Mahone Post-Season 3

[Tynan Jay]

Hi. Newbie.

I've only just seen season 3 in the last couple of days and very much enjoyed watching the struggles of my favourite FBI agent. And then I was very shocked to see where he ended up on the season finale. I searched the forum for threads discussing this but found nothing so started one myself.

I was disappointed when I saw him go off with Gretchen and Whistler because I really hoped he was going to end up a good guy, though never a friend of Michael & Co., there's too much history between them, but I at least hoped he was going to be a nice guy, and maybe help the brothers out at some point.

After a lot of thinking, though, I've come to the conclusion that Mahone is not a bad guy. I think he's with Gretchen and Whistler in order to screw The Company, because think about it logically - would you work for someone that not only manipulated you, but tried to kill you (Bill Kim's attack in 2x22 "Sona") and ran over your son then threatened to kill him as well?

I don't think so.

Mahone has every reason to hate The Company, and as far as I can tell, no reason to work with them unless he's being threatened again. They're probably not blackmailing him because we've seen that Mahone is willing to admit to killing Shales and take his punishment for it (seen in 2x14). And even if he is facing 25+ years for everything that happened in season 2, I'm just getting the feeling that blackmail about Shales is not effective against him anymore.

As such, I think he's either being threatened by The company, or has every intention of screwing them over. Possibly both.

But Whistler seems to be of importance in relation to Mahone as well. We saw in 3x08 "Bang and Burn" that Whistler had notes about Mahone in his book* and then he burnt that page. Any theories on what this means? Maybe Whistler was asked by The Company to employ (so to speak) Mahone? The two of them were certainly getting friendly towards the end of season 3; I can think of at least two instances off the top of my head where they (attempt to) go off together.

I'm unsure about Whistler for the minute - I can't decide if he's good or bad, but he's certainly important to The Company. If he's bad, then I think he'd be unaware of Mahone's intention to screw The company (if that is the case). If he's good, he could either be still unaware and end up getting screwed as well, or they're working together.

The brief conversation between the two in the bar makes me think they could be working together. Mahone obviously doesn't want to be found by Michael; this could be because Linc wants Mahone dead and Michael may not stop Linc from killing him (I don't think Micheal could do it himself), but I think it's a little bit more than that. If Mahone is working to screw The Company, Michael could jeopardise that. Possibly, Gretchen being dead could jeopardise it.

So that's my thoughts on where Mahone is headed. What do you people think?

- Tynan

*This is what was written about Mahone in Whistler's book:
Mahone
Special ops
Company?
Drugs?
Family +

[LovelyLene]

First of all: Welcome to the forum! I'm always glad to see another Mahone fan! LOL!

I totally agree with you... When I saw the last epsiode of season 3 I was like: "NO Mahone! What are you doing now?"

But then I started to think about it and figured he joined the company again in order to bring them down. After everything he and his family haven gone through because of the company, he'll have enough reason to try to bring them down. My guess also is that Whistler is helping him do it... Anyway, there is no way Mahone would join the company willingly again. He has his own agenda for sure...

I hope to see more of you here btw!

XXX

[gunners]

I like Mahones character and everything but i think hes done too much "bad" to ever be considered a good character. i think in season 3 we will see him fly solo fighting the company and linc, if he keeps on pushing him

[Tynan Jay]

Yeah, I can agree that he won't be able to be a good character but I think he can be sort of redeemed to to the point of not being a bad character. I just hope they don't kill him off, as I've just realised they could send him down the same path as Kellerman - an act of redemption followed by an honourable death. (If that's the term to use; I think it is to a certain degree.)

[joeyjoejoe]

There is a lot of speculation as to what Mahone is actually doing. I think that first and foremost he wants to take care of his family. He might be working for the Company on his own just because it seems to be the only thing he can do to make money. He can't find legal employment in the U.S. anymore after what he's done. On the other hand, one can easily say (as both of us now have) that he is doing this to unearth and expose the objectives of the Company. I wouldn't say he is interested in bringing the Whistler/Gretchen team down, because he really doesn't even know what they are all about.

Remember that the main contacts between Mahone and the Company were Kellerman and Kim, and as far as we know both of them are dead. To boot, he killed the guy that delivered the news about his injured son, so I'm not so sure he has this grand plan of revenge in mind either. It's hard to say.

Part of the problem is that we don't really know what he's doing for the Company either. Is he just hired muscle, or is the Company looking at making him part of whatever Whistler is up to? I think Mahone is a little old to be just muscle personally, so they'll probably give him a position of more importance. That fact will probably influence what he does in the future. How can you screw over the Company if you still don't know what's really going on with them?

Remember Kellerman was a pretty gold-chested bad guy until the Company screwed him over. After that, there was always this question as to what he was really up to. Was he helping the brothers or just trying to find Sara?

I don't think Mahone will go down the same road to an act of redemption necessarily, that's lazy writing. I think this will play out to be pretty interesting, because Mahone (like Kellerman) is a really smart and devious character. I don't think we'll know what he's doing right away. I have to admit that it would be fun to see him become a truly evil character.

We always hope that bad people will reform, but I think it would be interesting if he just went bonkers crazy.

[Tynan Jay]

Originally Posted by joeyjoejoe

I think that first and foremost he wants to take care of his family.

Agreed.

It certainly would be very interesting to see him go crazy! Unstable characters are always fun (I was kinda bummed when Haywire died; he amused me in the second season) but I also think it's unlikely because we've already seen unstable Mahone in season three during his withdrawal (and in a different way, when he was on the heroin as well). Whatever he's up to, be it good or bad, I think he's probably fairly lucid about it and knows exactly what it is he's doing.

I want him to become good - or at least not-evil - but I also think he deserves it, deserves to get a bit of slack. I know he's done bad things but after all the crap he's been through since we've met him, I can't help thinking he should be able to get back to his family in the end. But then, I'm a sucker for happy endings sometimes, especially when it comes to my favourite characters.

[candyrose]

I think at this point, it really can't be said what his motives are. It's easy to think he wants to bring down the company because he wants to protect his family....and because we saw what appeared to be subtle changes in his character at the end of S3. However, we really can't be too sure. Like JJJ said, we really don't know very much about the company. The writers have spent the past 3 seasons being as vague about the company as possible. I think Mahone is intelligent and experienced enough to know he can't just thrust himself into their circle and expect to bring them down.

I think it would be interesting to see how his part of the story pans out, and I hope the writers give this aspect of the story the attention it deserves. With the way things ended in S3, we were left with the idea that the story would shift into a direction in which it would become more about the company and what/who they are exactly.