S.W.A.T. Exiles (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

1
Somebody is coming for the 44.
And just when we were all starting
to trust each other and be a unit.
Mayor Voss.
CASSIDY: And this is his chief of staff.
Miranda Seitzmeier.
And you are?
Uh, Officer Malik Anderson.
HONDO: You found anything
on Malik's phone yet?
Just a burner phone
he's been reaching out to.
I need you to call it right now.
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
I know it's you.
You've been working
with the mayor's office.
I betrayed the 44. I'll resign.
Everything there is to know about me.
I started undercover when I was young.
I got good at pretending
to be other people.
Lost track of who I actually was.
It's easier to lie.
You never lie with me.
[COIN CLINKS INTO SLOT]
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
Bobby.
Shayla, you know
we're not supposed to be here.
- I'm not supposed to be here.
- I know. I needed to see you.
You said it was important.
- What's going on?
- You vanished.
It's been five months. I'm alone.
You know why I had to bail.
The heat was bad, and it still is.
Why am I here, Shayla?
I'm pregnant.
- I haven't seen you
- Except for that one night.
Remember? You came back to check on me.
I know you're on the run,
but I can't do this alone.
Come home.
We'll figure it out. We always have.
MAN: Bobby boy.
[LAUGHS]
- Still ugly.
- Still crazy.
SHAYLA: What the hell, Shane?
- Were you following me?
- Relax.
I heard that you two were
having a little reunion.
I figured I'd crash the party. Surprise!
- Bobby, I swear I didn't know.
- SHANE: Easy, sis.
You said you wanted
some private time, but
I got a surprise out back.
Come on, Bobby.
There really nothing
That you can do ♪
When I got my eye on you ♪
Yes I do ♪
Boys
MAN: There he is.
- MAN 2: Hey, Bobby.
- Butch.
Eddie.
Big night ahead, Bobby.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
What the hell is this, Shane?
SHANE: Brothers don't let
each other sit it out.
Come on, Bobby.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You know, I didn't sign up
for a road trip, Shane.
Look, you know how it is.
We're out of cash, right?
After that cop got killed, Feds got pop.
They seized everything.
So I put the old band back
together, what's left of it.
This is a stupid idea, Shane.
There's too much heat.
- [THUDDING]
- Stop the van!
Hey, you want to walk? Walk.
Door's right there.
Because we're having fun
either way.
But if you're in, you're in.
One move. One night.
Just like old times.
[JUDE SIGHS]
Of course I'm in.
Think I forgot who I am?
[CHUCKLES]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[LAUGHING]
[MEN LAUGHING AND CHEERING]
JUDE: Oh man, not good.
GUARD: Put down your weapon.
- Ooh. What we got here?
- GUARD: Take it easy.
Some dark meat on the menu.
My dogs are hungry, ain't they?
[MIMICKING DOG BARKING]
- SHANE: Get 'em, boys!
- GUARD: Get off of me!
[GUARD GRUNTING]
[COCKS]
[JUDE GRUNTS]
SHANE: The hell, Bobby?
All right Just let us go ♪
Better to make him feel it, right?
[GUARD GROANS]
Now that's the Bobby I remember.
Yeah! Get his ass!
Come on, boy. Yeah!
Okay.
[GUARD COUGHS]
JUDE: Stay down!
- [JUDE GRUNTS]
- [GUARD GROANS]
[SHANE CHEERS]
[POLICE SIREN WAILING]
SHANE: It's time to go, boys.
[GUARD COUGHING]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
ETHAN: You are not a leader even
if you pretended to be one.
MALIK: What does being
a leader have to do with it?
- [BANGS]
- That's enough!
I didn't drag the two of you all in here
to referee a pissing contest.
See what you've done? You broke trust.
Like I told you, you were the
one I thought I could count on.
But you came in here
with a bullshit agenda
trying to destroy me.
And now I don't know
if I can trust you for shit.
And neither does your teammate.
You didn't mess up.
You infiltrated us, spied on us.
