The Shield

A politically ambitious LAPD captain comes up against a streetwise detective who isn't above bending the rules in his effort to fight crime as he enriches himself and his men.

Following the shooting death of a police department informant, Aceveda turns up the heat in is investigation of Mackey and his Strike Team.

Vic imprisons a basketball star to influence the outcome of an upcoming game; Dutch and Claudette nab a egotistical rapist out to impregnate as many women as possible.

A dispute over an up-and-coming singer's success erupts in a gang war that threatens to bring Vic down, too; a case that could help Aceveda's political future sends Dutch and Claudette searching for a missing day laborer.

Mackey must recover the stolen evidence from a drug bust before Aceveda is able to pin the theft on him.

As Dutch's theory about a serial killer preying on prostitutes proves true, he convinces Aceveda to launch an all out effort to find him before he strikes again; Julien decides to bring down Vic for stealing drugs.

The murder of seven gang members has Vic teamed with a Latino detective assigned to crack the case.

As the Strike Team is reassigned pending the investigation in the theft of evidence, Vic teams with Claudette in order to keep some deadly drugs off the street.

Lemonhead sets out to make things right following his shooting of an unarmed man.

As Dutch uncovers a lead to the serial killer, a reporter questions force Aceveda to explain problems he thought were buried far in the past.

A confrontation between a local drug dealer and Black Muslims places Vic in danger of being exposed.

As a deployment policy leads to a double homicide that places Aceveda in the hot seat with potential voters, Vic is forced to help Gilroy avoid being implicated in a hit and run.

As cop killings strike Farmington, Aceveda is caught between two corrupt cops looking to save their own skins.

Aceveda tries to fend off an investigation. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic's protection racket may be exposed. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic helps his old mentor on the force. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic finds a huge money-laundering scheme. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Drug dealing is in elementary school. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

It's murder at a battered women's shelter. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

While enlisting a shady realtor to launder the cash from the Strike Team's planned heist of a mob "money train," Vic hopes to keep the fighting next door from disturbing his sleep any further by bringing neighbor Dorcell Jenkins to see domestic abuse counselor Emma Prince. But when Dez's arrest doesn't persuade Dorcell to leave him and he tries to get her to come back home, Emma sends the abusive boyfriend tumbling off the police station's second floor balcony. Meanwhile, as Shane is pressed into making an informant out of a prostitute who recently took advantage of him, Julien tells his fiancée Vanessa of his homosexual past. As a result of Dutch's crisis of confidence, Aceveda orders Claudette to head the investigation into Leah Madson's murder. Unwilling to push her partner aside, Claudette encourages Dutch to take the lead in questioning murder suspect Stu Kleinsausser. Increasingly certain that Stu is a serial killer, and under pressure to prove it, Dutch asks Vic for advice on planting evidence to implicate him. Meanwhile, as Tulips uses her informant's status to punish an ex-boyfriend, Shane still cannot resist her, even though she's trouble. After planting evidence against Stu, Dutch reconsiders, realizing that he can nail him without it. And turning up the heat by forcing him to confront his weight problem, Dutch gets him to confess to Leah's murder. Finally, as Danny warns the grieving widow Yassirah Al-Thani to back off, Vanessa agrees to go ahead with her marriage to Julien. And amid concerns that Ronnie won't be able to keep the money train heist a secret, Vic and Emma find him half-conscious, bloodied and burned after a brutal beating by Armadillo. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

In the wake of the vicious assault that has left Ronnie badly burned, Vic pledges to take Armadillo Quintero off the streets once and for all, both for revenge and to keep anyone from finding out about his own attack on the Mexican drug lord. However, suspecting that Vic is trying to hide the truth, Claudette questions Corrine Mackey, who begins to see how her husband's shady deals have placed her and their children in danger. Meanwhile, as city auditor Lanie Kellis returns to complete her investigation at the Barn, Dutch enlists Danny to help him investigate the brutal assault of a Thai immigrant. When the evidence leads Dutch and Danny to the home of Malcolm Rama, despite the incontrovertible evidence against him, he denies having anything to do with the attack on Mr. Kusa. Hoping to give Danny a chance to prove she has what it takes to be a detective, Dutch sends her out to track down an assailant who sprays his victims with insecticide. Once the pressure on the streets leads Vic and his men to the drug lord's hideout, Armadillo decides to give himself up. When questioned by Claudette, Armadillo insists on speaking with Vic. And after Mackey is sent in alone, Armadillo makes it clear that, unless he is allowed to go back to Mexico, he'll make sure Vic ends up in jail, too. Worried about the possible consequences, Vic ends his interrogation of Armadillo. But when Shane and Lem help an angry ex-con get re-arrested so he can kill Armadillo in jail, Danny is suspended when it's thought she was responsible for letting killer's weapon slip through security. When Dutch uncovers a family feud that goes back eight hundred years, Malcolm admits to assaulting Kusa in order to get revenge for his father. Finally, before going to bed with Emma, Vic struggles to convince Corrine that he's sincere about wanting to be a better father, while Dutch uncovers incriminating evidence that could undermine Lanie's credibility as she prepares a report that's critical of the Barn. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

It's a look back at the Barn's early days. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

The leak of the auditor's report jeopardizes the futures of everyone at the Farm. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic mobilizes the Strike Team to help Aceveda's election campaign; Dutch and Claudette suspect a teenaged girl is lying about the rape accusation she's made against her employer.

With the release of the auditor's report, Police Chief Tom Bankston pressures Captain Aceveda to clean up the problems at the Barn and substantially reduce his workforce. As the fallout begins to hit, Dutch and Claudette are assigned to investigate the disappearance of Jeffrey Cole, the fourteen year-old son of a mixed race couple. When William Cole overhears Dutch speculating about a child molester who has already raped and killed two other boys, he turns to Vic for reassurance. And once another boy turns up dead, Dutch hopes he can still find Jeffrey alive. Meanwhile, to keep Tomas at bay, Julien seeks help from his sexual reorientation sponsor. And when he learns of a change in the mob's money train schedule, Vic calls off the heist. As Tomas reveals the graphic details of his affair with Julien, his job forces Aceveda to turn over his council campaign to his wife. With Corrine prepared for legal warfare, Vic is forced to break into his own house in order to see his kids. Convincing Aceveda to let a stubborn suspect go, Vic then stands by and watches William fly into an angry rage. But after the suspect claims that Jeffrey robbed and attacked him, Vic questions the missing boy's innocence. Meanwhile, when the Chief asks if she's interested in Aceveda's job, Claudette balks. As Julien's fitness to be a cop is questioned, Aceveda risks his career and political future to solve the Cole case. And after Tavon finds a teenager who says the missing boy is a white racist responsible for one of the murders, Shane takes a bullet in his protective vest before Lemonhead brings Jeffrey's deadly rampage to an end. Finally, as Julien discovers that some fellow officers have told his son about Tomas, and Dutch ramps up his search for the pedophile, Claudette tells Bankston that she would be willing to command the Barn. And following another change of heart about the money train, Vic is arrested when Corrine lodges a trespassing complaint. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As he struggles to keep his job, Vic pushes ahead with a new plan to hijack a mob money shipment. © 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Captain Aceveda is preparing to turn his command over to Claudette, a Strike Team stakeout uncovers a truckload of ammunition headed for the Latin gang, the Byz Lats. After his efforts to track down the source is rebuffed by Aceveda, Vic finds an informant who reveals that stolen military weapons are also being sold to Kern Little's rival gang. However, while Little offers to help nab the renegade soldier, the murder of a bodyguard makes it clear that the Byz Lats are already well armed. Meanwhile, when the bodies of several Armenian gangsters are found missing their feet, Dutch and Claudette suspect fugitive Margos Dezirian. With the killings meant to punish those behind the robbery of the Armenian mob's money laundering operation, U.S. Treasury Agent Willem Quigley tells Dutch and Claudette that the stolen cash -- the same money that Vic and his men took -- was marked in a government investigation. So, when Dutch lets him know of the Armenian mob's bloody search, Vic warns his men to lay low. When a tip leads to the arrest of Armenian hit man Lyor Slavok, even with evidence that he shipped the feet of his victims to his boss in Greece, Dutch cannot persuade Greek authorities to arrest Dezirian. Meanwhile, seeking to gain some political advantage, Aceveda rethinks his departure and asks Danny to come back to the Barn as an informant. When the Strike Team intercepts his shipment of stolen weapons to Kern, the Army ringleader gives Vic the name of the Byz Lat's buyer. Promising Kern that he will get his rival's weapons off the street, Vic asks Aceveda to finance a sting. But when the captain refuses to expedite the request, Vic decides to act alone -- unaware that the money he's using has been marked by the feds. Finally, while Claudette learns that Aceveda has decided to stick around a little longer after co-opting her ideas to improve the Barn, Vic sets out to pull off his sting as Kern strikes back against the Byz Lats. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Barging in on him and his girlfriend, Mara, Vic rounds up Shane for an undercover operation to buy back the cache of automatic weapons that have fallen into the hands of the Byz Lats. While Vic thinks he's fooled the Byz Lats' chief, Garza and his gang turn the tables on the Strike Team and end up with both the money and the guns. As Vic looks for a way to keep his promise to get the guns off the street, the murder of two Latinos implicates the Byz Lats and their new guns. And as Dutch and Claudette interview Estaban, the sympathetic nineteen-year-old witness to the shootings, Vic seeks to use Diagur, a hungry Byz Lat lieutenant, to bring down Garza, retrieve the guns, and recover the Money Train cash. Meanwhile, upon realizing that Aceveda is staying on the job for now, Claudette weighs her sudden demotion against leaving the force When Dutch and Claudette cannot get Estaban to finger Garza, Vic turns up the heat on Diagur, forcing him to negotiate a deal with rival gangster Kern Little. In the wake of an airtight alibi that clears Garza, a reconstruction of the murder scene provides convincing evidence that implicates Estaban. And once Dutch confronts him, he tearfully admits to carrying out the shooting -- at Garza's request. Meanwhile, as Vic takes Shane to task over his relationship with Mara, a difficult arrest has left Julien accused of police brutality. Promised control of the Byz Lat's, Diagur arranges for Garza to be set up for a drug bust. But when Garza refuses to talk, even as he faces a possible death sentence, Vic must then press Diagur for the location of the weapons. And once Diagur persuades Garza to tell him where they are hidden, Vic and his Strike Team are able to replace most of their cash and dispose of the guns, all without involving Aceveda. Finally, with no choice but to cooperate if she's ever going to get promoted, Claudette offers to help Aceveda during his last few months at the Barn. And though Vic tries to make amends, Mara stubbornly refuses his overtures. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Shane struggles to hang onto Mara, political posturing forces Vic's Strike Team to share their clubhouse with a new Decoy Squad headed up by Walon Burke. Seeing no alternative, Vic cooperates when paired with Burke in a sting aimed at prostitutes and their customers. However, the operation is disrupted when they step in to save a hooker named Farrah from being beaten by fellow streetwalkers. Meanwhile, as Superintendent of Schools Javier Sanchez is caught in the prostitution sting, Dutch investigates an elderly woman's rape. Though Farrah offers to set up her pimp, Tavon and Shane are unable to catch him. So, claiming that Smooth turned her thirteen-year-old sister into a prostitute, she offers to bring him down herself. With preferential treatment of Sanchez creating problems for Aceveda, Vic wires Farrah for a meeting with Smooth. And even though Smooth gets rough, Vic holds back in order to gather more information. Meanwhile, as Danny helps Julien expose a case of insurance fraud, Shane proposes after learning that Mara is pregnant. And after a tip leads Dutch to Paul Fets, the habitual sex offender confesses to a rape he didn't actually commit. Worried that she's put herself in danger, Farrah wants to tell Smooth the truth, only to have Vic make it clear that she has far more to fear from him. So, when Farrah uses the sting to bait Smooth into an attack, Vic steps in. And with Smooth in jail, Vic tells Farrah to leave town, especially now that he knows she made up the story about her sister. Finally, after being sent home by Dutch, Fets gets himself jailed when he alerts the police as he's about to rape a neighbor. And as David quietly arranges for the press to learn of Sanchez's arrest, Vic discovers he's been used by Farrah to elevate her status with the neighborhood's new pimp. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Strike Team and the Decoy Squad compete. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

