The Shield/Possible Kill Screen

Possible Kill Screen
Season 7, Episode 12
Airdate	November 18, 2008
Production Number	5012-07-712
Written by	Adam E. Fierro & Evan Bleiweiss
Directed by	Billy Gierhart
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The Shield — Season Seven

Possible Kill Screen is the twelfth episode of the seventh season of The Shield, and the eighty-seventh episode overall.

Starring: Michael Chiklis (Vic Mackey), Catherine Dent (Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer), Paula Garces (Officer Tina Hanlon), Walton Goggins (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), Francesco Quinn (Guillermo Beltran), Paul Dillon (Chaffee), Jordan Marder (Chuck)

and Frances Fisher (Rita Denton)

Co-Starring: Alejandra Flores (Counter Person), Joe Hernandez (Slanger), Tripp Law (Doorman), Paul McCarthy-Boyington (Biddle)

Plot Overview

Shane's situation takes a turn when an attempt to get some more quick money goes sideways, which worries Vic to try to push for he and Ronnie's immunity deal.

Dutch keeps getting calls from Lloyd's mother.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Vic convinces Beltran to move up his drug shipment to a couple of days earlier, to take advantage of the police's attention being occupied by the presidential motorcade.

Characters

• Shane plans to roll a couple of guys for their money. To play along he snorts some cocaine cut with speed. When it turns out they know him from Vice and attack him, Mara goes in to help, shooting an innocent woman before she is tackled and injures her shoulder.

• Corrine becomes increasingly worried about how long it will take to arrest Vic and fears the longer it takes, the more likely he'll figure it out. Claudette and Dutch arrange for another sting.

• After getting Aceveda to put pressure to draw up an immunity deal, Vic rejects it when he finds it doesn't include Ronnie. However, believing Corrine was arrested and fears she might be charged for aiding and abetting, he takes it on the grounds that it cover immunity for her as well. After signing, he confesses to every one of his crimes.

• Vic's confession implicates Ronnie to get him arrested and imprisoned for life and Vic is informed that warning him will violate the deal.

• Danny returns to the Barn.

• Dutch tells Claudette about Billings and the North Hollywood department helping to get Heap in jail. In order to get him released, Dutch agrees to sign a statement for him when the department threatens to countersue for fraud.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• In order to cover his end of the immunity deal, Vic has to disclose to all of his crimes. After an extraordinary long pause, he begins with confessing to the murder of Terry Crowely.

• Claudette's reaction to finding out that Vic's deal mean he got away with everything. This culminates with her lashing out at Dutch and claiming he fired before she breaks down on the verge of tears.

Quotes

• Vic: During a raid on a drug dealer named Two-Time... I... shot and killed Detective Terry Crowley.

Olivia: You - You killed a police officer?

Vic: I planned it and I carried it out. I shot him once just below the eye. Our Strike Team was committing criminal acts on a regular basis. At first, it was just, uh, taking drugs from busts, turning it around and selling it for profit. We were able to do this by making partnerships with local drug dealers and gangs, you know, that we knew we could leverage.

Olivia: You son of a bitch.

Vic: I killed Crowley to protect me and my guys. I shot him with Two-Time's gun to divert suspicion, but Aceveda knew. So did Kavanaugh, the I.A.D. investigator who was after us. They just couldn't prove it. I was too good.

Olivia: Is that it?

Vic: How much memory does that thing got?

• Claudette: I'm Claudette Wyms. I'm looking for Vic Mackey.

Chaffee: You found the bastard, but I guess now he's our bastard.

• Olivia: Do you have any idea what you've done to me?

Vic: I've done worse.