You sold out your own team.
Look, I hear you,
and I'm sorry, but I don't know
how many more times I can tell you,
I wasn't trying to hurt the team.
I thought I was protecting it.
Having good intent doesn't excuse it.
I can't just magically forget
what you just did.
- Come on.
- Malik.
Hondo, I owned it,
I apologize.
I told you I'd resign.
So either we figure out
a way how to coexist
and-and get the job done,
- or I walk. It's your call.
- You walk you're weak.
But if you stay, you've got
a chance to make things right.
That's your call.
- I'll make it right.
- HONDO: All right then.
Somebody's trying to burn SWA
down to the ground.
Now, like it or not,
you're our only thread
to know what's coming next.
So you're going to help us
learn everything we can
about who's coming and why.
So we're prepared for when
they make their next move.
And then we can hit back clean and hard.
You wanted to see me?
ANGELA: Yes, Sergeant, this is
HONDO: Special Agent Gines.
- Hondo. It's been a long time.
- You two know each other?
I know he's not above faking a 1099 call
to use SWAT as bait
to get what he wants.
- What do you want now?
- I need Jude.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You ran his undercover op?
Jude helped take down Ripley Collins,
who's awaiting trial for racketeering,
murder and conspiracy.
Ripley's accountant, Louis Beck,
flipped on him,
and he's the star witness.
But now Ripley's son,
Shane, heir to the throne,
just popped up in L. A.
- Hence the need for Jude.
- Absolutely not.
Well, I wasn't asking.
I've got approval.
Kid
you want to do this?
Helping take down a wanted fugitive
like Shane Collins would
be a big win for SWAT.
This department
could do with another big win.
If Jude goes back in.
SWAT goes with him. Full cover.
No exceptions.
- No
- I wasn't asking.
I know from past experience
you care more about
the takedown than the team
you used to pull it off. Not this time.
Okay.
The last time you ran an op
with Jude, it ended in gunfire.
So the best way to ensure
everyone comes out alive,
is for SWAT to back him.
I'll get that signed off on.
[GINES SIGHS]
Then I guess we'd better
get your team up to speed.
[HONDO SIGHS]
SAMMY:
Any idea what this is about?
FBI task force, we're backup.
Backup for what?
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm Special Agent Elliot Gines,
head of a joint federal task force that,
for over the past two years,
has been targeting
a white supremacist group
known as the Imperial Dukes.
Now, the Dukes fund
their domestic terrorism
with violent robberies
targeting Black-owned families
and high-net-worth
people of color.
Four months ago,
a restaurant in Bakersfield.
A local cop intervened
and was killed.
Now, we arrested their leader,
Ripley Collins.
Afterwards, the group scattered.
Went underground,
until last night.
Rip's son, Shane and two associates,
robbed Denton Security Services.
Put a Black security guard
in the hospital.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You, said Shane and two associates.
I'm-I'm seeing four suspects.
Right.
The fourth is a deep cover operative.
[JUDE GRUNTS]
SHANE: Time to go, boys.
[SIREN WAILING]
[SAMMY GASPS]
I have to go get ready.
[MUSIC STOPS]
Did Jude ever tell you anything about
None of it.
I mean, we knew he was
undercover, but two years?
- That's a long time.
- Two years doing that.
[SIGHS]
He must be a very good actor.
Yeah. Oscar winning performance.
Hey, deep cover does take good acting.
Jude went undercover
to take down Rip Collins.
We're gonna finish
what Jude started,
and then we're gonna find out
what Jude's really about.
We're headed to Bakersfield.
Isn't that out of our jurisdiction?
Not outside the Bureau's.
And we're working under them.
The Collins home is their base.
So since Jude's meeting them
in LA, it should be empty.
- What are we looking for?
- Plans, time, place, target.
Anything that points
to where they're striking.
