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Jailbait

Episode Number: 57    Season Num: 5    First Aired: Tuesday January 24, 2006    Prod Code: 5012-05-503
The Strike Team tries to develop a strategy to deflect the Internal Affairs investigation as Vic finally comes face to face with Kavanaugh. Meanwhile, Tina goes undercover to help take down a sex-trafficking ring; and friction between Claudette and Dutch deepens when she reopens one of their past cases.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Glen Mazzara, Scott Rosenbaum
Director: Stephen T. Kay
Star: Walton Goggins (Detective Shane Vendrell),  Benito Martinez (Councilman David Aceveda),  Catherine Dent (Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer),  Cathy Cahlin Ryan (Corrine Mackey - (Season 4, Recurring Previously)),  CCH Pounder (Detective Claudette Wyms),  David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki - (Season 4, Recurring Previously)),  Jay Karnes (Detective Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach),  Michael Jace (Officer Julien Lowe),  Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey),  Kenneth Johnson (Detective Curtis "Lemonhead" Lemansky)
Recurring Role: David Marciano (Captain Steve Billings),  Forest Whitaker (Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh),  Jack Weber (Matthew Mackey),  Michele Hicks (Mara Sewell),  Paula Garcés (Officer Tina Hanlon),  Laura Harring (Becca Doyle)
Guest Star: Natalie Amenula (Magdalena),  Kendall Clement (Sanford),  Julia Vera (Abuela),  Julian Garcia (Martin),  Allen Maldonado (Evan "Every-Day" Dayne),  Rogelio Ramos (Guttierez),  Joe Gerrety (Marshall Traynor),  Kelwin Hagen (Rick),  Gianin Loffler (Loel),  Stephen Hornyak (Defense Attorney),  Jesse Garcia (Mariano)

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International Airdates:
Finland: June 30, 2008 on Nelonen (edit)

Quotes

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Vic: I feel like there's some unfinished business between us.
Lem: What's that?
Vic: It's this Terry thing. You thought I was hiding something from you. Here's the truth... I swept through that house. I cleared that bathroom. At least I thought I did. Somehow Two-Time got past me. I left Terry exposed... I made a mistake. I never told anybody. I thought it was my fault. That's something I've been living with for a long time now. Finally, I decided to move on. Something you're gonna have to push past too.
(Vic gets up and writes 'We Together?' for Lem to see)
Lem: Yeah.
Vic: Okay. (Lem looks Vic in the eye and shakes his hand) (edit)
Dutch: I can't have other colleagues as friends?
Claudette: Marshall has quite a reputation as a man's man, if you know what I mean.
Dutch: He's...he's gay?
Claudette: While you were reading faces, he was reading your package...have fun, though. (edit)
(After trashing a home looking for evidence, and finding nothing, Strike Team members look at a bed)
Shane: No, it can't be that easy.
Vic: He's an ex-con from Mexico, it damn well could be.
(Vic tosses the bed and cuts mattress open)
Lem: Jackpot. (edit)
Shane: I wouldn't expect any clemency with the Terminator as Governor. (edit)
Danny: Her Majesty Billings needs to see you. (edit)

Trivia

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While Tina is wiring up for the sex-ring bust, Julien tells her that she is still on probation. This means that he chose to follow his own decision than listen to Danny about the brawl between the father and son. (edit)

Allusions

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Shane tells the suspect from the sex ring that he shouldn't expect clemency from "The Terminator." At the time of the airing of this episode, the governor of California is Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is famous for the title role from "The Terminator" series. In real life, Governor Schwarzenegger refused clemency from execution for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, co-founder of The Crips Gang, children's books author, and former Nobel Peace Prize nominee. (edit)
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Community Reviews (4)

 
9.0
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Jailbait
"Character development"
Tina is on a role. Lem is doing the right thing.
Continue » Posted Oct 14, 2007 7:18 pm PST
9.0
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Jailbait
"Well written"
A very good episode, but somehow not as compelling for me as the opening episodes of this season. Enough with the set-up, already- lets get to the big showdown between Mackey and Kavanaugh! But I know that's not the way series TV works...
Continue » Posted Sep 16, 2007 3:41 pm PST

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9.0
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Jailbait
"Pivotal"
Hits the ground running
Continue » Posted Jan 26, 2006 5:20 am PST

Dynamix_
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9.5
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Jailbait
"Well written"
This is what The Shield is all about
Continue » Posted Jan 26, 2006 3:59 am PST
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Episode: Jailbait
Season Number: 5
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