NCIS:LA - Driving Miss Diaz

Is it weird that I see 'Miss Diaz' in the title and all I think of is this lady?

No? OK. 

So the episode starts with a girl alone in the dark on a university campus and a security officer approaches her and offers to escort her home.. But then another officer approaches them and says the first guy's an imposter. THAT IS LITERALLY ONE OF MY WORST FEARS!!! They shoot each other and she runs away.

Sam's changing the toner in the copier. But he goofed. Nell is helpful, Eric is not. 

I usually find this to be most helpful.

The bad guy was from Peru and was a member of a death squad from the 90s. There was a massacre carried out by said death squad, and a witness survived - a young girl, who the bad guys thought was the one at the university (it wasn't). Instead, it might be some model who wears lingere for a living and Deeks and Kensi have been sent undercover to protect her. She's the aforementioned Miss Diaz, and Deeks is doing the aforementioned driving. 

Elmslie from the global tribunal is back, I hate when they bring back people who were in like 2 episodes 3 years ago, how the hell are we supposed to remember them?!

Pop quiz: who hosted the Olympics the year Elmslie was last on this show??

She's pissed and doesn't want to talk to him. They're trying to set up a trial for the leader of the death squad, while he's trying to run for leader of Peru, and there must be a leak in the tribunal to know who the girls are that could have been the witness. 

God this model chick is so annoying, she gets mad at Kensi for apologizing. What a diva. But she's an orphan so I have some sympathy for her. 

Callen and Sam go undercover as tech support guys, and Sam kinda-sorta flirts with the receptionist which is creepy because she's WAAAAY too young for him. Now Callen is mocking him by making him actually install something. Elmslie gets arrested because he's accused of being the leak in the tribunal. 

Deeks subscribes to Steven Hyde's hairstyling philosophy

One of the other tribunal people who was a suspect is now dead, so somehow that means Elmslie was innocent? He had threatened the NCIS team because his family was in danger (I don't remember that) and now his family has left him... Awks. 

ERIC AND NELL HAVE BOARD GAME NIGHTS!!! AT HIS HOUSE!!!! AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW MY LITTLE NERD CUTIES

Hetty showed up at the photo shoot and scared the shit out of Deeks. She's going undercover... as herself. As a director of the photo shoot - then she literally blows everyone's cover and convinces Diaz to cooperate. Hetty's the best. 

Sam and Callen go to Diaz's house and scare the crap out of a cleaning lady - but they send Eric a photo and he goes 'Wait a minute, there is a cleaning lady, but that's not her!' (Saw that coming) 

I want to know why she even bothered dressing up in the first place, was she expecting someone to show up? 

She was supposed to torch Diaz's house. Kensi gave Catalina advice from her soap. Busted... And then they pull their guns on Catalina's boyfriend. Awkward. 

THE WATER BOTTLE. I SAW THAT AGES AGO. Granger's smarter than everyone else, I'm so disappointed. But Catalina isn't actually the girl who witnessed the massacre. Aaaand now she's missing. 

So the boyfriend isn't a boyfriend, he's her adopted brother and much much younger than her. Ew.

Nell's dress this week is really incredibly cute. I would love to raid her closet (we're probably close to the same size too). Somehow Elmslie didn't know Catalina had a brother. It's possible that Gabriel (the brother) is the son of the general, who supposedly died in a house fire along with his mother, but - PLOT TWIST! - the mother is totally that not-a-maid they arrested earlier!! 

SO. The woman was a witness to the murders as well, and Catalina was her daughter. The general spared her because he liked her and she had his kid, but then staged the fire so she and her children could escape. So Catalina and Gabriel were actually related. Mega ew. And the DNA was only compared to the dead people so that's why there was no match! 

The bad guys show up Gabriel's apartment. Oh dear. 

For the first time ever, Callen runs out of bullets. And the girl has to run in heels. This is a stupid plan. But then Deeks shows up and hits a bad guy with a car. PS Kensi has been wearing a burgundy blazer all episode and it's really nice. 

Hetty has a future in directing photo shoots (and modelling in them). And Deeks has a present nd a future in putting his foot in his mouth.