The Shield/The Cure

The Cure
Season 4, Episode 1
Airdate	March 15, 2005
Production Number	5012-04-401
Written by	Glen Mazzara
Directed by	Scott Brazil
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The Shield — Season Four

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The Cure is the first episode of the fourth season of The Shield, and the forty-second episode overall.

Starring: Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey), Glenn Close (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 (Captain David Aceveda)

and CCH Pounder (Detective Claudette Wyms)

Also Starring: Cathy Cahlin Ryan (Corrine Mackey), David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki)

Guest Starring: Camillia Sanes (Aurora Aceveda), David Marciano (Detective Steve Billings), Anna Maria Horsford (ADA Beth Encardi), Nigel Gibbs (Assistant Chief Roy Phillips)

and Anthony Anderson (Antwon Mitchell)

Co-Starring: Lee Reyes (Fernando), Robert Wu (Wayne/Scooby), Marcuis Harris (Dead-Eye), Howard Alonzo (Rip), Christian Redd (T-Gun), Dannon Green (Geoffrey), Michael Papajohn (Mike Winston), Elijah Runcorn (Boy), James Tumminia (Man), Neil Lewis (Stank), Linda Castro (Mrs. Gopez), Fabiola Cayemitte (Elena), Myzel Robinson (Trey), Taylor McKinney (Dre), Brandon Smith (Nathan), Wells Rosales (Tito), Sheri Goldner (Bartender), Cat Hammons (Hooker)

Plot Overview

As the incoming captain Monica Rowling gets acquainted with the Barn, Dutch and Claudette work the drowning of a family at a motel and try to find the missing child. Siding with Vic as he tackles the case, they run into a One-Niner who has made himself out as a reformed community leader.

Notes

Music

• Master P. - "Ooohwee"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The Strike Team has been dissolved.

• With Aceveda sabotaging Vic's chances of being transferred to a different unit, Rowling approaches him over leading a task force to target gangs and will funded by a forfeiture programme.

Characters

• Monica Rowling is introduced as Aceveda prepares to leave the Barn for City Council.

• Vic and Ronnie are working the AGC sting.

• Claudette and Dutch are on bad terms with the D.A. over Claudette's looking into the public defender's cases lead to 17 cases overturned and another 40 appealed. They have to route their finding threw new detective Steve Billings.

• Aceveda's marriage is on the rocks, a fallout of some sort relating to his rape.

• Lem transferred to a different department and is working with juvenile offenders.

• Shane was transferred to Vice.

• Mara had her baby, a son Shane named Jackson after Confederate general Stonewall Jackson.

Trivia

The Show

• This episode has an extended four minute runtime.

Allusions and References

• The lyrics the kids hassling Julien recite are from the N.W.A. song "Fuck tha Police".

Quotes

• Claudette: Did you call for help?

Woman: No.

Claudette: Why not?

Woman: I had a mouthful of dick at the time.

Claudette: Lovely.

• Antwon: Some of my boys will have to escort. This is the city that plants evidence on innocent brothers; shoots us in the back, says we were resisting; takes us to their police house and sticks a plunger in our ass.

Rowling: Actually, that one was New York.

Antwon: It's all white America, lady.

• Danny: Why do you let them give you all that shit?

Julien: Jesus said, "Suffer the little children unto me."

Danny: Yeah, that doesn't mean that we have to suffer, too.