Quotes
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : 20-David to Command. Code four. Suspect in custody. Hostage is safe.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : You're okay now. Come on. You're okay now.
Becca : I thought you shot him.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : It's bean bag rounds. He'll live.
Becca : You should've used real bullets.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Still waiting for confirmation, but initial reports sound like it was a workplace shooting. Security managed to put the building on lockdown, evacuate most of its employees. But not before the suspect holed up in reception with six hostages.
David 'Deacon' Kay : Just got a report from the officer on scene. It wasn't a workplace shooting; it was an abduction. Two masked suspects, one got away with a woman.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : A kidnapping?
Victor Tan : Hey, at least three other abductions in the last half hour by masked assailants. North Hollywood, Pico-Robertson, and Inglewood.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : Four simultaneous kidnappings in completely different parts of town?
Jim Street : No way that's a coincidence.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : My name is Sergeant Harrelson with LAPD SWAT. I just want to talk to you. Is that all right?
Bayo : Okay.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let's start with your name.
Bayo : It's Bayo.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : All right, Bayo. You have full control over how this ends. If you let those people go and surrender, no one gets hurt, including you.
Bayo : I can't... I can't do that. I can't let him down.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let who down, Bayo? Is there someone I can call? Let me help you, man.
Bayo : It's not what he would want.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Who wouldn't want that, Bayo?
[no response]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Bayo? Bayo, are you still with me?
[no response again]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : [hearing a gunshot] Gunfire, emergency entrance. Chris, cover us. Luca, you're with me.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Any update?
Robert Hicks : The companies have confirmed the employees that were taken hostage.
Jessica Cortez : All hourly workers; janitor, IT, retail.
Dominique Luca : So, what, they kidnap Jane Lunch Lady and force companies to choose between profits and blue-collar victims?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Yeah, it looks like it.
David 'Deacon' Kay : What better way to highlight class inequality?
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Robert Hicks : In their written instructions, the Emancipators want $540 million wired to an anonymous Bitcoin account to be distributed to various charities. They're keeping $17 million as a service fee.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : [sarcastic] Oh, how charitable.
Jessica Cortez : Three months ago, they were modeling themselves after the SLA, but this is something different.
Dominique Luca : So the intel my grandfather gathered fighting the SLA 45 years ago...
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Yeah, I'm afraid that's not gonna help us this round, Luca.
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Robert Hicks : RHD is spread thin; other departments are stepping in. Patrol is rounding up hostages' families, bringing some to SWAT for protection. Ask them if they've seen anything or anyone suspicious in the past few weeks.
Jessica Cortez : Meanwhile, Digital Forensics is studying the video for any clues to their hideout.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : No, it didn't work last time.
David 'Deacon' Kay : What about the companies? Have you heard from them?
Robert Hicks : Mayor Barrett's meeting with the five CEOs at Caldow Pharmaceutical corporate headquarters. I've heading over now to advise. Cortez has command.
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Victor Tan : RHD got a hit on our dead guy, Bayo. Our prints show his real name is Ronald Campbell. Dr. Ronald Campbell. 29. Post-doc out of UC Santa Cruz. Wrote a thesis titled "Efficacy of Radical Protest Groups". Quit his teaching gig at Northridge a year back. RHD's searching for a last known address.
Jessica Cortez : Be ready to roll as soon as we get it.
David 'Deacon' Kay : These guys got away from us last time.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Not this time.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Listen up. Team debrief, you know the drill. Any problems we got with each other or the mission, or any mistakes we want to own up to, we hash it out right here, right now, and then we move on. Anyone?
[silence]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : How about you, Chris? The mirrors?
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : I know.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : He almost got the jump on us. You should have spotted that mirror coming in and adjusted your movements accordingly. This guy had already killed his ex-wife's parents. We are lucky we didn't have another victim on our hands.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : Sorry. I-I should have clocked that earlier.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : It's about getting the details right, being perfect. I expect better. From all of us. 'Cause this don't cut it.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Kidnappings and ski masks. That remind you of anything?
Dominique Luca : That group that got away from us three months ago.
David 'Deacon' Kay : [on comms] Hondo. Better come see this.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : [at Bayo's last known address] Code four all the way around.
Jim Street : Really leaning into the whole radical minimalism aesthetic.
Victor Tan : No dishes, no pots, not even a cup. He wasn't living here.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Then what the hell was he doing?
Dominique Luca : [from another room] Hondo! Hondo. C4.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : A lot of C4.
