Hiatt is trying to reassert his power, by redirecting the Strike Team’s efforts, very possibly in a wrong direction, pissing off Mackie by busting his C.I. Mackie tries to clean up Hiatt’s piddly ass mess so they can move on to fry bigger fish. “You took a shit out on the streets, I’m just cleaning it up.” I had the feeling that Mackie would survive Hiatt at the Barn, and Claudette ends up firing Hiatt due to his undisclosed sexual relationship with a subordinate. I’m not mourning for him, they hadn’t done much with his character anyway. He was pretty much one-dimensional — cute, but one-dimensional. I would rather see more focus on Ronnie anyway.
Mackie is called to Corinne’s house — shots fired — and finds a pool of blood on the floor and the house empty. He suspects the worse. The rival mob boss offers Shane a deal: Vic and his family will live, but he has to tell him where Diro and her father are AND pay him back the two million dollars he lost in the money train robbery with favors, or he will kill them all anyway. Vic misinterprets the whole incident as Shane trying to threaten them with his connections.
Mackie walks out before his hearing in order to follow up on the Mexican baddie politician, and while following a suspect he ends up hanging out the window of a speeding car. When he opens the trunk, he finds a whole lotta firepower and a box of blackmail ammunition for every politician, judge and VIP in Farmington. He calls in Aceveda “Do you think this is enough to save my job?” I think so.
Well, it wasn’t the nail-biting episode I had hoped for, but it offered up enough to keep me on the hook for next season. The cast is unparalleled and the storylines are rarely formulaic.
In other words, I’m in. Are you?
Article comments
1 - Al Barger
This was a great episode - but then pretty nearly every episode of the series is outstanding. One thing though here, for the penultimate season finale they dialed down the mayhem. There's all kinds of action and intrigue, but I don't think anyone got killed - other than Diro shutting off Dad's life support.
Here's several thousand words on this episode.
2 - Mat Brewster
I think I have decided that this season wasn't all that because of the late decision to not make it the last season ever.
It is as if they worked out a great final season, then decided to make the same plot lines work over two seasons. So we didn't get the vic/shane showdown we expected and many of the other characters went nowhere because it was all worked out for them to have a nice ending. Maybe that's why Dutch and Danny had their thing at the end.
I know I'm just talking out my arse, but isn't that what fandome is all about?