Buck Spivey

**William "Buck" Spivey** is a former LAPD Sergeant II and SWAT Team Leader. In 2017, his long and distinguished career came to an abrupt end when he was fired for accidentally shooting an unarmed black teenager named Raymont Harris. He is portrayed by Louis Ferreira.

## Biography

Buck was a patrol officer before he became a sergeant at SWAT. At some time, he came across a young, Jim Street during an abuse dispute where Jim's mother shot his father dead. Buck was present in during the arrest of Street's mother where he gave him his watch to help calm him down. Buck would later help raise Jim Street in a foster home where he was raised until adulthood.

At some time, Buck was a leader of the LAPD SWAT team. During his time in SWAT, he became best friends and somewhat of a father figure with Daniel Harrelson. In the episode, Bad Faith, It's referenced that Buck was in charge of a raid of a unstable and dangerous doomsday cults compound who intended on hurting innocent people. When Daniel came face to face with a kid with a gun and hesitated to take the shot when he had the chance, opting for negotiation, Buck wrote up Daniel's only reprimand on his record.

He was present in the flashback scenes in School, where he led his team through school shooting to stop the shooters. The mission was successful but at the cost of six students being killed and one of the two shooters being shot and killed. The second shooter was incarcerated for life without possibility of parole.

Buck was the commanding officer in the flashback scene in Ghost where the team go after serial killer who was targeting young LA actors trying to make it big. During the raid on the warehouse Buck and Hondo find a palate stacked with C4 explosives and Buck makes the decision to evacuate everyone in the building. This evacuation ended up costing the life of a young man that Luca wanted to save, this would follow him into the future.

Prior to the Raymont Harris shooting, In the Pilot, it is revealed that Buck personally had Street transferred from Long Beach Police Department to LAPD SWAT with the intent of mentoring him further as his SWAT leader.

After his career came to an abrupt end when he accidentally shot at an unarmed Raymond Harris who was at the wrong place and time, it is later revealed by Robert Hicks that he quit out of his own will to avoid a backlash controversy. After he quit, he tried to make easy cash to pay for Raymond Harris's "college tuition and the pain he had caused to the Harris family." Daniel and Jim were able to help him again to put the past at ease and later got him a job of working for a security firm. He would also ask Hondo to mentor Jim Street as he couldn't due to him quitting.

In Bad cop Buck asks Deacon if he would be the face of a new private security firm with his partner Owen Bennett. Its reveled by Owen that they chose Dec because of his medal the "Police Star" and believed that it would be good optics, it is also reveled that Owen planned to have Buck as a silent partner as his reputation would have harmed the company. In this episode Buck also alludes to a raid that Buck and Deacon both participated in that involved something that made Buck try to pull a "saved your ass" card when he brought up the company to Dec.

In season 3 episode 18, Buck contemplated suicide due to the events prior and after the Raymond Harris shooting. However, the team managed to track him down with team members: Street, Hondo, and Deacon started talking him down when they found him at a lake ready to kill himself. Each team member present spoke to Buck about how much of an impact he has on all of their lives and how hurt they would be if he went through with it. At the end of the episode, Dr. Wendy reveals that Buck is now getting counseling.

## Trivia

* In the episode, Stigma, alot of information surrounding Buck including it being revealed that he is the godfather and uncle of Deacon's children, Lila and Matthew.
	+ He suffered PTSD because of of what he did to Raymond Harris as well as his time in the field which is what almost drived Buck to commit suicide.
	+ Buck always wished Jim Street a happy birthday by calling him.
* Buck keeps a spare key at the back of his home under a plant pot.
* Buck, like the rest of the team prior to season 2 didn't wear range glasses in the field. However in season 2 forward, as well in flashback images and episodes Buck and the team are shown wearing range glasses.
* In season 3 episode 18, when the team is tracking down Buck many details about his life are revealed which include Buck dancing with his ex-wife to the song *Got to Give it Up* by Marvin Gaye, not spending more than $15 on a hair cut and calling Jim Street on his birthday every year.
* His service weapon during his time on SWAT was a HK416D and the Kimber Custom TLE.
* Buck personal firearm is a Berreta M9 which may be a indicator to how long Buck served in the LAPD as the Berreta M9 was the former service pistol of the LAPD before being replaced by the Glock series.
	+ Buck is the only character, asides from Hicks, who carries a full sized pistol after season 2 as a off-duty weapon.
* Buck likes to bowl to de-stress.