List of S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) episodes

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	22		November 2, 2017	May 17, 2018
	2	23		September 27, 2018	May 16, 2019
	3	TBA		October 2, 2019	TBA

Season 1 (2017–18)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Justin Lin	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas & Shawn Ryan	November 2, 2017	100	6.74[11]
Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson is tasked to run an elite S.W.A.T. unit for the LAPD after his original team leader William "Buck" Spivey, was fired after accidentally shooting an unarmed black teenager during a shootout. To fill the void left by Spivey, a wild officer, Jim Street, is recruited into the team. Hondo must quickly establish his right to be leader, because the team realize that someone is manipulating both the Police and the public to increase the tension, but to what end?
2	2	"Cuchillo"	Billy Gierhart	Craig Gore	November 9, 2017	101	6.59[12]
Hondo and Jessica are uncertain about how to proceed with their relationship as it violates department procedures. After multiple inmates escape a prison transport, the team must hunt down the fugitives including a psychopath called 'La Cuchillo' that Jessica caught before transferring to S.W.A.T. As Hondo and Mumford's teams round up the other 3 fugitives, Street's lone-wolf mentality causes tension as Hondo is pressured to either rein him in or cut him loose. In an effort to get through to him, Hondo puts Chris and Street on protection detail of the woman who put Cuchillo away before, and tells Chris to get Street to understand he needs to trust the team. When Cuchillo barricades himself inside a house with a teenage girl hostage and S.W.A.T. pinned down, Hondo must pull his most outrageous stunt to date to save the day. At the end of the episode, Jessica and Hondo both agree to maintain their relationship without letting anyone know.
3	3	"Pamilya"	Billy Gierhart	Sam Humphrey	November 16, 2017	103	6.26[13]
S.W.A.T is tasked with tracking down drug smugglers who are using human trafficking victims as drug mules. After a bad break up, Luka is in need of a place to stay, but knowing what a bad houseguest he is, no-one on the team is willing to help. Meanwhile whilst doing a favor for his incarcerated mother, Street ends up attacking a civilian and puts both his career and Hondos ability to be a leader into question. Hondo discovers that Karen Street misled her son into attacking an associate of her smuggling operation, and tells her to leave her son alone before she destroys his career. As punishment for his actions, Hondo forces Street to take Luca in, which he assures him is worse than it seems.
4	4	"Radical"	Greg Beeman	Kent Rotherham	November 23, 2017	102	5.84[14]
During a party to "celebrate" Hondo becoming a media sensation for his helicopter stunt, The S.W.A.T. team are called then a suspected homemade terrorist accidentally blows himself and most of his building up in a Highland Park explosion. Whilst the FBI use the explosion as a justification for arresting suspected terrorists on a watch list, Hondo learns that there are several explosives missing, and the Team must race against the clock to find the partner. Meanwhile, Cortez begins to panic when Deacon's wife Annie reveals gossip that Hondo is in a relationship, whilst Hondo reaches out for Buck who is isolating himself following his firing. S.W.A.T learns the two bombers are college students being manipulated by their bitter professor into committing these acts under the guise of "Patriotic Acts", and the partner ends up holding a classroom of students hostage with a bomb, and Hondo must play negotiator.
5	5	"Imposters"	Guy Ferland	VJ Boyd	November 30, 2017	105	6.71[15]
The S.W.A.T. team deals with a gang of robbers posing as a S.W.A.T. officers, but the recently burglarized family is suspected of hiding something. Meanwhile, Deacon and Luca are assigned as security detail for Bobby Strock, a visiting professional hockey player who has been receiving death threats, but his troublemaking attitude complicates matters further.
6	6	"Octane"	Eagle Egilsson	Michael Jones-Morales	December 7, 2017	104	6.25[16]
After being contacted by criminals reaching out for his old undercover alias, Street is forced to go back undercover into the world of high-end car theft in order to dismantle a ring he tried to earlier in his career. Things go bad when the paranoid mastermind behind the ring starts to question loyalty.
