NCIS: LA - 'Red' (Part 1)

So they haven't resolved the whole Russians-with-nukes thing yet, but they're starting another 2-part plotline. Seems legit. Actually, seems like typical NCIS stuff.
In Idaho, in lots of snow, a guy crashes his car and stumbles out. The car catches on fire and he finds a payphone and calls 911, but in typical horror-movie fashion, it's not working. Then he staggers back into the snow and screams at someone that he's a Marine, and tells whoever is following him to come and find him. And he gets shot.
In headquarters, there's a box on Deeks' desk, but it's addressed to Kensi - but she says she's giving him the box, he's all confused and everyone is smiling like they know there's a joke going on, when he goes to open it he's interrupted by Eric. As they go upstairs, Sam and Callen say to one another that Kensi is 'very good'. And even Hetty knows about the box!

Everyone's sharing secrets.... Except Deeks.

There was a man with terrorist ties, named Santoso shot execution-style on a back road near LA, and his shoes were missing but he was not robbed. Then the same gun was used to shoot the Marine we saw earlier, in the same manner - thousands of miles away. Sam and Callen are dispatched to Idaho and the 'red team' will meet them there.
Kensi and Deeks are investigating the site of the first murder, and she's explaining to him what exactly the 'red team' is, apparently all the colours are members of a particular squad that fly all over the place and do everything with their team members - although he gets distracted when she says that they 'sleep together'. Oh Deeks... They found the missing shoes, and apparently the killer walked backwards in his own footprints leaving the scene.
Our boys meet up with a guy named Gallagher in Moscow, Idaho (which they say is probably colder than the other Moscow, to which I say 'bitch please, I live in Canada'). Also Granger's there.

At first glance, I totally thought this was a screenshot of Elisabeth Shue (aka Finn) from CSI.... They're both blondes, with sunglasses, and navy vests with letters on them.

They meet up with the rest of the red team, including an Australian woman named Keats, another agent named Kai, a forensics/cook guy named Dave Flynn and their team leader Paris Summerskill. Naturally, Paris is pretty, and she and Callen share a *look* when they shake hands. Ohhh boy.
Plus when Hetty video-called the team, Eric acts all dorky and stammery not talking normal. But she called to report she had nothing to report. Which was odd.
Granger has to share a berth 'room' with Callen and Sam (I can see that is going to be interesting) and he gets stuck with the top bunk!
Eric slept in Ops all night and has a very sore neck when Nell wakes him up at 5:00 a.m. He tells her that he found Santoso's car, and it was a rental that was linked to a hotel. When Kensi and Deeks go to the hotel, they find evidence that at least 3 other people were staying there - and there are tons of empty boxes of ammunition in the room. Uh-oh.
Callen and the pretty agent-lady are talking in the kitchen, both of them with those voices actors on TV use when they're supposed to be 'feeling chemistry' with people they just met. 

Look at how intensely he's looking at her!!!

They review the crime scene from when the Marine was killed. His pockets were searched, but nothing was missing other than his cell phone. They theorize that he had tried to use it first, after he crashed, but dropped it. So it's back to the scene, with a metal detector! Also they both think that Granger's up to something.
Callen, Paris, Sam and Danny are on their way back to their headquarters, when a giant truck T-bones their SUV and rams it into a snowbank. Now, I know accidents happen in bad weather, but this guy kept ramming them when they were clearly stuck. So he's clearly evil. Sam punched out the sunroof and shot the truck. When it backed up and they were able to escape the car, they all shot at the truck and went over to it - but there was no driver! What the hell?? Then the three turn around and Danny in the driver's seat of the SUV is pinned and bleeding. Damn.
Apparently he had a ruptured spleen but was sent to the hospital and is OK. The real driver of the truck was also executed, apparently he was carjacked and left at the side of the road.
The Marine's phone has a video on it taken at the airport when he was on his way to Idaho, that includes a suspicious-looking man who covered his face when he was on the camera. They suspect this man killed the Marine for 1) being a Marine and 2) capturing him on film! Therefore he's probably a terrorist, but he's not Middle Eastern, so he's the worst kind of terrorist - an American.
The same man was captured on a security camera leaving Santoso's apartment with several others carrying suspicious-looking duffel bags. When Hetty sees him, she says "Bugger".
They identify him as a man named Spears, who is a known terrorist and cooperates with the Iraqi military. They find out that he and his scary team on scary people are pretending to be TSA agents and planning an attack that involves an airport. So the team beats them there and chase them around in cars and 2 guys pop out of the back of the van and shoot at the NCIS agents with automatic weapons - but Sam rams the van and they manage to kill all the bad guys  - except for one who is injured, and Spears, who gets away. Hence the necessity for Part 2.
Back at Ops, Deeks still hasn't opened the box, and Kensi says it's a gift for him because she forgot his birthday, and it's 'everything he ever wanted' but he decides not to open it, so that he doesn't get disappointed. Now I'm confused. OPEN THE DAMN BOX ALREADY DEEKS!!! You know I hate suspense. 

I wanna know!!!!!!!

Hetty has called in someone to work in Danny's place on the Red team while he recovers, and when the new guy shows up, Hetty says "Bugger" again, and Paris is all shocked and then punches him in the face. His name is Roy Quaid and he has ugly long hair and is very tall. Then she goes to the shooting range and shoots the head out of a paper target-man. Methinks she has some anger issues... But then she has a flashback to running down an alley and he's laying on the ground shot in the chest. Ohh...
They find a recording of Spears on the phone with someone who sounds like Mike Tyson, saying for him to go to a hotel and stay there and he'll get smuggled back 'over the boarder'. They split up and the Red team plus Roy go to the hotel, and the NCIS: LA team goes to try to track the phone. And that's the end of the episode, naturally.

WHAT THE HELL WAS IN THAT BOX?!?!?!?!

I NEED TO KNOW!!!!! Forget the terrorists, they better resolve THAT next week, or I will be really mad.