Dominique Luca : Looks like the good doctor was their bomb maker.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : Yeah, looks like he was getting savvier. Cell phone triggers.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : All right, Tan, you're with Chris. Call bomb squad, stay here and coordinate with them. Meanwhile, let's clear the rest of the block. Go. Move.
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Jessica Cortez : Hondo, security took DeWitt out a back entrance.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : We know they're using a cell phone trigger. Did we shut down those cell towers yet?
Jessica Cortez : Just got confirmation. Every tower in a half-mile radius is down.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : ETA on the bomb squad?
Jessica Cortez : It's gonna be at least fifteen minutes.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Captain, that's cutting it too close. We're going in.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Yonas, stay still. Stay still. We're LAPD SWAT. We're here to help.
Yonas : Just get away from me and save yourselves.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : We're gonna get this thing off of you, but we're gonna do everything nice and easy. Do you understand?
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : All right, I'm cutting left side.
[something beeps]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : What was that?
David 'Deacon' Kay : Trip wire must've been hidden in the strap.
Yonas : [another beep] Wait, wait, wait. D-Did you hear that?
David 'Deacon' Kay : Yeah. We triggered a failsafe. We gotta get this off him now.
Yonas : Come on, please!
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Yonas, Yonas. Look at me. Look at me. You're gonna be fine.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Where's the suspect?
Jim Street : He got away.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : He got away?
Dominique Luca : Yeah, we lost him in the crowd, and then we heard the explosion, so we rushed back.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Your job isn't to worry about me, Luca, it's to get the suspect.
Dominique Luca : Yeah, we lost sight of him. I didn't know if there were civilian casualties, so I made the call to come...
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Well, you made the wrong call, man.
[to Chris and Tan]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : And what about you two? Where were you during all of this?
Victor Tan : We were heading back to HQ from the apartment when the captain told us to get over here.
Christina 'Chris' Alonso : We came as fast as we could.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Letting these guys get away again is inexcusable!
David 'Deacon' Kay : Hondo, come on. The situation was out of control. We just rescued a hostage. That's a win.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : We have four hostages still missing, and we are nowhere closer to finding out who took 'em. That is not a win! Stop kidding yourselves. You've gotta do better than this. We all do. Otherwise, we are just wasting our damn time and putting lives at risk.
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Jessica Cortez : I was on the radio when you laid into your team. A little rough, don't you think?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : I don't want to see these guys get away a second time, someone lose their life.
Jessica Cortez : No one does. But Luca and Street were in an impossible situation. They couldn't chase a guy they couldn't see. There were teammates and civilians in danger. What would you have done? Look, if this were a one-time thing, I wouldn't have brought it up. It's your team. You've earned the right to run it the way you see fit. But there's something definitely going on with you recently. Even I can see it, and I'm not as close to you as I used to be. I just want to make sure you're okay.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : I don't know what's been up with me lately. But... as soon as this case is over, I'll try to figure it out.
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Dominique Luca : [catching an Emancipator] We found a few trip wires. She's must've been rigging the place to blow.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Where are the hostages?
Gelina : [her phone buzzes] You should get that. It's for you.
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Cinque : Sergeant Daniel Harrelson? The sergeant from South L.A.? I wanted to talk to the officer who's been obstructing me.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Oh, I'm sorry about that.
Cinque : No, I admire your dedication.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : All right, you know my name. How about you tell me yours?
Cinque : You can call me Cinque.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Cinque? Like the leader of the SLA in the '70s? That's real cute, man.
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Cinque : You know where you are, Sergeant? Factories like this used to employ thousands of people. The area was flourishing. So much potential wasted. Then the unions got busted. Workers replaced by cheap labor or robots. They locked us in ghettos and called them "projects". The police stopped policing, and let the gangs pump our veins with poison. And only then did the police return, in full militarized force, to imprison the very addicts and dealers they created in the first place.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : You making a point or are you just wasting spit?
Cinque : They tell us to put our faith in institutions. This is what institutions give you. Neglect. Abandonment. Destitution.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : You want that to change? Why don't you run for office?
Cinque : You're an optimist. Well, I guess you'd have to be, black officer at your level. I bet you joined the LAPD thinking you'd change the system from within. How's that working? We want the same thing. We've tried it your way. Now we try it mine. Burn it all down and rebuild from the ashes.
[mock gasp as Hondo spots a recording video camera nearby]
Cinque : Oh, no! You found me.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let's see how cocky you are when you ain't got a mask or a camera to hide behind.
