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The Shield

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The Shield	comment	The Shield is an American Police Procedural which ran over seven seasons from March 12, 2002 to November 25, 2008 on FX.A hyperactive Shakespearian counterpart to the Dickensian The Wire, The Shield follows a team of police officers working at The Barn, an experimental police precinct situated within the fictional Los Angeles district of Farmington. Although the show revolves around corrupt detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), it gained a reputation as an ensemble show as the series explored the goings-on within the Farmington Precinct (including the various power struggles and interpersonal drama surrounding Mackey in the midst of the chaos and intrigue).The focus of the show revolves around Mackey as he leads an elite anti-gang task force known as "The Strike Team". The LAPD tasked the Strike Team with the monumental job of keeping the streets of Farmington safe from drug dealers and gang members. Mackey and the other members of the close-knit group generally go about their task with violent efficiency and a little corruption on the side: the team will often enter into Faustian deals with Farmington's criminal elements—which give said criminals free rein to run the city's drug trade—in exchange for bribes, intel on other gang members, and a promise to keep their illegal antics at reasonable levels to ensure an illusion of peace.Other aspects of the show deal with the rank-and-file members of the Farmington Precinct. The most notable of these cast members, detectives Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach and Claudette Wyms, deal with non-gang-related instances of rape and murder within the district. They serve as the moral opposite of Vic Mackey and the Strike Team, which leads to tension between the two sides when they work together on related cases (or when Dutch and Claudette have to clean up the inevitable fallout from the Strike Team's corrupt antics while trying to prove Vic's corruption). Several patrol officers—including Danielle "Danny" Sofer, her protégé Julien Lowe, and rookie cop Tina Hanlon—find themselves struggling to advance up the ranks while dealing with the unappreciated job of keeping Farmington safe.Other characters include police captain-turned-politician David Aceveda, whose disdain for Vic Mackey and his corrupt antics clash with his political ambitions (and ends up driving him further and further into bed with Vic as the series progresses), and Vic's estranged ex-wife Corrine, who spends the bulk of the series trying to separate herself and her children from her ex-husband before his crimes destroy their lives.Much like The Sopranos, The Shield goes to great lengths portraying Vic and the strike team as nuanced characters with good and bad sides. In spite of his corruption and violent tendencies, many of Vic's criminal actions often result from the stress of his job (i.e. the unrealistic pressures placed on him to shut down crime in the district) and the desire to provide for his family (two of his three children have autism). Vic has some lines he refuses to cross, however, and he has absolutely zero tolerance for rape, pedophilia, and domestic violence. He also shows a great deal of loyalty towards his teammates and often preaches the message of team loyalty to bond the four men into a surrogate family.But Vic's conscience mainly exists thanks to the influence of Strike Team member Curtis "Lem" Lemansky. Lem serves as the counterpart to Vic's much abused "yes-man" partner, Shane Vendrell. Ronnie Gardocki, a quiet and nerdy police detective whose silent loyalty to Vic balances Lem and Shane's polar opposite personalities, rounds out the Strike Team.If you’re looking for the professional wrestling stable, you’ll want to look here.
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The Shield / int_10416043	type	Dropping the Bombshell
The Shield / int_10416043	comment	Dropping the Bombshell: In the final episode, Ronnie asks what he is being arrested for:
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The Shield / int_112d3380	type	Retired Badass
The Shield / int_112d3380	comment	Retired Bad Ass: Subverted with Vic's old mentor, played by Carl Weathers. Vic is initially eager to ride with him again, but it later turns out that he's using Vic because he was forced out of the LAPD years ago without a pension, and has become a down-on-his-luck loser.
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The Shield / int_11cac491	type	Tragedy
The Shield / int_11cac491	comment	Tragedy: The series plays out in such a fashion, with the Strike Team collectively serving as the Tragic Heroes. Quite a few reviewers have compared the show to Shakespeare.
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The Shield / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Shield / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: A theme of Season 3, which features Dutch's pursuit of a serial rapist targeting elderly women, as well as Aceveda's rape, which is played deadly serious with all the emotional trauma it would produce. In later seasons, Aceveda starts beating a prostitute in an attempt to reclaim his masculinity, and then makes a deal with Antwon Mitchell to have the rapist murdered in prison.
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The Shield / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Shield / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Subverted: every time Vic seems like he might have one, his sociopathic nature pulls him out of it right before he goes catatonic.
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The Shield / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Shield / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Subjective; season 2 featured darker villains (the evil arm-chopping off and murdering husband and wife pair, Armadillo Quintero) but kept the aura of hope for the main cast as far as overcoming them. Season 3 on the other hand, featured several characters being driven to the brink of the Moral Event Horizon and barely escaping it intact, while one of the central aspects of seasons 1 and 2 (the bond of friendship between the Strike Team members) began coming apart, as far as the Strike Team collapsing into infighting and Shane Vendrell going from harmless syncophant to ticking time bomb waiting to go off and take the entire team down with him. "The Shield Spotlight" mini-series IDW released in 2004; in particular Dutch and Claudette manage to find evidence linking a high ranking news network executive to the murder of a reporter, who was about to expose a good amount of corruption at the network she worked at. But the entire investigation is squashed and the network executive gets away with the crime, after the network executive cuts a backroom deal with Aceveda (who, generally speaking, did have SOME standards as far as just how far he'd go to further his ambitions in the tv series), to trade favorable news coverage for his political career in exchange for Aceveda ensuring that the murder investigation gets squashed. The mini-series even ends with Vic, oblivious to what happened, gloating to Claudette and Dutch that he's the better detective and that he gets stuff done, while they can't solve their murder
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The Shield / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Shield / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Played straight with Aceveda till first 2 seasons and then becomes increasingly subverted as Aceveda puts his political ambition before bringing the strike team to justice. Double Subverted as Aceveda still goes after Vic and co. for personal reasons from season 5. Jon Kavanaugh also counts as a very dark version of this trope. Averted with Terry Crowley in the Pilot itself!!!
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The Shield / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Shield / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The ultimate fate of the Vendrell family was inspired by the real life murder-murder-suicide of Chris Benoit to his own family. Additionally, Shawn Ryan has admitted to stealing plot ideas from Rotton.com when it comes to the crime of the week plotlines. And of course, the Strike Team was inspired by the horrific Rampart scandal involving the LAPD's C.R.A.S.H. unit. Early previews/teasers for the series had even given it the title "Rampart".
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The Shield / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Shield / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Vic against Shane, in the seventh season. Both are corrupt killer cops desperately trying to escape justice for their crimes.
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The Shield / int_17dbe19a	type	Internalized Categorism
The Shield / int_17dbe19a	comment	Internalized Categorism: Julian with his homosexuality. He attends conversion therapy, marries a woman and, at one point, vents his frustrations when joining fellow officers in assaulting a gay suspect.
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The Shield / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Shield / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Rapper Andre 3000 of Outkast fame appears as a comic book store owner in one episode. He returns in the series finale, where this trope becomes Death by Cameo.
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The Shield / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
The Shield / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Dutch vs Vic. While the show technically switched horses in season two with Claudette replacing Dutch as Vic's main rival, the two remained heated rivals even after said dynamic retooling. And while he was denied the chance to have the last laugh against Vic himself, Dutch does score points for successfully turning Vic's ex-wife against him and pretty much setting into motion the events that renders Vic's Karma Houdini an empty, self-destructive victory by getting Corrine full-immunity before Vic could, as well as coming up with the plan to put her into witness protection to protect her from Vic.
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The Shield / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
The Shield / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: When Aceveda admits the details of his sexual assault to his wife, she's horrified and disgusted...by him. His cousin was only slightly more sympathetic, making clear that the only way for Aceveda to re-gain his honor is to kill the man who assaulted him. Cruz actually counts on No Sympathy when he gives Vic the photo of Aceveda's assault - he figures that voters will judge Aceveda and drum him out of office, even though Aceveda literally had a gun to his head.
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The Shield / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Shield / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Vic and Shane (which at times is portrayed as an abusive marriage with Shane as the battered spouse) and Ronnie and Vic (at least in Ronnie's mind).
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The Shield / int_21584c75	type	The Profiler
The Shield / int_21584c75	comment	The Profiler: Dutch's main forte. While he's has a California-sized ego and is socially awkward, there's no denying his skill in knowing how criminals function.
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The Shield / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Shield / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: In season 5, Kavanaugh attempts to frame Mackey for Lem's murder, but eventually confesses and goes to prison himself, but with a clear conscience. Subverted in that Vic didn't actually kill Lem, but is guilty of a host of other crimes. Dutch goes through an element of this as well, when he finds a strangled woman but cannot break the suspected killer. He plants some evidence in the man's house, but has a crisis of conscience before reaching the end of the block and goes back to remove it. He redoubles his resolve to do it the right way, and succeeds.
