S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 2

S.W.A.T.
Season 2
Starring	Shemar Moore Stephanie Sigman Alex Russell Lina Esco Kenny Johnson David Lim Patrick St. Esprit Jay Harrington
No. of episodes	23
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 27, 2018 (2018-09-27) – May 16, 2019 (2019-05-16)
Season chronology
← Previous Season 1 Next → Season 3
List of episodes

The second season of the American action drama television series S.W.A.T. premiered on September 27, 2018, ^[1] and ended on May 16, 2019, on CBS with 23 episodes.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) characters

Main

• Shemar Moore as LAPD SWAT Sergeant II Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson Jr.
• Stephanie Sigman as LAPD SWAT Captain Jessica Cortez
• Alex Russell as LAPD SWAT Officer III James "Jim" Street
• Lina Esco as LAPD SWAT Officer III Christina "Chris" Alonso
• Kenny Johnson as LAPD SWAT Officer III Dominique Luca
• David Lim as LAPD SWAT Officer III Victor Tan
• Patrick St. Esprit as LAPD SWAT Commander Robert Hicks
• Jay Harrington as LAPD SWAT Sergeant II David "Deacon" Kay

Recurring

• Peter Onorati as LAPD SWAT Sergeant II Jeff Mumford
• Lou Ferrigno Jr. as LAPD SWAT Sergeant Donovan Rocker
• Sherilyn Fenn as Karen Street
• Bre Blair as Annie Kay
• Nikiva Dionne as Nia Wells
• Nicki Micheaux as Leah Jankins

Guest

• DeShae Frost as Darryl Henderson
• Michael Beach as Leroy Henderson
• Cathy Cahlin Ryan as Dr. Wendy Hughes
• Obba Babatundé as Daniel Harrelson Sr.
• Sumalee Montano as Gwen
• Daniel Lissing as Ty
• Claire Coffee as Kira
• Michael O'Neill as Carl Luca
• Sofia Vassilieva as Lauren
• Shanley Caswell as Sarah
• Alimi Ballard as Officer Thompson
• Dominic Hoffman as Ben Mosley
• Shawn Ashmore as William Tanner
• Christian Kane as Mr. X
• David Marciano as Steve Billings
• Mark Espinoza as Jorge

