Recap / SWATS 02 E 06 Never Again

Four armed robbers have been stealing diamonds from Israeli gangsters in LA. They're highly trained, well armed and wear body armor, enough to give the team a run for their money. However, they're not who SWAT expect, having different motives than just greed as well.

Examples:

• Action Girl: The robbers are all highly trained female Israeli military veterans who show their skills throughout the episode, even proving worthy opponents of the SWAT team.
• Amazon Brigade: All of the robbers turn out to be women. Due to their skill, Deacon and Hondo openly express admiration for them. They also had been in an all-female Israeli military unit together, which is how they'd acquired their skills.
• Badass Israeli: The diamond robbers are all Israeli military veterans, using their skills against a criminal syndicate. As the syndicate is also Israeli, many are badasses too.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: The robbers turn out to be a group of female Israeli military veterans using their skills against an Israeli criminal syndicate. All of the team are very impressed by them.
• Heroic BSoD: Hondo goes through one of these briefly after realising the robber he fatally shot was a woman.
• Kosher Nostra: The targets of the diamond robbers are an Israeli criminal syndicate that is operating in both the US and Israel.
• Lipstick Lesbian: Chris is revealed to be dating Kira, a woman with long hair and traditionally feminine clothing. However, like Chris she's bisexual.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Chris, a fairly butch woman, is dating Kira, who's quite femme. In an unusual example, both are bisexual.
• Polyamory: Kira invites Chris to be the "third" in her relationship with her fiance. Chris is unsure about the idea.
• Revenge: The diamond robbers turn out to be the daughters of people coerced into smuggling diamonds for a criminal syndicate, who then murdered them afterwards as "loose ends". Because of that, they robbed the syndicate in retaliation.
• Samus Is a Girl: All the diamond robbers wear body armor which conceals them completely, so the team are surprised to learn they're women.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Chris is good-looking, though she normally wears utilitarian work clothes or fairly ordinary ones when off duty. Here, she's shown in a highly flattering black spaghetti strap top that's quite revealing, and really shines.
• Tattooed Crook: The robbers each sport a tattoo in Hebrew on their chest saying "Never Again". Deacon and Chris note it's odd as tattooing isn't allowed in Judaism and will even get you excluded from a Jewish traditional cemetery, but they clearly didn't care. Since it denoted a vow which they made against their parents' murderers, this isn't too surprising.^note That tattooing will get you excluded from a traditional Jewish cemetery is a common but erroneous belief, promulgated by parents and authority figures to discourage tattooing. It is one of the many things that is prohibited but not punishable—and tattooing is not prohibited if done for a medical reason, as may be the case with marks for radiation treatment (in which case it might actually be required, to help save a life) or to ameliorate a disfiguring condition (this under the rationale that the tattooing would increase the person's ability to earn a living and to marry). Also no one would dare suggest that a Jew tattooed under duress in a concentration camp should be excluded from burial in a Jewish cemetery.
• Worthy Opponent: Hondo and Deacon first, then the rest of the team all consider the robbers this, being highly skilled military veterans.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Hondo is disturbed to learn the robber he killed is a woman. It stems from his upbringing, as he'd been taught to protect women. Deacon reassures him that she was an armed suspect firing on them, and he did the right thing.
  Deacon: Lying on that coroner's table, she might have looked like the girl next door, but you didn't shoot a woman, Hondo. You shot a killer.