NCIS: LA - Spiral

Sorry for the late post, I had a MASSIVE headache last night and wanted to get to bed early (of course, this did not happen).

Callen's undercover as a mailman and the evil boss guy is onto him and suddenly threatening him - and suddenly there's a hostage situation in the office building. Well that timing was convenient (for Callen anyway). The boss asshole decides to try and negotiate with the hostage-takers and they kill him. Well, duh. Raise your hand if you saw that one coming.

Good job, children! Although this might be too violent for you... Go watch Spongebob.

Meanwhile Kensi is meditating (in her jeans...) and Deeks is messing with her. So she takes him down with one hand, without even looking. The terrorists are demanding the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. An office building seems a really random target for such a thing. Especially  on a Saturday. Then again, so did that cafe in Australia... That was really scary stuff. And this was filmed before that even happened, which is a messed-up coincidence - these terrorists are hanging jihadist flags on the walls too, but Callen notices 'half of them are upside-down'. Brilliant!

The security guard for the building gets the crap kicked out of him by one of the terrorists because he stepped in to protect the stereotypical hysterical woman who won't stop sobbing. Callen, and a doctor-lady who he asks to help him, thinks that the guard has a broken rib. Said security guard is played by none other than Patrick Gallagher, a.k.a. the former Coach Ken Tanaka from Glee. 

I guess now we know why he was always on that cart.

Kensi, Deeks and Sam attack some of the terrorists outside the building (they're apparently not communicating with the ones inside, so they don't even know anything's happening?) and they discover that the whole thing is rigged to blow up in the event of an attempted rescue (in which case I really call bullshit on them not having some kind of walkie-talkie action happening with the people upstairs).

OK so the bad guys upstairs did find out somehow, and Callen just keeps walking around without them seeing him. Although he's watching hunched over, so I guess it's like *sneak* mode in Skyrim and he's invisible.

I miss Skyrim logic.

When looking through the dead arms dealer's credit card records, they find out he shopped at a lingerie store, which causes Eric to say the word 'panties' which causes Nell (and me) to look at him funny.  Then they discuss underwear and she gets all flirty and breathy and he starts talking really fast. HAHAHAHA I love it when Nell has the upper hand. Let's face it, she ALWAYS has the upper hand.

Who remembers this?! This was adorable!

Kensi and Deeks also do sneak mode and join the hostages, although apparently no one notices 'hey, those two weren't there before'. Or is watching the stairwell they snuck up. Must've failed hostage taking 101. And then some guy comes in and puts on a bomb-vest with a dead-man switch (one of the ones that will cause a detonation if the person lets go).

The only guy who's not wearing his mask suddenly decides to hit one of the other terrorists and point his gun at another one. That'll make them respect your leadership. They found the doctor-lady trying to sneak away, and decide to bring her to the head honcho rather than just killing her. This gives Callen time to play hero, and Sam bursts in at just the right time and kills a bunch of the terrorists (but the head guy gets away and no one hears the shots and comes running). Doctor-lady gets away too. Then the team figure out that the hostage-taking wasn't just a random building, but they were specifically targeting the arms dealer that Callen was following. Deeks forgets the important part from earlier - that thing about them blocking all cell service - and decides to take pictures of the bomb - WHICH NO ONE NOTICES! Are those masks obstructing their vision or something?Then he ducks out down the stairs again - come on...

Apparently the arms dealer was very specific about renting the office on that specific floor of that specific building. That's not suspicious or anything... Nell apparently forgets the no-cell-service thing too, and tries to call Callen and Sam, then acts disappointed when she can't reach them. And she wouldn't even know that Sam had located Callen by that point! Unless she's omnipotent. Which is entirely possible.

Well we know Hetty is all-knowing, and she's taking Nell on as her special project...

Deeks is still struggling with the same problem, so he shoots out a window (WHICH NO ONE HEARS?!) and hangs out of the building with his phone. Considering how afraid of heights I am, this part made me all shaky. But it was funny when he said 'That's a terrible idea, let's do that'. I think it's his new catchphrase. His own version of 'Imma risk it'.

Pictured: My worst nightmare. (Not ECO, of course. He's a good dream)

The security guard used to be a police officer, he figures out Kensi is law enforcement, and offers to help her. Sam leaves his phone on the floor, with a timer, to ring and lure in the confused terrorists - GENIUS!! Then he pops out of an open elevator and chucks one of them down the shaft. One of the hostage takers is Irish? And that's significant? Before he dies he says that 'this wasn't supposed to happen'. Conveniently, they manage to get through to Sam, and then Deeks (albeit fuzzily).

Then two of the terrorists come into the room, don't see Deeks, have some kind of vague argument, take off their masks and leave. Not sure of the point of that. But Nell manages to send Deeks instructions on disarming the bomb. Cos she's awesome.

Callen and Sam find the pharmaceutical lab that the arms dealer was targeting, and the doctor-lady is there too. She tells them that she'd worked at the lab and they'd developed a vaccine that has a problem and then became some kind of bioweapon - code name Spiral. I know I've been watching too many CinemaSins videos, but...

Roll credits!

The hostage-takers were former IRA members. Deeks apparently failed the EOD course he took at Quantico, but he swears he'll be fine disarming the bomb. Sam needs Eric to be more specific than 'Ebola on steroids'. Deeks panics momentarily, Kensi is the calm one and tells him to 'trust his training'. She's definitely going to mock him for that later though. I can feel it. My video froze. Damn Internet. Deeks' meddling worked! No explosion!

Hetty tells Granger he's not allowed to report the stuff about the Spiral virus, because that would lead to the army incinerating the building with missiles. Because it's her team in the building. Doctor-lady trying to destroy the virus doesn't wear gloves or a mask or anything else to protect herself. Deeks and Kensi attack the vest-bomb dude, who is roughly the size of a bear, and proceeds to kick and elbow Kensi while she prevents him from letting go of the detonator. Deeks bashes him in the head with a fire extinguisher, and the security guard (who was faking a heart attack) opens the elevator shaft, they shove him in and he explodes halfway down. No one else gets hurt. 

A+ work done by those elevators today. So useful.

The two maskless guys don't care about the explosion, they just want the virus - and look away just as Callen ducks out of  a doorway and shoots them both. Also, none of these stray bullets puncture any vials of deadly chemicals/viruses. OMG GUESS WHAT! Doctor-lady is evil! Saw that coming, she was waay too helpful earlier! Guys, she had red hair, how did you not figure out she was Irish! She goes on and on about how 'expendable' everyone is, then throws the vial and it shatters and Callen starts coughing up blood. SHIT! But Sam couldn't have shot her after she threw the vial/before she left the room?! If she was planning on throwing it anyways... 

NCIS owes the security guard guy drinks for life, Sam follows evil-lady-doctor to the roof, kills her and the pilot trying to helicopter her out of there. She drops the case with the vials, and Sam calls in the CDC. Then everyone watches really sad through the window as they treat Callen, and Hetty says 'this is not the end'. I believe her. And oh look! Still 5 more minutes in the episode!

*Two weeks later*

Callen wakes up in a hospital, in Georgia apparently. However, apparently there had already been an antidote developed. How convenient. Callen remembers Hetty being the last thing he saw before he passed out. He also decides to be all honest and tell Sam he can't sing, and that he hates Michelle's casserole.

Kensi and Deeks are meditating together and using the word 'zen' as a substitute for 'sex'. Nell and Eric decide to join them to make things even more awkwardly hilarious. I love it. 'Group zen'. Sounds interesting.