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The Shield / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Shield / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: It's shown repeatedly that the main characters, and the LAPD in general, work a thankless job protecting a section of the city that pretty much sees the police as the enemy and the problem rather than the solution to the various gang and drug problems within their community. It's also shown that the top ranking LAPD brass pretty much are petty, self-absorbed jerks who spend their days either abusing their power as far as misusing police resources for illegal schemes (Gilroy) or engaging intimidation/threats towards their subordinates (Claudette, Aceveda) because they pissed off the wrong superior officer at some point. The Crapsack World finale had Vic skating on jail time for everything while leaving his subordinate to take the blame (and the resulting prison sentence, assuming he isn't killed while awaiting trial), when Ronnie was not even deemed important enough to be told of many of Vic's crimes. Meanwhile, several who tried to bring Vic to justice do not fare so well.
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The Shield / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Shield / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The cell phone pic of Aceveda's rape. Subverted with the MAD Document Shane produced, which Vic lied about using AGAINST Shane in the series finale. And a more literal example, the stolen grenade used by Shane to kill Lem.
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The Shield / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Shield / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Julien's homosexuality was dropped as a major subplot after the first three seasons. He ended the series unhappy and unresolved with his sexuality. According to the Sons Of Anarchy Season 1 DVD, Dutch was originally going to be revealed as a Serial Killer. This was dropped, but exactly at what point is unclear. There are many scenes throughout the series such as strangling the cat that could have been building to that conclusion. The lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers in season 4 over the Mackey childrens' autism goes nowhere (thankfully).
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The Shield / int_237569e4	type	Ironic Hell
The Shield / int_237569e4	comment	Ironic Hell: Vic Mackey's final fate.
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The Shield / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Shield / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Lem, and to a lesser extent Ronnie often fills this role within the Strike Team. Possibly Claudette, but her various moments of sanity ultimately are negated by a lot of the questionable decisions she makes (such as firing Kevin Hiatt for actually being a goody-goody and not a faux goody-goody who would get his hands dirty for Claudette so she could look good to her superiors).
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The Shield / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Shield / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Everyone's attempts to bring Vic Mackey to justice fail miserably. But his bosses figure out a way to make it come at a cost.
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The Shield / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Shield / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: In every season, except the sixth one. The worst cases were in season four and season seven, with the daughter of a drug addict being shot to death by Antwon Mitchell and Shane's son being poisoned in a murder-suicide respectively.
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The Shield / int_27be0280	type	Porn Stache
The Shield / int_27be0280	comment	Porn Stache: Ronnie in the first two seasons. It's allegedly supposed to help him get chicks but his attempts at hooking up say otherwise. He loses the stache after his face gets grilled, after which he switches to a beard to cover up the scarring.
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The Shield / int_29d16652	type	Removed from the Picture
The Shield / int_29d16652	comment	Removed from the Picture: In the final scene of the series, Vic puts up a framed picture of himself and Lem, the only member of the team he didn't betray. The picture originally contained the entire Strike Team.
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The Shield / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Shield / int_2ae29c0d	comment	Margos Dezerian, and the Granny Rapist/William Faulks in Season Three.
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The Shield / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
The Shield / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: In the series 2 episode "Homewreckers". Ronnie, upon being presented with a laptop (which wasn't connected to the internet), comments that the user "didn't firewall her backdoor", and that he can "route around her password by setting the operations post back to default"—although this whole section was Played for Laughs anyway, given the guy he was working with was from Police Information Systems (or PIS, as everyone constantly points out).
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The Shield / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Shield / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Jon Kavanaugh falls victim to this during his quest to take the Strike Team down, as he eventually plants evidence and coerces false testimony against Vic.
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The Shield / int_30f16d3f	type	The Punishment
The Shield / int_30f16d3f	comment	The Punishment: Vic, for all of his sins and magnificent bastardom and success at manipulating everyone around him, is rewarded by being given a $60,000 a year job as a Federal Law Enforcement Agent, with his supervisor (the one who was bamboozled into giving Vic immunity for his laundry list of sins and said job as an Agent of the US Government) having to neutralize the monster she empowered by giving him a cushy, if not unimportant, desk job for at least three years to keep him off the streets. It's also stated that, on top of her own duties, said supervisor will have to devote the next three years of her life, micromanaging Vic in order to make sure he stays neutered as well as bait him into quitting / committing an offense that would void his job contract/immunity deal, since if Vic manages to somehow last the full three years, his immunity becomes irrevocable and he can never ever be held accountable for his crimes. On the other hand, they can promptly throw him out. And with his laundry list public knowledge and his old nemesis slated to become the new mayor, his reputation as a Dirty, Dirty Cop is also permanent.
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The Shield / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Shield / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: For all his unethical behavior, Vic is genuinely enraged by violence against women and children. He also sees it as his job to keep the streets (mostly) calm and peaceful, even if that means tolerating and even abetting less violent criminal behavior. He also uses this trope to leverage information out of various criminal elements - drug dealers and even violent gang members are often willing to help him catch the truly loathsome individuals.
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The Shield / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The Shield / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: A lot of the non Strike Team characters, save for Dutch and Claudette, go through this eventually. Aceveda gets this for a while starting in season 4 but he comes back into play in seasons 6 and 7, albeit in a much less important way than at the show's start. Danny sort of Zig Zags this trope in most seasons after season 1. Julien probably got hit hardest with this trope and a bad case of Aborted Arc (his homosexuality) going from getting a lot of Character Focus in the first 3 seasons to having the least plot importance of any original character during the last 4 seasons.
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The Shield / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Shield / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: In the finale, Vic's betrayal of Ronnie certainly qualifies as a moment designed to remind people what a monster Vic has become. Also the shooting of Terry Crowley in the very first episode, which was done mainly to establish Vic as not just another corrupt cop but one that was a Captain Sensible-type villain. Not to mention Dutch killing a stray cat for no real reason.
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The Shield / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Shield / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The rest of the cast compared to The Strike Team Also fandom being split between Ronnie and Lem versus Shane and Vic as far as which members of the Strike Team were worthy of redemption/deserving to survive the series with their badges and lives intact and which ones should fry in the electric chair for their crimes. The show's ending also falls into this trope: some fans take the idealism approach that Vic's beaten and will spend the next three years in pure hell and ultimately end up with no job, no prospects, and pretty much forever rejected by family and friends. Others however take the cynical approach to the ending: Vic will somehow, by force of will and charisma, rise from his ashes and not only neutralize those inside ICE that will make his life hell, but make new allies who will ensure he not only returns to working in the field, but also gets to stay a Federal Agent once his three years are up.
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The Shield / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
The Shield / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: If you come between Vic and Shane, Shane WILL try to kill you. Subverted with Vic/Ronnie/Shane as Ronnie kept pushing Vic to kill Shane to avenge Lem, even as Vic was willing to kiss and make up for real with Shane. When Vic tried to call off the hit on Shane, Ronnie cold-bloodedly exploited the fact that they were in the same car with Julian, meaning that Vic couldn't beat the crap out Ronnie and call Shane to warn him about the attempt on his life.
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The Shield / int_3b4bd0b4	type	Killer Cop
The Shield / int_3b4bd0b4	comment	Killer Cop: Vic, Shane and Ronnie. Vic and Shane are also Cop Killers.
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The Shield / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Shield / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Wagenbach and Wyms discover that a city Public Defender was a drug addict. Revealing that she was on drugs would open up virtually her entire backlog of clients to appeal for Ineffective Assistance of Counsel relief. Dutch warns Claudette not to do it, but she does anyway, and the resulting fallout turns almost the entire LAPD against her.
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The Shield / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The Shield / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The criticism of police brutality and abuse of power is diminished when on several times other police officers ask the Strike Team to help with particularly brutal criminals with the implicit understanding they may need to bend the rules to do that. Time after time, the criminals are shown to be indeed as bad as they are drummed up to be and the Strike Team do succeed in taking them down. This leaves room for the argument that despite everything else they do, the Strike Team is a necessary evil.
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The Shield / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Shield / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Vic. While he's rarely completely successful, he can manipulate most Farmington cops enough to keep his Batman Gambit and Indy Ploy maneuvers rolling.
