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S.W.A.T.
Season 1
Starring
No. of episodes22
Release
Original network CBS
Original releaseNovember 2, 2017 (2017-11-02) 
May 17, 2018 (2018-05-17)
Season chronology
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Season 2
List of episodes

The first season of S.W.A.T. an American police procedural drama television series, premiered on CBS on November 2, 2017, and ended on May 17, 2018, with 22 episodes. It aired on Thursday at 10:00 p.m. The series is based on the 1975 television series of the same name created by Robert Hamner and developed by Rick Husky, and centers on Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson and his Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in Los Angeles.

The series was announced in February 2017 with former Criminal Minds cast member Shemar Moore announced as the lead role. The series was officially ordered in May 2017.

S.W.A.T.'s first season ranked as the 35th most watched for the 2017–18 United States network television schedule with a total of 9.13 million viewers. [1]

Cast and characters

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11"Pilot" Justin Lin Aaron Rahsaan Thomas & Shawn Ryan November 2, 2017 (2017-11-02)1006.74 [2]
Sergeant Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson is tasked to run an elite S.W.A.T. unit for the LAPD after his original team leader William "Buck" Spivey, was fired after accidentally shooting an unarmed black teenager during a shootout. To fill the void left by Spivey, a wild officer, Jim Street, is recruited into the team. Hondo must quickly establish his right to be leader, and their issues escalate when another shooting occurs at a protest to the previous shooting. Hondo learns that Buck saw potential in Street and vows to make the best of his inclusion as advised. The police gradually realise that the entire spat is not about simple racial issues, but a political one. Uncovering more clues of their previous suspects involvement in manipulating the police, Hondo and his team race to rescue Mumford and his team in an ambush and take out the remaining suspects.
22"Cuchillo" Billy Gierhart Craig GoreNovember 9, 2017 (2017-11-09)1016.59 [3]
Hondo and Jessica are uncertain about how to proceed with their relationship as it violates department procedures. After multiple inmates escape a prison transport, the team must hunt down the fugitives including a psychopath called 'Cuchillo' that Jessica caught before transferring to S.W.A.T. As Hondo and Mumford's teams round up the other 3 fugitives, Street's lone-wolf mentality causes tension as Hondo is pressured to either rein him in or cut him loose. In an effort to get through to him, Hondo puts Chris and Street on the protection detail of the woman who put Cuchillo away before, and tells Chris to get Street to understand he needs to trust the team. When Cuchillo barricades himself inside a house with a teenage girl hostage and S.W.A.T. pinned down, Hondo must pull his most outrageous stunt to date to save the day. At the end of the episode, Jessica and Hondo both agree to maintain their relationship without letting anyone know.
33"Radical"Billy GierhartSam HumphreyNovember 16, 2017 (2017-11-16)1036.26 [4]
During a party to "celebrate" Hondo becoming a media sensation for his helicopter stunt, The S.W.A.T. team are called when a suspected homemade terrorist accidentally blows himself and most of his building up in a Highland Park explosion. Whilst the FBI use the explosion as a justification for arresting suspected terrorists on a watch list, Hondo learns that there are several explosives missing, and the Team must race against the clock to find the partner. Meanwhile, Cortez begins to panic when Deacon's wife Annie reveals gossip that Hondo is in a relationship, whilst Hondo reaches out for Buck who is isolating himself following his firing. S.W.A.T learns the two bombers are college students being manipulated by their bitter professor into committing these acts under the guise of "Patriotic Acts", and the partner ends up holding a classroom of students hostage with a bomb, and Hondo must play negotiator.
44"Pamilya" Greg Beeman Kent RotherhamNovember 23, 2017 (2017-11-23)1025.84 [5]
