"but why would he choose to go undercover after all, there's nothing left "outside". Because he's Tony, and he's supposed to know right from wrong. He's cut of the same cloth as Jack (and Michelle and Bill and Chloe), who can't help but offer up their services if it means taking down the bad guy. He's not supposed to be a bad guy or do bad things for selfish reason, except he was and he did, until recently. And now he's in as much need for redemption than Jack, even more so.
True. Maybe I should amend my statement then and say that Tony didn't toe the line, but he didn't want to continue bending the rules either and that's what got him in trouble. I think that deep down, Tony was always more reluctant to go off book than Jack. In the first couple seasons, Tony took a mostly passive role, covering for Jack or gathering intel for him while Jack did the really crazy stuff. Jack always seemed to be the one the one convincing him, you know? So at the first opportunity to bail, he tried to pull himself and Michelle out of that life of choosing between a rock and a hard place.
Except that's the thing. Once you're in as far deep as Tony was (doing the stuff he did for Michelle, helping Jack bend the rules), you're in it forever. You don't get to pull out of the game. So you either continue to function like Jack or somehow you become collateral damage. Which is what happened to Michelle and should have happened to Tony, if not for the reviving thing. Instead Tony is forced back into the world of hard choices, and as a result, he broke.
Renee can't be evil, I've decided. They'd have to retcon and explain why Debaku, Nichols, and the "contact at the Bureau" wanted to kill her off when it was confirmed she didn't have info beyond the stuff Tanner told her. And that's just too much work. As to her possibly dying? She already got shot in the neck and didn't die. She already had her almost!dead moment, and she's not Teri. (Although weird that she's looks a lot like Leslie Hope, no? Or is that just me?)
I think if I keep chanting this to myself, it will happen and she'll survive beyond S7.
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"but why would he choose to go undercover after all, there's nothing left "outside".
Because he's Tony, and he's supposed to know right from wrong. He's cut of the same cloth as Jack (and Michelle and Bill and Chloe), who can't help but offer up their services if it means taking down the bad guy. He's not supposed to be a bad guy or do bad things for selfish reason, except he was and he did, until recently. And now he's in as much need for redemption than Jack, even more so.
True. Maybe I should amend my statement then and say that Tony didn't toe the line, but he didn't want to continue bending the rules either and that's what got him in trouble. I think that deep down, Tony was always more reluctant to go off book than Jack. In the first couple seasons, Tony took a mostly passive role, covering for Jack or gathering intel for him while Jack did the really crazy stuff. Jack always seemed to be the one the one convincing him, you know? So at the first opportunity to bail, he tried to pull himself and Michelle out of that life of choosing between a rock and a hard place.
Except that's the thing. Once you're in as far deep as Tony was (doing the stuff he did for Michelle, helping Jack bend the rules), you're in it forever. You don't get to pull out of the game. So you either continue to function like Jack or somehow you become collateral damage. Which is what happened to Michelle and should have happened to Tony, if not for the reviving thing. Instead Tony is forced back into the world of hard choices, and as a result, he broke.
Renee can't be evil, I've decided. They'd have to retcon and explain why Debaku, Nichols, and the "contact at the Bureau" wanted to kill her off when it was confirmed she didn't have info beyond the stuff Tanner told her. And that's just too much work. As to her possibly dying? She already got shot in the neck and didn't die. She already had her almost!dead moment, and she's not Teri. (Although weird that she's looks a lot like Leslie Hope, no? Or is that just me?)
I think if I keep chanting this to myself, it will happen and she'll survive beyond S7.