S.W.A.T. Exiles (2026) s01e07 Episode Script

1
HONDO:
Previously on SWAT Exiles
ETHAN: Malik is the mole.
MALIK: He knows someone's
leaking information.
He doesn't think it's me.
If Hondo finds out that
it's you, it's over.
- MALIK: I told you I'll resign.
- You walk, you're weak.
Somebody's trying to burn
SWAT down to the ground.
You're gonna help us learn
everything we can
about who's coming and why.
JUDE: You knew I was undercover.
I'm not one of them.
You all know me.
We thought we did.
And then we watched you beat
a Black man half to death.
That's not even the worst of it.
I killed a cop.
I hated every single second
of what I had to be, Hondo.
HONDO: I know you did.
That's why I'm not gonna
take your badge.
HONDO [ON VIDEO]: Hey,
listen to me. You gotta breathe.
NICO [ON VIDEO]:
I cleared the corner.
HONDO: Yeah, you did.
You did real good, kid.
You did real good.
- [GUNFIRE]
- Hondo.
- HONDO: I see you, kid. Hang on.
- [NICO GROANS]
HONDO: Nico, breathe. No, Nico! Nico!
[ECHOES] Nico! Nico!
HONDO [ON VIDEO]: Hey,
listen to me. You gotta breathe.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- NICO: I cleared the corner.
- HONDO: Yeah, you did.
You did real good, kid.
You did real good.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[VIDEO CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
How many times have you watched
that in the last two years?
Not enough.
I am missing something.
I think it's clear. An op went bad.
A couple of SWAT operators
tried to cover it up.
No, it more than went bad.
This kid died, Ethan.
And I watched him die.
And then two weeks later,
Jerry Voss used the shit show
to surge forward in the polls
and become mayor.
Well, he used it, or Seitzmeier used it.
[SCOFFS]
Exactly.
She was Campaign Manager back then.
She's Chief of Staff now.
I got fired back then.
She's coming after me now.
Those two, they are the connection.
Well, once this little guy's
in Seitzmeier's tablet,
it turns on a microphone.
We'll hear everything in earshot.
If she's plotting, we'll know.
[DOOR OPENS]
Malik just has to put it in,
10 seconds tops.
I don't think I can do that.
You better not tell me
you're getting cold feet.
No, I'm-I'm not getting cold feet.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
I just got transferred out of SWAT.
CASSIDY: Malik looks intense.
- Have you met Malik?
- Yeah, but here it is again.
These three alone, talking.
SAMMY: They probably just have
some fantasy football league.
[BLINDS THUD]
Okay. It's a secret cabal.
We need to find a way in.
I'll tell you the way in.
We're gonna do our jobs
better than anyone.
That is so passive.
Hey.
Anything I should know about?
Nope.
SAMMY: No.
- Hondo.
- Not now, Jude.
You've been gunning for my team
all along.
You like to say you want SWA
to succeed, but you don't.
That's it? You got nothing?
Um, when my toddlers threw tantrums,
I learned to just wait it out.
I'm not leaving without answers.
Okay, well, here's one for you.
Assuming that we're talking about Malik,
I pulled him from SWAT when I realized
that that punk ass bitch was your mole.
What I can't figure is,
did you just not know?
- Or are you protecting him?
- How you figure?
I watched them all during the hearing.
When Ethan lies,
his eyes dart to the side.
I know he has his way,
but if it was him,
you would have known from the start.
Sammy's second-generation Blue.
She's not gonna turn on her squad.
And Jude, his past just set off
a bomb in your squad.
You said that you want him gone,
yet he's still there, so it's not Jude.
Impressive.
You skipped Cassidy.
50/50 shot.
Tell me you didn't dump Malik
on a 50/50 shot.
No, I'm not stupid.
Question is, are you going to
lie to me and tell me I'm wrong?
Or are you going to explain why
you're in here breathing fire?
You're right. Malik was the mole.
But that's why I need him on the squad.
- I'm sending him back in.
- Back in? To what?
To the person pulling his strings.
Miranda Sietzmeier.
The Mayor's office
is trying to kill SWAT?
- Why?
- I don't know.
