When the team busts a group of dangerous robbery suspects, Tan is confronted with a pivotal figure from his past. Also, Luca is tapped to temporarily step in for Hicks.
RECAP
Hondo’s old friend Leroy was there when a couple of beat cops started hassling a homeless man and Leroy tried to defuse the situation. He told the cops that Dave wasn’t a threat. He was a vet. He was troubled.
He doesn’t mean anything by grabbing his stick for protection and they still hauled Dave off to prison. Luckily, Hondo was there to stop Leroy from getting arrested as well. Hondo told Leroy that he would check on Dave and Leroy didn’t see the need because he already knew what was going to happen. The cops were going to book Dave. His mental problems meant he would go to a psych ward and once there a doctor would diagnose him. And he would be released back out on the streets.
The whole arresting him part was just delaying the inevitable. Leroy didn’t see the point of it. Nothing Hondo said or did could rectify it and so Hondo chose to instead do what he can. He did his job as a cop. He and his team were asked by the DEA to assist them with an investigation. The federal agents were looking into stolen rockets. They traced them back to LA and they believe that the man that has them was involved in the cartels. The man was Alvarez. The team and the DEA were later able to raid the cartel and they found evidence of a buy. They just didn’t find all of the stolen items.
Alvarez denied knowing what he was selling. He also said it wasn’t official job by his cartel friends. He was doing some work on the side and he figured he’d use his contacts from the cartel to move items, but he never went into the specifics or got any names. The raid that brought him down also saw to the death of a police officer and that death was hitting Tan hard. He worked with the woman that was killed. It wasn’t anyone on the team but it still affected him because the officer was pregnant. She just found out. She didn’t want to come off the raid because she didn’t want to leave the job half finished and so Tan found out about by talking to her widow.