7	7	"Homecoming"	John Showalter	Alison Cross	December 14, 2017	106	6.45[17]
Hondo's incarcerated friend Leroy asks him for a favor - to safeguard his son Daryl after he was witness to a drive-by shooting. Meanwhile, Luca's grandfather, original S.W.A.T member Jack Luca, has died and Luca struggles to deal with the loss.
8	8	"Miracle"	Holly Dale	A.C. Allen	December 21, 2017	107	6.28[18]
During Christmas Eve, a drug cartel's cache of gold bars was stolen, forcing the S.W.A.T team to put their vacation on hold to apprehend the thieves. Meanwhile, Jessica's plan to improve the S.W.A.T division attracts attention from the President of the Police Commissioner Board, Michael Plank.
9	9	"Blindspots"	Billy Gierhart	Michael Gemballa	January 4, 2018	108	6.21[19]
During the investigation into an armed robbery, Deacon is temporarily placed in charge of the team when Hondo is taken off duty due to a strange misconduct complaint: an unknown male claiming Hondo used his police authority to rob him. Tan turns to an old CI which quickly gets out of hand. Hondo realises his alibi for the "incident" is Cortez, which would expose their secret relationship. Before either of them can sacrifice their careers, Cortez discovers the complainant incarcerated girlfriend is one of Karen Street's customers, forcing Hondo to come clean to Jim Street about his meeting with Karen.
10	10	"Seizure"	Larry Teng	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas	January 11, 2018	109	6.38[20]
The S.W.A.T. team is deployed for a hostage-rescue mission at a maximum-security prison. Meanwhile, Deacon's wife, Annie, suffers a seizure while visiting the precinct. During the aftermath of the operation, Hondo confronts the prison warden over the lack of procedural integrity.
11	11	"K-Town"	Omar Madha	Craig Gore	January 18, 2018	110	6.02[21]
Hondo’s team participates in a joint LAPD-DEA Task force to apprehend local Korean drug smuggglers. During the height of the investigation, DEA Agent Katrina Walsh’s son is kidnapped, forcing Hondo to rescue him. During the rescue, they identify real estate mogul Jae Kim as the ringleader of the smuggling ring, but are unable to make the arrest so Hondo confronts Kim directly.
12	12	"Contamination"	Elodie Keene	Robert Wittstadt	February 1, 2018	111	6.23[22]
Working again with FBI Agent DuBois, Hondo and the team are on the hunt for two Sovereigns who possess barrels of cyanide and are planning to use them to poison the city, but the only link they have to finding them is a wife who refuses to acknowledge that her husband is about to commit domestic terrorism.
13	13	"Fences"	Alex Graves	Sam Humphrey	March 1, 2018	112	5.32[23]
An ICE raid leaves Street in hot water when he inadvertently violates LA's sanctuary city policy and a young man is faced with deportation. When the younger sister orchestrates a rally outside the police precinct, the team faces the daunting task of protecting her from a group of men looking to deport immigrants by any means, even though no one will let them near her. Meanwhile, after Jessica's tires are slashed in response to her plans, the president of the police commission finds out about Hondo and Jessica's secret romantic relationship. Unwilling to back her unless she acknowledges her hypocrisy, he gives them the ultimatum of choosing either their relationship or their careers. In the end, despite both agreeing they are in love, Hondo and Cortez decide to end their relationship to protect their careers.
14	14	"Ghosts"	John Showalter	Michael Jones-Morales	March 8, 2018	113	5.57[24]
When a serial killer from Luca's past who was thought to have been killed in an explosion two years prior resurfaces, the S.W.A.T team must capture him, this time for good. Meanwhile, Hondo grows more concerned about Buck as he begins to descend into depression following his firing. In order to stop his downward spiral, Hondo must orchestrate a meeting between Buck and Raymont Harris. Jessica gets a threatening letter personally delivered to her desk which, coupled with the attack on her car, forces her and Hicks to realise the suspect is a cop. Cortez publicly offers to let the event slide if the person responsible comes forward, but no one does. Hicks soon learns the person behind the letter is Rocker's wife, who was following his angry ramblings about Cortez's plans being bad. Rocker tells his wife that, after actually thinking about it, he agrees with Cortez but, unfortunately, Hicks is not willing to push this under the rug.
