S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 3

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S.W.A.T.
Season 3
Starring
No. of episodes21
Release
Original networkCBS
Original releaseOctober 2, 2019 (2019-10-02) –
May 20, 2020 (2020-05-20)
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The third season of S.W.A.T. premiered on CBS on October 2, 2019 and concluded on May 20, 2020. The series moved to Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. after SEAL Team. Only 21 episodes were produced due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The season is produced by CBS Television Studios.

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Episodes[edit]

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461"Fire in the Sky"Billy GierhartMichael Jones-MoralesOctober 2, 2019 (2019-10-02)3014.03[2]

The 20-David squad welcomes Lt. Piper Lynch from LAPD Hollywood Division as they race to stop a serial bomber using drones as a detonation device. Learning that their culprit is a former army veteran and that he was radicalised after being deployed in Yemen, they gradually deduce that he is targeting people involved with drone manufacturing and piloting, which leads them to a former high ranking official in charge of drone operations in the Middle East. With the help of an associate of Lynch, they manage to distract the veteran for long enough to track his location and eventually take him down at an abandoned warehouse. Meanwhile, Hondo's guardianship of Darryl becomes complicated when his father unexpectedly moves in. However he later accepts that he can't hold him off forever and that he has attempted to change his ways. But when Hondo's mother returns from her vacation, the atmosphere becomes uneasy between her and her former husband. Street helps Molly and a client of hers in a domestic violence dispute.