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
23	1	"Shaky Town"	Billy Gierhart	Michael Jones-Morales	September 27, 2018 (2018-09-27)	201	4.70 [2]
While attempting to arrest a known leader of a human-trafficking ring, the entire team runs into complications caused by an earthquake. Deacon finds himself trapped under rubble alongside a Haitian man on a mission to save his sons. After some hesitation, the man helps him from the rubble and later provides more information about the ring. Meanwhile, Street struggles with mending fences with the team while also adjusting to being a patrol officer rather than S.W.A.T. Jessica and Hicks attempt to convince the new commissioner to not push through a 15% budget cut to S. W. A. T., which later convinces her following the quake, but argues that the math is not on their side. Hondo meets Nia Wells, a Deputy District Attorney in the process of getting divorced, at a hotel bar and spends the night with her but, when he goes to check on her at the hospital after the quake, he discovers her soon-to-be ex-husband at her bedside. Note: This episode aired just days after the season premiere of "9-1-1," which also dealt with a massive earthquake striking L.A.--and both also had characters commenting that it was larger than the Northridge quake of 1994. It's also the first episode to have Patrick St. Esprit (Robert Hicks) credited as a series regular.
24	2	"Gasoline Drum"	John Showalter	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas	October 4, 2018 (2018-10-04)	202	5.21 [3]
The S.W.A.T. team races against the clock to apprehend the leader of the Turkish drug cartel who is aiming to retrieve his son and stashed money that his wife is attempting to claim to secure a better life for her and the children. The team also receives the help from a rogue Turkish Interpol agent, who Jessica knows from before. With her help, they manage to rescue the mother and son at a horse racing track, but the agent kidnaps the son in order to get up close to kill the cartel leader herself. Despite this, the team track her down and take both her and the leader down and rescuing the son for a second time. Meanwhile, Hondo learns that Leroy's son Daryl has returned to LA and is being arrested for a robbery. Leroy attempts to convince him to get his life back on track, but is unsuccessful and is convinced it might be Daryl's fate. Luca asks Hicks to be signed up for a police house in East Hollywood, despite some hesitation.
25	3	"Fire and Smoke"	Billy Gierhart	Alison Cross	October 11, 2018 (2018-10-11)	203	5.40 [4]
The S.W.A.T team works with District Attorney Nia Wells to protect the jurors of a high profile case when their families are being targeted with bombs, but one claims the life of the star witness. The acts are traced back to the Armenian mafia, where one of them is on trial for bribery and corruption against city officials. But when the alternate jurors reach a deadlock in a second trial, the team goes after another mobster responsible for protecting the Armenian on trial, while additionally saving the witness' husband, who attempted to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Cortez learns that, due to budget cuts, members of S.W.A.T. will have to return to patrol, putting some of their careers, including Tan's, in jeopardy. Hondo helps his father look for his car, which he used to pay bail for a young man so he could keep his job. They discover that the car salesman kept the car himself before they go and buy it back.
26	4	"Saving Face"	Bill Roe	A.C. Allen	October 18, 2018 (2018-10-18)	204	5.49 [5]
The S.W.A.T team works with Eric Wells, a U.S. Marshal who happens to be Nia's estranged husband, to detain a fugitive and their gang who are robbing drug cargo shipments and Hondo can't help but be suspicious of Eric's true motives, especially after learning Eric orchestrated his assignment to the case because he wanted to profile Hondo. Putting aside their differences for the sake of the mission, until after, Eric reveals that all he wanted was a second chance for Nia. Hondo tells him that it would be up to Nia herself about who she wants. Meanwhile, after Street catches his mother buying and keeping cocaine in her purse, he calls her out for being selfish and moves out immediately. In the end, Street and Hondo make up and Street expresses to Hondo his desire to be back on S.W.A.T. Because he never went through it the first time, Hondo tells Street to enlist in the S.W.A.T. academy. Four S. W. A. T. officers are demoted to patrol duties as a consequence of the budget cuts, but none come from Hondo's team.
27	5	"S.O.S."	Larry Teng	Andrew Dettmann	October 25, 2018 (2018-10-25)	205	5.36 [6]
Hondo and Chris infiltrate a hijacked cruise ship in an effort to undermine the hijackers' plan to escape with smuggled drugs while the rest of the team works from the outside to determine the identity of the criminals. With the help of a passenger with a satellite phone and the ship's Chief of Security, they manage to find the ringleader and neutralize the threat after Deacon assists with a boat to drag the two remaining assailants away from the ship. Meanwhile, Street endures his first day at S.W.A.T. academy, which proves difficult as Luca, who is one of the supervisors testing him, still bears a grudge, but they ultimately make up in an effort to help him win a bet against Mumford. He also befriends fellow trainee Devlin after initially being rejected with his friendly advances.
