Promo for "The Only Easy Day

Week 2: Idenity

Welcome to week 2 and the first official episode of NCIS: Los Angeles

Identity (Originally Aired September 22, 2009)


Starts off with LAPD chasing a blue Tahoe after a routine traffic stop on the 101.  The police catch up with the SUV and demand they get out of the car.  There is a shootout and after both suspects are killed they find out that there is a dead passenger in the back seat of the SUV with his hands tied and a black hood covering his head.

G. Callen is looking out the hotel window.  We see scars on his back from when he was shot about three months ago.  Sam picks him up and asks the reason for leaving.  "Too noisy," is his reply.  Seems he always finds something wrong with the places he stays at.

OSP is in a new location, which they have been at for 3 months and the neighbors still don't know they are there.  There is a new Office Operations Manager, Henrietta "Hetty" Lange.  The best way to describe her is a cross between a Mom, Yoda, and a Ninja.  Kensi, Eric and Nate are still there and there's a new guy who started earlier that week named Dominic Vail.

Director Vance makes an appearance, and he tells Callen his case is still active. Commander Frank McGuire worked for the office of Naval Intelligence and was killed in the crossfire between the LAPD and his kidnappers.  They are worried about this because Operation Dakota starts in less than twelve hours with both US and Mexican military going against the drug cartels and McGuire had a lot of information about this operation.  After looking at the footage they see that McGuire wasn't killed in the crossfire, he was murdered.

Sam and Callen banter like an old married couple on the way to McGuire's apartment. When going in they hear the phone ringing and someone erasing the phone messages off the answering machine.  There is a picture of a girl named Emma, birthday cards and no signs of struggle.  Callen talks to the gardeners and finds out that McGuire wasn't kidnapped, "his friends" picked him up and dropped him off three hours later back at the apartment. Sam sees someone parked in a car and when he goes to talk to them they drive away.  No plates on the car.

The person who had been erasing the phone messages is Bobby Jenlow, a friend of McGuire's. Sam and Callen go over to question him and they over hear him on the phone arguing with someone "standing up for your brothers," who has known him since they were kids.  Sam and Callen can tell Bobby is well armed and planning an operation.

Kensi and Nate go to talk to McGuire's sister Helen.  Helen seems on edge, answering very quickly as if preoccupied.  She mentions sending all her friends home because she wanted to be alone.  She mentions that Frank took his niece, Emma, to the farmers market over the weekend and then takes a phone call.  Nate tells Kensi that everything she just told them was a lie.

After returning, Callen is met by Hetty who sets him up with some new clothes and we find out that Callen was never told what his first name is.  All he knows is that it starts with G.

Eric explains to Sam how he cracked into McGuire's laptop.  While waiting for access to the laptop Kensi figures out that the reason why McGuire did what he did was NOT to betray his country, his niece was being held hostage.  Emma was no where around when Kensi and Nate talked to Helen.  Emma had not messaged any of her friends in the last four days.

Once in the laptop, they figure out how McGuire was getting information to send to the cartel.  Director Vance is contacted and informed that Project Dakota has been compromised.  The mission cannot be stopped, but he orders them to identify which cartel got the intel.  That cartel will be hit first.  He tells Callen that getting Emma back is a top priority.

McGuire gave Bobby Jenlow a GPS tracker to lead him to Emma.  Bobby is leading a group to rescue Emma.  After Callen and Sam fight there way to Bobby's location.  They find Bobby wounded, but no Emma.

Callen has Eric check another location on the GPS and the address is a house owned by "Mad" Manny Cortez who is a drug lord.  Emma's father calls Helen and is on his way from London.  Kensi talks to him tells him that she's from NCIS. The plan is to give Cortez what he wants so Callen poses as a lawyer with Sam as his client to give him Satellite access 24/7 and that his client knew McGuire.  Nate tells them that the person on the screen is NOT Manny Cortez.  It's actually Emma's father.  The mission has been compromised because he knows that NCIS is involved.  Her father has worked for him for about seven years.  Callen's phone rings and he says "McGuire isn't dead" and hands him the phone.  This is just a distraction, and the fight begins.

Callen calls up Kensi and tells her to put Helen on the phone.  He hands the phone to Emma who asks her mom when she can come home.

Hetty gives Callen his expense reports dating six months back and gives him the "no rush, tomorrow will be fine" guilt trip.  Sam offers the couch at his place.  "Too noisy," is his reply.  At the end of the night Hetty leaves and sees him sleeping on the couch.  She puts a blanket on him and goes home.


Questions:

• So where did Lara Macy go?  After Callen was shot Director Vance reassigned her to a task force in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
  
• So what does G stand for?

Hetty-isms:

• "Just because you were an orphan Mr. Callen doesn't mean you have to dress like...Oliver Twist!"

Favorite Quotes:

Sam:  Okay so you're a bad guy. You're surrounded by LAPD You've seen the movies you're going to shoot your way out.  Only your buddy take one in the chest, he'd dead before he hits the ground
Callen:  I  think I've seen that movie.
Sam:  Now the cops are blamming away: Blam blam! Six cops squeezing Glocks. That's a led storm it's coming right at you.Definitely ain't no movie. what do you do?
Callen:  Al Pacino was in it.  Might have been DeNiro
Sam:  You pee your pants, you drop your wepon and you kiss the pavement. Okay. At least that's what I'd do.