Note: This episode marks the debut regular appearance of Amy Farrington (Piper Lynch).
472"Bad Faith"Marc RoskinKent RotherhamOctober 9, 2019 (2019-10-09)3023.73[3]
The S.W.A.T team goes on a hunt for the unstable and dangerous fugitive wife of a former infamous leader of a doomsday cult as Lt. Lynch enacts a departmental review per the Mayor's request. Hondo reaches out to a former victim of the cult whom he helped into recovery, who sketches out that the wife wants to complete a 36 member "convoy" ritual, which in reality would serve as an execution. Taking in a follower who tried to distract them, they learn that the ritual is going to take place in an oak forest. While the team takes down the remaining members and rescuing the kidnapped victims, Hondo races off against the wife before disarming her. Hicks and Hondo learn that the mayor has appointed Lynch as a consultant to SWAT in order to help them improve and be assigned more responsibility. Also, Luca reveals his latest passion project: a Guatemalan food truck and he asks the team to help invest in it. However, none of them do due to worrying about personal economic issues, but Hondo does invest in order to get him started.
483"Funny Money"Alrick RileyAlison CrossOctober 16, 2019 (2019-10-16)3033.56[4]
Lynch forces the team to go undercover for a local gang printing counterfeit money. Street and Chris go in undercover to get to Corbett, the man printing the money. Over time they gain his trust, but also challenge some of his business approaches before they arrest him when their delivery is ready. Corbett agrees to help the police and joins Street to meet the gang leaders. During the meeting, one of them escapes and the other stays behind with the money and is preparing to kill them both when the team goes in and secures the scene. Lastly, Hondo and Deacon take down the escaping leader. Meanwhile, Hondo struggles with his family, especially trying to get his parents to move past their grudges. His mother gradually warms up to the idea and attends his father's classic cars meet-up, but still demonstrates that she won't be going easy on him. Molly, Hicks' daughter, asks Chris if Street is seeing anyone. She later confirms that he is single and even suggests that the two would work well together.
494"Immunity"Jann TurnerMichael GemballaOctober 23, 2019 (2019-10-23)3043.76[5]
The S.W.A.T team tries to apprehend a former Colombian rebel leader turned drug smuggler, but when Deacon's family gets caught in the crosshairs, he is forced to put his family under S.W.A.T protection after the drug leader, who was under CIA immunity, retaliates by attacking Deacon at his home. The retaliation forces the CIA to make a deal with the police by offering them to go after a customs officer on the rebel leader's payroll, who points them to a incoming shipment the leader is relocating after their first bust. As the team storm the new warehouse, they discover the leader on scene and secure him with guaranteed evidence this time, forcing the CIA to accept an improvised deal which involves sending the leader back to Colombia. Hondo receives troubling news about his father's health from Daryl, and attempts to convince him to see a doctor, which he at first refuses, and Hondo resorts to expressing care for him despite their differences, much to his father's surprise. Tan must face the Professional Standards Bureau after he unknowingly consumed Pot Gummies his girlfriend, Bonnie, left out. Ultimately he is exonerated and joins the team for the final bust.
505"The LBC"Lin OedingAaron Rahsaan ThomasOctober 30, 2019 (2019-10-30)3053.43[6]
A joint investigation between LAPD S.W.A.T and Long Beach Police Department on the stolen LAPD weapons reunites Street with his foster brother, Nate. Street struggles to reconnect with Nate after asking him for a favour with info into the Jamaican gang that stole the weapons, Chaos Posse. However their relationship begins to improve as Street apologises and decides to spend more time with Nate in order to reconnect. The team capture a member of the Chaos Posse who points them towards other stolen weapons, but not Chaos Posse themself. Their leader, Isaac Ire, storms the LBPD Southeast precinct where their base is, looking to kill a former member of the gang. The precinct goes on full lockdown while SWAT take down Ire and his remaining gang members before they can reach his target. Meanwhile, Hondo discovers his father has lung cancer, which further concerns him about his father's stubborn act. He manages to strike a deal with him, which would see his father have a biopsy if Hondo can reconnect him and Hondo's sister, Winnie. The team decides to help out Luca's food truck business.
516"Kingdom"David RodriguezSarah AldersonNovember 6, 2019 (2019-11-06)3063.84[7]
The S.W.A.T team races to save a Middle Eastern activist who was abducted under pretense of treason. Suspecting her native country's government to be responsible with the assistance of a locl billionaire. However they soon learn that he aided the activist in staging her kidnapping in order to call attention to the human rights abuses in her native country. The abductors are later identified as having worked for the activist's uncle with the intention of sending her to their country to be punished for her activism. They head to the marina to stop them from departing. Hondo finds himself in a tense family reunion, as his older sister, Winnie, arrives in Los Angeles to visit their hospitalized father after 30 years of estrangement. She finds herself accepting their father's apology, but harder to forgive him. Ultimately she decides to see him off right before the surgery before she leaves for home again. Luca's food truck business hits a roadblock when he purchases an impounded truck used as a meth lab. But refurbishments and repairs soon puts the truck into good business with the team. Street worries his relationship with Hicks' daughter, Molly, will negatively affect his career. Despite this they share a kiss.
527"Track"Batán SilvaRobert WittstadtNovember 13, 2019 (2019-11-13)3073.09[8]