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The Shield / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Shield / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For most of the Barn not affiliated with the Strike Team. Claudette: Her lupus has reached the terminal stage and it's only a matter of time before she's forced to give up the job she's devoted to. She's confident as well that her utter failure to bring Vic to justice will haunt her to her dying day. At the same time, she's determined to see every day possible by coming to work and allows Dutch to aid her by way of a maid he'll pay to clean her house and an assistant in Danny. She also gets a much more satisfying one on Vic by getting Olivia, his superior, to get Corrine and their kids in witness protection and then arresting Ronnie in front of him as a proof of his betrayal to his teammate. Dutch: He gives perjured testimony in Billings' favor in exchange for releasing a framed sexual offender and he doesn't end up with any of the women he spent the series pining over. Additionally, his actions caused Lloyd to kill his mother, something which he bitterly lampshades, which prevents him from nailing his suspect the way he wanted. The icing on the cake is confronting the fact that his partner Claudette is dying from lupus. Andererseits, he's exonerated of Lloyd framing him for his mother Rita's murder thanks to his aforementioned partner and Billings' lawyer asks him out on a date. He's also grown into a dependable detective capable of teamwork that willingly helps his captain without asking much in exchange; in turn, she acknowledges him as her best friend which brings a smile to his face. Corrine: Corrine and her kids are forced to go into Witness Protection program, with Corrine living in fear of the day in which Vic might eventually find her and what he will do to her to punish her for betraying him. Furthermore, her two kids with autism will be forced into a sub-par school system (the WP officer evasively describes the schools in the area as "improving"), essentially ruining any chance the kids had to lead independent lives. Throughout the series, it's also strongly hinted that Cassidy, whatever she decides to do with her life, is going to end up just like her father. Despite this, the final note implies the family is finally free from Vic's influence. Julien: Julien never comes to terms with his homosexuality and is still in his own private, closeted hell. He's still in a sham marriage as well as having his brief "hazard pay" pay raise (given to him to get him to work as the fifth guy on the Strike Team) revoked when Claudette dissolves the Strike Team once and for all. His last major scene is spent looking with sad envy at a happy gay couple. On the other hand, he's successfully trained Tina as a resourceful cop, continuing the Master-Apprentice Chain started by Danny, and Claudette implies he could promoted to detective in the future. Billings: The result of his bogus lawsuit amounts to several days' worth of backpay for his free days. That is toned down, as far as his lawyer is concerned, from the possibility of being sued himself due to institution fraud. His retirement is still on the horizon, though, and he's kept his job and his pension intact. Tina: She watches a beloved community activist die after being shot by criminals whose drug house he was trying to get shut down via organizing a blockade of its entrance. Despite this, she's finally a rookie no more and the officers hold a mini-celebration (complete with cake) for her to celebrate her first full year on the job, which is cut short due to Tina and her fellow patrol officers being called out onto the street as back-up on a gang shooting. Danny: She witnesses Shane's suicide and the murder of his family, and in addition will have to deal with Vic's attempts to contact her and his (assumed) child. However, she's at least free from Vic's influence, and is implied to have been promoted to Sargeant rank.
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The Shield / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Shield / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Usually Ronnie's response to Shane in the later seasons, when Shane tries to convince Ronnie to betray Vic and join forces with him. Vic does this to Shane in season six, when Shane throws Terry's murder in Vic's face.
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The Shield / int_41f3b3a2	type	Generic Cop Badges
The Shield / int_41f3b3a2	comment	Generic Cop Badges: After the first episode, not only uses fake badges but places them on the wrong side of the uniform, at the request of the LAPD due to the portrayal of the cops being less than upstanding. Shane is mugged in Mexico and loses his badge. For the next several episodes until he is discovered, he uses a counterfeit one. A fake of a fake.
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The Shield / int_4211d102	type	Confess to a Lesser Crime
The Shield / int_4211d102	comment	Confess to a Lesser Crime: After Shane's failed attempt to kill Vic and Ronnie, Claudette goes to Ronnie to demand an explanation. Ronnie pulls a plausible explanation entirely out of his ass and pins everything on Shane while confessing that he and Vic were doing an unauthorized investigation into Lem's murder (and leaving out all the murders they committed in the process) and that they arranged a secret meeting with Lem the night he was killed (but only to convince him to turn himself in, claims Ronnie).
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The Shield / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Shield / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The final scene of the finale has Vic pulling out his Desert Eagle and leaving for the night. It's left ambiguous as to what he will do after this, with the script even pointing out that his destination is unknown.
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The Shield / int_43e71a8c	type	Bluffing the Authorities
The Shield / int_43e71a8c	comment	Bluffing the Authorities: This is pretty routine for the Strike Team when they get caught doing shady things; criminal accomplices are "confidential informants", if they get caught with drugs it's for a sting operation they forgot to file the paperwork for, etc. The Strike Team kidnaps a drug lord in Mexico with the intention to bring him back to the US to face justice; however, their car gets shot up as they make their getaway. Knowing the bullet holes would raise red flags at the border checkpoint, they cover them with bumper stickers and pretend that the car got vandalized while they were down partying for a bachelor party. The border guards are sympathetic and let them pass.
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The Shield / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Shield / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Vic Mackey's biggest survival skill, as Vic is able to survive for seven seasons by large due to the fact that he is able to think on his feet and talk his enemies into fighting against each other rather than killing him.
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The Shield / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
The Shield / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: In Season 2, a Mexican gangleader is released into Farmington after serving a long jail sentence, only to find that season two big bad Armadillo has taken over his crew and stocked it with loyalists who treat the former leader as a servant. Shane and Lem end up cutting a deal with him, arranging for his arrest so that he can kill Armadillo in the police holding cell via a shank they then give him. The murder sends him back to prison, where he is respected and gives him fresh street cred.
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The Shield / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Shield / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: To try and bring an end to crime in Farmington, Monica Rawlings revives the controversial concept of asset forfeiture, meaning anything bought with the procedes derived from criminal activities will be seized by the police. Needless to say, this pretty much makes Rawlings horribly unpopular within the community and within the LAPD.
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The Shield / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Shield / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Dutch and Ronnie, especially in the earlier seasons. Shane, as far as him being Vic's go-to punching bag whenever things in Vic's life go bad.
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The Shield / int_494885c6	type	Humiliating Wager
The Shield / int_494885c6	comment	Humiliating Wager: (S03E04: Streaks and Tips), two LAPD teams (Strike Team and Decoy Squad) compete to solve a car-jacking case. They make a bet saying that the losing team has to streak naked through the police station. Decoy Squad loses.
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The Shield / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Shield / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Captain Monica Rawling in Season 4. Hell even Vic Mackey is at his most heroic in this season. Shane is a different matter...
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The Shield / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
The Shield / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: After seven seasons of turning a blind eye to Vic Mackey's corruption, Claudette Wyms finally goes after Vic after his ex-wife turns to Claudette with airtight evidence of his illegal activities as well as catching Ronnie Gardocki, Vic's partner on tape for aiding and abetting. Sadly, in typical Claudette fashion, she doesn't seize the timing as far as flipping Ronnie for his testimony against Vic or arresting Vic on the spot. By the time she finally gives the order to arrest Vic, it's too late: Vic has used the delays to secure a Federal immunity deal, resulting in Claudette arriving mid-confession as Vic has already signed the paperwork. She gets one hell of a consolation prize, though, beginning with having Dutch drop the bomb on Ronnie before Vic can alert him to the truth.
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The Shield / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
The Shield / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Dutch is largely treated as an outcast by the other cops at the precinct, with even his partner/best friend keeping him at arms' length most of the time. Strike Team member Ronnie Gardocki is also treated badly by his teammates: from making fun of his facial hair to his non-existent sex life, to being left out of the loop of many important decisions made by the Strike Team and largely treated as a gofer for Vic.
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The Shield / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Shield / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: By the end, every Strike Team member has gotten one; courtesy of Laser-Guided Karma. Vic: He gets full immunity for his crimes but he falls into his own personal hell. Now friendless and ostracised by his colleagues, he is stuck working a desk job for three years with a supervisor who is determined to goad him into violating his immunity deal. Oh, and Vic's ex-wife has fled town with their children, entered Witness Protection, and has an order of protection out against him. Shane: He goes on the run with his family following his botched plot to murder Vic and Ronnie, but their plan to leave the country goes badly wrong. When Shane learns that Vic has beaten him to an immunity deal, ending his last chance to save himself and his family, Shane kills Mara and Jackson, and then himself. Ronnie: He is betrayed by Vic and arrested as the scapegoat for all of the crimes of the Strike Team. Assuming he doesn't get killed in jail awaiting trial, he's looking at a long prison sentence (a fate that he previously opined would be worse than being killed) for aiding and abetting a fugitive at best and as an accessory to Terry Crowley's murder at worst. Not to mention having to answer for all their other misdemeanors. Lem: His decision to steal a brick of heroin makes IAD target him as a possible informant, least he ends in jail along most of his (and the rest of the Team's) detainees. Struggling to maintain both his loyalty and his conscience, he agrees to a plea bargain only to be vivisected from the waist down with a grenade by his partner Shane after being disinformed of Lem's duplicity via Aceveda and Kavanaugh. Due to the nature of his crime, his reputation as the sole good member of the team and as a cop is destroyed post-mortem, with even the LAPD denying the possibility of his grave receiving the 21-shot salute meant for every cop.
