NCIS:LA - In the Line of Duty

An embassy is attacked, and the terrorists waste roughly ten seconds shooting into the air as a warning before they actually aim at any people. The ambassador (guest star Julie Chen!) managed to escape, but her head of security was killed (Sam happened to know that guy, of course).

I recognize the guy they're talking to, probably he's one of those random actors who plays a cop on every crime show. Anyway...

Sam and Callen go to Tunisia to investigate - sans backup, because that's how they roll - and Kensi and Deeks go to talk to a really angry bald guy who, for some reason, thinks Deeks thinks terrorists might possibly be 'excusable'.. um, what?! Do you know what this guy does for a living?! Of course he doesn't think that, you daft imbecile!!

Or - as Max Brennan would say, 'bombastic twit'! 

Let's show these bad guys smoking so they look even more like assholes. Sam and Callen need night vision goggles even though there's enough light in that room for us to pretty clearly see what they're doing. The bodies of the murdered security agents were left in the room where they were killed. So now Sam and Callen go all CSI on us.

Even though nobody saw them when they came in, the terrorists somehow became aware of their presence and alerted the other guards, came in firing - and apparently Eric, Nell, Hetty and Granger are just standing around to talk Callen and Sam through their mission. Couldn't Hetty be doing something more useful? Some kind of plotting?? And Granger could be off spoiling someone's fun??

Now they have a giant 3D printer thingy that they've set up in the gym, to print out an exact replica of the crime scene. This is cool and all, but what exactly is the shape of things going to tell them? If they can't see the colours or whatever, they can't really tell what everything is..

And I'm still confused about how Callen said they needed to get the dead guys' bodies home.. And then they just LEFT THEM THERE!!! If that's a priority, this is why you don't send just 2 guys in, and then have the bad guys discover those two guys, and shoot up the room (and presumably the victims) further...

But that's none of my business...

Kensi and Deeks storm into the angry bald guys' office because they find out he lied to them about the last time he saw the victim. Apparently information being 'above your pay grade' and 'above your security clearance' are different things. Who knew?

There's no blood pool, no entrance or exit wounds on the bodies. SUSPICIOUS!!! Somehow this leads them to think they were killed by smoke inhalation.

No blood? Shame, we won't have to call in Finn.

Kensi and Deeks just so happen to be leaving the office when some random sketchy guys show up and are clearly trying to shoot up the building. They are thwarted. And I don't know about you, but I always carry bundles of money around with me in my bulky briefcase with my gun...

Eric does his best Shamwow guy impression and 'but-wait-there's-more' throws in extra information on those guys that Kensi and Deeks killed/scared off. I dunno about you, but I would buy anything he tried to sell me.

Although, nobody does it like the King.

Turns out the bad guys from the shooting are probably going to try to kill the ambassador because she's in town to attend the funeral of one of the guys killed.

ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT SCANNER THINGY PICKED UP A FULLY DETAILED SHOE PRINT?!! I CALL BULLSHIT!!! Also, Eric and Callen are both surprised by the ability of the printer, I'm surprised neither of them (especially tech geek Eric) have never seen it at work before.

Deeks and Kensi have a retro-off, even though they're the same age. Deeks tells the random consultant guy that he'll come to love the 'adorable partner banter' hahaha. Turns out the CIA is related to something happening in Tunisia - code name 'dogleg'.

Granger asks Hetty if she hasn't gotten sick of drinking tea all the time. RUDE! 'All the tannins are going to turn her into suede' he says, and my mind goes here

Must be said in one's best Jason Segel voice.

Instead of using Eric's fancy software, they have Sam do an old-fashioned tally count (come on, there were more pictures than that) through all the terrorist's surveillance photos, and they realize the dead guy Sam knew was the actual target, not the ambassador. And they were trying to kidnap him, not kill him, in Tunisia. Well that went well. Aaaand now they're after the angry bald guy, because he was the boss of the security guy, and therefore knew all about the Dogleg operation.

Various things compromising various top-secret things, the angry bald guy has been kidnapped, and we can eliminate anyone wearing flip-flops or clogs because Kensi found a boot print matching the one from the Tunisian crime scene. 'Mockery' is Deeks' middle name!

Marty Mockery Deeks sounds like a nursery rhyme.

Going through the main gate is too obvious, so the terrorists will not be expecting it! They literally used a BLOWTORCH to open the gate, while the bad guys stood patiently on the other side waiting to shoot whoever was coming through. THEY ACTUALLY USED RAPPELLING ROPES OK THAT WAS COOL! Even though they were just going over a hedge.

Slightly more entertaining than this movie.

They had a whole staircase-on wheels for Sam and Callen to get to the top of the hedge, but Deeks is dainty so he can just use a ladder. 

Although they could have just asked the Bluths to borrow this.

For some reason, the kidnapped guy was really happy to get Callen's praise, even though he'd already demonstrated he did not respect NCIS, like, at all. Weird. 

Deeks really wants a Hetty bobblehead. I smell a CBS merchandising opportunity... I would buy the crap out of that. Especially if they made it talk and she said 'oh bugger'. And was holding a cup of tea. YES. GET ON THAT GUYS!!!