The Shield - 6/1
 

Oh man, what a great episode!

Did anyone catch Lem's last line of the episode - I couldn't hear it?

He said something like, "We might fool Dutch and the feds, but we won't fool the Armenians."
Lem is the question mark here. He's feeling incredible guilt at what happened to O'Brien, he's terrified of getting the same treatment from the Armenians, or going to jail. He looked like he might cry on the scene.

Looks like we're in for a great last couple of episodes with the shit starting to hit the fan.

Tavon's awake and he remembers just about everything, Dutch and the Armenians are on to the the strike team, and Vic's family is a mess.

Good to see the decoy squad again tonight.

Atleast they won't have to worry about walking in on Diego anymore:)

Dutch: "Jesus...are you sure it wasn't just an irate maid?" rotfl

It's all coming to a head.

This show is in a dead heat with The Wire for Best on American TV honors.

Everytime one of Vics family scenes comes on it makes me glad I got a vasectomy. I mean could it get worse?

We are all glad you got a vasectomy too. :lol:

Enjoyed Dog Girl's appearance.

For some reason, this episode didn't really do much for me. Maybe I'm getting a little tired of the "tight rope" that Vic is constantly walking to keep things afloat and not exploding in his face. I don't know how people function with so many angles to deal with in their life.

Yep - the conspiracy btwn the strike team is beginning to fall apart. Happens so often when a group of people steals money. Of course, there is so much other crap contributing to the mess.

Every episode, I'm left wondering when / if Vic ever goes to sleep.

Does anyone remember exactly how much money they got from the money train?

Agreed. :up:

I really liked how they wondered if they'd see their arrest coming when they finally got caught. There are just so many loose ends out there. Hopefully the writers realize that they have to give us a pay off on all this.

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It's exhausting to watch this show at times, due to the minefield aspect of the predicament the Strike Team finds themselves in.

I guess the moral of the story is: Crime doesn't pay!!! :D

Well maybe if he wasn't banging the K-9 trainer in his little bit of free time, he could catch some Z's. ;) Let's be real - except for his autistic kids, it is self-induced stress.

I'm glad to see that Tavon was shown even better to see that he remembers what happened betwen him and Shane. I totally agree Lem is becoming a big question mark it only a matter of time before he loses his nerve and spills the beans regarding the Strike Teams activities since the Aremenian mob is coming closer to the truth does anyone care to lay odds that Lem will get killed like Terry did in the first season? As for the relationship between Vic and the Dog Trainer it appears to be going nowhere since DT's boyfriend seems to be getting in the way coming up with these outrageous lies to keep her with him. And one more headache for Vic his family so far he is trying his best to keep his family together but one thing pops up right after the other and it came as no suprise to me that his wife wanted his son instutionalized since she has a very hard time coping with problems at home.

I almost laughed out loud when Vic came home with the groceries and started talking about roasting potatoes for dinner. How does he have time to make home-cooked meals? :lol:

Lem is a woman. I really hope he goes the way of Terry. I've never liked his character except for the one arc where he got with the Latin woman and picked fights with entire gangs. I see an end in his near future.

Yeah, Lem hasn't been doing to much or involved in anything besides the money train. (Of course, neither is Ronnie but it's always been that way-kind of an inside joke, lol.) I think it's possible (but not probable) that Lem gets it before the season is out. If anyone on the strike team is going, it's Lem. Shane is too big right now, and Ronnie's death wouldn't mean too much.

Danny's comment to Vic about Dog-Girl liking A-Holes was a classic zinger!

I saw the preveiws of next week, and OMFG I can not wait.

How can you guys dislike Lem? At least his character has some depth. Ronnie has been around 2 years--maybe 3, and I feel his character is so paper thin that he's easily replaceable.

Ronnie's pretty much the hacker, and obligatory disfigurement character on the Strike Team...so far.

I can never remember Ronnie's name. That's how much he is just there. If they got rid of him it would be no big loss. If they got rid of Lem or Shane now that would be a season finale.

I like Lem. No one seems to like people with a conscious on TV anymore. Shane is a guy that is out to protect himself, and I think Lem and he are going to really have it out when no one is there to stop them.

I like him too. If the team didn't have Lem, they would garner no sympathy from the audience whatsoever.

Lem is actually my second favorite character, next to Vic of course, on the show. I think he needs some bigger storylines like the one previously mentioned. I don't think the Strike Team would get rid of him since he was with them for so long, whereas Terry was fairly new.

Waggonbach was one of my faves until he strangled the cat.

Best show on television.... End of story.

Working under the assumption that someone on the Strike Team won't make it through the next 2 show, which is no lock, I think it's very possible they knock off Shane. He's an intregal character but if it were real life than it would be a miracle he hasn't been killed, caught, or rolled over by the rest of the team yet.

[Stephen A. Smith voice] However, [/Stephen A. Smith voice]

Knocking off Shane still leaves them with the nasty problem of his wife AND her mom. I don't think they could come up with a convenient way to bump off all three characters.

Can someone post (and spoilerize) the preview for next week?

Another excellent episode. It's certainly building for the strike team and I hope a big blow-up is in the making. I don't want the money train story ending with them getting away with it. Somebody has to pay. ;)

A very good episode. I was glad to see the return of the hilarious fence courting Danny from last week. That actor has "star quality." I hope he has a promising career ahead of him.

FYI, regarding Ronnie: he is the only active member of the strike team who is not a series "regular." Tevon too, of course.

There realily wasn't anything concrete in it. It was your typical misleading, it-could-mean-just-about-anything clips and quotes although:


However, great episode! I don't think Lem is going to go away. More interesting to watch him squirm and be the conscience of the Strike Team. He has always been my favorite character even though he is only second to Ronnie in terms of lack of real screen time (only because Ronnie is usually silent and was missing alot after his face got burned off). Now that the Armenian mess is being pushed back to the Strike Team, I think this storyline will come to some sort of resolution (a 90% one since nothing ever resolves neatly or goes cleanly "off the table" - see the recent "Previously on The Shield" when they showed the clips about Terry).

Either way I think I might have to hold off on next week's episode until I have Tivo'ed both since I'm sensing from the previews the finale is actually a two-parter. :thumbsup:

I think they're in a dangerous area story-wise - if they kill someone off, it's going to seem like they're ripping off The Sopranos; if the ST again escapes unscathed, it's going to strain plausibility even further.

I disagree. When they kill someone off on the Sopranos the whole story-arc revolves around them killing off that character. For example, a few weeks ago they showed Chris firing a gun at the camera on the coming soon scenes, and many thought he was shooting at Adrianna. When they killed off *****, Richie, Jackie, Jr., and Ralphie, every week it was "are they gonna kill them this week, or wait for the season finale?" That's why I tought they jumped the shark after they killed *****, because now they kill off a semi-major cast member every season in the last 2 episodes.

It's not like no one dies on the Shield. Already this season 2 regulars have been raped, and 1 semi-regular killed himself. 8 year olds and 80 year olds dropped like flies. I see no reason to think plausibilty will be lost if no one on the Strike Team dies and besides the use of language and violence I don't see how it looks like they're ripping off the Sopranos.

Two regulars have been raped? I only count one:



Are you thinking of:



As the other one? That's not a regular character.

Please contain the Sopranos spoilers. Some of us have to wait for the dvds.

Ideally, yes, but if it happens, I'd really prefer to se someone pay for murdering Reed Diamond's character in the debut episode, rather than stealing ill-gotten money from ruthless scumbags.

why would the plant ALL marked bills on O'Neil? and why doesn't Dutch think that is suspicious?