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Its a gorgeous and heartbreaking finish to the season.
Look how far our boys have come!
They began the season not speaking to one another.
Jack was an asshole to everyone!
ACE FELL OFF A CLIFF.
Ace has to lose in order for all the Gully problems to go away.
After tonight, the Spades can move on from this hell.
He tells Ace that he should be the one who wins tonight.
But Ace has been on a journey, too, this season.
Hes (sometimes comically) zen now.
He (always comically) makes vision boards.
Hes done with winning and ambition and instead wants to lead with kindness.
He brings that peace hes found to, oddly enough, a thing titled Harmageddon.
As Chris Farley once astutely said, Brothers gotta hug, and guys, they do.
It is the purest form of brotherly love on the planet.
All they have to do is stick to the script and they can move past this.
Gully says it to Jack.
Ace says it to Jack.
As Rooster will note later, its just not in Jacks nature.
So, how does Harmageddon go down?
Jen from Continuum, sitting in the front row with Staci Spade, is an immediate fan.
She may be yelling Dystopia for life!
in the ring, but in reality, shes DWL until the very end.
Or, like, until Willie figures out another way to convince her otherwise.
The DWLs tag team wins with ease, but mostly the match serves two purposes.
First, it allows Diego time to relish in a big win.
Here, Bill steps aside to give him the spotlight.
Its a nice little bow on the whole thing.
Later, backstage, something even more alarming goes down: Bill seems to be grasping at his arm.
Has he just injured himself or is he about to have a heart attack?
I will riot if they kill this man!!
He has just gotten the wrestling family he always dreamed of!
Do not do this to us, er, to him!
And finally, we get to the main event.
Ooh, baby, Jack Spade has written a real barn burner for this one, guys.
It begins with the billed Last Man Standing match between Rooster and the Condamned.
It quickly morphs into the entire FWD against Ace.
Gully ties him up in the ropes and begins hitting him with a baseball bat.
Sure, there are no rules in a Last Man Standing match, but this crosses a line.
Even Rooster knows that.
So, when Gully hands Rooster the bat and tells him to finish Ace, he hesitates.
Suddenly, Crystals out in the ring too.
She doesnt want any part of this they signed up to be wrestlers with the FWD, not this.
Both she and Rooster defect back to the DWL.
Then Jack Spade arrives.
Maybe all of Jacks preciousness about his craft has really paid off!
I am very into it!
More importantly, so is Jen from Continuum.
The two brothers give it everything theyve got.
Everything is going exactly how Jack planned it.
He cannot help himself!
He should just give up now.
His dad has gotten to him.
Weve seen this dynamic between Jack and Tom before.
Tom would shut Jack down before he even had a chance to try.
Tom would be the first to inform Jack that he would never be able to do something.
He wasnt good enough or he wasnt the right fit.
This entire thing with Continuum has surely brought those feelings to Jacks mind.
If he can get the DWL to the next level, hell be proving his dad wrong.
He so desperately wants to prove him wrong.
Its so far removed from the way Ace is dealing with his daddy issues.
When he found his dad on the ground after Tom shot himself, he couldnt go near him.
He couldnt attempt to comfort him.
He couldnt even call 911.
He just cried until Jack was there to figure it out.
His mother assures him that Tom was already dead, but Ace has felt like a coward all along.
Meanwhile, Jack is conjuring up that ghost any chance he gets.
He climbs up on the top rope to do the shooting-star press.
He pulls it off.
But theres a problem.
He pleads with Ace to stand up and take the win.
Finally, he tells his brother whats going on Jacks hurt, and it is for real.
you might see it all over his face.
As Gully screams for Jack to get up and end this, Jack tells Ace to sell it.
Ace does what his brother tells him.
Ace wins the match.
Gully is livid, promising to end Jack.
Everyone watching backstage is some version of confused or angry or both.
How could Jack jeopardize the DWL like this?
Jack cant feel his legs.
To everyone else, its the end of another exciting night in Duffy.
To Jack, it might be the end of everything.
No one is going to be happy about that little twist!
Basically, theyve been lying about what their land is zoned for to get a tax break.
Willies so fun, isnt she?
Do they talk about anything besides wrestling?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Also, hey, are we going to get anything more about Crystals mom?
Lets firm up some of these ensemble backstories next season (fingers still crossed), okay?
Where was Big Jim?
Eddie Earl really is so pure.
His big line when Jack comes out and pledges loyalty to FWD?
Hes not getting a Christmas card from Annie and I this year!
