NCIS Los Angeles s10e08 Episode Script
The Patton Project
1 COLE: At 0700 hours, three Air Force officers took over two launch control centers.
So you're telling me they have the capability to launch a nuclear missile.
I'm telling you they can launch 50 nuclear missiles.
Have you heard of the Patton Project? Supposedly it's a military within the military.
Go! Go! Go! (grunts) Aah! (echoing, indistinct announcement on P.
A.
) Hey.
How you doing? (sighs) Okay.
Is everything the same? You asking me if I still want to be dead? Yeah.
Yeah.
Way to get to the point.
Have you, uh, told the doctors about it? Hell no.
It's your life to live or not.
Remember there's no rule that says you have to endure pain.
Yeah.
You're right.
What's my surprise? Same.
Meth.
(sighs) Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, have you thought any more about what we talked about? About taking the package on the plane? Yes.
Shh, shh, shh.
Yeah.
(scoffs) Go out with a bang? That'd show 'em.
Yeah, it would.
In a big way.
Get everybody thinking a little bit differently about you.
I definitely want to do it.
You know, bringing Michael along would really help ensure you get the package on board.
If I'm gone, the last thing I want is my parents to have him.
Or his scumbag father.
Think about taking him.
You do get priority boarding with a baby.
Yeah.
If I'm gone, I don't want him on this earth without me.
You still getting out on Friday? Yup.
(sighs) Four more days, I'm a free woman.
I'll be waiting.
NCIS: LA 10x08 The Patton Project (grunts) KENSI: Okay, Kat, Mindy, Mandy, Tiffany and Tiffany and their plus-ones are ten people.
We only have eight-people tables.
I don't know what the I mean, we're gonna have to separate them.
Okay.
No, no, not okay.
No.
It's like they're one person.
It's literally like cutting off a limb for them.
Well, that seems like a slight exaggeration.
Oh, gosh.
And when did you do this? When did you put Anna between your Uncle Bob and Kip Brigham? What are you talking about? Kip is recently divorced.
So is Anna.
Weddings are romantic.
Yes, romantic, but Kip is player.
Kip is a professional basketball player who is thoughtful and kind and heartbroken.
Listen, I got the whole thing planned out.
Uncle Bob's gonna get drunk, right? He's gonna tell sexist jokes and he's gonna drive Anna right into Kip's arms.
That sounds like a pack of hyenas circling their prey.
I am absolutely not doing that to Anna.
I'm gonna sit her next to Monika.
Okay.
But, just so you know, that if Anna and Kip do get together, good chance Anna will move out to Los Angeles.
Just putting it out there.
Well Kip is a nice guy, right? - So funny.
- He's handsome.
- (laughs) - Big.
- What? - What? - What? - What? No.
I don't mean like that.
- Oh.
- This is an H.
R.
violation.
This is very uncomfortable.
I feel uncomfortable.
DEEKS: Here comes Callen and Sam.
KENSI: Ah.
Right on time.
Hey, hey.
What's up? Hola.
What are we doing in the boonies? Don't know.
Ochoa told us to meet a contact out here.
Says we, uh, we're being farmed out.
To who? Wouldn't say.
Hello.
Nobody remembers me? Tobin Shaked.
Former Mossad.
We helped out your daughter.
No, you saved my daughter's life.
I'm in your debt for that.
Please, come this way.
Come in.
This is all a little odd for you, I'm sure.
A little.
Did you call this meeting? I'm working for a covert division of a United States agency now.
That's a little cryptic.
DEEKS: My guess is Department of Agriculture.
SHAKED: CIA, DIA, NSA, DHS-- Ultimately, what does it matter? It matters because it'd be nice to know who we're supporting.
All I can tell you is we are all working for the security of the United States.
So that's all we're gonna get? SAM: How'd you go from an Israeli ex-pat to SHAKED: Someone who can get the four of you to come to a random meeting in the middle of Valencia? - Yeah.
- Let's just say I have very specialized skills your government needs.
Hear me out.
I think you'll understand why you are involved in this operation.
We're not involved in anything yet.
My understanding is that your participation is not optional.
