The Strike Team's illegal activities generally consisted of protecting drug dealer Rondell Robison, in exchange for reduced violence and a cut of the profits. By allowing Rondell to maintain a monopoly over the farmington drug trade, Vic was able to line his pocket while making himself look good to the department by keeping gang violence down.
The drugs that Vic skims off busts generally goes to Rondell to sell. However Rondell becomes incredibly unreliable. He is unable to come up with money to pay the supplier, threatens Officer Sofer, starts a turf war with the Nation of Islam and brags that he has police protection. Mackey eventually grows tired of Rondell and allows his subordinate Theadore Osmond T. At the end of the series, Vic discovers that Ben Gilroy has begun a real-estate scam by manipulating police resources, resulting in the brutal murders of two women which itself leads to people firing at police using fake calls.
Ben threatens Vic's family, effectively ending their friendship, and Vic forms an alliance with Aceveda. Eventually Vic brings in both the shooters and Ben, earning the respect of Aceveda who drops a bogus gun warrant that Gilroy had manufactured.
However when Vic returns home, he learns that Corrine has left and taken his kids, realizing that the suffering she's going through is due to his mistakes. Vic spends his time searching for his family, and has kept the news of their departure secret. He also has to deal with an internal auditor, Lanie Kellis poking around as well as brutal crime lord Armadillo Quinterno who is trying to set up in Farmington.
Vic is horrified to learn that Shane has invested all the Strike Teams illegal savings with T. Furthermore the money is lost when a drug shipment of T. Vic and the team go to Mexico to extort their saving from the supplier who is Armadillo's brother and then kidnap him and bring him to the U.
Upon returning home, Vic tells the team that they are no longer allowed to handle the money. As the pressure of his missing family and Armadillos antics pile on, Vic lashes out at the team and Shane in particular which causes a rift to form.
Armadillo manages to consolidate the Mexican gangs in farmington by burning any opposition alive. The gangs, which had previously been at each other's throats, unite to take control of the drug game.
Armadillo furthers his sadistic reputation by raping the girlfriend of a rival gangster and then tatooing her with a dove sign. He also rapes a 9-year old girl who was a witness to one of his crimes and tattoos her as well. Vic warns Armadillo to leave farmington, and Armadillo responds by burning T. Vic manages to track down his family and tries to reason with them, but a private investigator they hired assaults Vic and they escape. Vic then gets the call about T.
Vic meet with his mentor Joe Clark, a disgraced former officer who was kicked off the force for brutality. Vic realizes that he may end up like Joe, alone without friends or family. He reconciles with Corrine and promises to move out of the house if she returns. He also makes amends with Shane. The season mainly revolves around the aftermath of the Money Train Heist and its effects on the Strike Team, as the Armenian mob and also David Aceveda begins to suspect the Strike Team.
In order to save the team, Lem Curtis "Lemonhead" Lemansky burns a majority of the money, ultimately leading to a confrontation which causes the Strike Team to split up in the season finale. Dezerian leaves a trail of murders, resulting in his own execution at the hands of Mackey. The season dealt with the fallout from the Strike Team disbandment.
Before long Shane is deeply involved with One-Niners leader Antwon Mitchell who he tips off and eliminates competition in exchange for cash and busts. Rawlings implements a policy of seizing the assets of known gang members and despite Aceveda's objections, enlists Vic to head up the team to oversee this. Although successful the policy proves very unpopular in the community and starts to hurt the gangs badly, particularly the One-Niners, and Mitchell - who is tired of Shane's cockiness - blackmails him and Army into helping him keep one step ahead of Vic by shooting an innocent teenage girl with their guns and promising to release the body if they don't co-operate.
Mitchell then later orders Shane to kill Vic, but while Shane wavers between the threat from Antwon and his loyalty to Vic, Vic gets wind of the order and confronts Shane first. The police were outraged after two officers were kidnapped and subsequently found murdered. In the end, the Strike Team is re-formed and manages to successfully put Antwon in prison.
The fallout from the asset foreiture policy continues with Rawlings eventually being forced out after a dispute with the DEA. The season revolved around Internal Affairs Department Lt. Jon Kavanaugh 's played by Forest Whitaker investigation into the Strike Team, representing one of the greatest threats the team has ever faced. As a result of Kavanaugh turning one of Vic's informants, IAD became aware of Lem stealing heroin which he never turned in.
Vic learns that in a matter of months from now that he will be forced to retire from his police career. Having found the heroin, IAD is capable of arresting Lem, but Kavanaugh wants him to incriminate the whole team and has him wear a wire, which he warns the team of and they use it to embarrass IAD. Kavanaugh applying pressure to the team in any way he can, finds out about Mackey's share of the Money Train money, and ultimately arrests Lem having made a deal with Antwon Mitchell, a gang leader the team had put in prison.
Mackey supports Lem and gets bail, while Shane is worried he will give evidence against the team. Claudette finally gets her opportunity for promotion as the captain of the Barn, which she reluctantly accepts. The season concluded with Shane Vendrell, fooled by Aceveda that Lem was going to turn on the Strike Team, murdering his friend and fellow team member Lem with a hand grenade.
