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| Lol. This poster. |
And we're flashing back to 'previously on NCIS: LA' when we last dealt with Sam's wife, the hitwoman, and the Russian guy who was in National Treasure and had me practising my Russian accent while watching. I love doing accents. Oh yea, remember the 3 nuclear bombs that went missing? Now they're going to deal with that.
A Russian guy is going for a stroll in the park and sits down on a bench and reads a letter that was hidden under the bench. He looks vaguely familiar, he might be the hit man they dealt with the last time... Then someone comes up behind him, and stand him in the back of the neck with an icepick, sits down beside him, stabs him again in the chest, and cuts off his finger. And we watch him die. That was incredibly unpleasant. And Sidorov is watching all this on a video and smiles at it.
Deeks and Eric have recurring nightmares about Hetty and a burning monkey. Deeks is afraid of headhunters and would be a gigolo if he weren't in law enforcement. Because Kensi is filling out a survey from a bridal magazine and so Deeks is mocking her and thinks she wants to make a baby with him. Ohh this is going to be funny.
The team is also watching the video, and they realise that the killer did it on camera on purpose. The victim, Varlamov, also had Cryllic letters carved into his forehead. It translates to SLON. Which is Russian for 'elephant'. And Callen and Sam have a random discussion about Babar the elephant.
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| My childhood is coming back to haunt me... |
The Russian guy they interview says
1) he wants to know how Callen and Sam managed to last longer than any of his marriages
2) Babar is totally the elephant the carving references...
3) it doesn't actually mean 'elephant', it's an acronym which loosely translates to 'bitches love a sharp knife' and
4) the finger was cut off because Varlamov had had a tattoo on his finger identifying his as a theif and the people he'd worked with didn't want him identified as one of theirs anymore. Which means the Russian bad guys are back in town. And Sam realises they're probably going to come after his wife.
He rushes off in a panic and nearly got hit by a car in his rush because he can't reach Michelle on the phone. Nell tells Deeks and Kensi that the bad guys are most certainly back in LA, and that they shouldmeet the other team at Sam's house, but Hetty interrupts and says there's a CIA agent on the case that they have to 'babysit'.
We see Michelle at her house, she is safe and vacuuming with headphones in (oh lord, the noisiness isn't good) and when she's facing the TV she sees the reflection of someone outside the window, so she sneaks into another room and picks up a lamp to bash in the head of - Sam. Hahahaha why didn't he use the front door! He has a key! So they get into an argument about the vacuum and the headphones, so Callen laughs and ducks outside.
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| I don't blame Callen for not getting involved with this fight - Sam is big, but Michelle's a total badass!! |
Nell takes the survey to Eric and apparently he would be a Renissance performer if he wasn't in law enforcement. I would pay to see that. Then she realises the type of 'partner' survey it is, and acts awkward and leaves ahhaha.
Sam is still really worried, Callen tells him it's not necessary, and then a random guy in a car pulls up and Sam goes "We arrested that guy for murder!" Then he goes around behind the house and gives Michelle a hug, Sam goes all jealous-husband on him and screams "Oh hell, no!" and tackles the guy. I also recognize him but I'm not sure where from. Apparently he's CIA, which is news to Callen and Sam.
Deeks prefers being called 'stealthy' to 'sneaky' and apparently has an uncanny Margaret Thatcher impersonation. Callen and the other CIA agent, Sabatino, show up and they say that he didn't actually kill anyone. And now they have to work together. Much to Snyder's chagrin, 'they' includes Deeks and Kensi haha. And they figure out that Sidorov was watching the hit go down from a public library.
Sam and Michelle, under cover, so to their so-called 'safe' house. And the sidekick Greshnev is in there. He says she has 24 hours to complete the hit on Kirkin that she was originally hired for. He leaves, and Sam follows him.
Sabatino is 'not' hitting on Kensi, and thinks there is something going on between she and Deeks. Speaking of our shaggy-haired amigo, he's grilling Snyder about who shot JFK and whether or not there are aliens in Area 51. And both pairs are talking about how it would be to be Kensi's partner because she's so hot. Don't you boys have a job to do?
Deeks gets all jealous so he goes into the library and tries to convince Kensi to drive with him, she says no because she needs to act as a guide. And then Deeks makes fun of the agent for having a tie on haha.
Sam is following Greshnev, and gets pulled over by 2 pairs of cops, they search him and cuff him with no explanations, they find his guns - and also an icepick in his glove compartment. Covered in blood. And Sidorov pulls around the corner and drives past, grinning.
