Preview for Killshot

Week 5: Search and Destroy

Search and Destroy (Originally Aired October 13, 2009)



Walton Flynn former Marine arrives at LAX from and realizes he is being followed.  After being chased by the three men, hijacking a car and killing one of the men by hitting him with a car he escapes.


Eric is excited that he now has over one thousand Facebook friends. Hetty is upset that Callen got blood on a white shirt, his color scheme is now black.  Vance breifs them on Walton Flynn. Flynn works for Citdential security, one of the largest private security firms contracted by the US government in Iraq. Ten days ago he shot an Iraqi businessman that he was supposed to be protecting. He went into hiding. Citdential found out that he was on his way to LA. Tried to take him at the airport this morning. They made a mess and one of the men ended up dead and the DOD wants them to take care of this.

Sam and Callen talk to Peter Caldwell who recruited Flynn once he made CEO.  Three months ago he started "Behavoir Problems" trigger happy and drinking. Jim Rivers tells him that he just snapped.  Caldwell offers to help them find him, but Callen tells them no.  Nate gives them Flynn's history: Broken home. Dad busted in a drug conspiracy when Flynn turned seven. Mom was a drunk. String of foster homes, A few trips to juvi. He signed up for the marines the day he turned 18. The military gave him the family and structure that he had never had. The only other choice would've been a gang.  When asked why he chose the Military over a gang Callen tells them that it's a chance to get away from it all.  That gangs do give you structure but they keep you in the same place.  The military is all about starting over.  They watched the footage, and  after the gunman was killed Flynn went back to the terminal to get picked up by someone in a jeep. Nate tells Sam and Callen that he got the psych profile from the Citdental and thinks that he had undiagnosed PTSD complicated by his upbringing.  But what he didn't get was if he had a psychotic break in Iraq he was lucid enough to fly to LA when he could have gotten off in the East coast, so he was in LA for a reason.

Eric shows Callen and Sam video of the Jeep and the only thing they can see on the person who picks him up is a tattooed arm. Sam recognizes the type of tattoo and they go over to a local tattoo parlor. The woman says that it is her work and told her the person paid in cash and her name is Cherry. Eric found a major link for Flynn to go to LA. Flynn's former foster brother who owns a gun shop in the Valley named Chad Ellis. Kensi and Dom go over to the gun shop and find the shop closed and the doors unlocked. They find Chad tortured and dead.

Eric has found out that Cherise Dawson is the owner of the jeep.  He also found out that Cherise and Flynn had gone to the same high school and are now friends on Facebook. A week ago he contacted her and tells her that he's going to be in LA. He wants to meet up with her in person. Callen thinks that he is using her for money or a place to crash. Kensi finds out from the coroner that Chad Ellis was beaten to death and two guns were stolen. She asks why he just didn't take the guns and go. Why torture him? It doesn't make sense. Sam and Callen go to Cherise's house while she's not a home.  They make sure she has not had the same fate as Chad Ellis, then put video and mike her place. Kensi goes over to Cherise's work posing as a friend from high school. She mentions Flynn's name and Cherise makes an excuse about being late for work and leaves.  

Sam and Callen are now on a "wait and watch" patrol which just means that Callen is going to get on Sam's nerves until Sam basically threatens him with bodily harm (AKA "Old Married Couple" mode). The next day rolls around and still no sign of Flynn. Sam, Callen, Kensi and Dom all decide that it's now time to go to her office to see if they can get anything. Dom mentions that in Nate's profile of Cherise that she likes bad boys who need saving.


Callen goes in as a game tester.  Tells the owner that if he doesn't get the job he would make a couple of phone calls about his tax return.  When he starts the job he contacts Eric to help him out because he has no idea what he is doing.  They go to plan B which is Eric turning off the electricity for the entire building and every gets to go home. Sam messes with her car and Callen helps her out.  Offers to drive her home and fix the car the next day.  He goes inside and Flynn comes by.  Callen mentions rough home life as a child and they connect.  The security guys go in to get Flynn.  Shots are fired and he flees the scene.


