Vic left alone to try to do something else and returned with all the shop owners to corroborate their stories. Once Saffian struggles to breathe, Vic realizes that the strike team is being watched by Dezerian from afar in a high level building. A little girl who saw her father rape and murder her mother would only talk to Shane, and years later when her father came back it was Shane whom she and her family tracked down for protection. Johnson was responsible for promoting Claudette Wyms to the rank of captain, and he ended but eventually extended Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh's internal affairs investigation. Vic refused to accept Aceveda's lie and continued to believe that Lem had not betrayed the Strike Team.
Clark made his first appearance visiting Vic at the Barn and asking him for assistance against the same drug and weapons dealer who'd ruined his career and who continued to deal drugs and sell weapons while showing off his wealth from the payout of the court case. When gang leader Antwon Mitchell orders Vendrell to kill Mackey, Gardocki tells Lemansky that he hopes Mackey kills Vendrell during their next meeting. They work together to break a teenaged serial killer while also dealing with the fallout from Vic and Shane's final implosions. Claudette's battle with lupus created a strain on their relationship during the final two seasons. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. When Mackey signaled to Kern that they wanted to talk in private, Kern asked Trish to give Tavon a tour of the studio. Scooby and his partner Carl Miller were killed by Nigerian thugs organized by Antwon Mitchell's half-brother, Jason Porter. As for Danny, she began to see a more mature side to Dutch, who responded to Tina's apology by telling her in a fatherly way that she had no reason to apologize. Mackey and Gardocki craft a plan to simultaneously eliminate both Vendrell and the leadership of the Armenian mob. Moses and Shane had an antagonist rapport with each other for the teenage girl they were both sleeping with. He gives the picture to Vic to use at his disposal, but advises him to "stop digging."

Hiatt was then met by Wyms, who asked what he knew of Vic Mackey.

A day before Lem is to be imprisoned, Kavanaugh shows up at his doorstep to have a final chat with him saying, “...you weren’t supposed to get the worst of this thing here”. Kleavon agrees with Dutch that Lloyd could very well be a psychopath: "This kid's got the look, I've seen it before." Vic and Carlos returned to the Barn to brief Gilroy on the case. Despite disagreeing with him, Vic assisted him in taking the criminal down but paid for it by being shot. As the series wound to a close, however, Corrine learned from Mara Vendrell the full extent of Vic's crimes. However, several blunders by Hiatt, including the arrest of one of Vic's valuable informants, as well as his Carlson's partner and fellow tormentor of Julien Lowe. He was the main antagonist of the second half of seventh season. Rawling, having lost her job as Captain, said it was someone else's problem now. Vic sets up Alex by assuming the role of a bad cop, which wasn't too hard for him to begin with, and shows the body of an already dead victim to Alex. Fearful for his ex-wife's immediate future, he agrees to the immunity deal for himself and his ex-wife. But in Vic's feigned attempt to do so, Vic revealed to Pezuela he was working undercover for ICE, namely agent Olivia Murray. Shane, the only member of the Strike Team not being trailed, was able to meet with Lem. Hagop follows Vic around while Shane Vendrell is left as insurance in the custody of Alex. Kavanaugh also interrogated Lem about the murder of Detective Crowley. In response, Vic introduced Cassidy to her half-brother, Lee Carson Sofer. In an attempt to come back home, Shane confessed to Mara that he, not Guardo, was in fact the one who murdered Mara and Shane's love grew to be very strong and she even killed someone while trying to save Shane from two drug addicts that he was in a fight with, injuring herself in the process.
Corrine then must balance the challenges of being a In Season 6, after Vic was charged with Lemansky's murder, Corrine stormed into The Barn and angrily confronted Kavanaugh in front of the entire station house. During a raid on a Salvadoran grenade factory, Lem heroically saved Kavanaugh from an active grenade tossed in his direction by rushing to grab the grenade and throwing it away from Kavanaugh seconds before it exploded. He is, however, trusted implicitly by series Gardocki's personality changes somewhat over the course of the show. She doesn't like Vic and is jealous of his close friendship with Shane. Meanwhile, Lem was forced to abandon Vic's original plans for hiding him after he risked his freedom to help out a young child who had been left alone by his parents and had seriously hurt himself in his home's kitchen. Although the team mostly kept him in the dark and separate from their illegal activities and regular conversations, Lem and Vic eventually warmed up to him after Tavon continuously proved his effectiveness and loyalty in their street-work. After Season Three begins, he takes on more of an extroverted manner, participating in more dangerous, hands-on police work with the Strike Team. Mara had also directly participated in several of these situations.