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season 8 finale

posted 12 years ago by han_4_mike
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Hi,

I've only just seen the season 8 finale so sorry in advance for anyone else who's up to date and may have already discussed this but I don't understand the whole unconscious conversations Mac had.

I get the Claire thing because she's dead so it made sense for Mac to see her and have unconscious conversations with her but not with the rest of the team. Its not as if the team can remember the conversations, especially Flack's conversation about him killing the man who killed Jess or Danny and Lindays conversation about them moving away with Lucy.

And don't understand how Mac hasn't arrested Flack knowing full well Flack killed that man out of pure revenge. Mac would arrest anyone else in the same situation regardless of whether they're a cop or not. Don't get my wrong I love Flack, he's one of my faves but surely he shouldn't have got any special treatment just cos he's 'a good cop' or for the fact that Mac 'let everything go cos the Giants won the superbowl'

Really disappointed with this season finale. It makes no sense that Mac would have conversations with his team while he was dying when the team would have no recollection of the event/conversations and for the fact Mac has completely gone against the law knowing Flack had blatently murdered someone and is ok with it.

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[–] zabbree 12 years ago

And don't understand how Mac hasn't arrested Flack knowing full well Flack killed that man out of pure revenge. Mac would arrest anyone else in the same situation regardless of whether they're a cop or not. Don't get my wrong I love Flack, he's one of my faves but surely he shouldn't have got any special treatment just cos he's 'a good cop' or for the fact that Mac 'let everything go cos the Giants won the superbowl'

That's the problem with the whole dialog. Mac had no definitive way of knowing what happened in that room. Flack was alone with the guy, and the guy had a gun. They may have speculated that Flack used unnecessary deadly force, but they had no proof.

[–] ritamilo 12 years ago

Perhaps the trauma of the shooting, wounds, blood loss and surgery plunged Mac into a coma where he in essence resolved things by telling the important people in his life that he understood many things now. Reminds me of the scene in Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2, when he and Dumbledore are having a conversation (Dumbledore is long since dead) and he asks him "Sir...is this real or all in my head?" The answer was that it was both but nonetheless real because Harry was thinking it.

Who knows but that in near-death experiences, people may actually go through that same mental scenario? I always thought that this episode was written/filmed with the mindset that CBS had not yet decided whether to axe Miami or NY and that, had they canceled NY, Mac would have died. That episode could have gone in either direction and it really felt in places that Mac was indeed saying good-bye.

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