Sara gets out of surgery okay; while the bullet went right through her chest, it hit one of her major arteries and caused her to lose a lot of blood, making the next 24 hours critical. The doctors don’t know how much her brain was deprived of oxygen and the impact that said deprivation could have on her, so for the moment, it’s just wait and see. Elaine arrives at the hospital and learns that Vic shot someone else, causing her to nearly faint, while Drew impatiently waits for Sara to regain consciousness. He’s finally allowed to see her and recounts their first date, the first time he realized just how tough she is. He wants her to do that again, somehow, and she squeezes his hand. Drew then gets the doctors t come in and look at her, just as Jack finally finds Sara’s room. However, Jack decides not to go in and see her, leaving her to be with her husband in her time of need. Elsewhere, Karsten’s back is against the wall with an indictment looming and Mikolaj agreeing to cooperate with the feds, the latter of which potentially adding charges that could significantly lengthen Karsten’s prison sentence. However, he’s more concerned about finding a dignified way of turning himself in.

Once the indictment goes through, Karsten’s assets get frozen and he’s granted 24 hours to surrender to the FBI. With the time he’s been given, he goes over to Elaine’s where he finds TJ and explains that Elaine is going to be the head of the trust find he set up for the kids. However, Elaine soon comes downstairs kicks him out of the house, not looking to forgive her father for what he did to Vic. Before Karsten leaves, he tells TJ that people are complicated and that he should look after his sister in the event that there’s a prison sentence in the future. Karsten then pays Vic a visit at the jail and mentions how they’re going to fight the sentence, that they’ll be trying to get him transferred to a psych facility for youths. However, since Vic is 17 and legally an adult, that won’t be possible and he leaves when Karsten apologizes for letting him down and teaching him the wrong things that got him into the mess that he’s in. Karsten lay waits Jack and tries to tell him that he’s going to get Vic help, but Jack isn’t buying it and rattles off several of Karsten’s indiscretions, including the death of his own parents. Karsten claims that Jack’s parents died due to windy conditions and a foreman who cut corners on the safety standards on/construction of scaffolding and that he’s trying to repair his mistakes while he can. Jack, though, says that he should have thought about that while planning the hit and leaves.

On the morning he’s supposed to turn himself into the FBI, with the officers already in his building, Karsten goes to his office, puts on Suzanne’s cover of “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You,” gets the gun out of his desk, and blows his brains out, pulling the trigger before the FBI can bust into the room. At the funeral, Elaine delivers the eulogy and publicly forgives her father for all that he did during her life, citing the fact that at the end of the day, children and grandchildren are all that matter in life. Drew ends up going to the funeral and sitting in the back, an experience that causes him to nearly sympathize with the Karsten family. He returns home with Oliver and Sara, who he’s given permission to stay as long as she wants while she’s recovering, and the following day, gets approached by several politicos claiming that now is the time for him to jump into politics. He’s a smart, handsome attorney who just brought down one of Chicago’s most notorious criminals and they claim he’s the leading candidate for the open seat in the 5th Congressional district, even with Sara’s affair still being fresh. He then learns that she never filed the divorce papers and his new team strongly advises him to avoid filing them, as he needs to have his wife there for campaign events.

That night, he informs Sara of being approached for a Congressional campaign and asks her about not filing the papers, the latter something she didn’t do due to both Oliver and the hope that things between them could improve to the point where they didn’t need to divorce. He warns that they might not be able to trust what they’re feeling right now and she tells him that she’s willing to be by his side through the entirety of the campaign trail, causing him to cry. He decides to go through with the campaign and at one of his press conferences, he handles a question about the affair by saying that the incident has nothing to do with his politics and his goals for Chicago, all the while praising his wife, who he refused to have on stage. He didn’t want to use her or his son as accessories to win, though they’re both watching nearby.

TJ watches Drew’s conference from the auto shop and tells the guy working there that he wants a vehicle for a long trip with good gas mileage. Turns out, the vehicle being worked on right then was a truck with flames on the side and TJ decides to trade in his Impala for it. He drives to Snyder’s gas station and meets with Elaine, where he shares the suicide note that Karsten left, which tells of his relationship with Suzanne and the daughter that the two had. Inside, TJ finds Kayla and introduces both himself and Elaine, explaining that he only learned of her the other day and offering to sign over half of his trust to her and her son; they left Michigan once her mother died. When Elaine gets ready to go, she tells TJ to come join her in the city for dinner with Val, but he says that he’s not going back – he wants to move to San Francisco by himself, even though he’s never lived on his own before. He already has a job at an auto shop and urges his sister to allow him the chance to make sense of his life and put himself out into the world. Reluctantly, she agrees and allows him to go.