Cherise tells Callen that Flynn probably went to see her because he needed a sim card downloaded. She said that the card was damaged and she couldn't get it to work. Flynn calls her up and tells her to put Callen on the phone. Tells him that he was being set up. Callen gives Eric the sim card to decode it. Eric finds out that it is a video file from Flynn's rifle while in Iraq. Sam and Callen find Flynn who has a gun pointed at Caldwell. Eric puts the video on a screen across the street. It shows that the real killer of the Iraqi businessman was not Flynn but Peter Caldwell.


Callen takes Flynn to the people who are going to give him a new idenity. They talk about doing the job to keep people safe. Callen knows that Flynn would be safer on his own, pulls the car over and lets him go.



Hetty-isms:

Hetty: Well, sometimes damaged goods can actually be more valuable because of their unique qualities.
Callen: Is that right?
Hetty: It's a thought.
Callen: I will try and take good care of them.
Hetty: Don't try, just do.



Quotes:

Callen: Is that a frog?
Sam: It's a swan.
Callen: From where? Chernobyl?






Did you notice:

• Isaiah Mustafa (The ‘Old Spice' Guy) is in this episode.

Next weeks Episode Killshot

Preview for Episode 4 "Search and Destroy"

Week 4: Predator

Predator (Originally aired October 6, 2009)


A live missile training exercise goes wrong when the drone doesn’t fire at the target but veers off and kills a soldier on the ground.

Kensi comes into work and Sam asks about date number two.  She tells him that it didn’t happen because she canceled.  Says she’s great on the first date but the second date she gets bored and uninterested, so the first date is the last date.  Hetty tells Kensi that George Hamilton told her once that “what men really love is a woman who plays hard to get “ then she stops to think and adds “or was it Sinatra.” 

Eric shows them footage of the training exercise that happened twenty-four hours before.  Marine Mike Haslett was killed when the drone controlled by Airman Mark Briggs fired the live missile and now is missing. Now they have to find out where it is and if it was pilot error, system malfunction or sabotage.  Sam and Callen both know that with the drone missing that they have to find it fast but since it’s a joint training with the Marines and Air Force there is going to be a lot of paperwork and they don’t have time.  So they go to Hetty who knows people who might be able to help out.  

Hetty's contact is in the CIA, NSA, DOD, and rumored to be Black Ops for all three. He tells them the conversation never happened and they have sixty seconds.  They ask how secure are the UAVs. He tells them that the drones have been hacked four times in the past month but this is the first time they disappeared and not crashed. Before he leaves he tells them to tell Hetty that he had not forgotten about Nepal and as far as he was concerned they were even. 

A copy of the drone footage came up on the Internet and they see that the drone had landed in the desert with a semi-truck in the background and an unknown man. To get the footage off the web Eric crashes the Internet angering Hetty who was watching cats on a trampoline. Sam and Callen leave to go to the boat-shed (and rat Eric out to Hetty as they go).  

Briggs tells them that he didn’t misfire and a hacker got in the system.  The system is flawed and they knew it. Drones can get hacked fighter pilots can’t. Nate tells them that he doesn’t think that Briggs is their guy. Eric contacts them and lets them know that the hacker who put the footage up is at a day long class for computer science.  The guest speaker has only been seen by the FBI so they can improvise. He also says the man in the drone footage is Yousef Kaleem.  Sam and Callen go to Kaleem’s apartment to talk to him.  Kaleem comes home and shoots at them.  Sam chases him and shoots him twice just after Kaleem triggers a bomb in his bag.

Sam and Callen go back and the others know that Kaleem is dead.  They now have to focus on the hacker who posted the footage on the web.  Kensi is now posing as the Razor Mantis, a hacker, who was arrested by the FBI for stealing files from the department of defense and cut a deal in exchange for jail time she now has to teach class about cyber crime.  Dom checked out Kaleem’s house and found weapons.  Nate says that he is more of a follower than a leader and used to work for Aconcept Solutions that is owned by Author Jansen.  