The S.W.A.T. team tracks down a four-man robbery crew who is using a thermal lance as a tool for a heist. Rocker learns that a retired SWAT mechanic, Wally, was sent to spy on them and fed information to the robbery crew about their intel and plans. Wally's intel however helps them determine the crew's next target: the Los Angeles Raceway. The crew breaks in and attempt to rob the cash price, but are stopped before they can escape. Meanwhile, Chris confronts an imbalance in her relationship with Kira and Ty. She and Kira discuss how to help Ty level the imbalance, but Kira decides against it, instead favouring to deal with the issue after her and Ty's wedding. Street debates whether he should tell Hicks he's dating his daughter, Molly. When he ultimately does tell Hicks, he accepts their relationship. Hondo gets to know Nichelle, a woman who helped him with an injured delivery driver struck by the robbery crew, who runs a community centre in his childhood neighbourhood.
538"Lion's Den"Billy GierhartMunis RashidNovember 20, 2019 (2019-11-20)3083.76[9]
An eviction notice delivered by two LA County Sheriff deputies turns into a dramatic standoff between law enforcement and the Fuentes family. As negotiations to get the injured deputy out prolongs into the night, Hicks offers to trade himself for the wounded deputy who was taken hostage by the Fuentes'. But with a baby inside, SWAT are forced to improvise in order to get the baby, her mother and Hicks out. The grandfather forces the shotgun out of the grandson's hand which puts the house aflame before firefighters get them and Hicks out. Meanwhile, Chris considers breaking up with Kira and Ty after feeling more distant from them. She takes leave for a day and decides to stay with Deacon and his family while contemplating what to do next. Hondo reflects on his personal life choices as he helps his father through a medical crisis. Ultimately he recommends to make amends with his mother and sister now that his lung cancer can be treated, a suggestion that his father decides to follow up on.
549"Sea Legs"Greg BeemanCraig GoreNovember 27, 2019 (2019-11-27)3095.23[10]
The S.W.A.T. team joins forces with the Los Angeles Organized Crime division to rescue an undercover officer whose cover is blown while investigating a human trafficking ring. The investigation leads them to a barber shop that acts as a front for the trafficking ring, and they rescue several girls along the way. A now retired mob boss who runs a coffee shop admits to supplying the ring with coffee as a means of confusing the victims while stored in vehicle trunks. He also points them to the Salton Sea, and more specifically that the ring is hiding in the ghost town of Bombay Beach. The ringleader attempts to flee with the officer before Hondo manages to board his truck and disabling the leader and freeing the officer. Chris struggles with how to comfort the kidnapped officer's parents when she is restricted from giving them certain details of the investigation. This comes back to bite her as the officer's father takes a suspect hostage, but she manages to talk him down. Despite this, the district attorney is unwilling to go easy on the charges against him.
5510"Monster"Guy FerlandA.C. AllenDecember 11, 2019 (2019-12-11)3104.81[11]
The S.W.A.T. team is assigned with securing a former Somali warlord Aden Syed, who is wanted for war crimes to be escorted to the International Crime Court. Having lived peacefully in the US under a new identity for 20 years, his wife and son believe him to be innocent until proven guilty. The case is complicated when Somali assassins attempt to kill him and the ICC works with SWAT to bring Syed to a safe house. When his wife and son is captured by the assassins, they demand him to confess to the war crimes. However, having trained them, Syed knows they would kill them regardless if he confesses. SWAT are thereby forced to save his wife and son without the confession, which they narrowly manage before the assassins plan them to be killed. The ICC takes Syed on to The Hague to face his charges. Street seeks to help his foster brother Nate when he comes to him asking for help when faced with heroin smuggling under his boss. When they speak to Nate's supervisor, two armed robbers come to take the heroin, but Street shoots them both, stunning everyone.
5611"Bad Cop"Ben Hernandez BrayAndrew DettmannJanuary 15, 2020 (2020-01-15)3113.66[12]
Street is torn between his commitment to SWAT and to his foster brother, Nate, when the latter is unexpectedly ensnared in a drug ring. The SWAT team tracks down a ruthless crew that uses deadly force while stealing from card casinos. However, when they track and locate the crew, they soon learn that another crew has struck another card casino, replicating the same memo as the one they arrested. A crew member's prison correspondence reveals that many of the crew members sought to prove themselves for a woman who always used different names in their pen pal exchanges. They manage to stop the crew in robbing a private poker game and apprehend them and the woman behind it all. Buck approaches Deacon to partner on a private security opportunity. Deacon contemplates the offer, worried it might just be to exploit his status with a police star, but ultimately decides on accepting the offer. Street delivers Nate's boss, Teague Nolan, to a meeting in a junkyard. Once he returns to a motel, it's revealed that his "quitting" SWAT was a part of an undercover assignment by Hicks and Hondo in order to infiltrate Nolan's drug ring.
5712"Good Cop"Guy FerlandMatthew T. BrownJanuary 22, 2020 (2020-01-22)3123.39[13]
After the revelation of Street "quitting" SWAT was a ploy for him to infiltrate Nolan's drug ring, the SWAT team goes all out to help him bust Nolan and his supplier. Street presses his way through to attend the meeting between Nolan and the supplier, revealed to be billionaire son Frank Ludlow, who takes great of Street's potential. But Street's risky tactics lands him in hot water with Nolan, who suspects he is after his position, which Street denies. With Nolan and Ludlow encircled at the docks, the team move in, but surprisingly don't find the heroin. Until they learn that the heroin is the cardboard boxes themselves. The case becomes personal for Street when Nate is murdered by Nolan. Despite his thirst for revenge, he awaits Hondo and the police before apprehending Nolan. The rest of the team subsequently tear up Ludlow's secret lab and apprehend him as well. Despite the extraordinary circumstances for Street, Chris finds it hard to keep their friendship going after the revelation of his undercover assignment. Street on the other hand realises that he is more aware of the undercover risks, knowing that he now actually has something to lose.
