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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Dean" data-source="post: 3391536" data-attributes="member: 9199">I guess I've always viewed the show as a tragedy.  Every season has been tightening the noose around Vic and the Strike Team because of the shooting in the first episode.  I've always assumed that in the end, Vic (if not the whole team) was going to die to pay for their sins, or more specifically, to pay for murdering Terry.  Season 5 explicitly comes full circle and brings it back to the first episode, but for every move they've made in previous seasons to extricate themselves, they get deeper into making more bad choices.  The money train, the fight with the Armenians, etc..  And those bad choices have led inevitably to season 5, where all hell is breaking loose.As far as alignment goes, I just can't put Vic in the Good category.  I disagree that he is Evil with a capital E, because I think he has always been horrified that he made the choice to murder Terry, but because he is deeply flawed, he keeps justifying it to himself so he can sleep at night.  Season 5 was the payback season, where I think he finally is realizing that he will pay the price for Terry, and in fact, already has begun to pay the bill.</blockquote>