An unwritten law of action and police series makes it clear that when you show a policeman the day before his retirement, or show a soldier telling his girlfriend that he loves her and promising to return to her at the end of the operation after which he will be released from the army - they will usually be the ones who die at the end of the scene.
But these characters, who are in constant danger of their lives, will always strive to become normal and be swallowed up in a boring routine with the wife and children.
They will fight on their own - the body and mind will radiate exhaustion and satiety from intense fighting, then something will happen and they will have to save the world.
They, and no one else.
Jack Bauer syndrome.
It is classic and common in dramas of the "Fauda" type, and the fourth season was actually built on the same basis, which ended last night with a thrilling episode full of gunshots and injuries.
Almost all the leading characters expressed a complete lack of desire to continue in their roles.
They want to be outside, to retire to a calm life, but the routine does not stop - we need another season, even if the story and the characters have exhausted themselves.
Saving the country reluctantly, but not interested in being there.
Jack Bauer syndrome.
"Fauda",
The trend spread from the team commander (Yaakov Zada-Daniel) who asked to retire in the previous episode, through Steve (Doron Ben David) who experienced an anxiety attack and begged to leave, to the couple Nourit and Shagyi (Rona Lee Shimon and Idan Amadi) who are considering their combat future because they are about to become parents.
Everyone is dismantled, emptied, remembering with longing their friends who were killed throughout the episodes, and dreaming of the end.
"Will you wait for me?", Doron (Lior Raz) asked his ex-wife and the mother of his children, sobbing in her arms just before leaving for the last performance of the final episode.
For four seasons his character zigzags between freedom and putting a bullet in someone's head, but is unable to escape the fauda.
On the occasion of the finale, the exhausted undercover unit was jumped again, this time in order to run around the alleys of Jenin and assassinate the main terrorist of the season.
But the story of "Fauda" stutters.
The climax of the season already occurred two episodes ago, in an improvised and excessive rescue operation in the Lebanese territory on the Syrian border;
So corny and over the top, illogical and unbelievable, yet faithfully represents the series in its final seasons.
The same failures were also present in the extended fight scene with which the season ended.
Finale stutters.
"Fauda",
Because somehow in "Fauda" all the most fateful operations of the country are placed on the shoulders of Lior Raz and six other guys.
The head of a department in the Mossad, three Shevniks and a cooperative operate the entire security system alone.
They are the best we have and probably the only ones.
So they have no substitute.
At the end of four seasons, "Fauda" looks like the most tired series on the screen.
It should have ended, but like its hapless characters somehow gets dragged into another round of fighting.
Fauda - season 4 finale, yes Action, 10:00 p.m
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