So as much as I want to kill Malik,
I need him to stay close to Seitzmeier
so I can figure out
why she wants SWAT dead?
Look, I know you may think I'm chasing
- crazy conspiracy bull
- Do you want a pretzel?
- No, I don't want a pretzel.
- Okay.
How would you feel
about a little target practice?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Why didn't you want to talk
in your office?
When we first met, you accused me
of letting two SWAT operatives
walk after the Reyes incident.
The Reyes death wasn't an incident.
Yes. You said that I gave
them a slap on the wrist.
Well, I didn't.
I was pushed in a different direction.
Mayor Jerry Voss.
The day after he got into
office, he told IA to bury it.
Said it was so the city could heal.
I never bought it, but I was outvoted.
What does killing SWAT now get them?
I read your after action report
on the Bolivian gala,
made Mayor Voss
sound like Captain America.
Now you expect me to believe
that he and Seitzmeier want SWAT dead.
Commander, I've been rewatching
the body cam footage
from the Reyes raid,
and something is off.
What if it wasn't just a cover-up?
What if they needed that raid to go bad?
That is a hell of an accusation.
If it's true, it means someone
is helping them on the inside.
That is the only way that works.
Two years, I've been carrying
the weight of Nico's death.
Someone's gonna answer for it.
I'm trusting you here.
What do you think?
I think this job is gonna
drive me to drink.
I must be dreaming ♪
I must be dreaming ♪
I must be dreaming ♪
The walls are caving in
And they can't feel it ♪
MAN: Gonna try one of these.
If only this was easy ♪
[EXHALES]
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
What does it feel like?
It feels like
all your problems melt away.
That's how I feel when I'm with you.
What goes around
Comes around, goes around ♪
Archie. Archie.
Archie.
- [HIGH-PITCHED SCREAM]
- [ARCHIE GASPING]
- [GROANING]
- Someone do something!
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
Carfentanil.
It's 40 times more powerful
than fentanyl.
And it's hit the streets of LA
in a new form.
[SAMMY SCOFFS] Next gen packaging.
That's their primary target,
the next gen.
Isn't this a vice case
or some task force?
Last night,
there was an OD at a bonfire.
Kid's father is a big time donor
to the mayor,
who promised to put
his best people on it.
And as of right now,
Mayor Voss says that's us.
Now vice tracked the drug
to a ghost kitchen near USC.
They're using the cover of food
delivery to get the drugs
to their high end clientele.
Students go in the hub
and order from Delilah's Donuts.
The drugs come on blotter paper
hidden under the donuts.
Now there is a task force,
but they requested backup
just in case
the supply is being defended.
Cassidy, Sammy, and Jude will assist.
Just the three of us?
I need Malik and Ethan
for something else.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
- You all are still here?
- We're on it.
HONDO: Let's go.
- We need to fix this problem.
- Agreed.
Malik, I talked to Pike.
Your transfer is officially retracted.
Excellent. Okay,
so let me walk you through
how to get the bug
on Seitzmeier's tablet.
Yeah, we might have another problem.
[SIGHS]
She's just not returning my phone calls.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
- That's troubling.
- Yeah, I know.
I mean, it might be nothing, but
I can't just go to her office,
she'll throw me out.
ETHAN: You don't have to go
to her office.
I took the liberty of reviewing
her credit card history
as part of our deep dive
into what she's up to.
I didn't find anything damning,
but I know where she'll be at 11 am.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh, thank you.
MALIK: Good morning.
- This is very public.
- Yeah.
We're just two strangers walking
right next to each other.
You don't even have to look at me.
Thought you want to know
when I got some real dirt.
It's enough to bring down Hondo.
Bring him down?
Why would I want to do that?
That's why you put me on SWAT, right?
Officer, uh, Anderson, is it?
I work for the Mayor's office.
I have no control over SWAT.
And while I enjoyed meeting you
last week at the Bolivian gala,
and I appreciate everything that
SWAT did to protect the mayor,
this conversation is
inappropriate and disturbing.
It ends now. Okay?
- I have to go.
- Of course.
My mistake.
[THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING]
LAPD. Hands up! Nobody move!
