Late to my own thread, as usual, but finally got to see the last episode.
I thought it was great!
I had been wondering what they could do to Vic…at one point during the show, I counted three people who had a really good reason to just walk up to him and put a bullet through his head, and there were probably another 20 or so who would have been easily motivated to do the same.
But that would almost have been the easy way out for him.
Then I thought Shane, in his final act, came up with one bit of damning evidence that Vic had not thought of and confessed, and it would have been enough to send Vic to jail forever.
But somehow, even that would have been too easy…he would have killed himself before it got that far.
But what I didn’t see coming is the living hell that Vic got…he lost his family, he lost his “posse”, he lost all respect at the Barn, he was stuffed into a suit that looked like he bought for his First Communion, he was forced to do paperwork and
he still had the memory of those photos of Shane and his family stuck in his mind, and he had been forced to watch Ronnie pay for both of their sins. In other words, they finally got Vic by the balls.
Putting the gun in the back of his ill fitting suit pants and heading out was Vic’s only resort. I fully expect to find Vic a year later, sitting in a bar, alone, drunk and afraid to be seen by any of the police he worked with. If anyone has ever hung out at a bar in the late afternoon, you see lots of “Vic’s” sitting in corners, muttering to themselves and considered crazy old loons.
Who know, maybe 10 years later his daughter, Cassie, will pop in out of the blue and invite Vic to her wedding, but after she hears what her father really did, I doubt even she will be rushing to find him ever again.
So, yeah…Shane was a sad ending, Ronnie got screwed, Claudette is dying, and life goes on in the Barn…but Vic learned the hard way that just getting away with everything he did didn’t pay off in the end after all.