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The Shield / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Shield / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Aside from a few scenes in the Pilot Episode, there is no background music whatsoever. Any music that does show up is either for montages or is diegetic. During the pool party and in the first few episodes, the rest of the Strike Team members can be seen with women (implied to be their wives) and wedding rings on their fingers. From that point on, only Vic (and later Shane) have wives and families, with the other members confirmed to be single.
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The Shield / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Shield / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Shane, Claudette, and Billings qualify as the biggest examples. Subverted with Aceveda and Vic, as both men generally have better track records than the other three (though Vic's smugness eventually catches up to him).
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The Shield / int_513f3d12	type	Background Music
The Shield / int_513f3d12	comment	Background Music: Averted; the show features no musical score whatsoever, aside from a few scenes in the pilot episode. Instead it uses songs by other artists either playing in diagetically or during montages.
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The Shield / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
The Shield / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: Vic's desire to protect the Strike Team from the consequences of their crimes in the end turns into Vic protecting himself from the consequences of the Strike Team's crimes. Also with Aceveda: his desire to do good for the community via entering the world of politics/purging the LAPD of corrupt elements like Vic go down the toilet once the real life backstabbery of politics hit him in the face with a two-by-four, and Aceveda begins to shed his morals and ethics to get elected.
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The Shield / int_534bc834	type	Escalating War
The Shield / int_534bc834	comment	Escalating War: Season two had this with Vic and Armadillo and later with Vic versus Kavanaugh, which featured the escalating plot point of Vic fucking Kavanaugh's estranged ex-wife and Kavanaugh in turn confronting Corrine (Vic's ex) with a deranged offer for sex to get back at Vic. Not to mention Vic driving Kavanaugh to the breaking point of breaking the law and planting evidence on Vic in a desperately pathetic attempt to bring him to justice. The relationship between the two was once described as "a downward spiral of one-upsmanship."
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The Shield / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Shield / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil / Faux Affably Evil: The Strike Team in general, with Vic and Shane under the Faux Affably Evil label and Lem and Ronnie under the Affably Evil label. Averted with Captain/Councilman Aceveda, whose arc begins with him becoming Affably Evil, but later turning Faux Affably Evil by the end of the series. And toss in Antwon Mitchell, who fits the Affably Evil archetype when he's pretending to be a nice guy.
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The Shield / int_552b5288	type	PilotEpisode
The Shield / int_552b5288	comment	Aside from a few scenes in the Pilot Episode, there is no background music whatsoever. Any music that does show up is either for montages or is diegetic.
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The Shield / int_584cd60c	type	Going Home Again
The Shield / int_584cd60c	comment	Going Home Again: Defied. A pro basketball player tries to go home again and just hang out with his buddies. He gets caught up in a Strike Team warrant sweep, and they hold him hostage in a hotel room so that they can win a bet on the Lakers. Then it gets much, much worse.
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The Shield / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
The Shield / int_5963b221	comment	Season Seven has multiple Big Bads running around: the Mexican Mafia (led by Guillermo Beltran), the Armenians, Shane Vendrell and Lloyd Denton, a sixteen year old sociopath.
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The Shield / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
The Shield / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: The show is filmed with shaky handheld cameras in order to produce a gritty, realistic, almost documentary-like atmosphere.
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The Shield / int_607a8bd2	type	Beastly Bloodsports
The Shield / int_607a8bd2	comment	Beastly Bloodsports: In "Two Days of Blood", Detective Shane Vendrell and Detective Curt Lemansky go undercover in a cockfighting event to track down an illegal arms smuggler.
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The Shield / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
The Shield / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Both Ronnie and Lem (a fact that is lampshaded in the "end of series" montage during the final credits) Det. Terry Crowley, shot by Vic in the first episode as well
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The Shield / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Shield / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: However you see Vic, and Shane, Anti-Hero, Villain Protagonist, Vic really loves his kids and Shane loves his wife and children as well.
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The Shield / int_63f492d1	type	Bluff the Eavesdropper
The Shield / int_63f492d1	comment	Bluff the Eavesdropper: At one point, Vic realizes that a fellow officer is wearing a wire for IA. Vic then takes the opportunity to record himself "confessing" to the cop that he's not bad, he just actively cultivates a reputation as a corrupt and murderous cop to intimidate gangs and crooks into thinking he's a loose cannon. Under investigation by IA, the Strike Team realizes that their clubhouse has been bugged. They all laugh along loudly as Shane tells a long drawn out joke for the benefit of whomever's listening, while at the same time using paper and pen to plan their next move.
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The Shield / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
The Shield / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The Barn has an odd, open design which would generally be too chaotic and loud to be comfortable to work in. Justified both on camera (It's a converted former church that the LAPD was trying to save from being torn down) and off-camera (It's much easier to film in there.)
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The Shield / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
The Shield / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: Shane and Tavon have a particularly brutal one in Shane's living room. Dutch and Billings in season 4, after Billings joins in with the others mocking Dutch after Dutch has covered for him hiding during a shooting at a car wash instead of taking action as an officer, is probably a better example.
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The Shield / int_6ae754f4	type	Hidden Wire
The Shield / int_6ae754f4	comment	Hidden Wire: Nicely subverted in one episode as a fellow cop's nervous talk clues Vic in to the fact the guy is wearing a wire for IA. Vic then uses this to record himself "confessing" to the cop that he just acts being this corrupt and murderous cop to intimidate gangs and crooks into thinking he's a loose cannon.
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The Shield / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Shield / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: In Season 5's finale, Danny gives birth to her and Vic's son. In that same episode Shane throws a grenade in Lem's lap.
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The Shield / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Shield / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Vic MACKEY (taken from "Machiavellian"). YMMV— Though the Mackey/Machiavellian connection is very appropriate to Vic's character, it's more likely he was named after David Mack, the central figure in the Rampart CRASH Unit scandal on which the show is based.
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The Shield / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Shield / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Armadillo from season 2, who gets killed off midway through the season.
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The Shield / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
The Shield / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Vic literally does this towards the end of season seven, mostly so he can go after Shane without any interference.
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The Shield / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
The Shield / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: Jon Kavanaugh in Season Five.
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The Shield / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Shield / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Despite the Strike Team's downfall, the rest of the Barn (and Farmington in general) continue unabated. Claudette retains her position as captain, Dutch and Billings remain detectives, and Danny, Tina, Julien, and the rest of the officers are called away before they celebrate Tina's one year anniversary. Aceveda is looking to be the next mayor of L.A. Vic Mackey plans a way to get himself out of his stifling desk job at ICE. Sirens, gangbangers, hookers and citizens move on with their lives.
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The Shield / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
The Shield / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Shane, who evolved into this trope after actor Walton Goggins voiced his discomfort to the writers about playing an unashamedly racist and homophobic asshole.
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The Shield / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Shield / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Ronnie, is made to be the fall guy for Vic's crimes due to the immunity deal Vic struck behind his back. Had he fled, or been the least bit suspicious of Vic, he might have been able to escape his fate. ICE Agent Olivia Murray is a big time example too. Vic cons her into giving him full immunity from all of his crimes and a job as a federal agent. A random parolee, who the Strike Team frames with some of the Money Train cash because he happens to have family in Indio, where Mara had sent some of the marked bills. He is ultimately tortured to death by the Armenian Mob for a crime he never even knew about.
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The Shield / int_74b85afd	type	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
The Shield / int_74b85afd	comment	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!!: Off-screen, a Federal undercover agent is given one of these tests. he apparently "passed" because we later see the carved up remains of his victim. Tina constantly gets these offers just about every time she does undercover work: first being asked to let a bunch of sadistic pimps gangbang her and later, when a porn director/drug dealer orders her to perform oral sex on fellow undercover cop Julien. Luckily, she is able to wiggle out of having to do so each time she's been offered the proverbial kitten to eat.
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The Shield / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Shield / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Army, who briefly joins the Strike Team. After an incident he is required to take a polygraph, refuses, and is never seen again.
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The Shield / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Shield / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The Money Train Heist in the season two finale: things went off the rails and led to the destruction of the team and their friendships.
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The Shield / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
The Shield / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Danny and Vic in season four, which worked out as a perfect coincidence for the writers, as it let them use the scene to make Vic the father of Danny's baby, when the writers were forced to work Catherine Dent's pregnancy into the series.
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The Shield / int_7c14d0f2	type	Rejected Apology
The Shield / int_7c14d0f2	comment	Rejected Apology: When Ronnie learns that Vic made him The Scapegoat for all of the Strike Team's dirty deeds, Vic pathetically tries to apologize. He's having none of it.