A rapist is targeting elderly women. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Officer Tommy Hisk becomes a prime suspect. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Illegal immigrants work in a drug lab. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic must help his rivals on the Decoy Team. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

A lynching threatens to ignite a race war. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Aceveda hunts the man who assaulted him. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic enlists Danny for an assignment. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

The police deal with the Korean community. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Claudette's undercover to stop a porn ring. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

The Strike Team's threatened with exposure. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Claudette risks her career. © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

A new commander arrives just in time to help with the investigation into the murder of an immigrant family. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic agrees to quietly bring in a teenaged drug user before learning of his role in a deadly armed robbery. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

With the outbreak of a deadly gang war between the Spookstreet Souljahs and the Farmington 1-Niners, Monica names Vic to handle the investigation underwritten by an aggressive asset seizure program. So, while Vic looks to keep a close eye on Shane, pressuring ex-gang leader Antwon Mitchell for answers in a series of shootings leads to the target of a deadly 1-Niner drive-by shooting, gangster and aspiring rap artist Al "Choppa" Jenkins. Meanwhile, with Claudette still unwilling to apologize to the D.A., she and Dutch are assigned to investigate an armed robbery where the weapon was a cup of hot coffee. When Shane learns that Choppa is in a hard core porn video, Vic realizes that the gang war started when a 1-Niner called Puppethead saw his girlfriend, Bounce, having sex with the rap star. But Choppa remains unwilling to cooperate in finding his assailants, so Monica threatens to confiscate the house he bought for his mother, Chenille, with drug money. And now that he has linked the drive-bys to Puppethead, Vic demands that Antwon rein in his crew. As Dutch's frustration with being assigned to small-time cases prompts some racist comments that land him in trouble with Monica, his investigation only manages to produce a copycat hot coffee bandit. Meanwhile, Vic is disappointed when a doctor who works with Corrine refuses to sign on as an expert witness in the lawsuit that claims a vaccine manufacturer's negligence caused their children's autism. As the sweep of the neighborhood has filled the Barn's jail cells, Vic knows Puppethead's fate has been sealed when Antwon posts bail and gets him back on the street where he can be killed. And though Puppethead's murder ends the war, Monica has Chenille Jenkins' house confiscated anyway. Finally, as A.D.A. Beth Insardi gives Dutch a chance to get him and Claudette back in her good graces, Vic offers Shane a deal to come back to the Barn to work together. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Following the courthouse escape of "Stay at Home Rapist" Oscar Ruiz, Monica bypasses Dutch and Claudette and hands the case over to Vic. Yet, after pumping Dutch for information, Vic bears down hard on Ruiz's girlfriend and his roommate, but is unable to keep him from raping again. Meanwhile, as Aceveda begins a relationship with a high-class prostitute, he maneuvers to get a council committee assignment that will allow him to fight Monica's asset seizure program. And as Shane uses violence to secure a working relationship with Antwon Mitchell, Dutch and Claudette investigate a marijuana dealer being targeted by A.D.A. Beth Insardi. While he realizes that Ruiz won't stop his assaults until he's caught, turning to the local gangs for help sparks a near-fatal attack on an innocent man that further damages Vic's credibility with Monica. So, to keep his career chances alive, he tries to enlist Dutch's help without actually letting him in on the case. To make matters worse for Dutch, as he and Claudette pursue their drug case, it becomes clear that the suspect is no more than a small-time dealer. Meanwhile, as Shane tells Vic about an illegal alien smuggling ring that Antwon has alerted him to, Aceveda presses Monica to let him present her case for the asset seizure program to his beleaguered constituents. As Claudette questions why she's been sent to chase down a low level drug dealer, Vic uses a profile developed by Dutch to identify Ruiz's next victim. So, as he is laying in wait at the woman's house, Ruiz is surprised when Vic and Ronnie show up instead. And when Ruiz tries to hide, Vic sends in a police dog to mete out some on-the-spot justice before making the arrest. Finally, after realizing that Shane has compromised one of his cases in exchange for a tip from Antwon, Vic decides to get some payback by arresting one of the gang leader's sons. And as Dutch and Claudette are sent to investigate a murder, Vic balks at selling his house to underwrite the lawsuit he and Corrine are about to file. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Monica is forced to defend her crime-fighting tactics, Vic's pursuit of a killer creates problems for Antwon, while Dutch's secret deal with the D.A.'s office gets him and Claudette assigned to a murder investigation. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As auctions of seized gang assets are getting underway and injunctions are issued preventing 1-Niner members from being seen together, it becomes harder for Shane to protect Antwon Mitchell. Though Vic doesn't want to admit it, Lemonhead is convinced that Shane is behind the disappearance of a teenaged informant and the overdose death of her mother. When her crackdown on Antwon is jeopardized after it nearly exposes a D.E.A. undercover operation, Monica convinces the federal agents to cooperate in stopping the trade of stolen cars for heroin. Told of the bust that's being planned, Shane alerts Antwon. So, by the time Vic and the D.E.A. agents arrive at the gang's drug warehouse, it's already been cleared out. Meanwhile, when assigned to the murder of Raine Powell, Dutch and Claudette bring in Kleavon Gardner, a suspect in a series of similar killings in Texas. After Vic learns that Antwon's lieutenant, Verdice, is stashing the drugs at a church, Monica gets a search warrant. But just as Verdice is about to walk into the trap, Army warns him to keep quiet. Over the objections of both Reverend Brock and Julien, the raid proceeds, uncovering a large cache of heroin as it also sparks outrage in the community. Meanwhile, after Raine Powell's diary leads Dutch to question her boyfriend, once he turns his attention to Gardner, he's unable to get a confession. However, when the diary reveals that Raine was having problems at work, Dutch and Claudette discover that the real killer is a corrupt co-worker. While it becomes increasingly difficult for Vic to protect Shane, Monica finds that even funneling some of the auction proceeds back into the community won't shield her from criticism. Though the suspicion that he had a hand in the murder of the fourteen-year-old informant and her mother prompts Lemonhead to confront Shane, Vic continues recommending caution. But when a surveillance tape proves that Shane is working for Antwon, even Vic admits that it's time to stop him. Finally, as Claudette continues arguing with Dutch for his having capitulated to the D.A., Julien seeks Aceveda's help in reining in Monica. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Aceveda uses a cleverly-edited videotape to force her to sideline Vic, Monica goes toe-to-toe with a social worker whose negligence led to the hospitalization of a seven-year-old foster child. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As she decides to move into a house in Farmington, the death of another informant has Monica worried about a leak somewhere inside the department. With Vic already tracking down suspects, Antwon demands that Shane kill him, or risk being implicated in Angie's death. But when a high school teacher is murdered, Vic suspects a copycat killer is using the informants' deaths as a cover. Meanwhile, as he's investigating a gas station hold-up, Dutch stumbles into the arrest of the Coffee Bandit. And in exchange for helping Julien file a complaint against the department, Aceveda demands information about another client of prostitute Sara Frazier. After Vic arrests the two gang members who were tricked into killing the high school teacher, Shane and Army promise Antwon's lieutenant, Halpern, a chance to run the gang if he will kill his boss. However, upon learning about Antwon's orders to Shane, Army accidentally shoots Halpern. As Vic and Corrine struggle to find a way to pay for the vaccine lawsuit, David insists that Sara never make him take a backseat to any of her clients. And after solving the Coffee Bandit case, Dutch and Claudette get a big break when someone admits to attacking the gas station attendant, though he insists that he didn't steal any money. Although Vic is skeptical, Monica insists that he find something that will lock up the girl who prompted the murder of the teacher. Then, as Danny joins Vic for his surveillance of Monica's new house, Shane dumps Halpern at a 1-Niner safe house with a warning for Antwon. Finally, when the confession of the gas station clerk's assailant checks out, the bystander who called 911 is arrested for the robbery. And after giving Corrine some cash to pay their legal bills, Vic prepares for a deadly showdown with Shane, only to have the frightened detective beg him for help in getting out of his jam with Antwon. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