15	15	"Crews"	Hanelle M. Culpepper	V.J. Boyd	March 29, 2018	114	5.26[25]
Hondo's good friend and trusted criminal informant Craig is killed while seeking information about a robbery crew that a joint S.W.A.T and FBI task force is trying to capture. Things get complicated when Cortez begins to suspect FBI Agent DuBois, the agent in charge, has a drug problem which she refuses to admit. When DuBois makes a critical mistake endangering everyone's lives, Cortez removes her from Command and, with Hicks, informs the FBI of DuBois' drug problems. After Craig's daughter reveals her father was at a casino, which leads to them taking down the whole crew, Hondo makes good on a promise to Craig (who was worried financially) and gets the daughter signed up as an FBI CI, meaning she is set to earn a percentage of the money recovered from the takedown.
16	16	"Payback"	Billy Gierhart	Alison Cross	April 5, 2018	115	5.05[26]
A young heiress is kidnapped for ransom; the team links up with her former Marine bodyguard and goes on a citywide search to bring her home before she is harmed. However, when the suspects turn out to be former members of the same private protection service as the bodyguard, they are forced to question whether the family were the targets. The team worries that Mumford is moving too fast when he announces he's getting married for the fourth time after only knowing his new lady friend for a month.
17	17	"Armory"	Rob J. Greenlea	Craig Gore	April 12, 2018	116	5.31[27]
The S.W.A.T team arrests a former gang member who has taken a family hostage, but the mission takes a dangerous turn when he escapes and holds Cortez and Plank captive inside S.W.A.T's armory. The former gang member wants the team to find his sister, who has been kidnapped because he refused to commit a robbery. With Hicks looking to end this matter with a bullet, Hondo must work fast to ensure that everyone comes out alive. Meanwhile, after accidentally destroying the teenage son's scholarship competition entry Quadcopter, Deacon, Luka, and Tan make up for it by giving the kid access to S.W.A.Ts hardware depot to help him rebuild it overnight, then providing a full police escort to make the entry deadline.
18	18	"Patrol"	Norberto Barba	A.C. Allen	April 19, 2018	117	5.32[28]
On their monthly patrol day, Chris and Mumford must deal with a psychiatric patient on a shooting spree and Deacon and Luca play host to a group of troubled children, during which Luca discovers that one of them has dyslexia. Tan and Street must recover Tan's stolen radio from an opportunistic cheerleader. Meanwhile, Hondo travels to Oakland to help his half-sister convince their stubborn and ill father to move to L.A. with them.
19	19	"Source"	Doug Aarniokoski	Michael Gemballa	April 26, 2018	118	5.22[29]
The S.W.A.T. team is assigned to protect a high-profile Russian journalist who is visiting Los Angeles from assassins but, when her unwillingness to cooperate results in a shootout, Hondo forces her to reveal that she is on the verge of uncovering a massive weapons smuggling operation and is trying to meet a source who will provide the final key. Whilst protecting her at a speaking event, Deacon and Luka discover that the hitmen have the components to a bio-terrorism attack and one of the team throws themselves into the firing line to protect the journalist. Meanwhile, with only days left on her incarceration sentence, Street deals with a personal crisis over letting his mother live with him, which forces Luka to once again look for a place to stay. Desperate to avoid his unwelcome presence in their homes, the rest of the team try to find a place for him and the reason for why he refuses to commit to a permanent home.
