NCIS:LA - Savoire Faire

The manly men are having a pissing contest about who's been shot more, and Kensi only has been once, but it was with a vest, so it 'doesn't count'? I call foreshadowing...

There's a dead guy at the beach, and Eric does not have a beach body. Granger does not have a joking face. But he wants Sam to do burpees to prove that he's fit to be back at work.

The victim was an Afghani soldier in some exclusive DEA training program. I need to pay better attention at breifings...
The lady they're supposed to be talking to about this is absent from the crime scene, and the guy who's there is not helpful. So Callen threatens him with Hetty's scariness.

NELL AND ERIC ARE TALKING!!! He wants to know if she's busy, and she is all impatient with him (What's up with that, Nell?) Eric has female friends. Shocking! Although they all owe him favours, hmm..

What kind of favours has he been doing for them, I wonder?

The AWOL Agent Richards is tracked to a bar by the clever Eric and Nell, and Kensi and Deeks track her down. Apparently the other soldiers in her program have also disappeared - and it very much looks as though they're the ones who killed the dead guy.

Hetty uses the royal 'we'. And Eric and Nell are watching her super-awkward car accident of a phone conversation. Nosy children.


SARCASTIC CALLEN MAKES A RETURN!!! A guy from the army that they're interviewing says the Afghanis are not at all suspicious, and that they wouldn't do anything wrong. Sam and Callen aren't buying it, so he asks "Are you insinuating I knew something about this?" 

"I'm sorry if I was insinuating it, I meant to be very clear."
Callen, you beautiful sarcastic bastard, you!

Eric, you can't believe everything you believe on social media!
It turns out one of the other soldier guys was nearly kidnapped, and the other one was successfully kidnapped (in a white panel van, no less). 

Literally the only kinds of cars criminals on TV ever drive. It's like they don't care about the environment.

Agent Richards is still drinking, on a work day, which she's apparently been doing every day for the last month. But I don't get it, the program only blew up in the last 48 hours - what was her reason for being an drinking before then??

Callen and Sam are realizing they have like nothing in common. Not even breakfast foods. And I have to say I have more in common with Sam - I prefer champagne to beer (although barely) and waffles over pancakes. But I like baseball way more than either of their favourite sports. So there.

Go Jays!

Deeks has an interesting sense of style... We think. And apparently a black shirt and baseball hat says 'Milwaukee'. The missing soldier bought one. I'd say it's more suspicious wearing long sleeves in sunny LA, but Sam and Deeks do it all the time, so nevermind. 

A point for Callen here: he and I have the same roll-em-up attitude toward shirt sleeves.
His forearms are much more impressive than mine, though.

Sam and Callen track down the missing guy just at the same time as the bad guys in their van show up and start shooting.
That's one of the problems with having painted-out windows on the van you use for your criminal activities - you can't see giant Sams coming up to your front door to bash the window and drag you out. But he got into the van and they all got away (although I doubt Eric will have a hard time tracking it down with his magical cameras, considering it's all shot up).

The jihadist who Sam pulled out of the van is a 'lousy consolation prize' according to him (I coulda sworn that guy was driving, but whatever...). Eric is very impressive and wants someone to acknowledge this.

Deeks likes pancakes! He makes s'morecakes - pancakes with marshmallows and chocolate chips - and Callen is scared that he has more in common with Deeks than Sam. Now Deeks is jealous that no one is acknowledging how impressive he is - which Eric and Nell and Granger all overhear. The jihadist apparently 'got rid of' his girlfriend... Is she dead? Did he just dump her? They need to track her down...

Meanwhile, I'm still drooling over those s'morecakes...

SAM SAID TOUCHE!!!! THIS IS A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!!!! Also I have noticed that Kensi does the same half-pushed up sleeves things as Callen - maybe they should be partners!

They manage to catch up to the third soldier, who is still on the run. He didn't know that the first guy was dead, either.

Turns out that girlfriend isn't dead, and neither is the second soldier. And they just shoot the bad guys and that's the end of that. And when Sam says 'take care of yourself', he really means 'don't do anything stupid'. But he says it with affection.

MONET! Callen and Sam both like Monet. Hetty tells them this. She finds his paintings a little 'dainty' (hahahahahahaha) but that's what they have in common. Which is precious.

In Hetty's book: Tea = not dainty, Monet = dainty. Good to know.

And Nell thinks she didn't do a good enough job of profiling, but I wish they took this end scene with her and Hetty and made it one with her and Eric instead... I really really really need more of those two!!!!