what is going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with my
final recap breakdown and review of the series finale of hbo's we own this city episode six
part six an episode in which we see what happens to wayne and his crew involving their sentencing
we also gonna have that discussion about sean suiter we'll be discussing that and so much
more in tonight's spoiler breakdown review but before we get into the discussion make sure you're
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in the comments below so before we get into my thoughts and the spoiler discussion of this finale
i want to take the time to thank every single one of you all who watched these reviews for
the past six weeks this was not a easy watch i'm not referring to the quality of show i'm
just talking about the stuff that the show revealed in regards to the stuff that shook
down during the time period of what went down in the baltimore police department now again very
difficult but it was something that was needed in regards to kind of showing this corruption
as i stated in my episode one review i vaguely knew about the situation but wasn't as
uh informed as this show kind of enlightened me on didn't read the book as i mentioned as well but
again i'm going to talk about my overall thoughts of the series towards the end of this breakdown
but again i just want to thank you all for liking sharing commenting and supporting these videos
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with that being said let's get into the discussion full spoilers ahead we opened the episode on may
31st 2017 in which we see the scene in wayne getting offered a plea agreement and at first
he's just keep claiming that he's innocent and everyone making these claims against him
they're lying well wayne you're lying as you're literally lying to the fbi right in front of them
as they say okay this plea deal right now we're gonna just end these conversations
we're gonna talk about wayne a little bit later in this breakdown but uh because we have a lot to
say about him but let's talk about what's going on with nicole steele in this episode as she is
just venting in front of brian in regards to her recent visits to the mayor's office and he pretty
much lays it to her in regards to the truth on this war of criminals and not just on the streets
but the criminals in the police department he says we have to acknowledge the fact that this
is essentially a lose-lose situation which is of course something you don't want to hear but
the reality is when you have people in position of power and you know politicians and mayors and
you know different people in the police department from the commissioners to the the deputies and the
sergeants and and all the different stuff that that are corrupt it's hard to make that change
and we're finally seeing after nicole said in episode one to her trainee i tried to not take
this stuff home with me and try not to kind of internalize it we see that unfortunately that
wall has been broken down because she offered me breaks which we'll talk about here in a second but
we do see in this episode the commissioner is also seeing the lose-lose situation as he's trying to
make his final plea with the mayor in regards to this reform bill she don't want to hear it and
we'll talk about what happens to her a little bit later but she doesn't want to hear it and
she ultimately tells him it's not going to happen just make cuts to your department and his days are
very numbered and we'll talk about what happened to commissioner davis in a second but checking
back in with nicole again she is just constantly hearing that what's gonna happen there's no change
she's talking to the activist who's saying that okay even if they pass this bill what do you think
is really gonna happen what do you think the cops are really gonna do to the people on the streets
as she's just again constantly seeing okay she tries she takes two steps forward only get pushed
back 15 steps when she hears things like this which ultimately leads to her hearing about her
department may be dead in the water with trump and everyone like that and within that conversation
again she's starting to see that this system is absolutely broken and she's met her ends meet
when it comes to frustration and she ultimately by the end of this episode she makes a decision to uh
resign and she tells the training he's like wait a minute i supposed to be like this is my first
you know couple months in this new uh civil rights department and and this is the kind of the result
of this he says listen it's your turn young man to try to make a change i tried my best and
couldn't really make anything happen hopefully you can do something different now
again in the in the confines of like hopefulness you're like man that's kind of messed up but
just kind of understanding the reality of situation i completely understand her decision
because it has to be frustrating it's like talking to a brick wall again when you have these
people in position of power that aren't making the necessary needs and making it i'm sorry
the necessary decisions tough decisions um to make these changes you got to make a change of yourself
so she ultimately decides to resign but as far as just kind of ending this story and highlighting
the positives of nicole steele i've always been a fan of woman mashaku and she was one of the
bright spots in regards to the acting department in the show for me i really enjoy her narrative
i love that we saw her on the streets trying to find out what's going on with herschel and hearing
all these interviews and all the accounts and talking to the mayor and trying to make the change
but again it was just a brick wall she kept running into the brick wall there
it's just a inevitable war that can't be won at this point in time but again i just want
to highlight wound mushaku was great and i really enjoyed the narrative that we got with nicole even
though it wasn't hopeful it's just kind of harsh reality right so let me know what you all thought
of her story overall and of course your thoughts on movie mashaku as let's transition over to
a very interesting topic let's talk about what's going on with sean suiter and his questioning in
this episode as he's get brought in about the whole situation with planting the drugs as the
question at hand is is sean suiter a witness or is he a suspect and his his job on the line if
you guys go back to my review of episode one again not knowing much of the case i said to myself well
sean suiter seems like a very perfect example of a police officer who might have had intentions to do
well who might have had intentions to make change but at the same time he was sweeping things under
the rug and that eats at him that ate at him as we'll talk about what happened to him a little
