11-10-2015, 05:15 PM
Renard seems to be a good cop to me. His father's wife (his name was King Frederick, but we've never been told her name) is still Queen of the House of Kronenberg, one of the seven royal families. Before they had to flee Austria when he was still a child, she tried to have Sean (who is a Prince, although a bastard by birth) and his mother, Elizabeth, killed. He appears to a target for elimination by the Royals, so he's probably learned to do whatever it takes to stay alive, which doesn't always include playing by Marquis of Queensberry rules. Renard had said more than once that the Royal families are trying to rid the world of democracies (so did Kelly Burkhardt) and reestablish the old power, position, and privileges of monarchical rule in their place. According to Kelly, they have their people in very high places in governmental, commercial, and other influential places around the globe. He's been waging a fight against them right from the start of the show; it's why he is working with the Resistance and Meisner. He doesn't want to see the keys in the hands of the families because he knows they would use the hidden object of power to oppress people. He's no choir boy, but he's always come across as being a more rather than less, ethical sort to me.
I know he started out working to get Nick's key and to have Aunt Marie assassinated, but he did come clean about that to Nick, explaining he didn't know everything at the time those things took place; he was just trying to get hold of that key. We know he returned it to Nick, imo, to show his desire to form an alliance with him. He's a hard one to know, but I feel he's basically one of the good guys. Which is not to say he isn't ambitious; he is, and ambitious folks always bear watching.
Think the Captain did alert the US Marshall's people with the info that there had been a death threat (on Wemlinger?) and at the gas station, the one Marshall was told that help was on the way and he said something like 'we'll wait here for them' into his cell phone.
I know he started out working to get Nick's key and to have Aunt Marie assassinated, but he did come clean about that to Nick, explaining he didn't know everything at the time those things took place; he was just trying to get hold of that key. We know he returned it to Nick, imo, to show his desire to form an alliance with him. He's a hard one to know, but I feel he's basically one of the good guys. Which is not to say he isn't ambitious; he is, and ambitious folks always bear watching.
Think the Captain did alert the US Marshall's people with the info that there had been a death threat (on Wemlinger?) and at the gas station, the one Marshall was told that help was on the way and he said something like 'we'll wait here for them' into his cell phone.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell - printed on a beer mat in "Shaun of The Dead".