How's that? Please.
Last year your team subverted an attack on a nuclear missile silo by a group called the Patton Project.
It's a right-wing group within the military.
Yeah, they advocate for extreme force in the military.
What they advocate is nuclear carpet-bombing in the Middle East to begin a Muslim genocide.
The men and women inside the Patton Project potentially have access to all of the U.
S.
military's weapons of mass destruction.
Nuclear missiles, submarines, bombers The powers that be are not just concerned.
- They are - Scared.
Terrified.
As should you be.
What's our involvement? We have new intelligence that could lead us to finding a member of the Patton Project.
I need your help.
What's the Intel? A high-ranking member likes to meet contacts in Venice Beach.
That's it? Where do you get this information? SHAKED: I believe you all know each other.
Hey.
101 was a nightmare.
Well, don't worry about it.
It's just domestic terrorism.
Oh, hey.
Remember me? I'm the guy that saved your life.
SHAKED: Your friends were just asking Oh, we're friends now? I didn't say it.
Your colleagues were just asking where the Intel came from.
All right, well, it's my understanding that we lost contact with the source of the Intel, and now all we have is Venice Beach.
We have a list.
105 potential suspects.
They are all either current or former military who, because of their background, political affiliations or intercepted communications, could be part of the Patton Project.
I have service photos, military files, intelligence on why they're on this list.
If we're staking out Venice Beach, why not just use facial rec? We'll use both.
The suspect could change their pattern at the last minute.
We can't wait for computers.
We must be proactive.
Last time the consequences could have been catastrophic.
It's a priority, to say the least.
SHAKED: Take the day.
Digest the information.
Try to memorize the faces.
Then we begin.
We'll get back to you.
I'm sure you will.
What did you find out about Shaked? Well, whoever he's working for now has him buried deep.
According to airline and immigration records, he's currently somewhere in Poland.
- Meaning what, exactly? - He's a ghost.
Doesn't exist inside the U.
S.
Well, that is some serious Secret Squirrel stuff.
What was Shaked doing for the Mossad before he came to the U.
S.
? That's where it gets really interesting.
Shaked was part of an elite team responsible for nearly two dozen assassinations.
ERIC: Wet work in Iran, Gaza, West Bank, Syria.
And now, most likely, the United States.
So we're being forced to work with an assassination team? Looks that way.
He has clearance to be here now? Well, he did save your life.
- (chuckles) - Not gonna let us forget that? No, I'm not.
Are you? Uh, not for a long time.
Why did they come to us? All I know is that SecNav asked that we meet with Shaked.
You knew him, and the op was part of the continued investigation into the Patton Project.
There was no discussion on what type of op it was? I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
Yeah, they just left out the part where Shaked is an assassin.
Making us part of that.
Nobody's asked you to execute a target, correct? They don't have to.
They asked our help in locating the target.
That makes us complicit.
And that is not what we do.
Well, what happened in Mexico says different.
You went outside the lines.
It was noticed.
So now there's a perception that we're good for this type of op? Seems like it.
Trouble is they're not wrong.
Next.
Next.
Got it.
Next.
Got it.
Yeah, no.
You don't No.
This is gonna be impossible to memorize all these faces in one day.
And plus, this is not your forte.
What are you talking about? I'm talking about that you are facially challenged.
I am not facially ch I'm great with faces.
I am a face savant.
- Really? Okay.
- Well, let's do this.
- Yeah.
- How about that? Who's this? - Okay.
Well, I'm not trying to recognize their names, I'm just trying to recognize their faces.
No, that's fine.
Do you know this person? No, I do not know this person.
- That is my Uncle Jimmy.
- That is what? KENSI: We had a dinner together.
He's coming to our wedding.
Oh.
Well, that's a trick question.
That's not really fair.
Okay.
What about this? So what, now we're playing "terrorist or relative"? Shouldn't be that difficult of a distinction, and plus, these people are about to become your relatives, so get to know them.
Yeah, I'm super excited about this extended family.
- What? - Go ahead.
Who is it? - I need a clue.
Give me a clue.