5813"Ekitai Rashku"Billy GierhartCraig GoreJanuary 29, 2020 (2020-01-29)3134.45[14]
Hondo, Deacon, Tan and Hicks travel to Tokyo to extradite fugitive Koji Kumura of the Nazawa klan to local police, but soon become engaged in a manhunt when Kumura escapes from custody. They soon learn that Kumura is planning on seeking revenge against his now former boss Nazawa, but he seems to easily slip away from them. However they catch a break when Kumura finds himself cornered by Nazawa before both are apprehended in separate escape attempts. Tan faces prejudice from their Japanese superior, Yoshida, who later apologises by the end of their visit on advice from Hicks. Meanwhile, the rest of the SWAT team search for any contacts the criminal cultivated while hiding out in Los Angeles. They find themselves searching for a missing baseball bat signed by a famous Japanese player in exchange for information from an informant of Yoshida. Street continues to reel from his brother's death. Luca returns with good news.
5914"Animus"Hannelle M. CulpepperMichael Jones-Morales & Sarah AldersonMarch 4, 2020 (2020-03-04)3143.47[15]
The SWAT team searches for a lone gunman who has been targeting a law firm and a sorority house, before they eventually realise that the gunman is targeting women. Furthermore their assailant has been a part of a website where toxic discussions against women have taken place, and that he acted on other people's fantasies. When the gunman next targets a high profile female writer and journalist, the team chase him through the halls of a hotel before Chris stops him from getting to the journalist. Also, Luca assists with a homicide investigation in his neighborhood, which local gang leader Marcos suspect came from a rival gang. However, as Luca looks into the victim's love life, he quickly leaned that his girlfriend's ex wanted to eliminate the competition, and had no gang affiliation at all. Lynch pushes Chris to do a news interview, which Chris reject at first, but decides to do it anyway after learning of another shooting in Kansas City inspired by their manhunt. Hondo reaches a juncture in his relationship with Nichelle. He is also briefly reunited with Nia when investigating the gunman case.
6015"Knockout"Billy GierhartA.C. Allen & Kent RotherhamMarch 11, 2020 (2020-03-11)3154.19[16]
Deacon's side job as private security at a high-profile boxing match between LA native Marlon Maxwell and Cuban boxer Gio Torres, leads to the kidnapping of Torres' pregnant wife, Esther. The kidnappers' only demand is for Torres to lose. The SWAT team are brought in to assist and they learn that big foreign bookmakers have placed high bets on Maxwell winning. When Deacon is also kidnapped after locating Esther, a clue he left the team points them to the brother of a criminal Hondo placed in custody. The brother is revealed to be working for a Russian gambler betting on Maxwell winning and Esther is utilised as leverage. Deacon manages to free himself and Esther as the team narrow down their location and take out the remaining kidnappers upon arrival. Darryl juggles with seeking to see his newborn son who his ex-girlfriend has moved to San Diego. Hondo's father gives him some useful advise about being a parent. He also thanks Hondo for allowing to be a part of his life again. Tan attempts to stand up to his mother's favoritism of his brother when planning on introducing Bonnie to her. After some advice from Street, he goes through with introducing Bonnie, which proves successful. Additionally he makes amends with his mother, who also apologises for her favoritism.
6116"Gunpowder Treason"Paul BernardAmelia SimsMarch 18, 2020 (2020-03-18)3164.01[17]
Hondo and girlfriend Nichelle disagree over guest speaker at her community center, a former rapper with gang ties, which Hondo disapproves of. Ultimately he finds himself giving the rapper a benefit of the doubt after Chris gives him some advice. When a teen is abducted, SWAT's search leads them to Joel Powell, who is in witness protection after he is allegedly behind the abduction of hedge fund son Zane Coleman. They later discover that Zane is Joel's biological son who was separated from him after his wife refused to enter witness protection. Powell is determined to have been abducted and forced to conspire with members of an anti-war group whom he testified against in Chicago. The team later frees Powell from captivity and chase the group onto the subway following a bank robbery. Deacon and Tan fight their leader on the subway until Deacon can deactivate Zane's bomb vest and the leader is apprehended at the next station. Luca worries about his future in SWAT if he doesn't pass the fitness test. Hicks reconnects with his estranged son JP after the two clash over how to best help JP's neighbour who has been living in her car until it was impounded.
6217"Hotel L.A."Laura BelseyAlison CrossMarch 25, 2020 (2020-03-25)3173.82[18]
SWAT work with the LAPD Gang Unit to take on a group of gangs who have gathered at the Hotel LA to discuss a new way to smuggle products. The operation becomes complicated when an off-duty Salt Lake Sheriff's deputy arrives to retrieve his long lost daughter, which ends in a shootout. Word of SWAT interfering to help spreads and the gangs rally to escape the hotel. The team finds themselves navigating the hotel in order to apprehend them all before any of them can escape. Luca's brother, Terry, a freelance stringer reporter, crosses police lines to shoot footage of the event, which complicates the team's rescue mission. However, he manages to help an officer who is shot just as the team apprehend the last gang. The team finally work to free billionaire Othella Baker from the hands of the leader of the One-Niners, but he jumps from the building as they rescue Baker. Deacon worries about Buck after he becomes more withdrawn with their security gig.
6318"Stigma"Billy GierhartRyan KeleherApril 8, 2020 (2020-04-08)3183.85[19]

