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Hondo and Nichelle are having a baby together. They’ve even move in together. But Hondo hasn’t met Nichelle’s parents just yet. There was always one reason or another to push it off. They were only now getting to it because again they were having a baby.

Her parents wanted to be involved in the baby’s life and to do that they have to meet and get on board with the baby’s father. It was in the best interest of everyone for that last part to happen. Hondo agreed to meet Nichelle’s parents after his shift and it turns out it was uncomfortable shift for a lot of reasons. One of them being that Luca learned he had a half-sister.

Her name is Eva Durant. She’s a cop. She was the daughter of Sofia Durant. Her mother was a cop who worked with Luca’s dad back in the day and they apparently had an affair.

Luca Senior did not know about Eva. Eva hasn’t reached out to him. She first thought it would be okay to introduce herself to her half-brother because they were both cops and Luca had full on meltdown when she introduced herself. He refused to believe his dad could have cheated on his mom. He thought his parents were happily in love. He didn’t want to think his dad could betray his mom or their family and so he tried to convince Eva that her mother lied.

It was better for him to believe Eva’s mother lied than consider the possibility she could be his sister. But then they got called out to a scene of an attack. Someone used Molotov cocktails to drive people outside and then they started picking them off by shooting them. This wasn’t the first incident with the shooter.

There was another mass shooting in which the killer used bombs to force people outside. Therefore, the killer had already done this twice by time SWAT caught the case. Hondo didn’t want to go for three with this one. He took matters in his own hand. He went to the hospital. He questioned the survivors and one of them saw the killer.

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Tan’s anniversary was coming soon. He couldn’t figure out what to get his wife. He asked Deacon as the resident married guy what he does for his anniversary and Deacon said he takes his wife to the same restaurant where they had their first date. He does it every year. But Tan couldn’t do it for his own anniversary. He and his wife both hated the place where they had their first date. They vowed to never return there and so he next tried asking the new girl for an idea. She said she doesn’t do romance. She gave it up after she married her high school sweetheart, and they ended up getting a divorce because he cheated on her with one of her close friends. And so, Tan was still figuring out his next move when the call came in.

SWAT was called in after a woman reported seeing an armed man in her house. SWAT went to the scene. They cleared every room until they found the woman in question. They also came across Rodrigo Sanchez. Sanchez used to be a team leader in SWAT. Sanchez said he was at the house for a meeting when he saw an armed man, got shot at, and was pursuing the guy up until SWAT got in the way. Sanchez left SWAT to become head of security at a major studio. The woman who was almost killed in her own home was an actress. Her name is Serena Mendez. She’s done a lot of low-budget films and she was just given her big shot to lead a major franchise. And so, Sanchez looks out for her.

Sanchez was also a great deal of help in finding out who wanted her dead. He was good at his job. He looked into each and every stalker Serena ever had. They were mostly harmless. There was a woman in her eighties who thought Serena was an actual alien because she played one in a film. There were a bunch of teenage boys who were superfans. But who didn’t know how to talk or communicate because they were the TikTok generation? Sanchez checked each of them only he missed Leo Smith. Smith kept reaching out to Serena online. He asked her to be in his film. When she never replied, he turned nasty. He called every word under the sun and yet he wasn’t their guy.

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It wasn’t long before Deacon’s church began fundraising for Nichelle’s community center and Street was helping him with dropping those items off. Both Deacon and Street ran into Nichelle at the center. Nichelle had an envelope with her baby’s gender in it. She gave this closed envelope to Deacon because Deacon’s wife Annie was going to be making their gender reveal cake and so Deacon took it with him. His plan was to drop it off with his wife at the first opportunity. Only he ended up taking it with him when he and the rest of his team got called to work.

They responded to the situation at an office building. They got a call that someone had been shot, but when they got there, they didn’t find any of the victims had been shot and the men that came in with guns were all seemingly gone. It was Hondo who was the first to realize it was a ruse. He said something was up and they went back outside only it was too late. They didn’t find Black Betty. Black Betty was their armored vehicle. She was high-tech and dangerous. She was also Luca’s one great love. He more than anybody felt her loss after she had been stolen. The bad guys had taken Black Betty. No one knew what for. They just knew it wasn’t going to be good.

Luca felt lost after Black Betty was stolen. He attached most of his identity as a SWAT officer to that armored truck. Luca even still had the keys on him because he’s always safe with the vehicle and so the first thing the team did was find out how the crew cloned the key. Luca never left the key out of sight. But there was a new technology that allows someone to clone a pair of keys in spite of being in someone’s hand. It’s what happened with Black Betty. SWAT pulled up old videos from the vehicle and they found someone standing a couple of feet away from Luca during a call. They cloned Luca’s key. And that’s how they stole Black Betty.

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