The Shield/Extraction

Extraction
Season 5, Episode 1
Airdate	January 10, 2006
Production Number	5012-05-501
Written by	Kurt Sutter
Directed by	D.J. Caruso
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The Shield — Season Five

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Extraction is the first episode of the fifth season of The Shield, and the fifty-fifth 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 (Councilman David Aceveda), Cathy Cahlin Ryan (Corrine Mackey), David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki)

and CCH Pounder (Detective Claudette Wyms)

Guest Starring: Forest Whitaker (Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh), David Marciano (Captain Steve Billings), Paula Garces (Officer Tina Hanlon), Nigel Gibbs (Assistant Chief Roy Phillips), Onahoua Rodriguez (Emolia Melendez)

Co-Starring: Melanie Myers (Paula), Autumn Chiklis (Cassidy), Jeff Bowser (Manus), Jesse Escochea (Jesse), Allen Maldonado (Every-Day), Jack Weber (Matthew), Jesse Garcia (Mariano), Alina Cenal (Principal), Inger Tudor (Mother), Shontae Saldana (Zellie), Stevens Gaston (Weston), Carla Jimenez (Calida), Javier Mendoza (Cisco), Brian Burnett (Lorenzo), David Wendell Boykins (Barber), Stevie Johnson (Hewell), Matthew C. Drake (Paramedic)

Plot Overview

The Strike Team rushes to put the stop on a kill clock that's tightening racial tensions between blacks and Latinos. Claudette and Dutch split off to investigate a shooting during a school riot.

Internal Affairs sends an officer by the name of John Kavanaugh to investigate the Strike Team.

Julien begins training a new officer.

Notes

Music

• Coldplay - "Til Kingdom Come"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Six months have passed since the events of the previous season.

• Billings has taken over as Captain. He is predictably feckless.

• IAD has appointed Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh to investigate the Strike Team. After talking to Aceveda and talks to Corrine by pretending to have an autistic child in her children's school, he takes Lem in following up his taking of the black tar heroin.

• The Barn is suffering under budget cuts.

Characters

• Dutch is shown to be attracted to Officer Tanlon.

• Danny is pregnant, but no one knows who the father is.

• With Danny out of commission, Julien is paired with officer Tina Hanlon as her training officer.

• The cutbacks are forcing Vic out in four months. He tells Shane, but not the others.

• At the crime scene, Claudette has a brief moment of some kind of physical discomfort. It's presumably related to whatever medication seen in her bathroom.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode has a 5 minute extended runtime.