Trivia:

While listening to the commentary on the DVD, Shane Brennen said that for the car chase in the beginning they were able to close the 101.  This is the first time anyone has ever done that for filming.

Schedule Revised

I have decided to do just one episode instead of two.  Realizing that I was making more work for me and this is not the time to do this since I have two little kids out of school for the Summer.


May 31
1.1 Identity

June 7
1.2 The Only Easy Day

June 14
1.3 Predator

June 21
1.4 Search and Destroy

June 28
1.5 Killshot

July 5
1.6 Keepin' it Real

July 12
NO REWATCH

July 19
1.7 Pushback

July 26
1.8 Ambush

August 2
1.9 Random on Purpose

August 9
1.10 Brimstone

August 16
1.11 Breach

August 23
1.12 Past Lives

August 30
1.13 Missing

September 6
1.14 LD50

September 13
1.15 The Bank Job

September 20
1.16 Chinatown

September 27
1.17 Full Throttle

October 4
1.18 Bloodbrothers

October 11
1.19 Hand-to-Hand

October 18
1.20 Fame

October 25
1.21 Found

November 1
1.22 Hunted

November 8
1.23 Burned

November 15
1.24 Callen, G.

NOVEMBER 22
NO REWATCH

November 29
2.1 Human Traffic (Start of Season 2)

December 6
2.2 Black Widow

December 13
2.3 Borderline

December 20
2.4 Special Delivery

December 27

NO REWATCH

January 3
2.5 Little Angels

January10
2.6 Standoff

January 17

2.7 Anonymous

January 24
2.8 Bounty

January 31
2.9 Absolution

February 7
2.10 Deliverance

February 14
2.11 Disorder

February 21
2.12 Overwatch

February 28
2.13 Archangel

March 6
2.14 Lockup

March 13
2.15 Tin Soldiers

March 20
2.16 Empty Quiver
March 27
2.17 Personal

April 3
2.18 Harm's Way

April 10
2.19 Enemy Within

April 17
2.20 The Job

April 24
2.21 Rocketman

May 1
2.22 Plan B

May 8
2.23 Imposters

May 15
2.24 Familia

 

Fall 2009 Promo for NCIS: Los Angeles Season 1

Week 1: Legend Part 1 and 2

Welcome to week 1 of the NCIS: LA Rewatch!

Each week I will (try) to have a short summary, music, did you notice (or nitpicks), favorite quotes, questions and other stuff.

So here we go!


NCIS Season 6, Episode 22 - Legend Part 1  (originally aired April 28, 2009):


We start off in Los Angeles where Marine Nick Chandler is being watched by 2 OSP Agents (Sam and Kensi). Chandler is shot at, he leaves the money and disappears. Chandler's body is found two days later and the NCIS team is on the case. They find out that there is a BOLO issued for him and it's the office in LA. Chandler was coerced into smuggling 250,000 from Kuwait by someone who just beat the crap out of his Mom. Gibbs takes McGee. Ziva gets a call and leaves. She later tells DiNozzo (who is left alone) that she is following up on a lead.

Abby tells Gibbs that Macy wants all the information about the case and to give it to her.  Gibbs tells Abby to give him the info first.  DiNozzo wants to know what is going on with Ziva and this mystery man she is seeing.  Gibbs and McGee arrive in LA. Gibbs and Macy talk and it is obvious they cannot stand each other and have big time trust issues.

Gibbs and Callen meet over at a beach.  Callen finds out that Gibbs now has 2 boats and has been married four times. Gibbs asks him how he is doing with Callen replying that he is not bad bordering on good some days and is "still looking". When a blond girl rides near on her bike, Callen begins talking in Russian.  Gibbs says he didn't know Callen was undercover, which Callen replies only for this girl.  She moved in next to his place and is from St Petersburg.  Callen figures that she won't bother him if she thinks that he is in the Russian mafia.  Gibbs and Callen have a history together for working on missions.  First one in Serbia where his "ass needed saving" and Moscow.

Callen goes to the diner to meet with Talia and talks about how his client needs weapons of the fourth of July type.  He also tells him that he needs it tomorrow and Callen says he wants to meet with the client. Talia  gets a note from someone at the counter by the waitress (Kensi) telling him that Callen is a cop.  Talia is done with him and tells him to leave.  Sam, Macy, Callen, McGee and Gibbs talk about Liam and where he fits in all of this.  Callen talks to Macy trying to find out what happened between her and Gibbs eighteen years ago.  Callen considers Macy and Gibbs family even if he doesn't have any.

Ducky shows DiNozzo that Chandler has rope burns and the person who did this to him would have it on their hand.  DiNozzo and Abby looks for the man in the film when Ziva was caught in the bombing.  They find out his name is Michael Rivkin.  Ziva tells DiNozzo that they got a lead and they talk to the Moss boys and find out that one of them has robe burns on his hand.  He tells them that they did it because they owed Liam a favor.