S.W.A.T is tasked with tracking down drug smugglers who are using human trafficking victims as drug mules. After a bad break up, Luca is in need of a place to stay, but knowing what a bad houseguest he is, no-one on the team is willing to help. Meanwhile whilst doing a favor for his incarcerated mother, Street ends up attacking a civilian and puts both his career and Hondo's ability to be a leader into question. Hondo discovers that Karen Street misled her son into attacking an associate of her smuggling operation, and tells her to leave her son alone before she destroys his career. As punishment for his actions, Hondo forces Street to take Luca in, which he assures him is worse than it seems.
55"Imposters" Guy Ferland VJ BoydNovember 30, 2017 (2017-11-30)1056.71 [6]
The S.W.A.T. team deals with a gang of robbers posing as a S.W.A.T. officers, but the recently burglarized family is suspected of hiding something. Chris manages to connect with the daughter, who gradually reveals that she was forced by the robbers to confess her dirtiest thoughts and desires on video or her parents would be killed. Another girl is found to be a victim of the same robbers on a previous occasion, and they soon learn that a fellow student planned all the burglaries and humiliations to get back at them over a past grudge. Deacon and Luca are assigned as security detail for Bobby Strock, a visiting professional hockey player who has been receiving death threats, but his troublemaking attitude complicates matters further, notably forcing them to tackle several people at a bar he manages to wind up. Ultimately Strock makes it up to them by allowing Deacon to play defense on the opposing hockey team to renew his ice hockey skills.
66"Octane" Eagle Egilsson Michael Jones-MoralesDecember 7, 2017 (2017-12-07)1046.25 [7]
After being contacted by criminals reaching out for his old undercover alias, Street is forced to go back undercover into the world of high-end car theft in order to dismantle a ring he tried to earlier in his career. Things go bad when the paranoid mastermind Jürgen Richter, behind the ring starts to question loyalty after discovering that one of his crew members lied about his identity. Street discovers the real imposters, who had snitched to the Chinese mafia and presented an alternative deal which included him. With the help of a young hacker, Street manages to get the SWAT team on the lead before Richter can kill the rest of his crew. Hondo learns from Raymont's mother that he has bought a gun, and tries to help open up about his struggle. Raymont later reveals he bought the gun for protection against nightmares of the shooting. Deacon grows suspicious when a climbing instructor evaluates Chris' performance poorly, but Chris herself is undeterred.
77"Homecoming" John Showalter Alison CrossDecember 14, 2017 (2017-12-14)1066.45 [8]
Hondo's incarcerated friend Leroy asks him for a favor - to safeguard his son Daryl after he was witness to a drive-by shooting. Hondo secures Daryl after he attempts to buy a gun, but he isn't charged as it was a setup meant for them to reach him. After an attorney is killed, the pressure to find the killer increases as evidence becomes clear that it was a professional hit just like the first one. SWAT and the LAPD race to secure the next victims before they are killed, acting on intel from Leroy about the mastermind's connection to the gang environment. Though his crew attempts to flee, he remains the last one standing until he is gunned down. Afterwards, Daryl is sent to his aunt up north for a better place for himself to prosper. Meanwhile, Luca's grandfather, original S.W.A.T member Jack Luca, has died and Luca struggles to deal with the loss. Hondo later learns that he wanted Jack to apologise for supposed racist viewpoints against Hondo being on his team. Hondo tells him to accept that Jack was of a different generation and age which he defined. Luca also accepts to film a memorial video for his grandfather after initially turning it down.
88"Miracle" Holly Dale A.C. AllenDecember 21, 2017 (2017-12-21)1076.28 [9]
During Christmas Eve, a drug cartel's cache of gold bars is stolen, forcing the S.W.A.T team to put their vacation on hold to apprehend the thieves with the help of a conspirator, Reya, who they catch before she can escape. They locate the last thief, and discover the stolen gold. Deacon manages to convince Reya to help them hand the gold back to the cartel's leader and she agrees to utilise a wire while handing over fake gold. The team manage to save Reya and her friend who was taken hostage and pursue and detain the cartel leader and his last men. Jessica's proposal for renewing the department gains the attention of the President of the Police Commissioner Board, Michael Plank. Though Plank supports her ideas, he thinks they need to be watered down in order to be passed and adopted by the department.