Jude.
[THUDS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Room's clear.
Is it wrong that I want a donut?
Yes.
It's pretty tempting.
Hey. Over here.
I'm pretty sure they're
not locking up the sprinkles.
SAMMY: Ooh.
That's a lot of getting high.
Jackpot!
[DOOR OPENS]
LAPD, stop!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
CASSIDY: Come on, let's go.
He's getting away!
You two go up,
I'll go around and cut him off!
Weapons cold. We need him breathing.
- Better catch him, then.
- Copy that.
Stop!
LAPD, stop!
I'll stay on him. You cut him off.
He's moving across.
[GRUNTING]
I said stop!
Don't do it!
[MAN GRUNTS]
Hey, man. Don't do it, man.
Whoever you're working for,
it is not worth dying over.
You haven't met my boss.
Hey!
[MAN GROANS]
Shit!
[SAMMY GRUNTS]
You didn't want to go after him?
He made it.
That jump would have put me at risk.
Protocol suggests it's
not called for with
a nonviolent suspect.
He's right. So much for proving
we should be on the A team.
Come on, let's move.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
This is not gonna make me feel better.
[SAMMY CHUCKLES]
This is not gonna
not make me feel better.
[SIGHS]
- We should have stopped him.
- Jude should have stopped him.
Are you gonna tell me what's
really behind that death glare?
What, you mean more
than Officer Callan having
a secret life as a white-power mascot?
Yeah.
That and he shot a cop.
It's tough to swallow.
[GROANS]
[SIGHS]
Where is he? I thought he lived here.
No, not since we found out
who he was or wasn't.
[SCOFFS]
He hasn't been back.
No, I'm good. I don't do well hung over.
You've had one shot, babe.
Has anybody ever tell you
there's more to life than work?
[CHUCKLES]
Okay, now who's got the death glare?
You know, you're a little uptight.
I bet if you loosened up,
you'd be even better at Scout.
Who are you? My mother?
[CHUCKLES]
Oh.
MALIK:
It's like she flipped a switch.
You don't think it was
just the ambush in public?
Mm-mm. No, I'm telling you,
she knew I switched sides.
I'm not sure how, though.
I mean, I've done everything she asked.
Hey, I need that thumb drive.
Yeah, we need a plan B,
but aren't you like
the last person that
can get close to her?
HONDO: It's not for me.
I think this operation
calls for a neutral party.
At least a party Seitzmeier
thinks is neutral.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
And I'm supposed to do what exactly?
HONDO: You said
you wanted to help SWAT.
Malik's been made,
and she has it out for
me and the rest of the team.
That means there has to be
someone outside of the team.
So you want me to sneak
into the Mayor's office?
No. I want you to put
your money where your mouth is
and find a way to do it
without her knowing.
[SCOFFS] I'm not a secret agent, Hondo.
No, but you're damn good
at not letting people
know who you really are.
So you got a choice.
Do this to help SWA
or watch it die.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[CELLPHONE VIBRATING]
Yeah.
I'm clear.
I kill Hondo Harrelson.
It'll be my pleasure.
Ethan won't mind us drinking his booze?
No, uh, no, it's-it's mine.
I figured if I'm staying here,
I should-I should contribute.
[LIGHT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
What are you doing?
I think I might have a way to find out
what we're being left out of.
CASSIDY: Hmm.
Hondo's not gonna break.
Malik's just gonna tell us to piss off.
Yeah. You're not actually gonna
open the
Open the door that shall not be opened.
Absolutely not.
He doesn't know that.
- That's too mean.
- Is it?
Just-Just put a little hand on the knob
and ask him to tell the truth.
[DOOR OPENS]
Sammy, what are you doing?
I want to know what
the secret alliance is
you got going on with Hondo and Malik.
[STAMMERING]
I- I can't really talk
too much about it.
Sammy, could you please step
away from the door.
- You're making me uncomfortable.
- SAMMY: Okay.
I- I wasn't [CHUCKLES]
I wasn't actually gonna- gonna open it.
It's just a joke.
It was just a, uh, bad joke, right?
