S2E11 School
The SWAT team faces difficult reminders of a past school shooting when they receive a warning that a copycat plans to re-enact the crime. As the team races to stop the new threat, they flash back to the day of the tense first mission.
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🏆 Top Episodes
#2
S8E22
Return to Base
The SWAT team undertakes its final mission when a violent crew of ex-pat Russian mercenaries holds LA hostage after planting hundreds of explosives across the city.
#3
S3E18
Stigma
Hondo and the SWAT team race to save Buck, their former unit leader, when he goes off grid and they fear he plans to harm himself. Flashbacks reveal the search for Buck, which coincides with one of the team’s most brutal missions, as each team member receives counseling and discusses the untold mental and emotional difficulties inherent to working in SWAT.
- 4. S8E3 "Life"
- 5. S8E15 "Hostages"
- 6. S7E7 "Last Call"
- 7. S7E13 "Twenty Squad"
- 8. S8E9 "Open Season"
- 9. S8E19 "Run to Ground"
- 10. S2E19 "Invisible"
📉 Bottom Episodes
#163
S4E1
3 Seventeen Year Olds
Hondo, his father Daniel Sr. and his teen charge Darryl confront the history of racial tension in Los Angeles between law enforcement and the Black community, through flashbacks to the city in 1992 following the Rodney King verdict. Also, the SWAT team pursues El Diablo’s scattered drug cartel hiding in the city and a Jihadist group detonating bombs in coordinated attacks,
- 162. S4E5 "Fracture"
- 161. S4E4 "Memento Mori"
- 160. S2E16 "Pride"
- 159. S6E12 "Addicted"
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48 Standouts
34 Infamous
55 Hidden Gems
26 Forgettable
Top Standout: S2E11 School
Most Infamous: S4E1 3 Seventeen Year Olds
Best Hidden Gem: S8E22 Return to Base
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