Elaine makes it home and tells Jack that she can’t bare walking in Vic’s room knowing that he suffered for that long and they didn’t do anything about it. The house has already been packed up since Elaine doesn’t want any more reminders of her son and her father, with Jack heading for a high-rise in town and a new job. He promises, though, that they’ll talk soon. Jack ends up working for Protect the Refugee, a non-profit focused on immigration issues, and meets with Mr. Abdaze, a Sudanese immigrant trying to get his 6-year-old niece into the country to keep her safe. Even though his co-workers don’t want to extend the effort, he claims that he’ll make it happen for Abdaze; also wanting something to happen is Val, who tells her dad that she’s proud of him for working at Protect the Refugee before inquiring about an internship. He asks about how the college tour she went on with Elaine turned out and she mentions how she might not even want to go to college next year, that touring Europe with Jules might be what she does instead. Although he wants to be upset and do the expectedly parental thing by encouraging her to stay in school, he knows that happiness doesn’t just happen and that you have to go after what you want, so due to his own regrets of going with the flow for too long, he all but wishes her the best. The two depart and Jack finds himself on the El, where he sees Sara on the other side of the tracks.

The two get to talking and things are expectedly awkward after all they’ve been through. Sara asks why Jack didn’t come to see her in the hospital (he only says he heard she was stable) and he tries to fill her in on everything with Vic before quickly excusing himself from the situation and heading over to his new place, which has a view of the water. He leaves her with a kiss on the cheek, though. While out on assignment with Nate, he brings up what Sara’s life would look like if Drew wins the election, something she had never thought to bring up. She does bring it up that evening while doing dishes with Drew and he intimates that he wants her and Oliver to come with him, that everything they’ve been through has only made their relationship stronger and that they’re closer than they’ve ever been due to their experience together.

A month later, Mr. Abdaze gets his niece into America and Sara runs into Jack on the street, telling him that a place like Protect the Refugee would have been great for people like his parents and implying that she’s proud of the progress he’d made. She didn’t want to leave things like they were the other night and she asks him again why he didn’t see her at the hospital, finally getting him to admit what actually happened. He didn’t come because he wanted to finally do the right thing regarding their relationship, even though neither of them have any idea if the right thing is never seeing one another again. Once he leaves, she cries and goes to a nearby bridge where she’s clearly convicted about the man she wants to spend her life with.

The episode ends with Sara at dinner and a man, whose face isn’t revealed, coming up to the table. She smiles and tells him she ordered him a glass of wine.