[CELLPHONES CHIMES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh, shit. A briefing at 8 am.
Target address for our runner.
Why, shit? It's a good thing.
Because it gives me
ten hours to sober up.
You had, like, three shots.
Okay? It's fine.
Why don't you just go stay in
Jude's room and sleep it off?
I mean, if-if that's
okay with you, Ethan.
No, I'll- I'll get an Uber home.
Ethan, I'm- I'm sorry about before.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Hey, I'm really sorry. Okay.
It was just a bad joke.
It's fine.
I just-I just got to get some air.
[SIGHS]
Just don't touch that door, ever.
[SIGHS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[CASSIDY SIGHS]
Okay.
Okay. ID on our donut runner
from yesterday is Jesse Valdez.
Last known address is this.
City bought it two years ago.
They were going to convert
an old theater
and the apartments above it
into public housing.
The funding fell through.
So the place is vacant.
ETHAN: Except maybe not.
Sifting through
the shell companies that own
Delilah's Donuts leads to this guy.
Brendan MacFarley, doesn't
just own the donut place.
He owns the whole ghost kitchen.
Something worth noting,
he's a tech genius.
Invented an industry disrupting
app in the food delivery space
in London, SpudHub.
Then it went bankrupt
and he disappeared.
Don't let the tech thing
fool you. He's got priors.
He ran a drug operation
out of an abandoned housing
project in south London.
MALIK: It's a good MO.
Using disaffected homeless
people as mules, breeds loyalty.
Yep. Here's the layout.
We go in as soon as it gets dark.
Gives us a day to learn
every nook and cranny
of this building.
All right. We need to know it
as well as they do,
because we're going in quiet and fast.
Joint operation with Metro.
But SWAT goes in first.
And let's not kid ourselves,
Mayor's watching.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
Understood.
- Mayor's office ain't budging.
- They don't care
that recon tells us this place
is filled with squatters?
They've even hotwired power
off the property next door.
Now, we go in there with an army,
civilians are in the line of fire.
Whether it's out of fear or loyalty,
no one in there
is going to cooperate with us.
Agreed. But we got our orders.
I figured it would go that way.
So I had an idea
to mitigate the problem.
Oh, yeah? What's that?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay.
Let's just get it out in the open.
We put everything between us
aside and do our jobs.
- Cool with that?
- Put what aside?
[SIGHS]
Yeah. Let's do it.
- We're here. Are we a go?
- CASSIDY [OVER COMM]: Go!
[FIRE ALARM RINGING]
[PEOPLE CLAMORING]
Let's go! Come on, come on!
Move, move! Keep going!
This is a good call.
It won't get everyone out,
but it'll help.
Sammy, we got to move in before
they figure out we're here.
SAMMY [OVER COMM]:
We move on your call.
I guess even she got the message.
Or is it a he?
- Malik, go clear that bot.
- Yeah, I'm on it.
- [BEEPING]
- No, wait a minute. Get back!
[EXPLOSION]
Cassidy, take point.
[CAR ALARMS WAILING]
Malik, come on, come on.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
Are we good?
So much for a quiet approach.
Yeah, I'd say they know we're here.
Metro, get everyone out safe.
Nobody back in.
We'll clear the building floor to floor.
- Cassidy, call it.
- Sammy, Jude, side entrance.
Ethan on Hondo. Malik on me. Let's move.
All right. [BREATHING HEAVILY]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
[MUSIC FADES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You led them here?
I didn't.
They found the ghost kitchen.
- I ran.
- And you came back here?
I had to warn you. They were onto us.
What did you want me to do?
I wanted you not to lead them
right to our door.
- Putting us all at risk.
- I'm sorry.
- It won't happen again.
- [GUNSHOT]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
They're going to take away
everything if you let them in.
Make it so bad they have to call it off.
You heard the man. Move.
Geo.
You're going to be a man today.
If you see them, use it.
Go on.
[MUSIC FADES]
I love a woman who can multitask.
Running the city while
buying shoes that can kill.
- Respect.
- Angela.
Oh, you're gonna love these.
Mine are to die for.
I didn't peg you for a Jimmy Choo girl.