Hetty comes to see Sam in jail, but says she can't bail him out because he's safer in jail and can't risk tipping off Sidorov. Poor guy! He's really upset because now he can't protect Michelle. So now it's up to Callen to protect her haha he goes "If this is one of your master plans. now will be a good time to let me know!" But she has no plan - he has to come up with one.
Kensi has one though! Even though her 'Kensi logic train' doesn't make stops in Deeks' neighbourhood. Her plan is to 'kill' Kirkin and bring him into protection, so that Sidorov can be arrested when they go to pay off Quinn. And they have to get to him by going undercover. He apparently liked blondes - blonde men that is. Cue everybody looking at Deeks.
This has got to be the funniest undercover mission ever, Deeks has to go to a nude men's spa... And talk to Kirkin. But they shove him underwater after he opens with "Hi, I'm working with the LAPD and NCIS, we want to kill you".
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| Not his finest moment. |
Michelle is all worried about Sam, but Callen tells her he's 'in a safe place'. That's kind of ambiguous there Callen, if I were her I'd be like 'Do you mean HEAVEN?!!'
Sam convinces a guard to let him out of his cell, and then attacks him.
The team is in a bar, and Michelle comes in (I thought the point of a hitman was to be as inconspicuous as possible?! She's wearing giant gold hoops!!!) and shoots Kirkin. Kensi videotapes the hit and sends it to Eric so he can make it public. Then Nell comes in with bad news - Sam escaped prison. Hetty gets on her 'damnit I told him not to do that' face, but says nothing.
Then Michelle goes outside and sits down. Callen and the CIA boys are watching her - but Sidirov tells her that the money is on a plane, he wants her to leave town, since Sam is in jail. She looks noticeably shocked. Then, somehow, Greshnev makes the CIA agents, and a public shootout in broad daylight ensues. Seriously!! I know they're bad guys, but they want to risk killing innocent bystanders?! Well, I guess with their nukes they don't really care who they kill, so nevermind. Snyder is hit, Sabatino rushes to him, and Callen loses the Russians in the crowd. Greshnev takes Michelle at gunpoint and walks off with her in one direction, while Sidirov carjacks a truck and speeds off in the other. Callen runs after Greshnev and he gets shot at. Then Greshnev says 'you're not going anywhere' to Michelle and accuses her of setting the whole thing up, but suddenly drops dead of 2 bullets to the back - courtesy of Sam. Apparently he tracked them using Michelle's phone. And I'm guessing just found the gun lying on the side of the road. PLOT HOLE!!
Also, I want to know how the Russians managed to plant the evidence in his car in the first place, I mean come on, he has to have a better security system than that installed!!!
Apparently Snyder was killed, because Sabatino is choked up and Granger is passing along his condolences. Aaand they still haven't found the nukes. Something tells me that showdown will make a hell of a season finale. And he is still hitting on Kensi. Classy move, after the death of your partner, buddy...
Then when he leaves, she says "Promise me you'll never do that?" Deeks is confused and then she says "Get yourself killed." He assures her it's ok, because he has a natural aversion to death, but when she turns around there are tears in her eyes, and he gets all serious and agrees. But not for long, because next he says "If I do die, promise you'll cryogenically freeze me and put me in your living room?" She asks what that would be good for, and he says the bedroom would be better. Typical Deeks!!! Love that guy!! Then when she leaves, he calls after her, in response to one of the questions on the survey, that she smells like "sunshine and gunpowder - two of my favourite things..." and my confusion over what 'sunshine' smells like exactly is overruled by my heart going AWWWWW!!!!! But she doesn't hear him.
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| SO MUCH SHIPPING IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY!!!!! DEY SO CUTE!!!! |
Hetty is mad at Sam and once again Callen takes the smart road and doesn't get in the middle of it. She tells him off, and says he should spend some time with his family while he can - because 'this is far from over'. OOOH OMINOUS CLOSING LINE THERE HETTY!!!! Can't wait for the next episode tonight!!! Although it probably will have nothing to do with this plot. For some reason.
But this was an epic episode. It was an epicsode. Can Chris O'Donnell please direct every week?!!
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| You know he's a Very Serious Director because he's wearing his Very Serious Director Glasses!!!! |
The guy you are familiar with was on NCIS:LA previously in Season 3 Episode 12: The Watchers as Roger McAdams. I guess he was undercover?
ReplyDeleteYea I did look that up (yay IMDb!) and he had said he was undercover - it's weird they made no mention of that in the first episode though.
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