The Shield/Rap Payback

Rap Payback
Season 5, Episode 6
Airdate	February 14, 2006
Production Number	5012-05-506
Written by	Charles H. Eglee & Ted Griffin
Directed by	Michael Chiklis
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The Shield — Season Five

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Rap Payback is the sixth episode of the fifth season of The Shield, and the sixtieth 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), Ray Campbell (Kleavon Gardner)

and Laura Harring (Rebecca Doyle)

Co-Starring: Joe Scudda (Kasper), J.J. Boone (Fatima), Jessa French (Moni), Joe Camareno (Trujillo), Vien Hong (Kang), Autumn Chiklis (Cassidy), Chaney Kley (Asher), Mohammad Parks (Gunsmoke), Frantz St. Louis (Paperboy), Luis Villalta (Officer Avila), Jack Weber (Matthew), Tanee McCall (Liberty), Elisa R. Perry (Calypso), J. David Shanks (Officer Stamos), Ata (Mover), Alice Lin (Shopkeeper)

Plot Overview

While the Strike Team investigate a gang shooting, their trouble with Kavanaugh doubles when he sets up shop inside the Barn and for Vic, it gets personal.

Fatima Gardner talks to Dutch and Claudette again when she begins to have concerns about her brother.

Notes

Music

• Madison Smartt Bell and Wyn Cooper - "Anything Goes"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Kavenaugh's investigation puts Lem to the side to focus on the murder of Terry Crowley.

• Corrine reveals the $65,000 Vic gave her and he needs what's left.

• Fatima Gardner shows up at the Barn when she finds her brother's shirt covered in blood. Dutch goes alone to look through Kleavon's things when he finds a bag filled with rubber gloves, duct tape, and a knife. When he shows up, Dutch hides and quietly leaves. Kleavon returns to report his sister is missing when he is accused of her murder. After his release, a black woman is found raped and murdered with her hair cut off to resemble Claudette's.

Characters

• Kavenaugh knows of the rumours of Danny and Vic's relationship. He then threatens her to officially divulge it or face penalty.

• Kavenaugh tells Corrine of Vic's relationship with Danny and that it bled through the time they were married.

• Billings jokes that the case of the man's penis in a mousetrap is right "up Julien's alley." Hanlon gets the inference and assumes Julien's treatment of her has something to do with his struggle with his homosexuality. Julien gets very defensive.

Referbacks

• Kavanaugh officially reopens the investigation of the Terry Crowley murder who Vic shot in the pilot.

• When Kavanaugh rebukes Billings, he reminds him of how his predecessor, Captain Rawling, was content to have a desk on the first floor, as she did throughout her duration of Season Four.

• Corrine also tells Kavanaugh about the $65,000 in cash that Vic gave her in "Cut Throat".

Quotes

• Kavanaugh: When Vic made Terry as working for the feds we believe that he and Shane Vendrell murdered him.

Corrine: Vic's a lot of things, but he's no killer.

Kavanaugh: Vic's a survivor. He'll do whatever it takes to protect himself, his team, and his family. Are you really trying to tell me that after 12 years of marriage you don't think that that man is capable of pulling the trigger on someone who's trying to take away everything from him? Everything?

Corrine: You need to stop this, okay?

Kavanaugh: Don't cry! I don't want to see you shed one... single... tear. 'Cause tears imply that you didn't know. And don't you sit here and tell me that you didn't know, Mrs Mackey. Twelve years you shared his bed. You knew. He paid your mortgage, he paid your bills, and now he's paying for private schools. You always knew what he was capable of. Just like you knew about the other women. Don't you sit here and cry, and tell me that he's a - he's a good man because we both know that's bullshit! You left him because you knew. And yet you protect him. You protect him and you lie. You lie to me. Don't you dare sit here shedding tears. You can only do that if you've earned that right, if it was all a surprise. But it's not a surprise to the woman who knew him better than anyone else on this earth. Is it?

• Kavenaugh: You're still a reserve cop, right? I do have authority over you. You walk out that door, I'm gonna take your badge and I'm gonna tell every reporter in town why.

Aceveda: Then add insubordination to your list of bullshit allegations. You want any paperwork signed, you send it to my office. I'll have the City Attorney take a look at it.

Kavanaugh: Fine.

Aceveda: I'm chairman of the police committee. This is a fight you don't want.

Kavenaugh: I didn't want any of it, but I'm here and I'm staying.