Despite getting full immunity, Vic lost everything. His friends and family, along with his status as a respected cop. Now he's doomed to stand on the sidelines in a desk job where his bosses hate him or risk prosecution.
Yeah but man was that a powerful scene. I had never shed a tear for a show/ movie before that. (Spoiler Alert) I know my wife couldn’t stop crying after Shane poisoned his family too. I believe her exact words were: “I don’t like this show anymore”. When SOA decided to kill Opie & Terra I also lost it man. Terra’s death really pissed me off tho.
I have a darker theory about the ending. Vic, in grabbing his gun and heading off to the scene, is hoping to get himself killed. He knows doing cop work will land him in prison under his deal. He also knows he's lost his family, his team, and he is now viewed as an evil man in the eyes of all cops. He is probably going to goad a suspect into shooting him dead so he can land himself in the papers as "killed in the line of duty. " Other than the fact that being a cop is deep in his bones, that's the only reasoning I can think of.
I think he left to dispense street justice-do whatever he wants at night and then show up in the morning, in a suit, planning to do that every-day, without anyone knowing, as a way to stay sane
@@AllRequired really? Worse that being in prison for life? And dont tell "this is worse that prison" its absolutely not, otherwise he wouldnt make that deal
@@vasvas8914 For Mackey, this _is_ worse than prison. He didn't bother with the fine print on the deal because he thought the Feds would see him as he saw himself. He was hoping to get a service weapon. Instead, he has to lose even his personal weapon. He was hoping to be in the thick of the action on the battlefield. Instead, he's stuck at a lonely quiet desk. He wanted to be writing the ending to their active cases. Instead, he's going to be reporting on their closed cases. He wanted to be feasting at the main table. Instead, he has to live on their table scraps off in the corner. Suit and tie? Peeing in a cup once a week? Putting out a ten-page report every work-day (probably legal-sized, half an inch margin each way)? No fame, no action, no authority? For a meta-choleric mind, that's worse than Kryptonite. All of his strong suits are useless, and all of his weak suits are coming into play. And saying no to the terms (or committing so much as a speck of a mistake) means he goes right to jail. And _not_ with the setup Antwon got.
@@AllRequiredyeah his situation really sucked, but it was only three years. After that he could fuck off and do whatever he wanted. Lot better than what Ronnie probably got
A lot of me feels like Vic got the worst ending. The salvation of ICE isn’t what he expected at all, or wanted. He ultimately was responsible for his entire teams downfall, and inadvertently betrayed Ronnie. But Vic has to live with it all, day by day, stuck at a desk, all by himself.
That point was made clear when he saw those police cars drive by. The man is used to being knee deep in conflict and action and now he has a very tight leash. Its utterly painful to be stripped of freedom and power isn't it?
@@gillesplantin1988 they could have avoided that though by either trying to get rid of Terry another way with out killing him or try to convince him to be one of them.
A decade after the end, it all makes sense now. A cell was too good for Vic, being stuck in a cubicle subject to the whims of a fed for the foreseeable future was as close to hell as he was going to get. But since they've basically confirmed Milo from SOA is Vic under an assumed name, he probably saw the opportunity to leave and took it.
I've seen that reaction on Vics face before from a friend who went off and killed himself. You can see wheels turning inside him. Makes me think that's where the next episode would have gone had it happened.
Vic didn’t just stop there. He went undercover as a truck driver and killed Jackson “Jax” Teller, the President of the notorious biker gang Sons of Anarchy (SAMCRO)
IMO he went off fighting crime as a vigilante. He couldn't forgive himself with Ronnie so that's why when you see the pic both Ronnie and Shane are cut off from it. I'd assume he'd work his desk job while he's out fighting crime when he's not at work.
I think he violated the terms of his deal and ran. But he does finally see justice when he's caught after Jax Teller crashes into his truck while being chased by the cops
I believe he realized that he couldn't fulfill the terms of his deal, so he took his gun and went on the run. ICE played him by stipulating that he produce five typed, 10-page, single-spaced reports on gang activity every week, which is something that he almost certainly wasn't capable of doing since he wasn't a professional typist, and there's only so much material someone can come up with on the subject before there's nothing more to write. So I agree with you that he ended up in Ronnie's shoes.
Vic walked out that day and went on the run, and we never saw him again until he smacked Jax Teller with a box truck. Papa's Goods, indeed. (Somewhat-snide comments aside, this video was very well made. Good job, man)
He did return in sons of anarchy. He's the guy who's truck Jax crashed into (this is purely speculation nobody has actually confirmed it but the theory is pretty popular)
+MichaelChiklisCares Best tv-show ever, for me even better then The Wire, Sopranos and Breaking Bad. I love all members of the team , especially Shane in his final episodes
