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The Shield :: Playing Tight (03x01)
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| Title: | Playing Tight |
| Episode #: | 03x01 |
| Production Number: | 5012-03-301 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday March 09th, 2004 |
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The Strike Team's new strategy is to play by the rules in order to keep the I.A.D. from sniffing around the money they stole from the Armenian money train. Unfortunately, their plan is abruptly interrupted when a routine drug bust lands them right in the middle of a high-powered gun running ring. Soon they find themselves racing to disarm two rival gangs before a race war breaks out. When an old ally turns out to be the new leader of the One-Niners, they use him to set up a sting gun buy. Tension among Vic and the Strike Team increases when Dutch and Claudette begin investigating the murder of two Armenian gangsters tied to the money train robbery. Meanwhile, with her promotion to Captain on the horizon, Claudette faces a cruel reality when David decides to not only stay in his position but also implement some of her ideas to help clean up Farmington. After his blanket party in Season Two, Julian's manhood and ability as a cop are in question and Vic urges him to take action to get some respect back from the barn. Danny makes a plea to Aceveda to get her job back and Shane deals with the pressures of keeping his new girlfriend happy without interfering with his job.
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The Season 3 DVD includes scenes cut from this episode that include Dutch and Claudette busting in on the Armenian they arrest with the four guns, and Danny talking with Julien when she comes to see Aceveda.
| This episode marks the return of Sticky Fingaz as Kern Little. The only guest star to appear in all three seasons of the show.
| The opening shots with the Strike Team joking with each other was put in by Shawn Ryan as a major reflection moment, where they would end on the exact opposite moment in the season finale.
| According to the timeline of the show, it's only been 48 hours since the last episode. Since then, the cutback to the Barn have taken fulleffect, hence why the Strike Team is riding around in a crap car, and not their usual Navigators.
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(Looking at the crime photos)
Lemonhead: They killed these Armenians looking for our money train cash.
Shane: This means they still think it was an inside job.
Ronnie: What happens when they run out of feet and realize it was an outside job?
Vic: There's only four people who know we took that money, and they're all sitting right here. Stick to the plan.
| (Looking at Van Bro's paintings.)
Shane: Where in the Bible does St. Schlong visit Our Lady of the D-cup?
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When Vic takes down the suspect, the suspect elbow's him on the right side of the face. Yet when we see Vic's nose bleeding, it's bleeding out of the left nostril. Either Vic got a strange nose bleed, or the suspect got more of his face than we saw. If he did, shouldn't Vic be bleeding out of both nostrils?
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