99"Blindspots"Billy GierhartMichael GemballaJanuary 4, 2018 (2018-01-04)1086.21 [10]
During the investigation into an armed robbery, Deacon is temporarily placed in charge of the team when Hondo is taken off duty due to a strange misconduct complaint: an unknown male claiming Hondo used his police authority to rob him. Tan turns to an old informant, Allie, with whom he has past history. This leads to her only being willing to negotiate through Street, but Tan later tries to recuperate their feelings. However, once the robbers are caught, but their stash undiscovered, Tan concludes that Allie made her escape with the money, being officially done with him. Hondo realises his alibi for the "incident" is Cortez, which would expose their secret relationship. Before either of them can sacrifice their careers, Cortez discovers the complainant incarcerated girlfriend is one of Karen Street's customers, forcing Hondo to come clean to Street about his meeting with Karen, who confirms to Street himself what Hondo tells him in private.
1010"Seizure" Larry Teng Aaron Rahsaan ThomasJanuary 11, 2018 (2018-01-11)1096.38 [11]
The team is sent on a rescue mission in a maximum security prison riot. They split up in order to combat three different gang factions within the prison. As they gradually take the inmates down and free the trapped guards, they also notice signs the prison is not up to code. Another discovery confirms the prison is being used as a forced labor factory. Meanwhile, Deacon's wife Annie has a stroke while visiting Hicks and is rushed into emergency surgery. The team learns Gunnar Cade, the Neo-Nazi faction's leader, orchestrated the prison riot as a distraction in order to kill an informant. He is later gunned down upon trying to escape disguised as a guard. After Hondo's team regains control of the prison, he confronts its owner over his illegally ironic crimes and vows to bring him to justice.
1111"K-Town" Omar Madha Craig GoreJanuary 18, 2018 (2018-01-18)1106.02 [12]
Hondo's team participates in a joint LAPD-DEA Task force to apprehend local Korean drug smugglers and manage to sneak in and steal a stash of fentanyl disguised as robbers. Next they focus on who could be the possible top dog of the Korean gang, the Golden Boys, and the smuggling network overall. However, everything turns sour when key figures with close ties to network wind up dead, and DEA agent Katrina Walsh's son Kelvin, who is also Hondo's godson; is kidnapped by the gang, aiming to force them to hand back the fentanyl. Despite the team planning to hand over fake bags, Walsh takes matters into her own hands and delivers the real fentanyl. But with her son not at the rendezvous, clues point them to a Massage Center run by the gang, where Kelvin is held captive, and the team make their way to save him. Despite the gang being rounded up and the fentanyl secured, the real top dog isn't apprehended. Hondo identifies him as a real estate mogul, who he confronts and warns directly. During the mission, Annie collapses again and is operated on for a second time. Jessica, with the help of Plank, gets a specialist to help with the surgery.
1212"Contamination" Elodie Keene Robert WittstadtFebruary 1, 2018 (2018-02-01)1116.23 [13]
Working again with FBI Agent DuBois, Hondo and the team are on the hunt for two Sovereigns who possess barrels of cyanide and are planning to use them to poison the city, but the only link they have to finding them is a wife who refuses to acknowledge that her husband is about to commit domestic terrorism. Despite her refusal, Hondo gradually manages to get through to her. Chris struggles with the case as one of the sovereigns shot an academy friend of hers who attempted to detain the sovereigns. The team manages to capture one of the sovereigns who takes more convincing before revealing where his boss plans to utilise the cyanide: the city's water supply. The team and the police rush to the water supply plant and stop the boss and two remaining sovereigns and freeing some hostages in the process. Jessica faces opposition from Hicks about her planned reforms despite Plank and her signing off on them. Luca and Tan fail to convince Street to write a letter for worse case scenarios, but Chris later wins him over.
1313"Fences" Alex Graves Sam HumphreyMarch 1, 2018 (2018-03-01)1125.32 [14]