Well, when you work
in the police department,
you work to fit into
the police department.
What did I fit into in my own time
is nobody's business but my own.
But shouldn't you be handling
this drug raid situation?
Oh, it's being handled as we speak.
Hmm.
Women like me and you, we delegate
so that we don't get blood
on our suede, right?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
And say what you will about my enforcer,
but he does have his uses.
Something tells me
you're going places, Angela.
Yeah. Just not in these shoes.
[LAUGHING]
- Oh. Perfect timing.
- Oh.
So I really shouldn't do this,
but I happen to have in my possession
the after action report
from the Bolivian gala.
It's a report that makes your boss,
the honorable Mr. Voss,
look very heroic.
And why are you telling me this?
Well, I assume what's good
for Jerry Voss
is good for Miranda Seitzmeier.
And what makes this good for you?
Rising tide situation.
When you get to where you're going,
someone like me might be useful.
Now, obviously,
I can't give this to you.
It's LAPD property.
Letting you see it
would be a policy violation.
But, you know, I was actually
on my way to buy a coat,
and this just fell out of my pocket.
So you do what's best for you.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Stay focused, Ethan.
I'm all here. That was Pike.
The bug is planted.
That's great. But right now,
we got bigger problems.
Move.
This could be
where they locked up the stash.
- Get the breacher.
- I've got a simpler idea.
[LOCK BEEPS, WHIRS]
I thought this was a drug den,
not Costco.
HONDO: That's his play.
Use the profits from his drug business
to feed and house the building.
Ensures loyalty.
This guy seems more like Robin Hood.
Yeah, well, people love Pablo
Escobar for his philanthropy.
Doesn't mean he wasn't Pablo Escobar.
CASSIDY: LAPD.
Put the gun down. No one gets hurt.
No.
This place is crawling with cops, buddy.
You point that thing,
someone might shoot you.
I hate cops.
Never did a good thing
for me my whole life.
Put that down.
I'll make sure that changes.
That we help you.
I don't want things to change.
[SIGHS] Mac helps us.
He gives us food, place to stay.
I get that. I do.
What's your name?
Before this, I was living in a car.
All right, let's get him to patrol.
- Go.
- No!
No one's gonna shoot you in the back.
Get out of here!
The hell was that?
Taking him to patrol
just burn time we don't have.
He was gonna kill me.
[MALIK SIGHS]
Come on. You heard the kid.
Police never done anything good for him.
- He can't say that anymore.
- That's your plan?
You let him go, now he likes cops.
Yeah, maybe.
He's a kid with a gun
looking to kill us.
- Now he's free to try again.
- Look, listen to me.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
Coming up in this world,
in this building
the kid didn't have a choice
which side he was on.
You want to write me up
for letting the kid go?
- I can live with that.
- Oh, I will.
I just hope we both live long enough
for me to write that report.
[CELLPHONE VIBRATING]
Give me some good news.
What do you mean
"our project" has hit a snag?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Well, Angela Pike, I just-
I just saw her.
If she requested those IA files,
then you and I are both in trouble.
You gonna let me do all the looking?
Sietzmeier is working with someone.
Someone just told her
Pike is digging into
- the Nico Reyes files.
- Jesus.
How high up does this go?
Whoever she's talking to
said it's handled
because, "Honda won't be
a problem after today."
This is starting to feel
more like a setup.
[DOOR OPENS]
Hondo!
LAPD, keep your hands up.
Okay. Don't shoot, don't shoot.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
I was-I was-I was just
going to get some supplies.
I figured you were shutting this down.
We're just looking
for Brendan MacFarley.
Help us end this quietly.
Okay.
[SIGHS]
ETHAN [OVER COMM]:
Possible location of target.
Third floor, rec room.
- Who's close?
- Sammy and I are here.
We're on it.
[CELLPHONE CHIMES]
Get ready.
Lights off.
[GUNFIRE]
We're pinned in the rec room.
Under heavy fire.
We could use some cover.
We're on our way.
[GUNFIRE]
CASSIDY: Change of plans. We're cut off.
Hondo, Ethan, what's your six?
Metro's outside.
We're coming up to you now.
