On Tilt (15 Jun. 2004)

Director:

Scott Brazil

Writers:

Shawn Ryan (creator), Shawn Ryan,

Stars:

Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Chiklis	...	Detective Vic Mackey
Catherine Dent	...	Officer Danni Sofer
Walton Goggins	...	Detective Shane Vendrell
Michael Jace	...	Officer Julien Lowe
Kenny Johnson	...	Detective Curtis Lemansky
Jay Karnes	...	Detective Holland Wagenbach
Benito Martinez	...	Captain David Aceveda
CCH Pounder	...	Detective Claudette Wyms
Cathy Cahlin Ryan	...	Corrine Mackey
David Rees Snell	...	Detective Ronnie Gardocki
André Benjamin	...	Robert Huggins (as Andre Benjamin)
Michael Benyaer	...	Goma Magar
Michael Tomlinson	...	Ben Horton
Stana Katic	...	Ayla
Yasmine Delawari	...	Angelica

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

shoot | cat | witness | dog | files

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 June 2004 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Barn Productions, The, Fox Television Studios, MiddKid Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

Near the end episode, Vic shoots and kills Marcos. We see him pick up Marcos's gun with his pen and place it next to his body. Initially, we see the grip pointing away from the body. When the next view is over Marcos's body we see that the gun is now facing the opposite way (grip facing Marcos).

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Quotes

Curtis 'Lemonhead' Lemansky: [the team is going through documents seized at a bust] I got a bunch of receipts here.
Vic Mackey: For what?
Curtis 'Lemonhead' Lemansky: Uh, dry cleaning.
Vic Mackey: What else?
Curtis 'Lemonhead' Lemansky: Uh, for thousands of dollars on these oriental rugs.
Ronnie Gardocki: You don't dry clean oriental rugs!
[They all stare at him]
Ronnie Gardocki: My... my mom had some. She made me hand-clean 'em when I was a kid.

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Soundtracks

"The Shield Theme"
(uncredited)
Written by Romero, Bautista, Alejandro

User Reviews

What will happen to the Strike Team?

Season 3's final episode is another brilliant ending, although not quite as satisfying as the previous two.

This episode hopefully will see the end of the money train storyline as it is wrapped up nicely, albeit a little to easily. However, its only really wrapped up on the Armenian side, so there is the possibility that any investigation might continue into the fourth season.

Claudette's demotion wasn't much of a surprise considering how much she values her morals over her job - she almost seemed to accept that she might lose her job, just as long as she didn't claim moral bankruptcy. It was interesting to see Dutch's adoption of one of the homeless kitties - something tells me that kitty will face a grizzly end. This weird angle on Dutch is one of the most interesting subplots in terms of where it'll end up.

Finally, once again, the writers pull off a great confrontation between the members of the Strike Team at the end. I loved it how it all seems like it'll go back to normal, but Shane had to open his big mouth and screws things up again! Everyone's performance was 110%, especially between Shane and Vic at the end.

Although it ended a bit abruptly, I think its a great place to end the season and definitely makes me wanna start Season 4 right away. What will happen to the Strike Team?