When Shane admits that he's at risk of being tagged with Angie's murder, Vic agrees to help recover her body from under a portable toilet outside a family center run by the 1-Niners. However, the plan is complicated when, after a pair of officers disappears during a domestic disturbance call, it's assumed that it is Antwon's payback for the crackdown in Farmington. And with few leads to their whereabouts, Dutch's only hope is Roger, a psychotic and homeless man who was at the scene. Meanwhile, as Councilman Aceveda shows up in uniform to help look for the missing cops, after arresting the gang members who are guarding the center, Ronnie, Army, and Shane try digging up Angie's corpse, only to discover that it's gone. To find Angie's body, Vic enlists Corrine to locate the hospital where Antwon's injured sidekick, Halpern, went for treatment of his gunshot wound. After Corrine tricks Halpern into signing a confidential informant contract and Vic threatens to make it public unless he cooperates, he provides information about a Salvadoran gang that Antwon likes to use. And when a tip leads Vic, Monica, and a team of cops that includes Danny's new partner, Aceveda, to a seized house where the missing officers are found dead, evidence that they were killed somewhere else returns everyone to the house where they disappeared. Though forced to rely on Roger, Dutch still gleans a clue that leads him to where the cops died and a dog tag belonging to one of their killers. Despite the community backlash, Monica steps up the search and even has an innocent gang member arrested to make it appear that progress is being made. Finally, though he can't be linked to the missing cops, after a Salvadoran hit man does reveal where Angie's body is buried, Vic tips off Antwon to an impending arrest upon his return from Las Vegas in hopes of arranging a truce. Though reluctant at first, after Vic offers to work together from now on, Antwon agrees to be questioned about the cop killings. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Vic decides to tell Monica the truth about Shane, Dutch and Claudette suspect an alleged serial killer of murder. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Under pressure from Aceveda, the department brass, and the community, Monica orders Shane and Army to take a lie detector test to clear up any suspicion of corruption. After asking her to hold off for a week, Vic pits two rivals for leadership of the 1-Niners against each other in order to get the address of a suspect in the cop killings. But instead they find Emolia, a woman who fears that she and her son are going to be killed over some missing heroin -- drugs that were confiscated by Shane and Army. Then, when he's led to the man who was spotted with one of the dead cop's guns -- an African named Ade Achebe -- Vic finds him dead. After Detective Steve Billings freezes when he witnesses a fatal carjacking, the anonymous tip he calls in leads Dutch and Claudette to force him to admit that he failed to act because he was outgunned. When a lead in Achebe's murder sends Vic and his team looking for his roommate, Idisa Okoye, they run up against two Russian mob assassins. When the local police respond to the shootout, Vic sees that they have Okoye in custody. So, to protect his family from harm, Okoye admits that he and Achebe were hired by the Russians to kill the officers in retaliation for a traffic violation. Meanwhile, as Vic confronts Dutch about dating Corrine, Julien's efforts to keep a local youngster out of a neighborhood gang only make matters worse. When Monica orders that the polygraph tests be administered now, Army takes the advice of a union representative and refuses, creating the impression that he and Shane are hiding something. As Vic returns the pilfered heroin in exchange for Emolia's safety, and a confession keeps Billings from having to come forward, Dutch's flip remark about Vic prompts Corrine to put an end to their courtship. Finally, as Julien agrees to implement the precinct's new get tough policies and Monica resists the pressure to water them down, Vic agrees that Army should move on as his Strike Team is reunited to pursue those who ordered the cop killings. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic and Monica work to link Antwon to the cop killings, only to have Aceveda sell them out in an effort to keep the truth about his sexual assault from being made public. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Under pressure from officers who are angry over the impending release of Antwon Mitchell, Monica asks Vic to find something to undermine the deal with the feds and force him to stand trial for the murder of two cops. Already suspecting a link between the jailhouse killing of Juan Rodriguez and the deal Aceveda brokered with the D.E.A., Vic tracks down Gusano, a gang member with information on the whereabouts of a Salvadoran drug boss named Bonilla. After Lemonhead narrowly avoids getting killed when Gusano escapes, Vic asks his newest informant, Emolia, to help find him. And when Vic's cracking the code used to mask his phone calls forces Gusano to cooperate, Bonilla's arrest produces information that makes the D.E.A.'s deal moot. After making an arrest in a murder case, Dutch and Claudette find that their suspect bought drugs at the house of Frank and Liz Walker, foster parents who were recently reprimanded following the brutal assault of a young girl in their care. Angry over the fact that the Walkers have continued to be allowed to care for foster kids, Monica turns her outrage towards social worker Lucy McConnell, announcing that, despite orders from above, she is seizing their home. Meanwhile, upon learning learns that Cassidy has been entertaining boys at home when he's out, Vic decides that the best thing would be for her to move back in with Corrine. When the D.E.A. threatens to make things difficult for the Mayor, Monica's ill-timed seizure of the Walkers' house is the final straw that leads to her being forced to step down from her job. With an appeal likely to cost her a pension, she decides to accept her forced retirement and move on. But when Phillips offers the interim command to Dutch, he refuses. Finally, after making his peace with the departing captain, Vic returns to the Barn to rally the troops to celebrate their having caught the cop killers, unaware that Emolia has agreed to cooperate in an investigation that is bringing much greater scrutiny to his actions. © 2005 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As the Barn's new commander, Steve Billings, is breaking the news about upcoming budget cuts, Julien and his rookie partner, Tina Hanlon, are responding to the knifing death of a black student at Wellman-Chase High School. When shots are fired during a riot between black and Latino students, the call for back up forces Vic to take control when Billings freezes. After the police and Councilman David Aceveda converge on the chaotic scene where a fifteen-year-old Latino lays dead from a gunshot wound, Vic learns that the stabbing was carried out on orders from a Latino prison gang, dictating that two blacks must be killed. As Corrine is approached outside her kid's school by Jon Kavanaugh, a man claiming to also be the parent of an autistic child, Assistant Chief Phillips tells Vic that he is being forced out of the department once he's eligible for retirement. After breaking the news to Shane, Vic joins his team to arrest stabbing suspect Lorenzo Lavedra, but not before he's wounded another black victim. As Dutch gets someone to ID the gunman at school as Evan Dayne, Vic is dealing with Lorenzo's mom, Calida, when her son attacks Claudette. Meanwhile, Aceveda is also approached by Kavanaugh, who is actually an Internal Affairs cop assigned to investigate Vic. When questioned, Lorenzo says that if he doesn't murder two blacks within the next few hours, his imprisoned dad will be killed. With Lorenzo in custody, the job falls to his younger brother, Cisco, who is stabbed after murdering a local barbershop's black customer. And as Cisco is rushed to the hospital, Vic dispatches Lem to the prison with photos of the murder victims that he hopes will save the elder Lavedra. Finally, as forensics evidence exonerates Dayne, and the Strike Team gets revenge on a teenager who clubbed Ronnie during the riot, Kavanaugh threatens to arrest Lem in order to turn him against Vic. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Unaware that Lem is being pressured to cooperate with an investigation into the death of Detective Terry Crowley, the Strike Team hits the street in search of Doomsday, a Salvadoran thug who's extorting cash from local businesses. Though Vic warns him to stop, the investigation into a brutal triple murder produces a witness who describes a suspect that resembles Doomsday. But when her dogs are decapitated while she's being questioned, the witness refuses to pick him out of a line up. Meanwhile, as Julien worries after seeing Tina use excessive force in an arrest, Dutch suspects that the death of Guillermo Solis is not an alcohol-induced accident. After the dead man's wife leads them to a church where he was undergoing aversion therapy for alcoholism, Dutch is convinced that the pastor, Romero, forced Solis to drink himself to death. Though Claudette isn't convinced, when he sees the widow wearing a pair of fancy shoes just like those at a store owned by Romero, Dutch suspects that he killed Solis in order to make a play for his wife. After Aceveda and Detective Kavanaugh claim that it could prove Vic's innocence, Lem makes the difficult choice to wear a wire. But, as Kavanaugh continues posing as a parent at the school in order to learn whatever he can from Corrine, once Lem rejoins the Strike Team, he's careful not to catch any incriminating statements on tape. To ensure that he doesn't return to the street, Vic and his team re-arrest Doomsday. Taking him across the border where they scare him into confessing, the cops then arrange for Doomsday to be arrested on a weapons charge in Mexico. Finally, as Danny cautions Julien against filing a report that would get Tina dismissed, Dutch blames Claudette for not supporting him when he's ordered to drop the investigation of Romero. And after Lem reveals that they are being recorded, he's horrified when Vic refuses to deny responsibility for Crowley's death. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Abuela's request for an attorney threatens to cause a delay that could jeopardize the lives of more than fifty child sex salves, so Vic asks Becca Doyle for help. Though Abuela agrees to a deal and rookie Tina Hanlon risks her life in a sting to stop the traffickers, it's still too late to keep Pablo from being shipped to Thailand. Meanwhile, as Corrine worries that she is a pawn in Kavanaugh's investigation of Vic, a detective who specializes in reading facial expressions tells Dutch that Claudette is hiding something. As Detective Traynor's expertise with facial expressions helps Dutch close one murder case, Becca's tenacity clears Dayne and helps Claudette get a confession from the gunman at a high school riot. Finally, once the slave ring has been dismantled, Vic turns his attention to the IAD investigation. And as the Strike Team is trying to learn as much as they can about the investigation, Vic finally comes face to face with Kavanaugh. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

