The best episodes of The Shield Season 3
Season 3 only — ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
As the Strike Team is threatened with exposure in the money train heist, Claudette goes it alone in order to find evidence of a public defender's drug addiction.
- 02
The rivalry between the Strike Team and the Decoy Squad heats up as they compete to find a murder suspect.
- 03
Vic is enlisted to help save his rivals on the Decoy team from having their undercover operation exposed.
- 04
Captain Aceveda turns up the heat in his search for the gangster who sexually assaulted him.
- 05
As Vic goes after Margos, Claudette risks her career to see that an innocent man is freed from prison.
- 06
Officer Tommy Hisk becomes a prime suspect in the murder of his ex-wife and son.
- 07
As missing persons investigation uncovers a graveyard for illegal immigrants working in an illicit drug lab.
- 08
A hooker wants Vic to punish her former pimp, Dutch arrests a sex offender in an elderly woman's rape.
- 09
As Dutch and Claudette continue to pursue a rapist who is targeting elderly women, the arrest of a local gang member threatens to expose the Strike Team's involvement in the money train heist.
- 10
As Vic tries to sidetrack the money train investigation, Claudette goes undercover to crack a child porn ring.
- 11
Vic sets out to stop stolen military weapons from fueling a gang war, unaware that it threatens to expose him as the mastermind behind the theft of the Armenian mob's laundered money.
- 12
Vic promises a gang lieutenant the top job if he agrees to set up his boss; Dutch and Claudette's investigation into a gang shooting points to an unexpected triggerman.
- 13
A lynching threatens to ignite a race war between Farmington's black and Latino gangs.
- 14
The pursuit of a gang hitman pits the tight-lipped Korean community against the police.
- 15
As Dutch tries to understand "The Cuddler" rapist, Vic enlists Danny for an important undercover assignment.
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