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The last season of what FX introduced on Tuesday as "the single most important series in commercial supported cable television" (a long-winded way of saying "the most important cable show other than The Sopranos") is being called The Shield: The Final Act. It will begin in September and the cast and crew gathered on stage at the Beverly Hilton to talk about it, with star Michael Chiklis appearing via satellite, thanks to a movie-shoot obligation. There was a lot of talk about what made the show great, how it was for the actors and writers and producers and so on. But, of course, the bulk of questions tried to ferret out clues or glimpses of what will happen and, especially, how will it all end for the gang of L.A. cops. "It feels like a graduation," said creator Shawn Ryan. "The finales I've liked are ones where the shows stayed true to themselves, didn't try to go outside the umbrella. I think our finale feels like the Shield universe." As to anything more specific -- who lives, who dies -- forget it. But you can be sure that some characters do die since, responding to a question about the possibility of a Shield movie, Mr. Chiklis said one of the problems would be "are there enough characters still alive to do a movie?" The real question everyone was looking for an answer to or hint about was: Does Vic Mackey, Michael Chiklis' maverick cop, die? No answer, of course, except for this offered by co-star CCH Pounder, who plays Mackey's tough captain: "This finale is what Vic Mackey deserves." |
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