28	6	"Never Again"	Marc Roskin	Craig Gore	November 1, 2018 (2018-11-01)	206	5.22 [7]
A group of well-organized and heavily-armed robbers hits several diamond merchants across downtown Los Angeles. The S.W.A.T. team tries to determine the next target. Cortez reveals that the three merchants are connected to the Israeli mafia and she reaches out to their top enforcer, who previously helped her against the Russian mob, to try to prevent a blood bath. After Hondo kills one of the suspects in a shootout, found to be a woman, they discover the suspects are Israeli women on student visas with a very personal motive. Afterward, Hondo, emotionally affected by the suspect's death, seeks comfort from his mother, Charice (Debbie Allen). Also, while Street worries that Luca, his S.W.A.T. training academy instructor, has a personal vendetta against him, Chris contemplates an unorthodox proposition from the new woman she's dating: a triad relationship with her boyfriend.
29	7	"Inheritance"	Romeo Tirone	Kent Rotherham	November 8, 2018 (2018-11-08)	207	5.13 [8]
When a young woman, daughter of an internet mogul, and her boyfriend are kidnapped by a group of criminals with similar motives and tactics as the Symbionese Liberation Army in Patty Hearst's kidnapping, the S.W.A.T team reviews Luca's late grandfather's journal with assistance from his father, Carl. Meanwhile, Hondo travels to Arizona with Nia for a S.W.A.T training seminar and encounters apparent racial profiling by a state trooper. Though Devlin is chosen as a new member of S.W.A.T, Deacon, temporarily in charge, offers to have Street come back for one day. The team manages to foil the criminals' plan and save the woman, though the kidnappers themselves escape. Hicks and Hondo reinstate Street back to S.W.A.T for a 6 month probationary period, as two senior officers are retiring. In the end, the kidnappers broadcast a warning video, threatening to return if society doesn't change.
30	8	"The Tiffany Experience"	Guy Ferland	VJ Boyd	November 15, 2018 (2018-11-15)	208	5.13 [9]
The team deals with the psychotic fan of a female vlogger who wants to be her boyfriend by killing anyone around her. Unfortunately, the vlogger is far more interested in capitalizing on the experience to boost her fanbase and become more infamous, not seeming to care just how many innocent people are at risk in the process. However, Cortez manages to get her to realise the situation when the fan kills her pretend boyfriend and abducts her sister and cameraman, holding them hostage and live streaming the event onboard a minibus. The team manage to pit the bus and neutralise the fan and saving the hostages. Hondo advises Luca to make amends with Street as a measure to make him ease on his weight of responsibilities. The move is successful and they reconcile, with Luca even offering Street to live with him until further. Chris faces tensions among her teammates over her polyamory relationship, and later decides to enter it after some hesitation.
31	9	"Day Off"	Lexi Alexander	Sarah Alderson	November 29, 2018 (2018-11-29)	209	5.20 [10]
During their day off, Street and Chris help Luca renovate his new home, though she has to resort to calling her builder uncle to solve the house's problems. Outside the house, they run into a trio of gangsters who have taken a children's park as their own. Chris' builder uncle helps them refurbish the children's park into a basketball field, but despite their kind gesture, the neighbourhood gang makes it clear that their presence is unwanted. Deacon and Tan work with Mumford on a hostage situation and Hondo searches for a serial rapist after rescuing his sister, Brianna, when she is drugged in a nightclub. During the hostage situation, Mumford discovers one of the hostages is a wanted suspect and they have to find him before he achieves his vengeance by murdering those he holds responsible for his past pain. Hondo doesn't have proof to arrest his sister's would-be rapist and resorts to threatening him if he tries again. Afterwards, Nia breaks it off with him, leaving on good terms.
32	10	"1000 Joules"	David Rodriguez	Craig Gore	December 6, 2018 (2018-12-06)	210	5.34 [11]
When dozens of DNA kits and evidence kits from the LAPD crime lab are stolen and one of the technicians is injured (Rebecca, who happens to be a close friend to Hicks), the S.W.A.T team work with Nia Wells as they go on an all-out hunt to recover the kits. Though at first they think the thief was related to a criminal waiting for trial, they end up discovering the thief was someone wanting to profit from selling the evidence to the culprits. Thanks to Rebecca hiding a shell while bleeding on the floor, they're able to capture the thief. Meanwhile, Deacon faces financial difficulties, which makes it hard for him to focus as the leader of the S.W.A.T annual holiday toy drive. When the department can't give him support, Luca offers to lend him the money he needs. Initially he refuses Luca's offer, but at the toy drive later, he reluctantly accepts it anyway. Hicks daughter reveals that Rebecca had aired that she and Hicks could be more than friends, which makes him contemplate if he wants it or not.
