The Shield/Greenlit

Greenlit
Season 2, Episode 5
Airdate	February 4, 2003
Production Number	5012-02-205
Written by	Kim Clements
Directed by	Terrence O'Hara
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The Shield — Season Two

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Greenlit is the fifth episode of the second season of The Shield, and the eighteenth episode overall.

Starring: Michael Chiklis (Detective Vic Mackey), Catherine Dent (Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer), Walton Goggins (Detective Shane Vendrell), Michael Jace (Officer Julien Lowe), Kenneth Johnson (Detective Curtis "Lemonhead" Lemansky), Jay Karnes (Detective Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach), Benito Martinez (Captain David Aceveda)

and CCH Pounder (Detective Claudette Wyms)

Guest Starring: Jamie Brown (Connie Riesler), Danny Pino (Armando "Armadillo" Quintero), David Rees Snell (Detective Ronnie Gardocki), Elizabeth Anne Smith (Anne), Andi Chapman (Karen Mitchell), Monnae Michaell (Vanessa), Art Frankel (Earl), Emilio Rivera (Navaro Quintero), Rainbow Borden (Duardo), Jonathan Hernandez (Felipe Gomez), David Jean Thomas (Craig Dawson)

Co-Starring: Camillia Sanes (Aurora), Monica Garcia (Teacher)

Featuring: Matt Corboy (Carlson), Helen Costa (Jeannie Sheppard), Melanie Myers (Paula), Roberto Enrique (Enrique), Enrique Trujillo (Skateboard Punk), Thomas Bankowski (Reporter), Paul Huang (Store Clerk)

Plot Overview

The Strike Team work to shut down who's been giving heroin to children for Armadillo.

Dutch and Claudette try to find an old woman suffering from Alzheimer's.

Notes

Music

• North Mississippi Allstars - "Drinking Muddy Water"

• Slim and the Soulful Saints - "Fish Head"

• Los Villains - "No Estas Solo"

• Emanuel Kallins and Chieli Minucci - "East Coast Strut"

• Ruben Ayala and Jeffery Wade - "Walk That Walk"

• Barrio Latino - "Mueve Te"

• Kinto Sol - "Que Risa Me Da"

• Tha Mexakins - "Phonkie Melodia III"

• Whitehouse - "Cuentan Que El"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Connie returns clean and officially works for Vic as an informant.

• The Strike Team is greenlit by Armadillo.

Characters

• Julien tells Danny he's marrying Vanessa.

• Lem learns about the money train and is on the fence about robbing it.

Trivia

Goofs

• Jeannie's last name in the credit is given as Sheppard, but the last names given in the episode were only Russell and Sutton.

Quotes

• Claudette: Should I be worried about you?

Dutch: Not about me. Maybe about the rest of humanity. Bunch of sociopathic little narcissists out for ourselves. Begging, stealing, lying, screwing, raping, killing our babies. Whatever it takes to have a good time and save our own asses. I can't even believe in an old woman who's too sick to feed herself. And it's not sad. It's not some big surprise. It's just nature. We're animals. Nothing more. And you know what? I'm learning to be okay with that.

• Armadillo: I hope you all made it.

Vic: Hey. Weren't you supposed to meet me here to suck my dick?

Armadillo: I wanted to speak to you one last time.

Vic: You better talk to your brother before you start making death threats.

Armadillo: I've already taken care of my brother. And now you've been greenlit.