NCIS:LA - Rage

As you may have noticed, my blogging has been falling far behind lately. I blame exams. Will be catching up (hopefully) within the next two weeks or so. But I couldn't wait for this episode because it looks so interesting plus I especially love you guys who read my NCIS: LA posts, sooo... here I am! But I'm half asleep so if I make don't sense, that's why.

OK so I missed the first part and the breifing, so I dunno what's going on (Sorry, Jays home opener takes precedence - they lost. Boo.)

But Callen is back in jail, being broken out, by - who else?- our favourite prison guard Sam. One of his prison buddies has some 'friends' who can pick them up. That's what friends are for! Rescuing you after you've been broken out of jail!

Kensi said something about Sam's kids, and Deeks said something about 'all of our kids' and I'm pretty sure Kensi is pregnant. They've alluded to this stuff too many times. Kensi is going undercover as Callen's girlfriend and the bad guys don'e like it. They didn't 'pre-approve' her.

As if we needed more proof that these bad guys are bad guys, they have a giant Confederate flag used as a curtain. This main bad guy Dallas has a particularly gnarly mustache. And they're going to pull off a bank robbery ahead of schedule, which is kind of the cliche for when things go wrong.

So apparently they're just REALLY racist. That's in keeping with the flag from earlier. Maybe they should've been wearing white hoods instead of those black ski masks.

Side note: why do skiers always get associated with criminals? Just for wanting to protect our faces?!

The bad guys cut all the cameras and then took their masks off. Which is never a good sign for the hostages. Because like the bad mustache guy Dallas said before, they're just gonna kill everyone. Callen somehow knows everything about robbing banks, and he's the only one not shooting everywhere or screaming at people. Shouldn't that make the bad guys suspicious? The head teller guy looks a lot like Carey Elwes. And Dallas sounds a lot like J.K. Simmons.

Sam is talking to the skinhead Dallas who says 'you better be white' and Sam says Italian and the guy then calls him a monkey and calls him stupid. And a bunch of other things. I'm really starting to hate this guy. She said with deep sarcasm.

The girlfriend of one of the bad guys is back at their house talking to Kensi, apparently she's an artist but whoever she's with wants her to draw violent shit and won't let her leave him without killing her.

For some reason once they get the vault open, the bad guys release the bank manager, who had to go INTO the bank for them to do that in the first place. First of all, that dude is incredibly brave, risking his life like that when he was safely outside. Far be it from me to tell criminals how to crime, but second of all, why would the skinheads release him?! That's an extra free hostage!

After giving Sam their 'terms' over the phone, apparently they let a whole hour pass in TV time without talking to anyone, after Callen told his prison friend to 'do the right thing' because neither of them want to die.

The FBI SWAT team streams into the bank and finds one of the bad guys tied up in the vault. And all the hostages are safe in the back room. Then, and 'you've got to be kidding me' says Deeks, there's a HOLE DUG IN THE FLOOR OF THE BACK ROOM!

But why would they make demands like ask for a bus and an airplane and say 'THEN you can have the hostages' when they were planning to just dig a tunnel through the floor and leave, leaving the hostages behind?

The Aryans and their matching jackets are hanging out in a warehouse and Dallas asks for his gun back from Callen - which is not at all suspicious. Then they tell him to string a wire along something. Apparently it's a cable. Because what secret criminal hideout is complete without cable?!! And they get all suspicious of Callen once he tells them the other bad guy must've been shot by a sniper, they send off his friend Charlie, then beat him up with pipes.

Kensi tells the girlfriend who she is, and Deeks shows up and they take the poor lady to the boatshed. I feel so bad for her. Like criminal organization or no, she was clearly trapped in an abusive relationship. And she had nothing to do with the crimes they carried out.

The Aryan bastard that got left behind is very much alive and being interrogated by Sam, and still rambling on and on about how 'the poor white man' is going to rise up because of the 'stupid African president'. HOW DUMB is this guy spouting racist shit like that when Sam clearly has the upper hand?!!

I'm sure that jerk was evil and racist LONG before this guy was elected... 

For some reason Eric is mocking up sketches of the remaining guy in drag... I don't know why... (Is this what Eric does for fun?) Apparently to blackmail him? To make the other Aryan guys turn against him? And he KEEPS threatening Sam, even though Sam's biceps are about as big around as his head. Not a wise move.

Dallas is also suspicious about the six months that Callen was supposedly in solitary confinement. And dousing him in gasoline and waving a cigarette around, threatening to set him on fire.

The FBI agent-lady is sneaky and gets into the abandoned factory, with Sam, a random bad guy hurts her leg and Sam stabs him.
Charlie, the best stereotypical morally-conflicted lost-boy name in the world, shows up, and threatens to shoot Sam while Callen pleads with him, then the FBI lady shoots him so that Sam can dive onto Dallas and take him down. Deeks and Kensi show up right after (where were you guys thirty seconds ago?) and Charlie dies.

Sam tracks down Callen leaning on the hood of his parked car staring down the street in a random suburban neighbourhood. Apparently he had run away from his last foster home, and crashed the stolen car on that very street. Hence the staring. Sam asks him what happened, why he didn't end up in juvvie.

Callen: The hand of God intervened.
Me: He means Hetty.
Callen [a moment later]: Hetty saved me.
Me: He meant Hetty.

And according to this flashback, the first thing Callen ever said to Hetty was "You're really short." I don't know why, but I love that. Although I feel bad for those cops who were trying to do their job by taking down a pain-in-the-ass kid. And Hetty sounds remarkably like the God my mom is always claiming to know the will of, saying "I have a plan for you". She showed him the way. Everything he has today is because of her.

I think the writers are trying to start the Church of Hetty Lange.
I would so join. 

What's this? No comic relief scene at the end? Barely even a word from Nell... Although I guess there was a lot of undercover action this week, barely any time to squeeze in the comedy.