bit later but that is setting the stage for him being asked to be a witness which he is ultimately
considered to be a witness but then the question comes at hand okay you were on the crime scene did
you witness something go down did you witness a robbery did you see them planting their drugs so
now he's starting to put the pieces to his head my family my job my reputation my morality me being a
good person is now being questioned which leads into the big kind of mystery of the real life
situation as well as what the show is gonna oppose us here in the scene let's break it all down as we
see that something is definitely off with sean as he's annoying the messages from his lawyer
and he claims to have seen something in the alley again he's kind of going and again not knowing
what you know what really went down in a reality situation but we see in the episode he's going
on parole with his partner and just kind of going over like you know i used to be on this street i
used to do this that and the other kind of like in his head trying to say going back to the younger
days when i was you know uncorrupted when i didn't see all the messed up stuff that i saw and kind of
reliving those moments we even see him in this episode the night before i believe this incident
happens that we're going to talk about here in a second he goes in his kid's room and kind of
like gives them i don't he didn't say goodbye but kind of looks at them and looks at his wife
which kind of sets the stage for what we get here now we see sean claims to have seen
someone in the alley and he's kind of being really weird about the situation with his partner like
all right let's let's tie it back around in 20 minutes and then we get to the moment he tells his
partner to go up the street he's behind this kind of car this van he's see he's acting like he's
seeing someone he runs into the alley stop what you're doing police you know freeze and we hear
i think they said it was three to four shots which also means we see his partner goes in an alley
sean's shot in the head and ultimately he dies now i know a lot of you all mentioned
in the comments that eliot wait to see what really happens to him and the show
doesn't definitively give us an answer because honestly if you all look it up
and i looked it up as well there is no you know definitive answer to what really happened with
sean but as the show highlights there was an independent review on his death and they say
based on all the evidence they had it seemed to be staged that he took his own life and we can
only assume that he took his own life because this happened a day before he was going to be
asked going trial which we even see the fbi say that his his claims wouldn't have been
too damaging to not only his career but to wayne and everything going on of course is evidence to
you know add against wayne and his corruption but it wasn't like a ground-breaking revelation
to what sean was doing but in his head the way he internalized it him as a man's being questioned as
a police officer as a father as a husband as a cop to serve the community i think again i don't want
to uh you know based on the show i'm just going on what the show gave me and what i saw online
it looks like his conscience caught up to him and he didn't want to face
the truth of brushing the corruption and all the stuff that he saw in the rug which as the
show highlights i personally think based on what i saw and when i'm learning about sean suiter
i think it's safe to say that it was staged now again i don't mean to thin you know people that
think the opposite of course is family who lost a husband a father or son a best friend and all that
stuff but based on what i saw it looked like it was a stage situation that's just my opinion let
me know how you all feel about it again the other side of the coin is it was a hit someone took him
out wayne someone in the police department thought that it was maybe more damaging than what it
appeared and they had a hit out on him but again just on the accounts that i saw from the show and
the stuff i'm looking up online the conspiracies i know there's a documentary on the situation
i think it was staged but that's just my humble opinion let me know yours in the comments below
but let's talk about the man in the yard we're talking about wayne here cutting to october 2016
we see wayne is just so blind to the truth as we see a scene in which he has this guy that he pulls
over who tosses out his gun and by all accounts he was doing the bad thing he threw away his weapon
wayne is kind of being decent as he's allowing him to call someone to make bail but the guy
ultimately says oh they setting me up and wayne takes that to heart cause he's like man how can
you say i'm corrupt how can you distance again he is like completely drawn away from reality
he's been so corrupted for all these years as a cop he can't even see writing right what's
in front of him this whole time wayne even though you're trying to be you're doing your job now how
many other countless times have you had people killed have you had people robbed based on your
decisions as being a good police officer so in this moment it just kind of and we see like this
collage and we're going through these accounts of all these times that he's starting to see
these walls starting to cave in on him which leads us into different moments in which again
him hearing that he's a dirty cop leads into this whole situation when he's on
he's going to a court trial and he's standing behind his words but he he loses a case and
he's having this conversation with attorneys like come on man it's pretty obvious that you're you're
corrupt man you're doing some really effed up things and again it's just many accounts
and we continuously seeing wayne saying man i'm not corrupt i'm out here doing i'm the best cop
in this uh in this whole department i'm the best cop the baltimore the department has ever seen
again he's just so blinded by his lies that he sees this as truth and we know a lot of in reality
there's a lot of people that that use their lies as truth and make it you know just as truthful
as they wanted to be he's super delusional at this point as we get a sequences of all his homies just
essentially saying that he was just that dude that he was just lying and he was just doing all these
corrupt things which ultimately leads to his his associate uh donald getting arrested and donald's
like i i don't get nothing to hide i'm gonna tell you all everything that you want to know and this
is where we start to see mcdougall his partner they bust antonio they learn about sergeant
keith glanstone and how he was connected to wayne and then this is where we get all the cases and
all the moments kind of within like a six-month window we switch over to december 19 2016 which
wayne is claiming he's done and he wants to make a transfer and we see that his i think her name
