Tonight on CBS their new show S.W.A.T. inspired by the television series and feature film airs with an all-new Sunday, April 10, 2022, episode, and we have your S.W.A.T. recap below. On tonight’s S.W.A.T. season 5 episode 16 called “Donor,” as per the CBS synopsis, “When body cam footage left at a local news station seems to show Hondo shooting two police officers, he is forced to go on the run while the team works to clear his names.”
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Hondo and the team are in the middle of a high-speed chase with a van of criminals. The team gets creative to stop the van on a bridge. One of the men gets out and attempts to jump off the bridge but Hondo grabs him in the air before he can. After, Honda learns that two officers that were on the chase are missing.
The next morning, Honda heads to leave to help find the two officers when a video is released online. The video shows Hondo and the two officers. He has them taped on and their news. He is sick of cops misbehaving. The pair have complaints against them and now he is going to clean the streets. He shoots them in the video. Hondo and Michelle watch the video in horror. He was home all night. That was not really him. Hondo tells her he needs to clear his name. As officers arrived at his house, he takes off.
Deacon meets Hondo secretly. He gives him a burner. The rest of the team shows up. Hondo isn’t happy. They tell him they are with him and going to help. They discuss their plan to track down the real criminals. They divide up their jobs, looking into the officers and who they were targeted.
Hondo and Street meet with a computer hacker and pro Street knows. She views the video and tells them it’s a deep fake. She tells them how the person hacked Hondo’s phone to make the video. Back at the station, Hicks tells Deac he knows they are all helping Hondo. He doesn’t want to know anything but he needs them to hurry up and clear his name.
Street and Hondo wait for the hacker to get them more information. Tan, Alonso, and Deac catch a lead. They locate a trailer filled with cameras and computer equipment. Their suspect is gone. They find the raw footage of the video. The two officers may still be alive. They have the proof.
Meanwhile, Honda finds the man who set this whole thing up. But the police take him away before he can do much more. He is brought in. The team clears him with the video but now they need to find the officers. Hondo tells them about the man who set him up. He has it out for Hondo who was forced to kill the man’s son during a mission that went sideways.
Hondo pushes Hicks for information and a warrant. Hicks tells him he needs to bench him. He ran initially. Hondo gets angry but understands. He gets a call from the man who is out for him. He tells Hondo he is going to ruin his life. The rest of the team chases their leads.
Hondo reunites with Michelle. He tells her what happened. He gets to thinking. The team is headed to a warehouse on a lead. He calls Deac but it’s too late. Deac and the team are outside the warehouse getting ambushed. Luca gets hit. They use a car as armor and push it into the warehouse before trying to get the shooters. The shooters take off.
At the station, Honda is angry and feels guilty he never told the team about the man and the mission went wrong. Now Luca is injured. He plans to deal with this alone but Street tells him he is feeding into the man’s wishes. They come up with a plan.
Hondo heads to meet the man named Novak. He was released from prison in Mexico early. Now he is wanted in the US. Hondo will get him across the border if he frees the officers. They plan to meet up. When Hondo arrives an associate of Novak’s tells him the plan has changed.
Hondo is brought to an airstrip. The team hides in the distance. They shoot Novak after he attempts to kill the officers. A shoot-out takes place. Novak tries to take off with his pilot. They shoot out the engine. They take Novak in. Hondo heads home and hugs, Michelle. She is upset but tells Hondo she isn’t going anywhere even if his job is scary.
Hicks and Hondo have a talk. Hicks tells him next time he shouldn’t run. He just needs to talk to them. Hondo thanks his team after. They saved his life and risked their jobs and they never doubted him. They tell him they would follow him anywhere
THE END