NCIS: LA - Blaze of Glory

Second new episode in as many weeks? You're being too good to us, CBS. We're not worthy. (Especially me because I have two essays due in the next week and I haven't started either of them... Oops)

'A course deviation anomaly' sounds like a REALLY BAD THING. There's a missile that is launched and then not responding to the controls. It blows up a boat. Explosion within the first 30 seconds is always a good start to an episode. Although I like to think that's what you get for being so excited about missiles...

Deeks buys all his holiday stuff several days after the holidays (me too buddy, me too. Although I just buy post-Valentine's Day chocolate to comfort myself about being alone). Eric's Irish accent is amazing.

Though let's be honest, all of Eric is pretty amazing,

"No time to lose, Callen." Um, Hetty? You're aware there are six other people in that room? Is this a code, or do you just trust the rest of them to not lose time?

Turns out there were drugs on the boat - out of the whole boat, they only find 2 tarps-full of remains, but there manages to be a significant piece of evidence of criminal activity?!! I CALL STATISTICAL ANOMALY!!!

Somebody got invited to a fake event, and that set them up for something unpleasant.

Overheard while arranging the boat wreckage to get the serial number:
Sam: "G's in the wrong place"
Callen: "Where do you want me?"
Sam: "Not you, the letter." *smirks*
See, this is the problem when your first name is just an initial. *Ahem* LL Cool J *AHEM*

So the guy who owned the boat is alive, and a dentist. And Eric is eating?!!! IN OPS?!!! ST. PATRICK'S GREEN M&Ms?!!!! THE HORROR!!!!
I might be the only one to make this connection, but I was still reminded of this video:

Apparently the dentist's teenage son has been living on the boat (must be nice), but he's safe too. He says his old roommate was crazy and hated him and also was a hacker. Then the kid cracks a joke about 'needing hazmat suits' before they investigate the roommate's room. Which, yeah, actually, you should have a coverall suit before entering any potential crime scene...

Callen and Sam, tailing a suspect, get pulled over by some police officers - and Callen's immediate reaction is 'not again' hahaha I guess that happens far too often.

Deeks compares Kensi's room to that of the extremely messy college student. The kid's laptop literally blows up Kensi's flash drive - yeah I'm thinking he's good with computers.

Someone really young and smart and very blonde has higher clearance than Nell, and Eric likes her and Nell is SUPER JEALOUS. Her name is Blaze, because she was 'conceived at a Bon Jovi concert' and Deeks goes 'been there' and EXCUSE ME Deeks, I think I need some context to that remark... Also she said 'porn' and Eric kinda stammered at it. Also, Blaze is played by Becca Tobin a.k.a. Kitty from Glee and this genius girl is like the polar opposite of Kitty. (Aside from the face.)
ALSO OOOOOHHHH I SEE WHAT THEY DID WITH THE TITLE THERE

"We're going uup-UUUUP IN A GLAZE OF BLORY!!! We have switched the G of Glory with the B of Bla-ay-ay-aze!"

This just in, Sam is afraid of clowns. And all clown-related puppetry. And I super don't approve of Callen telling that Malee girl that some guy being creepy, stealing her phone, texting himself so he'd have her number, and doing shit she didn't like is 'maybe he's just flirting with you'. NO CALLEN!! BAD CALLEN THAT IS HARASSMENT YOU DO NOT TELL HER THAT THAT'S ALRIGHT BEHAVIOUR. BAD CALLEN.

I'm really not impressed with you right now, Callen. Aren't you supposed to be a good guy?

Eric refers to Blaze as 'like a little sister', 'not his type' (Nell approves of this, clearly he likes the redheads!) and he says he's just 'educating her'. Then he hugs her and Deeks goes 'yeah that's real educational'. Nell agreed. I love sassy Nell. Her jealousy is feeding my Nellric starvation.

So Blaze and Josh (the hacker guy) go to play chess on the pier, and Kensi and Deeks show up and pretend to be a bickering couple (Canadian couple? He called soda 'pop'). Then her backpack gets stolen.

"I can't feel my spleen!" Best fake Deeks injury ever. 

Couldn't find a proper GIF, but all I could think of was Cosmo going 'Ah! My spleen!'

But wouldn't the suspect recognize them as that same couple from the pier? They stop the Josh guy attacking Blaze (because he caught her talking on her earpiece) and then she kicked him in the nards. YOU GO GIRL!!

HOLY SHIT that Josh bastard attempted to DRUG AND RAPE MALEE?!!! SEE?!!! CALLEN YOU BASTARD YOU OWE HER AN APOLOGY!!! IN REAL LIFE THAT KIND OF HARASSMENT COULD TOTALLY ESCALATE TO A SEXUAL ASSAULT!!!

Aaaand apparently she was lying about the whole thing (including her identity) so she could date Wyatt (that's the dentist's son) so that she could steal some kind of software he'd written. AND NOOOO she killed the dentist!! Which is really freaking sad because we learned at the beginning of the episode that Wyatt's mother had died fairly recently. What is with this heartless show turning kids into orphans?!!

Also Blaze has disappeared. Not good. They let this defenseless 18ish-year-old drive around town on her own?!! On a freaking VESPA?!! Come on, that's some sloppy work.

Oh hey Granger, nice to see you in a whole SECOND scene of this episode.. Lots of running, Blaze is a hostage, more running, another hostage, there was an error in uploading the software, so it's not dangerous anymore. Sam, Y U NO shoot her, instead of running up behind her and then say 'drop the gun!' Oh well, she's dead anyway and the software is safe. *Whew*

Eric is passing up on ice cream to go meet Blaze and some of her friends. So he can 'mentor' them. WE SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU, BEALE!!! Poor Nell gets sad and goes back to Ops - where he then shows up to surprise her! Awwe! Turns out Blaze is going to Quantico. And she thought Eric could be friends with her dad. Awks. So he apologizes to Nell and she just giggles. She lets him fly the drone she's programmed. Now if that's not a sign of trust, I don't know what it. And I don't know if this whole 'control' thing is a metaphor for their relationship or what, but I don't want to know what happens if that thing hits the ceiling. Aaaand he crashed it. AND THEY DIDN'T KISS! But she kinda propped her head on his shoulder, so I guess that was cute too. Nerd love is the best love.

SEE WRITERS?!! THIS IS A GOOD AMOUNT OF NELLRIC INTERACTION PER EPISODE. MORE OF THIS PLEASE!!!

However can we please touch on that slimy bit of writing where the potential rape victim was lying about it the whole time?! And where Callen didn't for one second apologize, or feel an ounce of remorse for going 'oh he was probably just flirting'?!! CREEPY INAPPROPRIATENESS IS CREEPY AND INAPPROPRIATE NO MATTER THE CONTEXT CALLEN, DAMNIT.
Learn from my favourite dead shrink:

And that goes for harassment too.

Wait a second, we still don't know who the hell was on that boat, do we? Or was I just not paying enough attention... Sometimes that happens.