won't go to jail BUT he lost those close, but then he'll have free range to hunt down Shane, without anyone knowing about his shit...
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Claudette - She works herself too hard trying to get everything done and it finally catches up with her.
Shane - He's too stupid to get out of something like this. I think Tavon's going to have something to do with this.
Ronnie - More collateral damage for Vic to have to live with.
Aceveda - That underling he's been playing with comes out of hiding to take him out.
Not sure if Vic is going to jail or not but I think he's going to finally see what all his actions have caused over the years and is going to have to live with the knowledge that he's ruined a number of people's lives. -
No poison pantygrams!
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This is killing me.
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that'd be awesome. it's a shame this show is going away, though at least it's going out while still in top form. just watch f/x promise some one-off movies, only to cancel them later on, a la "deadwood," another one of my all-time favorite shows.
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Should have gone to Mexico when he had the chance. Poor bastard.
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I don't mean to spoil things for keen fans, but since I did put
the words 'partial spoiler' in my heading, Beltran and Ronnie are apparently 2 of the 4 people who most definitely get killed in the last episode, as those who've been messaging Capone can attest. I'd love knowing who the other 2 people are and whether Vic will also be one of them. -
If he's one of "the four" that's kind of cheating.
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They kind of gave away one with that next week on the Shield preview. *SPOILER*****Shane is crying pretty fucking hard with snot coming out of his nose, and he says he is sorry...so it has to be his wife*****END SPOILER
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In July in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, actor CCH Pounder (Claudette) apparently said 'Vic gets what he deserves in the finale'. It doesn't necessarily mean death, as Michael Chiklis himself answered to her comment.
'The Shield' returns Sept. 2 for it's seventh and final season.
And what about that series finale ?
'It'll feel completely appropriate. We hope you'll be knocked over by it', series creator Shawn Ryan told the Television Critics Association Tuesday.
'I think it's the greatest finale ever. It blew my socks off. I'm not a great fan of The Shield as a watcher. I'm a bit of a chicken, although my role is so huge and not chicken-like. The finale is what Vic deserves', said CCH Pounder who plays Capt. Claudette Wyms. I had to know : What does Michael Chiklis say to that ?
'That's in the eye of the beholder. What thrills me about the finale is you won't see this coming. You won't know what we do, but when you look back at it you'll go, that's exactly right'. Chiklis who an Emmy for playing Vic, said the first 4 eps are incredibly dense. 'Because it's the last season, the writers were able to write with a certain almost reckless abandon, where they knew things were spiralling out of control. One bomb drops after another, that you can't take
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That breaks a major rule, outright having a kid wacked..
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What the F?? He got fat as shit! Don't tell me he's still getting that hot brunette!!
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They foreshadow this tonight when Ronnie meets Beltran and tells him that Vic taught him everything he knows.
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I DONT WANT THIS SHOW TO END!!!!!!!!!
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I want Vic to win, Ronnie to be okay, and Shane to live out his days in Mexico. Everyone else can fuck off...especially Claudette and Dutch (I truly hate them now.) Julian at least seems conflicted...
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I've said it once, I'll say it again next week. Don't be fooled by Cassidy's warm demeanor to Vic recently, she is going to be the one who takes him down. Just when we all think Vic is off the hook. Bam, Cassidy takes him out!
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...If Capone is getting these supposed spoilers, then why haven't I seen any in the Talkback? Even the LOST season finale, where its revealed Jack is in the future, had websites posting spoilers WELL before the finale. Are we really to assume THE SHIELD is better at keeping secrets than Abrams? Please, if anyone has a website or something with spoilers, please post it. SIDE NOTE: I think in the next episode it all comes down to who the wives stay loyal to; Corrine or Mara. The one who betrays her husband will get him killed and/or end up killed herself. Or maybe they'll do a switch: Corrine finally betrays and sets up Vic, so, she gets to live, while Mara stays loyal to Shane and gets killed for it. I really hope Vic goes down. It would be sooo sweet if Julien shoots Vic in the face. Bookends the series.
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Down to the last two, so I'm not about to let them get spoiled by checking in here. Kinda disappointed to see a possible finale spoiler in the very first paragraph, when I only expected one for *this* episode. For now, Cletus Van Damme lives, and so does Arthur Frobisher!
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you really owe it to yourself to do a search for Ted Danson on YTMND.
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That was the first thing I thought when Ronnie said that. Especially with that sideways look he gave Vic.
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I must say that I'm dissapointed to read in the first paragraph that 4 major people die in the finale. I didnt even want to know that about this great show.. Should had been a spoiler warning, just wanted to come here and discuss last nights episode.
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The next two are going to be fucking amazing, beleive it!