[SAMMY SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
I know You're worried
at night I won't find my way ♪
And I'm tired of lying
To myself ♪
Just to get through Each day ♪
My head says
I should have never left ♪
And that my feet
Would soon lead to my death ♪
I'm starting to question ♪
If God's trying to teach me
A lesson ♪
I'm starting to wonder ♪
If my true color's changed
Since I left ya ♪
I used to shine bright
Like gold ♪
Now I'm all indigo ♪
I gave up A piece of my heart ♪
Don't forget, you enjoy this.
If you don't sell it, they'll know.
Just one last time.
[SCOFFS]
[ENGINE REVVING]
I used to shine bright
Like gold ♪
JUDE:
This is your brilliant idea?
Off-roading.
All work, no play
has made Bobby a dull boy.
Come on, brother. You're my right hand.
Been underground for months.
We need air.
We need motion.
We need us.
Hey. You good?
[SIGHS]
Sorry, man. I just
can't believe I'm gonna have to
embarrass your ass out here.
SHANE: Whoo!
I dream about things
Way beyond this ♪
Try and keep up.
Attaboy.
[ENGINE REVVING]
Like a satellite
In the black sky ♪
Run ♪
Get up and let's begin
There are no accidents ♪
[ENGINES REVVING]
Covered in blood and skin ♪
Rattle the earth right now
Nothing can hold the sound ♪
On and on I'm fading ♪
Bye-bye, Bobby boy.
Let me repeat again ♪
There are no accidents ♪
Ooh.
As we dive within ♪
- [SONG ENDS]
- [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Sammy, Ethan, make sure
the back of the house is clear.
You two look for anything.
We need to know what the plan is.
I'll go check the perimeter.
[SCOFFS]
This right here just makes me sick.
[SAMMY SIGHS]
[SAMMY SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
I don't even recognize him
in these photos.
He looks happy.
Deep cover is immersive.
The longer
you're in someone else's world,
the more you start fitting its shape.
He didn't just hit that guard once.
He didn't just warn him.
He hit him again and again.
Like muscle memory.
I also found it disturbing,
but intellectually,
he was selling the cover.
Sure.
But you don't-you don't
pick undercover officers
because they're- they're good actors.
You pick the ones who don't have to act.
[SCOFFS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
I think I got something.
[MUSIC FADES]
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
Shayla
- I am
- Come here.
What's wrong?
I can't bring a kid into this life.
After this job, we can disappear.
We can start over.
Be a family again.
[SIGHS]
[GUN COCKING]
BUTCH:
There's that son of a bitch.
- I knew I smelled a rat.
- SHAYLA: What the hell, Shane?
- What is going on?
- Shane?
Butch swears he's seen
a drone in the woods.
BUTCH: Mm-hmm.
He says it was tailing us.
I heard it clear as day, buzzing
around like a goddamn hornet.
How did you know it wasn't
some hiker flying a stupid toy around?
What makes you think it's mine?
Because we've been
coming to this spot for weeks.
Never seen a drone once.
Then you show up and magically
it's buzzing overhead.
Where is it then, hmm?
- Where's the drone?
- I-I shot it.
Winged it probably.
It must have flew off.
But it was It was here.
You think I'm a rat, hmm?
Search me then. Search me!
[JUDE BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GRUNTS]
If you think I flipped,
then pull the trigger!
Go ahead. Do it!
Pull the trigger, Butch!
- SHAYLA: Shane, what the hell?
- Well, do it, Shane.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Otherwise,
somebody start telling me
what the goddamn plan is.
Good morning, Sergeant.
- Is it? I'm down a man.
- Not anymore.
We picked up Jude
coming out of Angeles Forest.
Meanwhile,
I had your man Ethan pull
Denton Securities breach files
so we could see what was stolen.
Denton isn't just alarms.
They run security for half the city,
from Bel Air to Rancho Palos Verdes.
I'm talking homes, offices,
high value collectibles,
all tied to one network.
So they didn't just rob Denton.
They stole access.
Full access, and Shane's
sitting on the master controls.
He could open any door in this grid.
The chatter was right, Hondo.
He's planning a big hit.