While Kensi is doing her lecture Eric is helping her make the students believe that she is the real deal and scanning their computers at the same time.  Eric finds out that Joel Hardy had been spending a lot of money on trips and computer equipment the last couple of days.  Kensi takes a call and follows Joel.  Callen and Sam talk to Auther Janson.  They inform him that Kaleem is dead.  Janson tells them that he doesn’t want to know anything personal about his employees.  He hired him because of his computer skills, but he adds that Kaleem had recently been making anti-American remarks.

Kensi meets Joel at a bar for a drink and Dom is there for back up.  Joel goes to the bathroom and Dom follows him.  Someone distracts Dom and when he gets to the bathroom he finds Joel dead in one of the stalls.  They look at the security footage that Eric pulled from the bar.  They see a man walk right out of the area just after Dom walked in.  Nate tells him that it is not his fault.

The next day Sam comes in after looking at Joel Hardy’s apartment with a joystick that they think can control the drone.  Eric hacks into Joel’s computer and finds software that could allow them to hack a drone.  He sent it to AJSolutions.  The man who killed Joel is the Hamzi Khan.  His wife Rebecca was killed in a UAV attack at a school  She is also the sister of Arthur Janson and now they want revenge.

Eric alerts them that the truck that has the drone is on the move.  Sam and Callen get the driver out and find the truck empty.  The driver tells them that he was paid to drive the truck to the port by Author Janson.  Eric calls them and tells them that the drone is now airborne flying around LA. Nate and Dom talk Briggs into helping them out.  Dom is the one who gets through to Briggs to help them. Callen finds the boat that Janson is on (named Rebecca).  The drone is targeting a high school, so Eric trips the fire alarms to get everyone out. Callen finds Janson and shoots him in the arm but Janson is still able to fire the missile. Unable to hack the drone Dom suggests hacking the missle which does work and crashes into the ocean.  

Hetty-isms:


"Few men ever know how to deal with a smart strong, independent woman. They say they want a soulmate to share their dreams and their hopes but all they really want is a substitute mommy."




Favorite Quotes

Sam: How fast can we get that footage off the web?
Eric: With or without the cooperation of Sphereguy.com's legal department?  Okay, cutting through the legal tape…. I just crashed their entire server.
Hetty: (yelling from her office) Idiot hackers!!!
Eric: Uh-oh
Callen: Sam, I think we are due in the boathouse.
Sam: Hi, Hetty
Callen: Eric did it.
Hetty: I was just watching that viral video with the cats and the trampoline and the site just froze up and crashed on me. Did you have anything to do with that?


 Nate: Whoa, what happened?
Callen: Kaleem's dead.
Nate: How?
Callen: Shot.
Sam: Blown up.
Dominic: You guys are thorough.




Hetty: Is that blood, Mr. Hanna?
Sam: Mostly.
Hetty: Yours?
Sam: Other guy's.
Hetty: Can we bill him?
Sam: Not anymore?






Questions:

• Hetty and blue eyes? George Hamilton?
• What happened in Nepal?

Preview for Episode 3 "Predator"

Week 3: The Only Easy Day

The Only Easy Day (Originally Aired September 29, 2009)

We start off with a home invasion of a suspected drug dealer which leaves two people dead.  In looking at the video surveillance Sam identifies one of the robbers as Kurt Holgate and we find out that the three home invaders are all former SEALS. David Ramirez, a member of Holgate's team, was killed in a grocery store robbery a couple of days before.  Sam talks to Holgate, who now works for a joint task force over at the Federal Building.  He didn't ask why Sam was there and when Sam mentions that he's with NCIS Holgate makes a bad joke about it and gets out of there quickly. 


Eric discovers that Tim Jackson, another member of Holgate's SEAL team and Ramirez's swim partner, has been missing since the day of the home invasion. Callen and Sam check his trailer they find a picture of Holgate, Ramirez, Jackson and another man who they have not identified yet. 


Dom puts a tracker on Holgate's car while on a stakeout with Kensi. Dom has made some mistakes and thinks that Sam doesn't like him.  Hard being the new kid.  They see Holgate and the team member that they have not been able to identify yet talking and she goes to see what they are talking about.  They start getting suspicious of her so she makes a scene while talking on the phone and keys her "boyfriends" car to make them ignore her.  She then tells Dom to get a hold of Eric to get the name of the owner of the car she just keyed.

