The Shield/Money Shot

Money Shot
Season 7, Episode 3
Airdate	September 16, 2008
Production Number	5012-07-703
Written by	Adam E. Fierro
Directed by	Terrence O'Hara
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The Shield — Season Seven

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Money Shot is the third episode of the seventh season of The Shield, and the seventy-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey), Catherine Dent (Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer), Paula Garces (Officer Tina Hanlon), 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), Michele Hicks (Mara Sewell), Larry Clarke (Peter Meyers), Ludwig Manukian (Ellis Rezian), Joseph Reitman (Axl), Alle Ghadban (Larry), Yorgo Constantine (Khalulian), Matt Corboy (Ray Carlson), Ryun Yu (Joe Lee), Autumn Chiklis (Cassidy Mackey)

Co-Starring: Kareem Grimes (Burnout), Susane E. Lee (Wan Lee), Alexis Rhee (Su Lee), Charles Emmett (Lab Tech), Hope Shapiro (Rachel Johnson), Nancy Youngblut (Neighbor Woman), Elizabeth Blanco (Marisol), Adam Donshik (Sheriff), Jack Weber (Matthew), Andy Holt (Lee's Lawyer), Billy Hauer (Tow Truck Driver)

Plot Overview

Vic introduces himself to Rezian when he demands Shane help get him confiscated guns before they are to be destroyed.

Ronnie and Julien are sent to nab a porn producer paying his actresses in coke.

Dutch and Billings investigate a possible kidnapping of a Korean girl.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Aceveda takes the box of blackmail files and hides them from Vic.

• Vic claims it was only himself, Lem, and two guys from out of town he can't find who were responsible for the money train heist.

• Vic arranges a deal with Rezian: he gets does three favours for him and the retribution is nullified. The first is to get the confiscated guns.

• Vic arranges for I.C.E. to raid the location of where they are to deliver the guns to the Armenians and ran it past Claudette as a tip Shane got from Rezian. He convinces Rezian to leave before they arrive and later sets up Khalulian as being careless. He then gets him to give him a list of his most trusted men, people who would know about them and the money train, leaving only five people aside from Diro.

Characters

• Dutch hears Danny mention about her death encounter at the Army surplus raid and suggest to Claudette that she be made her assistant to keep her out of the line of fire.

• Ronnie makes it clear that he won't go down neither Shane or Vic.

• Corrine is arrested following a complaint after Matthew gets out when Cassidy was supposed to be watching her. When he confronts Cassidy, she ignores him and Corrine sends him away.

• Shane gives the dossier he made to Vic as a sign of trust. He tells Vic there are no copies, despite telling Mara he already made one. Vic lies and tells Shane that he understands why he killed Lem, even if it still hurts and that they're all going to get through it.

Quotes

• Ronnie: We all had choices once, and we made them... and now we gotta live with them.

Vic: Ronnie, we're gonna get out of this quicksand.

Ronnie: No, we're not. Jesus, Vic, everything we do to get out of this shit just drags us down deeper. And hanging with Shane is gonna push our heads under.

Vic: We need Shane right now.

Ronnie: I'm sick of walking around half the day smiling at a guy who put a grenade in Lem's lap.

Vic: Hey, you know what's at stake here for me.

Ronnie: I do, yeah. But I'm not gonna drown for Shane... or you.