33	11	"School"	Billy Gierhart	Robert Wittstadt	January 3, 2019 (2019-01-03)	211	5.99 [12]
In 2013, Hondo and his team faced a school shooting at Riverhill High School, in which six students died. Six years later, the deceased shooter's mother receives a manifesto letter from someone seeking to shoot up a school with a higher body count, and she hands the letter to the police. The police gradually determine that the new shooter, Vince France, plans to shoot up his old school, Leighton High School. In order to get ahead of him, they order the principal and school police to evacuate the students and faculty to the school gym as they arrive. Vince resists arrest, but they manage to apprehend him before he can hurt anyone. Further details from the Riverhill specifies that Hondo shot one of the shooters, and that one of Deacon's children was named after a student he stayed in contact with during the shooting before she perished protecting a group of her peers. Note: Shemar Moore, Alex Russell, Lina Esco, and Jay Harrington appeared in a public service announcement alongside Lt. Aaron Pisarzewicz from Los Angeles School Police Department's School Safety Initiative Division.
34	12	"Los Huesos"	Alex Kalymnios	Michael Jones-Morales	January 10, 2019 (2019-01-10)	212	5.91 [13]
Jessica and Chris go on an undercover mission in Mexico City, without any back-up, to rescue US federal agent Adrian Cruz who has been kidnapped by the Los Huesos cartel that Jessica worked undercover in a few years ago. While she and Chris infiltrate the cartel in Mexico, Hondo and his team track down the leader's butcher, who is torturing Cruz in an undisclosed location. Jessica and Chris are tasked with bringing the leader Chatos, someone he does not trust and wants to kill personally. However they stage Chatos' death in order to be deployed to Los Angeles. With informs from the leader, SWAT back home find the butcher's hideout and free Cruz. In Mexico, Jessica and Chris escape before their cover is blown, but end up in a shootout with the leader and his closest enforcers before the PFM come to their aid to apprehend the leader and his enforcers. Meanwhile, Hondo engages in small home renovation projects, which worries his mother, Charice, that he has something that is causing him emotional strain. Note: The episode is partially filmed in Mexico City, Mexico.
35	13	"Encore"	Rob Greenlea	Munis Rashid	January 31, 2019 (2019-01-31)	213	5.68 [14]
Five low-level employees from five major companies are kidnapped by the Emancipators, the group the team first encountered during the SLA-like kidnapping case, and the companies are held to ransom for the amount they have avoided paying in taxes. Hondo's emotional turmoil starts to get the best of him when he lashes out at the team for allowing one of them to escape. One of the hostages is released with a bomb to his company headquarters, where the team manage to remove the vest before it explodes. Hicks secures the mayor and the remaining CEOs as the Emancipators fire at them from an adjacent building. The team enters the building and arrest all the Emancipators involved and frees the remaining hostages, Hondo later gets a call from the ringleader wishing him luck at their next encounter. Street learns why Luca always wants the others to come for a visit and hang out, which proves to be for the team to have a common meeting place to do spare time activities as a mean to recharge from their work duties.
36	14	"The B-Team"	Maja Vrvilo	VJ Boyd	February 7, 2019 (2019-02-07)	214	4.96 [15]
The S.W.A.T team works with the FBI to stop a separatist from the Okinawa separatist movement who is trying to use weapons-grade plutonium for a terrorist plot. During the investigation, Hondo encounters a former fling, Elle Trask, who heads the counterterrorism unit. However, her investigation and tactics clash with the police's and her boss downgrades SWAT to sweep prior suspects' residences. Trask brings Hondo and his team back into the fold when her informant goes off radar, and she fears the worst. The separatist has taken the plutonium himself and is scheduled to return to Japan. The team intercept him and a TSA informant at the airport before his plane can depart. Also, the team participates in law enforcement's annual charity competition against the Los Angeles Fire Department. Chris is eager about having a baby shower for Deacon's new child, which he deems unnecessary at first, until she gives valuable insight from her own childhood. Later, he and Annie agree to designate her as the child's godmother. Note: NFL pro-football players Willie McGinest, James Harrison, and Eric Dickerson guest star as members of the LAFD.
37	15	"Fallen"	Guy Ferland	Michael Gemballa	February 14, 2019 (2019-02-14)	215	5.59 [16]
