She did what she felt was the only thing she could do, and now she’s moved on. She’s not going to explain anything to him. She said goodbye to him at the end of Episode 9, and that was it. TVLINE | Cissy stands by her decision in Episode 10, and her silence toward Franklin was more devastating than her verbally expressing how she felt ever could. She just can’t bear to see him choosing them over her, and the moment that happens, she knows what she’s going to do… If you’re willing to completely betray the people who you portend to love the most, at that point, you’re irredeemable. When makes the decision at the end of Episode 9 to side with the government, to spare Teddy’s life in exchange for only half the money and thinking that might enable him to go off and live his life, she knows full well that’s never going to happen. That speech is really born out of his indecision. That was all very intentional - not only their feelings about letting her live and why, but also her thing to Franklin of, “Whose side are you on here?” He was still hedging his bets. In hindsight, that speech felt like it was foreshadowing what’s to come. TVLINE | In Episode 9, Cissy kills Teddy, and it’s not surprising, considering what she said about him in the season premiere, remembering that that former CIA agent only let her live because he couldn’t be bothered to view her as a threat. For him to have to live in the hell that he created, it felt like there was a certain level of dramatic irony in that. It just felt like for him to get killed was letting him off the hook. This is a guy who brought the devastation in his neighborhood, brought cocaine into it did everything he could to push it. I, personally, would shy away from him dying, partly because it felt a little easy. Over the years, we’ve considered everything. TVLINE | Did you ever consider killing Franklin off? Read on below for our full interview with Andron. He can’t take it all in and cope with it… Ending with that guy broken on the street that we started on very much felt like the surprising and yet inevitable end to our show.” “After saying that he’s never going to do it, he just can’t. “He fully breaks, and he gives up,” Andron explains. After that, he fell into deep seclusion as the rest of his funds dried up and bills went unpaid. He even murdered Peaches (and two others) to recoup some of the $5 million that Peaches stole from him, only to learn that a measly $12K remained. When Veronique took off with most of his remaining money to a build a new life for their unborn son, Franklin grew more and more desperate. “Had he tried to get back into the game and bought product from the Colombians and stayed with it, he probably would have ended up dead or in jail.” “It breaks him,” series co-creator and executive producer Dave Andron tells TVLine. Heels Season 2 Finale Ends on a Shocking Cliffhanger - Did It Make a Strong Enough Case for Season 3?
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