We actually know how it all ends...

Sad that we will truely never know. I loved this show, shame with all my favorite shows in the last two years cancelled. Jericho, Journeyman, and TBD's.

I concur.
You're probably right but we'll never know for sure. Unless the series is miraculously brought back or made into a movie.

"Our life is looking forward to always looking back" - Al Pacino,'Glengarry Glen Ross'

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I actually met the guy that played Jimmy Donnelly and he said that it was written that they were all killed at the end but they were never allowed to film the ending. Sucks, but there it is. I love the show and even watched the online only episodes. There should be more television like this. American's could use a little thought in their entertainment.

I actually met Paul Haggis today and asked him why Joey was in jail. He said he had no idea. He said he figured he ratted out the Donnellys and just somehow wound up in jail.

I guess it wasn't a big plot point after all.

In my opinion, I think the black donnellys are dead.

So, I was a religious watcher when it was on air, and then unfortunately, when it was only available on nbc.com.

I decided to splurge on the dvd set, after receiving my stimulus check (hey, I'm supposed to boost the economy, right?) and I watched the whole set in two days. Just had to see my boys in action, again.

Ok, so the second viewing you start catching on to a lot of little things. In the first episode, I believe, the detetives are asking joey about "the bodies". So, he starts off with the italian guy there and huey and whomever else was in the way that night. At the end of the episode, the detectives tell them, "No, not those bodies".

In the final episode, joey states, "See, the donnelly's can never make it a block out of the neighborhood." Now, on first viewing one would assume it was due to dokey shooting mrs. Donnelly. But, where are the donnellys? Joey usually is not too far behind one of them. Though, I know he'd go to jail for them. The detectives NEVER ask about the whereabouts of the donnelly brothers. All they want to know is where the bodies are.

In reference to the"enterprise", I've assumed, and still do, that they are referring to the rise of their power in the irish neighborhood co-exsisting with dokey's crew...now, that's a force to be wreckoned with and to maybe even be a neighborhood legend.
The only other thing I question..but it could just be a hole in story, but that leaves the whereabouts of jimmy's gf who was also in the van. I'll have to re-watch the final episode.

Just watched the whole show, and I don't think Joey was ratting them out.
In my opinion Donnellys killed the whole Dokey crew after he shot their mother. Then they were arrested and Joey also. But the cops knew that Joey wasn't a big factor in all that 'enterprise' so they wanted him to testify against them. That's why they were talking about jury and asking him to stop lying (because he didnt want to rat them out)
So, conclusion would be that the Donnellys standed a trial for killing a lot of people, they were not dead. Just my opinion

I thought it was obvious that what they had planned for the season 2 opener was Tommy and the gang at the emergency room with their mother dying and Tommy runs across Nicky who was there getting treated for the poison he drank earlier. With the head of the Italian operation now gone, Nicky would strike up a deal with Tommy. Nicky would help him take out Dokey and his crew. Nicky would assume control of the Italian side and place Tommy at the head of the Irish side. I thought what would be great for a second season would be Nicky running the show with Tommy as his underboss but then Tommy starts to show that he can run things better without Nicky. The power struggle and everything leading up to it would have been great.