• Series: The Shield

• Director: Scott Brazil
• Release Year: 2005
• Run Time: 60 minutes

Plot

Many changes have taken place between the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth season of The Shield. The Strike Team has been disbanded. Shane (Walton Goggins) is now working vice. Lem (Kenny Johnson) is with the Youth Authority, leaving Vic (Michael Chiklis) and Ronnie (David Rees Snell) working the AGC money-laundering sting operation at The Barn. Aceveda (Benito Martinez) is finally getting ready to leave to begin his work on the city council, and his replacement, Monica Rawling (Glenn Close), who got her start patrolling Farmington, has arrived and is preparing to take over. Dutch (Jay Karnes) and Claudette (CCH Pounder) arrive on the horrific scene of the drowning of a family of four. Because of Claudette's conflict with the DA last season, her and Dutch have been blackballed, and Aceveda assigns the high-profile case to another detective, Billings (David Marciano). It's discovered that the family's youngest child is missing from the scene, and when clues point toward gang involvement, Vic takes Monica out on the street with him to hook up with his sources. They stop in on Antwon Mitchell (Anthony Anderson), an ex-con who is now presenting himself as a community activist. Vic and Monica (who has her own history with Antwon) are not buying it, and believe that Antwon is still running the One-Niners. Recognizing how dangerous Antwon is, Vic makes a surreptitious trip to see Dead-Eye (Marcuis Harris), a One-Niner dealer who Antwon is pushing out of power, and offers to set him up if he helps Vic put Antwon back in jail. Later, Monica tells Vic that she's planning to set up a special gang task force at The Barn, and she wants him to run it, but she's not sure if she can trust him. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide

Cast

Nigel Gibbs - Assistant Chief Roy Phillips
Anna Maria Horsford - ADA Beth Encardi
Michael Papajohn - Mike Winston
Michael Jace - Officer Julien Lowe
Brandon Smith - Nathan
Catherine Dent - Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer
Camilia Sanes - Aurora Aceveda
Robert Wu - Wayne "Scooby" Haimes
Neil Lewis - Stank
Sheri Goldner - Bartender
Christian Reed - T-Gun
Lee Reyes - Fernando Cruz
Howard Alonzo - Rip
Dannon Green - Geoffrey
James Tumminia - Locker Room Man
Linda Castro - Mrs. Gopez
Fabiola Cayemitte - Elena
Myzel Robinson - Trey
Taylor McKinney - Dre
Wells Rosales - Tito Bueno
Cat Hammons - Hooker

Credit

Scott Brazil - Director; Glen Mazzara - Screenwriter