S.W.A.T.: Season 1

2017 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 1 of S.W.A.T.

Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson, a former Marine raised in South Los Angeles, is tasked with leading a new LAPD SWAT unit designed as a last resort against the most serious crimes. He arrives at a tense time, with the city outraged over the accidental shooting of an innocent teenager, so Hondo must win the trust of a neighborhood that distrusts officers. Not everyone on the team accepts his appointment. Deacon Kay feels sidelined, and Jessica Cortez, with whom Hondo is secretly in a relationship, becomes his direct superior. Jeff Mumford, leader of Team 10-David and a rival of the department, is the one who assigns him the post.

22episodes

Nov 2, 2017Aired

May 17, 2018latest episode

15.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Nov 2, 2017 · 44 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Directing: Justin Lin · Writing: Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, Shawn Ryan · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Louis Ferreira, Devan Chandler Long, Lou Ferrigno Jr.
1x02 Cuchillo
Nov 9, 2017 · 43 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Billy Gierhart · Writing: Craig Gore · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Natalie Valerin, Lobo Sebastian, Lou Ferrigno Jr.
1x03 Pamilya
Nov 16, 2017 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
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. [also shown as S1:E4]
Directing: Billy Gierhart · Writing: Sam Humphrey · Starring: Daniela de la Fe, John Marshall Jones, Larry Sullivan, Sherilyn Fenn
1x04 Radical
Nov 23, 2017 · 43 min · ★ 7.2
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. [also shown as S1:E3]
Directing: Greg Beeman · Writing: Kent Rotherham · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Erin Barnes, Mandy June Turpin, Louis Ferreira
1x05 Imposters
Nov 30, 2017 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
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. [also shown as S1:E6]
Directing: Guy Ferland · Writing: VJ Boyd · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Tembi Locke, Daren Kagasoff, Hana Hayes
1x06 Octane
Dec 7, 2017 · 42 min · ★ 7.1
Hondo puts aside his misgivings about Jim Street's recklessness and allows the newbie to go undercover as a broker in a luxury car theft ring to bust a ruthless trafficker. Also, Hondo visits Raymont Harris, the teenager recently shot by a former member of the SWAT team, who is dealing with PTSD. [also shown as S1:E5]
Directing: Eagle Egilsson · Writing: Michael Jones-Morales · Starring: Camille Collard, Dylan Arnold, Fred Mancuso, Rudolf Martin
1x07 Homecoming
Dec 14, 2017 · 43 min · ★ 6.6
When Hondo’s imprisoned childhood friend asks him to protect his son from gang violence, the favor brings SWAT into contact with a new local crime outfit. Also, when Luca’s grandfather, a SWAT legend, passes away, he struggles with his grief and a painful family secret.
Directing: John F. Showalter · Writing: Alison Cross · Starring: Amin Joseph, Deshae Frost, Michael O'Neill, Michael Beach
1x08 Miracle Mid-Season Finale
Dec 21, 2017 · 41 min · ★ 7.4
Hondo and the SWAT team are forced to work over their Christmas vacation when a drug cartel is out for blood after their cache of gold bars is stolen. Also, Jessica draws the attention of Michael Plank, president of the Police Commission, when she approaches him with her ideas on how to improve the SWAT division.
Directing: Holly Dale · Writing: A.C. Allen · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Peter Facinelli, Marisol Sacramento, Lou Ferrigno Jr.
1x09 Blindspots
Jan 4, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
When a misconduct complaint filed against Hondo gets him taken off active duty, Deacon steps up to lead the team in finding a robbery crew that is hitting marijuana dispensaries. Also, when Tan notices a similarity between the current robberies and a case from his time with Hollywood LAPD, he asks for help from an informant with whom he has a complicated history.
Directing: Billy Gierhart · Writing: Michael Gemballa · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Sherilyn Fenn, Brooke Nevin
1x10 Seizure
Jan 11, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
As the SWAT team goes inside a prison riot to rescue civilian hostages, Hondo suspects the inmates have an ulterior motive behind the uprising. Also, when Deacon’s wife, Annie, stops by headquarters to celebrate Deacon’s 10th anniversary with the SWAT division, her visit takes an unexpected turn.
Directing: Larry Teng · Writing: Aaron Rahsaan Thomas · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Gideon Emery, Mercedes Colon, Lou Ferrigno Jr.
1x11 K-Town
Jan 18, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
Hondo teams up with an old DEA friend, Special Agent Katrina “K.C.” Walsh, on a task force aimed at unmasking the secret leader of a fentanyl drug smuggling ring. Also, Jessica and Michael Plank, president of the Police Commission, begin implementing her new law enforcement community initiatives.