Additional thoughts and observations:
-Before I get into what I thought about the episode, just a notice for all those who don’t follow TV ratings: Betrayal is dead. Deader than dead. It premiered weakly and never gained any type of strength in either live or DVR ratings, so this episode, which I’ve been calling a season finale, is very much a series finale.
-That being said, this was the weirdest possible finale that they could have done, season or series. It steered very heavily away from the thing that worked for me more often than not (Sara and Jack’s connection and the way that it impacted their marriages) and leaned into elements of the show that didn’t make for the best (anything with TJ, Vic’s troubles) or most compelling (Drew’s political ambition, Val) television. This show was ultimately a show about a relationship between two people; it wasn’t a show about Chicago politics or the fall of a criminal empire and it was disappointing for the show to forget that. Also, the structure made it feel something like an epilogue, a very simplified way of providing closure for characters that I didn’t mind as much as I was confused by. Especially the character names appearing on screen before their chunk of the episode kicked off, a reality TV convention I didn’t think I would see on a scripted drama that didn’t have voyeurism/television as a major element.
-In my heart of hearts, I knew it was Vic that shot Sara because heaven forbid this show pull a decent twist, but I wanted it so badly to be TJ, if only for the surprise of it all. But no, Vic’s a big mound of clay that got molded into what his grandfather needed at the time and allowed his life to be ruined over something incredibly stupid, so any chance of me feeling sympathy for him was just done.
-With her hair up/back, Elaine was giving some serious Jennifer Tilly vibes. Sidebar: I miss Jennifer Tilly. You guys, let’s work on getting Jennifer Tilly a show.
-When Thatcher shook after learning that Mikolaj was cooperating, I ached for a last second Parkinson’s plot, because why not. Speaking of, let’s talk about what a coward and non-entity of a villain Karsten turned out to be. This season, he’s been all bluster and scenery chewing and vaguely threatening monologues, but when it came down to it, he punked out by killing himself instead of doing his time. All because he realized that his family was not going to forgive him for manipulating his grandchild into committing murder. Woe is you, Thatcher Karsten. Woe is you.
-Although Thatcher’s suicide was dramatically surprising, it deprived us of getting to see him punished for everything he did himself and everything he made happen through the actions of other people. If the finale was going to turn as moralistic as it did (i.e. all the talk about kids being the only thing that mattering, about people needing to seek out their own happiness), it could have at least thrown Thatcher out to the legal wolves and given us a shot in prison, preferably right beside Vic.
-The show finally remembered that it gave Karsten a biracial life child with a blues singer. Take the money and get the heck out of dodge, Kayla.
-The only reason I’m ultimately okay with Val and Jules is because it was interesting seeing a female teenager who wasn’t going through struggles regarding her sexuality and whose parents accepted her for her. Otherwise, they ended up being wasted narrative space that wound up going absolutely nowhere.
-Raise your hand if you laughed when they showed the truck with the flames on it. Because that was some silly stuff in a show that hasn’t exactly embraced humor. Hopefully it was intentional.
-So, Sara jumps into being a political wife without thinking that maybe, just maybe, her hot, intelligent, charming husband could win and change their lives forever? Seems right.
-Another thing I didn’t like about the finale: the time jumping, particularly toward the end of the episode. In an already overstuffed episode, we didn’t need it and it made the episode feel even more rushed than it already did. It was like the show thought it was going to be on for years, realized that the writing was on the wall, and crammed everything they wanted to do into one episode.
-Who do you think Sara chose? In my mind, she wanted to be with Jack, but he rejected her again and she’s with Drew.
-Thank you guys for following my coverage of Betrayal. I didn’t end up liking the show as much as I wanted to, but I hope that some of you found enjoyment in it.

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On the season finale of Betrayal, Sara’s shooting brings about massive fallout for both the Karsten family and her own family, as they must all deal with the choices they made that got them to this point. For one, Jack is forced to confront the guilt he feels for bringing Sara into the twisted, corrupt world that he inhabits with the likes of Thatcher Karsten; for another, Drew must reconcile his anger at Sara for straying from their marriage with his own role in things breaking down and his desire for her to come back to him. And there’s the whole matter of tracking down the shooter, something that Jack and Drew could conceivably collaborate on. The show pointed toward Vic pulling the trigger on his father’s lover by highlighting how much trouble he was having with his role in Lou’s death and having Thatcher try to convince him that Sara was the root of his parents’ problems. However, TJ was at the latter meeting and he has reason enough to want to seek revenge on Jack, so there’s a chance that he took it upon himself to try and gain the approval from his father that he had been seeking since his accident.

The season finale of Betrayal airs Sunday at 10:00 on ABC.

Who do you think shot Sara? Will there be any revenge sought for the shooting? Is there any chance Sara and Drew or Jack and Elaine give their respective marriages another try?

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On the next episode of Betrayal, Sara gets shot, as was foreshadowed in the pilot, but the identity of her shooter is currently a mystery. It seems likely that her assailant is someone either employed by or related to the Karsten camp – for example, Karsten himself, looking for a way to silence Jack once and for all or to get revenge after finding out that Vic was the one who killed Lou. However, it’s not necessarily true that she could be the target of the shooting; she could easily be in the company of the real target or find herself caught in the crossfire of a confrontation that goes very wrong very quickly. But should Sara make it out of this alive, how will her viewpoint on her marriage, her relationship with Jack, and her future be impacted, if at all?

Elsewhere on Betrayal, Jack and Elaine struggle to deal with their fractured relationship and the needs of their children, while Sara and Drew begin to fall back into old habits and Jack and Drew team up to bring down Karsten once and for all.

Betrayal airs Sundays at 10:00 on ABC.