20	20	"Vendetta"	Billy Gierhart	Kent Rotherham	May 3, 2018	119	5.09[30]
Following up on what transpired in the episode K-Town, Hondo’s clandestine surveillance on Jae Kim lands him in hot water with the L.A.P.D. commanding officers after he is the target of an assassination attempt. Hondo is benched while the team follows up on his investigation, but trouble arises when former DEA Agent KC Walsh, Hondo's contact, is discovered with the dead body of the only man who could testify against Kim. In order to legally arrest Kim, Hondo gets the bank to cancel a $25M loan to Kim, which forces him to find the money quickly, and then arranges a sting operation, but the plan unravels when Hondo learns that Commissioner Plank was the one who told Kim about Hondo's investigation, resulting in the attempt on his life. Cortez must force Hondo and Plank to put aside their differences when Plank is needed to go undercover.
21	21	"Hunted"	Nina Lopez-Corrado	Matthew T. Brown	May 10, 2018	120	5.54[31]
When a gang of bikers starts brazenly killing their rivals, Deacon suggests a visit to his former patrol partner who used to be undercover in the gang, while Mumford's team tries to round up the gang's members. Upon arriving at the ex-cop's cabin, Deacon and Hondo are ambushed and forced to flee into the woods, learning that Deacon's former partner was genuinely in league with the gang. While trying to keep ahead of their pursuers, they have to face some unresolved issues between them. Meanwhile, Chris searches for the truth about a female S.W.A.T. candidate in order to help her pass selection.
22	22	"Hoax"	Billy Gierhart	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas	May 17, 2018	121	6.03[32]
After responding to a fake 911 call, the team must race against the clock to stop bomb threats throughout the city. In order to facilitate the search, Hondo enlists the aid of his childhood friends and his father to help identify their suspects. Meanwhile, Street’s relationship with the team is strained when he has to deal with a crisis involving his mother and uncle. During the aftermath, Street is kicked out from S.W.A.T. for lying to Hondo, and skips attending Deacon’s wedding renewal. Cortez also learns on a televised broadcast that Plank is running for governor.

Season 2 (2018–19)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
23	1	"Shaky Town"	Billy Gierhart	Michael Jones-Morales	September 27, 2018	201	4.70[33]
While attempting to arrest a known leader of a human-trafficking ring, the entire team runs into complications caused by an earthquake. Meanwhile, Street struggles with mending fences with the team, whilst also adjusting to being a patrol officer rather than S.W.A.T. Hondo meets Nia Wells, a recently divorced District Attorney, at a hotel bar and spends the night with her, but when he goes to check on her at the hospital, he discovers her Ex-Husband at her bedside.
24	2	"Gasoline Drum"	John Showalter	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas	October 4, 2018	202	5.21[34]
The S.W.A.T. team races against the clock to apprehend the leader of a Turkish drug cartel and a rogue Turkish law enforcement agent.
25	3	"Fire and Smoke"	Billy Gierhart	Alison Cross	October 11, 2018	203	5.40[35]
The S.W.A.T team works with District Attorney Nia Wells to protect the jurors of a high profile case when their families are being targeted with bombs. Meanwhile, Cortez learns that, due to budget cuts, members of S.W.A.T. will have to return to patrol, putting their careers, including Tan's, in jeopardy.
26	4	"Saving Face"	Bill Roe	A.C. Allen	October 18, 2018	204	5.49[36]
The S.W.A.T team works with Eric Wells, a U.S. Marshal who happens to be Nia's estranged husband to detain a fugitive who is robbing drug cargo shipments, and Hondo can't help but be suspicious of Eric's true motives, especially after learning Eric orchestrated his assignment to the case. Meanwhile, after Street caught his mother buying and keeping cocaine in her purse, he calls her out for being selfish and moves out immediately. In the end, Street and Hondo makeup and Street expresses to Hondo his desire to be back on S.W.A.T. Because he never went through it the first time, Hondo tells Street to enlist in the S.W.A.T. academy.