was jt she's like no wayne you're the best you can't quit you can't leave which would transition
from that moment to fast forward to february 9 2017 which wayne again he wants to make this
transfer but all this frustration he's talking to gondo and jamal he's just like listen man
i i can't take it anymore i can't take these accounts people calling me dirty calling me
corrupt but we i want to do one more job one more big bus which we see at the end of this
episode which we'll talk about but again even they saw they like bro you are corrupt but again
he doesn't want to hear that which brings us into the sentencing of the moment of the episode wayne
he feels bad for the situation but and he says he makes a mistake but he doesn't want to cooperate
which we see that he gets the most sentencing out of everyone he gets 25 years in the federal prison
which we'll talk about his last scenes here in a bit but let's run down the other sentencing here
jamal ultimately gets 12 years g-money gondo he gets 10 years ward gets seven years
thomas gets 15 which brings us down to herschel who was one of two police officers who actually
went to trial ultimately got 18 years which brings us into commissioner davis who tries to shut down
the plane closed department and he speaks to the media about the years of crime within the system
only to get fired by the mayor which we see her bringing in a new commissioner who only
gets fired or resigned to say four months into his job because he resigns due to tax invasion
which speaking of that mayor let's talk about her for a second we see that she ultimately got found
guilty of tax invasion and served three years which also going back to the police side of it all
the second in command deputy dean he resigns after finding out that he was going to be called to be a
witness to trial so the doors were let open from the mayor all the way down to commissioner who
by all accounts commissioner davis at least from what the show's portraying seemed to
be one of those good guys that tried to make a change but unfortunately couldn't because when
he did make a change he got fired uh just a couple days later they bring in a new guy who
ultimately gets you know arrested for tax invasion so uh it just makes it makes you feel dirty seeing
all these dirty corrupt things and these people and the mayor only get in three years like damn
justice was not served in that case if you asked me but getting back to the conversation kind
of wrapping up the episode we fast forward to february 17 2017. we replay the events that we
saw back in episode one when wayne finds the money and we ultimately see that that's what
he found was a ton of cash which leads us into seeing wayne getting that speech that we saw back
in episode one but this time we see instead of for a bunch of new police being trained it's all
the criminals listening to him and applauding him making him that superman as he kind of plays it in
his head and we end the episode with wayne being outside looking over his shoulder now so i just
want to backtrack for a second and even though i hated wayne jenkins to my core i cannot go without
applauding and admitting that john berthold was the mvp of the show again despicable character
but what a wonderful performance by john berthold as wayne jenkins let me know your thoughts on his
performance his character all in the comments below now a couple things i want to just let you
all know in regards to reality situation all eight members were ultimately sentenced for a combined
112 years in prison as i had mentioned wayne got the heaviest out of the entire crew and he
is again fitness to 25 years over in kentucky and his release date is scheduled for 2038.
wow i mean this again just kind of overall thoughts finale it was a much better episode
than last week um and again highlighting the wayne and him just being blinded by his own
truths but he's just lying and seeing how all that reflects on he was the only one but him
and herschel that didn't want to cooperate and we saw again 18 years rehearsal 25 with going on with
wayne but everyone else was just like listen i was corrupt and that even brings me back to ward who
we didn't he got what seven years uh they never really kind of answered the question if he did
i think last week answered my question that he was corrupt and he in his mind he was trying to
be clean and and didn't do as many evil deeds as as the uh you know the witnesses might have
said but overall i enjoyed the finale but again i will say when it comes to that sean
stewart situation i have my opinion on it i i did think it was kind of like staged literally it was
staged i'm talking about the way they framed the scene was a little bit kind of uh it wasn't as um
well played out as i think it could have been to kind of open the door for a little bit more of uh
because to me it was they made it kind of definitive that he was being very sketchy
with that whole scene but i wish they would have played out just a little bit more differently
to kind of leave the audience wondering like was it a setup or what did he set himself up in
that situation but again solid finale but overall thoughts of the show again i appreciate a show and
especially from the creators of the wire bringing this to the light to the attention to people like
me that wasn't too familiar with it i know a lot of you all who have read the book who have
seen other things have pointed out the accuracy and the inaccuracies of the story but overall
i would say it was a it was a good series not a great series especially coming from
the people that brought us one of the greatest shows of all time in the wire but i think to me
the biggest flaw in the show was the way that they told the narrative especially the first
two to three episodes were very i should say the first two episodes were very confusing in the
narrative one again we were just moving all over checking in with all the characters putting all
the chips on the table it was a very kind of um clustered and kind of disjointed experience but
episode three and four when we focused on main characters like wayne and then we would pivot
to other characters to show like the the domino effect of his decisions those to me
were the best episodes of the series and then five to me kind of went back into the episode
one and two kind of falls into the narrative and then the finale was fine so like i said overall
a good series not a great series had the potential to be great but overall i i enjoyed it for the
most part but hey that's my thoughts on the show uh the series the finale what worked what didn't
work my opinion on the sean suiter case but i want to know your thoughts on the show the series
uh what things stood out to you what things didn't work for you let's have those discussions
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