Who do you think pulls the trigger on Sara? Will the season end with Jack and Sara resolving to make their respective marriages work? Can Jack and Drew quit fighting long enough in order to gather the evidence necessary to put away Karsten?

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Listed below are the dates, titles, and descriptions of the final three episodes of Betrayal this season.

Sunday, January 5th – “…the Karsten way.”
Jack’s confession sends shockwaves through the McAllister and Karsten families. As Elaine, Valerie, Victor and TJ come to grips with a future of Jack being in prison, the truth about Lou Mrozek’s murder finally becomes clear. Meanwhile, Sara is resolved to exonerate her lover and tries to find evidence to clear him by revisiting their past.

Sunday, January 12th – “Sharper than a serpent’s tooth…”
While Jack and Elaine struggle to navigate this turbulent time with their kids, Sara and Drew may be falling back into old habits. Meanwhile, Jack and Drew decide to put their differences aside and work together in the case against Karsten, revealing hidden truths.

Sunday, January 19th – “…A better place.”
In the aftermath of Sara’s shooting, the two families are forced to confront decisions they’ve made, as well as look to the future.

Betrayal airs Sundays at 10:00 on ABC.

Who do you think will be responsible for shooting Sara? Is she going to end up with either Drew or Jack at the end of the season? How will Jack and Drew working together against Karsten go?

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On the next episode of Betrayal, Sara has taken news of the confession hard and, not believing that Jack could go as far as murdering someone in cold blood, decides to retrace her past with the attorney to find the evidence necessary to clear him of all charges. At least part of her desire to keep Jack out of prison has to do with the fact that she didn’t want the crumbling of her marriage with Drew to be in vein, but Sara also knows that Jack was with her at the time the murder and could not be the one who killed Lou. With all the legal infractions that he committed while under Karsten’s wing, though, it might not even matter that he wasn’t behind the murder, as the feds could gather enough evidence to make at least one charge stick to him and keep him in prison for quite a while. Is the evidence necessary to clear Jack of murder charges out there? And can Sara find it before the feds have time to do their due diligence?

Elsewhere on Betrayal, Elaine, Val, TJ, and Victor try to come to terms with a future without Jack, while the truth about Lou’s murder finally becomes clear.

Betrayal airs Sundays at 10:00 on ABC.

Do you think that Jack killed Lou Mrozek? If he didn’t, why would he confess to a crime that he didn’t commit? How will the confession impact both his relationship with Sara and his connection to Elaine and the kids?

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On the next episode of Betrayal, Drew digs deeper into the Mrozek case and continues listening to Thatcher’s whispers in his ear. The best case scenario? Jack killed Lou and hid the gun in TJ’s Impala or, at the very least, has some type of tangible connection to the person who did it. That way, Drew gets his revenge and the commendation that comes with closing such a high-profile can, but what if Jack is innocent and has no involvement in Lou’s murder? Pursuing Jack will lead Drew further away from who actually committed the crime, while the situation could only exacerbate the anger he holds and endanger several lives in the process. Finding Lou Mrozek’s murderer is an important task and something that Drew should pursue if he feels like he has a real lead, but the more he goes after Jack, the more he’ll only end up hurting himself or someone he loves.

Elsewhere on Betrayal, Elaine and Aidan struggle to define their relationship, while Jack takes a big step in his relationship with Sara.

Betrayal airs Sundays at 10:00 on ABC.

Do you think that Jack killed Lou Mrozek? How long will Aidan be able to keep his secret from Elaine? Is Drew grasping at straws in listening to Karsten or could there be a method to his madness?

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Specifically, Jack’s past with Thatcher, a version of himself he’s been trying to escape, has come back to haunt him, as the sins he committed while entrenched in the Karsten regime have come to the attention of the FBI. Instead of giving himself up to the authorities or being honest with Sara about the recent turn his life has taken, Jack decides to take his lady love on a weekend getaway that serves the dual purpose of getting space between himself and the Bureau. In addition to giving him a chance to plan how he’s going to approach the charges, the trip might end up being his final hurrah with the woman who made him feel alive these past months, a positive way to cap off their relationship before he has to attend to other matters.

Elsewhere on Betrayal, T.J.’s reckless behavior, rooted in grief for Brandy and anger toward his father, becomes dangerous, while Thatcher looks to get even with Jack by making a deal with an unlikely ally.