27	5	"S.O.S."	Larry Teng	Andrew Dettmann	October 25, 2018	205	5.36[37]
Hondo and Chris infiltrate a hijacked cruise ship in an effort to undermine the hijackers plan to flee to Mexico with drugs, while the rest of the team works from outside to determine the identity of the criminals. With the help of a passenger with a satellite phone and the ship's Chief of Security, they manage to find the ringleader and neutralize the threat. Meanwhile, Street endures his first day at S.W.A.T. academy which is proven difficult as Luca, who still bears a grudge, is one of the supervisors testing him, but they ultimately make up in an effort to help him win a bet against Mumford. He also befriends fellow trainee Devlin.
28	6	"Never Again"	Marc Roskin	Craig Gore	November 1, 2018	206	5.22[38]
A group of well-organized and heavily-armed robbers hit several diamond merchants across downtown Los Angeles. The S.W.A.T. team tries to determine the next dealer targeted. Cortez reveals that the three dealers are connected to the Israeli mafia and she reaches out to their top enforcer, who previously helped her against the Russian mob, to try to prevent a blood bath. After Hondo kills one of the suspects in a shootout, found to be a woman, they discover the suspects are Israeli women on student visas with a very personal motive. Afterward, Hondo, emotionally affected by the suspect's death, seeks comfort from his mother, Charice (Debbie Allen). Also, while Street worries that Luca, his S.W.A.T. training academy instructor, has a personal vendetta against him, Chris contemplates an unorthodox proposition from the new woman she's dating: a triad relationship with her boyfriend.
29	7	"Inheritance"	Romeo Tirone	Kent Rotherham	November 8, 2018	207	5.13[39]
When a young woman, daughter of an internet mogul, and her boyfriend are kidnapped by a group of criminals with similar motives and tactics as the Symbionese Liberation Army in Patty Hearst's kidnapping, the S.W.A.T team reviews Luca's late grandfather's journal with the assistance from his father, Carl. Meanwhile, Hondo travels to Arizona with Nia for a S.W.A.T training seminar and encounters apparent racial profiling by a state trooper. Though Devlin is chosen as a new member of S.W.A.T, Deacon, temporarily in charge, offers Street to come back for one day. The team manages to foil the criminal's plan and save the woman, though the kidnappers themselves escape. Hicks and Hondo reinstate Street back on S.W.A.T, on a probationary period for 6 months, in the place of two senior officers who are retiring. In the end, the kidnappers broadcast a warning video, threatening to return if society doesn't change.
30	8	"The Tiffany Experience"	Guy Ferland	VJ Boyd	November 15, 2018	208	5.13[40]
The team is dealing with a psychotic fan of a female vlogger who wants to be her boyfriend by killing anyone around her. Unfortunately, the vlogger is far more interested in capitalizing on the experience to boost her fanbase and become more infamous, and she doesn't seem to care just how many innocent people are at risk to do it.
31	9	"Day Off"	Lexi Alexander	Sarah Alderson	November 29, 2018	209	5.20[41]
During their day off, Street and Chris help Luca renovate his new home, though she has to resort to calling her builder uncle to solve the house's problems. Outside the house, they run into a trio of gangsters who have taken a children's park as their own. Deacon and Tan work with Mumford on a hostage situation, and Hondo searches for a serial rapist after rescuing his sister, Brianna, when she is drugged in a nightclub. During the hostage situation, Mumford discovers one of the hostages is a wanted suspect and they have to find him before he achieves his vengeance by murdering those he holds responsible. Hondo doesn't have proof to arrest his sister's would-be rapist and resorts to threatening him if he tries again. Afterwards, Nia breaks off with him.
32	10	"1000 Joules"	David Rodriguez	Craig Gore	December 6, 2018	210	5.34[42]
When dozens of DNA kits and evidence from LAPD crime lab are stolen, injuring one of the technicians, Rebecca, who happens to be a close friend to Hicks, the S.W.A.T team goes on an all-out hunt to recover them. Though at first they think the thief was related to a criminal waiting for trial, they end up discovering the thief was someone wanting to profit from selling the evidence to the culprits. Thanks to Rebecca having the cool head to hide a shell while bleeding on the floor, they're able to capture the thief. Meanwhile, Deacon faces financial difficulties which makes him hard to focus as the leader of the S.W.A.T annual holiday toy drive. When the department wouldn't give him a new credit, Luca offers to lend him the money he needs.