[DOOR OPENS]
That drone you flew
almost got me killed!
- Chill out!
- You ditched the tracker, Jude.
We were trying to make sure
you were alive.
If I hadn't ditched, then I'd be dead.
And yet, here you are.
So talk.
- What's Shane's play?
- Home invasion.
Big haul. Enough to vanish tonight.
They're not giving you the address?
That's how he works.
You don't know until you go.
It's their version
of operational security.
Hell, no.
- I'm not sending you in blind.
- For once, I agree.
Shane didn't crawl out
of hiding to rob a house.
He swears it's big.
I just I need this to end, Hondo.
Jude, we are not moving in
without a target.
[THUDS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR BANGS]
[HONDO SIGHS]
Look, maybe there is another way
to find out where Shane is hidden.
- How?
- Ripley Collins.
Maybe he's still calling
the shots from prison.
Ripley's sequestered.
We monitor every call, every visitor.
- Zero contact with his kids.
- Maybe not directly.
In Bakersfield,
we found a prison visitor pass.
Day before the Denton hit,
Shayla Collins visited Derrick Harris.
He's a prisoner with trustee privileges.
He moves around. He has access.
You think he's passing messages
through Harris?
I think Ripley Collins knows
exactly where they're hitting tonight.
And I think I can get him to tell us.
Without realizing he did.
I'll get you in.
All right. Go ahead.
Say what you need to say.
We went to Bakersfield.
- We saw your life there.
- You knew I was undercover.
You spent two years
terrorizing Black people.
- Two years trying to stop it.
- Fell in love with one of them.
I saw it in your eyes.
[SCOFFS] You're not that good an actor.
People can't choose the families
they're born into, Sammy.
So what, she's one of the good racists?
Life isn't Black and white, Malik.
Yeah, well, to them it is.
I'm not one of them.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
You know me.
- You all know me.
- We thought we did.
And then we watched you
beat a Black man half to death.
I saved his life.
[SCOFFS]
JUDE: He would have been killed
if I wasn't there.
But fine. You want to hate me?
Go ahead.
You think I don't hate myself
for what I did?
I got the tattoos.
I learned the jokes for two years.
Two years,
I said shit that made me sick.
And did things get blurred?
Oh, yeah, they did.
[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Did Jude laugh when Bobby laughed?
Yeah, he did.
Because if he didn't, Jude
would get a bullet in his head.
That's the job I signed up for.
And, yeah, I found someone
that made me forget sometimes.
[VOICE BREAKING] But that's not
even the worst of it.
The night Ripley Collins
went down.
It's because a cop got shot and killed.
But Ripley didn't kill him.
I did.
[SNIFFLES]
I killed the cop.
So if you think I'm a piece of shit
get in line.
When this is over, I want Jude gone.
It's better for the team.
You're worried nobody wants a
supposed cop killer watching their six?
Something like that.
Well, he was cleared.
The shooting, body cam footage shows
that the cop was about to fire on him,
so Jude acted in self-defense,
and he was cleared.
Well, sometimes you got to
cut off a limb to save the body.
[GATE OPENS]
I'm Sergeant Harrelson, LAPD.
I'm here because your son
is gonna die tonight
unless you tell me where he's hidden.
Yeah, look at that.
They send a Black man
to bargain for my boy.
World really is upside down.
[HONDO SCOFFS]
There's a federal task force
coming for him,
and they're not bringing cuffs.
They want blood
for the cop your crew killed.
If you love Shane give me his target
and I'll bring him back alive.
[LAUGHING]
"Love." How adorable.
You ever watched
a hanging done right, Sergeant?
And not the Hollywood kind.
I mean the real art of it.
The secret's the knot.
All these amateurs go behind the ear.
Oh, it's too quick, too clean.
There's no poetry in it.
No, you go
You go up under the jaw.
Let it crawl up the throat.
It does take longer, but, boy,
they feel every second.
They feel their own weight betray 'em.
My father taught me that.
He said justice
only means something if it hurts.
