We all remember the corrupt, must-watch Detective Vic Mackey, but how about some love for the equally compelling but also ethically and morally upright Detective Dutch Wagenbach?

@willmenaker that cat

@willmenaker I still maintain that the only issue with THE SHIELD is that a 5’7 Vic Mackey running the gang infected streets of Los Angeles was totally unrealistic.

@willmenaker “If you’re so special, how come a lowly civil servant like me just caught you?”

@willmenaker LOVE ❤️

@willmenaker small thing that drove me crazy about this show is that all their ties were tied so shitty, it was the same wardrobe person i assume for the whole run that just didn’t know how to do it

@willmenaker legit my favorite character on the show. sorry to that cat, i guess

@willmenaker Legend

@willmenaker Best arc in history. The point when he strangles a cat to try to understand murder and falls into a deep depression after—and then the next season ends up adopting a manky kitten, incredible

@willmenaker Making him strangle that cat and never really addressing it after was such a Pete Campbell plot point

@willmenaker Real fans know the biggest hero on the show was Detective Steve Billings

@willmenaker the one where he thinks he's breaking the serial murdering couple on some columbo shit and they're actually clowning on him? mama mia

@willmenaker god what a show the shield was

@willmenaker Growing up means recognizing The Shield is better than The Wire.

@willmenaker I finally watched the shield after skipping past your guys bit on the podcast the other week. In season 6 now. I love every Dutch and Claudette (and Billings) scene.

@willmenaker Best Dutch bit is when he works a case with (I think) an FBI guy and he thinks the guy respects him as a detective but turns out the guy is just trying to fuck him.

@willmenaker GOD DAMMIT DUTCH

@willmenaker One of the Top 900 most complex performances on the show Karnes 4 lyfe

@willmenaker He strangled a cat!

@willmenaker Him fixating on a new elfin brunette woman every season ruined me

@willmenaker the part where the Strike Team watches surveillance footage of Detective Haagen Daas driving his date home and horrifically striking out 😵

@willmenaker youtu.be/rtzky5KNFN8?si… He's an enemy of the fats

@willmenaker The absolute worst thing perpetrated on the show, the killing of an innocent cat, wasn't at the hands of Vic Mackey.

@willmenaker Slowly morphing from Dutch to Vic is what getting old as a leftist is all about

@willmenaker I loved his and Claudette's relationship.

@willmenaker Am I also a psychopath? Idk someone find me a cat. - Dutch

@willmenaker CCG Pounder's Claudette Wyms character was the only one that didn't give into Vic Mackey.

@willmenaker I rooted for Dutch from the very beginning, even when everyone was making fun of him. Him and Claudette were always bringing sanity to the otherwise a mad house. Having that serial killer confess his crimes out of arrogance, who else could've done that?