Betrayal airs Sundays at 10:00 on ABC.

Will the FBI catch up to Jack on his weekend with Sara? Just how far will T.J.’s recklessness go before someone pulls him back from the brink? Who will Thatcher make a deal with in order to get back at Jack?

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On tonight’s episode of Betrayal, Jack discovers just how disconnected he’s become from his family when it comes Victor and Valerie’s birthday and Sara struggles with how to live a life that might not include seeing Oliver off to school every day. As they watch their families crumble around them, they both have a decision to make, a decision that they never thought they would be faced with – do they think that their current relationship is worth saving? The more likely of the two to attempt a reconciliation looks to be Jack, as his more conservative upbringing and approach to life could play into the sense of responsibility he has toward Elaine after two decades together; however, she’s not exactly wanting to be around him right now, not when, in her estimation, she hasn’t punished him enough for hurting her the way he did.

The sense of purpose and passion that Sara found in Jack might inspire her to want to give things with him a serious shot, seeing as she’s been grasping at straws trying to justify such a decision. However, with Drew seemingly ready to give things another go, she has an easier path to the life that she thought she wanted all those years ago. The handsome bread-winning husband, the perfect child, the career path that leaves her feeling fulfilled – it’s all there for the taking, but is this the man she wants to spend her life with? And is there a chance in the world that he won’t use the affair as a weapon in their next verbal tussle, should Sara decide to get back with him?

Elsewhere on Betrayal, unable to cope with what happened to Brandy, TJ becomes reckless, while Karsten is forced to confront his past and take drastic measures in the present.

Betrayal airs tonight at 10:00 on ABC.

Will Jack be able to reconnect with Valerie and Victor, a possible first step toward getting back together with Elaine? Should Drew allow Sara to continue living in their apartment for Oliver’s sake? Just how reckless will TJ Karsten become once he learns of the great loss he suffered?

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On the next episode of Många av dagens spelautomater är avancerade, och du kan spela på många kombinationer samtidigt. Betrayal, Sara and Jack must deal with the aftermath of having their affair exposed, as Drew informs Elaine of what he found out about their respective spouses. While Drew, ever the worker bee, throws himself even more into his job by pursuing evidence that could reopen the Lou Mrozek murder investigation, Elaine seeks support from an unlikely source, potentially Wine Guy Aidan, who has made no secret of his attraction to her. She has all the reason in the world to let herself go around him and allow herself the chance to feel the way with him that Jack felt with Sara, but Elaine might decide that the best way to get back at her husband for running out on her is to show him that she has opportunities to do the same – she just respects him and her marriage too much to act on them. Will knowing that his wife could just as easily do to him what he did to her make Jack recommit himself to Elaine, assuming she takes him back at all?

Elsewhere on Betrayal, Zarek resorts to drastic measures to deal with Brandy in a bid to impress Karsten.

Betrayal airs Sundays at 10:00 on ABC.

Will either Sara or Jack be able to save their marriages after their spouses find out about the affair? Is the Mrozek investigation going to be reopened once Drew submits the evidence he found? How much danger is Brandy in from Zarek”s ambition and need to impress Thatcher?

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On the next episode of Betrayal, Drew’s obsession with finding out the true source of his wife’s happiness, as well as the photographer of the provocative photo that was left on her camera, grows. We’ve seen thus far on the series that when he latches hold of something, be it a photo or an idea to help a case, there’s no way for him to let go, but he might be just a little too late, since both Sara and Jack have felt the guilt of what they’re doing creep up on them to the point where they’re maintaining some distance. Now that the two are nearly out of the honeymoon phase, real life is staring them in the face and decisions will have to be made regarding what exactly their relationship is, how serious their feelings for one another are, and whether or not they’re willing to give this a shot. For the duration of their affair, Sara and Jack have been living in a bubble and once it’s burst, will their relationship look as good as it once did?

Elsewhere on Betrayal, Sara becomes increasingly worried that her affair with Jack will be exposed, while Jack makes an important decision that will have major implications.

Betrayal airs Sundays at 10:00 on ABC.

How far will Drew’s obsession over finding out what his wife is doing go? When will Sara’s affair with Jack be exposed? Should the two cool things off for a while or have they reached the point of no return in their relationship?

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