Original subtitles

Previously on SWAT Exiles...

Malik is the mole.

He knows someone's leaking information.

He doesn't think it's me.

If Hondo finds out that it's you, it's over.

- 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.

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.

I know you did.

That's why I'm not gonna take your badge.

Hey, listen to me. You gotta breathe.

I cleared the corner.

Yeah, you did.

You did real good, kid. You did real good.

Hondo.

I see you, kid. Hang on.

Nico, breathe. No, Nico! Nico!

Nico! Nico!

Hey, listen to me. You gotta breathe.

- I cleared the corner. - Yeah, you did.

You did real good, kid. You did real good.

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.

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.

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.

I just got transferred out of SWAT.

Malik looks intense.

- Have you met Malik? - Yeah, but here it is again.

These three alone, talking.

They probably just have some fantasy football league.

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.

No.

- Hondo. - Not now, Jude.

You've been gunning for my team all along.

You like to say you want SWAT 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?

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 ♪

Gonna try one of these.

♪ If only this was easy... ♪

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.

Someone do something!

Carfentanil.

It's 40 times more powerful than fentanyl.

And it's hit the streets of LA in a new form.

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.

- You all are still here? - We're on it.

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.

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.

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.

Oh, thank you.

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.

LAPD. Hands up! Nobody move!

Jude.

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.

Ooh. That's a lot of getting high.

Jackpot!

LAPD, stop!

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.

I said stop!

Don't do it!

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!

Shit!

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.

This is not gonna make me feel better.

This is not gonna not make me feel better.

- 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.

Where is he? I thought he lived here.

No, not since we found out who he was or wasn't.

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?

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?

Oh.

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?

It's not for me.

I think this operation calls for a neutral party.

At least a party Seitzmeier thinks is neutral.

And I'm supposed to do what exactly?

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.

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 SWAT

or watch it die.

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.

What are you doing?

I think I might have a way to find out

what we're being left out of.

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.

Sammy, what are you doing?

I want to know what the secret alliance is

you got going on with Hondo and Malik.

I- I can't really talk too much about it.

Sammy, could you please step away from the door.

- You're making me uncomfortable. - Okay.

I- I wasn't...

I wasn't actually gonna- gonna open it.

It's just a joke.

It was just a, uh, bad joke, right?

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.

Hey, I'm really sorry. Okay.

It was just a bad joke.

It's fine.

I just-I just got to get some air.

Just don't touch that door, ever.

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.

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.

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.

Understood.

- Mayor's office ain't budging. - They don't care

that recon tells us this place is filled with squatters?

They've even hot wired 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?

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?

Yeah. Let's do it.

- We're here. Are we a go? - Go!

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.

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.

No, wait a minute. Get back!

Cassidy, take point.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

- 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.

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.

I thought this was a drug den, not Costco.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Give me some good news.

What do you mean "our project" has hit a snag?

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.

Hondo!

LAPD, keep your hands up.

Okay. Don't shoot, don't shoot.

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.

Possible location of target.

Third floor, rec room.

- Who's close? - Sammy and I are here.

We're on it.

Get ready.

Lights off.

We're pinned in the rec room.

Under heavy fire. We could use some cover.

We're on our way.

Change of plans. We're cut off.

Hondo, Ethan, what's your six?

Metro's outside. We're coming up to you now.

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.

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.

Get out of here. Get out.

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.

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.

Let him go!

I said let him go!

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.

I'm covering you.

Turn around. Hands on your head.

Do it now.

We got a sniper!

Who's firing?

Cover.

Shooter's in the lighting booth.

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.

I spotted MacFarley, back side of the theater.

Ethan, stay on MacFarley.

Metro will back up Hondo.

Malik and I are coming to you.

Copy that.

We're headed down as well.

I'm where I saw him last.

There's a doorway to the upper lobby.

Clearing it now.

Ethan, did you find him?

Ethan!

Come in. Where are you?

Does anybody have Ethan's position?

I'm still looking.

Ethan's down. Upper lobby.

Can't leave him there.

Cover me, Sammy.

Is someone there?

- Hey. - 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.

It's Hondo, you're good.

No gunshot wounds.

- Sammy, are we clear? - 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.

Malik and I are headed to the north stairwell.

We'll meet you out front.

Gun!

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.

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.

Hey, cover me. I'm going up.

It's over, Brendan.

Hey! It's over. Brendan! Come on! Hey! Freeze!

Easy, easy.

Turn around.

You see my friend over there.

You make a move, she'll shoot you.

Calm down.

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.

♪ 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.

Okay.

So why is he coming after you?

SWAT saved his target and took him down.

I'm the one who cuffed him.

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?

Ethan Cole?

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? - Keep it quiet.

Small groups. Room 18, North.

- Thanks. - Thank you.

Thanks, doc.

Sammy, you should go see him first.

You risked your life for him.

You should come.

Sammy, Jude, go.

Seitzmeier?

Give her my regards.

Miranda.

- We need to talk. - 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.

All right, look, I can't promise you protection,

but I'll bring someone who can.

Fine.

Just hurry.

He's dead?

- He's dead, isn't he? - Hey, hey, hey.

Easy. You're okay.

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.

Who?

Who's dead, E?

Hondo's fine.

Malik's fine. Jude's here. We're all fine.

Who are you talking about, E?

Nobody, I was confused, that's all.

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.

Well, that's not good.

Could be from anyone's car.

Malik. Pike.

This wasn't an accident.

What do we do now?