While friction with Julien leads Tina to request a reassignment to another training officer, in the wake of her rookie mistake during a holding cell riot, she finds Danny unsympathetic to her complaints. Finally, as Dutch confronts Claudette about her illness, and Becca agrees to represent the Strike Team, Vic tracks down Emolia. Though he's outraged to learn that she's been cooperating with the department's investigation into his past for quite some time, he has to cover when Kavanaugh shows up, too. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Frustrated with Lem's inability to get anything on tape, Kavanaugh plants a listening device inside the Strike Team's clubhouse. However, already struggling to keep his informant on board, and now forced to question Aceveda's commitment to the investigation, Kavanaugh realizes that any recordings of Vic and lawyer Becca Doyle discussing strategy are inadmissible as evidence. Meanwhile, as the death of a psychotic ER patient due to taking black market prescription drugs leads Vic to uncover a scheme to peddle expired and stolen pharmaceuticals to the poor and uninsured, Dutch arrests an illegal immigrant who claims he was hired to bury a dead man. Upon learning that a Russian crime syndicate is aiming to take over the drug racket, Vic tracks down mob boss Mikula Popovich and the garage where he is keeping his supply of stolen medicine. And when Vic offers Popovich protection in exchange for a cut of the scam's profits, Kavanaugh catches them on tape. Meanwhile, after questioning Peaches Pyman, Dutch finds her dead boyfriend's body in the closet of a house she shares with Shonda Cromwell. Now that he has the recording, Kavanaugh and a SWAT team are ready to pounce when surveillance indicates that Vic and Popvich have murdered the supplier of the stolen drugs. Though certain he's caught Vic red-handed, Kavanaugh discovers that he's actually been duped into interfering with an undercover drug bust. Finally, unwilling to believe that Peaches could have murdered her boyfriend, Dutch finds that it was actually Shonda who killed him. And as Claudette tells Dutch that she has lupus, Becca agrees to continue defending Vic and his men. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Despite being tricked into interfering with an undercover bust, Kavanaugh ramps up his investigation by moving into Billings' office. While Becca tries to keep everyone together in the face of this latest move, the Strike Team questions Kasper Milford, a white drug dealer who witnessed a drive-by shooting that looks to be connected to a gang turf war. As Vic cracks down on the local drug trade to elicit some cooperation, Kavanaugh questions Danny about the suspicion that Mackey may be her baby's father. Meanwhile, after a bloody shirt found by his sister, Fatima, provides a lead in the case against serial killer Kleavon Gardner, Dutch narrowly avoids getting caught during a surreptitious search that uncovers even more evidence. However, after Kleavon reports that Fatima is missing, Dutch has to tell Claudette that a murder weapon he spotted in his bedroom is now gone. As news of the investigation into the murder of Federal Agent Terry Crowley causes Becca to wonder what else she hasn't been told, Kavanaugh tells Corrine what he suspects about Danny's baby as he is questioning her about the source of the money she uses to pay for her kids' private school tuitions. Meanwhile, as Julien and Tina look for a vigilante using rat traps to punish men seeking anonymous gay sex, Vic suspects that Kasper knows more than he's letting on. Although Kasper refuses to talk, a recording of him boasting of his sexual prowess prompts a girlfriend to reveal that he orchestrated the drive-by and then had the hitmen killed, too. As Kavanaugh looks for someone who will turn against Vic, Claudette resolves to nail Kleavon after another murder victim is found to have been made up to look like her. As more revelations leave Becca wondering how much more Vic hasn't told her, Kavanaugh announces that he is also looking to connect Aceveda to the Strike Team. Finally as a result of their investigation, Tina realizes that Julien is hiding his own homosexual past. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

With Kavanaugh trying to follow the trail of stolen Armenian mob cash back to Vic, Claudette questions Kleavon Gardner about the string of murder victims that may now include his sister, Fatima. Though Claudette is tested by Kleavon's stoicism, Dutch insists that she is close to breaking him as news that Fatima sold a credit card to raise some cash raises hopes that finding her will help close the case. Meanwhile, following the murder of his girlfriend and her young daughter, meth dealer Maurizio Ochoa accuses her former boyfriend, ex-con Ted Shusett, of the crime. While unanswered questions about the mob money threaten to implicate the Strike Team, another fatal shooting suggests that Ochoa hired someone to recover the drugs Shusett stole in the double homicide. As Vic looks to reward a meth addict for leading him to Shusett, Kavanaugh invokes the case of Antwon Mitchell to pressure Aceveda into cooperating. So, to avoid being implicated himself, Aceveda suggests that Lemonhead consider cooperating in exchange for leniency. Meanwhile, after his informant arranges a sting, Vic is caught in a standoff when Shusett takes an innocent hostage. But with the aid of some pilfered military explosives, he and the Strike Team takes down Shusett before he kills again. After finding Fatima in hiding, an exhausted Claudette gets her to cooperate in a ruse that prompts Kleavon to confess to the string of murders. As the news of the missing mob money has Becca worried that her clients are continuing to withhold important details, Vic tells Corrine to cooperate with Kavanaugh and not worry about the consequences. Finally, Claudette is injured when she falls down a flight of stairs following the successful interrogation. And even though Tina claims she saw Kleavon push her, Dutch is sure that she fainted first. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

To advance his case against Vic, Kavanaugh turns to gang leader Antwon Mitchell. Since nothing can be done about his consecutive life sentences for murder, Mitchell asks that Vic and his men serve any prison time they may get with him. Leaving with hopes that Mitchell will eventually agree to cooperate, Kavanaugh joins in the investigation of a hand grenade attack on a gang drug house - an attack he was warned of in advance by Emolia Melendez, but refused to take seriously. So, to stop a Salvadoran drug ring that's trying to reclaim lost territory, Kavanaugh works with Vic by allowing Emolia to infiltrate the gang. Meanwhile, after quietly offering to link Vic to the Armenian mob money, Dutch is drafted to investigate the rape of Kavanaugh's estranged wife, Sadie. After Emolia is hired by the Salvadorans to assemble more grenades, Vic turns up the heat on MC Dunn-Good, a drug dealer whose gang was the target of the attack. Although Dunn is skeptical of Vic's promise to protect him in exchange for revealing the location of more potential targets, Kavanaugh persuades him to cooperate. But because he is distracted by the investigation into the assault on Sadie, Kavanaugh isn't around when Vic takes Emolia to the scene of another grenade attack on a house that wasn't one of those identified by Dunn. Meanwhile, after Sadie identifies her attacker from a list of registered sex offenders, Dutch discovers that she has a history of mental illness that could cast doubt on the accusation. And though Corrine returns the stolen mob money she received from Vic, Kavanaugh won't discuss to a deal to protect her from prosecution. As Kavanaugh looks to keep the attack on Sadie under wraps, Vic seizes upon a chance to bust the Salvadoran grenade factory. Yet, when the discovery that Emolia is wearing a wire forces the Strike Team to burst in to save her, they end up losing their target. Finally, after pressuring Lemonhead to turn against Vic, Kavanaugh discovers that Vic overheard Sadie admit to concocting the story about the rape. Exploding in anger, Kavanaugh arrests Lemonhead for possession and then returns to prison to agree to Antwon's demand. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

