The Sheild Final Season REWATCH, Episode 1

The first episode of the final season of The Shield starts off along the same line as the sixth season ended, with a member of the Strike Team entering a fellow member's home and terrorizing his wife and children. This time its Vic and Ronnie waiting for Shane to come home and find his wife bound and gagged. They jump Shane and he spills some of the beans about Armenian predicament he has gotten them all in. The whole plot with the Strike Team, Paz Pensuela (I think that's the guys name, but I'm not exatly sure. I'll get this figured out by episode two), David Aceveda, and the two major Armenian players is simply too complicated for me to articulate clearly in this forum, but if you haven't seen the previous 6 seasons of this show and you don't understand a thing you have just read, please stop reading and get the DVDs (then, of course, start reading again).

To summarize where we are at now please draw your attention to the longest sentence you will ever read on this blog. (I am going to try my best to properly punctuate this but...unlikely):

Vic is trying to save his job, which he is in danger of losing (due to forced retirement) because of a long history of accusations and suspicions leveled against him, ranging from extortion to armed robbery, money laundering, black mail, kidnapping, and murder, by using leverage (another word for something a person uses to blackmail another person) against city officials, including Aceveda (Vic finally sees the infamous picture of Aceveda with a Mexican banger's dick in his mouth from a couple of seasons back. This is one of the great things about watching episodes of a show you used to really like after a few years of separation, you get reminded of great bits from the shows past; like Aceveda sucking a guy's cock. Good stuff), and Mexican real estate developers with ties to both drug cartels and the Mexican government, while at the same time attempting to keep his family both safe from, and in the dark about, the threat that the Armenian mob, who now finds itself in the unenviable position of being in the midst of both an internal civil war and a power struggle within the Strike Team between Vic and Shane, poses to their lives as they know them.

The episode ends with Vic using Pensuela to pressure one of the people who decides whether he is able to remain on the force to step down from his position on the panel, giving him an extra 30 days on the force. The end also gives us a idea of what we will see in the coming episode or two. Vic and Shane have, seemingly (we kinda know already that solving this problem with the Armenians won't be that simple), played the Mexicans against the Armenians and now just have to, in Vic's words, "sit back and watch the gang war". By the way, how awesome does it sound to be able to "watch a gang war". If I was flipping through the channels and landed on a show that promised me the ability to watch a gang war I would take he batteries out of the remote and settle in for the duration because that show would not coming off the t.v., ever.

Final Thoughts:

This episode gives Ronnie's first full blown murder. He kills an Armenian hitman, who went after Vic's family, to keep some heat off Vic. He seems a little shaken by the indecent.

Also, we saw a lot of Vic's older daughter, Cassidy, in this episode. She could not be weirder. She gives me the creeps every time she is on screen. His youngest two kids are the ones with autism right? Cassidy is supposed to be "normal" I thought? What the hell is wrong with her, is the character supposed to be all weird like that or is it just the actress that plays her? And lastly, Cassidy is a terrible name. If your name is Cassidy, and your first name is not Butch, you suck.