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I LOVE this show but...
Are we really suppose to believe Shane is SMART enough to know Ronnie would get to Claudette's mail, but DUMB enough to not know how a combination lock works?
Sure, this obviously gave the cleaning crew time to call the cops, but really! Speaking of which, judging from the sneak peek at next weeks episode, I believe Officer Tina Hanlon is waiting outside for Shane and Mara. Shane will get the drop on her and beat her up. This will scare Mara who will turn on Shane. The honeymoon from the last few episodes is over.
Meanwhile, Corrine, after that touching moment between Vic and Cassidy, will once again side with Vic.
Who dies? I'll go out on a limb, Dutch gets killed by that kid he thinks is a serial killer from a couple of episodes ago. I hear Vic 'gets what he deserves' so I think Corrine or Cassidy get it. I can't see Vic getting killed, it's not punishment enough. Ronnie, Vic and Shane all meet, Ronnie shoots Shane, Vic, once again gets cold feet and shoots Ronnie. Vic ends up loosing his friends and a family member. -
Aceveda (by Beltran), Ronnie (by Shane), Shane (by Vic), Mara (by Corrine).
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Let's just be clear here. First and foremost, I didn't write that four character MIGHT die in the last episode. That was Hercules (he of the red type face), and he was only passing on what he's heard, not what is fact. I've read some very detailed accounts of "The Shield's" final episode, but strangely enough, I've read nothing about the next to last episode. As far as I know, 10 people die in 7.10. I have no idea. Regardless, I would never give away a major spoiler like that under any circumstances. So cool your jets and let the bodies fall where they may.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Cassidy kills Vic, I will be extremely disappointed. That is kind of a cop-out isn't it?
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Sir, I am sure I am not the only one who would like to read up on spoilers. Damn me for asking, but where might one find this? I have checked every forum out there and no dice.
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Mara by Corrine, never. I can see Mara Dying, but not at the hands of Corrine. Possibly by some action Corrine does trying to get Vic off the hook, that would make sense.
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Where are they???
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Dutch figures out Terry Crowley after talking to Aceveda, Feds, and Ronnie. Ronnie is confronted with the money drop tape and they fake details about Crowley. This is enough to flip Ronnie who will get immunity or something like it.
Vic will end up on the run and headed for the border with a pile of Beltran's drug money and begs Corinne to meet him so he can see the kids "one last time". Corinne will take matters into her own hands and tell the Vendrells where to find Vic. She's going to hire Shane to kill Vic, the payoff being the money Vic stole from the big drug bust. Some motel near the border is where it will all end in a shakesperian bloodbath.
Shane is waiting, Vic sees Corinne and Cassidy pull up and focuses on Cassidy. Shane steps out behind Vic and shoots him as Corinne pulls away, Cassidy screaming. Dutch and Julien (who to this point were surveilling Corinne) jump out and kill Shane. Julien pulls the trigger. Mara gets away with the cash. Cassidy never stops crying. Julien grins. Dutch gets command of the barn and Billings gets Julien as a new partner. -
no matter which Vic is I would still love to grease up his head and lock it between my thighs!!
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It was in Entertainment Weekly this week (the one with Twilight on the cover I think). Who knows if that guys reliable or who he considers to be major characters.
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I still suspect that Olivia is playing Vic and that the feds are after him. I can see the feds sweeping in and arresting Vic and Ronnie before Dutch and Claudette get a chance to. It's possible that Olivia's file is all manufactured and put into play to get her a connection to Vic. Did Vic even see the file before Aceveda?
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If sooo many people are emailing Herc AND Capone with "very detailed" spoilers then why aren't there any in the Talkback? I think this is another "We here at aintitcoolnews.com know exactly how everything ends BUT we're not going to tell out of respect for our undying love of film-making ...but, trust us, we know ...really ...we do"
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I don't ever read the body of these before watching, as I know they are spoiler-heavy. But I do read the Herc intro beforehand just to see if he liked it or not.And now he drops this "4 deaths" shit. With all due respect, sir, I say to you... asshole!That said, I really felt Craig Brewer's touch in this episode. The lingering close-ups on our "heros" showed them as the desperate, deteriorating shells they all are. Especially the final seconds, which are so heartbreakingly tragic, they ALMOST make you feel sorry for the couple. Almost.But my favorite part of this episode is when Ronnie is too tied up to help, in the midst of a 7-way imploding clusterfuck, and Vic says "no worries.""NO WORRIES!", I shouted at the screen, like a mental patient.I love this show!
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Ronnie intercepted - I'm sure you checked out the "from" address. Funny! Billings was awesome! Gonna take that bite of sushi before shit! Cassidy needs to be replaced by a life-sized puppet.
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