Episode 5: Game Face
Adding to their worries over finding that Olivia Murray is being blackmailed into working for Cruz Pezuela, Aceveda and Vic must also tread carefully around the investigation into City Controller Robert Martin's murder. Uncertainty over Olivia's loyalties leads Vic to question why she wants help finding the kidnapped daughter of Gaytan Echevarria, a Cuban drug lord and focus of a major Federal investigation. Yet, after linking the kidnapping to a car theft ring, Vic enlists a rival gang to provide cover for an assault on a chop shop to spring Noelle Echeverria without alerting her father to the ongoing investigation. And Vic's life gets even more complicated after Cassidy is suspended from school following a wild teenage party.
After Claudette insists that Dutch stop interfering with her being subpoenaed, accused murderer Kleavon Gardner raises her medical history during a deposition in order to undermine the prosecutor's case against him. As he's trying to help DA Beth Insardi nail Gardner, Dutch turns to profiler and psychologist Lyor Chotzen for his insights into the mind of Lloyd Denton, the teenager he suspects of being a nascent serial killer. To keep her case from falling apart and protect the confidentiality of Claudette's medical history, Insardi offers Gardner life without parole in exchange for his confession. And once Little agrees, Dutch asks his advice on how to keep Lloyd from becoming like him.
Once Noelle has been freed, Vic turns his attention to the classmate who hosted the party, only to learn that Cassidy's role was far greater than she's let on. Then, as Shane wants Ronnie to convince Vic to turn over the box of stolen intel and end the Armenian threat, Claudette comes clean about her health problems and asks Danny to help out by taking a desk job at the Barn. Finally, as Vic refuses Danny's plea to relinquish his rights to their son, and Dutch fails to get through to Lloyd, Olivia looks to get out from under Pezuela's thumb.
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Set in LA’s fictional Farmington neighbourhood, The Shield follows an experimental police squad in their quest to maintain peace on the mean streets.
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