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The Shield / int_7cbba5d3	type	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters
The Shield / int_7cbba5d3	comment	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: Armenians, Mexicans, El Salvadorians, even Koreans.
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The Shield / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Shield / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In season 3, when the Cuddle-Rapist first appears, Dutch's top suspect is a rapist with a history but was good for 7 years. Dutch tells him that his morality compass was broken and the guy breaks down crying and asking if he can fix it, Dutch tells him it can't be fixed and eventually he admits he did it. Turns out he was lying, Dutch figures that out, and gets a call where he tells Dutch he shouldn't deny what he is. Cue Julien breaking into the apartment and finding the guy raping his neighbor. At least Dutch didn't have a break-down like the Marcy one.
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The Shield / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Shield / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Vic's murder of Terry Crowley in the first episode. It doesn't just firmly establish him as a Dirty Cop, it also shows the lengths he will go to in order to protect his position.
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The Shield / int_807ceed9	type	Outlaw Couple
The Shield / int_807ceed9	comment	Outlaw Couple: In season 2, Dutch investigates a husband and wife team who are mutilating and killing women; he begins to suspect that the wife may herself be a victim who is being forced to participate in the crimes by her husband. It turns out he's completely wrong, and if anything the wife is the main instigator. Mara and Shane end up on the run after their plan to kill Ronnie and Vic goes south, and they end up robbing and killing someone in their attempts to flee the country.
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The Shield / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
The Shield / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: This quote sums it up. To clarify why, Vic has already signed his immunity deal and Ronnie believes his is already ironclad. It is not, and Vic's expression when Ronnie walks away shows this trope. If he's part of the deal, it's as a consolation collar for letting Vic get away with his crimes.
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The Shield / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Shield / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Claudette (tries her best to keep Dutch from finding out about her failed career as a professional dancer, the fact that her daughter abandoned her husband to run off with another man, and her lupus) and Corrine (who spends the series desperately trying to cling to the illusion of a normal, if not divorced family for her children, until her husband's crimes are exposed to her by Mara is graphic detail and she is forced, against her will, by Shane and Mara, to aide their escape from the police). Shane as well, to the extent that the need to maintain the mask drives him to the brink of madness and ultimately to murder his family and himself, to ensure his children never find out what monsterous things he did.
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The Shield / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
The Shield / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Julien; this is likely due to the fact that he's actively trying to suppress his homosexuality.
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The Shield / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
The Shield / int_83fb6177	comment	In the last few minutes of the pilot episode, Strike Team newcomer Terry Crowley gets shot in the head by none other than Vic Mackey.
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The Shield / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Shield / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Shane (Red Oni) and Ronnie (Blue Oni); Shane is impulsive and often seen wearing a red leather jacket, while Ronnie is quiet and introverted, and wore blue.
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The Shield / int_8531772	type	False Roulette
The Shield / int_8531772	comment	False Roulette: Tavon in season two; he empties all the bullets but one from his revolver, then points it at a suspect to get the information he wants. Unbeknownst to the suspect, however, Tavon also palmed the last bullet and the gun is really empty.
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The Shield / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Shield / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It is never established whether or not Vic is the father of Connie's son, Brian.
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The Shield / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
The Shield / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Farmington is not a real LA neighborhood. It's a pastiche of Downtown, South Central South Los Angeles, Koreatown, and Compton. It might be based on Westlake, where the real-life Rampart precinct is based, and borders Downtown and Koreatown.
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The Shield / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
The Shield / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: The Strike Team chasing and arresting the drug dealer at the beginning of the pilot.
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The Shield / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Shield / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The series finale: What should've been Vic's achievement quickly spirals downward into the inverse: the last half of the episode is a Karmic smackdown of the highest order, in which he ultimately winds up alone and in a job that represents all of his worst fears, nightmares, and defects.
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The Shield / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Shield / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The Strike Team.
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The Shield / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Shield / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of Police Procedurals revolving around badass Cowboy Cops who break the rules in the name of doing the right thing. Vic and the Strike Team fit this to a T, but it's clear that they're genuinely corrupt and their refusal to follow the law they enforce has made them extremely dangerous. Vic's actions wind up destroying his own career, and it's made increasingly clear that him and Shane's antics are more of a power fantasy than anything genuinely altruistic.
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The Shield / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Shield / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill like Overkill: The El Salvadoran gang's usage of hand grenades
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The Shield / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Shield / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: While Vic pulls off the greatest trick of his career by getting immunity for all his crimes, it soon becomes apparent it's not all roses afterward. He didn't count on Olivia putting him on desk duty (which he isn't suited for) and being under such intense scrutiny (to catch him if he violates his deal). Also, thanks to him confessing his litany of crimes, there is no shot of him working in law enforcement ever again. He's basically a leper when (or if) he finishes out his deal with no violation and as an admitted Cop Killer who got away with it, he'll be a marked man for the rest of his life. Moreover, it leads to Dutch and Claudette making sure his wife and children are entered into the Witness Protection Program and taken far away from Vic.
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The Shield / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Shield / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim / Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Many of the criminals whom the Strike Team wrongs in some way are even worse (or at least no better) than they are. Special mention goes to Guardo Lima; he is brutally tortured and killed by Vic, who wrongly believes him responsible for Lem's murder, but it's hard to mourn him too much, given the horrific crimes he has committed, as well as his taunting Vic over Lem's death.
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The Shield / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
The Shield / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: The Team has a high-risk warrant for a Korean perp, so naturally they almost catch him at a LAN Cafe playing Counter-Strike.
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The Shield / int_8fda1d64	type	Drama Bomb
The Shield / int_8fda1d64	comment	Drama Bomb: Even though the show has a healthy number of Wham Episodes, "Parricide" and "Possible Kill Screen" in the final season mark not only points of no return, but the culmination of seasons past: "Parricide" has Shane planning to kill Vic and Ronnie and failing, going fugitive when found out. "Possible Kill Screen" has Vic confessing to all of his crimes over the years for an immunity deal, guaranteeing prison for Ronnie in doing so.
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The Shield / int_915bac57	type	TheNotSecret
The Shield / int_915bac57	comment	The Not Secret: Shane attempts to turn Ronnie away from Vic by revealing how Vic killed Terry. Ronnie is neither moved nor surprised.
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The Shield / int_93dc4e37	type	Villain of Another Story
The Shield / int_93dc4e37	comment	Villain of Another Story: Subverted with Kleavon Gardner. He appears to be one in his appearance in Season Four, as he is almost certainly a Serial Killer but is not the killer the team are looking for. Then he returns in Season Five with his killings as the focus of the story.
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The Shield / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Shield / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Many times throughout the series. Notably graphic in Season 4's Grave.
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The Shield / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Shield / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: See Shane and Ronnie in the final episode. Vic Mackey at the end of season one when his family leaves him. Subverted in the series finale however, as Vic (upon realizing that Claudette has decided to settle for watching Vic Mackey break down under the guilt of the murder-murder-suicide of the Vendrell family, responds by breaking the closed circuit camera Claudette was using to watch said breakdown. In truth, Shane starts on one the moment Vic shoots Terry in the first episode, and finishes it seven seasons later.
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The Shield / int_963c6133	type	Promiscuity After Rape
The Shield / int_963c6133	comment	Promiscuity After Rape: Aceveda, despite being married, begins seeing a prostitute and acting out increasingly violent rape fantasies after being raped.
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The Shield / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Shield / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The finale left many unresolved questions. Ronnie's ultimate fate as far as which of his many sins he'll ultimately be charged with in court. The shitstorm that Vic's confession/immunity deal and Ronnie's arrest will have upon not only the LAPD as far as overturned convictions, but also Aceveda's political ambitions, given that the finale ends with Aceveda on cloud nine as far as the predicted favorite to win the mayoral election, with Ronnie's arrest, Shane's murder-murder-suicide, and the subsequent shitstorm with Vic's scamming ICE for immunity for murdering a cop having yet to make the evening paper/news. Danny's attempt to keep Vic out of her and her son's life. Dutch's relationship with both Danny and Tina Lem's relationship with a woman named Tigra, who's brother Lem shot after mistaking him for another gang member in season one is another dropped plotline.
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The Shield / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Shield / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Despite being shown to be one of the few honest and moral people on the show, Danny is seen (along with Tina and Corrine Mackey) making a special trip to an illegal store selling knock-off designer bags the day before the shop is to be raided and shut down by the police. Also, Captian David Aceveda. Despite being a moderately decent person stuck running a precinct with a corrupt anti-gang task force he inherited from the previous captain that he can't get rid of, to protect his political ambitions he will pretty much do anything, including freak Vic Mackey out with his brutal beatdown of a mob connected flunky who is blackmailing him, to cover his own ass. Not to mention the lengths he went to get revenge upon the men who sexually assaulted him.
