Guardo’s girlfriend shows up at the barn saying that he’s missing and spills the beans about the team taking her into bogus protective custody. Dutch starts to suspect Vic, but Claudette doesn’t want to make yet another mistake accusing Mackie. Dutch tries to trip Vic up, but it falls flat. Guess street smarts are more valuable than book-learnin’ in these sort of situations.
Vic’s daughter Cassidy confronts him about all the unethical things she learned about him on the internet. She says she doesn’t want to talk to him and drops the bomb that she overheard her mother talking about the fact that Vic had another baby, and we get confirmation that he is indeed Danny’s “baby daddy”. Though it seems he promised Danny he would stay out of it, he convinces her to let him bring Cassidy over to meet her half-brother, Lee.
Ronnie lures Shane with the pretense of a meeting of the two of them with Vic. But Vic confronts Shane alone. Watching Shane squirm as he begins to realize where it was going was so much fun. And — drum roll please — he finally admits to Vic that he killed Lem. Then they both cry. Luckily, not for long. Then Vic gets pissed. Thank God. “He was strong and you are a coward!” Vic yells. Shane says that though Mackie thinks he’s looking through a window, but he’s looking in a mirror. He’s a philosopher now! In the end, Mackie realizes that he’s created this monster. Vic tells Shane they’re done and if he sees him again he will kill him.
They are left at a stalemate, each threatening the other with the knowledge of all the (many) skeletons in each of their closets. Didn’t this happen in an earlier season? Is it just me, or does it feel a bit like a rehash of season three and four with the money train situation where Shane ended up leaving and going to Vice? I’m just not sure yet; guess we will have to see where they take us next week. I sure hope it’s somewhere new.
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