Nominated for 4 Emmys and 4 Golden Globes, including Best Television Series - Drama, The Shield is one of the top police dramas of the past decade. The brainchild of creator Shawn Ryan, writer for such hit shows as Nash Bridges (1996) and Angel (1999), The Shield made history in 2003 by becoming the first basic cable series to win a Golden Globe for Best Drama Series (in the past, only non-ad supported shows such as The Sopranos and Sex And The City have done so well). The hour-long drama boasts a strong, well-rounded cast who, along with the writers/producers, have managed to make The Shield the longest running series on the FX Network

The Shield centers around an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where the lines between right and wrong are often blurred. An ongoing power struggle between a group of corrupt, yet effective, cops and their new boss, Capt. David Aceveda (Benito Martinez), remains the focal point of the show. Det. Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis, of The Commish) heads up an elite unit known as the Strike Team. An effective leader who bends the rules when they fit his aims, Mackey often butts heads with the by-the-book Aceveda who weighs his own political ambitions against the cost of bringing down Mackey and his associates. Veteran Det. Claudette Wyms (CCH Pounder, of ER) knows the ropes, admires Mackey, but also knows how to play sides of the game. For the 2005 season, Glenn Close - star of such films as The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Air Force One (1997) - joined the cast as Capt. Monica Rawling. Together, this celebrated cast maintains an internal tension among themselves while carrying out a unified fight against the criminal element - a fight that keeps the streets of L.A. safe

The Shield (Season 3) DVD features a number of exciting episodes including the season premiere "Playing Tight" in which the Strike Team's efforts to end their corruption are put to an end when they discover that two gangs are attempting to acquire more deadly weaponry. Meanwhile, Dutch and Claudette investigate the murders of four men by the Armenian mob Other notable episodes from Season 3 include "Safe" in which Mackey and the Strike Team go to great lengths to keep themselves from being linked to the money train heist, and "All In" in which the Strike Team anxiously sweeps the streets for a purported Armenian hit-man before he gets to them first

Below is a list of episodes included on The Shield (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 27 (Playing Tight) Air Date: 03-09-2004
Episode 28 (Blood and Water) Air Date: 03-16-2004
Episode 29 (Bottom Bitch) Air Date: 03-23-2004
Episode 30 (Streaks and Tips) Air Date: 03-30-2004
Episode 31 (Mum) Air Date: 04-06-2004
Episode 32 (Posse Up) Air Date: 04-13-2004
Episode 33 (Safe) Air Date: 04-20-2004
Episode 34 (Cracking Ice) Air Date: 04-27-2004
Episode 35 (Slipknot) Air Date: 05-04-2004
Episode 36 (What Power is) Air Date: 05-11-2004
Episode 37 (Strays) Air Date: 05-18-2004
Episode 38 (Riceburner) Air Date: 05-25-2004
Episode 39 (Fire in the Hole) Air Date: 06-01-2004
Episode 40 (All In) Air Date: 06-08-2004
Episode 41 (On Tilt) Air Date: 06-15-2004