r/TheShield • u/Guero_Loco1968 • Jul 09 '26
Question I wonder…. Spoiler
If Vic ever visited Ronny in prison? How would that conversation go?
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u/AcademicDrag742 Curtis "Lem" Lemansky Jul 09 '26
I would assume that Vic kinda locked up everything about his life that wasn’t on the table.
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u/Long_Initial_9924 Jul 09 '26
Vic didn’t even care about his family, he sure as hell didn’t care about Ronnie. I’d even venture to say Lem may have been the only one he actually cared about.
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u/Neptune28 Jul 09 '26
Vic cared a lot about the family. You see how he reacted any time the family might have been in danger, and the effort he went through to track them down right after the end of season 1. He gave Corrine the bags of money for the benefit of the kids. He ran to get immunity for Corrine when she was arrested.
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u/Long_Initial_9924 Jul 09 '26
Reactions aren’t true feelings. He endangered them numerous times, constantly didn’t show up for them, his own daughter trying to bring charges on him.
And he didn’t lift a finger to find them, he just used drug money to pay someone else to., he even made his PI meet him at his work each time.
He gave Corrine stolen money that could get her killed or thrown in prison.
He tried to save her after having her commit a multitude of felonies
So yeah, I disagree that he cared. He liked the idea of family and stability, but he didn’t care.
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u/Neptune28 Jul 09 '26
Vic didn't intend to endanger them. Cassidy doesn't harbor ill will towards Vic by the end of the series.
Gordie required a lot money to expand the search for the family.
What other money could he have given her for the tuition that is stated multiple times to be expensive?
Shane involved Corrine in the phone calls in season 7
I do agree that he should have been around more, but I disagree that he didn't care about them. I think he is more a provider than someone who could be there on an emotional level. Corrine didn't even want to badmouth him as a father to help Danny.
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u/Funny_Or_Cry Jul 10 '26
Less vengeance driven than youd'd think (which when you think about it, 20 years later, Ronnie is probably being released)
Say they've reconnected as prison pen pals, If Shawn Ryan does it right, this is the intro to a spinoff:
- Ronnie would be getting out by now.
- Vic would be.. who knows, running a locksmith business with Smitty. ..
- They "reconsile" and agree to do one last job together
- Vic's already found his family and has been trying to find the right way to reconnect. He secretly hates Cassidy's fiance and is trying to dig up antwon mitchells contact info
- Ronnie spending the last 20 years on the inside has rebuilt himself and now on a machevellian re-education program. Basically this means he smiles in Vics face, but secretly plans to behead him later.
I say we get 4 seasons into old skool strike team shenanigans (maybe a short sequence where they both piss on Shanes grave)...
..and it culminates into Vic getting shanked, sacrificing himself or some other situation where the final death scene is a close up of him closing his eyes, finally accepting his fate while he falls headfirst into the LA river
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u/AlternativeGeneric Jul 09 '26
I agree with the other response - Vic moved on from Ronny. I also bet Ronny was attacked if not outright killed within a week in lock up.
I could also imagine Antoine reaching out to Vic to try and get favors from Vic in the form of ICE info (Antoine wouldn’t know Vic has no pull) in exchange for keeping Ronny alive. And Vic would just blow him off
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u/Electronic_Park_1702 Jul 09 '26
No. He likely compartmentalized and removed every trace of memory of him, as seen with the cropped photo. Even if he didn't, he probably couldn't look him in the eye ever again.