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The Shield / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Shield / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Several. Ben Gilroy in Season One. Armadillo Quintero and Lane Kellis in Season Two. Margos Dezerian, and the Granny Rapist/William Faulks in Season Three. Antwon Mitchell in Season Four. Lt. Jon Kavanaugh and Guardo Lima in Season Five. Season Six carries over Guardo Lima as well as his organization, in the form of the El Salvadorian mob. The season also establishes the Mexican Mafia in the form of Cruz Pezuela. Season Seven has multiple Big Bads running around: the Mexican Mafia (led by Guillermo Beltran), the Armenians, Shane Vendrell and Lloyd Denton, a sixteen year old sociopath.
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The Shield / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Shield / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: The ending of the season six episode "Chasing Ghosts", which featured Shane playing this card when confronted by Vic over the issue of him murdering Lem, evokes this when Shane accuses Vic of hypocrisy over him condemning Shane for murdering a fellow cop when Vic himself did the exact same thing.
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The Shield / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Shield / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Dutch and Claudette. Vic and Aceveda, once they start teaming up on a regular basis.
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The Shield / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Shield / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Vic is able to manipulate events around him to such an extent that it seems like he's truly all-knowing, all-seeing.
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The Shield / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
The Shield / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: All four members of the Strike Team are arguably these, to varying degrees (Shane and Vic are on the extreme end of the spectrum, while Ronnie and Lem are on the more tame end of the spectrum).
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The Shield / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Shield / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Jon Kavanaugh gets one in the aptly titled "Kavanaugh."
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The Shield / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
The Shield / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: After Vic turns in his badge he starts carrying a .357 Desert Eagle.
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The Shield / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
The Shield / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: Julien undergoes reorientation therapy in Season 2, and his homosexuality stops being a major story issue from Season 4 onward. However, by the end of the series, it's pretty clear that he hasn't been "cured"; he's just gotten better at repressing it. The Season 7 episode "Money Shot" involves a homosexual teenage girl who was kidnapped and raped by men. It is revealed that the girl's brother hired them in order to "rape the lesbian out of her."
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The Shield / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Shield / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: El Salvadorian gangsters using grenades are heavily talked about during season 5. In the season finale Shane, out of fear, kills Lem with one of their grenades.
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The Shield / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Shield / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: Season 2's "Co-Pilot" takes place during the Barn's earliest days.
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The Shield / int_9f2cad9a	type	Landslide Election
The Shield / int_9f2cad9a	comment	Landslide Election: The show makes clear that the election going on in the background of Aceveda's storyline in the first two seasons is the Democratic primary, not the November general election. The primary is very close and Aceveda squeaks out a victory. But the Farmington district is so overwhelmingly Democratic that the general election is a given, to the extent that Aceveda runs unopposed in the general.
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The Shield / int_9f92c176	type	The Chessmaster
The Shield / int_9f92c176	comment	Antwon Mitchell in Season Four.
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The Shield / int_a1b74f5d	type	And That's Terrible
The Shield / int_a1b74f5d	comment	And That's Terrible: The final two episodes have several characters, especially Olivia Murray, remark on how awful and reprehensible Vic is (along with, to a lesser extent, the rest of the Strike Team), in order to cement the show's moral stance on his many transgressions.
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The Shield / int_a1b83879	type	Yoko Oh No
The Shield / int_a1b83879	comment	Yoko Oh No: Mara ends up in this role, as her relationship with Shane causes the team to fracture and disintegrate (specifically Shane and Vic) over the course of the series, leading to the Downer Endings that all the members will enter.
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The Shield / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Shield / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Happens to Halpern White in "Cut Throat," when Army's gun accidentally goes off. Fortunately for Halpern, the bullet just hits his shoulder.
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The Shield / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Shield / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: A written rather than a spoken version. Shane stops writing his suicide note when the cops arrive and shoots himself before they reach him, leaving the note unfinished.
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The Shield / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
The Shield / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Dutch, particularly when it comes to his unrequited feelings for Danny. He helps her study for the sergeants exam hoping that it will bring them closer, and is pissed when she blows him off for Vic.
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The Shield / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
The Shield / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: In the last few minutes of the pilot episode, Strike Team newcomer Terry Crowley gets shot in the head by none other than Vic Mackey. Following the reveal of Captain Ben Gilroy's scheme to divert police attention to lower housing prices in Farmington, which resulted in a city-wide riot, a group of three black teens go on a killing spree against cops as revenge for a woman who was killed because police attention got diverted. Antwon Mitchell orders two cops stabbed to death. The Season 5 finale has Shane drop a grenade into Lem's car after being misinformed by Aceveda that Lem was about to rat out the Strike Team.
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The Shield / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Shield / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Largely averted, but Claudette fills the role when necessary.
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The Shield / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Shield / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Quite a few characters, but most notably: Ronnie, Lem, and Billings. Similarly, Margos (the Armenian hitman from season three who became that season's big bad) started off as a one-off villain; at the time of filming the season one episode that introduced him, the show had no plans for the character and even had staff writer Kurt Sutter play the character as a means of saving money on casting the part.
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The Shield / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Shield / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The plot of season seven partly revolves around a box filled with blackmail material that Vic and Aceveda steal from a major Mexican drug cartel, a theft Vic blames on the Armenians.
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The Shield / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
The Shield / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: The early seasons are hit hard with this, as every main character who seems to be leaving the Barn or being promoted ends up staying in/returning to their old positions (e.g. Aceveda, Danny, Dutch) and every broken partnership is eventually reestablished (e.g. The Strike Team, Dutch & Claudette). Eventually, the writers do begin averting the trope, such as with Aceveda becoming a Councilman, Claudette's promotion to Captain, and Lem's murder.
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The Shield / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Shield / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: David Aceveda escapes any punishment for the crimes and amoral things he does and is on course to become mayor of Los Angeles, though he is now wholly corrupt, the very thing he vowed not to become, and may yet face retribution from the Mexican mafia. Also, the series ends before we can see if he catches any fallout from Vic's full confession. Vic, who ends up with full immunity from prosecution for his laundry list of crimes and a well-paid government job. However, his fate is also a reconstruction (see The Punishment below).
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The Shield / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Shield / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Shane Vendrell is a racist Jerkass and a dumb hick who gets into shitty situations, but he's a competent detective who can pull off schemes fairly well. There's a reason why he's Vic's right-hand man in the Strike Team. Ronnie Gardocki gets involved in several nasty injuries and is seen as a gofer by the Strike Team. On the other hand, he's the resident tech guy for said team and he's proven to be really competent when leading a group on his own. Dutch Wagenbach is a dorky detective with a bad track record for getting dates and is often mocked by fellow cops. Even with all of that he has a good track record for getting serial killers and other convicted suspects to confess, such as Sean Taylor, The Granny Rapist, Lloyd Denton, etc. Tina Hanlon starts out the show with a bad tendency to mess up crime scenes and inadvertently bring herself into dangerous situations where she can get killed. That being said she has a knack for thinking on her feet and getting out of messy situations, especially while undercover Steve Billings is a slacker in every sense of the word, trying to do the bare minimum to retire with a full pension and get extra cash with vending machines in the Barn. But if there's a case that involves victimized children, he will put in his all to solve it.
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The Shield / int_abb9ebaa	type	Dramatic Pause
The Shield / int_abb9ebaa	comment	Dramatic Pause: Right before Vic confesses all his deeds to Olivia under the immunity deal, there is a 42 second pause as Vic gathers his thoughts.
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The Shield / int_abe11657	type	Not Bad
The Shield / int_abe11657	comment	Not Bad: An understated one when Shane temporarily poses as a gay prostitute and while not hostile, he's clearly not amused. Until one of the prostitutes turns out to be a fellow automobile geek and they spend the rest of the day talking about cars and tuning.
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The Shield / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Shield / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Subverted with Ronnie, who kept surviving near-fatal incidents that would have killed most background characters over the course of the series.
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The Shield / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Shield / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Olivia's reaction when she hears Vic's confession and realizes just how filthy he really was. Up to that point, she was under the impression he was an effective cop who pushed the envelope from time to time.
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The Shield / int_ad3c0e49	type	Master-Apprentice Chain
The Shield / int_ad3c0e49	comment	Julien: Julien never comes to terms with his homosexuality and is still in his own private, closeted hell. He's still in a sham marriage as well as having his brief "hazard pay" pay raise (given to him to get him to work as the fifth guy on the Strike Team) revoked when Claudette dissolves the Strike Team once and for all. His last major scene is spent looking with sad envy at a happy gay couple. On the other hand, he's successfully trained Tina as a resourceful cop, continuing the Master-Apprentice Chain started by Danny, and Claudette implies he could promoted to detective in the future.
