TV R.I.P. The Shield: The Show’s 6 Most Shocking Moments

The Shield's dirty dick Vic Mackey is leaving us and the community’s all choked up.

Tonight, after seven raw seasons, FX airs the series finale of its spectacular dirty cop drama The Shield. The end is near for Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), the calculating, cold-hearted leader of Farmington's Strike Team, a fictional anti-gang unit modeled on the LAPD's very real (and very corrupt) Rampart Division CRASH unit.

Over the years, Mackey has manipulated his men into committing every crime from theft to murder while trying to get over. The show has always been brutal and gritty and it shocked the shit out of us on numerous occasions. In honor of a series well done, Complex looks back at six of the wildest “Oh shit!” moments that made The Shield special. And though we’ll miss the crew (tears in our beers and all that), at least we still have real police to give us our fix of brutality…