At long last, Sinclair Skinner’s animated history of Adrian Fenty has reached its denouement. The Root D.C. posted yesterday the 12th and final installment of Courage of Conviction, the Skinner-penned biographical series about why the former mayor is the best thing that ever happened to the District.

The final scene: Fenty’s campaign headquarters on Georgia Avenue NW, the morning after his September 2010 loss to then-D.C. Council Chair Vince Gray. It’s unclear if the window through which a man tumbled on election night has been repaired. A circle of sullen campaign workers ponders their next moves, and at the head is the soon-to-be-ex-mayor, telling them all they did their best.

Except, the voice work. Seriously, in the series’ debut episode, Fenty sounded young and eager. Yes, this clip takes place about 20 years after his matriculation at Oberlin College, but the characterization of Fenty here sounds like one of the Transformers.

Watch Optimus Fenty—Fenty Prime?—assuage his team. “This was not a campaign for re-election,” he drones. “But to realize the best district we could for the people who needed us most.”

And to uphold the values of Cybertron.