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Michael Chiklis

Detective Vic Mackey

Catherine Dent

Officer Danny Sofer

Walton Goggins

Detective Shane Vendrell

Michael Jace

Officer Julien Lowe

Kenny Johnson

Detective Curtis 'Lemonhead' Lemansky
(as Kenneth Johnson)

Jay Karnes

Detective Holland 'Dutch' Wagenbach

Benito Martinez

Captain David Aceveda

CCH Pounder

Detective Claudette Wyms

Cathy Cahlin Ryan

Corrine Mackey

David Rees Snell

Detective Ronnie Gardocki

André 3000

Robert Huggins
(as Andre Benjamin)

Michael Benyaer

Goma Magar

Michael Tomlinson

Ben Horton

Stana Katic

Ayla

Yasmine Delawari

Angelica

Melanie Myers

Officer Paula Myers

Kenneth Colom

Officer Lucas

Ray Stoney

Walter Clifton

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Trivia
Margos is played by Sons of Anarchy (2008) creator Kurt Sutter, who was a coproducer of The Shield.

Goofs
Near the end episode, Vic shoots and kills Margos. We see him pick up Margos's gun with his pen and place it next to his body. Initially, we see the grip pointing away from the body. When the next view is over Margos's body we see that the gun is now facing the opposite way (grip facing Margos).

Quotes
Curtis 'Lemonhead' Lemansky: [the team is going through documents seized at a bust] I got a bunch of receipts here.
Vic Mackey: For what?
Curtis 'Lemonhead' Lemansky: Uh, dry cleaning.
Vic Mackey: What else?
Curtis 'Lemonhead' Lemansky: Uh, for thousands of dollars on these oriental rugs.
Ronnie Gardocki: You don't dry clean oriental rugs!
[They all stare at him]
Ronnie Gardocki: My... my mom had some. She made me hand-clean 'em when I was a kid.

Connections
Referenced in The Shield: Bang (2005)

Soundtracks
The Shield Theme
Written and Performed by Vivian Romero, Ness Bautista, and Rodney Alejandro

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