The Shield - Episode Guide

Season 4




Season 4, Episode 1: The Cure

Original Air Date: 15 March 2005
"The Shield" enters its fourth season with Vic Mackey adrift after his past actions have caught up with him. He's no longer the cop he used to be - the Strike Team has dissolved and he's stuck babysitting a menial surveillance sting that keeps him off the street. With Captain Aceveda moving on to his new City Council position, Captain Monica Rawling prepares to take over the Barn and implement her controversial anti-gang policies.


Season 4, Episode 2: Grave

Original Air Date: 22 March 2005



Season 4, Episode 3: Bang

Original Air Date: 29 March 2005



Season 4, Episode 4: Doghouse

Original Air Date: 5 April 2005



Season 4, Episode 5: Tar Baby

Original Air Date: 12 April 2005



Season 4, Episode 6: Insurgents

Original Air Date: 19 April 2005



Season 4, Episode 7: Hurt

Original Air Date: 26 April 2005



Season 4, Episode 8: Cut Throat

Original Air Date: 3 May 2005



Season 4, Episode 9: String Theory

Original Air Date: 17 May 2005



Season 4, Episode 10: Back in the Hole

Original Air Date: 24 May 2005



Season 4, Episode 11: A Thousand Deaths

Original Air Date: 31 May 2005



Season 4, Episode 12: Judas Priest

Original Air Date: 7 June 2005



Season 4, Episode 13: Ain't That a Shame

Original Air Date: 14 June 2005

Season 6




Season 6, Episode 1: On the Jones

Original Air Date: 3 April 2007
Shane's guilt for killing Lem intensifies after the Strike Team learns that he didn't make a deal with the authorities, and Kavanaugh resorts to threatening informants and planting evidence to pin Lem's murder on Vic.


Season 6, Episode 2: Baptism by Fire

Original Air Date: 10 April 2007
Detectives discover the evidence Kavanaugh planted to make Vic look guilty for Lem's death, but Dutch begins to suspect that everything is too convenient. Meanwhile, Vic tries to find the Salvadoran leader Guardo, who escaped to Mexico.


Season 6, Episode 3: Back to One

Original Air Date: 17 April 2007
Vic captures Guardo and tries to coerce a confession to Lem's murder out of him. However, Shane, the real killer, begs Vic for leniency on Guardo's behalf. Meanwhile, Dutch and Gardocki bring down a gang of meth dealers.


Season 6, Episode 4: The New Guy

Original Air Date: 24 April 2007
Claudette begins making radical changes to the Strike Team in anticipation of Vic's imminent forced retirement. Meanwhile, Vic's helplessness for not saving Lem boils over after he fails to play peacemaker in a gang war.


Season 6, Episode 5: Haunts

Original Air Date: 1 May 2007
Shane is hospitalized after a beating, and his wife leaves him for having an affair. An unlikely suspect emerges in the serial rapist case, and an undercover agent in the Salvadoran gang tells Vic that Guardo didn't kill Lem.


Season 6, Episode 6: Chasing Ghosts

Original Air Date: ????
After Vic learns that Guardo wasn't Lem's killer, he begins to suspect that Shane could have been responsible. Meanwhile, Vic does a favor for a city official, hoping it will give him an ally in his quest to avoid early retirement.


Season 6, Episode 7: Exiled

Original Air Date: 15 May 2007
Shane contacts the Armenian mob and collects information against the Strike Team, in order to protect himself from Vic. Meanwhile, Vic learns that Hernan lied about the San Marcos massacre when the Byz Lats retaliate against the Salvadorans.


Season 6, Episode 8: The Math of the Wrath

Original Air Date: 22 May 2007
Shane offers his services to Kesakhian's daughter, who is running the Armenian mob for her sick father. Meanwhile, Hyatt tells Vic that Claudette has made sure that Vic's "retirement" from the Strike Team is a done deal.


Season 6, Episode 9: Recoil

Original Air Date: 29 May 2007
Vic's city official can't help him out with his forced retirement, but he finds a new ally when he solves the San Marcos murders. Shane and Vic fight over Kesakhian's daughter's loyalties, and Billings gets revenge on Dutch.


Season 6, Episode 10: Spanish Practices

Original Air Date: 5 June 2007