With Lemonhead behind bars waiting for someone to post his bail, Kavanaugh increases the pressure on Vic and his men with a series of interviews at the scene of Terry Crowley's murder. Already upset that all of his assets have been frozen by the IAD investigators, Vic then learns that Antwon Mitchell is offering to help Kavanaugh in exchange for having Lemonhead sent to the prison were he's incarcerated. Meanwhile, as Claudette returns to duty to investigate the murder of a courier who was bringing high quality marijuana in from Canada, Tina risks losing her job after she mistakenly arrests an undercover cop. But the case against her becomes complicated when Dutch learns that Billings has clandestine photos of the rookie cop getting undressed in the locker room. As Kavanaugh looks to force both Aceveda and Corrine to cooperate, Vic signs on to Claudette and Dutch's murder investigation. Following a tip that leads him to the dealer behind the Canadian operation, Vic then offers to help him recover $250,000 he lost as a result of the murder in exchange for the cash to post Lem's bail. But after learning that the dealer's stepson, Jade Reid, is their suspect, Vic and Shane must find him - and the stolen cash - before Claudette. Meanwhile, though he's already promised to see that Tina is fired, Billings has second thoughts after Dutch points out the problems that the secret photographs could cause. After Claudette also gets a lead to where Reid is staying, Vic sends Shane and Ronnie to the apartment to steal the money before the other cops arrive. Finding the stoned suspect sitting on the stolen cash, the rogue cops manage to slip away with it just minutes ahead of his arrest. Then, using some of the money lifted from Reid, Vic enlists a friend to post Lemonhead's bail. Finally, as Billings offers a chance to work with Dutch to bribe Paula into not making a case of the photos, on the heels of Lem's release, Vic gets Aceveda's attention when he threatens to let the IAD investigation bring him down too. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

The prospect of serving prison time prompts Lemonhead to cut a deal with the D.A. to protect the rest of the Strike Team. So, in exchange for seeing that he isn't targeted behind bars, Vic agrees when Antwon Mitchell asks him to help his new lieutenant, rap singer Kern Little, recover confiscated gang property from a police warehouse. However, even as Vic is holding up his end of the deal, he's stunned when Kern is shot by a member of his own gang in a move by Antwon to stop him from returning to power on the street. While Vic lets himself be drawn into an affair with Kavanaugh's wife, Sadie, Dutch and Claudette sign on to track down an assailant who is using rat traps to maim gay men. As Claudette accuses Dutch of leaking word of her illness after she is confined to a desk pending the outcome of a physical exam, rat trap attack victim Alarico Trujillo is reluctant to answer questions for fear of tipping off his wife to his homosexuality. Yet, it is Trujillo's description of his assailant that ultimately allows Dutch and Claudette to bring in Jarred Stawl for questioning. As Kavanaugh's investigation is coming undone, Vic's hopes of helping Lem in prison are dashed when Mitchell reneges on their deal after the warehouse safe is found to be empty. While passing her physical paves the way for Claudette's promotion to command of the Barn, when Trujillo's credibility is damaged by an arrest for spousal abuse, it's up to Julien to get Stawl to confess to the attacks. Finally, as Vic and Becca give in to their simmering sexual tension, Kavanaugh looks to Corrine for some sexual payback. And as Dutch tells Claudette that her mistrust has spoiled their working relationship, Vic sends Lem to hide in Mexico. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Vic looks to get Lemonhead to safety, Kavanaugh goes all out to make his case against the Strike Team. © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

With Vic grieving over Lem's death, Kavanaugh's opportunity to finally nail him depends on keeping Dutch from locating informant Emolia Melendez. Unaware that Shane is the killer, Vic sets his sights on the Salvadorans he thinks are responsible. However, when the Strike Team learns that Kavanaugh used Aceveda to plant the lie that Lem had agreed to testify, Shane must silently cope with the guilt of having killed his friend. Meanwhile, at a torched methadone clinic, Vic finds grisly evidence that links the arson to a psychotic drug addict, Quentin Garth. And as Julien and Tina investigate a series of attacks on porn stores, Claudette is warned that the Barn is in danger of being shut down. Following another violent confrontation with Vic that threatens the future of his investigation, Kavanaugh claims he has evidence implicating him in Lem's death and sets out to convince Emolia to lie for him. Shocked to learn he is being ordered to retire, Vic then gets word that Quentin has taken hostages at another clinic. So, laboring under the crushing burden of his guilt, Shane risks his own life so that Vic and Ronnie can end the hostage crisis. Promised a chance to start a new life, Emolia backs up Kavanaugh's claim that Vic ordered Lem's murder. And even though something about the story doesn't add up for Dutch, he's sent to bring Vic in for questioning. Though Asst. Chief Phillips also expresses doubts about Emolia's story, Kavanaugh pushes continue the investigation and ignores Vic's warning about the consequences. Finally, after their investigation uncovers a link between a store owner who was attacked and a company that was making porn videos, Tina and Julien discover that the culprit was the grandson of a woman who was featured in one of the films. And as Vic looks ahead to fighting for his life on the force, Kavanaugh plants evidence that will set him up as Aceveda publicly pegs Lem as a dirty cop during his announcement of a campaign to rid the department of corruption. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Kavanaugh's plan to implicate him in Lem's murder is falling into place, Vic remains unaware that Shane is the real killer and presses ahead with his search for Guardo Lima, the Salvadoran he thinks set up the hit. As he, Shane and Ronnie are breaking into the house of Guardo's girlfriend, Nydia Hernandez, Vic hears an APB on the radio calling for his arrest, the result of the search that uncovered the phony evidence. Knowing that he has to do something fast, he sends his partners back to the Barn to monitor the situation while he looks for a way to lure Guardo back to L.A. from Mexico. Meanwhile, after Shane and Ronnie challenge the trumped up case against Vic, Claudette and Dutch begin to question Kavanaugh's motives. In order for him to convince a contact inside Mexico to find Guardo, Vic must first agree to retrieve a pair of kidnapped siblings from their mob assassin father. Yet, even after holding up his end of the bargain, when his contact balks at delivering on their deal, Vic makes it look as though Nydia has been kidnapped in order to lure Guardo back to L.A. Meanwhile, after Corrine accuses Kavanaugh of sexually harassing her during his investigation and Claudette gets informant Emolia Melendes to admit making a false statement, Kavanaugh has no choice but to confess to planting the evidence. Now that the murder case against him has unraveled, both Ronnie and Shane beg Vic to drop his plan to trap Guardo. While Vic is still determined to get revenge for his partner's death, he leaves Ronnie to watch over Nydia and returns to the Barn to confront the newly-disgraced Kavanaugh. And as Claudette cooperates with Aceveda's plan to increase manpower in Farmington, Danny learns that she has passed the sergeants exam and can be promoted, but only if she agrees to return early from her maternity leave. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Although he's been cleared by Kavanaugh's confession, Vic remains intent on punishing Guardo Lima, the drug boss he thinks killed Lem. Ignoring Shane's pleas, he continues to fake the kidnapping of Guardo's girlfriend, Nydia. But once Guardo arrives in Los Angeles to deliver the ransom, Vic ignores the cash and trails him back to his house. Though Dutch still wants to pursue a lead in Lem's murder, Claudette reassigns him and Billings to investigate a series of deadly drug store robberies. With Ronnie's help, they are led to a meth lab run by Tom Franklin and his cousin, Bobby. And once he sees that his cousin has left him holding the bag for the crimes, Tom cooperates with a plan hatched by Tina to nab both Bobby and the biker gang that contracted them to make the drugs. With Shane holding Nydia, Vic spirits Guardo away to an abandoned shack in the mountains above L.A. Though Guardo insists he knows nothing of Lem's murder, Vic doesn't believe it and begins torturing him for the truth. Once Shane arrives with Nydia and Guardo realizes that he has to say something, he tells Vic that the killing was carried out by gang member Lino Prieto. But after Vic learns that Prieto was behind bars when Lem died, he unleashes his wrath on a defenseless Guardo. And even as Shane begs him to stop, an enraged Vic shoots Guardo in the head - still unaware that it was Shane who really killed Lem. As Vic, Shane, and Ronnie are disposing of the corpse, Tina tries taking advantage of Dutch's attraction to her as a way to advance her career. Upon taking Tina back to his apartment for some private tutoring, Dutch is met by the FBI's Jordan Zinman, who orders that he curtail his murder investigation to protect an undercover agent inside the Salvadoran mob. And when he learns that Guardo wasn't even in the country when Lem was killed, Dutch begins to question his own assumptions about the case. Finally, his conscience cleared now that Guardo is dead, Vic returns to work to discover that Claudette wants him to start training his replacement. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Shane is burdened with guilt after learning that Detective Kavanaugh planted a lie that led him to kill Lem. While Kavanaugh does everything he can think of to discredit the Strike Team, including planting evidence and coercing a trusted informant, Vic remains unaware of the killer's identity and sets out to prove that it was mobster Guardo Lima. Once Kavanaugh's plan unravels and Vic lures Lima back from Mexico to get revenge, he discovers - too late - that he's made a fatal mistake. And though Shane finally admits he murdered Lem to stop him from testifying against them, Vic refuses to forgive. A deadly drug war between rival Latino gangs turns political with the involvement of a prominent real estate baron with dirt on Aceveda and a corrupt Mexican government official, and Shane turns to the Armenians for protection, only to have his misplaced faith put the Mackey family in danger. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Shane arrives at the hospital after being badly beaten by Tilli's stepfather, Vic and Hiatt are ordered to investigate the massacre of a dozen Mexican immigrants, many of whom were recently released from the same Mexican prison and are connected to the same drug cartel. When questioned by Vic, imprisoned gang member Tejado Martez claims that the Salvadorans are sure that the Mexicans killed Guardo Lima and that the San Marcos massacre is payback ordered by gang leaders that include Hernan, who is really an FBI agent working undercover inside the gang. Meanwhile, Billings and Dutch's investigation into the assault on Graciela Sanchez gets help from Carlos Morganza, a counselor to runaway teens and the father of a missing girl. But upon realizing that he fits their profile, Morganza becomes the prime suspect. Further complicating his search for Shane's assailant and the killers in the San Marcos massacre, Vic reluctantly agrees to help ex-cop Joe Clarke clear an apartment building of some Jamaican drug dealers, if only to see that Joe doesn't get hurt. However, after being forced to work with Joe's racist partner, Vic finds that their methods are more than even he can take. Meanwhile, after realizing that Shane has been seeing Tilli, Mara insists that he stay away from her and their son. Upon finding that Morganza used the attacks to draw attention to his missing daughter's case, Dutch allows him to air his story in exchange for a confession, and it becomes clear that it was his sexual assaults that forced his daughter to run away...and led to her eventual murder. Finally, as Hiatt gets word that one of the San Marcos massacre victims was a Mexican government official, Vic's questioning of Hernan reveals that Guardo wasn't responsible for Lem's death. And as he begs Mara for forgiveness, Shane admits to killing Lem. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Finding that neither Guardo Lima nor Antwon Mitchell were behind Lem's death puts Vic back at ground zero in his search for a suspect. But when Shane insists that they drop it, Vic wonders if he may be hiding something. As Tina returns to work at the Barn, the search for Lem's killer takes an unexpected turn when Nydia Hernandez, the girlfriend Vic used to lure Guardo back to the States, shows up, leaving Dutch wondering if Vic knows more than he's letting on. But Vic's cover-up is sidetracked when the Strike Team is ordered to investigate the murder of Emily Martin, the daughter of City Controller Robert Martin. And since the building where she was killed is a drug haven, Aceveda asks Hiatt to keep from damaging the family's name. The murder investigation turns to Emily's boyfriend, a small time drug dealer known as Snail. After warning Aceveda that it will be difficult to protect the late girl's reputation, Hiatt and Vic arrest Snail who, after some time alone with Vic, agrees to confess and spare the Martin family any further embarrassment. With Nydia's unexpected appearance forcing Vic to keep a lid on his own role in Guardo's death, his suspicions remain despite Ronnie's failure to uncover anything implicating Shane. Then, as Tina bristles after Danny assigns her to a clerical job, Vic has much more to worry about after his daughter, Cassidy, learns about his past misdeeds, including the fact that he fathered Danny's baby. As Vic gets Robert Martin's promise to help out with the upcoming review of his retirement, he still must keep Dutch from learning the truth about Guardo. So, after introducing Cassidy to her new baby brother, he confronts Shane about what happened the night Lem died. Hearing Vic lay out his own suspicions, Shane finally admits to killing Lem in order to keep him from testifying. And while Shane insists that they move on, Vic refuses to forgive him, but does give him the chance to walk away and never return. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