Directing: Omar Madha · Writing: Craig Gore · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Bora Jasa, Peter Facinelli, MC Lyte
1x12 Contamination
Feb 1, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.4
Hondo and the SWAT team join forces with the FBI on a manhunt to find members of a militia group planning a domestic terror attack by weaponizing cyanide. Also, as Jessica’s new police initiatives with Michael Plank, president of the police commission, move forward, she braces herself for the negative impact the plans could have on her relationships within the department.
Directing: Elodie Keene · Writing: Robert Wittstadt · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Sara Tomko, Anna Khaja, Peter Facinelli
1x13 Fences
Mar 1, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 6.9
Hondo and Jessica’s secret relationship comes to a crossroads when Michael Plank, the president of the police commission, discovers their affair. Also, when Hondo and the team assist with the federal investigation to bring in an undocumented fugitive, they find themselves at the center of a citywide immigration debate.
Directing: Alex Graves · Writing: Sam Humphrey · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Peter Facinelli, J. D. Pardo, Lou Ferrigno Jr.
1x14 Ghosts
Mar 8, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
Hondo and the team go on the hunt for a serial killer who escaped justice two years prior by faking his death. Also, Hondo worries that Buck Spivey, the team’s former leader, is spiraling into depression in the aftermath of being fired from the department.
Directing: John F. Showalter · Writing: Michael Jones-Morales · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Christina Masterson, Louis Ferreira, Natasha Hall
1x15 Crews
Mar 29, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
The job becomes personal for Hondo when his criminal informant friend is killed while seeking information about a robbery crew that a joint SWAT and FBI task force is trying to capture. Also, when the FBI task force leader acts erratically, Jessica worries the woman’s behavior will endanger the team in the field.
Directing: Hanelle M. Culpepper · Writing: VJ Boyd · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Sarah Booth, Anna Khaja, Lyndie Greenwood
1x16 Payback
Apr 5, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.4
When a young heiress, Juliette Carlton, is kidnapped for ransom, Hondo and the SWAT team go on a citywide search to bring her home before she is harmed. Also, the team worries that Mumford is moving too fast when he announces he’s getting married for the fourth time.
Directing: Billy Gierhart · Writing: Alison Cross · Starring: Rob Mayes, Caitlin Carver, Stacey Travis, David Starzyk
1x17 Armory
Apr 12, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 6.7
As Hondo and SWAT work to de-escalate a hostage situation in which an ex-convict is holding a local family captive, the mission takes a dangerous turn that impacts the team. Also, when Street tires of his complicated romantic entanglements, he agrees to let Chris make over his online dating profile.
Directing: Rob J. Greenlea · Writing: Craig Gore · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Kailani Coba, Peter Facinelli, Clayton Cardenas
1x18 Patrol
Apr 19, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
Hondo confronts his long-held resentment towards his ailing father, Daniel Harrelson, Sr., when he and his sister, Briana, try to convince their dad he’s no longer well enough to live alone. Also, when the SWAT team works as patrol officers for a day, Chris is partnered with Mumford, who intends to make her a surprising offer.
Directing: Norberto Barba · Writing: A.C. Allen · Starring: Brian R. Norris, Latarsha Rose, Gabrielle Dennis, Lou Ferrigno Jr.
1x19 Source
Apr 26, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.0
Jim Street debates whether or not his mother, Karen, should live with him upon her prison release after Hondo and Chris warn him against it. Also, Hondo and the team are assigned to protect Irina Zemanova, a high-profile Russian journalist visiting Los Angeles, from being assassinated.
Directing: Douglas Aarniokoski · Writing: Michael Gemballa · Starring: Anya Monzikova, Andrew Borba, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Sherilyn Fenn
1x20 Vendetta
May 3, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Billy Gierhart · Writing: Kent Rotherham · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Peter Facinelli, MC Lyte, Bobby Soto
1x21 Hunted
May 10, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Nina Lopez-Corrado · Writing: Matthew Thomas Brown · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Alex Carter, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Lyndie Greenwood
1x22 Hoax Season Finale
May 17, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
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. Hondo’s father, returns Daniel Harrelson, Sr. 1st.
Directing: Billy Gierhart · Writing: Aaron Rahsaan Thomas · Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Peter Facinelli, Stacey Travis, Gabrielle Dennis