Anyone notice that Scott Brazil is Co-Executive Producer ? He was involved with Hill Street Blues years ago ...

Now I know why this show is back on top of its game this year.

Great episode!

And I still stand by my prediction that Vic is the baby's daddy and the child will be born with autism.

Knowing that Ronnie sweeps the clubhouse for bugs every day, I figured they were setting Kavanaugh up to fail. Also, Vic is way too smart to make a deal with the Russians while the team is already balls deep in an IAD investigation. It was a beautiful thing to behold. Even the weak captain took a piece, "Get those cuffs off my men NOW!" Kavanaugh is going to be desperate now, since anything he does will look like a vendetta from this point.

How many more episodes until the Dutch Man taps that rookie cop's ass?

When Danny was rubbing lotion on her extended belly, I got a bit of a chubby. Who's with me?

Vic's kids have autism and not down syndrome.

*quitely raises hand* It rubs the lotion on its skin...
Danny had nice preggo jugs.

Even better was the way Vic played Aceveda to Kavanaugh--Those little moments: the stop & chat last week, the little arm squeeze on the way out of the IAD "bust," etc. With Kavanaugh watching, he's getting more and more in doubt about whether Aceveda's with him or with Vic, and Vic just keep watering those seeds of doubt...

Genius.

[HOMER]So the cops knew that Internal Affairs was setting them up?...[/HOMER]

heh, after the sting, I was laughing so hard when Vic acted all disgusted that IAD would bust good cops.

I knew the fix was in on Kavanaugh really early. The cut from him to the clubhouse, focusing on the trophy and the way they were practically talking right to it clued me in. It was just by the end, I didn't know how they would pull it off.

The only thing, those looked like actual bullets they were loading into the guns as Lem left for the night. Granted, I don't know exactly what blanks look like, but the rounds they loaded had bullet tips poking out of the cartridges...

Still a great episode. It looked like Whitaker was doing some Ghost Dog moves in one scene.

So there's only like 5 or 6 episodes left now?

I think only 5 episodes left of Part 1 of this season....

~Jason

Brazil has been with the show since season 1.

It's a 22-episode season, being split into two parts.

As for tonight's episode, my favorite scenes were the ones where Kavanaugh is listening in on the wiretap and taking notes. Very well staged. (Reminded me of "The Word" on The Colbert Report).

Ok, Thief is set to premiere on 3/28 so we've got 6 left, putting the Shield 1st half finale on 3/21. I think Thief is only 6 weeks worth of shows, so is Rescue Me starting in May then?

No one has mentioned the sweetest part of Vic's plan, which was when he tipped Aceveda to the drop. Beauty. Forrest was made for this role.

Also, I fear for any dectective that grills Vic's ex.

So could Vic start hounding the department through his lawyer, the press and brass about being persacuted by Kavanaugh and what appears to be his vendetta against Vic?

While he possibly could, I don't really know if he'd want to. I imagine that his plan is to just get the IAD investgation to stop once and for all, not go on the offensive.

How about 7 million.


Vic one step ahead of Cavanaugh. As cool as last night's episode was, I hope it doesn't always play out that way because it played out far too easy.

There is no way that will happen now, especially w/o any outside pressure to do so. Kavanaugh beleives Vic is dirty is turning him into his White Whale. I think the only way is going to get rid of him is to get the brass and media to drail him.

I had thought it was 20 eps (12 and then 8).

i know it's been said in this thread more than once, but holy crap was this episode amazing.

Loved the ep. It's unreal how good this is getting. The Shield and 24 have been keeping me at the edge of my seat. I wonder if they could do some sort of crossover between the two shows at some point. Maybe Jack Bauer and Vic Mackey dealing with the Russian mob tied to terrorists thing. It's probably not feesible with the filming schedules but I think it would be cool to see that at some point.

The day they do a Shield/24 crossover is the same day I call my provider and tell them to take FX out of my lineup.

Personally, I've always thought that a Shield/Monk crossover would be much more entertaining

Shield/Angel would have been da bomb.

I vote for a Shield/Dragnet '67 crossover.

That would be hard core.