The Shield/Barnstormers

Barnstormers
Season 2, Episode 7
Airdate	February 18, 2003
Production Number	5012-02-207
Written by	Scott Rosenbaum
Directed by	Scott Winant
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The Shield — Season Two

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Barnstormers is the seventh episode of the second season of The Shield, and the twentieth episode overall.

Starring: Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey), Catherine Dent (Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer), Walton Goggins (Detective Shane Vendrell), Michael Jace (Officer Julien Lowe), Kenneth Johnson (Detective Curtis "Lemonhead" Lemansky), Jay Karnes (Detective Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach), Benito Martinez (Captain David Aceveda)

and CCH Pounder (Detective Claudette Wyms)

Guest Starring: Marguerite MacIntyre (Emma Prince), Melanie Lynskey (Marcy Lindhoff), Nichole Hiltz (Tulips), Cathy Cahlin Ryan (Corrine Mackey), David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki), Keith Diamond (Dez), Karen Malina White (Dez's Girlfriend), Monnae Michaell (Vanessa), Mike Bruner (Stu Kleinsausser), Marcos Ferraez (Leith), Jason Padgett (Herk)

Co-Starring: Matt Corboy (Carlson), Mahryah Shain (Doug), T.J. Hall (Randall), Joel Rosenthal (Matthew Mackey)

Plot Overview

Vic gets Emma's help when he gets involved in helping his neighbour escape her abusive boyfriend.

Still feeling defeated after the Marcy Lindhoff case, Dutch tries desperately to close a murder case.

Notes

Music

• Tree - "Subdued"

• The Road Kings - "Gunslinger"

• James Speer - "It Would Seem"

• Pete Droge - "I Can't Help from Crying Sometime"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Lem is on board on raiding the money train and the Strike Team begins planning it.

• Armadillo cements his threat by burning Ronnie's face on Vic's stove.

Characters

• Vic begins getting in a romantic relationship with Emma Prince.

• After Dutch lost his confidence due to overlooking Marcy Lindhoff, he recovers and successfully closes a case without resorting to planting evidence.

Referbacks

• Dutch confronts Marcy again after their last encounter in "Partners".

• Tulips, the woman who Shane had sex with and ran the mugging ring in "Dragonchasers", returns to get Shane's help.

• Ronnie has his face burned the same way Vic burned Armadillo's.