Cinque : Good luck with that, Sergeant. Sun's getting low. Less than two hours left. Tick... tock. You know, I almost hope they don't pay. It'll be more fun that way.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Kate Stein. Booked for disorderly conduct for protesting an oil pipeline at Stanford. Wow. Where you were a, uh, theater major. How fitting.
[showing her a tablet]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Is that you, Kate?
Gelina : Don't use that name.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let's see, before that, Westfield Prep in Marin, where your family had their name on the side of a building. Tell me something, how does daddy's little rich girl fall in with these lowlifes?
Gelina : I renounced my family name three years ago. They're no better than those corporate stooges hiding out in Caldow Pharmaceutical's high-rise right now.
Jessica Cortez : How are you any different, threatening to kill hardworking men and women for cash?
Gelina : For social change.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Tell us where the hostages are, Kate.
Gelina : I said don't use that name. Call me Gelina.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : You know, you guys are something else with these names and masks. You think we're supposed to take you seriously? You're nothing but trick-or-treaters with guns.
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Gelina : It's a mistake to underestimate him.
Jessica Cortez : Who? Cinque?
Gelina : He's chosen.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Chosen, huh? What, like Manson? Koresh, Jim Jones? How'd things turn out for their followers, Kate? See, I got another theory. Cinque is using all of you, and convinced you to take the fall for him while he nets millions.
Jessica Cortez : Honestly, I expected a Stanford grad to be smarter, Kate.
Gelina : Don't. Use. That. Name.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Listen to me, you tell me where the hostages are and then you're...
Gelina : Oh, the hostages, the hostages! It's not about the hostages. It's about cutting the head off the snake!
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : [realizing] The CEOs.
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Jessica Cortez : Hondo, I just spoke with building security. Shots are coming from the twelfth floor. It's under renovation. They must've used a construction elevator to get up there.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Roger that.
[the team moves in]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : The last time you thought you had them cornered...
David 'Deacon' Kay : They had some surprises waiting.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Stay sharp.
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David 'Deacon' Kay : Hold your fire!
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Deacon!
David 'Deacon' Kay : No, trust me! Trust me! Hold fire!
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David 'Deacon' Kay : It's not the Emancipators. It's the hostages. Look. You all right?
Cindy Martinez : Yeah.
David 'Deacon' Kay : You're safe now. They wanted us coming in, guns blazing, killing 'em all, just like the last time.
Jim Street : [finding a rifle set up on a tripod] It's remote-controled. Also like last time.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Deacon, how'd you know?
David 'Deacon' Kay : It's her bracelet. Her daughter has one just like it.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Great eye.
David 'Deacon' Kay : Well, like you always say, it's in the details.
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Jessica Cortez : The FBI is investigating connections between Kate Stein and the original suspect that took his own life. If there are any more Emancipators left out there, the feds will find them.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let's hope so. Hey, about earlier, you checking up on me. I appreciate it. I'm gonna do better.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : These last few months, I've been tired. Really tired. I spend the nights replaying the days, trying to figure out ways to improve. Get better, be perfect. Well, we all know perfect ain't possible. But the fact is, even we could be a hundred percent, we still wouldn't be able to save everyone. That's the gig. But honestly, for me, the wins haven't been making up for the losses lately. I've, uh, I've just got this, uh, restless feeling inside of me that I can't get ahold of, and today, I let it get the best of me, and I took it out on all of you. And for that, I am really sorry. And look, it's still gonna take me some time to figure it out, but I just want you guys to know, the only reason that I can get back up on this-this... this hamster wheel each day and do what we do is because of y'all. I'll never be able to thank you enough for that.
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Cinque : Did you enjoy the show?
[amused laugh]
Cinque : Come now, Sergeant. Surely you didn't think this was over.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : It takes a special type of coward to have your lackeys take the fall for you while you cash in.
Cinque : Oh, they were eager to do it. They're serving the greater purpose.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : And what sick purpose is that?
Cinque : Marketing, Sergeant. The key to any great movement. It's time to put faces to our beliefs.
Victor Tan : [turning on the news] Hey.
Gelina : [being perp-walked into the police station] We will not be silenced by corporations any longer. We will not be silenced by the so-called police!
Cyhi : Society is dying from a poison called capitalism. It's time to rebel and rise up against it!
Cinque : Their arrests, their trial, the media will eat it up. You just gave me five megaphones to spread my message to the world. Thank you. Only a matter of time before the troupe is replenished and ready for the next performance. In the meantime... enjoy the intermission.