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The Shield / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Shield / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Vic's final fate. He certainly fares better than most of the others. He has a well-paying job in federal law enforcement and full immunity for his sins, but his victory is hollow. Vic has betrayed all of his friends, who are either dead or now rotting in jail. His ex-wife and their children have gone into the Witness Protection Progam far away from him, while his mistress is determined that Vic will have nothing to do with their son, who will inevitably learn all about what a monster their father was. Furthermore, Vic's biggest strengths (his charisma and people skills) have been permanently tarnished, due to the fact that his Karma Houdini required him to confess to all of his sins and as such; everyone knows now that he murdered a fellow law enforcement officer and betrayed one of his proteges in exchange for said immunity. And while he still has a job in law enforcement, the show portrays it as a three year prison sentence. He's working for people who can't stand the sight of him and intend to make his life such a hell he'll screw up, since the first and slightest violation of any term nullifies the deal. So not only is his new supervisor is going to have a lot of help and support to offset her new duties, none of them have to worry about being held accountable for any mistake he makes.
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The Shield / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Shield / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Vic winds up sacrificing Ronnie to the feds to make sure that his wife and family are protected from prosecution. He doesn't know that his wife has already cut a deal and fled from Vic into witness protection, making his betrayal of Ronnie completely pointless.
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The Shield / int_af3ff126	type	Idealized Sex
The Shield / int_af3ff126	comment	Idealized Sex: Subverted: Sex is usually portrayed as unglamorously as possible.
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The Shield / int_b08b714c	type	Good Policing, Evil Policing
The Shield / int_b08b714c	comment	Good Policing, Evil Policing: On the good side, there's Dutch and Claudette (along with the rest of the beat cops), who go through the proper channels to solve crimes and avoid engaging in brutality or corruption. On the evil side, there's the Strike Team (mostly Vic, Shane, Lem and Ronie to a lesser extent), who embody the Dirty Cop trope to the extreme, including brutalizing suspects, corruption, working with other criminals, and killing fellow cops.
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The Shield / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Shield / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Ronnie says that going to prison as an ex-cop would qualify as this. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happens to him, courtesy of Vic selling him out.
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The Shield / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Shield / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In Season 1, it's mentioned that Vic's daughter Cassidy is 7. A few seasons later (4 or 5), it's mentioned that she is now 11. But in Season 5, it's acknowledged that it's only been two years since Terry was killed in the first episode. The flashback episode "Co-Pilot" is infamous for its continuity issues: the Strike Team being a new entity, Aceveda being the Barn's first Captain, Julien being present for the Barn's inception, etc.
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The Shield / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Shield / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Shane. Tina's initial incompetence is balanced with an ability to improvise and survive countless close calls when the Strike Team use her as an undercover operative during several operations.
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The Shield / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Shield / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Vic Mackey especially in season 1. He's a big tough guy, one of the most effective cops in the Barn, makes fun of 'losers' like Dutch, ran circles around Aceveda, Billings, and later Claudette, and often gets laid. This changes in later seasons but it does pop up from time to time.
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The Shield / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Shield / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Julien (gay, black, practicing Christian), Tina (female, Hispanic), Claudette (female, black). In fact, twofers become a common plot point because of the racial politics in the LAPD.
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The Shield / int_b7d773ab	type	Smash Cut
The Shield / int_b7d773ab	comment	Smash Cut: Occurs when going into and coming out of a commercial break.
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The Shield / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
The Shield / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Lem would have to qualify as Ronnie's morality chain. His death effectively triggered a massive change in Ronnie's personality, causing him become hostile towards Shane and actively calling for Shane's death in order to avenge his friend. Subverted non-violently with Claudette/Dutch and Julien/Danny: despite the show basically setting up Dutch as a time bomb waiting to go off, it's Claudette who goes batshit crazy when the two are broken up as partners during season three. Likewise, without Danny serving as a nurturing mentor to Julien, he quickly falls in with the bad crowd and finds himself becoming violent and not a nice person to be around during the period in season three when they are separated. They addressed the morality chain-nature of Julien and Danny's partnership in season one as well; when Danny was bitten by an HIV-infected gay prostitute, Julien agreed to help several other officers beat the crap out of the prostitute before he was shipped off to the county jail. Needless to say, the fury of the beating Julien inflicts upon the prostitute freaked out the other cops who organized the beating, to the point that they had to separate Julien from his victim.
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The Shield / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Shield / int_bbfaa837	comment	Lt. Jon Kavanaugh and Guardo Lima in Season Five.
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The Shield / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Shield / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Not quite, as the f-word was not allowed on FX, but when Dutch drives by Danny's house (after she had spurned his offer to help her study for her Detective's exam), only to see her let Vic in the house, for non-studying purposes, Dutch lets out a perfectly enunciated "You've gotta be shittin' me!". Said line later became a running gag, as far as various characters saying it whenever something bad happens. As for the F-word, ironically Shawn Ryan DID get it cleared for a single usage in season three but the Janet Jackson Nipplegate scandal deepsixed it). Although The F-word is used several times in the video game of the series. And according to the DVD commentary, CCH Pounder inadvertently blurted it out while filming the argument between Claudette and Dutch in the penultimate episode of the series. It apparently was so powerful (and worked so well in context) that Shawn Ryan briefly considered petitioning FX to leave it in.
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The Shield / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Shield / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Vic Mackey, Steve Billings, and Monica Rawling despise crimes against children.
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The Shield / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Shield / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Inverted. The Strike Team has long been suspected of major criminal activity, which has brought them under surveillance; this leads to the discovery of Lem's relatively minor crime of not booking some confiscated drugs into evidence, which gives IA leverage to work against them.
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The Shield / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Shield / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: The detectives do this regularly against the suspects they interrogate.
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The Shield / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Shield / int_c25c7890	comment	And of course, the Strike Team was inspired by the horrific Rampart scandal involving the LAPD's C.R.A.S.H. unit. Early previews/teasers for the series had even given it the title "Rampart".
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The Shield / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
The Shield / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Season four has this, as does season seven.
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The Shield / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Shield / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The Strike Team members consider themselves family/brothers with Vic as the Papa Bear Protector of the group. Needless to say, this ends up being subverted in the end as the entire team ends up turning against each other and Vic selling the rest of the team down the river for immunity. A straighter example would be Claudette and Dutch. They bicker constantly like a married couple, but they're always there for each other.
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The Shield / int_c3c3c608	type	Evil Former Friend
The Shield / int_c3c3c608	comment	Ben Gilroy in Season One.
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The Shield / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
The Shield / int_c3db1619	comment	Zig-Zagged in the names, at least of Latinos. A few of them do get perfectly regular names, but a lot either get names that do exist but are rare in modern times or are misspellings of regular names (eg. Diagur instead of Diego).
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The Shield / int_c696f3ba	type	Heroic Willpower
The Shield / int_c696f3ba	comment	Claudette: Her lupus has reached the terminal stage and it's only a matter of time before she's forced to give up the job she's devoted to. She's confident as well that her utter failure to bring Vic to justice will haunt her to her dying day. At the same time, she's determined to see every day possible by coming to work and allows Dutch to aid her by way of a maid he'll pay to clean her house and an assistant in Danny. She also gets a much more satisfying one on Vic by getting Olivia, his superior, to get Corrine and their kids in witness protection and then arresting Ronnie in front of him as a proof of his betrayal to his teammate.
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The Shield / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Shield / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: In Season 7, Episode 8 (Parricide), we as an audience see Shane plan with Mara for an alibi while he kills Vic and Ronnie. Of course the plan crashes and burns.
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The Shield / int_c913ec99	type	Felony Murder
The Shield / int_c913ec99	comment	Felony Murder: What ultimately dooms Shane and Mara. When Shane's attempt to rob a group of drug dealers goes wrong, she ends up shooting an innocent bystander by mistake. Regardless of if it was intentional, this results in Mara facing a first degree murder charge, since it took place during a crime in progress.
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The Shield / int_ca3457d5	type	Real Stitches for Fake Snitches
The Shield / int_ca3457d5	comment	Real Stitches for Fake Snitches: Shane kills Lem with a hand grenade due to a false belief that the latter was going to cut a deal and testify against the Strike Team.
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The Shield / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Shield / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: "Pay in Pain" never explicitly reveals how Phyllis knows about Sally. Is she a true psychic or did she just peek at Dutch's file? Corinne's dream in "The New Guy." Message from beyond the grave, or just a random dream?
