2x05: "Call Me"

During surveillance of a suspect, Joseph and Szymon Skubisz share words regarding their unlikely partnership. Joseph is angry that he has to work with Szymon and Szymon is angry at the homophobic comments that Joseph constantly makes. While arguing, the two watch as Gage Matthews enters the suspect's home.

2x07: "It's Too Late"

JAfter returning home from the nightclub, Szymon questions Cayden, Devon and Elijah about Steven's claim. The three of them remain quiet and choose not to offer any information. When Joseph Lester arrives, he informs Szymon that they are ready to search the incinerator.

When Liliana takes a walk, she places a call to someone in which she demands that something be done about Jesse. After hanging up, she gets on the elevator where she has a strange encounter with Szymon Skubisz. She appears to be frightened by him and says some awkward things before fleeing from he elevator. Joseph teases Szymon about Liliana's reaction to him.

When Szymon and Joseph arrive at Devon's he informs them that they only found a bloody rug in the elevator. To save time, Gage tells them that Luis accidentally fell and cut his head and bled on the rug, which is why they threw it away. He tells them that Luis was fine and left the apartment the morning after. He gives them Luis' number and Joseph calls it to see if he can get ahold of Luis.

When Szymon knocks on Devon's door once again, he informs the woman that he has a search warrant for her apartment. Devon reluctantly allows the officer to search her apartment, but when the group decides to go to Cayden's apartment, they are shocked to discover that Szymon also has a search warrant for that apartment and he shuts the door on Cayden's face, leaving him standing in the hallway in shock.

2x08: "Last Night"

Before Szymon can begin to search the apartment he shares with Cayden for evidence in Luis Alvarez's murder investigation, Joseph Lester informs Szymon that he has a conflict of interest and must leave the apartment. After some arguing, Szymon realizes that by being close to Cayden, he has placed himself in a situation where he can not investigate the murder. He chooses to leave.

2x09: "Together"

Szymon and Joseph Lester find themselves in the chief of police's office. When Connor O'Shay tries to get to the bottom of things, he learns that Szymon's apartment was the scene of a missing person's investigation. When Szymon and Joseph assure him that nothing happened in Szymon's apartment, Connor turns to Devon James and asks them to investigate her a little further.

Later, as Szymon and Joseph try to decide where they'd like to have lunch, Szymon tries to assist Joseph when he drops something. He kneels down to pick it up just as Officer Patrick O'Leary watches. He shouts profanities at the two and Joseph begins to freak out that everyone now thinks he's gay. When he spots Sarah Mulberry and Ryan James, he invites them to lunch and the four go to a diner where they run into Devon and Gage who were there waiting for Cayden and Elijah. They invite themselve to Devon's table. Soon others start to arrive.

When Devon announces that she and Gage are having a baby boy and naming him Taylor, after Julia Taylor, everyone drinks to a toast. They marvel at how they've managed to stay together despite all of the obstacles they've faced and they welcome anyone to try and break their little family apart.

2x10: "Strangers"

Joseph calls Szymon to meet him down by the river where a body is found. Joseph is not pleased when the wallet recovered from the victim identifies him as David Brooks, Jacob Talbot's assistant who has been missing for three months.

2x11: "Family Portrait"

On the news, Joseph Lester confirms that the body found in the river is David Brooks.

2x15: "Liar"

Mrs. Mulberry watches news anchor Brian Chambers explain that there still are no leads in the murder of Luis Alvarez and feels relieved, but when she gets a call from Joseph Lester and agrees to take a message for Sarah that she purposely does not relay as to create tension between the two, she sees her opportunity to make sure that no one ever finds out. Sarah admits to her grandmother the possibility that she would like to see where this thing with Joseph goes.

Sarah is pissed off when Joseph arrives late for their dinner date and discovers that her grandmother is the reason. She also gives Joseph a hard time for making people think that they had sex when they never actually did. Joseph admits that he had to brag so people wouldn't think he was gay. Szymon is his partner and the other officers are starting to torment him because of Szymon's sexual preference.

2x17: "Give Me One Reason"

Szymon Skubisz sits in the waiting room at the hospital as everyone gets tested to see if they are a match for Sammy’s bone marrow. Ricky Andrews tries to make conversation with him and Szymon asks him how he can still smile when he is surrounded by so much death. Ricky tells him that he chooses to be happy. Joseph Lester admits to Szymon that he actually admires him and will be sorry when Cecilia comes back on full time. He tells Szymon that he is being reassigned to another partner. Joseph and Szymon discuss the nature of evil and whether it runs in the blood. However, when Jesse shows up, Szymon flips out because he doesn’t want Jesse’s blood or bone marrow anywhere near his son. Szymon then begins to take his frustrations out on Cayden when he defends Jesse for showing up to do the right thing.

Szymon decides to try and make it up to Cayden by bringing him flowers, but when he shows up at the hospital, Cayden is having a private conversation with Drake Talbot and Drake is holding Cayden’s hand. Szymon flees and tells Joseph Lester that Cayden is cheating on him and Joseph urges Szymon to talk to Cayden. Meanwhile, Drake is admitting his feelings to Cayden and Cayden tells him that they can only be friends. He wants to make things work with Szymon. Drake understands and leaves and Sarah steps off of the elevator. Cayden admits to her that he wants to stay with Szymon, but can see how he could easily go with Drake because Szymon is so nasty to him lately. Szymon overhears this and misinterprets what Cayden says and accuses him of cheating and asks him to leave the hospital and Sarah is there to take Cayden away.

Szymon returns home to find that Cayden is not there. Joseph, who has accompanied Szymon, offers to stay with him for a little while and they have a beer together. Szymon realizes that with him and Cayden breaking up that he will have to find another place to live and Joseph offers his apartment. When Szymon asks Joseph why he would do that, Joseph begins to kiss Szymon. Meanwhile, Cayden admits to Sarah that he is going to focus on Szymon and stop worrying about everyone else’s problems, but everything changes when Cayden and Sarah walk in on Szymon and Joseph having sex. Cayden asks Szymon to move out.

2x18: "Take A Bow"

Sarah has a few choice words for Joseph’s fellow police officers to hear at the precinct. Joseph’s new partner Patrick O’Leary is both stunned and disgusted. A shamed Joseph tells her that she is better than this and storms off. Cecilia Nakamura takes the obviously drunk Sarah to get a cup of coffee while Szymon tries to repair what is left between him and Joseph, but Joseph wants no part of it and punches Szymon in the face when he touches him in public.

2x19: "Soul Deceiver"

Szymon listens as Joseph Lester is verbally berated by the other officers. Once they are gone, Szymon sits down and talks to Joseph and apologizes to him for taking advantage of him. Joseph tells him that he was the one who took advantage of the situation and that Szymon has nothing to apologize for. Szymon asks him how he is doing and Joseph responds that some days are better than others, but he realized that despite how everyone treats him, it feels good to be himself for the first time in his life.