“So, I’m not even broke I’m in debt,” Franklin groans. As she informs him, the property he owns is depreciating in value due to the violence in South Central, and even if he sold everything, he’d still owe. Overcome by the panic of a poor-man-turned-rich-man who is faced yet again with poverty, Franklin spirals as he and Veronique attempt to cover their bills without cash reserves. “It’s really over,” he responds, not knowing the carnage had only just begun. “It’s really over?” Veronique asks Franklin. He could not betray because him because he was never accountable to him. Franklin forgot (or simply misunderstood) that Teddy was not his equal.
As Teddy flexes, it becomes evident that no moments of intimacy or connection could ever undermine the hierarchy built into their arrangement. Teddy puts Franklin in deep, deep debt (our boy’s been living above his means with money he can’t even legally claim!) as punishment. Only power can explain why Teddy, the originator of the infidelity who crossed Franklin by agreeing to work with Louie, can occupy the position of the scorned ex. Teddy’s backlash against Franklin merely reiterated this truth. If the past five seasons have taught us anything, it is that power distorts relationships. Teddy has cleared Franklin’s accounts of the $73 million with which he plans to “make a very generous donation to former employer.”
As they relish in this alternate universe, their pillow talk plans of marriage and mundanity are quickly overhauled when the silent seizure of Franklin’s funds forecloses their potential future. When “Fault Lines” begins, Franklin and Veronique have stars in their eyes as they relish in post-coital bliss and dream aloud of a world where they could walk away from the game. If the fifth season of Snowfall was ushered in by the “ fall of a star on the rise” - the tragic death of Len Bias and Franklin killing Rob as he looked up at Halley’s Comet - its finale closes out the season with a meteor shower of alliances, interests, and atrocities.
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