And you make an example,
so the rest remember
who's supposed to own this country.
So, no,
I won't lift a finger to save Shane.
If he dies tonight, he dies
a warrior, my son, my blood.
Better a corpse in the dirt
than breathing
the same air as you people.
We're done.
- [CHAINS RATTLING]
- [GATE OPENS]
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
Yeah. Did it work?
ETHAN: Right after you left
Derek Harris visited Ripley,
then made a call from a phone
that the FBI had tapped.
We're still working with the carrier
to narrow down the location.
But here's the kicker.
The call was to Shane's crew.
- And what did they say?
- A warning, word for word.
"There's heat on tonight.
The only way they know is Bobby."
"I told you he was a rat."
"Deal with him."
Then pulling Jude was the right call.
His cover's blown.
I'll be there in ten.
You stay on that trace
and tighten the map.
We need a location now.
[PHONE CHIMES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
JUDE: Hondo, I know,
you think they don't trust me,
but I-I need this to end.
I'm going in.
When we hit the target house,
I'll trigger the silent alarm.
[GRUNTS]
JUDE: You come in behind
and you finish it.
I'm sorry I'm going dark,
but I can't let them do
what they're planning.
This ends tonight.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
Mr. "Make 'em feel it," right?
What about masks?
No masks tonight.
We show 'em who we really are.
[SNIFFS, CLEARS THROAT]
[BEEPS]
Time to send a message.
- WOMAN: Okay. Seven
- MAN: There you go.
- [ALL LAUGHING]
- I got a four.
- I got a four.
- Daryl Davis.
- Hey!
- WOMAN: Oh, my God!
- DARYL: Stay back! Hey.
- SHANE: Mr. All-Star.
DARYL: What are you guys [GROANS]
Oh, Amber, I wouldn't do that.
Touch it
your son dies.
- [AMBER GROANS]
- Mom.
HONDO: Talk to me.
The call to Shane's crew pinged
off a tower in Baldwin Hills.
Triangulation puts it inside
a three quarter mile radius.
Dense neighborhood, high value targets.
HONDO: It's enough.
We ride until Jude hits
that alarm gets us close.
Gear up.
All right, boys, let's grab
the haul and get out of here.
- That's the play, right?
- It's true.
There is a safe here.
But we are here for you.
You got a brother named Louis,
don't you?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
My old man trusted him for years.
Now he thinks he's gonna turn.
So we are here to send
a message to big brother.
- [GROANS]
- [GRUNTS]
Hey, you didn't think
to fill me in first?
I like surprises.
Surprise!
Eddie and I are gonna let Daryl
show us the safe while you and Butch
You do you.
Well, I'm sure me and Butch
could think of something.
- Isn't that right, Butch?
- [CHUCKLES] Oh, yeah.
[CHUCKLES] Attaboy.
[JUDE CLEARS THROAT]
This part is kind of dry,
don't you think?
You got a wine cellar
or something in here?
Yeah, in the other room.
Why don't you go
fetch us some booze, Butchie?
Hmm. Hell, yeah.
I'm LAPD. All right, stay calm. Okay.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
BUTCH: It's time to get
the party started.
No, no, no, no.
[FIRE ALARM RINGING]
They must have been cooking something.
Butch, put the damn thing out.
Bobby, shut this noise off.
[SIREN WAILING]
Tell me you got something.
No silent alarms, but I got
a smoke alarm on the system.
Baldwin Hills, 427 Hillcrest Drive.
Maybe Jude's sending us
a message that way.
Account is listed as Amber Beck Davis.
Wait. I read the case briefing.
The key witness testifying
against Ripley Collins is Louis Beck.
How much you want to bet she's related?
Ripley gets a witness list,
Shayla visits prison,
and suddenly Shane
and his crew resurface.
They're not after a score.
This is intimidation, pure and simple.
- Through her.
- Call Gines. Loop him in.
Have him meet us there.
Time to show your traitor
brother what happens
when you turn.