ETHAN: Hondo, wait.
I know how to help.
They're two floors up, Ethan.
Exactly. They're right there.
They need cover fire, not intel.
I know.
That thing doesn't fire weapons.
Not technically, no,
but they'll think it does.
I modified it.
[DRONE WHIRRING]
[GUNFIRE]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
We got more shooters coming.
Can't hide forever.
Jude, Sammy, it's gonna sound
like gunfire, but it's not.
Move on three, two, one.
[GUNFIRE]
Get out of here. Get out.
SAMMY [OVER COMM]: Two shooters.
Hallway, third floor.
We're right below that.
We're coming up to you now.
Ethan, right side.
LAPD. Drop your weapon!
Cover.
SAMMY [OVER COMM]: Jude and I
have two shooters
pinned down up here.
All right, once they're secure,
block the stairwell up to the theater.
The other two are here.
We're taking fire.
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [GROANS]
[GUN CLICKS]
Let him go!
I said let him go!
[MAN GROANING]
It's over, man.
We got people behind you,
in front of you.
You ain't got no way out of here.
Okay. I'm setting him down.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm covering you.
HONDO: Turn around. Hands on your head.
Do it now.
[GUNSHOT]
ETHAN: We got a sniper!
[GUNSHOTS]
Who's firing?
[GUNFIRE]
Cover.
Shooter's in the lighting booth.
[GROANS]
I clipped him, but he made it
to the west stairwell.
We can't let him get out of here.
Get Metro in here for the guy
who's still breathing.
Ethan, with me.
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
I spotted MacFarley,
back side of the theater.
CASSIDY: Ethan, stay on MacFarley.
Metro will back up Hondo.
Malik and I are coming to you.
Copy that.
SAMMY [OVER COMM]:
We're headed down as well.
ETHAN: I'm where I saw him last.
There's a doorway
to the upper lobby.
Clearing it now.
[THUDS]
CASSIDY [OVER COMM]:
Ethan, did you find him?
Ethan!
Come in. Where are you?
MALIK: Does anybody
have Ethan's position?
JUDE: I'm still looking.
Ethan's down. Upper lobby.
[GUNFIRE]
Can't leave him there.
Cover me, Sammy.
[GUNFIRE]
CASSIDY: Is someone there?
- Hey.
- CASSIDY: Is he okay?
Shit.
His helmet's cracked.
I think he took a blow to the head.
I got a pulse, but he's not moving.
[GUNSHOTS]
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- HONDO: It's Hondo, you're good.
No gunshot wounds.
- Sammy, are we clear?
- SAMMY: Shooters are down.
- You find the sniper?
- Metro's looking.
I heard the call and I came back.
Let's get him out fast.
We got you, buddy.
CASSIDY: Malik and I are
headed to the north stairwell.
We'll meet you out front.
Gun!
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
He ran up to the roof.
- Mac.
- I thought you liked Mac.
I did.
But he had Jesse killed.
Jesse was always nice to me.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
All right, this time,
get out of here, kid.
For real.
Uh-uh. Put it down.
Slowly.
Slowly.
There you go.
Go on.
All right.
Hondo's got Ethan. Let's move.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, cover me. I'm going up.
It's over, Brendan.
Hey! It's over. Brendan!
Come on! Hey! Freeze!
Easy, easy.
Turn around.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You see my friend over there.
You make a move, she'll shoot you.
Calm down. [CHUCKLES]
[SIRENS WAILING]
You know, if you arrest me,
the lights go off.
No groceries.
No power.
So where are these people going to go?
- You're selling poison.
- I'm selling escape.
If you shut me down now,
these people are going to find
more dangerous drugs elsewhere.
Or you could do us
both a favor and jump.
I'll let you.
I think I'll trust in the system.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
All this time
Who is left to blame? ♪
Life in masquerade ♪
We keep hidin' Hidin' ♪
Dark and light
Have we lost the fight ♪
Tearing worlds apart ♪
- Any word?
- Nothing.
We keep tryin', tryin' ♪
Oh, I know it's hard ♪
Oh, I ♪
Can we rise above
This broken place ♪
Untie me from this fate
What would it take ♪
To keep us from fallin' ♪
Let us know when we can see him. Thanks.