OSP intercepts a call that Talia makes to the man who sent the note at the diner. Talia tells him that there is going to be a meeting in forty minutes.  Tells him that he has a client that can hook him up.  Macy, Gibbs and Callen are there.  McGee sees that there is a silencer on Liam's gun.  Liam and other person is killed and Talia is arrested.  The man with Talia is Agent Renko.  They go to the hotel that Liam is staying at, where they find   passports and four suitcases filled with  enough  weapons to bring down a building.  Liam is a formerly IRA and has supplied weapons all over the world.  Liam is a ghost so Callen goes in posing as Liam.

DiNozzo and Abby looks for the man in the film when Ziva was caught in the bombing.  Michael Rivkin is Mossad knows Ziva and her father (who is the head of the Mossad).  DiNozzo tells her not to say a word and deletes the picture.  At the hotel there is a knock on the door. Callen opens it and lets the man in, which we see is Michael Rivkin.




NCIS Season 6, Episode 22 - Legend Part 2 (Originally aired May 5, 2009):

Michael points a gun at Callen and Macy tells everyone to abort the mission.  They found out that Michael is Mossad. Ziva vouches for him and they let him go  Renko follows Michael and keeps an eye on him.

Sam and Callen go to Nick's apartment discovering that Nick is dead.  Shikira (Nick's girlfriend) comes in so Callen acts like he is talking to Nick and says they have to go see Haziq.  Callen and Shakira go to find   Haziq at an auto shop.  Kensi gets a camera in the auto shop by busting the headlight on her car and asking if there is a bathroom.

Gibbs and Renko find out that Michael has killed Nasim and is on the way to the auto shop.  They get approval to get Rifkin and Nasim is killed. Shakira knows that they are planning something but doesn't know what.  Shakira shows Callen a picture of Rafi (her brother) and Callen realizes that Rafi is the one who is dead not Nick.  Nick is Michael Rivkin.  Callen tells Haziq who Nick really is and gives him a phone number that Shakira gave him in case something bad happens.  They find out that Michael is on the way.  Sam, Kensi, Renko and others go in.  Sam shoots Haziq and they bring him in alive.

Gibbs gets Michael and tells him that it's time to go home and that Ziva David works for him.  McGee and Gibbs are in the elevator when Nate tells Gibbs a "Story."  It's about a young marine Lieutenant who was on a case when he realized that the person accused of killing a Mexican drug-lord who killed his wife and daughter was right and so he buried the evidence.

Callen gets what I call a "bad vibe" and thinks that it's time to move again.  This will be the fourth time in eighteen months.  While on the corner he sees the Russian blond girl.  Sam sees that there is a van with gunman aiming at Callen.  He is shot several times.  Russian blond girl has no reaction and walks away.
Abby tells Dinozzo that Michael leaving LA on his way back to Tel Aviv but has a stopover in Washington DC.


...

In episode 24 of NCIS we find out that Hakim is questioned by Macy and Sam.  Hakim gave up his handler.  When asked about Callen's shooter we find out that he is still critical and hanging in there.


Music:

• "Even Now" By Dashboard Confessional
• "Boy with the Blues" By Oasis
• "In the City" by Kevin Rudolf
• "Run Away to tell the World" by Ours

Questions:

1. So what is Callen "still looking" for?
2. Where is Hetty?
3. (for those of you who have NOT seen NCIS:LA before) why do you think the Russian blond girl just walked away after he was shot?

Did you Notice?:

• That when Macy asks anyone about where Callen is they basically laugh. 
• No Hetty (Don't worry she'll be there next week)

Favorite Quotes:

• Callen: Is there some reason why we're not meeting in a bar?
  Gibbs: Well, yeah, it's ten o'clock in the morning.

So what did you all think?  Likes, dislikes? Is the the first time you have watched this episode or the one hundredth?




Next week will  be "Identity" and "The Only Easy Day"

It's going to be a LONG summer!

WOW! Great ending for Season Two!  Now to wait until SEPTEMBER!

My name is B and I live in Texas.  I'm married to a great guy and I have two kids.

I was stuck in the house with my kids during Snow-a-geddon this past February and while watching almost every kid show known to mankind (and slowly going insane) I found Batman Forever on Netflix Instant.  So I looked up Chris O'Donnell on our cable provider and saw NCIS: LA.

I totally forgot he was on that show!  So I set up the DVR.

It took about a month or so to catch up on all the episodes.

After the "Rocketman" episode was aired I was reading all the comments on Facebook  and twitter most of the comments were "I don't think I can make it without new episodes during the summer" gave me the idea of watching the show again from the beginning. (Which I got from Nikki Stafford who is currently now doing the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Rewatch on her blog.)

I will start this on May 24 and will have go on every Tuesday....because I agree with all of you it's going to be a LONG summer.  There will be one week where we will not have an episode because I will be out of town and I don't want to stress. I will put the schedule up tomorrow.

By the way if anyone wants to help please email me at ncislarewatch@gmail.com.