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Hahaha the look on Claudette's face when she hears the words "full immunity"
This episode might be the best of the season.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT AGAIN
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Claudette fired Dutch?!?! Serial killer kid is so gonna gut him
This episode keeps on delivering!
I think that this is definitely the best episode so far, the finale could be even better though...
I predict:
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She won't actually fire Dutch. That she was just mad but she'll get very depressed at her department's shitty reputation and resigns. If it was any other character, I'd guess suicide.
Gardocki will run away or die, same for Shane. No jailtime.
The only other loose end is the kid (Lloyd). He's fucked up but smart so I can see him doing something really sick in the next episode. Probably not something that Dutch can handle (murder of somebody close to him?) and Claudette will have to clean up the mess.
But going by my last predictions, I probably won't get much right. Every episode was unpredictable as hell.
My predictions
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Claudette tells Ronnie (or he finds out some other way) that Vic fucked him over by taking the deal. This makes Ronnie either fuck up the bust, make a deal with the Mexicans, or kill Vic.
Dutch dies at the hands of Teenage Serial Killer.
The Barn will shut down at the end of the series.
Shane dies, but I'm not sure how. While I am sure he and Vic will confront each other, Vic won't want to fuck up his deal by committing additional crimes. Also, hopefully Mara dies.
Shaun Ryan said there are 4 deaths in the final episode: Shane, Dutch, Vic, Mara.
Claudette's career is ruined and maybe the Barn will get shut down.
That's my guess. The finale is 90 minutes, too.
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I predict that the 4 deaths are:
Ronnie, Shane, Mara, and somebody else dies. I'm guessing Lloyd but maybe the Cartel guy.
No way that Claudette tells Ronnie though. She hates him. She hates Vic more but she's got too much integrity to try and send Ronnie to kill Vic.
In that case
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I predict that the 4 deaths are:
Ronnie, Shane, Mara, and somebody else dies. I'm guessing Lloyd but maybe the Cartel guy.
No way that Claudette tells Ronnie though. She hates him. She hates Vic more but she's got too much integrity to try and send Ronnie to kill Vic.
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Don't forget, they got Ronnie dead to rights, on tape, handing the money to Corrine. Claudette could have him arrested at any time and that would fuck up the bust, too.
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I could see Ronnie framing Vic for the murder of the Armenian hitman in the beginning of the season. The hitman was after Vic's family afterall. That would get the immunity deal voided and then of course Vic would go to prison. It's hard to tell what Claudette's thinking but if Claudette does tell Ronnie in the hope of him helping to convict Vic on something, then the Cartel bust would fall through. Right now though, Claudette doesn't know about the bust.
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Nah, I think Claudette will cut a deal with Ronnie to find anything that Vic might have excluded that would void his immunity agreement. Besides, that whole sting has been compromised so many times now that it will probably fall through on a technicality.
The upside to the character revelations this season is that I'd be totally alright with everyone dying. I was honestly annoyed when Lem died.
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I wonder if Vic mentioned the Tavon incident in the interview. That would otherwise be enough to void the agreement, eh? And for the record, I hope Corrine gets it bad too.
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I doubt that how this resolves will have anything to do with what Vic may have left out of his confession. This is simply because that would be a total cop out. We saw like 3 brief snippets of his confession, since it would probably take a full episode or more to show the full confession. If his downfall ends up being something he neglected to confess, something that happened off camera, that would be incredibly cheap. To me, the scene basically said that Vic went completely clean. We have no reason to believe the show would mislead us and make us think he left shit out. If he admitted to Crowley and the Money Train, there's no reason he should have left anything else out, since those were his biggest transgressions
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another possible prediction
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Claudette actually arrests Corrine now. Remember, Vic's deal was only to get her out of a non-existent aiding and abetting charge, and if Claudette arrests Corrine and therefore gets the ability to manipulate Mackey in the hunt for Shane, it is likely that Vic will have to commit other crimes in his search, possibly even killing Shane out of passion. Remember, this has been Claudette's plot all season, and she needs something big to do in the last episode. It's already been established that she is over the edge
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I think the LAPD is going to force her to resign. All the shit that has been going on, in the typical Shield fashion, the higher ups basically want to find a patsy and that will be her. I could also see them announcing that the Barn is getting shut down entirely. I don't think she will arrest Corinne but I could see Claudette bitch at her. Corinne fucked up on a lot of things and its because of those things that delayed the arrest to where Vic now has full immunity.
I also agree that a technicality won't be found regarding Vic. That would be a cheap way to end things. If Vic is going down, it is with a bullet, not from anything else. I think most Shield fans want Vic either getting away clean or dead and I think Ryan knows this. From what I gather from the interviews, he wants it to be like The Shield all throughout. So I expect a lot of conclusions ended with death, a lot of blame game from the top, and a lot of innocent people getting fucked over for associating themselves with Vic.
I've also seen nearly a half dozen "spoilers" of the final episode, a lot of them saying different things than the other. I kind of wanted to read them, even if it meant knowing what would happen next Tuesday.
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Cheap, but fitting of a character who has spent the entirety of the series exploiting loop holes and getting out of big jams by means of creating diversions.
My thoughts on the episode, HOLY SHIT
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OMG at Vic's facial expression during the first part of the confession. I've been watching the show since the very beginning (I watched the sunday night repeat of the pilot on the first week I believe), and I have never seem Vic like that, not ever. If Walton Goggins and Michael Chiklis don't win emmys, hollywood should burn to the fucking ground.
Predictions: Ronnie cuts a deal with the mexicans (without being told about Vic's deal by Claudette), deal goes south, Vic gets killed by the black board of directors.
Dutch kills Lloyd and maybe his mom, walks scott-free.
Claudette keels over.
Shane takes Mara back home and kills himself before being arrested.
I dunno what else to say. For those of you who have never experienced a Shield finale an the night it comes on instead of on DVD, you are in for MASSIVE build-up and tension all night until the credits roll.
This is the best show on TV in my lifetime.
I can't believe the greatest thing to come along in the entirety of two (possibly three) presidential election cycles is coming to an end on tuesday.
My thoughts on the episode, HOLY SHIT
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OMG at Vic's facial expression during the first part of the confession. I've been watching the show since the very beginning (I watched the sunday night repeat of the pilot on the first week I believe), and I have never seem Vic like that, not ever. If Walton Goggins and Michael Chiklis don't win emmys, hollywood should burn to the fucking ground.
Predictions: Ronnie cuts a deal with the mexicans (without being told about Vic's deal by Claudette), deal goes south, Vic gets killed by the black board of directors.
Dutch kills Lloyd and maybe his mom, walks scott-free.
Claudette keels over.
Shane takes Mara back home and kills himself before being arrested.
I dunno what else to say. For those of you who have never experienced a Shield finale an the night it comes on instead of on DVD, you are in for MASSIVE build-up and tension all night until the credits roll.
This is the best show on TV in my lifetime.
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There's no way Vic and Shane won't have a one-on-one scene. It has to happen!
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I still don't get the Ronnie angle; everything is based on Vic's testimony then?