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Now, after seven edge-of-your-seat seasons, you can
finally see how this award-winning FX drama turns out. Shane
resorts to kipping in his dangerous dance with the Armenian
mob, Dutch risks everything by becoming personally involved in a
homicide investigation, the Strike Team mobilizes to free a drug
lord’s daughter – but it all comes down to Detective Vic Mackey
confronting his greatest adversary: himself. Pressured to take
down Pezuela, Vic negotiates an deal with ICE to
vanquish Beltran at last, and the skeletons come tumbling out of
the closet. Will Vic pay for his sins in the end? The answer lies
in the ultimate betrayals, climactic action and devastating
series finale.
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For six seasons, viewers have watched self-procled
"different kind of cop" Victor Samuel Mackey get away with
murder, corruption, and other and twisted crimes too
numerous to mention. In the series' penultimate episode,
"Possible Kill Screen," Mackey summons from the depths of his
tortured soul all of his crimes and abuses as part of an
deal he has cut for himself with the Feds at the expense of his
unwitting partner, Ronnie (David Rees Snell). Referring to his
interrogator's recorder, he asks, "How much memory does that
thing got?" How do you solve a problem like Vic? Do you kill him
off? Send him to prison? What would be just comeuppance for a
character, who, through it all, has somehow compelled our rooting
interest? "You have to pay some kind of price," his ex-wife
Corrine (Cathy Cahlin Ryan) wails. Suffice to say, without
spoilers, that in this Emmy-worthy final season, Vic will be held
accountable in a way that does his character (and the audience's
investment in him) justice and leaves this groundbreaking series'
proud legacy untarnished. It is an understatement when one
character notes, "There is a lot of [stuff] going down at the
Barn right now." To cover their tracks from the Armenian money
train robbery, Vic and his guys orchestrate a gang war that
quickly spins out of control. Shane (Walton Goggins), estranged
from the Team, is forced to go on the run with his pregnant wife
and young son. Corrine agrees to help Dutch (Jay Karnes) and
Claudette (CCH Pounder) bring Vic down. As the Strike Team sinks
further in the hole they've dug for themselves, viewers can take
some comic in Det. Steve Billings' (David Marciano)
pathetic attempts to defraud the city in the wake of his
"injury," and solace in the solid work of Dutch,
Claudette, Danni (Catherine Dent), and Tina (Paula Garces), who
is approaching the anniversary of her first year on the force.
Stand-alone cases (a missing student whose mother won't cooperate
with the investigation) and personal dramas (Claudette's failing
) further enrich each gripping episode, leading to an
immensely satisfying series finale that fires on all cylinders.
This four-disc set includes a wealth of extras, including
convivial episode commentaries, deleted scenes, a genuinely
moving featurette that goes behind-the-scenes of the series
finale, in which Chiklis pays heartfelt tributes to the ensemble,
and a season retrospective that fittingly, gives Chiklis the last
word: "We know what we have. We have one of the great television
series of all time on our hands." The Shield, we salute you.
--Donald Liebenson