NCIS: LA - An Unlocked Mind

I missed the beginning of the episode because I was at the library working on an essay. By the time I got home, too much had happened so I kind of didn't know what was going on. Soooo I forgot about it until today. Oopsie. (Darn schoolwork!)

There's a woman running in the woods, then she gets in a car and creepy people are following her, she gets in a car and there's another creepy person in there too. She punches that person and manages to drive away.

Deeks is surprisingly flexible. The lady at the beginning was the wife of a DARPA engineer named David who was a member of a weird church (a.k.a. a CULT) and Deeks & Kensi are going undercover!! Deeks is a good actor but he's also a bit of a perv haha and he thinks Nell is turning into Hetty.

If by that, he means 'tiny and badass', then yes. 

How the hell do a huge bunch of people just randomly decide they want to join a 'church'?! Do these people not have lives? Jobs? Families? The leader is very creepy and looks extremely familiar, he wants to see how 'open' Kensi is and I just threw up a little bit. (The guy who played him was a recurring character on Criminal Minds, but I probably also recognized him because he was in one of my favourite CSI episodes, 'Who Shot Sherlock'.) They keep saying "Welcome to the best part of your life" which should be a red flag right there.

Turns out the cult used to take in high-up executives from big corporations and then steal their companies' secrets. And now they've graduated to stealing defense secrets. Also, the one guy Adam, who's guiding Deeks was totally on another episode of this very show.

They put them in the pool and, naturally, Kensi and Deeks are singled out and they hold him underwater for an unnatural length of time even though he told them he was afraid of water after almost drowning as a kid (a lie) but of course, now his communication with the team in Ops is compromised. Why are those earwig things not waterproof?

The DOJ don't want them to 'poke the bear' of the church, or put agents under cover inside. Oopsie...

The defense contractor guy David has to do his 'work', which is picking up rocks from a field that were probably placed there intentionally - but when he talks to Deeks, someone else takes him away to the 'Discipline Arena' which sounds very medieval and not at all fun.

The women are even creepier than the men, they sit around glassy-eyed, drinking wine and apparently massage each other. Sounds like Real Housewives, but without the catfighting.

Deeks shows up at the Discipline Arena and they're literally doing 'Simon Says' until two of the guys start fighting. And it also involves them being told to slap themselves. Several times, Deeks makes a 'what the hell is happening here' face.

It's like this, but it's on Deeks instead of a baby. 

Sam and Nell get to go into the field, following the guy who owns the church and his shady dealings with shady Chinese people. Granger stands up to the DOJ guy and it's kind of badass. 

The women all start talking about how they're 'like sisters' and seriously, were these ladies rejected from American horror Story?? Because they're SO CREEPY!! And they drugged Kensi! Oh no! 

CREEPY CULT LADIES AND DUDE ARE TRYING TO RAPE KENSI GET HER THE HELL OUTTA THERE!!! 

David decides he wants to leave, Deeks volunteered to help him, and then chaos ensues. Deeks kicks a guy's ass using a rolled-up magazine but then David chickens out and Deeks is trapped (I think? It cut to commercial)

Yeah, he's trapped. A hive mind is an extremely dangerous thing. Eventually David comes to his senses, but not before everyone else's butts get whooped. 

Even Drugged Kensi is stronger than most sober people - she headbutts the leader and punches the creepy lady leader. 

Sam tells Callen that they've caught the Chinese guy, and Callen decides to rush into the compound because Kensi managed to contact them and tell them she'd been drugged. 

The FBI shows up, and the DOJ guy tries to stop Callen from moving in, then Granger goes all badass again, and this happens:

"We could use your help"

*FBI guys nod*

"And you... Stay the hell out of our way"

*DOJ guy looks conflicted*

But Sam lied. He hadn't found the guy. VERY CLEVER, SAM! 

Suddenly the cult members all have guns. That's not good. Deeks just straight-up tackles a dude and takes his gun. This is a really stupid place to have a compound, with no walls or anything, if you're afraid of people escaping. The dude Kensi head-butted shows up, he's gotten dressed but his nose is bloody, and he has his own gun. And it's shiny. 

He also tells the cult members to 'get the barrels and the lye' because clearly they have a process for these things, and it involves murder. He tells David that he's about to 'leave this physical plane' and right on cue, Granger shows up with the FBI agents and says 'welcome to my physical plane!' (If this was not airing on TV he would have followed up with 'motherf***er', I'm sure of it.)

Jon is a fan of Badass Granger

Not to be outdone, Callen slides in with a one-liner of his own - "Welcome to the worst part of your life."

The DOJ guy threatens to arrest Sam for lying to him, then all the other team members (first Callen, then Granger) tell him it was actually each of their faults for the lying. And then Nell (bless her!) pipes up with "I threatened Agent Hanna with physical bodily harm if he didn't lie to you. Made even more entertaining by the fact that she's standing next to him as she says it. 

All 5-foot 1 1/2" of her next to 6-foot something of him. (Hey, she's shorter than me!) 

Awkward moment when Kensi and Deeks are kissing in the boatshed and Hetty appears on the monitor hahaha gotta love her timing! But David and his wife are reunited and safe! Yaaay! And nobody had to shoot a bad guy this week! That's some kind of NCIS: LA record, right?!