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Part I
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Summary: The Triple Sixers, the largest biker gang in North America, seeks to expand its scope. They hold a vote to decide if they want to include new chapters from Ontario in their ranks. The Ontario Triple Sixers vote yes, the Quebec Triple Sixers vote no. Since the Ontario chapters outnumber the Quebec chapters, it is decided that they will include the new chapters--the Angels of Death gang--into the Triple Sixers group. The police watch both groups and act more like paparazzi than police. One old cop, Bill, has a certain comraderie with the bikers and trusts them more than he does his department. Bob Durelle executes a hit on a South American drug lord who was competition to the gang's supplier. The deal he makes with the [remaining] drug lord and the hit ensure him a place as president of the new Ontario chapter of the Triple Sixers. But there are a lot of Angels of Death who don't want to become Triple Sixers. Ross sides with the Angel members in Toronto who oppose the Triple Sixers and starts an independent group called The Associates. Bob forbids his wife, Karen, to see her best friend who Ross's wife, Wendy, as the best friends are now leaders of opposing gangs. The women still talk and meet in secret. In one phone conversation Wendy mentions to Karen that Bob is the president of the Triple Sixers, which comes as a shock to his wife. Bob and Ross meet in secret and it becomes clear that they planned the opposing gangs all along to help with the transition from Angels to Triple Sixers. They dole out the areas in Toronto between the two gangs (who will be dealing drugs from the same supplier) except there is one area that is disputed: Hamilton. The Associates have a resident psycho, Ricky, who considers that his turf and he vows to kill any Triple Sixers who try to move in on his territory. Meanwhile, the Quebec chapter has its own resident psycho, Roots, who wants to take control of that chapter away from its anglo president, Zipper. Ricky is shot and everyone thinks that Bob was behind it, though he swears to Ross he didn't do it. Ross tries to talk The Associates down from retaliating against the Triple Sixers while Bob is nearly shot by machine gun fire outside of his home.
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Part II
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Summary: Police detective Bill Guenette tries to offer protection to Bob Durelle but is rebuffed. Roots and Snapper visit Bob to show support after the attempt on his life, and Zipper catches them brown-nosing. Bob warns Zipper--who is overcharging Roots on the drugs he supplies--that Roots will kill Zipper if he finds out; likewise, Zipper warns Bob that Roots will try to take over Bob's territory. Roots and Bob meet in secret and Roots wants to expand into The Associates' territory. Pietro, the Italian boss, meets with Glen and asks what will happen if Bob and Ross go to war. Ross visits Glen to ask him to talk to Bob to help diffuse the situation, but Glen refuses to help, and even jokes that Ross should start checking under his truck before he starts it. Glen's girlfriend is picked up by the police for breaking her parole and so she ends up helping the police by bugging Glen's apartment. Boomer tries to take out Bippy (for shooting at Bob) but he is picked up by the police. Roots and Snapper have Bill Guenette's girlfriend followed, and the dectective tells them nicely to shove off. Roots visits Pietro to see if he can muscle in on Bob's connection, and he is told by Pietro, not nicely, to shove off. Bob buys a mansion as a surprise to his wife. She starts out being unimpressed with the wealthy lifestyle, but then begins acting like a rich bitch in her unhappiness. Bob forgets her birthday and their marriage is tenuous at best. Wendy dies in a car bomb that was planted in Ross's truck, and that act is the last breach between Ross and Bob. Ross approaches another North American motorcycle gang, Los Matadores, to see if they will patch The Associates so he has an organization comparable in size to fight the Triple Sixers. Glen finds out his girlfriend Deborah sold him fake paintings and freaks. The police rush in, thinking he'd found the bug they planted, and Glen is arrested. Bob and Ross are called into a meeting with Pietro and Ross says he has nothing to live for except revenge. Bob goes to Ross's house with a gun and tries to convince Ross that he didn't have the hit put on him. Ross considers him responsible even if he wasn't directly involved so they are at an impasse. Bippy and Fisher from The Associates are found shot dead. The police tapes from Glen's apartment reveal that Glen and Zipper arranged the hit on Ross, but it is unclear if anyone else is involved. |
