The Shield/Game Face

Game Face
Season 7, Episode 5
Airdate	September 30, 2008
Production Number	5012-07-705
Written by	Charles H. Eglee
Directed by	Michael Chiklis
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The Shield — Season Seven

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Game Face is the fifth episode of the seventh season of The Shield, and the eightieth episode overall.

Starring: Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey), Catherine Dent (Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer), Paula Garces (Officer Tina Hanlon) (credit only), Walton Goggins (Detective Shane Vendrell), Michael Jace (Officer Julien Lowe), Jay Karnes (Detective Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach), David Marciano (Detective Steve Billings), Benito Martinez (Councilman David Aceveda), Cathy Cahlin Ryan (Corrine Mackey), David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki)

and CCH Pounder (Captain Claudette Wyms)

Guest Starring: Laurie Holden (Agent Olivia Murray), Anna Maria Horsford (A.D.A. Beth Encardi), Bob Morrisey (Lyor Chotzen), Ray Campbell (Kleavon Gardner), Kyle Gallner (Lloyd Denton), J.C. MacKenzie (Detective Kouf), Kimberly McCullough (Deena), Kareem Grimes (Burnout), James Hiroyuki Liao (Llewellyn Wang), Tanner Richie (Mickey Dightman)

and Frances Fisher (Rita Denton)

Co-Starring: Melanie Myers (Paula), Jeanette Branch (Shavonda), Bill Ferrell (Mickey's Dad), Jennifer Delaeo (Noelle Echevarria), Sean Reuben Smith (Shy Boy)

Plot Overview

While still not sure of where she stands, Olivia gets the Strike Team to help find the daughter of a drug boss without tipping him off.

Claudette is subpoenaed for Kleavon's murder trial, which he takes as an opportunity to expose her illness.

Dutch gets some outside help to try to confirm Lloyd as a potential serial killer and Vic finds himself trying to find who supplied Cassidy with ecstasy at a risque party.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Vic finds out that Olivia's been blackmailed due to helping her brother, but hasn't gotten anything back to Pezuela. However, Rios had her pick up four illegals and had her shadowing the Salvadorian dragging deaths the next day.

• Dutch has a profiler pose as a psychiatrist to talk to Lloyd Denton. He agrees there's something off about him, but can't say what. Dutch later has Kleavon Gardner look at Lloyd and sees that he is a serial killer in the making. He confronts Lloyd that he knows he set his school mate up, but when his mother walks in, Lloyd claims the case has been officially closed.

Characters

• As Kleavon represents himself, he attacks Claudette by trying to expose her illness. In order to keep it quiet, he request the death penalty to be taken off the table. Claudette refuses, but A.D.A. Beth Encardi manages to arrange it.

• Claudette gets Danny as her full time assistant before disclosing the nature of her illness.

• Vic finds out Cassidy's been suspended from school for attending a "Pimps 'n Ho's" party where drugs were involved and later learns Cassidy brought the ecstasy.

Quotes

• Dutch: Anybody reached out to you when you were his age, with an arsenal of help and understanding, do you think you might have channelled your energies in a different direction?

Kleavon: Don't get it twisted, man. Everybody is born into this world with their own set of gifts. You grow up, you find out what you're good at, and you roll with it. That's why you're a cop and I took a different path. We all got to ride or die with what the good lord meant for us to do - you, me, and him.

Dutch: So you're saying, if killing's this kid's shot in life, there's no stopping it.

Kleavon: Sure there's stopping it. Y'all stopped me, didn't you? All it takes is a pair of cuffs and a cage to throw him in. Yeah, he's got the look. I seen it before.

Dutch: Where?

Kleavon: In the mirror.