Eric calls Callen and tells him that the unidentified man in the picture is Morris Raspen.  When talking to Ramirez's widow, she tells them that David did not know the men who shot him.  He was still in contact with his old SEAL team.  Tim Jackson had visited her after Ramirez died and that Raspen was the newest member of the team. 

Nate talks to Rose (the coroner), who tells him that there was only one drug dealer that was killed.  The other one was a deep undercover LAPD cop.  She didn't get that information until this morning. Sam and Callen go to the restaurant to talk to one of the waitresses about the guys in the photo.  Jackson's motorcycle is still there.  She told them that they got in an argument and they took it outside.  Callen gets a call that a body washed ashore and it matches the description of Tim Jackson.


They look at the video of the three men in the restaurant.  They had the argument and leave but come back, but Holgate and Raspen return without Jackson.  Nate tells them to find Raspen and work on him because he is the newest one of the team.  Sam is having a really hard time dealing with the fact that these former SEALS (even one that he trained) would do this.  Hetty tells him that he is more than this job and much more than a SEAL.  Kensi and Dom are still on a stakeout on Holgate. They follow Holgate but lose him when he leaves the car.

Sam and Callen go after Raspen, and question him at the boat-shed. Raspen (of course) doesn't say anything.  Nate says he's trying not to lie but is still trying to protect all of them.  This makes Sam angry.  Sam leaves to check out the house to find clues.  Dom is basically mad at himself because he lost Holgate.  Hetty tells him stories of Callen and Sam's mistakes.  She then informs him that these stories aren't true but that it boosted his self esteem and so get over it.

Sam finds Detective Grozen the other LAPD undercover at the house.  Grozen is angry and wants justice because his partner was shot by the Seals and died in his arms.  He wants full Navy cooperation. Sam comes back to the boat-shed and tells Callen to show Raspen a picture of Grozen.  Raspen tells Callen that Grozen shot his partner in the back and he's a dirty cop.  Jackson learned that one of the suspects of the shooting at the grocery store lived at that house.  Holgate tried to talk him out of it and tells Callen that he's not talking to anyone else but a JAG lawyer.

Sam talks to Raspen lets him know that he is also a SEAL.  He asks "What's our Motto?"  The answer, "The only Easy Day is Yesterday."  The other motto is "Never leave a man behind."  Raspen left a man behind.  Raspen tells him that they tried to help.  Holgate took the money and they looked for Jackson.  Sam tells him that if he doesn't tell him where Holgate is then Grozen is going to kill him.  Raspen finally tell him that Holgate is in a hotel over in the valley.

Sam goes to Holgate's motel room and gives him to Grozen. Once alone Grozen basically wants to know where the money is.  Holgate tells him that Raspen has it and to look for him at the golf course.  Callen takes Raspen's place. The person that was with Grozen is on a hill with Callen in his sniper sights.  Kensi and Dom  get to him in time. Callen throws his guns in the pond and tells him that the money is in the golf bag.  Holgate is handcuffed.  Grozen goes to leave when they hear gunshots.  Grozen shoots Holgate, but then Sam comes OUT OF THE WATER and shoots Grozen twice.

Sam is still angry but in a way can see why they did it.  Still doesn't approve.


Hetty-isms:

• "I criticize. I scold. I chastise. I've even torn someone a new one, but I *never* mock. You, Sam Hanna, are more than this job, and much more than than a SEAL."
  
• "Oh for the love of Gucci!"

Quotes:

• Kensi:  Trying being the new girl. They used to make me crawl into the air vents under houses just because I was the smallest one. Yeah, and when was the last time you had to put on a bikini for an assignment? Yeah, that's right. Try hiding a gun in your thong.

Did You Notice?:

• The shirt that Callen is wearing over at the golf course is a Johnnie-O Shirt.  The owner is John O'Donnell, Chris O'Donnell's older brother.

Oops!

• As G. and Sam exit Sam's car on the beach front, there is a boom mic reflected in the rear driver's side body pillar and glass. (from IMDB.com)

Next weeks episode:  Predator

Promo for "The Only Easy Day