The Shield

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.