uteotw

Excellent opener. Whitaker has always slightly bugged me, but he has such a weird, creepy way about him it just might work for this role.

Loved how Shane helped himself to the iPod, and even put it on, after they just finished beating the living tar out of that dude.

I always wished Vic hadn't killed that other detective in the first season. Most of the other bad stuff he's done has been to real bad guys, stuff that people could maybe rationalize away (money train, beating criminals). But murdering that cop just because he was on to them seemed different, and it very well may be Vic's downfall...

joshd2012

Excellent show. And damn, that rookie cleaned up damn well. She is going to try and manipulate every guy there - including Dutch - and it will end up with her getting someone killed (as someone previously mentioned). Probably Julian.

Whew. What a ride.

dadaluholla

Very impressive episode. Can't believe we only get 10 more this year??? Bleh! I wonder how they will do the DVD set. Half now/half later or all at once.

Didn't Lem have a stomach ulcer just from the whole money train situation? This IAD mess is going to give him a heart attack.

auto

Can't you just see Vic at the print shop:

"Okay, I need some cards made up. They should say "Strike Team" and have a badass little symbol in the middle. How much for the lamination? Fuck it! Were the strike team. Laminate!!!"

Cusm

Vic is going to do well once he learns that IAD was at his kids school. It sounds like IAD has crap on Lem, as he said if they did he would be at 1PP and not some shitty apartment.

Anyone here want to see Vic get busted? I know he killed that cop, but I still want to see him stay ahead of the curve and keep the Strike Team.

xVladx

The thing is, Cavanaugh is trying to get at Vic, and is trying to work his way up to him. If he processed Lem for the stuff, then that would go on Lem's record, which not only would make him a whole lot less willing to cooperate, but would most likely send a huge sign to Vic that IAD is still keeping an eye on them.

I do and I don't. I like the character so much that I find that I'm rooting for him to get out of the situations he gets into, but I've also thought that it'd just feel wrong if there's no backlash for all the stuff he's done.

Groucho

I thought this was a really good episode, they expertly divided scenes up among the ensemble cast. Everybody got something good, even Danny and Julien (who were practical non-entities last season).

I think they've gone out of their way to make Whitaker unlikeable (going to the school was a low move), but ultimately he's in the right and Vic needs to go down.

Bell65

did it EVER LEAVE?

this show delivers fantastic tuesday shows year round for I dont know how long!

get Tv Guide! lol!

xVladx

Nobody's mentioned Claudette's new medical issues, either. At first I thought she may be pregnant or something, then almost chalked it up to a moot point when she nearly got chucked over that balcony, then paused the Tivo to try and read the labels on her perscription bottles in the end.

Holysmoker

Excellent season opener. To me, it seemed like Forrest Whitaker was channelling Denzel. I'm sure he'll be good in this role regardless.

Rypro 525

also one was the K9 unit lol

if i'd have to guess its either Jullian or vic (didn't he have sex with her in his car last season?

johnglass

I know I'm watching 24 too much, because the first thing that popped into my head when she stepped in the blood at the school is "She's a mole!!!". I figured she was one of (or friends with) the latino gang that was involved in the race riot and that she stepped in the blood to contaminate the crime scene, thereby getting the murderer off on a technicality.

IDrinkMolson

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. He seemed kind of aloof. I was waiting for him to break out Strike Force action figures and start playing with them.

vegasbaby

They definitely dummied up the 'Temporary Captain' (David Marciano) this year.

Good for comedic relief, but he wasnt that much of a putz last season.

mikewendt

Not sure if everyone remembers but, the card's a throwback to the first season (maybe even into 2nd)... It was used for the exact reason SBJ mentioned, sending a message to the street that they're not to be fucked with.

Cusm

I like Serious Groucho less than normal Groucho.

dadaluholla

I have a feeling Vic will end up like Gilroy.

But I hope not.

Michael T Hudson

I tried as well. I could only make out her name.

tsohg

Yeah I remember them from the first season. He left it with those Biz Lats after he rousted a few and then Armadio left it stuck to a dead pig when they burned down Tido's store. It made a little more since to leave it with the Biz Lats cause they didn't commit any crime (they just was getting info) but to leave it at the scene after doing a crime just doesn't seem Vic like.

About the Claudette's pills I was trying to read the lables too

Oh yeah I think Julien is the dad of Danny's baby. The way they just dropped his whole story line about him wanting a child was always fishy to me.

homerpoop

I don't have cable and have no way to watch the shield. Anyone know of any place I can download the episodes?

cdoug57

Excellent season opener.

As with most of you, I believe that IAD will finally be able to pull down Vic. I also think Aceveda will lose his position of power.

Tommy Ceez

The guy hid during a drive by!


BTW, I think Lem could get off with the whole drug angle...all he has to say is that he took it out of the girls house to keep it away from the baby, didnt want to bust her because he knew it wasnt hers, and destroyed it.

Tommy Ceez

How come I have a feeling that Vic's gonna be going down, and Shane kills him to end the 'heat'?

Patman

I want Asservada to become politically damaged goods.

Boot

That would be hard to argue since they have the heroin in their posession after replacing it with fake heroin in his truck, and Lem then unknowingly returned the fake heroin to the guy.