The BEST episodes of S.W.A.T. (2017)
Every episode of S.W.A.T. (2017) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of S.W.A.T. (2017)!
Los Angeles S.W.A.T. Sergeant Daniel ‘Hondo’ Harrelson is assigned to lead a highly-skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles these two worlds. Hondo encourages his team to rely on communication and respect over force and aggression, but when a crisis erupts, these unflinching men and women are prepared to put their tactical training to the test.
#1 - Kingdom
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2019
The Harrelsons engage in a tense family reunion when Hondo’s older sister, Winnie, begrudgingly arrives in Los Angeles to see their sick father for the first time in decades. The SWAT team searches for an abducted Middle Eastern human rights activist. Luca’s food truck business hits a snag. Street worries that dating Captain Hick’s daughter, Molly, will negatively impact his career.
#2 - Bad Faith
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2019
Lynch pulls the SWAT team’s focus when the mayor tasks her with enacting a departmental review of the squad right as they pursue the unstable and dangerous fugitive leader of an infamous doomsday cult. Luca asks the team to invest in his new passion project—a Guatemalan food truck.
#3 - Short Fuse
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/2022
When a terminally ill inmate escapes from a hospital determined to settle old scores before he dies, SWAT must team up with a longtime rival of Hicks to protect the fugitive’s targets. Also, Nichelle faces a life-changing event that affects her relationship with Hondo.
#4 - Stakeout (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2020
The SWAT team acts as a domestic surveillance unit for the CIA to confirm whether an international crime lord has resurfaced in Los Angeles after being off-grid for years. Tan’s mother is a victim of racial discrimination. Hondo encounters his ex-girlfriend for the first time since their breakup.
#5 - Ekitai Rashku
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2020
Hondo, Deacon, Tan and Commander Hicks engage in a manhunt across Tokyo when they escort an extradited fugitive to Japan, where he escapes local custody. The remaining members of the team search for any contacts the criminal cultivated while hiding out in LA. Street isolates himself from the team as he deals with family issues.
#6 - Good Cop
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2020
Hondo and the SWAT team rally to support Street when he puts his life on the line to help Nate break away from a drug ring.
#7 - Wild Ones
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2020
The team pursues a couple reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde, when the duo goes on the run and on the hunt for a set of rare chess pieces worth millions. Hondo and Darryl are surprised when Darryl’s ex-girlfriend visits with his young son. Luca confronts his fear of failing his re-qualification to return to the field as he helps Kelly, his mentee.
#8 - School
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/3/2019
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.
#9 - Vendetta
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2018
Hondo’s life and career are endangered when his bosses and his godson’s kidnapper, Jae Kim, discover he’s been secretly surveilling Kim with the help of retired DEA agent Katrina Walsh. Also, Street and his newly paroled mother, Karen, both have trouble acclimating to her prison release.
#10 - Kangaroo
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/2019
The SWAT team goes in pursuit again of the militant group The Emancipators when the criminals hold a live stream kangaroo court to publicly execute city politicians. Also, Hondo fights to lift Darryl’s spirits; Deacon feels unworthy as he prepares to receive one of the LAPD’s highest honors; and Street catches a break in the search for his missing parolee mother, Karen Street.
#11 - Radical
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/2017
After a domestic bomber dies in a Highland Park explosion, the SWAT team races to find the man’s partner before more devices detonate. Also, Hondo reaches out to Buck, his former team leader, when he worries he is isolating himself after his recent firing, on S.W.A.T.
#12 - Sea Legs
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2019
The team joins forces with the Los Angeles Organized Crime division to recover an officer abducted during a failed undercover operation. Chris struggles with how to comfort the kidnapped officer’s parents when she is restricted from giving them certain details of the investigation.
#13 - The Fugitive
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/10/2022
When body cam footage left at a local news station seems to show Hondo shooting two police officers, he is forced to go on the run while the team works to clear his name.
#14 - Day of Dread
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/2019
The SWAT team finds itself under internal investigation after a civilian is killed as they attempted to bring in the city’s most wanted criminal. As the mission details are revealed, the force’s internal affairs team calls Hondo’s leadership into question.
#15 - Cuchillo
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2017
Hondo and the SWAT team spread out across Los Angeles in pursuit of four escaped convicts, including a violent criminal Jessica helped bring to justice, before department rival Mumford and his team beat them to the collars. Also, Hondo’s new role as team leader is called into question when Street displays a flagrant disregard for SWAT protocol.
#16 - Pamilya
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/2017
Newcomer Jim Street jeopardizes his spot on Hondo’s team when he agrees to do a favor for his incarcerated mother that endangers his SWAT career. Also, the SWAT team searches for the ruthless mastermind behind a drug trafficking ring that forces immigrants to be mules.
#17 - Hunted
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2018
Hondo and Deacon must apply all their SWAT training and skills to evade a gang of armed mercenaries hunting them in the Angeles Mountains following an ambush. Also, Chris oversteps in an attempt to help a female SWAT trainee she suspects isn’t being evaluated fairly.
#18 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2017
A locally born SWAT sergeant, former Marine Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, is newly tasked to run a specialized tactical unit that is the last stop in law enforcement in Los Angeles.
#19 - Hoax
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2018
A fake 911 call puts Hondo and the SWAT team on the hunt to stop a white supremacy group from executing bombing attacks on local communities. Also, Street’s relationship with his recently paroled mother, Karen, jeopardizes his career, and Jessica is thrown a curveball by her colleague, Michael Plank, president of the police commission.
#20 - Fire and Smoke
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2018
The SWAT team is enlisted by Hondo’s new romantic interest, Deputy District Attorney Nia Wells, to protect the jurors of a high-profile bribery trial, after some of them are targeted by organized crime in a series of fire-bombings.
#21 - Saving Face
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2018
Hondo suspects an ulterior motive when Eric Wells, a U.S. marshal who is the estranged husband of his romantic interest, Deputy District Attorney Nia Wells, requests the S.W.A.T. team’s help with apprehending a fugitive who is robbing drug cargo shipments. Also, Jessica is forced to implement departmental budget cuts, and Street makes a heartbreaking discovery about his mother, Karen.
#22 - The Tiffany Experience
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2018
The SWAT team races to find a stalker pursuing Tiffany, a social media star, after the online celebrity’s dangerous admirer turns a fan event into a shootout that endangers Jessica.
#23 - Rocket Fuel
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/25/2019
The SWAT team discovers a new version of PCP with ties to an escaped drug dealer who created a version that ravaged the city decades earlier. Tan’s personal ties to the case emerge when he brings in his mentor, Ben Mosley, the former lead detective on the original drug case, to help. Also, Chris weighs a major decision regarding her romantic relationship with Kira and Ty, and Hondo’s patience is tested by his new familial responsibilities.
#24 - Imposters
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/2017
When a series of home invasions are committed by SWAT imposters in an upscale neighborhood, Hondo and the team suspect the burglarized families are all hiding something. Also, when Deacon and Luca are assigned to protect a visiting professional hockey player who is receiving death threats, his penchant for trouble becomes a complication.
#25 - Shaky Town
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2018
The SWAT team engages in a standoff with human traffickers holding child hostages when a major earthquake hits Los Angeles during their operation and compromises the takedown. Also, while Hondo forms an unexpected personal connection with Deputy District Attorney Nia Wells, Jim Street has trouble adjusting to his new life as a patrol officer.