Hondo and the 20-David squad race to locate their former team leader, Buck Spivey when the latter goes AWOL and they fear he may have become suicidal. Concurrently they handle a hostage situation in a deli, where one of the hostage takers manages to get away. In the pursuit of apprehending him, they stumble upon a gruesome scene of a murdered mother and her infant child. Sometime later they manage to capture the final hostage taker. Deacon finds Buck and attempts to talk him down, but he remains determined to commit suicide. Hondo and Street arrive to his aid and together they manage to talk Buck down. Both him and the team go through counselling, sharing the pain of the day they have gone through. Deacon opens up about his previous money troubles and decides to pursue further counselling. Othella Baker returns to see Hondo and offers him $1 million as a donation. Hondo splits it even, with one half going to the SWAT Suicide Prevention Hotline and the rest to Nichelle's community center.


Note: This episode that Shemar Moore (Daniel Harrelson), Alex Russell (Jim Street), Lina Esco (Christina Alonso), Kenny Johnson (Dominique Luca), David Lim (Victor Tan) and Jay Harrington (David Kay) appeared in an online public service announcement in conjunction with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
6419"Vice"Oz ScottMichael Gemballa & Matthew T. BrownApril 22, 2020 (2020-04-22)3194.76[20]
Tan finds himself being targeted by Conor Pope, a meth dealer whom Tan put away 7 years ago during his time on LAPD Vice squad. Together with the team, they learn that Pope sought to seek revenge on those who put him behind bars and rallied his old crew to break him out of prison. Lynch puts in a personal effort to ensure the safety of Pope's former maid, Racquel Lopez, before Pope can get to her. However, some evidence noted by Pope's defence attorney makes Tan and the team suspect Lynch tasked Lopez to plant evidence on Pope, something she denies. The team stop Pope and his crew in Malibu where Lopez is volunteering to care for a family member. Chris finds herself arresting deputy mayor Logan Carter's son, Jacob, but later learns his processing was dismissed. Conflicted about if she should take on the political elite, Hondo encourages her to do what she deems is right to do. Hondo is reunited with his sister Winnie again, who gets to meet Nichelle. After the Pope arrest, he decides to drop attending a red carpet with Nichelle, which causes him and Winnie to realise that they need to drop their grudging attitudes after their parents now having made amends. Tan also proposes to Bonnie, which she accepts.
6520"Wild Ones"Cherie DvorakAndrew DettmannApril 29, 2020 (2020-04-29)3205.03[21]
The SWAT team pursue Beau Walker and his girlfriend Harper, a "Bonnie & Clyde"-like couple who are on the run and seeking a set of rare 10th century chess pieces worth millions, which becomes complicated when bounty hunters get involved as well. When Beau and Harper injure one of the bounty hunters during pursuit, Deacon offers them to join in on the last takedown after they retrieve the chess pieces from its new owner. Beau and Harper walk into their trap, and Harper is arrested while Beau is killed in an attempt to escape. Darryl is surprised when his ex-girlfriend visits with his young son and Luca confronts his fear as he prepares for the final PFQ test while helping his mentee, Kelly. Ultimately Luca barley passes the test and is happily welcomed back by the rest of the team. Chris receives help from Lynch in dealing with deputy mayor Carter and his son, which inadvertently leads to Carter resigning in order to tackle his son's issues.
6621"Diablo"Doug AarniokoskiMunis Rashid & Robert WittstadtMay 20, 2020 (2020-05-20)3214.82[22]