A drama series about a police department that suffers from corruption. Inspired by Los Angeles' Rampart Division scandal. The series is set in a tough, morally ambiguous world in which the line between good and bad is crossed every day. It focuses on the tension between a group of corrupt but effective cops and a captain torn between bringing them down and his own political ambitions. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

When his efforts to help the Armenians unexpectedly end with the murder of an Arab gas station owner, Shane tracks down the mob's elder statesman, Kesakian. Finding him gravely ill and his daughter, Diro, working on his behalf, Shane makes a deal to evict some prostitutes working in a building owned by the family after she promises to hold the killers accountable. As the shaky gang truce and Hernan's sudden disappearance worry the Strike Team, a Salvadoran gangster's mutilated corpse leads Vic and Hiatt to the undercover agent's girlfriend, Leticia, who tells them that he was ordered to dump the body and now needs to prove his loyalty with a gun store robbery. Though concerned about undermining Claudette, Hiatt goes along when Vic proposes allowing Hernan to pull off the heist while keeping the gang from getting away with the guns. As Billings and Dutch's investigation into the stabbing of a Beverly Hills socialite exposes a counterfeit designer handbag business in Farmington, Shane discovers that the Kesakians are actually behind the sex ring working out of their apartment building. Told that the prostitutes were ripped off by three men posing as customers, Shane agrees to track them down for the mob. And after learning of the trio's grisly fate, he advises Diro on how to keep her father's empire from falling into his rival's hands. Although Vic's plan successfully keeps the guns out of gang hands, Claudette warns Hiatt against listening to him. As Corrine, Tina, and Danny pick up some knock-off handbags before Dutch and Billings close down the shop, Diro tells Shane that Rezian's crew murdered the gas station owner. Finally, upon learning of a meeting between the Byz Lats and the Salvadorans, Vic and Hiatt find that Hernan has been sent back to El Salvador until things cool down in L.A. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Using a tip provided by Councilman Aceveda and his wealthy benefactor, Cruz Pezuela, Vic and Hiatt bring in Salvadoran Javier Rincon for questioning about the San Marcos massacre. Though Hiatt's interrogation comes up short, Vic manages to get Rincon to cooperate in exchange for protection from the Byz Lats. Now all he has to do is get the Mexicans to honor the deal. Having convinced Diro Kesakian to partner up to fight her father's rival, Rezian, Shane then turns to Claudette and Hiatt for permission to pursue the Armenian mob. However, certain that Shane is up to something, Vic asks Ronnie to keep an eye on him when they go after Rezian. And after a murder investigation leads them to Mason Heller, an internet date whom the victim spurned prior to being killed, Billings sets out to create some mischief between Dutch and Tina. While Rincon's tip leaves Hiatt without any suspects, Vic helps end the gang war by giving the Byz Lats a pair of Salvadorans he and Ronnie have been keeping on ice. Realizing that Vic lied to protect Rincon, Byz Lat leader Santi Galas knows he will get his revenge once the informant is back on the street. Meanwhile, as Shane tells Diro not to lose her nerve following an attempt on her life by Rezian's henchman, Billings looks to undermine Dutch by instigating an affair between Tina and Hiatt. And after getting Heller's confession, Dutch falls into Billings' trap when, expecting to meet Tina for dinner, he ends up seeing her having sex with Hiatt. Having persuaded Diro to dump Shane, Vic looks to head off his forced retirement by connecting Pezuela to the massacre. Finally, Shane tries to bolster his own standing with the Armenians by blaming Vic for the money train robbery. And Pezuela asks Vic to drop his investigation into the San Marcos case in exchange for some compromising photos that he can use to blackmail Aceveda. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Shane tries heading off the Armenian mob's deadly plan to avenge the money train heist, Vic looks to save his job by enlisting Aceveda in an effort to expose Cruz Pezuela's plans for Farmington. © 2007 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic challenges Shane and deals with threats to his family. A federal agent arrives in Farmington to investigate a recent wave of violence. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As a local gang war heats up, Vic positions himself as a valuable commodity to the warring parties. Corrine and Cassidy confront Vic. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Vic works an angle to make himself valuable to the Armenian mob. Corrine finds herself in a surprising legal jam. Tina targets a producer of adult entertainment. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Vic’s domestic problems mount, two mob henchmen are found dead at Ellis Rezian’s safehouse in the wake of an arson attack on the eve of a politically-sensitive Armenian Genocide remembrance. When Rezian asks for a meeting to prove to the Mexicans that he doesn’t have the files they are after, Shane is sure they can use the deal to finally dispose of anyone who can tie them to the money train robbery, while Vic remains adamant about taking down Cruz Pezuela, too. And though Pezuela agrees to have his lieutenant, Armando Rios, meet with the Armenians, he insists that Rezian bring the missing files with him. Meanwhile, Dutch doubts that sixteen-year-old Lloyd Denton’s shooting of a high school classmate is simply the result of a botched burglary. As Vic asks Olivia Murray to investigate Rios, his plan to stoke the gang war runs aground when Rezian agrees to bring the files. Knowing that he’s lying, and with Olivia coming up empty-handed, Vic acts to maintain credibility with Pezuela by helping Rios avoid an arrest. Though he comes to the meeting empty-handed, Rezian offers to help Rios find the files. So, in order to maintain control, Vic and Aceveda blackmail City Controller Robert Martin into funding a genocide memorial sought by the Armenians in the hope that Pezuela will think that it was the result of Rezian’s using the stolen intel as leverage. Meanwhile, as Cassidy asks Danny about her dad, Dutch worries that Lloyd may be a serial killer in the making News that Martin has approved the memorial prompts Pezuela to order a hit on Rezian. Yet, after Pezuela promises that no civilians will he hurt, his men shoot and kill Martin. Finally, despite Dutch’s best efforts at eliciting a confession, Lloyd insists that he didn’t know that the intruder he shot was a high school bully. And as Vic insists that Pezuela turn over Martin’s killers, he and Aceveda find that Olivia is working for Pezuela. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Adding to their worries over finding that Olivia Murray is being blackmailed into working for Cruz Pezuela, Aceveda and Vic must also tread carefully around the investigation into City Controller Robert Martin’s murder. Uncertainty over Olivia’s loyalties leads Vic to question why she wants help finding the kidnapped daughter of Gaytan Echevarria, a Cuban drug lord and focus of a major Federal investigation. Yet, after linking the kidnapping to a car theft ring, Vic enlists a rival gang to provide cover for an assault on a chop shop to spring Noelle Echeverria without alerting her father to the ongoing investigation. And Vic’s life gets even more complicated after Cassidy is suspended from school following a wild teenage party. After Claudette insists that Dutch stop interfering with her being subpoenaed, accused murderer Kleavon Gardner raises her medical history during a deposition in order to undermine the prosecutor’s case against him. As he’s trying to help D.A. Beth Insardi nail Gardner, Dutch turns to profiler and psychologist Lyor Chotzen for his insights into the mind of Lloyd Denton, the teenager he suspects of being a nascent serial killer. To keep her case from falling apart and protect the confidentiality of Claudette’s medical history, Insardi offers Gardner life without parole in exchange for his confession. And once Little agrees, Dutch asks his advice on how to keep Lloyd from becoming like him. Once Noelle has been freed, Vic turns his attention to the classmate who hosted the party, only to learn that Cassidy’s role was far greater than she’s let on. Then, as Shane wants Ronnie to convince Vic to turn over the box of stolen intel and end the Armenian threat, Claudette comes clean about her health problems and asks Danny to help out by taking a desk job at the Barn. Finally, as Vic refuses Danny’s plea to relinquish his rights to their son, and Dutch fails to get through to Lloyd, Olivia looks to get out from under Pezuela’s thumb. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

