Episode
S.W.A.T.: Shaky Town
Overview
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. 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.
Details
- Series
- S.W.A.T.
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2018-09-27
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Shaky Town is Episode 1 in Season 2 of S.W.A.T.. It aired on 2018-09-27. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 5: S.O.S.
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Episode 6: Never Again
The SWAT team tries to determine the next diamond dealer to be robbed by a group of highly organized thieves executing heists across downtown Los Angeles. When Hondo is emotionally affected by a suspect’s death during the case, he seeks comfort from his mother. Street worries that his SWAT training academy instructor has a personal vendetta against him. Chris contemplates an unorthodox relationship offer from the new woman she’s dating.
Episode 7: Inheritance
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Episode 8: The Tiffany Experience
The SWAT team races to find a stalker pursuing a social media star, after the online celebrity's dangerous admirer turns a fan event into a shootout that endangers Jessica.
Episode 9: Day Off
When the SWAT team is called in to work on their day off to end a hostage situation, they discover one of the captives is a wanted felon. When Hondo saves his sister after she's been roofied at a nightclub, he uses his day off to hunt a serial rapist.
Episode 10: 1000 Joules
The SWAT team sets out to recover dozens of DNA evidence kits stolen from an LAPD crime lab and bring in the crew responsible, after a close friend of Hicks is harmed during the theft. Financial strain at home makes it difficult for Deacon to focus on his role as leader of the SWAT division’s annual holiday toy drive.
Episode 11: School
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.
Episode 12: Los Huesos
Jessica and Chris go undercover in Mexico, alone and without back-up, to save a Mexican federal agent kidnapped by a drug-dealing gang that Jessica helped bring to justice years before. Also, Hondo’s mother, Charice, worries he’s under emotional strain when he engages in a series of small home renovation projects in her home.