An ICE raid leaves Street in hot water when he inadvertently violates LA's sanctuary city policy and a young man is faced with deportation. When the younger sister orchestrates a rally outside the police precinct, the team faces the daunting task of protecting her from a group of men looking to deport immigrants by any means, even though no one will let them near her. Meanwhile, after Jessica's tires are slashed in response to her plans, the president of the police commission finds out about Hondo and Jessica's secret romantic relationship. Unwilling to back her unless she acknowledges her hypocrisy, he gives them the ultimatum of choosing either their relationship or their careers. In the end, despite both agreeing they are in love, Hondo and Cortez decide to end their relationship to protect their careers.
1414"Ghosts"John ShowalterMichael Jones-MoralesMarch 8, 2018 (2018-03-08)1135.57 [15]
When a serial killer from Luca's past who was thought to have been killed in an explosion two years prior resurfaces, the S.W.A.T team must capture him, this time for good. Meanwhile, Hondo grows more concerned about Buck as he begins to descend into depression following his firing. In order to stop his downward spiral, Hondo must orchestrate a meeting between Buck and Raymont Harris. Jessica gets a threatening letter personally delivered to her desk which, coupled with the attack on her car, forces her and Hicks to realise the suspect is a cop. Cortez publicly offers to let the event slide if the person responsible comes forward, but no one does. Hicks soon learns the person behind the letter is Rocker's wife, who was following his angry ramblings about Cortez's plans being bad. Rocker tells his wife that, after actually thinking about it, he agrees with Cortez but, unfortunately, Hicks is not willing to push this under the rug.
1515"Crews" Hanelle M. Culpepper V.J. BoydMarch 29, 2018 (2018-03-29)1145.26 [16]
Hondo's good friend and trusted criminal informant Craig is killed while seeking information about a robbery crew that a joint S.W.A.T and FBI task force is trying to capture. Things get complicated when Cortez begins to suspect FBI Agent DuBois, the agent in charge, has a drug problem which she refuses to admit. When DuBois makes a critical mistake endangering everyone's lives, Cortez removes her from Command and, with Hicks, informs the FBI of DuBois' drug problems. After Craig's daughter reveals her father was at a casino, which leads to them taking down the whole crew, Hondo makes good on a promise to Craig (who was worried financially) and gets the daughter signed up as an FBI CI, meaning she is set to earn a percentage of the money recovered from the takedown.
1616"Payback"Billy GierhartAlison CrossApril 5, 2018 (2018-04-05)1155.05 [17]
A young heiress is kidnapped for ransom; the team links up with her former Marine bodyguard and goes on a citywide search to bring her home before she is harmed. However, when the suspects turn out to be former members of the same private protection service as the bodyguard, they are forced to question whether the family were the targets. Ultimately they learn that the members' leader Tom Russell, had previously worked for the company and sued the owner, Phil Granger, for wrongful dismissal, which he lost; and that the kidnapping overall was to harm him. The team storm Russell's former halfway house and secure heiress, and Hondo talks Russell down from committing suicide. The team also worries that Mumford is moving too fast when he announces he's getting married for the fourth time after only knowing his new lady friend for a month. This episode features the performance of the song "Busted" by Bowie Jane, who competed on Big Brother 25 .
1717"Armory"Rob J. GreenleaCraig GoreApril 12, 2018 (2018-04-12)1165.31 [18]
The S.W.A.T team arrests a former gang member who has taken a family hostage, but the mission takes a dangerous turn when he escapes and holds Cortez and Plank captive inside S.W.A.T's armory. The former gang member wants the team to find his sister, who has been kidnapped because he refused to commit a robbery. The team manage to rescue his mother and tries to have her talk sense into him, but she rebuffs him for his gang involvement, forcing them to put full focus on finding his sister. Hicks looks to end this matter with a bullet, even calling in the unit's "Angel of Death". Hondo and his team race to free the member's sister just in time before the member can detonate a grenade, and freeing Cortez and Plank in the process. After accidentally destroying the teenage son's scholarship competition entry Quadcopter, Deacon, Luka, and Tan make up for it by giving the kid access to S.W.A.Ts hardware depot to help him rebuild it overnight, then providing a full police escort to make the entry deadline.
