"Jake is sweating bullets, having just quit his job and signed a $30,000-a-month lease on the new restaurant. Vince is telling him, "It's not a prison sentence." Wes and Estelle are conveniently having their meet-cute by the jukebox, while Roxie and Tony are back in the kitchen, about to be swept up in the "Isle of Joy" Vince is desperately trying to build."
"After Jake secures a deal with Joe Mancuso to leave him and the rest of their family alone, he calls Vince and offers him up as payment for Junior's death. As soon as Mancuso and Babbitt take off for the Plank, Jake jumps in his car and frantically calls Vince while screaming at traffic, but Mancuso and Babbitt get to him first."
"Poetic ending though it may have been, Vince is now older than his dad ever was and, as a result, has a few more years of escaping a pinch under his belt. Vince is quick on his toes and asks for a farewell drink and a bump to the world, which gives him the opening to slam a bag of coke in Babbitt's face and bolt out the door while the hearing-impaired Mancuso has his back turned at the"
Black Rabbit's finale uses a flashback to establish the original crew's formation, with Jake quitting his job and signing an expensive lease while Vince downplays the risks. The show's recurring structure signals an inevitable found-family collapse. Jake strikes a deal with Joe Mancuso, offering Vince as payment for Junior's death, and Mancuso and Babbitt move to dispose of him. Vince improvises a farewell, creates a violent distraction by slamming cocaine into Babbitt's face, and escapes while Mancuso is hearing-impaired. The finale frames betrayal and survival as consequences of generational wounds corrupting chosen-family bonds.
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