Here's what happens in the series finale of Jean-Claude Van Johnson. It took a few years for Jean-Claude Van Damme to breakthrough, including a stint on 1987's Predator where he briefly played the original, terrible-looking incarnation of the title hunter before this design was scrapped. His natural charisma and fighting ability led to a run of action hits such as Double Impact, John Woo's Hard Target and Timecop.

By the early 2000s, however, a run of box-office disappointments saw most of his work going straight to DVD. Many of these latter-day Jean-Claude Van Damme movies and TV shows continued to impress, including Universal Soldier: Regeneration and sequel Day Of Reckoning, and in 2012 he stole The Expandables 2 as the scenery-chewing villain. He also won praise for meta-action movie JCVD, playing a version of himself who is taken hostage during a heist. The movie featured a searing, straight-to-camera monologue from Van Damme reflecting on his life, career and personal failures which proved to many what a strong performer he can be when he's given the chance.

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JCVD appears to have inspired Amazon series Jean-Claude Van Johnson, where he yet again plays another version of himself. The show reveals Jean-Claude Van Damme's movie star career is a cover for his real gig as a secret agent, with his talent manager Jane (Phylicia Rashad) also being his spy handler. Before the beginning of the series, Van Damme is retired from the spy game, but boredom and wanting to reconnect with old partner and lover Vanessa (Kat Foster) sees him sign up for a new mission taking down a drug cartel.

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Jean-Claude Van Johnson is a mix of comedy, drama and action that doesn't always work, but it could be very entertaining in spots. Jean-Claude Van Johnson's finale takes place in the aftermath of Jean-Claude Van Damme discovering Jane and the agency are villains that used him to take over Dragan's drug cartel. The episode opens with him and Vanessa hiding out in an old Blockbuster Video, where he trains her to fight and manages to convince weapons specialist Luis (Moisés Arias) in helping them defeat Jane.

Jean-Claude Van Johnson also sees the title character take a strange trip inside his own mind, seeing people he's killed on and off-screen, old lovers and meeting with a young version of himself in an attempt to overcome his inner demons. He later heads to Jane's mansion to find out exactly how long she's been using him, and while she tries to convince him to join with her and rebuild his movie career, he claims he just wants to do "what's right." It turns out during their chat Luis took out her bodyguards, but when Janes tries to escape via a helicopter hidden under her tennis court, Jean-Claude Van Damme does some epic splits to prevent the roof opening.

Jean-Claude Van Johnson's finale sees Vanessa take on final fight duties, getting into a nasty battle with actress/secret agent Krisztina (Bar Paly), where she eventually triumphs. Vanessa also captures Jane, and the show jumps ahead six months later, with Van Damme in a wheelchair after his splits literally went too far. He claims to Vanessa and Luis that Jean-Claude Van Damme is dead and he now goes by his actual real name Jean-Claude Van Varenberg. That's when time-traveling versions of Vanessa and Luis arrive in front of him to recruit him for the "Time War," which may or may not have been teasing Jean Claude Van Johnson season 2. The show was canceled following season 1, sadly, so viewers were left on this wacky, Timecop-esque cliffhanger.

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