The popular TNT series The Closer begins its final season this week (Mondays, 9 p.m. EDT). Series producer James Duff is preparing a spinoff called Major Crimes. Closer star Kyra Sedgwick says that she wants a “really dark” ending to the show but expects Duff to demur, though the season will include a good deal of trouble for the crime-solving protagonist, according to USA Today:

“I wanted a really dark ending for her, but I don’t think James will have it. Go down in a blaze of glory. James loves this character,” she says. “The theme of this season is love and loss, which is appropriate. The season centers on her getting her comeuppance in terms of all the morally ambiguous ways she elicits confessions. The (expletive) will hit the fan.”