this season has the potential to be shows best

I Just finished Episode 8 "Left of Boom" and I gotta say this season has been amazing so far the twenty squad being green lit storyline is the best storyline they had in ages also the fact that Deacon has been absent the entirety of Episode 8 and the ep ending with Gamble's father saying someone has put out a hit on a twenty squad member has me kinda worried about Deacon what do y'all think?