To spare his family's fate and because of Vic's threats over the phone, Shane tricked his wife and son into drinking a liquid laced with an overdose of painkiller (likely The confession is unfinished, due to Shane being interrupted by the police raid. Hagop is one of Alex Eznik's top associates in the Armenian mob. However, he soon found himself missing his friends Vic and Ronnie. Several of his men shadowed the four team members for weeks, with Ronnie being the first to notice and express concern, despite being the only member not present during Armadillo's burning. Raoul Jimenez assured them that they wouldn't spend one day in jail, but Vic reminded him that they conspired to commit murder. Mara helped herself to about $7,000, some of which was marked by the Mara put herself on the line for Shane when Tavon Garris and Shane had a physical altercation in Shane's apartment. However, after he discovers that Vendrell killed Lemansky and then drafted up a document detailing the team's crimes as part of his scheme to protect himself from reprisals of Mackey, their friendship ends once and for all. Clark was discharged from the police force for becoming too personally involved in a vendetta against a local drug dealer, who'd assaulted Clark's partner; Clark brutally beat the young man to avenge the assault. However, Kavanaugh's investigation into Tensions began to rise among the Strike Team the longer Lem remained on the run.

Wyms advised Hiatt to again watch himself and wait for the opportunity to witness Mackey's bad side, which he did when Mackey destroyed a hospital waiting room in anguish over the death of the leader of the rebel One Niner soldiers. After being introduced they walked out of the shop and Carlos started comforting gang member Train Guttierez, whose pregnant girlfriend was one of the victims. In season 7 episode 2: "Snitch", the Mayor's office released a list of the top 10 most wanted gangs. Billings regards his partnership with Dutch to be a mutually beneficial relationship, as he believes that both he and Dutch negate the others weaknesses. Lem's decision ultimately was the breaking point for his friendship with Shane Vendrell. He also accidentally had a truck full of Shane is the main catalyst for many of the problems the strike team go through during the course of the series due to his recklessness and prejudices. Diro took Shane back into the fold, but put out contracts on Vic, Ronnie, and their families. He only physically appeared in two episodes but was heavily involved in the affairs of the Barn. In the penultimate episode Terry's murder is the first of the crimes Vic confesses to in exchange for an immunity deal.

Later, as Dutch comforted the nephew of a Dutch realized, from a form of "education" he had been given that day, that the deal he had negotiated might make Tina smug.

This is due to Gardocki being extremely guarded and intelligent in the way he handles not only the team's illegal activities, but his own, and he never leaves evidence or proof of his involvement with the majority of his questionable actions.

Dutch Wagenbach is characterized by many as a socially inept Dutch is not especially popular around his precinct. Allied with Vic, but was murdered (his feet chopped off) by the Armenian Might, most likely Margos Dezerian, when they connected him, through Vic, to the Money Train Robbery.

The drama made Emmy history when he won for Lead Actor in a Drama in 2002, the first such win for a basic-cable series. Gardocki reveals to Mackey that he had long suspected the latter's involvement and that he understood why Mackey did what he did. He even looks past some of Aceveda's major blunders and eventually leads him to nomination. In order to secure his own immunity, Mackey is required to confess to the various crimes committed by the Strike Team. He later met the rest of the team, using the excuse that he too had been tailed. Kavanaugh eventually noticed the security camera in the room and the possibility that his conversation with his wife was being observed by his enemies led him to rush out of the interrogation room. Before she can act on her doubts, she mysteriously disappears and is presumed to have been killed by Lloyd. Waylon heads up the Decoy Squad, a team of undercover officers brought in to serve at the Barn under Claudette Wyms. After Vic injured him so he could release Myra, Carlos went on top of him and put a gun on his mouth angered by his actions. When Mara discovers that Shane was having an affair with a girl who was barely eighteen, she is enraged and throws him out of the house.

Sign up and add shows to get the latest updates about your favorite shows - Download the TV Guide app for iPhone, iPad and Android! Vic manages to take down the entire organization under Alex and pull Vendrell out safely. After Shane was caught in a botched attempt to murder Vic and Ronnie, a horrified Captain Wyms disbanded the Strike Team permanently.