To protect his political future, Aceveda wants to give the files stolen from Pezuela over to Federal agents. After persuading the councilman to wait one more day before doing anything, Vic devises a plan to end the gang feud, stop the threats against his family, and avenge Lem’s murder. So, while Shane agrees to arrange a meeting between Rezian and Pezuela’s men, he’s unaware that Vic intends to use it to kill him. Meanwhile, Shane signs on to assist ex-Strike Team member Tavon Harris in finding Gary Barba, a fugitive wanted for the six-year-old murder of everyone in his family except for his daughter, Camille. Found naked and covered in blood, Jeff Busada is worried that he may have killed someone while sleepwalking. But after interviewing his ex-wife, Sophia, Dutch is skeptical of the claim. With Claudette connecting Martin’s killers to the Mexican mob, Vic asks Olivia not to end her involvement with Pezuela just yet. Pretending to look for Martin’s killers, he then helps Pezuela’s lieutenant, Armando Rios, plan an ambush of Shane and the Armenians. However, when Olivia learns that Federal agents have been watching Rios, Vic worries that his meetings with the hit man may have been caught on tape. While Shane helps Camille lure her dad into a trap that leads to his confession, Tavon figures out how he was previously tricked into thinking he attacked Mara in order to cover the Strike Team’s misdeeds. Finally, Vic has second thoughts about sending Shane to be killed by Rios. But Vic can’t warn him, and after Shane escapes the hail of gunfire that kills Rezian and his crew, he realizes that he was set up. And as Jeff takes his own life in order to end his torment, Vic tells a very shaky Corrine that the threat posed by the Armenian mob is over. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

While the fatal ambush of the Armenians has Shane looking over his shoulder, Vic, Aceveda, and Olivia give the stolen intel files to agents investigating the cartels and Robert Martin's murder. Though Vic tries to justify having hung onto box in order to cover their tracks in the case, he is ordered to stand down. However, in pulling Olivia's file before turning the rest over, Aceveda seeks some leverage to insure her loyalty. And after his review board hearing is unexpectedly moved up, Vic finds that he is being terminated without his pension in just ten days. Upon learning that Pezuela is cutting him loose and that Danny has asked Corrine to help prevent his getting custody of their child, Vic is assigned to investigate the murder of a prostitute who has been working alongside Farrah, a hooker he once tried to get out of the sex trade. With the case focusing on a pimp named Bombay, Vic and Ronnie persuade his strongman and collector, Two Man, to reveal where they can find him. But when the Strike Team arrives at his meth lab and Bombay comes out shooting, he's killed by Julien. Meanwhile, Dutch suspects that a series of burglaries in Claudette's neighborhood are the work of Lester Spirakus, an ex-cop looking to spark new business for his home security company. As Vic uses what little influence he has left to get the Federal agents to cooperate in bringing down Pezuela, he pressures Aceveda to give him the file that could end Olivia's law enforcement career. Then, after learning that Bombay was tipped off to the raid, Vic realizes that Farrah called him knowing full well that he would be killed. Finally, as Dutch worries about how Claudette is holding up in the face of her illness, he confronts Lester with evidence that he and a partner were behind the robberies. And after Danny says that she is ready to negotiate a custody deal even as she prepares to slip out of town unnoticed with her baby, Shane enlists Two Man to kill Vic. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Ready to strike back, Shane enlists Mara to support his alibi before heading out to ambush Vic and sending Two-Man after Ronnie. However, Ronnie narrowly escapes being shot and Shane’s risks of being exposed after a witness identifies Two-Man. Unaware of how close Shane came to killing him, Vic tries leveraging his connection to Pezuela into an undercover job with the Federal task force. After Pezuela orders him to persuade a Catholic priest to close a church that is threatening his new low-income housing project, Vic gets reassigned to work with Olivia for his final week on the job. But when Father Morton refuses to shut down despite being shown evidence that proves he is allowing the E-Park Johnnies to deal drugs out of his parish, Vic turns to gang leader Damon Leeks to find out why. And while Leeks won’t reveal anything, Morton admits to covering up the affair and child he had with Damon’s sister, Keisha. Though both Vic and Ronnie want a shot at questioning him, Claudette assigns Dutch and Billings to interrogate Two-Man. But knowing that finding the weapon is critical to their getting a confession, Shane quietly convinces his partner-in-crime to tell him where it’s hidden. Meanwhile, after Pezuela guarantees to make him the next Mayor of Los Angeles, Aceveda is asked to keep the corrupt developer on the hook. Unaware that Shane has already recovered the gun, Dutch and Billings take a chance by telling Two-Man that it’s been found. But it’s only after Vic makes it look like he is about to be charged for assaulting a pair of prostitutes that Two-Man reveals how Shane blackmailed him into becoming an accomplice. And now knowing the truth, Vic and Ronnie won’t be stopped from going after Shane on their own. Finally, as Mara asks Corrine to be a conduit for information while she and Shane are on the run, Vic safely relocates Keisha and her son before shutting down Damon and his crew. And after making one last pitch for a job with the Task Force, Vic turns in his badge and gun to Claudette so that he can go after Shane on his own. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Now that he’s resigned, legal roadblocks stand in the way of Vic finding Shane and Mara. After discovering that they left without taking their son’s antibiotics, he looks for evidence that they tried to get a new prescription or false passports, anything that might provide a clue to their whereabouts. But when he and Mara call and find Vic at Corrine’s, Shane warns him to steer clear. Meanwhile, as Dutch dates Lloyd Denton’s mom, Rita, simply to further his efforts to stop the teenaged serial killer, Billings’ ex-wife and teenage daughter demand that he do something about a registered sex offender who has moved into their neighborhood. Although Aceveda is bristling at the demands Pezuela is making in exchange for supporting his mayoral candidacy, Olivia wants him to maintain the relationship so they can investigate the real estate baron’s new partner, Guillermo Diaz. Given a lead that puts them onto Shane and Mara, Ronnie worries that Vic won’t hesitate to kill both of them if given the chance. When Shane and Mara have to take their son to the ER, Vic confronts them in the hospital parking garage. But in the ensuing confusion, he’s the one who’s arrested by the police as the fugitive couple escapes. As identifying Diaz as Diego Beltran, a major player from Mexico, proves that Pezuela is now under the thumb of the drug cartels, an angry Rita realizes that Dutch was using her in order to learn more about her son. And after Dutch refuses to bend the rules in order to harass Irving Heap, Billings gets some other friends on the force to concoct a child pornography charge that sends the paroled sex offender back to prison. Finally, when threatened by Claudette, Ronnie tells how Lem’s murder set Vic on his quest for revenge. And now that they have some breathing room, Shane and Mara seek refuge in a vacant suburban house where, after telling Corrine about how Vic tried to kill them and their son, they plan their next move. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