- Okay, this is my Your Cousin cousin Adam.
- Michael.
- (sighs) Went surfing together.
Went to the Hollywood Bowl.
Saw Randy Travis.
David Hasselhoff, one night only.
He's coming to the wedding, is he? - Yeah.
- Hmm.
Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but your cousin looks like a terrorist.
That beard? - Well, that's awkward.
- Well, he's awkward.
What'd you find? (sighs) I dug deeper into the file that contained the photos.
Over the last few months, faces were added to the file.
It makes sense.
As they discovered new suspects, they were added.
One face, however, was removed.
Well, Shaked or someone must have cleared him as a suspect.
That's what we thought, but when we looked into the military file of that person-- Marine First Sergeant Dean White-- he's He's dead.
You stole my reveal.
- I thought it was our reveal.
- Well - I did all the setup.
- How'd he die? - My turn? - Go ahead.
Okay.
(Clears throat) When we looked into the cause of death, it was NELL: It was redacted.
TURK: Redacted.
Did he have some sort of special security clearance? ERIC: No.
Uh, White's body was taken to the office of Medical Examiner Amy Shuler.
CALLEN: We know her.
ERIC: Yeah.
You interviewed her a few years ago.
Uh, she is in charge for-- wait for it The classified autopsies of the military, CIA.
Stole your reveal.
Sorry about that.
We should have a conversation with her.
I'll stay here, drill down on Shaked.
I got shotgun if you want.
Yeah, okay.
- Address is on your phones.
- Address is on - you got to be kidding me.
Guys.
It's not a competition.
Let's talk in here.
You have something you want to show us? No.
Why are we in with the bodies? This room is secure.
Swept for listening devices, shielded against surveillance.
My office and the hallways are not.
You afraid of something? I take my security clearance very seriously.
I shouldn't be speaking to you.
But you are.
First Sergeant Dean White's postmortem medical exam came from black division.
Which division? You don't have to know that right now.
Well, are you afraid of them? Of course.
And you should be, too.
Then why are you talking to us? Let's just say what I saw hasn't sat well with me.
Look, we've been asked to work with some people.
We'd like to know what we're getting involved in.
(sighs) After 9/11, I did work for some of the black sites in Europe, Abu Ghraib Classified autopsies of suspected terrorists.
It's what I do.
What I saw when I examined First Sergeant White looked exactly like some of those bodies.
Which was? If this ever gets out, I'll deny we ever spoke.
Understood.
With a hundred percent certainty, I can tell you White was waterboarded.
The stress on his pulmonary system caused a cardiac arrest that led to his death.
Did he have a heart condition? No.
Look, guys, you can dance around it, call it "enhanced interrogation.
" Plain English White was tortured to death.
Yes.
Secure the room.
Okay.
Okay, so First Sergeant White was part of several extreme right wing political organizations.
He also spouted some pretty vile anti-Islamic rhetoric in various chat rooms.
That makes sense why Shaked would target him as a potential member of the Patton Project.
I'm sorry, didn't Eric say that White was taken off the list because he died? That's not the whole story.
We spoke to the M.
E.
who did the postmortem exam on White, and we believe that either Shaked or his people interrogated him.
And then, during the interrogation, he died.
I'm sorry, what? He was waterboarded, which led to a heart attack.
So Shaked is an assassin who killed men during interrogation.
Under whose authorization? You spoke to him first.
To answer your question, uh, it could be any agency.
And I think I was brought in to provide a friendly face, put everybody at ease.
DEEKS: Well, I'm sure that's working.
Why us? Ochoa thinks that because of Mexico, we have gained a certain reputation.
Okay, so get us off it.
No, no.
Wait a minute.
The Patton Project attempted what I consider to be one of the most dangerous terrorist attacks on the United States.
They advocate genocide of Muslims worldwide.
I understand that, and there's a-a lot of terrible groups that advocate genocide, but don't we toss the Constitution and our morality out the window.
No.
Last time, the Patton Project almost accomplished it.
They are not a powerless group.
Then we have to ask ourselves are we people who do this? We back away, they'll find someone else.
