1x04 Dawg Days - The Shield Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x04

Episode: 01x04
Title: Dawg Days
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: N/A
First Aired: Apr. 02, 2002

Season 1 » Episode #04 - Dawg Days

Summary: Vic must broker a peace between Kern Little and T-Bonz, two rappers whose personal animosity towards each other is broiling over in to the streets. Danny is attacked after identifying a shooter. Julien helps a woman whose son's body has been stolen. Dutch and Claudette search for a missing migrant worker. David allies himself with "Kingmaker" Jorge Machado to further his political ambitions.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Officer Danni Sofer	played by Catherine Dent
Detective Curtis Lemansky	played by Kenny Johnson
Detective Holland Wagenbach	played by Jay Karnes
Kern Little	played by Sticky Fingaz
Assistant Chief Ben Gilroy	played by John Diehl
Rondell Robinson	played by Walter Jones
Pete Shockley	played by Mark Kiely
T-Bonz	played by Dex Elliot Sanders
Jamison	played by Marc McClure

Season 1 / Episode 4: - Dawg Days

Corrine Mackey: Ah, Matthew thinks he's a dog now.
Detective Vic Mackey: A german sheperd, so what?

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Julien is talking to Thurmond's mother, she is alternately wearing/not wearing glasses.
CONT: In the scene in the Strike Team's club house were Vic Mackey tells Officer Sofer that he "took care of it" Vic can be seen cleaning his gun. When Officer Sofer enters the room Vic is just about to begin to clean the barrel, but when the shot changes he is part way through and removes the brush.
CONT: During the episode "Dawg Days" after Thurmond's mother calls the police because her deceased son's body was taken from his grave, her glasses alternate between being on her face and off her face between shots.

TRIVIA

The 4th Season 1 episode "Dawg Days" was actually the third to be filmed, and guest director Stephen Gyllenhaal had real trouble establishing the proper look and characterization, only having the pilot episode to go on as a reference point. Gyllenhaal and Michael Chiklis in particular disagreed over how unsympathetically Vic Mackie should be played, with Chiklis' view winning out. The decision was made after this that the writer of the episode would always be on set to assist the director and actors.
Jay Karnes is fluent in Spanish, but during the episode "Dawg Days" it was creator Shawn Ryan's idea for Karnes to have his character butcher the Miranda Rights as he read them in Spanish.
Catherine Dent kept accidentally calling guest star Sticky Fingaz by the less flattering name Stinky Fingaz.

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