The best episodes of The Shield Season 5
Season 5 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 he and Vic cooperate to head off a gang turf war, Kavanaugh investigates the rape of his estranged wife.
- 02
As his efforts to protect Lem behind bars draw Vic into a trap set by gang kingpin Antwon Mitchell, the search for the assailant who is targeting gay men is undercut by Claudette and Dutch's growing mistrust in each other.
- 03
As the Barn mobilizes to find the baby that was cut out of a pregnant murder victim's body, Vic enlists a lawyer to help him fight the IAD investigation.
- 04
As Kavanaugh uses an investigation into the sale of stolen pharmaceuticals to ambush Vic and his team, an illegal immigrant helps lead Dutch to the body of a murder victim.
- 05
As Kavanaugh pressures Corrine, and the Strike Team suspects a white drug dealer of being involved in a gang turf war, Claudette and Dutch get a break in their pursuit of a serial killer.
- 06
Vic offers to help a drug dealer recover some stolen cash as a way to raise the money to post Lemonhead's bail.
- 07
As Lem is asked to wear a wire in the IAD investigation, Vic and the Strike Team go head-to-head with a brutal Salvadoran extortionist.
- 08
As Vic looks to head off an IAD investigation, a brutal rape uncovers a child sex slave ring.
- 09
As Vic looks to get Lemonhead to safety, Kavanaugh goes all out to make his case against the Strike Team.
- 10
As Kavanaugh traces a trail of stolen Armenian mob cash back to Vic, Claudette fights her illness in order to break the case against serial killer Kleavon Gardner.
- 11
As the department launches a secret investigation aimed at putting him behind bars, Vic learns that a Latino gang in prison has ordered the retaliatory murders of two black victims on the outside.
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