Southland

John Cooper clashes with a veteran from Afghanistan; Lydia struggles to balance detective work and motherhood; Ben Sherman falls in with a questionable crowd; Sammy Bryant battles Tammi for custody.

Mendoza is injured in a drive-by; Ben works to solve the drive-by case; Lydia investigates the murder of a female boxer's husband; Cooper and Steele face off during a traffic stop.

LAPD's dispatch system breaks down; Lydia reaches out to an old flame; John is assigned a new partner; Ben and Sammy's partnership is strained.

Lydia and Reuben search for a killer who cooked a man's body; John and Lucero have a day filled with strange calls; Ben and Sammy respond to a bank robbery.

John considers life after the LAPD; Lydia connects with a man she sent to death row; Sammy becomes a celebrity after a public act of heroism; Ben decides to get a drug dealer arrested; Dewey is put in danger during a foot pursuit.

A baby's death shakes Lydia to her core; Sammy is questioned about his altercation with Tammi; Cooper seeks solace in Hicks; Ben grows more involved with Brooke while continuing to see Elena.

John takes drastic measures to try to save Hicks; Sammy's lie weighs heavily on his conscious; Lydia and Ruben track down a John Doe; Ben's relationship with Elena grows serious.

A drug dealer's funeral brings gangsters out into the open; Lydia and Ruben investigate the murder of Sgt. Hill's son; Ben suspects that Sammy did not destroy the tape; John sinks into loneliness.

Cooper and Lucero are kidnapped and held hostage; Sammy searches for Strokeface; Ben tries to throw Sammy off the trail; Brooke becomes increasingly irrational.

John deals with the aftermath of his kidnapping; Sammy closes in on the robbers; Lydia pursues John's kidnappers.