- Any news?
- Nothing.
Well, I spoke to the brass,
made sure that Ethan has the top
trauma team on him.
Thanks.
That's not why I'm here, though.
I've been looking into
the raid that killed Nico Reyes.
- Yeah, they know.
- She took the bait.
The bug caught her talking to
someone who knows you're digging.
You need to watch your back.
And Seitzmeier said
that I wouldn't be
a problem after today.
During the raid, a sniper fired at me.
We thought it was part of
MacFarley's crew,
but Malik found his rifle
in a lighting booth.
Military grade. This was not his people.
You think they know something?
I think they're talking about
the obvious.
Op went bad. Man down.
The reason Ethan was where
he was, alone, was me.
Cass.
Now he's in there with his skull
cracked open because of me.
Okay. I need you to breathe.
Listen to me.
I respect you, but right now,
you are spiraling.
This is not, not, not your fault, okay?
All of us would have made the same call.
I said we had his back.
We didn't.
I need some air.
- Hey, Cass. Ethan?
- No word.
Are we just fallin'? ♪
Fallin' ♪
Got an ID on our sniper.
You clipped him, so we pulled
some blood from the scene.
Got a match in our system.
You know him, Hondo.
It's Adam Max.
Yeah, I know him.
He lost his family in a house fire.
Guy went off the deep end.
Blamed the firefighters,
started lighting fires
of his own to lure 'em in.
Ambushed them with a sniper rifle.
ANGELA: Okay.
So why is he coming after you?
SWAT saved his target and took him down.
I'm the one who cuffed him.
MALIK: He's been in the psych
ward of a prison.
Guess he had some kind of breakdown.
I guess it isn't a stretch
to assume he's still holding on
to a grudge against me but
- How the hell did he get out?
- And who pointed him at me?
DOCTOR: Ethan Cole?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
You can all breathe.
No permanent damage.
Concussion. He'll have one hell
of a headache, but he'll be okay.
- Can we go see him?
- DOCTOR: Keep it quiet.
Small groups. Room 18, North.
- SAMMY: Thanks.
- ANGELA: Thank you.
HONDO: Thanks, doc.
Sammy, you should go see him first.
[MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING]
You risked your life for him.
You should come.
Sammy, Jude, go.
- [SIGHS]
- [CELLPHONE VIBRATING]
Seitzmeier?
Give her my regards.
Miranda.
- MIRANDA: We need to talk.
- HONDO: You're damn right we do.
Guess you didn't think I was
going to make it out
of that building alive, did you?
Look, don't you play me.
Somebody tried to put
me in the ground.
I know.
But I had nothing to do with it.
- Then who did?
- That's why I'm calling.
I'm scared, Hondo.
I don't know who to trust anymore.
Meet me, alone. I'll drop a pin.
I'm in a rental car.
I couldn't risk anyone following me.
Who? Who would be following you?
I'll-I'll tell you
when you get here. Okay.
I didn't sign up for murder.
HONDO: All right, look,
I can't promise you protection,
but I'll bring someone who can.
Fine.
Just hurry.
[MACHINES BEEPING]
[GROANS]
He's dead?
- He's dead, isn't he?
- JUDE: Hey, hey, hey.
- Easy. You're okay.
- [SIGHS]
[CRIES SOFTLY] He's dead. He's dead.
- He's dead.
- Ethan!
Ethan, look at me.
Look at me, look at me.
Hey, look at me. Look at me.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Who?
Who's dead, E?
Hondo's fine.
Malik's fine. Jude's here.
We're all fine.
Who are you talking about, E?
[SIGHS]
Nobody, I was confused, that's all.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Sure this is the right spot?
This is where she dropped the pin.
Maybe she got cold feet.
Yeah. Or it's a setup.
Yeah. Someone is trying
to kill you, Hondo.
I'm well aware, but she
sounded pretty damn scared.
Hey, Hondo.
ANGELA: Well, that's not good.
MALIK: Could be from anyone's car.
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
[♪]
Malik. Pike.
This wasn't an accident.
What do we do now?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]