shield_rtrspct_bk_rd5.indd 2-3 7/28/08 3:40:00 PM shield_rtrspct_bk_rd5.indd 4-5 7/28/08 3:40:04 PM shield_rtrspct_bk_rd5.indd 6-7 7/28/08 3:40:23 PM CONTENTS 04 SHAWN RYAN Letter 37 JAMEAL TURNER Writer, Episode 11 54 THE SHIELD Production Credits 96 THE SHIELD Season Five Guest Stars 06 THE SHIELD The Final Act 38 EVAN BLEIWEISS Writer, Episode 12 58 LOOKING BACK 97 THE SHIELD Season Five Episode Descriptions 08 MICHAEL CHIKLIS Detective Vic Mackey/ 38 GUY FERLAND Director, Episodes 1, 8 62 MICHAEL CHIKLIS Perspective 99 THE SHIELD Season Six Synopsis Producer/Director, Episode 5 38 GWYNETH HORDER-PAYTON Director, Episodes 2, 6, 10 63 CCH POUNDER Perspective 100 THE SHIELD Season Six Guest Stars 10 CCH POUNDER Captain Claudette Wyms 39 TERRENCE O’HARA Director, Episode 3 64 BENITO MARTINEZ Perspective 101 THE SHIELD Season Six Episode Descriptions 14 BENITO MARTINEZ Councilman David Aceveda 39 DEAN WHITE Director, Episode 4 65 JAY KARNES Perspective 102 THE SHIELD 2002 Ratings History 16 JAY KARNES Detective Holland ‘Dutch’ Wagenbach 39 STEPHEN KAY Director, Episode 7 66 WALTON GOGGINS Perspective 102 THE SHIELD 2003 Ratings History 18 WALTON GOGGINS Detective Shane Vendrell 40 ROHN SCHMIDT Director of Photography/Director, Episode 9 67 CATHERINE DENT Perspective 104 THE SHIELD 2004 Ratings History 20 DAVID REES SNELL Detective Ronnie Gardocki 40 CRAIG BREWER Director, Episode 11 68 MICHAEL JACE Perspective 106 THE SHIELD 2005 Ratings History 22 MICHAEL JACE Officer Julien Lowe 40 BILLY GIERHART Director, Episode 12 69 DAVID REES SNELL Perspective 108 THE SHIELD 2006 Ratings History 24 CATHERINE DENT Officer Danielle ‘Danny’ Sofer 41 CLARK JOHNSON Director, Episode 13 70 CATHY CAHLIN RYAN Perspective 110 THE SHIELD 2007 Ratings History 26 CATHY CAHLIN RYAN Corrine Mackey 41 ANTHONY MEDINA Production Designer 71 JOHN LANDGRAF Perspective 112 THE SHIELD 2008 Ratings History 28 DAVID MARCIANO Detective Steve Billings 41 KATHYRN MORRISON Costume Designer 72 PETER LIGUORI Perspective 30 PAULA GARCES Officer Tina Hanlon 42 ANGELA M. CATANZARO Editor 73 KEVIN REILLY Perspective 32 FRANCES FISHER Rita Dressler 42 JORDAN GOLDMAN Editor 76 SCOTT BRAZIL Tribute CONTACT 33 LAURIE HOLDEN Agent Olivia Murray 42 JACQUES GRAVETT Editor 79 THE SHIELD Season One Synopsis 33 AUTUMN CHIKLIS Cassidy Mackey FOR ALL MEDIA REQUESTS, 43 BARBARA FIORENTINO C.S.A. Casting Director 80 THE SHIELD Season One Guest Stars JOHN SOLBERG 310.369.0935 34 SHAWN RYAN Creator/Executive Producer/Writer, Episode 13 [email protected] 43 REBECCA MANGIERI C.S.A. Casting Director 81 THE SHIELD Season One Episode Descriptions 34 KURT SUTTER Executive Producer/Director/MIME Writer, Episodes 1, 8 ROSLYN BIBBY 310.369.0934 43 WENDY WEIDMAN C.S.A. Casting Director 83 THE SHIELD Season Two Synopsis [email protected] 34 CHARLES H. EGLEE Executive Producer/Writer, Episodes 5, 7, 11 43 TEAM NEOPHONIC, INC. Music Supervisors 84 THE SHIELD Season Two Guest Stars 35 ADAM E. FIERRO Executive Producer/Writer, Episodes 3, 9, 12 DOMINIC PAGONE 310.369.0937 BEGINS SEPTEMBER 2 44 JOHN LANDGRAF President and General Manager, FX 85 THE SHIELD Season Two Episode Descriptions [email protected] 35 KEVIN G. CREMIN Co-Executive Producer 45 NICK GRAD Executive Vice President of Original Programming, FX 87 THE SHIELD Season Three Synopsis 35 CRAIG YAHATA Producer 45 ERIC SCHRIER, Senior Vice President of Original Programming, FX 88 THE SHIELD Season Three Guest Stars 36 KEVIN CORCORAN Co-Producer/UPM Current Series, Alternative Programming & FX Productions 89 THE SHIELD Season Three Episode Descriptions 36 GARY LENNON Executive Story Editor/Writer, Episodes 2, 8 48 THE SHIELD Season Seven Episode Descriptions 91 THE SHIELD Season Four Synopsis 36 LISA RANDOLPH Staff Writer, Episodes 4, 9 49 VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISORY 92 THE SHIELD Season Four Guest Stars 37 JOHN HLAVIN & ANGELA RUSSO Story Editors/Writers, 50 THE SHIELD Guest Stars Episodes 6, 10 93 THE SHIELD Season Four Episode Descriptions 52 FX FACT SHEET 37 ELIZABETH A. HANSEN Writer, Episode 7 95 THE SHIELD Season Five Synopsis 03 shield_rtrspct_bk_rd5.indd 8-9 7/28/08 3:40:31 PM one long stretch of devastation. It all felt surreal. And Peter Ligouri and Kevin Reilly showed incredible Assistant Editors who all proved themselves then we all went back to our lives. courage putting THE SHIELD on the air, and even more invaluable. Hunter Via, Jordan Goldman and Angela entrusting me to run it when I had no experience to Catanzaro became my friends and confidants during A couple years later, after waiting about a minute suggest I was up for the job. the final stage of