NCIS: LA - Inelegant Heart

That is such an interesting episode title. Very poetic.

EWWW a little white fluffy dog eating a dead guy's arm. Seems like the opening to CSI.
Apparently Hetty is 'openly hostile' and 'stalling'. I think this dude is misinterpreting what is clearly badassery. She just told her attorney to sit up straight. And I still don't understand why she's on trial or whatever is happening.

Kensi and Deeks are sparring and then she ends up sitting on top of him, cos that's not awkward at all... Poor Eric who walks in on them and Deeks asks him for help. 

Eric is the perennially sexiled college roommate. At least they're fully dressed...

Granger demands that Callen and Sam be pulled out of their undercover operation. Sam disagrees. He's undercover as an inmate and Sam's a prison guard. Long-haired Callen makes me happy. Mostly because he looks EXACTLY like one of my all-time-favourite TV characters.

It's Shawn!!! (From Psych!) Now I'm gonna be looking for a pineapple in this episode....

Side note: who the hell are all these random people who walk around in the background at Ops? What exactly do they do? And why do they never need to be asked for help when stuff's happening? This has been your easily-distracted-Emily question of the week.

Hetty is still killing it with the snarky responses she's giving to these hearing people - apparently the hearing is about why Kensi was chosen to be sent to Afghanistan instead of someone else who was more readily available/was a SEAL or a Marine or something.

Callen's hair is suddenly a little bit shorter in the next scene.. Am I the only one thinking that they shot this while Chris O'Donnell's hair was longer over hiatus?? It makes him look younger. I like it. Sam was encouraging him to adopt a dog, then Callen said Sam was his dog and Sam drove off without him. In related news, I'm reminded why I love this show so much.

Deeks is also a fan of the hair - I'm not surprised. And then some other stuff happened. Nell and Eric used that handy thing they have where there are surveillance cameras randomly in every corner of the city. Turns out that the guy who found the body at the beginning of the episode (because he'd broken in to rob the house) called 911 anonymously. But we already knew he was a criminal.

Hetty is suspicious of everyone and everything, and I am tired of conspiracy theories. Also, she doesn't hide, she protects. Someone is a bastard, and I kind of half stopped listening because Granger said something about 'executive orders'. Blah. Get back to the interesting people!

Deeks managed to compare a suspect they're chasing to playing Whack-a-Mole, and then that same guy pulls a reverse-House and drives a van through a wall (but going OUT of a building) and he hits a fire hydrant. Tsk tsk. As Callen says, 'Doesn't he know we're in a drought?'

Oh House. Yeah, he was crazy, but he was also crazy awesome.

Back at Ops, poor Nell is being harassed by an angry official-looking lady who wants to talk to Sam, Callen, and Kensi, but they're not here right now. So Nell volunteers to be interviewed because she likes being interviewed, but official-lady is having none of that. Granger tells her that Hetty said to say that it's an old building, whatever that means - apparently it means to turn off the power.

ERIC'S MIDDLE NAME IS BARTHOLOMEW!!!! Awwwww... And he's such a good staller/bluffer and looks so flustered talking to the official-people about the power going out. What a cutie.

'The name's Beale. Eric Beale. Eric Bartholomew Beale. ...The third ...Esquire.'

Most dramas don't have callback jokes, but Deeks and Kensi are still using 'touche' and I love that. Also, you apparently 'can't wash out ghost'. Good to know. They take a picture of the dead guy to pretend he's still alive to try and lure the hitman who killed him back to the scene of the crime to finish the job. The only protection they give Eric is a pillow - not even a gun (although that's for Sam and Callen's protection). He's not allowed the leave the room, even if he has to pee. Or there's a fire (which Sam suggests he put out using... you know. Reminds me of the movie Strange Brew. But they didn't give him any beer!

Bob and Doug would be proud.

According to Callen, people who say 'I don't know what you're talking about' know exactly what you're talking about, they just don't want to admit it. Sooo... What do people say when they don't know what you're talking about?

Say 'Papalegba' one more time, I dare you. (No, I have no clue how that's spelt. It just sounds so stupid.)

OH MY GOD Homeless Deeks is baaack!!! Love that guy!!! And I'm so glad they let him keep his hair long - because that look wouldn't work with Callen or Sam's normal 'dos. This is a new one, Sam and Kensi playing an arguing couple. I love that they apparently don't need disguises. And I'm gonna be mad if they shot up the plastic recycling bins - that stuff takes forever to sort! And now there's metal in it??

Even after they knew the real name of the man running the online hit-for-hire site, they still kept calling him by that stupid-sounding screen name. SHIIIITT SOMEONE HAS PUT A HIT OUT ON HETTY!! NOT COOL!! NOT COOL!! EVEN LESS COOL BECAUSE IT'S A CLIFFHANGER!! GODDAMNIT!!

This picture is NOT from tonight's episode. But those are my three least-favourite words when it comes to TV.