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The Shield/Bitches Brew
| Bitches Brew | |
| Season 7, Episode 7 | |
| Airdate | October 14, 2008 |
| Production Number | 5012-07-707 |
| Written by | Charles H. Eglee & Elizabeth A. Hansen |
| Directed by | Stephen Kay |
| Stream |  |
| ← 7x06 Animal Control |
7x08 → Parracide |
| The Shield — Season Seven | |
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Bitches Brew is the seventh episode of the seventh season of The Shield, and the eighty-second episode overall.
Starring: Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey), Catherine Dent (Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer), Paula Garces (Officer Tina Hanlon) (credit only), Walton Goggins (Detective Shane Vendrell), Michael Jace (Officer Julien Lowe), Jay Karnes (Detective Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach), David Marciano (Detective Steve Billings), Benito Martinez (Councilman David Aceveda), Cathy Cahlin Ryan (Corrine Mackey), David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki)
and CCH Pounder (Captain Claudette Wyms)
Guest Starring: Laurie Holden (Agent Olivia Murray), Michele Hicks (Mara Sewell), Mageina Tovah (Farrah), Billoah Greene (Two-Man), Patrick St. Esprit (Lester), Paul Dillon (Chaffee), J.C. MacKenzie (Detective Kouf), F.J. Rio (Cruz Pezuela), Yasmine Abriel (Capuchina)
Co-Starring: Melanie Myers (Paula), J. David Shanks (Stamos), Katie Grant (Hannah), Natalie N. Okamoto (Alita), Micah Cohen (ND Process Server)
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Plot Overview
Claudette sics the Strike Team on the murder of a hooker at the request of her friend who's the same prostitute Vic reluctantly helped before. He has to do this after a new review board has him terminated in 10 days with no pension, so he tries desperately to put the blackmail box back in play.
A break-in reveals it's one of a string that have hit the neighbourhood.
Notes
Arc Advancement
Happenings
- Aceveda and Vic turns over the blackmail box to I.C.E., but Aceveda pulls the files on Olivia for himself. Vic manages to convince I.C.E. to put the box back in play. He and Olivia go to Aceveda to get him to return her files so as not to arouse Pezuela's suspicions.
- Shane confronts Two-Man and in order to evade arrest, he offers him to kill Ronnie.
Characters
- Vic gets another hearing and is terminated in ten days with no pension. Claudette offers him to clear out immediately with the promise of fighting for a piece of his pension, but turns it down.
- Dutch stops by Claudette's home and sees that's a mess. When he confronts her, she admits that it's been like that because of the energy she's put in at the Barn. Dutch hires her a cleaning lady.
- Vic threatens to take Danny to a family court to prove Lee's his son and obtain shared custody. She later appears to be ready to cooperate and on some conditions, but is later seen packing she and her son's things.
