Quandary

**Quandary** is the twentieth episode of the fifth season in the remake version of *S.W.A.T.*, and the one-hundred-fourth episode overall, which was aired on May 8, 2022.

## Summary

When SWAT discovers an illegal weapons dealer has sold stock to someone targeting a high-level politician, the team rushes to stop a deadly ambush.

## Recap

Street gets talked into a double date by Luca. He doesn’t want to do it but agrees. Meanwhile, a teen girl and boy break into a house. They take beer from the fridge before finding guns. The teen girl shoots up the place and then shoots through the bay window at the cop that has arrived. SWAT is called in.

With Mama Pina being hospitalized and asking for Chris, Hondo looks to recruit one of the newly graduated SWAT officers to join 20-Squad for the day. The graduates include Alexis Cabrera, Zoe Powell, Tatum Reese, and Steve Garces. Hicks assigns Cabrera to fill Chris's position as the team responds to the shootout.

A neighbor tells Hondo the teens are from a group home. Just then the teen girl shoots. It isn’t long before the teen boy comes out to surrender. The event in the house stops the teen. Street finds a room filled with guns, ghost guesses, and more. The man who owns the house is a gun runner who needs to be investigated as he has something dangerous planned.

The man returns home. He tries to run. He grabs him and questions him. He admits to selling a large number of guns to a person who has big plans for today. Meanwhile, Deacon consoles a recently selected SWAT rookie, Alexis Cabrera, who had been almost forced to shoot the teen girl from earlier on her first SWAT assignment.

Chris speaks with an older woman who runs a safe house she has remained friends. The woman is in the hospital and needs help relocating the lady she has been protecting that life in her home. Chris offers her help.

The team moves in on a suspect whose plates were identified at the home of the gun dealer. He is armed. They take him down. They question him but he won’t talk about what has been planned. They find a picture of interest, a photo of the man’s nephew. They learn he has a past.

The man’s nephew Tom has some extreme views online and criminal history. They learn he is anti-cop and more. They track him down to a gated community in California. They head there after learning the California governor is staying there and the nephew and his group are after her.

SWAT arrives just in time by helicopter after the group breaks into the home where the governor is. They take her and her mother hostage. SWAT finally gets into the house and looks to locate the governor who has been tied up by Tom.

SWAT gets into the room and shoots Tom in the hand, grabbing the governor. Back at headquarters, Street finally confesses to Luca that he cares for Chris. Luca tells him he needs to work it out.

Chris tells Hondo about her friend and how she is dying. Chris confesses to Hondo she is contemplating leaving SWAT to run the safe house. He supports her and will help her do what she wants to do.

Deacon checks on Cabrera. She shares that her head won’t stop buzzing after all of the drama. He tells her she needs to work on her mental game and processing to stay healthy. Deacon takes her to his church to show her what he does. Meanwhile, Street sees Chris. She tells him how she is going to run the safe house. He sees this as their shot to be together but she doesn’t. She is holding back, but he cannot do this anymore. He leaves.

## Cast

### Main

* Shemar Moore - Daniel Harrelson
* Alex Russell - Jim Street
* Lina Esco - Christina Alonso
* Kenny Johnson - Dominic Luca
* David Lim - Victor Tan
* Patrick St. Esprit - Robert Hicks
* Jay Harrington - David Kay

### Guest

* Terri Hoyos - "Mama Pina" Mrs. Sosa
* Kyle Hatley - Tom Byrd
* Gregory Scott Cummins - Elliot Byrd
* Jennifer Say Gan - Governor Laura
* Hugh Holub - Father Jack
* Jeffrey Vincent Parise - Sergio Molina
* Lexi Simonsen - Carly
* Denny McAuliffe - Rafe
* Vana Kim Hansen - Mariko
* Monica Bhatnagar - Pam

## Trivia

* Street gets talked into a double date by Luca, however, he doesn't want to do it but agrees.
* SWAT is called in and finds out the intruders are teens are from a group home. The teen girl had acquired an automatic rifle from the home and started to shoot at police.
* Hondo mentions about Teena Marie as the singer.
* Officer Cabrera graduated from S.W.A.T. Academy and was immediately given her first SWAT call shortly thereafter where she fills in for Chris.
* Erika Rogers and Wendy Hughes have been mentioned, but do not appeared.
* Chris tells Jim how she is going to run the safe house, also he sees this as their shot to be together but she backs him off. Jim expressed that he cannot do this anymore and he leaves with his motorcycle.