1818"Patrol" Norberto Barba A.C. AllenApril 19, 2018 (2018-04-19)1175.32 [19]
On their monthly patrol day, Chris and Mumford must deal with a psychiatric patient on a shooting spree. They attempt to stop as he shoots up an office building, and Chris ends up fighting him until he escapes. Worried that Mumford thinks less of her, Chris gets her redemption when the team relocates the patient on a transit bus he threatened to shoot up, and stop him before he can do so. Deacon and Luca play host to a group of troubled children, during which Luca discovers that one of them has dyslexia. Tan and Street must recover Tan's stolen radio from an opportunistic cheerleader. Street ultimately lends him $400 to pay the cheerleader for returning the radio. Meanwhile, Hondo travels to Oakland to help his half-sister convince their stubborn and ill father to move to L.A. with them. Hondo resorts to comfort his father with the past and putting a wider focus on the future as a united family that ultimately convinces his father to come with them.
1919"Source" Doug Aarniokoski Michael GemballaApril 26, 2018 (2018-04-26)1185.22 [20]
The S.W.A.T. team is assigned to protect a high-profile Russian journalist who is visiting Los Angeles from assassins but, when her unwillingness to cooperate results in a shootout, Hondo forces her to reveal that she is on the verge of uncovering a massive weapons smuggling operation and is trying to meet a source who will provide the final key. Whilst protecting her at a speaking event, Deacon and Luka discover that the hitmen have the components to a bio-terrorism attack and one of the team throws themselves into the firing line to protect the journalist. Meanwhile, with only days left on her incarceration sentence, Street deals with a personal crisis over letting his mother live with him, which forces Luka to once again look for a place to stay. Desperate to avoid his unwelcome presence in their homes, the rest of the team try to find a place for him and the reason for why he refuses to commit to a permanent home.
2020"Vendetta"Billy GierhartKent RotherhamMay 3, 2018 (2018-05-03)1195.09 [21]
Following up on what transpired in the episode K-Town, Hondo's clandestine surveillance on Jae Kim lands him in hot water with the L.A.P.D. commanding officers after he is the target of an assassination attempt. Hondo is benched while the team follows up on his investigation, but trouble arises when former DEA Agent KC Walsh, Hondo's contact, is discovered with the dead body of the only man who could testify against Kim. In order to legally arrest Kim, Hondo gets the bank to cancel a $25M loan to Kim, which forces him to find the money quickly, and then arranges a sting operation, but the plan unravels when Hondo learns that Commissioner Plank was the one who told Kim about Hondo's investigation, resulting in the attempt on his life. Cortez must force Hondo and Plank to put aside their differences when Plank is needed to go undercover. He becomes do direct while doing so, but is taken aside before escalations. S. W. A. T. apprehend Kim following a transfer at the docks with an Armenian gang.
2121"Hunted"Nina Lopez-CorradoMatthew T. BrownMay 10, 2018 (2018-05-10)1205.54 [22]
When a gang of bikers starts brazenly killing their rivals, Deacon suggests a visit to his former patrol partner, who used to be undercover in the gang, while Mumford's team tries to round up the gang's members. Upon arriving at the ex-cop's cabin, Deacon and Hondo are ambushed and forced to flee into the woods, learning that Deacon's former partner changed sides after his retirement and now is genuinely in league with the gang. While trying to keep ahead of their pursuers, they have to face some unresolved issues between them. By the time they get word to HQ, they've managed to put aside their differences and Hondo acknowledges Deacon's message about accepting change and development. With the rest of the team assisting, they take out the remaining gang members and Deacon's former partner. Meanwhile, Chris searches for the truth about a female S.W.A.T. candidate in order to help her pass selection. She deduces from her partner that he had actually failed to properly apprehend a suspect and she took the fall for it, but both manage to find a common solution that gets the female candidate through to S. W. A. T. in the end.
2222"Hoax"Billy GierhartAaron Rahsaan ThomasMay 17, 2018 (2018-05-17)1216.03 [23]