He did it. Vic Mackey : Get over it and don't bring it up again. Vic Mackey : You better figure out how much you hate me. And how you're going to deal with that. Claudette Wyms : Neither am I. Taylor : Are you gonna hold this third strike over me for the rest of my life?
Vic Mackey : I could lie to you. But I have far too much respect for you as a person. Yes I am! Vic Mackey : I don't speak ebonics, shithead! Shane Vendrell : It was gonna be a surprise. Vic Mackey : It is.
A bad one. Vic Mackey : Until now I've tolerated you. Come near my men again I'm gonna lose patience. Vic Mackey : You still got that boyfriend? Lauren Riley : You still got that wife? Vic Mackey : No. You still got that boyfriend? Vic Mackey : [about Shane's baby, Jackson] Cute kid. Shane Vendrell : Thanks. He's got his mother's looks. Vic Mackey : Thank God! Vic Mackey : Put your clothes on, get out of here, and change your taste in men.
Vic Mackey : Wipe those smiles off your faces ya shit heads. You don't score points with me bagging twelve year olds. Vic Mackey : Ay, Mo. Your sister's ass really tastes as sweet as Alvarez here says it does? He wants to know what your momma's putting in the corn muffin.
Vic Mackey : What the hell are you doing? Shane Vendrell : I'm not doing anything that we weren't doing before. I'm just pumping things up a level.
Vic Mackey : And what level is that? Vic Mackey : All right, where's my investment now? Shane Vendrell : It's all tied up in the coke shipment. Vic Mackey : That coke that had Tio's guy bleeding from every orifice? Vic Mackey : [to Connie's sons' foster parents] I'm gonna be checking in on him from time to time.
I better like what I see. Shane Vendrell : Can I get your autograph, man? Vic Mackey : Yeah, like on a confession? Claudette Wyms : You gonna be able to handle him? Vic Mackey : Oh, yeah. I'll make him sing. Claudette is the best damn detective in the series. Dutch is characterized by many as a socially inept nerd even though he is a successful police detective. Assigned to the Farmington District of Los Angeles, he is often the first called to investigate violent crimes due to his specialization in criminal profiling and serial killers.
Along with his partner, Detective Claudette Wyms, Dutch is widely considered to be the moral center of the show due to his willingness to do the right thing in spite of the temptation to engage in illegal police activities. Dutch is the best interrogator on the series, and second only to Wyms as far as detectives go in the series. A patrol officer who aspires to become a detective.
She has an on-again, off-again sexual relationship with Vic, and a complicated history with Dutch. She is assigned desk duty as a result of her pregnancy and takes maternity leave after the birth of her baby. Shortly afterwards she returned early from maternity leave so that she could take the position of Sergeant at the Barn. Mackey is played by Michael Chiklis. He is a short bald man that is fairly well built. He is extremely fierce looking and can intimidate most criminals with, but a mere glare.
He tends to wear fairly ordinary clothing jeans and T-shirt while on the job occasionally donning a bullet proof vest when things get heavy. However years of being part of the legal system have embittered him. He got sick of seeing violent dangerous criminals get away with horrendous crimes simply because their guilt could not be proven and with other such criminals getting unbelievably light sentences by cutting some sort of deal with the powers that be. Mackey has always been a bit of a black sheep because of some of his more violent and brutal tactics.
Soon after obtaining this position he grew sick of all the rules and regulations and decided that a more extreme form of justice was needed. He began planting evidence and framing suspects when their guilt could not be proven, but eventually one thing led to another and to keep out of jail and keep his badge he eventually made the decision to murder a fellow officer. This and other things led to a constant downward spiral of Mackey and his team having to cover up some of their more extreme practices to save their own hides.
Vic is not absolutely evil, but he definitely a corrupt cop. He looks out for his own interests, which still have some grounding in keeping the peace on the streets, but his way of doing so are by cutting corners and deals with the various forces on the streets.
His own actions are his ultimate downfall though. However, the scrutiny takes it toll on him as the series progresses. Mackey often approaches his work with the egotistical attitude that he rules the streets of Farmington and tends to respond most aggressively when he feels someone is defying that control. However, his ability to manipulate situations to recover from these mistakes suggests that his attitude is not entirely unwarranted.
The best example of this was seen when he was half a heartbeat away from shooting Shane over the caustic remarks he made about Vic in the argument that led to their first falling out: Vic drew his gun and actually started walking back toward the departing Shane before coming to his senses. Vic always looks out for himself and his immediate circle of close-knit friends in the end. This is his only redeeming quality. Because of this and many of his leadership qualities he is the type of leader that men would follow into hell — and likewise he is the type of man who would lead his team into hell if he thought that there was the slimmest chance that he would be able to rescue a fallen teammate.
What did they do? What people want these days is to make it to their cars without getting mugged. Come home from work and see their stereo is still there. Hear about some murder in the barrio, find out the next day the police caught the guy. The bad cop? Hey, hey Smitty. Get these two to the morgue ASAP. Not today, not tomorrow, not even on Cinco de Mayo. You still got that boyfriend? But feel free to consider option two. New word, new word!
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