Well, then, maybe it's the right thing to do.
And-and we're the ones to determine that? I mean, just to remind you all, w-we don't make the laws, we enforce them.
And as this plays out, we are becoming the judge, the jury And executioner.
I need to speak to Ochoa.
Deputy Director.
- You getting a workout in? - Yeah, all done.
Heading out.
What's going on? I need some information if we're gonna continue with this operation.
I don't have much.
I believe that Shaked's op, simply put, is to find members of the Patton Project and have them executed.
Is that what this is? Off the record? Yeah.
Do you have a recording device on your person, or are you aware of this conversation being recording? That's where this is going? I'm from Washington.
Welcome to my world.
(scoffs) I'm not trying to trap anyone, I'm trying to understand my team's involvement.
Okay.
You have an accurate assessment of the situation.
So you knew what this was? Obliquely.
Things like this aren't exactly spelled out unless they absolutely have to be.
We went to Mexico to save a child.
This is completely different.
This-this is this is contract killing.
Maybe it's the price of having gotten out of the consequences of Mexico.
No.
We never made that deal with anybody.
Maybe Hetty did, or Kilbride.
I mean, think about it.
You've got a good team who's willing to operate in the gray zone.
This isn't gray.
This is black.
Either way, they can shut you down or Or they can use us.
Exactly.
Have a good night.
Oh, and, uh, Agent Callen, you realize this is something you might not be able to say no to.
So think long and hard about how you want to play it.
I was born on electric fever How many days are we gonna do this? DEEKS: At least until Turk gets a suntan.
I'm not gonna be out here that long.
TURK: You remember I did save all of your lives.
CALLEN: Wow, it is not gonna stop, is it? TURK: Especially when you gang up on me like that.
You know I'm a quivering lily pad of emotion right now, if you haven't noticed.
So what, you're feeling vulnerable? (shutter clicks) Picking on the new guy, huh? I may cry.
Keep it up.
Check out the jogger.
I got something for you No, not a match.
Hey, we ought to think about doing this for money.
Get a little, uh, White Men Can't Jump type deal.
That would mean you'd have to be able to play.
Oh, snap! Somebody just got called out.
Dear God, please stop talking.
You never get out alive.
Guys, I got him.
Colonel Trevor Lawford.
Buttoned-up gray shirt by the hot dog cart.
We're moving to you.
Think I got his contact, too.
Long sleeve red shirt, gray pants.
SAM: Got to go, fellas.
Oh, come on.
(indistinct chatter) (indistinct conversation) KENSI: Guys, he's about to get on his motorcycle.
SHAKED: Do not let him get on that bike.
Get out of here.
Go, go, go! I lost him.
Got the contact.
MAN: Whoa, man! (tires screech) All right, Kensi, we're stuck in traffic.
Put out a BOLO out on Lawford and a description of the motorcycle.
I got him going into the building on the corner of Pacific and Market.
(grunts) That's a block up.
Sorry.
Whoa, whoa.
I'll take the back.
The building's secure.
He's not going anywhere.
SHAKED: Clear the floor.
We'll take the roof.
On your right, your right.
Go, go.
Got him.
Show me your hands.
Now! Show me your hands! Nowhere to run.
Hands on your head.
SHAKED: We said hands on your head.
G, anything? I got nothing.
(screaming) (thud) Where is he? We're good.
No traffic camera footage where we can be identified.
I grabbed the building's security drive before the LAPD showed up.
Wait a minute, so that's how this works-- we get away with murder and we're good? No-Nobody's been murdered.
He jumped off that roof.
He just ran off the edge? I know it sounds crazy, but it's true.
- Why would he do that? - I don't know, but it's the truth, Callen.
- Are you working with him? Are you asking me if I threw that man off the roof? Well, if she's not, I am.
Why did Shaked go to you first? SAM: Maybe you guys are the ones who suggested us for this op.
You know something? It doesn't matter.
We're done.
Find yourself another team.
We just located our target and you're backing out? Hey, we've got this guy.
Look.
Retired Army colonel Trevor Lawford.
Lives in Orange County.
There's nowhere for him to hide.