33	11	"School"	Billy Gierhart	Robert Wittstadt	January 3, 2019	211	5.99[43]
Hondo and the team are forced to relive the painful memories of the Riverhill High School Massacre six years ago as they hunt down a copycat who is planning to re-enact the same attack on a high school with a higher body count.  Note: Shemar Moore, Alex Russell, Lina Esco, and Jay Harrington appeared in a public service announcement alongside Lt. Aaron Pisarzewicz from Los Angeles School Police Department's School Safety Initiative Division.
34	12	"Los Huesos"	Alex Kalymnios	Michael Jones-Morales	January 10, 2019	212	5.91[44]
Jessica and Chris go on an undercover mission in Mexico City, without any back-up, to rescue a US federal agent who has been kidnapped by a drug-dealing gang that Jess worked undercover in a few years ago. Meanwhile, Hondo engages in a small home renovation projects, which worries his mother, Charice, if he has something that is causing him emotional strain. Note: The episode is partially filmed in Mexico City, Mexico.
35	13	"Encore"	Rob Greenlea	Munis Rashid	January 31, 2019	213	5.68[45]
5 low-level employees from 5 major companies are kidnapped by The Emancipators, the group they first encounter during the SLA-like kidnapping case, and the companies are held to ransom for the amount they have avoided paying in taxes. Whilst Hicks tries to determine if the heads of the companies are willing to sacrifice their employees lives to protect their finances, Hondo's emotional turmoil starts to get the best of him when he lashes out at the team for allowing one of them to escape. Even though they manage to arrest all the Emancipators involved, Hondo later gets a call from the ringleader wishing him luck at their next encounter.
36	14	"The B-Team"	Maja Vrvilo	VJ Boyd	February 7, 2019	214	4.96[46]
The S.W.A.T team works with the FBI to stop a separatist who is trying to use the weapons-grade plutonium for a terrorist plot. Also, the team participates in a law enforcements annual charity competition against Los Angeles Fire Department. Note: NFL pro-football players Willie McGinest, James Harrison and Eric Dickerson guest stars as members of the LAFD.
37	15	"Fallen"	Guy Ferland	Michael Gemballa	February 14, 2019	215	5.59[47]
When two patrol officers were killed in a series of random shooting, The team goes on the hunt to find the perpetrator and discovers the two dirty cops are responsible. Also, Deacon and his wife, Annie prepare to welcome their fourth child.
38	16	"Pride"	Nina Lopez-Corrado	Matthew T. Brown	February 21, 2019	216	5.47[48]
The team have their hands full on safeguarding the LGBTQ Pride event in Los Angeles, when a hate crime threatens to ignite more violence. As the case hits close to home for Chris, it also reunite Hicks with his estranged son, JP, a former drug-addict turned gay-rights activist. Meanwhile, Street worries his mother will be sent back to prison when she misses the last two parole meets. Deacon receives unexpected news regarding his newborn daughter, Victoria, who needs an operation. Unable to get a loan from a bank, Deacon has resort to a loan shark he once arrested, Mickey.
39	17	"Jack"	Larry Teng	Kent Rotherham	March 7, 2019	217	5.58[49]
The team tries to zero in on a carjacking ring, but things went complicated when they discover heroin hidden in the cars. Meanwhile, Hondo decides to take in Daryl to stay with him and his mother. Deacon has problems returning the loan due to being on sick leave, and Mickey asks for a favor instead. Mumford juggles with his future in S.W.A.T after being shot. After the case is resolved, Mumford decides to give his 30-day notice.
