S.W.A.T. Recap 03/20/22: Season 5 Episode 14 “Albatross”

S.W.A.T. Recap 03/20/22: Season 5 Episode 14 "Albatross"

Tonight on CBS their new show S.W.A.T. inspired by the television series and feature film airs with an all-new Sunday, March 20, 2022, episode, and we have your S.W.A.T. recap below. On tonight’s S.W.A.T. season 5 episode 14 called “Albatross,” as per the CBS synopsis, “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.

So make sure to stop by tonight between 10 PM and 11 PM ET for our S.W.A.T. recap. While you wait for our recap make sure to check out all our television news, videos, recaps, spoilers, and more, here!

Tonight’s SWAT recap starts now – Refresh Page often to get the most current updates!

In tonight’s S.W.A.T. episode, Hicks had his annual psych evaluation. He was going to be doing that and so he assigned Luca as interim Commander. Hicks knows that Luca doesn’t want a leadership position. He only gave Luca the job for about an hour. He sorta had to because Luca was the only qualified after his stay in Germany and that Hondo and his team short-staffed.

Luca was running things from the office. Chris was doing patrol work. Also, if it has to be said, Deacon was still preoccupied with Ortiz. Ortiz is a man he put in prison. They met years later when Deacon was running the prison ministry. He ran into Ortiz and Ortiz had told him that he knew Deacon was a cop because Deacon arrested. He apparently arrested him for a crime he didn’t commit.

Ortiz was put in prison for murder. He claimed he didn’t do it. Not that he let that stop him from getting a deal and now living his life behind bars. But then Ortiz met Deacon. He told him that he was innocent and that sparked enough curiosity for Deacon to look into the case.

He even involved his wife. His wife Annie was studying to be a lawyer when the kids started to come and her focus had to shift from law school to them. Annie was still looking into it when Deacon and the rest of the team performed a no-knock-warrant. The warrant led them to a bust where they later arrested Ally Donovan.

As in Tan’s ex. Ally used to be his criminal informant until they got too close and he abandoned her. They got reunited on a case years later. But that time it was Ally who abandoned Tan. It was revenge. It was petty. They’ve both moved on since then and Tan had hoped Ally would turn her life around. The bust.

The arrest and the fact that Ally was still smug about it had just confirmed that Ally will never change. She’s a crook. She likes being a crook. She only got away with it this long by ratting on the right people. Ally agreed to help the LAPD take down a big score in exchange for not charges being pressed against her.

Her deal meant she would have to work with Tan again. Tan had told Ally that he’s moved on. He even got married since he last saw her and yet she was still in his head. Something that became very clear when Ally helped them make a big move against a supplier.

She helped them capture the bad guys and the bad guys got captured only because Tan went in a little too hot on this. It was fine with any other CI, but seeing Ally in a dangerous situation, had made him rushed into things and Hondo noticed. Hondo later asked for an explanation for that behavior. And Tan was man enough to admit he has a past with Ally.

A past is putting it gently. The two were widely and passionately in love for several intervals over several years. Tan doesn’t want to return to those days. He’s happy with the life he has now. He loves his wife Bonnie and he couldn’t wait for them to have kids. Tan told Hondo as much. Hondo made sure Tan’s head was right and then they were back on the case. They wanted to take down a drug kingpin. They got to Ally. Ally helped them take down whoever was next on the wheel. The team got information from the men they arrested. And from there, they got a meeting with the drug kingpin in charge of it all.

The team had Hondo and Tan go undercover with Ally making their third. It’s a wonder that Hondo agreed to this because he later came to suspect the two couldn’t work together. This was proved when the three of them finally met the big boss.

The trio were impersonating drug dealers that have actually worked but never seen the kingpin before and so that’s when the team learned the identities they borrowed were in serious trouble. Hondo was pretending to a guy who actually ripped off kingpin. The guy who buys drugs from the source and then water it down before selling it as a high price.

The kingpin wanted Ally to kill both Tan and Hondo. He said it would be a way for her to prove allegiance. Ally then chose that moment to be a good guy because she pulled a gun on the kingpin and the rest of the team made their moves. They killed and arrested everyone they could.

Including the kingpin. The team also learned that Luca was great in that seat because he understood the field like no one else, but Luca was going to be in that seat for a while because Hicks was taking some personal time off to go and get a life. He doesn’t have one now. He lost it after his wife died and he’s never been able to regain it. And so this vacation was a long time coming.

But Ally said she wasn’t going to be a great CI after this because word will spread. Tan said she could turn over a new leaf and she could become an upstanding citizen but that wasn’t for her. And another thing wasn’t for is what Annie did for Deacon.

Annie found an eyewitness proving Ortiz was across town during his alleged murder.

THE END!