SWAT hunts down members of the El Septimbo gang who crash a plane in the suburbs of LA after a joint operation with the DEA goes awry. They quickly learn that the gang's leader, dubbed El Diablo, was on the plane and is now on the loose in the city. As they narrow down his location, they apprehend several gang members and high ranking associates along the way, before cornering him along with his South LA chief supplier. El Diablo takes a hostage and leaves a cryptic message about trying to prevent a fire and that something isn't over before Luca snipes him. Hondo tries to make amends with Nichelle, but later learns that she has moved on, but hopes that he will change into the person he thieves to be. Luca experiences anxiety about his return to the field, and Deacon hesitates when asked to speak to a group of recruits about mental health. However, after tending to an officer who lost her partner to one of El Diablo's men, he decides to speak to the recruits after all.


Note: This episode serves as a de facto season 3 finale due to COVID-19 pandemic. It also marks the final regular appearance of Amy Farrington (Piper Lynch).

Production[edit]

On May 9, 2019, CBS renewed the series for a third season,[23] which premiered on October 2, 2019.[24]

On March 16, 2020, Sony Pictures Television suspended production of the third season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[25]

Ratings[edit]

Viewership and ratings per episode of S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) season 3
No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Fire in the Sky" October 2, 2019 0.6/3 4.03[2] 0.7 3.65 1.3 7.68[26]
2 "Bad Faith" October 9, 2019 0.6/3 3.73[3] 0.7 3.43 1.3 7.17[27]
3 "Funny Money" October 16, 2019 0.5/3 3.56[4] 0.7 3.38 1.2 6.95[28]
4 "Immunity" October 23, 2019 0.6/3 3.76[5] 0.7 3.27 1.3 7.05[29]
5 "The LBC" October 30, 2019 0.5/2 3.43[6] 0.6 3.39 1.1 6.83[30]
6 "Kingdom" November 6, 2019 0.5/3 3.84[7] 0.6 3.21 1.1 7.05[31]
7 "Track" November 13, 2019 0.5/3 3.09[8] 0.6 3.20 1.2 6.29[32]
8 "Lion's Den" November 20, 2019 0.5/3 3.76[9] 0.7 3.20 1.2 6.97[33]
9 "Sea Legs" November 27, 2019 0.7/4 5.23[10] 0.6 3.04 1.3 8.27[34]
10 "Monster" December 11, 2019 0.6/3 4.81[11] 0.6 3.09 1.2 7.90[35]
11 "Bad Cop" January 15, 2020 0.6/3 3.66[12] 0.6 3.45 1.2 7.11[36]
12 "Good Cop" January 22, 2020 0.5/3 3.39[13] 0.6 3.53 1.1 6.93[37]
13 "Ekitai Rashku" January 29, 2020 0.6/4 4.45[14] 0.6 3.28 1.2 7.73[38]
14 "Animus" March 4, 2020 0.5 3.47[15] 0.6 3.40 1.1 6.88[39]
15 "Knockout" March 11, 2020 0.6 4.19[16] 0.6 3.06 1.1 7.21[40]
16 "Gunpowder Treason" March 18, 2020 0.6 4.01[17] 0.6 3.26 1.2 7.28[41]
17 "Hotel L.A" March 25, 2020 0.5 3.82[18] 0.6 3.14 1.1 6.96[42]
18 "Stigma" April 8, 2020 0.5 3.85[19] 0.6 3.34 1.1 7.10[43]
19 "Vice" April 22, 2020 0.6 4.76[20] 0.6 2.98 1.2 7.74[44]
20 "Wild Ones" April 29, 2020 0.7 5.03[21] 0.5 2.93 1.2 7.97[45]
21 "Diablo" May 20, 2020 0.6 4.82[22]

Home media[edit]

S.W.A.T.: Season Three
Set details Special features
  • 5 disc
    • 21 episodes
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Blooper Reel
DVD release dates
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
August 18, 2020[46] Oktober 15, 2020[citation needed]

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