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The Shield / int_cb8880a5	type	Soul-Crushing Desk Job
The Shield / int_cb8880a5	comment	Soul-Crushing Desk Job: Vic gets an office job, and it's implied he finds it extremely boring. Vic wants to be out on the streets in the thick of the action, busting people. Instead, he finds himself stuck in this soul-sucking position.
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The Shield / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Shield / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Cruz Pezuela.
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The Shield / int_ce82c89a	type	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil
The Shield / int_ce82c89a	comment	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: The root cause for why Lem is a corrupt cop. Not to mention the catch-all excuse for Draco in Leather Pants Ronnie, as far as fans projecting motive for why Ronnie did evil.
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The Shield / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
The Shield / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: In the first episode, a candidate for the Strike Team makes a pointed comment about Vic's boat and states that he wants to be "all the way in," implying that he knows about their illegal activities and wants a piece. However, he's actually a mole working for IA and Vic kills him, then stages it to look like he was killed in the line of duty. Vic Mackey is the living embodiment of the idea. He's pretty smart about it, though: after robbing the Armenian money train at the end of season two, he forces the Strike Team to sit on the cash for at least six months (or closer to a year) before investing it in a real estate deal to launder it. Of course, everything goes pear-shaped by the end of season three, but it could have been a lot worse. Knowing they're under suspicion, Shane meticulously documents all of the expenses for the house he's building, to show that the money is coming from his legitimate salary. However, it's revealed that all of his salary is going towards the construction, raising the question where the money is coming from for the rest of his expenses.
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The Shield / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Shield / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Lt. Jon Kavanaugh (Michael Chiklis even outright uses the term to describe him in interviews). The Strike Team qualify as well, if you take the stance that Claudette and Dutch are the true good guys in the story.
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The Shield / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
The Shield / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: All four members of the Strike Team themselves, to varying degrees.
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The Shield / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Shield / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: During season one, Vic Mackey used his close relationship with Assistant Chief Gilroy to do whatever he wanted, including defy the authority of Captain Aceveda, who was Vic's superior officer. This was displayed most notably in the pilot: Vic engages in outright insubordination, in front of his fellow officers, towards Captain Aceveda when Aceveda attempts to give Vic an order. Furthermore, the pilot (and later episodes in season one) established that Vic's relationship with Gilroy made it impossible for Aceveda to fire Vic, let alone get Internal Affairs to investigate the Strike Team since Gilroy would squash any attempts to investigate Vic. This is later lovingly subverted in season five, when the new Assistant Chief (having replaced the corrupt Gilroy) basically tells Vic that the Detective pissed off so many people within the department, that he was being officially designated for forced early retirement and that NO ONE would lift a finger to save Vic from being forced out. This was repeated in the final season, in a moment when Vic fucks up and gets his thirty day reprieve reduced to seven days. When his lawyer tells him that the only option left was to have Claudette Wyms (Vic's nemesis) intervene by pleading the case to the review board as to why Vic should stay a cop, Vic made the following comparision to his lawyer about the likely hood that Claudette would do so: he asked the lawyer if he could take his wife out of town for the weekend so that he could fuck her brains out and seduce her into leaving her husband in order to shack up with him, as far as summing up how much Claudette hates Vic and how she wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire as far as saving his career.
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The Shield / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Shield / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: After failing to kill Vic, Shane goes on the run with his wife and baby. When he learns that Vic has made a deal for immunity (thus eliminating Shane's opportunity to make a deal for himself), he kills his family and himself. Once Ronnie discovers that he was made into the fall guy for all of the Strike Team's crimes and is subsequently arrested for it, he lashes out at Vic at the Barn, all while struggling against the cops dragging him to lockup.
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The Shield / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
The Shield / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Subverted. In season four and five, Claudette deals with a serial killer that had moved to LA after being put on trial and acquitted of several murders. When he resumes his killing spree in Los Angeles (and murders a woman who looks like Claudette after a particularly tense encounter), Claudette successfully goads a confession out of the murderer by pretending that his sister (whom he hadn't killed and loved) had been murdered. The subversion is that it ultimately comes back to bite her in the ass: having found out that Claudette has lupus (and taking medication that is known in some instances to cause hallucinations), the killer threatens Claudette and the DA by way of exposing Claudette's lupus in court as a means to negate Claudette's testimony. In order to salvage her case, as well as to save Claudette's career (since her superiors have threatened to force her from her job if her lupus becomes an issue in her job performance as a cop), the DA is forced to accept a life sentence plea-bargain, rather than go for the death penalty.
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The Shield / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The Shield / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: In the first episode, Vic beats up a pedophile who won't say where he's keeping a kidnapped little girl. In Season 6, Vic beats Guardo Lima, a gang leader, with a length of chain to find out who killed Lem. But since Shane actually did it, Vic winds unknowingly up torturing (and killing with a bullet to the head afterward when he got tired of hearing Guardo deny the charge) an innocent, though still evil, man.
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The Shield / int_e1fa333c	comment	Antwon Mitchell tries this on Captain Monica Rawlings at several points in season four, pointing out her affair with her married partner and the fact said partner, driven to desperation to bring him to justice, framed Antwon for the crime that sent him to jail for several years and that said act of criminal conduct sapped his will to live and caused him to go into an early grave. This leads to the subversion of this as Antwon receives HannibalLectures from Shane Vandrell and Monica Rawlings herself in the season four episode "Back to the Hole". Shane's attempt (done to provoke Antwon into attacking him so that he could kill him) fails but Rawlings is able to bring Antwon to tears by recounting his hellish childhood.
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The Shield / int_e2de05e8	comment	Throw the Book at Them: In one episode, Vic brutally beats the crap out a suspect with an encyclopedia.
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The Shield / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Vic has several (his family, Connie the crack-addicted prostitute/single-mother, Ronnie, Lem).
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The Shield / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Averted the characters' use of non-English languages, with the few accents being justified as them being non-native speakers. Zig-Zagged in the names, at least of Latinos. A few of them do get perfectly regular names, but a lot either get names that do exist but are rare in modern times or are misspellings of regular names (eg. Diagur instead of Diego).
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The Shield / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Subverted: Tavon and Shane did not get off on the right foot, largely because of Shane's racism and the fact that Vic was taking a liking to Tavon, even though he was also keeping the Strike Team's criminal activities a secret from him. Needless to say, Tavon and Shane ultimately came to blows and an iron to the head thanks to Mara (Shane's girlfriend) and concussion caused car crash later, putting Tavon in the hospital with short-term amnesia. Shane then begs Vic and Lem (who also became close to Tavon) to lie their asses off to Tavon, telling him that he initiated the fight and accidentally "hit" Mara, which made Tavon agree to not tell anyone about the "fight" and let everyone think that the car crash caused his injuries. Cue season seven, when Tavon shows back up and request that Shane work with him on capturing a bad guy Shane had arrested early in his career. After catching the criminal and the two men getting along well, Tavon drops the bomb on Shane, revealing that he had long ago recovered his memory and put together that Vic and Lem were lying about the fight to cover Shane's ass.
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The Shield / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: The rat trap/glory hole plot is a very painful case of it.
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The Shield / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The Strike Team. Aceveda says it all about Vic Mackey: "Mackey's not a cop. He's Al Capone with a badge." Throughout the series, they engage in extortion, murder, and brutality, including a multi-million dollar heist of the Armenian money train and killing a fellow cop who was assigned to investigate them. A theme of the series is how hard it is for anyone to keep their hands entirely clean, even "good" characters: Dutch: Plants evidence to ensure a criminal gets convicted, although he quickly has a change of heart and retrieves the planted evidence before it can be discovered. He also ends up providing false testimony for Billings in exchange for Billings dropping charges against an innocent man. Wyms: Probably the most morally inflexible of the main cast, she still has a few moments of weakness such as when she turns a blind eye to Vic torturing a suspect who killed a cop and stole his badge. Aceveda: Initially portrayed as a crusader who intends to clean up the department, it's quickly shown that his ambition drives him to cut any corners he can to advance his own position.
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The Shield / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Shane, so very much. Also, Vic, when it comes to Dutch. Aceveda becomes one in the later seasons.
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The Shield / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: Jon Kavanaugh (though Vic is much dirtier than The Javert's usual quarry).
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The Shield / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: While glamorizing the maverick antics of the Strike Team, the show also emphasizes the downsides of their corruption, and how it eventually brings about the group's downfall. Ultimately, two end up dead, one faces a long jail sentence, and the other loses everything dear to him. The Strike Team do not even live large on their ill-gotten loot. Outside of Shane purchasing a home for his family, they mostly just hide the loot or at best, use it to pay for medical bills/specialized therapy for their autistic kids.
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The Shield / int_f8df38e6	comment	Pater Familicide: In order to avoid a hellish prison sentence, Shane kills his wife, son, unborn child and then himself in the finale.
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