Bobby boy, you should do the honors.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[ALL BREATHING HEAVILY]
What's the matter, Bobs?
[BUTCH GRUNTS]
[SNIFFS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [GRUNTS]
- [JUDE GROANS]
Eddie, finish loading the haul.
Butch, babysit Snitch's family.
Bobby's with me.
[JUDE GROANING]
Shane, listen to me.
Right now,
it's just assault and robbery.
If you shoot a cop, you are done.
As far as I know, there's only
one cop killer here,
and he's walking around free,
so I figure I can do the same.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Just think past the next five minutes.
[JUDE PANTING]
Think about Shayla
and the kid.
Shane, if you go down,
they lose you and they lose everything.
Yeah, maybe you're right.
Let's let her decide
what to do with you.
[LINE RINGING]
- SHAYLA: Shane.
- Shayla.
Hate to say it, but pop was right.
We thought you were family.
Shayla, I am sorry.
Okay, I never meant to hurt you,
but whatever happens
I still want you out of this life, okay?
- You and the baby.
- Baby?
There is no baby, you piece of shit.
That was to test you.
SHANE: And tonight
was the final exam.
You put a bullet in Amber.
We know where you stand.
You don't. You die.
And as for me, Bobby
I'll be glad when he kills you.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
LAPD. Freeze!
CASSIDY: Moving.
This car is clear.
Drop it or you die!
- Drop it!
- [GUN CLATTERS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- LAPD. Drop
- [GUNSHOT]
You lit up that smoke alarm
to call your cavalry.
And now it's too late for you, Shane.
Nah.
It's too late for you.
[JUDE GROANING]
[GUNSHOTS]
Moving.
- Who else is here?
- One of them said he was a cop.
He-He tried to save us,
but another guy took him.
[GROANING]
Goodbye, traitor.
- LAPD. Drop it!
- There's nowhere to go.
[LAUGHS]
Look at that.
Ambushed by a couple of Black cops.
Ain't that about a bitch?
You want your boy to die?
It's over, Shane.
You shoot me, he dies first.
Take the shot, Hondo.
Yeah, Hondo.
Take the shot.
[GUNSHOT]
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
- [GASPING]
- GINES: Hey. Hey.
[JUDE GROANS]
Are you okay?
No. No.
You don't have to say a thing.
[SOFT MUSIC CONTINUES]
[GROANS SOFTLY]
I opened up to you.
I told you things
I never told anyone else.
And I just realized you
didn't tell me one true thing.
I couldn't, Sammy.
Sleeping with someone,
who's done what you did
I can't.
I can't reconcile it.
You know, I can't help but think
that maybe I was like, uh
atonement.
Trying to escape
The place my mind ♪
- Sampling the other side.
- It was not that, Sammy.
[CHUCKLES] Okay.
Maybe.
Maybe it's not fair,
but I can't
I can't unsee what I saw.
But you don't know
How it feels ♪
Sammy.
You don't know How it feels ♪
I'm in a dark place ♪
Dark place ♪
Praying for the end
Of the night ♪
[MUSIC ENDS]
[SIGHS]
My father was a Black Panther, Jude.
So what do you think it felt like
to sit across from Ripley Collins?
He looked me dead in the eye,
and he described the joy
of hanging a Black man the right way.
And I couldn't do anything.
I didn't say shit
because justice
mattered more in the moment.
I watched you beat an innocent Black man
for the sake of doing your job.
I had to defend why you did it
and then save your ass.
Most Black folks would call
me a sell-out for that, Jude.
They'd say I was a bitch.
I gotta eat that shit every day.
But I believe in the badge
and what it can stand for.
I fight for the good in people
because if I didn't, I'd
probably be locked up or dead.
I thought I was doing the same thing.
But I don't know anymore.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
I hate it,
every single second
of what I had to be, Hondo.
I know you did.
That's why I'm not
going to take your badge.
- The team hates me.
- No, they don't.
They're just shook.
You got to show the team
and remind yourself,
that is not who you are.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]