40	18	"Cash Flow"	Billy Gierhart	Andrew Dettmann & Amelia Sims	April 4, 2019	218	4.73[50]
A case of a escape convict who is broken out of the prison by criminals using stolen military weapon reunites Hondo with a fellow Marine, Ruiz, with whom he served in Somalia 20 years ago. When the weapons turn out to have been stolen from Ruiz's base, he tries to take over, but they're forced to push away their differences to recover the weapons and stop the criminals. When Deacon can't fully pay his debt quota, Mickey asks for another favor instead. After almost stealing stolen cash in desperation, he finally comes clean to Hondo. He and Luca pay off the debt and warn Micky off Deacon. Meanwhile, Chris prepares for a difficult farewell to her former K-9 partner, Champ, when he falls terminally ill, which forces her to face some truths about her relationship with Ty and Kira.
41	19	"Invisible"	John Terlesky	A.C. Allen	April 18, 2019	219	5.09[51]
Luca, Street and Chris responds to a potential abduction of their closest neighbor, Timo. After they find him, they discover he witnessed a kidnapping perpetrated by two ICE agent impostors who are gaining access to an upscale neighborhood by targeting domestic workers. Meanwhile, Hondo decides to adopt Daryl into his family, and the S.W.A.T division prepares for a retirement send-off party for Mumford.
42	20	"Rocket Fuel"	Laura Belsey	Craig Gore & Ryan Keleher	April 25, 2019	220	5.01[52]
The squad deals with the finding of PCP nicknamed "Rocket Fuel", which has been on the street for decades and kills many, including Tan's cousin. Meanwhile, Hondo struggles to encourage Daryl as he keeps getting rejected during his job interviews, and Street worries when his missing mother conducts a credit card fraud.
43	21	"Day of Dread"	Alrick Riley	Alison Cross	May 2, 2019	221	5.00[53]
Hondo's leadership is called into question when the squad finds themselves under internal investigation after an attempt to capture the most wanted criminal inavertedly resulting in the death of a civilian. Also Daryl gets shot.
44	22	"Trigger Creep"	Oz Scott	Sarah Alderson & Munis Rashid	May 9, 2019	222	5.02[54]
While Hondo searches for the person responsible of a near-fatal attempt on Daryl's life, the S.W.A.T team tries to figure out the next location for a lone gunmen who was a father of a dead daughter will strike. Meanwhile, FBI agent Elle Benson approaches Cortez with another undercover assignment.
45	23	"Kangaroo"	Billy Gierhart	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas & Michael Gemballa	May 16, 2019	223	5.75[55]
The S.W.A.T team once again square off against The Emancipators when they hold a live-stream kangaroo court to publicly execute city politicians. Meanwhile, Deacon receives a LAPD Police Stars, which is something he feels unworthy of, Hondo tries to help Daryl with his recovery and Street finds his mother under the influence of drugs again and eventually calls in her parole officer to send her back to prison.

Season 3 (2019–20)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
46	1	"Fire in the Sky"	Billy Gierhart	Michael Jones-Morales	October 2, 2019	301	4.03[56]
The 20-David squad welcomes Lt. Piper Lynch from LAPD Hollywood Division as they race to stop a serial bomber using drones as a detonation devices. Meanwhile, Hondo's first day as a guardian for Darryl becomes complicated when his father unexpectedly moves in, and Street helps Molly and her client in a domestic violence dispute.
47	2	"Bad Faith"	Marc Roskin	Kent Rotherham	October 9, 2019	302	3.73[57]
The S.W.A.T team goes on a hunt for the unstable and dangerous fugitive leader of an infamous doomsday cult as Lt. Lynch enacts a departmental review per Mayor's request. Also, Luca reveals his latest passion project: a Guatemalan food truck and he asks the team to help invest in it.
48	3	"Funny Money"	Alrick Riley	Alison Cross	October 16, 2019	303	3.56[58]
49	4	"Immunity"	Jann Turner	Michael Gemballa	October 23, 2019	304	3.76[59]
The S.W.A.T team tries to apprehend a former Colombian rebel leader turned drug cartel, but when Deacon's family get's caught in the crosshairs, he is forced to put his family under S.W.A.T protection after the drug leader who was under CIA immunity retaliates by attacking him at home. Also, Hondo receives a troubling news about his father's condition from Darryl, and Tan must face a Professional Standards Bureau after he and his girlfriend, Bonnie unknowingly consumes Pot Gummies.
