The Shield/Of Mice and Lem

Of Mice and Lem
Season 5, Episode 10
Airdate	March 14, 2006
Production Number	5012-05-510
Written by	Charles H. Eglee & Kurt Sutter
Directed by	Gwyneth Horder-Payton
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The Shield — Season Five

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Of Mice and Lem is the tenth episode of the fifth season of The Shield, and the sixty-fourth 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), Sticky Fingaz (Kern Little), Gina Torres (Sadie Kavanaugh), Nigel Gibbs (Assistant Chief Roy Phillips), Derek Webster (Art Gadwah), Derk Cheetwood (Jarrod Stahl)

with Anthony Anderson (Antwon Mitchell)

and Laura Harring (Rebecca Doyle)

Co-Starring: John Cygan (Chief Johnson), Joe Camareno (Trujillo), L. Michael Burt (Moses), J. David Shanks (Officer Stamos), Mark Gantt (Bar Owner), Danielle Barbosa (Zoilla Trujillo), Christopher Judd (Paramedic), Scott Serridge (Elron)

Plot Overview

Lem can't take it anymore and makes a deal to turn himself in. Fearing Antwon Mitchell's reprisal, Vic makes a deal with him to keep Lem safe.

While Claudette learns the department knows about her lupus, Dutch works on another man injured following a rat trap attack.

Notes

Music

• Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Vic makes a deal to help Kern Little and his second as they a P.D. warehouse for some of the seized assets. Unknown to the Vic, Ronnie, and Shane, this involves killing Kern. Afterwards, they found the safe they stole was empty. This combined with Kavanagh initiated a full-scale DOC investigation that will make Antwon's life miserable negates the deal.

• With the deal brokered, the Chief gives Kavanaugh 48 hours to tie up loose ends and takes the captain office away from him.

Characters

• Julien is confronted with Art Gadwah of the Los Angeles Gay Men's Initiative. After finding the man planting the rat traps who believes he's doing God's work, Julien has him alone in the interrogation room and accuses him of being gay.

• The department learns Claudette has lupus. She immediately believes Dutch told, but later finds it was discovered following her fall. Despite admitting her mistake, he understands that she doesn't trust him.

• After finding she's medically fit for duty, Chief Johnson appoints Claudette as captain.

• With Lem's safety no longer guaranteed in prison, Vic has Lem go on the run until they make contacts to get him into Mexico.

• Danny goes into labour.

Referbacks

• The case of the man whose penis was caught in a rat trap from "Rap Payback" is revisited and resolved.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The title of the episode is a play on the 1937 novella Of Mice and Men.

Quotes

• Vic: Let me remind you of a few things you seem to have forgotten; I didn't kill Terry, you've lost your leverage with Lem, and your ex-wife's pussy... tastes like sweet butter.

• Kavanaugh: Tell me what he did. Just tell me what happened. Just, what'd he do?

Sadie: What did he do? Well, he made me cum. That's what he did.

Kavanaugh: No, he didn't.

Sadie: Oh, yeah. Twice.