making sure we didn’t screw up for my CompuServe account to log on via my phone an episode. modem, I saw a short blurb online that O.J. Simpson’s After Peter and Kevin’s success lured them both away ex-wife and a male friend had been killed at her condo to new jobs, John Landgraf came in and injected a Kathryn Morrison, Tony Medina, Kitty Doris-Bates and in Brentwood. About a week later, as I looked forward convert’s zeal into the show. He challenged us to make everyone in the art department, wardrobe, hair and to the opening match of the 1994 World Cup, there the show even better, and often had ideas how to do makeup made everyone and everything look exactly was O.J. in his white Bronco, leading the police on it. We gladly stole his ideas and took all the credit for as bad as we requested. that bizarre slow speed chase. His arrest and his trial them… until now. dominated local news for the next couple years as We had a (seemingly) tireless crew who we asked we were introduced to sloppy crime scene protocol, Eric Schrier and his team at FX defended the show too much of only to see them deliver more than we accusations of planting evidence and a Detective, countless times against foes both external and internal. asked. They were the backbone of our show and Mark Fuhrman, whose liberal use of the “N” word They kept our feet to the fire and demanded excellence. they never broke. started a new debate. Was he just a cop trying to John Solberg and his team crisscrossed the country to Then there were my writers. The people I spent the impress one of us Hollywood types? Was he merely get the word out on the little show that could. When most time with. The men and women that stood by a racist who had still managed to help catch the right the perception was that FX was a place for reruns and my side and went to battle with me on each and every guy? Or was he someone whose hatred of minorities not quality dramas, John convinced critics to take a script. We pushed each other, ate too many meals was so strong and palpable that he had framed good look at our show. The resulting critical support together, saw an occasional sunrise together and they an innocent man of murder? Your answer mostly put us on the map. always tried to make each others scripts as good as depended on your Zip Code. they could be, even when their names weren’t on them. Marney Hochman, David Madden and everyone at I thank each and every one of them, but especially A couple years later I found myself writing for the Fox Television and Deb Curtis and everyone at Sony CBS series Nash Bridges, a thoroughly old-fashioned my core group of brothers and sisters in arms – Glen Television always made sure we had everything Mazzara, Kurt Sutter, Scott Rosenbaum, Chic Eglee, cop show that struck just the right chord with CBS’s necessary to make the show we wanted to make. Friday night audience, if not the critics. In our show, Adam Fierro, Liz Craft and Sarah Fain. It starts with the cops were the heroes, the crooks were the bad And then there was the creative team on THE SHIELD: the words and they all gave me great ones. CREATOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, WRITER guys, and with few exceptions Nash busted them at And finally, there were the actors. The faces of the the end. After three years of writing that same formula Scott Brazil was the glue that held our merry band together for five seasons before we lost him to A.L.S. show. As showrunners, we all think we have the A little more than a year after I moved to Los Angeles I sat in the living room of my friend Scott and taking the occasional police ride along with San most talented cast on television. But I can’t think of Francisco detectives that inevitably yielded fantastic By then he had taught us how to do it ourselves, so we did. But his influence and passion lives on in every a showrunner with a stronger case than me. Chikie, Schwemmer’s high-rise apartment, nestled between Dodger Stadium and Downtown, playing material that was in no way appropriate for Nash Benito, CC, Jay, Cathy, Walton, Kenny, Dave, Michael, Bridges, I decided to try to write my own cop show. episode we do. backgammon and listening to The Beautiful South (a band whose juxtaposition of gorgeous Catherine, David, Paula, Glenn, Forrest, Anthony, The first two characters I came up with were ‘Dutch’ Clark Johnson created the look and feel for the show Franka, Autumn and everyone else who appeared musical melodies with jarring, sarcastic lyrics, dripping with uncomfortable truth, has and ‘Charles’ (later to become ‘Claudette’ after the and selected many of the crew members who would on the show.