When two patrol officers are killed in a series of random shootings, the team goes on the hunt to find the perpetrators and discovers the shooters are after two dirty cops, responsible for the death of the brother of one of the shooters by arresting him on false charges. Their initial suspicions falls on the leader of a Latino gang, and they go through a neighbourhood protest just to secure him for questioning. However, they quickly learn that he wasn't involved just prior to the second cop's murder. The case brings up old wounds for Chris, who worked for the crime unit, where she dated one of the dirty cops and later broke up with him when she suspected he was dirty. She also reveals to Street that the cop was the reason she hasn't dated other cops since. The team manage to stop the dirty cops before they can execute and frame the two last perpetrators. Also, Deacon and his wife, Annie, welcome their fourth child, who they name Victoria.
38	16	"Pride"	Nina Lopez-Corrado	Matthew T. Brown	February 21, 2019 (2019-02-21)	216	5.47 [17]
The team have their hands full safeguarding the LGBTQ Pride event in Los Angeles when a hate crime threatens to ignite more violence. Things escalate when a gay-rights activist takes a right wing talk show host and his production crew hostage in retaliation. SWAT manages to end the situation and arrest the activist, but he is executed as he is about to be transported. As the case hits close to home for Chris, it also reunite Hicks with his estranged son, JP, a former drug-addict turned gay-rights activist. A gang of men plan to attack the parade, but as SWAT and police hinder two of the trucks, the third heads towards the volunteer stands. Deacon manages to ease the damage as his car is hit by the truck. Meanwhile, Street worries his mother will be sent back to prison when she misses her last two parole meets. Additionally she has not met up at her workplace either. Deacon receives unexpected news regarding his newborn daughter, Victoria, who needs an operation. Unable to get a loan from a bank, Deacon has to resort to a loan shark he once arrested, Mickey.
39	17	"Jack"	Larry Teng	Kent Rotherham	March 7, 2019 (2019-03-07)	217	5.58 [18]
The team tries to zero in on a carjacking ring, but things get complicated when they discover heroin hidden in the cars, which it's revealed that the Sicilian mob hired the carjackers in order to get the heroin back. After SWAT arrests them and their hacker, the mob amps up the game and goes after the last car themselves with abducting Whip, who Street befriended during his undercover assignment in season 1. Ultimately they manage to save Whip and take down the mob, preventing them from stealing the car and regaining the heroin. Hondo decides to take Daryl in to stay with him and his mother after facing familiar complications for Daryl's mother regaining custody. Deacon has problems returning the loan due to being on sick leave, so Mickey asks for a favor instead, which involves going after an illegal poker game held in Mickey's mother's neighbourhood. Mumford contemplates his future in S.W.A.T after being shot. After the case is resolved, Mumford decides to give his 30-day notice.
40	18	"Cash Flow"	Billy Gierhart	Andrew Dettmann & Amelia Sims	April 4, 2019 (2019-04-04)	218	4.73 [19]
The case of an escaped convict who was broken out of the prison by criminals using stolen military weaponry reunites Hondo with a fellow Marine, Ruiz, with whom he served in Somalia 20 years ago. When the weapons turn out to have been stolen from Ruiz's base, he tries to take over, but they're forced to push away their differences to recover the weapons and stop the criminals. Once the mission is completed, Hondo reveals his real intentions by leaving the unit 20 years ago, which Ruiz is sympathetic to and invites him to meet the other unit members for drinks, which Hondo accepts. When Deacon can't fully pay his debt quota, Mickey asks for another favor instead. After almost stealing stolen cash in desperation, he finally comes clean to Hondo. He and Luca pay off the debt and warn Mickey off Deacon. Meanwhile, Chris prepares for a difficult farewell to her former K-9 partner, Champ, when he falls terminally ill, forcing her to face some truths about her relationship with Ty and Kira after some advice from Street. Champ later dies and the department holds a funeral ceremony for him.
41	19	"Invisible"	John Terlesky	A.C. Allen	April 18, 2019 (2019-04-18)	219	5.09 [20]
Luca, Street, and Chris respond to a potential abduction of their closest neighbor, Timo. After they find him, they discover he witnessed a kidnapping perpetrated by two ICE agent impostors who gain access to upscale neighborhoods by targeting domestic workers. Mumford and his team are called upon as the police get further leads on the perpetrators' next targets. But given the property's advanced security systems, they request it to be shut down in order to move in. However, the lead perpetrator orders them back out or the family is killed. He requests a car, which Street has equipped with an automatic shutdown in order to trap him as he departs. Meanwhile, Hondo visits a potential foster family for Daryl, who give of a good impression, but he sees a lack of love and compassion for the children, which makes him reject their candidacy. After contemplating his options, Hondo decides to adopt Daryl into his family and the S.W.A.T division prepares a retirement send-off party for Mumford.
