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The Shield: Detective Vic Mackey
Played by Michael Chiklis

A cross between Grant Mitchell, Vin Diesel and a bulldog, Vic is the Strike Team’s cantankerous leader. He’s sturdy and belligerent and he operates a strictly zero-tolerance policy, stealing drugs, beating and torturing suspects when necessary. His past is gnarly to say the least: unbeknownst to many, he murdered the team’s fifth member, Terry Crowley, when he threatened to expose them. He’s no stranger to dirty tactics. Embezzlement, blackmail and burning rapists’ faces on hot stoves are all in a day’s work but this beefcake does have a soft side. He loves his children and gives respect where it’s due, but he struggles to hold it together when IAD comes at him from all sides and his buddies are picked off one by one.


CSI: Epispde 24
Way to go

The sixth series of our favourite Vegas-centric forensics drama goes out with a bang with the second half of the spine-tingling two-parter. While Brass struggles for his life after taking a bullet to the chest to protect an innocent hostage, the team struggles to make sense of two more bloodcurdling murders.

So, with the seasoned detective incapacitated the team is forced to take on two very strange cases without his steely guidance. Grissom is called from the hospital to the train tracks where a man with a bizarrely narrow waist, long-johns and no head lies.

He’s not a pretty sight: emerging from his neck is a bone-stump and a partially visible spinal cord clogged with oily dirt and dust, which corresponds with the obvious theory that the victim was decapitated by a train. But there isn’t enough blood at the scene for that. Nick locates the man’s head, bobbing away in the river below the tracks, along with fragments of bone and burnt clothing.

After a difficult day the team heads to the hospital with Brass’ estranged daughter, Ellie, to find out if the detective has made it through surgery. Emotions get the better of them and two of the CSIs decide to seize the moment, taking a step which CSI fans have been speculating over for weeks.


Grey's Anatomy: Meredith Grey
Played by Ellen Pompeo

Surgical intern Meredith is passionate, talented and destined for the top. As the daughter of Ellis Grey – one of Seattle’s most respected surgeons – she has great expectation to live up to. But her focus and dedication are tested when her mother is stricken with Alzheimer’s, a burden that she struggles to keep separate from her work. And when she 'accidentally' falls into bed with Sheppard, a senior surgeon, she worries that she’s crossed a dangerous line. With a tendency towards the melodramatic, she is also a little too forthcoming with advice for patients when it’s unwarranted.


House: Episode 24
No reason

It’s the House season finale and you just know it’s going to be emotional. House faces one more tricky patient and is plagued by a crisis of his own.

A hot and swollen tongue with a man attached is carted into the hospital. House is just getting to grips with Vince, who has a temperature of 103, when a man struts into the office, pulls out a gun and aims at him.

Next thing he knows, House is in bed looking up at Cameron’s face. A hospital bed, that is. Cameron explains that the bullet pierced his stomach, nicked his bowel and lodged in his rib, but House is no good at playing the victim - he staggers out to visit Vince and orders the junior doctors to carry out preliminary tests. Suddenly the shooter, Jack, is wheeled into the room, handcuffed to a bed - security cut him down as he tried to make his exit.

Is this real?