The Shield/Tar Baby

Tar Baby
Season 4, Episode 5
Airdate	April 12, 2005
Production Number	5012-04-405
Written by	Charles H. Eglee
Directed by	Guy Ferland
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The Shield — Season Four

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Tar Baby is the fifth episode of the fourth season of The Shield, and the forty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey), Glenn Close (Captain Monica Rowling), 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)

and CCH Pounder (Detective Claudette Wyms)

Also Starring: David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki)

Guest Starring: Michael Peña (Detective Armando "Army" Renta), Anna Maria Horsford (ADA Beth Encardi), Abby Brammell (Sara Frazier), Laurence Mason (Halpern White), David Marciano (Detective Steve Billings), Lily Knight (Donna), Gary Bullock (Warren)

and Anthony Anderson (Antwon Mitchell)

Co-Starring: Chaney Kley (Asher), Sergio Enrique (Jorge), Ryan Gesell (Lars Vanderveen), Bradley James (Milo Renfrew), Robert F. Harrison Jr. (SNL), Michelle Anne Johnson (Belle), Howard Mungo (Jeffers), Florence Regina (Woman), Rodney J. Hobbs (Marwon), Michael Edward Thomas (Montell), Bree'anna Banks (Angie), Fylicia King (Hoda), Jerry Lorient (Weebo), Jeffrey Lorient (Freebo), Nick Gillie (Odet)

Plot Overview

Looking to find who killed a drug counsellor, Vic finds a witness that leads them to a big drug bust. This soon puts Shane's relationship with Antwon in trouble.

Dutch and Claudette work on a case of a woman shot and found by her husband and step-daughter.

Notes

Music

• Duran Duran - "Hungry Like the Wolf"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Shane and Army join Farmington's anti-gang unit.

• Claudette discovers Dutch's backroom deal with the D.A.

• Antwon shoots the girl responsible for the shutting down his heroin operation with Shane and Army's guns, now locking the two in his control.