So we're gonna execute a guy with his wife and his two kids? - No, man.
I'm out.
So what the Patton Project does from here on out, it's on your heads.
ERIC: Hey, I got the name of the man who fell from the building.
Brad Kelby.
He lived in Echo Park.
Is he former military? Uh, no.
No military experience at all.
He spent the last year in Metropolitan State Hospital.
He was sick? No, it's a psychiatric hospital.
Kelby's been living with his sister since then.
Send us the address.
Come on.
That's right, it's okay.
Here you go.
(giggling) Hi, pumpkin.
Okay.
Okay.
I can't back out.
These are bad guys that need to be stopped.
LAPD's finishing up.
We tell Ochoa we're out.
Then we take over the investigation ourselves.
We find Lawford first, we'll put him in the system.
Make Shaked irrelevant.
(car engine starts) Question Lawford ourselves.
Homicide detectives are gone.
Let's go.
Excuse me, miss? NCIS.
Can we ask you a few questions? Sure.
My brother had only been out of the hospital three weeks.
He battled depression his whole life.
He was getting really paranoid and dark.
Did he ever mention the name Lawford? No.
Any new friends? He did meet a man named Tyler, who I didn't think was a good influence.
Why's that? Brad tried to kill himself twice.
Serious attempts.
One day he told me his friend Tyler thought that suicide was a sane act.
Did he still want to kill himself? More than ever.
Only now he wanted it to be glorious.
Something that would get the world to remember him.
(crying) So you think that Trevor Lawford was trying to convince Brad Kelby to kill himself in some sort of act of terrorism? Same tactic as ISIS.
They prey on the mentally ill.
So Kelby might have actually jumped off the roof? Well, it makes sense.
You know, he was gonna himself anyway.
At this point, the only thing left for him was jail time.
Uh, question is what was his op? Shaked would say what difference does it make if we kill Lawford? It's not a bad argument.
It means I'm gonna have to apologize to Turk.
Well, he did save your life.
You need to see this.
We've been tracking Lawford's movements for the last few months using Kaleidoscope.
He's been travelling around to psychiatric hospitals in California, Arizona and Nevada.
- How many? 53 and counting.
Ooh.
DEEKS: That means Lawford was targeting other patients.
CALLEN: These are people with mental illness.
He'd have to work with a critical mass if he was gonna find a couple who were willing and able to complete the mission.
Okay, so Kelby was not working on his own.
Lawford has to have another op in play.
That's even more reason for us to apprehend him and not let Shaked take him out.
Hey, I just found Lawford's bike.
It's parked outside a motel in Cerritos.
- Let's go.
- Should we tell Ochoa? No, he'll tell Shaked.
We need Lawford alive.
They wanted black, that's what they're gonna get.
This is our op now.
Okay.
NCIS.
Take a look.
What room is this man in? Thanks.
CALLEN: Put your hands up! Move, get up, you Get away from the computer.
Turn around, hands on the wall! - Turn around.
- He's erasing the hard drive.
Pull out the battery.
Let's go.
Don't even think about it, with my team down there.
You work for the Navy, but you don't really support our troops.
Or even our citizens.
Hmm.
Is that part of the philosophy of the Patton Project? Patton Project? I don't know what that is.
It's a group that advocates using overwhelming military force on Muslim nations.
Really just a bunch of fancy words for genocide.
Interesting.
Would solve a lot of problems.
CALLEN: And you have no problems Deputy Director.
Well, I guess our secret hideout isn't that secret anymore if you keep letting in the riffraff.
This is Shaked's op.
He should have been notified when you took Lawford into custody.
It was no secret that Lawford was put into the system.
There was complete transparency.
Too much transparency.
I need to speak with him.
Well, Sam and Callen are interrogating him right now, but I'm sure there's a sign-in sheet here - This way? - Yeah.
somewhere if you want to just Okay.
Good talk.
Hello, gentlemen.
Please, clear the room.
Excuse me? Should I have your deputy director ask you? He's just outside the door.