After responding to a fake 911 call, the team must race against the clock to stop bomb threats throughout the city from a white supremacy hate group. In order to facilitate the search, Hondo enlists the aid of his childhood friends and his father to help identify their suspects, and later to evacuate a park festival after identifying it as the target for the supremacist group. Hondo and Street take a S. W. A. T. truck and cuts the bomb truck in half, neutralising the bomb and main culprit. Meanwhile, Street's relationship with the team is strained when he has to deal with a crisis involving his mother and uncle. The crisis is resolved when his mother returns a necklace that belonged to his grandmother. During the aftermath, Street is demoted to patrol for lying to Hondo and skips attending Deacon's wedding vow renewal. Cortez also learns on a televised broadcast that Plank is running for governor. Worried what the relationship with the new commissioner will be like, Plank assures her that she can stand on her own feet and with her reform proposals.


Note: This episode marks the final regular appearance of Peter Onorati (Jeff Mumford).

Production

On February 3, 2017, it was announced that CBS had greenlit production of a pilot episode of a television series inspired by the 2003 film adaptation of the 1970s ABC series S.W.A.T. . [24] The pilot was written by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas and Shawn Ryan [25] and directed by Justin Lin.

The new series was ordered by CBS on May 12, 2017. Co-creator and executive producers Thomas and Ryan would serve as the showrunners. [26] The series premiered on November 2, 2017. [27] On November 17, 2017, CBS picked up the series for a full season of 20 episodes [28] and on December 1, 2017, CBS ordered two additional episodes for the first season bringing the total to 22 episodes. [29]

In February 2017, former Criminal Minds cast member Shemar Moore was announced as the Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson, [30] alongside new co-stars Kenny Johnson as Dominic Luca, who was originally named Brian Gamble, [31] and Lina Esco as Christina "Chris" Alonzo, who also originally named Sanchez. [31] Several additional cast members were announced in March 2017. Jay Harrington plays Officer Deacon Kay, [32] Alex Russell is James "Jim" Street, [33] and finally, Peter Onorati was cast as Jeff Mumford, [34] are four member of the S.W.A.T team of the Los Angeles Police Department in the original movie. On September 21, 2017, David Lim was cast in the role of Hondo's new co-member Victor Tan and was later promoted to series regular status for first season. [35]

Reception

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 1
No.TitleAir date Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)
1"Pilot"November 2, 20171.1/46.74 [2] 0.83.701.910.52 [36]
2"Cuchillo"November 9, 20171.0/46.58 [3] 0.93.691.910.27 [37]
3"Radical"November 16, 20170.9/36.26 [4] 0.83.221.79.48 [38]
4"Pamilya"November 23, 20171.1/45.84 [5] 0.93.322.09.17 [39]
5"Imposters"November 30, 20171.0/46.71 [6] 0.83.111.89.83 [40]
6"Octane"December 7, 20170.9/46.25 [7] 0.83.271.79.52 [41]
7"Homecoming"December 14, 20171.0/46.45 [8]
8"Miracle"December 21, 20171.0/46.28 [9]
9"Blindspots"January 4, 20181.1/46.21 [10]
10"Seizure"January 11, 20181.1/46.38 [11] 1.03.962.110.35 [42]
11"K-Town"January 18, 20181.0/46.02 [12] 0.93.681.99.70 [43]
12"Containment"February 1, 20181.0/46.23 [13] 0.93.721.99.95 [44]
13"Fences"March 1, 20180.8/35.32 [14] 0.93.721.79.04 [45]
14"Ghosts"March 8, 20180.9/45.57 [15] 0.93.651.89.26 [46]
15"Crews"March 29, 20180.8/35.26 [16] 0.93.781.79.05 [47]
16"Payback"April 5, 20180.8/35.05 [17] 0.93.731.78.78 [48]
17"Armory"April 12, 20180.9/45.31 [18] 0.83.541.78.85 [49]
18"Patrol"April 19, 20180.8/35.32 [19] 0.93.661.78.98 [50]
19"Source"April 26, 20180.8/35.22 [20] 0.83.471.68.69 [51]
20"Vendetta"May 3, 20180.8/45.09 [21] 0.83.441.68.53 [52]
21"Hunted"May 10, 20180.9/45.54 [22] 0.83.291.78.83 [53]
22"Hoax"May 17, 20180.9/46.03 [23] 0.83.161.79.19 [54]

Critical response

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 48% approval rating for the first season, with an average rating of 4.59/10 based on 27 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Despite a commanding, charming performance from Shemar Moore, S.W.A.T. remains a simple procedural overrun with clichés." [55] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 45 out of 100 based on 12 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [56]

Home media

S.W.A.T.: Season One
Set detailsSpecial features
  • 5 disc
    • 22 episodes
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Gag Reel
DVD release dates
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
August 28, 2018 [57] September 26, 2018[ citation needed ]

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