42	20	"Rocket Fuel"	Laura Belsey	Craig Gore & Ryan Keleher	April 25, 2019 (2019-04-25)	220	5.01 [21]
The squad deals with finding PCP nicknamed "Rocket Fuel" which has been on the street for decades and killed many, including Tan's cousin. He turns to a now retired cop, Ben Mosley, who worked on the case and he gives them some insight into the individuals possibly involved in the PCP creator, Chief J's return. Going through a famous rapper with lyrics about Chief J and a local gang leader, they track down his lab to being located under a daycare center. The Center is evacuated, but one child is missing. Hondo and Tan rescue the child while additionally arresting Chief J. Meanwhile, Hondo struggles to encourage Daryl as he keeps getting rejected during his job interviews. Daryl is later arrested for attending a party where alcohol was involved, but is quickly released to being sober himself. Street worries when his missing mother commits credit card fraud. Chris is surprised when Ty and Kira asks her to move in with them, which she later comes to accept. After a police fundraiser, she and Street drunkenly kiss before she backs away.
43	21	"Day of Dread"	Alrick Riley	Alison Cross	May 2, 2019 (2019-05-02)	221	5.00 [22]
Hondo's leadership is called into question when the squad finds themselves under internal investigation after an attempt to capture the most wanted criminal inadvertently results in the death of a civilian. The investigation forces the team to detail everything that happened until the civilian's death, with focus on Hondo's call, which is revealed to have been from his mother, informing him that Daryl was shot while working his new job. While Hondo rejects that the call affected his judgement, the rest of the team relentlessly defend their actions and his strategy. The rest of the team are later cleared, except for Hondo and Street. Deacon and the rest of the team return to the crime scene and discover hidden cameras in smoke detectors thanks to a tip from one of the residents. The camera in the victim's apartment clears both Hondo and Street, and thereby the whole team of any wrongdoing, as it determines that the criminal killed the civilian before the two could arrest him. Cortez learns that she could be bound for a promotion, but her past relationship with Hondo makes Hicks consider it carefully before he decides to look the other way.
44	22	"Trigger Creep"	Oz Scott	Sarah Alderson & Munis Rashid	May 9, 2019 (2019-05-09)	222	5.02 [23]
Hondo searches for the person responsible for a near-fatal attempt on Daryl's life. He works with a reluctant detective and learns from a homeless man that Daryl was arguing with another kid, who is revealed to be his boss' nephew, who has found himself in similar circumstances to Daryl. The nephew his subsequently arrested, while Daryl's condition worsens into a second surgery before he finally recovers, albeit with some reduced function for one of his legs. The team meanwhile, tries to figure out the next location where a lone gunman whose daughter died will strike. They learn that he was struggling in his personal life with both losing his job, daughter, his house and income, and that he is targeting those he holds accountable for his demise. When he targets a bank near the airport, the team rush there to get him, but he escapes amongst the crowds. His spree leads him to abduct his wife from rehab and plans for them to commit suicide at their daughter's grave so they can be with her. However, his wife refuses and fights him off until SWAT arrives and encircles him in the mausoleum. Deacon talks him down and disarms him before he can commit suicide. Meanwhile, FBI agent Elle Benson approaches Cortez with another undercover assignment. Hicks advises her not to take the assignment as it is a front in order to win her over to the bureau.
45	23	"Kangaroo"	Billy Gierhart	Aaron Rahsaan Thomas & Michael Gemballa	May 16, 2019 (2019-05-16)	223	5.75 [24]
The S.W.A.T team once again squares off against The Emancipators when they hold a live-stream kangaroo court to publicly execute city politicians. Their first victim is a councilman who was hanged over a bridge, while another councilman is handed over to a local gang who was affected by policies he supported. Luca uses his local connections to determine the councilman's location and the team save him before he can be killed. Lastly they determine that the group is utilising a truck and determine the last location where the city controller is meant to be executed. After saving her, they corner the leader and apprehend him. Lastly the team evacuate and save people from the city hall, where The Emancipators have planted bombs. They disarm the bomber before more damage can be done. Meanwhile, Deacon receives an LAPD Police Star, an honor he feels he does not deserve. Ultimately in his acceptance speech, he dedicates the star for him and the team. Hondo helps Daryl with his recovery, and Street finds his mother under the influence of drugs again, leading him to call in her parole officer to send her back to prison. Note: This episode marks the final appearance of Stephanie Sigman (Captain Jessica Cortez)

