NCIS: LA - The Grey Man

FYI - I wasn't able to watch SNL this weekend, and then it wasn't up online until this morning. I'll hopefully be able to watch and post about it within the next few days. 

Sam's given his daughter a cell phone, and as a result she's calling him constantly. How old is this child?? I was 14 when I got my first phone and it was a crappy flip one that didn't even text... She and Deeks both want spaghetti for dinner. And hearing Sam refer to himself in the third person as 'daddy' is a little... Uncomfortable.

Callen has a girlfriend! You go, G Callen! (I mean, he's adorable, so on one level that's not surprising, but then there's the job, sooo...)

Considering he used to look like this, HOW IS HE NOT OFF THE MARKET ALREADY??
(Side note: I definitely prefer the longer hair)

Deeks has named his smelly undercover jacket, 'Arty' (very original, you removed one letter from your own name). Apparently it gave Callen a rash. Ewww. I hope his girlfriend doesn't know about that. And Sam's daughter doesn't know what an emergency is - she called Hetty to tell her she'd rather have lasagna for dinner.

Granger told Hetty that he was going to get fro-yo with an actor, Claude Rains, from Casablanca, (Who is dead, BTW) and hearing her say 'fro-yo' was the funniest thing. I'll say this, the guy Granger went to meet definitely looked like he belonged in Casablanca. Fedora and everything. But apparently they meant the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is right outside the frozen yogurt shop. Clever! And Callen gets another quip in when they catch the guy after he tries to run - "Believe it or not, you landed on Robert Ripley."

Apparently Kensi is not Arty's 'type'. How is he not dying of heat wearing a beanie and that coat in LA?? She admits to him that she lived on the street for a while after her father died. Which makes me really sad. Deeks already knew that, because Hetty told him, but she 'didn't say anything' if you catch my drift.

A homeless guy offers Deeks some fries, and for some reason isn't at all suspicious of Deeks talking to himself/Kensi through the headset. They notice a girl who might be linked to a cartel and therefore their victim - and all I notice is how INSANELY LONG AND GORGEOUS HER HAIR IS. I would kill for hair like that. I mean, mine's pretty long, but also kinda split-endy and gross and not nearly as shiny and perfect as hers. Geez.

This may be a slight exaggeration. That girl's hair was dark.

Kensi made a pun about how Arty was doing all the work and Deeks was 'just riding his coattails'. CALLEN AND SAM ARE IN SUITS. So this girl, it turns out, is an escort as well as working with the cartel - and then she says that Callen and Sam seem like they 'haven't gotten any in a while' and Callen shoots her down - "You're confusing horny with hungry. We skipped lunch today." I would like to high-five whoever writes his lines like that. They're gold.

Deeks very cleverly gets a federal prosecutor - who's being held hostage in his own house - to come to the door by saying he got some of his mail and writes a message on it, letting the guy know who he is and asking him to tell him how many bad guys are in the house. Callen and Sam sneak in the back and take the cartel guys down. GENIUS! But I'm kind of surprised they didn't hear Callen talking, I mean he was practically in the same room, and he didn't exactly whisper...

Clearly Callen didn't get this message.You have to be vewwy quiet when hunting, bad guys or otherwise.

Who is this dude? Some random DEA agent is getting all antsy and wants to take the other guy with him to the court to ensure the extradition of the cartel boss. But the team gets all suspicious and tells him to cool his jets (I'm paraphrasing).

Callen knows how to speak 'tween'. He 'translated' Sam's daughter's texts. Cute.

They figure out that the lawyer actually knew one of the other cartel hookers, and that he was the one who wanted to kill the cartel boss because the woman and her daughter had been kidnapped and would be killed unless he did so. The victim at the beginning was actually his long-lost father, and had been following his son around and got killed because he saw the girls being kidnapped. That's so sad!!

OK Deeks and Kensi are having a really touching moment, but they're right outside the place that the girls are being held - he questions it too, THIS ISN'T A GOOD TIME!

Deeks, telling the cartel members that they look confused and idiotic is a bad idea when they're pointing a gun at you... He convinces them that the room was filled with gas so shooting would be a bad idea, then one of them picks up a meat cleaver so he runs out screaming 'PLAN B!' and Kensi shoots into the building, blowing it up (Deeks happens to land right on top of her... awkward).

Sam gave his daughter Callen's number so she calls him right in the middle of the suspect talking to his girlfriend. Awwwe 'Uncle Callen'. But to be honest, I don't know that many young girls who actually talk on the phone rather than texting.

You have been warned.

The whole long-lost-father not revealing himself thing really made Callen sad, and Hetty naturally has some wise words on the subject. But seriously, I can't believe not knowing who your family is. That must be so hard.  Poor Callen. We haven't touched on that subject for a while.

This episode was decent. I always love them all undercover - and we got that times four today, so yaaay!! However - NOT ENOUGH ERIC/NELL!!! I feel like they're hardly ever around lately!! But I'm still hearing Hetty say 'fro-yo' in my head and that almost makes up for it.