The Shield

Previously on "The Shield"...

what happened?

I've got lupus.

I've had it for 15 years.

You dropped a grenade in his lap, and what did you do?

Shane!

I killed Lem.

Leave here before I kill you.

Vendrell: just imagine every wrong thing we have ever done.

If anything happens to me, that lands on I.A.D.'S doorstep.

The armenians know about the money train!

Diro greenlit your family.

I'm paying off your debt in favors.

What the hell have you gotten us into?!

This will handle the first week.

I need you to look after Corrine and my family.

This is cruz pezuela.

He's representing a local development company

That has backing in various mexican investment interests.

The mexican mob is buying up farmington?

Blackmail - That's how pezuela's getting everyone

Onboard the train to cartel town.

I can't tackle cruz alone, so there's got to be trust.

You and I have the only two copies of the keys.

There are over 100 blackmail files in this box,

And I only need one of them to get my badge back.

This intel is the proof that we have that pezuela's dirty.

Using it as leverage will compromise it as evidence.

I'm gonna need you to get my family clear of this thing.

I need you to make Rezian believe

The mexicans are the armenians' worst problem.

The latino crime bosses need you out of the way

So that they can get on with their brown revolution.

I am going to protect you.

Anything happens to me,

I've already given the order to go after your friend's family.

We got to figure out how many rungs on the armenian ladder

Know about our money-Train rip-Off.

Hey, you and me - On the road to being cool, right?

Working with you to protect my family? I'm down with that.

Trusting you?

Not there yet.

If there's a bug hidden, this'll find it.

Rezian: that's unnecessary.

Yeah, tell it to the feds.

Heard about the city's new top-10 gang list?

Word is they're holding a spot for a local armenian kingpin.

Feds would like to beat them to it.

Since father and daughter kesakian are gone,

I guess that means you.

It's safe. You're wasting your time.

Well, up until now, we've been slow-Dancing.

If we're gonna slip into bed, I'm gonna need some protection.

So...

I got a real job, so anytime you want

To get started.

Your job will have to wait.

I've got something you need to do for me.

It better be quick. I got a lot on my plate these days.

Your police department is about to destroy its confiscated guns.

Yeah, I know about it.

It's an annual thing.

We want them.

I'm sure the swat team guarding that shipment

Won't have a problem with me taking a few.

The guns are stored before they're moved.

Find out where and get to them first.

You can get them anywhere else a hell of a lot easier.

Those guns have been processed, cleaned.

Thanks to your city, they're untraceable now.

I got to pass on this favor.

You have no choice.

I don't need a choice.

The answer's no.

You just killed your friend and his family.

You know what?

Go ahead - Kill mackey.

Kill his whole family!

I'm not going on some career suicide mission for you!

I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life

With somebody else's debt hanging around my neck, either.

You said that we would be compensated for our loss.

How about saving your ass in county jail?!

Huh?!

That slip your mind?!

Moneycompensation.

Those guns are a down payment.

Those guns are a tall order.

I need fair market value for the risk that I'd be taking.

I'll come up with something,

But you got to tell me what you need these gatts for.

We'll move them out of state.

That's all you need to know.

Interesting strategy.

"Kill his whole family. " It's the smartest thing we've

Done with these assholes, Vic.

I gave us a chance to end all of this.

By putting a truckload of untraceable weapons

In the hands of God knows who?

I put us in a place, finally,

To ensuring that your kids stay alive.

By letting innocents get killed somewhere else.

We don't know that.

Look, Rezian's negotiating with us now.

We still don't know who in Rezian's crew

Knows about my money-Train debt.

I don't see him volunteering that anytime soon.

We have no choice.

Until we figure out exactly how deep the threat

Against my family goes, we got to play ball

With them.

So, all we got to do is hijack

The department's annual p. R. Bonanza.

Maybe we don't have to steal the guns.

Maybe somebody gives them to us.

Yeah, how's that?

I got a card to play.

Vic: morning.

You shouldn't have come here.

Where's that blackmail box?

The one we were supposed to only access together?

See, I knew you couldn't resist the temptation

To use it for your own purposes.

The very fact that you're here now just proves it.

So, you took it?

Yeah, I'm in control of it

Until the time is right to turn it over to justice.

I don't have time to bullshit around here!

Hey, we're still working together.

The only change is that I'm now in possession of the box.

We're close to drawing pezuela out of his hole

And into the light of day, and that only works if he thinks

The box is still out there.

And that hasn't changed.

Look, if pezuela's smart,

He hasn't had any contact with anyone in that box,

So I have to link him directly to the cartel

Or all you're doing is giving the feds ammunition

To destroy the careers of everyone in that box.

Before one of them has a chance to save your job, right?

When you finally turn it back over to justice,

They're gonna wonder what took you so long.

I was trying to understand exactly what I had -

Determine who put it all together.

I could tell them that,

Or I could tell them that you're just another dirty politician

Trying to extort his way into the mayor's office.

You'd only be incriminating yourself.

Yeah, but I'm on the way out.

You could still maintain the lie,

Keep yourself distanced from all this -

That is, if I'm willing to tell the right story on that day.

Don't look for the box.

You won't find it.

I don't need the box...

I have you.

How did that card play out?

It didn't.

If this is gonna happen, it's gonna be the hard way.

Did you find out where the guns are stored?

Department's kept them in five different locations.

I'm about to get roasted.

They gotta be in the same place.

The question is which one?

It might seem obvious if we start asking right

Before the guns get jacked.

We got to know that we have a deal with Rezian.

Who is this?

Vic mackey.

Why is he here?

Vendrell: if you want those guns,

I can't do it alone.

He's got more motivation to succeed than anybody.

Going after my family got my attention,

But I'm gonna defend them one way or the other.

He stole from us once.

Why trust him?

You shouldn't - I took your money-Train cash,

And I'm not afraid to come here and tell you about it,

But we both know I just stole what you already stole.

You and who else?

Me, my buddy Lem, who's dead,

And two of his homies from out of town.

I couldn't find them now if I wanted to.

Shane and my partner, Ronnie - They had nothing to do with it.

Maybe we just kill you, then.

The foot-Chopping generation is dead and buried.

You filled the vacuum, but you're new.

You're consolidating power, and you've got a mexican threat

You don't understand and can't defend yourself from.

Then you can give us our money back.

Sorry, we burned through the money,

But I can offer a, uh, solution that benefits us all.

End this now.

First, I need to know

Where the guns are headed once we've delivered them.

They're going to chicago by train.

We need to see a light at the end of this tunnel,

So, instead of the $2 million that I don't have,

I'm gonna grant you three wishes.