With Shane and Mara safely hidden in a vacant house for the time being, Vic asks Stella Sewell for information about her daughter before offering the Byz Lat’s Santi Galas a $10,000 reward for finding them. Worried about their past misdeeds being disclosed, Ronnie tells Vic that he is thinking about running. But when Vic pleads for a more time to catch Diego Beltran, Ronnie agrees to wait. Refocusing his efforts, Vic is meeting with Pezuela and Beltran when Aceveda arrives to say that he is now calling the shots in his mayoral campaign. And to ensure that he isn’t seen as an errand boy and to prove to Vic that he isn’t about to back down, Aceveda threatens Pezuela in front of Beltran. Meanwhile, as Dutch and Claudette promise to protect Corrine in exchange for her cooperation, Shane and Mara plan to leave the country. After sending Ronnie and Billings to interview a trio of cleaning women suspected in the murder of their employer, Claudette and Dutch are monitoring Corrine’s phone when Vic shows up unannounced. Warning Corrine of the danger, Dutch asks her to play along so he can use an open phone line to overhear what Vic says. Meanwhile, as Beltran wants Vic to prove his loyalty by killing Pezuela, a realtor’s attempt to show the house where they are hiding forces Shane and Mara to flee. Admitting that he’s been sent to kill him, Vic convinces Pezuela to turn over Olivia’s intel file and to cooperate in exposing Beltran. And as Shane and Mara are ripped off by gangsters who threaten to turn them in, Billings finds that a suspect’s phony claim about being propositioned for sex drove her jealous boyfriend to kill her boss. Finally, after Vic makes it look like Pezuela committed suicide, Beltran says he won’t interfere with Aceveda’s mayoral campaign -- so long as he wins. And as Shane gives Vic twenty-four hours to have Corrine deliver $100,000 or risk having their secrets exposed, Claudette offers Mara leniency if her husband surrenders. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As Mara fools Claudette into believing that she is accepting her deal, Corrine agrees to act as the go-between to deliver $100,000 to Shane. Deflecting Aceveda’s inquiries about Pezuela, Vic turns to Beltran with an offer to negotiate a drug distribution deal with the city’s black gangs. And by promising to give Olivia the intel file on her, Vic hopes to get a deal for him and Ronnie to work with the feds. Worried that Shane has followed through on his threat, Ronnie enlists Billings to watch Claudette’s mail for a letter detailing the Strike Team’s crimes. Meanwhile, as Vic presents Beltran’s proposal to the gangs while scamming them for $100,000 to pay off Shane, Ronnie and Julien investigate the shooting death of top college football prospect Cardell Rhodes. Moving ahead with their plan, Dutch and Claudette prepare Corrine to hand off the cash to Shane. Yet, after negotiating a deal for the cartel, Vic must rethink his own scheme when Beltran’s lieutenants insist he return to see their boss at once. And after Vic sends Ronnie to deliver the cash, Mara never shows, forcing Dutch and Claudette to call off their sting. Meanwhile, Ronnie suspects that Cardell’s death is tied to his involvement with a local gang. And after Shane narrowly avoids being arrested while trying to rob a small-time drug dealer, Mara hatches a plan to get some money by breaking into a former employer’s safe. News that the required autopsy was never performed before his body was sent to Mexico leads Aceveda to conclude that Pezuela’s suicide was a trick. And knowing how Pezuela’s working with the government could undermine his mayoral campaign, Aceveda gets Vic to cooperate by threatening to expose him. After pressing the neighbors, Julien and Ronnie learn that the bullet that struck Cardell was actually meant for a college recruiter who pulled the plug on another student’s scholarship a year earlier. Finally, though he and Mara rob a real estate office of some checks, Shane’s fugitive status limits his ability to turn them into cash. And after giving the file to Olivia and then learning that Shane’s threat to send a letter to Claudette was a hoax, Vic tries to shore up a deal with the feds by introducing Ronnie to Beltran. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Desperate for money, Shane is looking for someone to rob at an after hours gambling club when he’s greeted by Biddle, a man claiming to know him. Playing along, and with Mara following close behind, Shane joins him at home, only to discover that he’s been lured into a trap after being recognized as the vice cop Biddle holds responsible for the prison murder of his brother. Sensing trouble, Mara heads inside and ends up killing a woman and then breaking her own collarbone before she and Shane can flee. Meanwhile, Vic and Ronnie step up their plan to get themselves an immunity deal with the feds. But when Olivia says that it won’t be easy, Vic insists that she deliver or risk losing Beltran. And after Aceveda tells Olivia that his cooperation also depends on their immunity, Vic walks out when the deal he’s given to sign excludes Ronnie. As Danny returns to work at the Barn, Billings asks Dutch to help fight the department’s effort to sue him for fraud. But after forcing him to first clear up the phony arrest of paroled sex offender Irving Heap causes even more damage to Billings’ already shaky reputation, Dutch will still only give him a halfhearted statement of support. Meanwhile, after robbing a teenage dealer of some drugs for Mara’s pain, Shane must then ambush Tina in order to keep from being caught. When Vic sees that he is being drawn into a trap, Dutch and Claudette must pretend to arrest Corrine in order to maintain their cover. Believing that she’s been jailed because of him, Vic agrees to set aside Ronnie’s immunity deal so long as Corrine gets help. But once Olivia and her boss agree on the condition that he disclose everything that is to be covered by the deal, they are horrified to discover just how far Vic had gone. Finally, as Danny offers help Corrine with her kids as she waits in jail, Claudette and Dutch discover that Vic has been granted full immunity in exchange for helping the feds. And as Claudette reacts by turning on Dutch, and Mara finds she no longer has the strength to keep running, Vic prepares to bring down Beltran. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As word of his immunity deal spreads, Vic is unaware that Corrine has been cooperating with the police and trying to get into a witness protection program as he lays a trap for Beltran. But when Beltran sends his henchmen to meet with the black gang leaders, Olivia’s decision to make an arrest despite the drug lord’s absence undermines Vic’s leverage with the government. Meanwhile, as Dutch tries to get a confession out of Lloyd Denton, the teenage serial killer plants evidence that makes it appear the detective is a suspect in the disappearance of the boy’s mother. And as Shane struggles to care for Mara, he sends word that he will surrender in exchange for the murder charges against his wife being dropped. But when Vic refuses to help, Shane desperately looks for a way to keep Mara out of prison. Driven by pride and a desire to land a new law enforcement job, Vic offers mayoral candidate Aceveda a chance at claiming some credit in exchange for backing his plan to arrest Beltran. Meanwhile, as Aceveda’s candidacy is challenged by a vocal community activist, and a lawyer asks Dutch to help Billings keep his pension in spite of his shady workplace injury lawsuit, a raid on Shane’s house finds that he killed Mara and their son before committing suicide. With an ailing Claudette working to get Lloyd to confess and clear Dutch of any suspicion, Aceveda’s intervention results in Olivia being there when Vic and Ronnie take down Beltran at his warehouse hideout. Yet, as he gets word of Shane’s murder-suicide, Ronnie discovers that Vic’s promise of immunity for both of them was a lie, while Vic learns that his role in the Beltran bust hasn’t salvaged his reputation. Finally, as Ronnie is arrested and Lloyd admits to killing his own mother, Vic discovers that his immunity deal with the Feds amounts to little more than a desk job – one that is tantamount to a prison sentence as it will keep him from ever seeing his family again. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

As word of his immunity deal spreads, Vic is unaware that Corrine has been cooperating with the police and trying to get into a witness protection program as he lays a trap for Beltran. But when Beltran sends his henchmen to meet with the black gang leaders, Olivia’s decision to make an arrest despite the drug lord’s absence undermines Vic’s leverage with the government. Meanwhile, as Dutch tries to get a confession out of Lloyd Denton, the teenage serial killer plants evidence that makes it appear the detective is a suspect in the disappearance of the boy’s mother. And as Shane struggles to care for Mara, he sends word that he will surrender in exchange for the murder charges against his wife being dropped. But when Vic refuses to help, Shane desperately looks for a way to keep Mara out of prison. Driven by pride and a desire to land a new law enforcement job, Vic offers mayoral candidate Aceveda a chance at claiming some credit in exchange for backing his plan to arrest Beltran. Meanwhile, as Aceveda’s candidacy is challenged by a vocal community activist, and a lawyer asks Dutch to help Billings keep his pension in spite of his shady workplace injury lawsuit, a raid on Shane’s house finds that he killed Mara and their son before committing suicide. With an ailing Claudette working to get Lloyd to confess and clear Dutch of any suspicion, Aceveda’s intervention results in Olivia being there when Vic and Ronnie take down Beltran at his warehouse hideout. Yet, as he gets word of Shane’s murder-suicide, Ronnie discovers that Vic’s promise of immunity for both of them was a lie, while Vic learns that his role in the Beltran bust hasn’t salvaged his reputation. Finally, as Ronnie is arrested and Lloyd admits to killing his own mother, Vic discovers that his immunity deal with the Feds amounts to little more than a desk job – one that is tantamount to a prison sentence as it will keep him from ever seeing his family again. © 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.