(scoffs) Colonel Lawford, because of your involvement with the Patton Project - I'm not involved.
and your involvement with the attempted takeover of the nuclear missile silo in Colorado, you're going to be charged with treason.
That's absurd.
Your computer didn't completely erase your hard drive.
We have your phone.
I'm sure we find your plane trips to Colorado.
I just need the names of the other members of the group.
(chuckles softly) I'm proud to give my life for my country.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, I wonder if your wife-- she will also be proud to give her life for her country? WOMAN: Why did Colorado fail? LAWFORD: We believe it took too long.
They should've redirected just one missile and launched it immediately.
WOMAN: That's so disappointing.
After all the work we put in.
She had nothing to do with this.
You created that recording.
I have another recording of your daughter, 17 years old.
They both go to jail forever.
I need the names of the other members of the group.
You have five minutes.
I have your wife, your daughter arrested.
CALLEN: Lawford's smart.
He knows that that recording won't hold up in court once it's technically analyzed.
My techs assure me it will.
Excuse me? It will stand up in court.
They've been working on the technology for a while.
It's good.
So you're gonna charge his wife and daughter even though you know the phone call was fabricated? Once it gets real, they may flip on him.
But what if they don't know anything about this? We tell them what to say.
Really? You just force them to commit perjury? Or we let Lawford hear a verdict and watch his wife and daughter walk into a supermax.
Even if they're innocent? Oh, you wouldn't do the same? I mean, we use that tactic to get information.
We don't put innocent people in prison.
Even if it means saving hundreds, if not thousands, of American lives? Let's stay focused.
Lawford's recruited possibly dozens of mentally-ill patients for suicide missions, but we've got no idea what kind of missions.
Shootings, explosives, biological weapons.
And we have no idea if any of them are currently in play.
ERIC: We may be able to help with that.
Uh, using the GPS in Lawford's phone and car, we were able to track his movements, and, uh, noticed a lot of trips to Hollywood Burbank Airport.
We scanned airport cameras and found that Lawford was booking a lot of flights on various airlines.
He'd then move back and forth through security several times in a day.
We think he was trying to look for a gap in the system.
Now, he seems always to refuse the, uh, full-body scanners and opt instead for the pat down.
Think he's trying to figure out which TSA agents are the most lax or easily distracted.
Well, even with a lax TSA agent, you're still not gonna get a gun through.
Well, or blades.
I mean, you'd have to be trained in fighting with knives.
It's probably some kind of explosive.
Or it's biological.
'Cause a plane is a great way to spread a pathogen.
He's the only one with the answers.
Well, it's a good thing he's not dead.
WOMAN (on P.
A.
): Welcome to Burbank Airport.
(beep) AGENT: Next.
(P.
A.
announcement continuing indistinctly) Uh, excuse me, I don't want to go through the machine with my baby.
All right.
Okay.
Come this way.
- Got a pat down.
I'll do it.
MAN: All right.
Okay.
- Just a second.
- Here.
(gasp) Whee! Oh.
MAN: If you could step out.
WOMAN: Thank you.
.
- You're good.
- Okay.
AGENT: Arms up.
Thank you, sir.
Palms up.
Thanks for that.
Nitromethane.
That's one part of a binary explosive.
And he's handled it recently.
Means this is about to go down.
We need to get him to talk.
If you clear this building, I can do that very quickly.
Deputy Director, he could've placed a bomb on a plane as we speak.
Don't do it.
Let us work on him first.
Something's bothering me.
Let me talk to this guy.
Give me two minutes.
Take your shot.
So, just speaking hypothetically, you think wiping out all the Muslim nations would be a good thing? Of course.
Wouldn't you agree? I'm Muslim.
So, no, I wouldn't agree.
Should've guessed.
This racism thing's really working out for you, huh? You call it racism.
I call it realistic.
Pragmatic.
You get a lot of blue-eyed, blonde Muslims? - Plenty.
- Huh.
Look the world would be a different, much safer place without Islam.
We just need the reason to unleash the might and the power that God has given to us.
(door opens, closes) SAM: Okay.
So, Patton Project wants to provoke a war between the U.
S.
and Muslim nations, right? - An excuse for genocide.
