The Shield
Season 5
11 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 5 of The Shield (2002–2008) on FX as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 7) — 11 listed hours, 2006-01-10–2006-03-21 from “Extraction” (S05E01) to “Post Partum” (S05E11). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S05E01 Extraction
Extraction launches the late-run squeeze: meaner, leaner Strike Team weather as the precinct's bargains get harder to hide.
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S05E01 Extraction
As the department launches a secret investigation aimed at putting him behind bars, Vic learns that a Latino gang in prison has ordered the retaliatory murders of two black victims on the outside.
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S05E02 Enemy of Good
As Lem is asked to wear a wire in the IAD investigation, Vic and the Strike Team go head-to-head with a brutal Salvadoran extortionist.
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S05E03 Jailbait
As Vic looks to head off an IAD investigation, a brutal rape uncovers a child sex slave ring.
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S05E04 Tapa Boca
As the Barn mobilizes to find the baby that was cut out of a pregnant murder victim's body, Vic enlists a lawyer to help him fight the IAD investigation.
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S05E05 Trophy
As Kavanaugh uses an investigation into the sale of stolen pharmaceuticals to ambush Vic and his team, an illegal immigrant helps lead Dutch to the body of a murder victim.
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S05E06 Rap Payback
As Kavanaugh pressures Corrine, and the Strike Team suspects a white drug dealer of being involved in a gang turf war, Claudette and Dutch get a break in their pursuit of a serial killer.
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S05E07 Man Inside
As Kavanaugh traces a trail of stolen Armenian mob cash back to Vic, Claudette fights her illness in order to break the case against serial killer Kleavon Gardner.
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S05E08 Kavanaugh
As he and Vic cooperate to head off a gang turf war, Kavanaugh investigates the rape of his estranged wife.
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S05E09 Smoked
Vic offers to help a drug dealer recover some stolen cash as a way to raise the money to post Lemonhead's bail.
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S05E10 Of Mice & Lem
As his efforts to protect Lem behind bars draw Vic into a trap set by gang kingpin Antwon Mitchell, the search for the assailant who is targeting gay men is undercut by Claudette and Dutch's growing mistrust in each other.
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S05E11 Post Partum
As Vic looks to get Lemonhead to safety, Kavanaugh goes all out to make his case against the Strike Team.
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