Emolia Melendez

Emolia Melendez
Profession:	Heroin cutter, informant
Children:	Sebastio (son)
Status:	Alive
Played by:	Onahoua Rodriguez
Season(s):	4 - 5 - 6
First episode:	"Back in the Hole"
Last episode:	"Baptism by Fire"

Emolia Melendez was a heroin cutter for the Salvadorans and then became an informant for both Vic Mackey and Internal Affairs.

Season 4

Emolia witnessed Curtis Lemansky steal a kilo of heroin and reported it to Internal Affairs as having no steady employment and was looking out for her son to make some money for safety net.

Season 5

Emolia remained as Vic's informant for six months, giving him information and accepting his favors for her son Sebastio. Vic became attached to her, expressing a wish for her to leave the informant business and to find work for her elsewhere, but ultimately discovered that she was also serving as an informant on the Team for Kavanaugh. Vic managed to get her alone and instructed her to not reveal any more information, under threat of violence.

Emolia being questioned about new information on the shipment of grenades in Postpartum

She was nearly killed in a Salvadoran grenade manufacturing plant during a sting and later expressed regret to Vic for reporting Lem. When Kavanaugh's investigation disintegrated because Lem accepted a deal, Emolia tried to convince Vic to accept her as an informant once again. Vic refused to be persuaded and, after using her services one last time to obtain information of the Salvadorian Mob's current operations, he cut off ties with her. She tries to convince him to let her stay on as her informant and apologizes for ratting on Lem, that she only did it for her son and claims that he would have done the same thing for his family. Shane tells her to take her rat money and her retarded rat baby and leave. Emolia is enraged at Shane for how he talks about Sebastio and expects Vic to stand up for the two. Vic then tells her that he showed her mercy once and it ruined Lem's life, and tells her to leave, making it very clear that she is no longer welcomed in the Strike Team's lives.

Season 6

Emolia, however, returned to the lives of the Strike Team when Kavanaugh found her and, with an offer of witness protection, fed her a false story in order to indict Vic Mackey for the murder of Lemansky. However, her story was later disproved by Dutch Wagenbach, who discovered that Kavanaugh and Emolia never met at the meeting place that was designated and, after a lecture from Claudette Wyms about how she would look back at this period of her life and how she had been used by both Mackey and Kavanaugh, is prepared to overturn her testimony until a guilt ridden Kavanaugh confessed to feeding her the story. She left Los Angeles to stay in Seattle with her sister.

Appearances

Season 6

On the Jones · Baptism by Fire ·