Production

On March 27, 2018, CBS renewed the series for a second season ^[25]

On June 27, 2018, Patrick St. Esprit was promoted to series regular for the season. ^[26]

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 2

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Shaky Town"	September 27, 2018	0.7/3	4.70 [2]	0.8	3.46	1.5	8.16 [27]
2	"Gasoline Drum"	October 4, 2018	0.7/3	5.21 [3]	0.8	3.22	1.5	8.44 [28]
3	"Fire and Smoke"	October 11, 2018	0.8/4	5.40 [4]	0.7	3.03	1.5	8.43 [29]
4	"Saving Face"	October 18, 2018	0.7/3	5.49 [5]	0.7	3.15	1.4	8.65 [30]
5	"S.O.S."	October 25, 2018	0.7/3	5.36 [6]	0.7	3.14	1.4	8.51 [31]
6	"Never Again"	November 1, 2018	0.7/3	5.22 [7]	0.7	3.26	1.4	8.48 [32]
7	"Inheritance"	November 8, 2018	0.7/3	5.13 [8]	0.8	3.25	1.5	8.38 [33]
8	"The Tiffany Experience"	November 15, 2018	0.8/3	5.13 [9]	0.7	3.24	1.5	8.37 [34]
9	"Day Off"	November 29, 2018	0.8/3	5.20 [10]	0.7	3.48	1.5	8.68 [35]
10	"1000 Joules"	December 6, 2018	0.7/3	5.34 [11]	0.8	3.50	1.5	8.84 [36]
11	"School"	January 3, 2019	0.9/4	5.99 [12]	0.8	3.45	1.7	9.44 [37]
12	"Los Huesos"	January 10, 2019	0.9/4	5.91 [13]	0.8	3.39	1.7	9.30 [38]
13	"Encore"	January 31, 2019	0.9/5	5.68 [14]	0.8	3.60	1.7	9.28 [39]
14	"The B-Team"	February 7, 2019	0.8/4	4.96 [15]	0.8	3.71	1.6	8.72 [40]
15	"Fallen"	February 14, 2019	0.9/5	5.59 [16]	0.7	3.33	1.6	8.93 [41]
16	"Pride"	February 21, 2019	0.9/4	5.47 [17]	0.7	3.42	1.6	8.89 [42]
17	"Jack"	March 7, 2019	0.9/4	5.58 [18]	0.8	3.37	1.7	8.95 [43]
18	"Cash Flow"	April 4, 2019	0.7/4	4.73 [19]	0.7	3.32	1.4	8.06 [44]
19	"Invisible"	April 18, 2019	0.8/4	5.09 [20]	0.7	3.32	1.5	8.42 [45]
20	"Rocket Fuel"	April 25, 2019	0.7/4	5.01 [21]	0.6	3.06	1.3	8.02 [46]
21	"Day of Dread"	May 2, 2019	0.7/4	5.00 [22]	0.7	3.11	1.4	8.11 [47]
22	"Trigger Creep"	May 9, 2019	0.7/4	5.02 [23]	0.6	2.92	1.3	7.95 [48]
23	"Kangaroo"	May 16, 2019	0.9/5	5.75 [24]	0.6	3.22	1.5	8.98 [49]

Home media

S.W.A.T.: Season Two
Set details		Special features
5 disc 23 episodes		Deleted Scenes Gag Reel
DVD release dates
Region 1		Region 2		Region 4
August 20, 2019 [50]		September 25, 2019[ citation needed ]

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External links

• S.W.A.T. at IMDb