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Part III
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Summary: Danny, Ross's right-hand man, tips the police off that there is a hit on Durelle. Bill tells Bob that Los Matadores are now in the picture. Bob ensures that Los Matadores do not step on Canadain turf by creating and agreement backed by all the Triple Sixers. Glen makes a plea bargain and confesses to working for both Zip and Durelle, taking orders from Durelle to kill MacGruder, Fisher, and Polluck, while also attempting to kill Ross under Zip's orders. Who started it all by killing Ricky Jones is still a mystery. Ross, frustrated at the failed hit, breaks into the house across the street to take out Bob himself. The police arrest Bob before Ross can shoot. In court, Glen tells all until Ross walks in as a spectator. A recess is called and Ross threatens Glen's family if he doesn't let Bob go free (so he can kill him). Glen is unimpressed. Glen goes back into the court room and starts saying he can't remember his testimony. Glen, when called on perjury, says he messed up their case to get his own back because of Deborah. The case is dismissed and Bob goes free. Bill is so fed up with the system that he retires. At the Durelle house, tensions mount and the children begin to show signs of rebellion and bad influence. Bob goes to Zip and confronts him about Wendy's murder. Zip reveals his jealousy of Bob's influence surpassing his own with the Triple Sixers. Bob then tells Roots that Zip is overcharging his chapter and the chapter kills Zip. Ross goes grief-psycho and starts carving himself with Wendy tattoos and gives in to paranoia. Bob mails Zip's patch to Ross as a peace offering; it is rejected. Ross gets an M-16 to take out Bob; Danny freaks and tells Bob. Danny says he will handle the Ross problem if he can step in and take Ross's place in the indie gang. Karen takes the kids and leaves Bob under the pretense of a family vacation. Ross is abducted and shot--though this happens off-screen. Bill and Bob meet up and Bill tells Bob about Karen having a house in Florida, showing that he knows more about what is going on than Bob. Bill tells Bob about Ross being shot. Bill also shows him the videotape from the drug lord hit, to tell him he knows about it even though it isn't evidence.
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Airdates on CBC:
Sun, March 3, 8:00 PM
Sun, March 10, 8:00 PM
Sun, March 17, 8:00 PM
Written by Luc Dionne
Directed by Richard Roy
Cast:
Bob Durrelle...Michael Ironside
Karen Durrelle...Marina Orsini
Ross Desbiens...Roy Dupuis
Wendy Desbiens...Céline Bonnier
Zip O’Connors...Frank Schorpion
Roots...Dan Bigras
Mêlé...Jean Deschênes
Snapper...Richard Lemire
Ricky Jones, chef des Satan Keepers...Richard Zeman
Bill Guenette...Michel Forget
Jennifer MacKenzie...Maxim Roy
Steve Stewart...Louis-Philippe Dandenault
Glen O’Sullivan...Francis Xavier McCarthy
Danny Lazarus, right hand of Ross...Lorne Brass
Pietro Giacalone...Dom Fiore
Deborah Mousseau...Michelle Scarabelli
Johanne Lavigne...Annette Garant
Sarah Durrelle...Fanny La Croix
Johnathan Durrelle...Morgan Freeman
Paul O’Connors...Giancarlo Caltabiano
Moton...Jean-Guy Bouchard
Bippy McGruder, of the Satan Keepers...Andréas Apergis
Norm Fisher, of the Satan Keepers...Chip Chuipka
Carlos Vasquez...Manuel Tadros
Bit of yummy orange shirt:
(Click on bit to see Roy in shirt.)
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Last Chapter [English]
Dernier Chapitre [Francais]
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The Last Chapter is based on Omertà: la loi du silence, a book by Luc Dionne and Guy Samson (Trecarre, 1996; French version only).
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