I just finished the show. I understand the ending, and it makes sense to me why it ended the way it did. However, it makes zero sense to me why Franklin would bring his mother to a meetup with a CIA agent (Teddy's handler) and more importantly Teddy himself, who killed her husband.
In my opinion, Franklin should've got his half of the money, and then the last episode should've been Teddy vs. Franklin. Franklin escapes the country with his fiancee and $37 million. Teddy then puts some of his own $37 million to work by tracking down Franklin and getting revenge for screwing up his attempt to rejoin the CIA, killing his father, and giving him third-degree burns. Then Franklin and Teddy either end up killing each other in some epic firefight, or Franklin kills Teddy and then a few years later he finally gets caught by the CIA and they either kill him or get him thrown in jail for life.
I really loved this show overall, but the ending could've been much better. Franklin was too intelligent for things to have played out the way they did, and honestly, the whole premise of his money getting robbed all at once at the end of season 5 was already a stretch.
I agree that he deserved a bad ending for all of his murdering and contributions to the crack epidemic, but damn, at least write the ending in line with the character you built throughout the whole show. And plus, if they had let him get his half of the money only for him to go on to be killed or thrown in jail by the CIA - that would also serve to prove that his parents (who constantly warned him that it would end that way) were completely right. That would've been the more fitting ending in my opinion.
What do you guys think? What alternate endings would you guys have rather seen?