NCIS:LA - Praesidium

LOOK WHAT FINALLY CAME FROM AMAZON!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!! (They were all 4 seasons for 40 bucks, I couldn't resist.)

I'm not obsessed. You're obsessed.

Anywho...

Some guy in a big house (I'm assuming Hetty's) stops an armed intruder, then gets shot himself.

Deeks and Kensi are sleeping in the same room - but both on couches so I have no idea where they are. Damnit Callen cut his hair again - I love the long fluff!

Hetty has a dozen different houses (and a boat!) and the guy who got shot was her security guard (at her house). Nell is worried, but says that Hetty always told her to 'leave the worrying to your enemies'. Good advice. She has the answers to everything

Deeks has suggested he and Kensi move in together and she disagrees. Then she either calls him a dog or a mutt (Monty is the other one). And he fires back by calling her a 'dirty little hoarder'. Sam and Callen find a pair of bad guys at Hetty's beach house, and shooting ensues.

White picket fence... Should be safe, right? NOPE.

The lady who wants to interrogate everyone is back, and is getting fed up with Nell and Eric. I'm also starting to think Granger has a sense of humour. This is a nice change.

OHH SHIT Hetty just collapsed! It's the thing that was in the promos, but she didn't say it as dramatically as she did in the commercials - disappointing! I'm sure she did this as a diversion.. right?!! Then Nell rushes into the boathouse and tells Deeks and Kensi about it, all dramatically, then it shows their shocked reactions and flips to commercial. But I don't know why they did that so dramatically, we already saw it...

Callen's onto it just like I am - he knows she doesn't actually faint. But he wants to go to DC to help her, and I think they need to stay in LA, because clearly the bad guys are there! And they need to take them out!

NOOO the evil government lady took Eric's tablet and headset!! What will he do with his hands now?!! Apparently he'll recount, in great detail, his epic loss at a video game. Clearly a stalling tactic, but I'm so proud of him!! He's so dramatic - AND HE TOOK HIS GLASSES OFF!! Then he hugged the guy interviewing him - this is priceless.

Hetty totally was faking it when she passed out - and Sam and Callen get caught by the official-lady when they were chasing down a suspect. She gets in Sam's car as he chases down the bad guys and freaks out about his driving (also the guy shooting at them). Then Sam tells Eric to do something but HE CAN'T HEAR YOU!!

Goddamnit lady, you can't just chase them down and stick them all in one room when there's shit to do!! But Sam can make her goons step out of the way after threatening them bodily harm. Cos everyone's scared of Sam.

HETTY DON'T GET INTO VANS WITH STRANGE MEN!!! Callen is a genius for going through the hole in the floor in the interview room in the boatshed - although that begs the question, how do criminals never find and use that?!

Dripping wet Callen is dripping wet.

Bonus shirtless Callen! But then he says something that Deeks would say and he and Sam get concerned that he has brain damage.. Deeks and Eric clearly went to the same school of stalling. Boo-hoo, the money that was used to rescue Kensi could have been spent on bombs and guns and more things to kill people.

Nell gets dressed up as Hetty and Sam and Callen sneak her into a house. A SMART assassin would know that's a decoy, cos she's a good three inches taller than Hetty!

This is clearly not the same person.

Scary lady doesn't need to talk to Deeks - which he takes as an insult. And Kensi does not want to talk about it, and that bothers him too. Touche but she's really upset, and refers to the two of them as 'partners' and he hugs her and awwww I can tell just from looking at him that he gives good hugs and she's crying and he tells her she's tougher than he is and that right there makes me so happy and even if Densi as a couple don't do anything for the rest of the season, that moment there was enough to give me all the warm fuzzies.


The guys who coerced Hetty into their car take her to some kind of big room with a dinosaur skeleton in it, and then who should show up but the ever-present Vance. He tells her that there's a leak in the operation, but of course we won't learn who it is tonight, because there are ten minutes left in the episode and that's not how NCIS rolls.

Spooky.

Nell is stupid and doesn't put her phone on vibrate, Hetty calls her and says 'bugger' when she learns about the situation - that's how you know it's serious! Then they destroy the house and Callen figures out that they've been ambushed and the guys aren't there to kidnap Hetty, they're there to kill Callen and Sam! Nell killed someone and is all freaked out and Callen finds her and she shows him a secret passageway - because of course Hetty would have one of those!! "Who do you think put the trapdoor in the boatshed?" And Sam's too big for the passageway. But then Kensi and Deeks show up too and the bad guys are outgunned. They wisely put down their guns once Kensi tells them she's 'had a bad day already'. Attagirl.

You do not mess with a pissed-off Kensi. Especially when she's got a gun aimed at you.

Nell has never killed someone before, and Granger thinks she's going to have problems because of it - Callen assures him this will not be the case. I must admit I'm a little concerned for her mental health, but she's pretty tough herself. Eric, notsomuch. Him, I'd be concerned about (side note: I hope the two of them have a really sweet moment soon where they talk about it... my Densi-shipping-self is really happy with this episode, but Nellric has been leaving a lot to be desired lately!!) 

Callen gets the last words of the episode (a rare occasion, usually that honour goes to Hetty) when he and Sam realize that Mattias (the bad guy from Season 2) is back in the US and they need to hunt him down... And kill him.

*Cue dramatic music*