Mumford returns to work a 15-year-old cold case that holds a personal connection. Hondo is leery of Leroy's motives when he discovers the recent parolee is seeking funding for a new business... Read allMumford returns to work a 15-year-old cold case that holds a personal connection. Hondo is leery of Leroy's motives when he discovers the recent parolee is seeking funding for a new business venture with his son, Darryl.Mumford returns to work a 15-year-old cold case that holds a personal connection. Hondo is leery of Leroy's motives when he discovers the recent parolee is seeking funding for a new business venture with his son, Darryl.
- Officer Dominique Luca
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- Medic 1
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Storyline
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- TriviaPeter Onorati makes a return guest appearance as Mumford after a nearly two-year absence; his last previous episode was Invisible (2019)
- Quotes
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: [enters Hicks' hospital room] Commander? Mumford?
Robert Hicks: Damn it. I told you not to call him.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: Sir, he didn't, but I wish he had. My phone's been blowing up with text messages about my boss in an off-hours incident that landed him in the hospital.
Robert Hicks: Well, as you can see, I'm just fine.
Jeff Mumford: Turns out he can't handle his fentanyl. Caught a snootful from a low-life street chemist.
Robert Hicks: I shouldn't have been close enough to get hit by the stuff. Mental error.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: But, guys, I'm still in the dark here. Why don't y'all tell me what the hell happened?
Robert Hicks: You heard of the Echo Park Six?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: That was before my time on SWAT, but yeah. Task force with the DEA. Y'all took down six heroin distributors in one night.
Jeff Mumford: Kept 80 kilos off the street.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: And that was how many years ago?
Robert Hicks: Fifteen.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: So, what, this is decades-old retribution?
Robert Hicks: Not exactly. The DEA wouldn't even have known about the Echo Park Six if not for SWAT.
Jeff Mumford: One of my informants gave us the lead. We shared the intel with DEA.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: I never heard that part.
Jeff Mumford: Not something I like to talk about.
Robert Hicks: Less than a week after we took down the Echo Park Six, our informant was murdered.
Jeff Mumford: She was a recovering addict. 19 years old, a kid. They did it with a hot shot. She was dead as soon as the plunger was pushed.
Robert Hicks: There was more battery acid than heroin in that syringe. There was a man's DNA all over the scene, matching DNA on a bottle of battery acid we found in a dumpster nearby.
Jeff Mumford: And the DNA didn't match anybody related to the Echo Park Six. Didn't even match anybody in any database. Over the years, we checked back in from time to time.
Robert Hicks: You hear how they caught the Golden State Killer? Using online ancestry databases?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: You wanna try that to find this guy?
Robert Hicks: Well, that was Mumford's idea. He came to me. He said, "Maybe this is how we can finally catch him."
Jeff Mumford: Nikki watches all those true-crime shows, put a worm in my ear, and you know, I've got some extra time right now.
Robert Hicks: The closest probable match we got was a fourth cousin.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: Which means a lot of possibles.
Robert Hicks: Well, 34 just in the LA area, so we start tracking them down one by one and collecting DNA samples.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: If the guy you were on today is slinging fentanyl, maybe you already found your man.
Robert Hicks: Well, only the DNA test could tell us that for sure. But, yeah, I mean, we're thinking the same thing.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: Which would mean justice for this girl.
Jeff Mumford: Tonya. Her name was Tonya. She wanted to get clean. Wanted to put the dealers who hooked her in prison. I shouldn't have let her do it. She was a hell of a softball player before the drugs took over.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson: You knew her before she was an informant?
Jeff Mumford: Yeah. She was my goddaughter.
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- Apr 15, 2021