S.W.A.T.

Previously on SWAT... 20-Squad's been reinstated.

Who's team leader?

I'm your new 20-David.

Rodrigo Sanchez.

I'm SWAT OG from before your time,

and I worked with Hondo, Deacon, Luca.

They were all my brothers.

I look forward to making you family, too.

You good with this? It is what it is.

There's no way a guy like Sanchez

comes back here without an agenda.

Let's just wait and see what happens.

Rodrigo Sanchez.

They sent him to get you to quit.

It's his one and only job there.

Sanchez is in on this?

I overheard him telling my boss

that it wouldn't take him long to get rid of you.

I know about your orders with the commission.

I'm glad this is all out in the open now.

What the hell is going on here? SANCHEZ: All it's gonna take

is one minor screwup to give the commission

what it wants to send you packing.

So have some dignity

and just walk away first.

Please state the nature of your emergency. We need help.

Some guy broke into our house with a gun.

He's shooting.

5814 La Goleta.

Police are on the way, sir.

Is anyone in the home injured?

My parents. I heard screams.

Then gunfire.

Oh, God. DISPATCHER: Is the man

still inside the house? MAN: Yeah.

I think he's high on something. Oh! Oh, no. Oh, no.

He's coming. He's coming!

Hello?

Sir, are you there?

This place is freaky quiet.

Maybe the suspect already bolted.

Hold.

He's inside.

We're being watched. Sanchez,

I think the suspect might be expecting us.

Roger that.

Remember, everyone, we got three possible victims.

Tan, take point.

Stay sharp and don't give up positions.

Shots fired from inside.

Deacon, emergency entry.

Tan, moving.

20-David. There's blood in the kitchen.

No sign of the victim.

27-David. Repeat. DEACON: 30-David.

There was a struggle in the kitchen.

Suspect may have a gun and a knife.

Move.

Clear.

Clear.

Looks like they

just moved in. Some kind of remodel.

LAPD! Drop that weapon! CHRIS: Hands up now!

Drop it!

What the hell?

That's a cardboard cutout.

Moving.

Street.

26-David. Suspect is using

a 12-gauge. Let's move.

Hondo. Any sign of the residents? Not yet.

Suspect may be forcing them to hunker down.

House like this, it might have a safe room.

The gunman could be in there with them. SANCHEZ: What a nightmare.

20-Squad, be advised. We got a possible hostage situation

inside a fortified safe room. LUCA: Roger that.

Nothing in here.

It's clear.Hondo.

20-David in.

Safe room's got to have its own power source.

Bet it's in here.

Thing's reinforced.

It's high-tech.27-David.

There is a safe room in the master suite.

Someone inside could be bleeding out.

We got to find a way to override the system.

We're looking, Hondo.

You try coming in here,

I'll rain down holy hell on you!

Drop your weapon! LAPD! Open the door!

Who's in there with you? NICHOLS: I got

enough bullets in here to kill everybody!

Get the hell out! 30-David.

Luca. LUCA: Go.

If we don't get this door open ASAP,

we're looking at a triple homicide.

Look, he found the power. Keep him talking.

Hey, man, what do you want?

Is that a brother?

Man, how you gonna do me like this?

You're the one who shot at me.

Next time, I won't miss.

Don't be stupid!

What's your name?

You know my damn name.

Are you Derrick Nichols, the quarterback?

Luca, try this.

This door opens, you're a dead man!

Okay, hey, hey.

Listen to me.

I'm Sergeant Harrelson with the LAPD.

Someone called to report

an armed intruder at this residence.

Did you make that call? NICHOLS: No!

We didn't call the police.

All right, Derrick, we're gonna open the door.

Don't be stupid. Put the gun on the ground.

We don't want to hurt you.

All right. Three. Here we come!

Two. One.

Need you to step out.

Is there anyone else in there with you?

Don't. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Show me your hands!

Whoa, whoa! Show me your hands! Come out very slowly.

Don't shoot! Don't shoot. Carolyn, it's okay.

Come on out. They're cops. I'm his wife.

It's okay. CAROLYN: I'm his wife.

Is there anyone else in the house? No.

All right, come on out.

Come on out. Keep your hands up.

That's it.

27-David. We're speaking with the residents upstairs.

We're a Code 4.

There is no intruder.

The 911 call was a hoax.

This was a swatting?

Yeah, looks like it.

But we're gonna try and get some answers.

Like why the hell

a shotgun was discharged on the police.

Roger that.

I got friends

who kill for a living, Nichols. And guess what?

They're outside your house right now.

Say hi for me if you see them

before they put a bullet in your head.

Got that message 30 seconds before you rolled up.

So when I saw movement in the yard, I just fired.

He's telling the truth. He had no idea you were the police.

How'd you cut your hand?

I was in the kitchen.

Didn't think I'd make it to my gun,

so I went for a knife.

Fumbled it, I guess.

You have any idea who would've left you a message like that?

No clue. Who would want

to do something like this to us?

It's all so sick.

A sick prank. This is no prank.

This is attempted murder.

With us as the weapon.

Imagine retiring in your mid-30s

with a spread like this.

After a decade as a franchise QB.

Word is Nichols and his wife

have already flipped quite a few old spreads like this.

We should give the media a few sound bites,

get ahold of any bad press.

You know how they love to start in on cops

when there's a swatting. I, uh,

I need to know that, uh, you have 20-Squad buttoned down.

Being team leader's hard enough

without any, you know, bad blood.

No bad blood, Commander.

You admitted in my office that the police commission

sent you to SWAT to push Hondo out.

Office politics doesn't affect how I lead

in the field. I like Hondo.

Everyone will be better off when he realizes

it's time to move on.

The news made it here in record time.

Yeah, I can already see the headline.

"SWAT team terrorizes quarterback."I had

a call with the chief on the way over here.

He's treating it as the assassination attempt it was.

Now, SWAT didn't start it, but he wants us to finish it.

Doing what he loves best.

Soaking up the attention.

Anyone else on the team know the truth about Sanchez's agenda?

No. Hondo wanted us to keep quiet

so we don't poison the locker room. LUCA: Yeah, he wants

to wait it out. He figures Sanchez will get bored

and move on eventually.

Days like this, I wonder why I even bother answering.

Same old vultures with the same old questions.

Oh. I should take this. Excuse me.

This is Hicks.

Yeah. NICHOLS: I don't know how else

to say it. I have no idea who did this do us.

If I did, I wouldn't be talking to you.