The Shield
Season 2
13 listed hours · 2002–2008 · FX
From the desk
How this season is filed
Shawn Ryan's dirty-cop antihero still hits like a brick through a precinct window: Michael Chiklis as Vic Mackey, a Strike Team whose corruption is the operating system, FX growing fangs in 2002. Meaner, leaner, less interested in your forgiveness than the cable decade that followed.
TV Flash files Season 2 of The Shield (2002–2008) on FX as a mid listed season (2; 2 of 7) — 13 listed hours, 2003-01-07–2003-04-01 from “The Quick Fix” (S02E01) to “Dominoes Falling” (S02E13). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S02E01 The Quick Fix
The Quick Fix reopens the Farmington machine after the first-year shock, proving the antihero cop was a season plan, not a stunt.
- S02E10 Coyotes
Coyotes is the named midseason hour that treats the border beat as craft, not scenery — dirty cops still doing the city's work.
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S02E01 The Quick Fix
As Captain Aceveda tries to fend off a city council investigation, Vic looks to stop a pair of brutal drug lords from moving into Farmington.
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S02E02 Dead Soldiers
An arson attack on a local drug dealer threatens to expose Vic's protection racket.
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S02E03 Partners
An amputated arm sends Dutch in search of a sadomasochistic killer; Vic sets out to help his old mentor on the force get revenge against the thug whose complaint forced him into retirement.
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S02E04 Carte Blanche
A murder investigation leads Vic to a massive money-laundering scheme.
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S02E05 Greenlit
Elementary school drug dealing prompts Vic to redouble his efforts to bring down a ruthless new supplier.
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S02E06 Homewrecker
The Barn mobilizes to investigate a murderous rampage at a battered women's shelter.
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S02E07 Barnstormers
As a new murder investigation exposes Dutch's crisis of confidence, Vic sets out to stop the abuse of a neighbor by her violent boyfriend.
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S02E08 Scar Tissue
Vic and the Strike team set their sights on taking Armadillo off the streets for good.
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S02E09 Co-Pilot
In a look back at the Barn's early days, Vic struggles to secure his hold on the Strike Team command, while Dutch is faced with choosing between a veteran detective and Claudette.
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S02E10 Coyotes
The leak of the auditor's report jeopardizes the futures of everyone at the Farm.
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S02E11 Inferno
Vic mobilizes the Strike Team to help Aceveda's election campaign; Dutch and Claudette suspect a teenaged girl is lying about the rape accusation she's made against her employer.
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S02E12 Breakpoint
As his own life starts crumbling around him, Vic pitches in to help Dutch in the search for a deadly pedophile.
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S02E13 Dominoes Falling
As he struggles to keep his job, Vic pushes ahead with a new plan to hijack a mob money shipment.
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