The relationship between Vic Mackey and Claudette Wyms has gone through ups and downs and contains both mutual respect and antagonism. Claudette is disgusted at Vic's brutality, but appreciates his ability to get things done. For his part, Vic seems to respect the fact that Claudette is driven by a desire to do good but he is also aggravated by the fact that she condems his tactics while wanting him to use them to clean up the street. Despite their occasional arguments and conflicts, Vic treats her with a little more respect than he does Dutch, Aceveda or even Shane.
Season One[]
When asked by Aceveda what she thinks about Vic, she replies that she doesn't judge other cops. She also seems to feel that Mackey makes the neighberhoods safe. Later, Julien comes to her for advice when he sees the Strike Team steal drugs from a bust. Although no legal action is ever taken, she tells Mackey that he "cut it close". Later in the season Mackey and Wyms are paired together and seem to work well with each other. When a riot happened in Farmington that left three cops dead in the aftermath with their guns and badges stolen off of them, Vic and Shane caught one of the killers and tortured information out of him by stabbing him with a pin of a badge stolen of one of the dead police officers, with Claudette coming in just in time to see that the killer has been apprehended. He tells her that Vic had stabbed him with the badge. For a moment she looks at Mackey and the bloody badge pin being proof of having been used for police brutality, but quickly ignores it and tells the cop killer "You look fine to me", as she was more concerned with finding justice for her fallen police officers than his injuries or Vic's brutality.
Season Two[]
When Armadillo Quintero comes to town he burns down the front of rival dealer T.O. and Claudette is sent to investigate. As she does, she realizes that that T.O. may be paying Mackey for protection. However, before she can investigate, the investigation is shut down by Aceveda who is trying to avoid a scandal. Enraged, Claudette warns both Mackey and Aceveda that she'll find the truth no matter what. After Armadillo's death, she approaches Mackey and reminds him that although he avoided any legal ramifications, this caused a lot of pain during the process covering up his misdeeds.
Later she is approached by Lanie Kellis, and asked to help investigate Mackey. She declines saying that even if Mackey goes to jail, there wouldn't be any real change. She is also offered the captain's position but declines that as well. However, after she realizes that Mackey beat up on an innocent man she decides that she is tired of standing by and agrees to become captain after Aceveda leaves for office.
Towards the end of the season Vic approaches her and says that they need to find a way to work together. She then smugly replies that he's going to have to find a way to "handle working for me", letting him know that she'll be the new captain when Aceveda leaves.
Season Three[]
Claudette is placed in command of both the Strike Team and another unit, the Undercover Decoy Squad. The arrival of the decoy squad into Farmington unnerves Mackey, since he realizes that his leverage in the barn will decline if another unit can do what he can without the brutality or corruption. However, both teams become annoyed with the extra layer of bureaucracy under Claudette; and she in turn begins to buckle under the stress of managing both teams plus a full detective load. She later makes a mistake that puts a member of the decoy squad in danger until Mackey ends up rescuing her. The Decoy Squad later refuses to work under her and tries to convince the assistant chief to move them out of Farmington. Mackey uses the conflict to portray Claudette as overwhelmed and unable to handle the leadership responsibility. However, Claudette is unaware of this and thanks Mackey for returning the Decoy Squad to her command (which he does to solve one last case before they leave). Claudette is then placed back in the detective rotation.
Claudette and Dutch are sent to investigate the shooting of a public defender, and realize that she practiced law while under the influence of perscription painkillers. Claudette eventually decides to report this information leading to hundreds of convicted criminals being released. Mackey and the rest of the barn become angry since most of those released were guilty people who will probably go out to commit more crimes. Although Claudette was slated to replace Aceveda as captain, her actions derail any hope of promotion.
Season Four[]
Claudette and Vic don't interact much, but she expresses disapproval at his actions and the Assest Seizure Program saying "breaking into black folk's homes in the name of security isn't nothing new."
Season Five[]
At the end of the season Claudette is promoted to Captain after Dutch turns down the offer. She tells Vic that "that renegade bullshit won't fly on my watch, but you already knew that". Although she doesn't seem to have any sympathy for Mackey, she also refuses to help Kavanaugh, saying that his presence in the barn does more bad than good.
Season Six[]
Season Seven[]
By this period, Vic is under close supervision and Claudette isn't concerned with questioning Vic. However, Claudette does make it a habit of keeping Vic on a tight leash when it comes to defending her new reputation. In the end, she is too concerned with making sure Kleavon Gardner's appeal is unsuccessful to worry about whether or not Vic is in fact guilty.
When Vic turns in his badge following the revelation of Shane's attempted murder of Ronnie, she is at first happy to see him go, but she quickly realizes that he is doing this in order to go after Shane and tries to keep Mackey on the job in order to keep her eyes on him, to no avail. Claudette makes it her personal mission to put Vic away when Corrine began working with the police after she revealed he tried to have Shane and Mara killed. Before she and Dutch could arrest Mackey, they arrive too late to witness his confession and learned that he had cut a deal with ICE for his cooperation in taking down Guillermo Beltran and that they had given him full immunity for all of the crimes that he had committed. She walks out furiously knowing that Vic Mackey could never be prosecuted for all his wrongdoings now that he has full immunity. In their last meeting together, she summons him and Ronnie back to the Barn after their successful drug bust and informs him of Shane's murder-suicide while showing him crime scene photos as well as his suicide note. Before Vic leaves, she makes him watch as Dutch and the unis arrest Ronnie in front of Vic and informs him that Vic took the deal for himself to save Corrine, believing that she got in trouble for helping him, while implicating Ronnie in the crimes that were confessed. As Ronnie is taken away while cursing at Vic for betraying him and sending him to prison, Claudette, along with the personnel at The Barn, are completely disgusted with Vic. She dismisses him, fully satisfied that he has now lost all of the respect that his former co-workers had for him.