50	5	"The LBC"	Lin Oeding	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas	October 30, 2019	305	3.43[60]
A joint investigation between LAPD S.W.A.T and Long Beach Police Department on the stolen LAPD weapons reunites Street with his foster brother, Nate. Meanwhile, Hondo discovers his father has a lung cancer, which further concerns him about his father's stubborn act and the team decides to help out Luca's food truck business.
51	6	"Kingdom"	David Rodriguez	Sarah Alderson	November 6, 2019	306	3.84[61]
The S.W.A.T team races to save a Middle Eastern activist who was abducted under pretense of treason. Meanwhile, Hondo finds himself in a tense family reunion, as his older sister, Winnie arrives in Los Angeles to visit his hospitalized father for over a decade. Also, Luca's food truck business hits a roadblock, and Street worries his relationship with Hicks' daughter, Molly will negatively affect his career.
52	7	"Track"	Batan Silva	Robert Wittstadt	November 13, 2019	307	3.09[62]
The S.W.A.T. team tracks down a four-man robbery crew who is using a thermal lance as a tool for heist. Meanwhile, Chris confronts an imbalance in her relationship with Kira and Ty, and Street debates on whether he should tell Hicks he's dating his daughter, Molly.
53	8	"Lion's Den"	Billy Gierhart	Munis Rashid	November 20, 2019	308	3.76[63]
An eviction notice turns into a dramatic standoff, and Hicks finds himself in a life or death situation when he offers to trade himself for the wounded officer who has been taken hostage by an evicted family. Meanwhile, Chris considers on breaking up from Kira & Ty, and Hondo reflects on his personal life choices as he helps his father through a medical crisis.
54	9	"Sea Legs"	Greg Beeman	Craig Gore	November 27, 2019	309	5.23[64]
The S.W.A.T. team joins forces with the Los Angeles Organized Crime division to rescue an undercover officer whose cover is blown while investigating a human trafficking ring. Also, Chris struggles with how to comfort the kidnapped officer's parents when she is restricted from giving them certain details of the investigation.
55	10	"Monster"	Guy Ferland	A.C. Allen	December 11, 2019	310	4.81[65]
The S.W.A.T. team are assigned with securing a former Somali warlord wanted for war crimes to be escorted to the International Crime Court, however the task becomes complicated when the assassin's tries to take him out first.
56	11	"Bad Cop"	Ben Hernandez Bray	Andrew Dettmann	January 15, 2020	311	3.66[66]
Street is torn between his commitment to SWAT and to his foster brother, Nate when the latter is unexpectedly ensnared in a drug ring. Also, the SWAT team tracks down a ruthless crew uses deadly force while stealing from card casinos and Buck approaches Deacon to partner on a private security opportunity. In the end, Street was revealed to be working undercover alongside Hondo & Hicks as he fake quitting from SWAT in order to spy on Nate's supervisor, Teague Nolan.
57	12	"Good Cop"	Guy Ferland	Matthew T. Brown	January 22, 2020	312	3.39[67]
After the revelation of Street "quitting" SWAT was a ploy for him to infiltrate Nolan's drug ring, the SWAT team goes all out to help him bust Nolan and the other supplier. However, things went personal for Street when his foster brother, Nate was murdered by Nolan.
58	13	"Ekitai Rashku"	Billy Gierhart	Craig Gore	January 29, 2020	313	4.45[68]
Hondo, Deacon, Tan & Hicks travels to Tokyo to extradite a fugitive to a local police, but soon engaged in a manhunt when the fugitive escapes from custody. Meanwhile, the rest of SWAT team search for any contacts the criminal cultivated while hiding out in Los Angeles, and Street continues to reeling from his brother's death. Note: The episode is partially filmed in Tokyo, Japan.