- Right.
So how does having Kelby, a U.
S.
citizen, blow up a plane help the Patton Project cause? - It doesn't.
- Then why do it? Members of the Patton Project are military.
KENSI: Right.
Right? They could have access to no-fly lists.
All types of people-- you know, teachers, students-- they get put on those lists, then they're cleared, then they're taken off the lists.
Lawford finds suspected terrorists who were eventually cleared and then allowed to fly.
And they figure out what flights they're on.
Puts his person on the plane.
Plane is blown up by an American with mental illness.
And it looks like it's the work of a suspected terrorist.
Nell, Eric.
Find flights with Muslims that were previously on the no-fly lists.
Got it.
- Coming your way.
- Nice work.
I believe something this overt is not your specialty.
Thank you.
So cross-checking flights out of southern California, we found quite a few with Muslims who were on the no-fly lists who were then removed.
There are 12 in the next two weeks, but one to Washington, D.
C.
is boarding right now.
Okay, we got to ground that flight.
Get me the DHS and the FBI now.
On our way.
Hey, tell Kensi and Deeks to bring Lawford to the airport.
Yeah.
PILOT (over P.
A.
): Flight crew, prepare for takeoff.
Please secure all tray tables and turn off all electronic devices.
Oh, flag on the play.
I'm sorry, folks.
Tower's gonna hold us here a few minutes.
(fusses) Flight's grounded.
There's talk of sending passengers through security a second time.
Do not do that.
They could spook the bomber, and when they get off, they'll exit the airport.
Start cross-checking the passenger list, see if any NELL: See if any passengers spent time in state psychiatric hospitals Lawford visited.
Already on it.
PILOT: Ladies and gentlemen, just a few more minutes here and we'll be on our way.
Thank you for your patience.
(quiet, indistinct chatter) Excuse me, miss, can your son come with me, please? What's this about? Just please come with us.
How'd we do? Looks like we have a winner.
Let's go.
Where'd you take my son? He's okay.
You'll see him in a few minutes.
I'm gonna have to ask you to remove your shirt.
Ally.
Okay.
We're gonna do it.
Stop.
Looks like a liquid binary explosive.
I think I found the detonator.
- Got to get the bomb squad in here.
- Let's go.
You had your son on that plane, Ally.
(sniffles) We're gonna get you the help you need.
Okay? Nothing's ever helped me.
(chuckles) You can say that again.
Hmm, you look like men with an agenda.
We know who made the deal.
What deal is that? (scoffs) The one that got someone thinking that we'd work for Shaked, or people like him.
Right.
I made it.
After Mexico, a lot of people up the food chain had a problem with the NCIS Office of Special Projects.
They wanted to take it apart, discard its people.
So you offer us out as a black ops team.
I saw good agents No, scratch that.
I saw great agents who were about to go down for the wrong reasons.
And, yeah, I made a deal with the devil to save your asses.
To save your careers.
And, more importantly, to save lives.
So you could do what you did today.
Today is not what we do.
- Yes, it is.
SAM: Hey.
We're not assassins.
We don't do torture.
No, it's not that simple, and you know it.
You know, in this business, we all have to walk a moral tightrope.
It's our job.
You guys want easy get a job at the post office.
OCHOA: And, FYI there's no team I'd rather walk that tightrope with than this one.
Mm.
Come with me.
(sighs) Whoa.
That's nice.
(alarm chirps) Try to not burn this one.
Good night, gentlemen.
Well, if this is cause for celebration, there is a nice little Mexican place down the street if you want to join us.
They got tequila? I believe they do.
Well, it sounds good, 'cause, uh, there's something that I'd like to talk to you guys about.
Yeah? What's that? TURK: How cool it was when I saved your lives.
So you're telling me they have the capability to launch a nuclear missile.
I'm telling you they can launch 50 nuclear missiles.
Have you heard of the Patton Project? Supposedly it's a military within the military.
Go! Go! Go! (grunts) Aah! (echoing, indistinct announcement on P.
A.
) Hey.
How you doing? (sighs) Okay.
Is everything the same? You asking me if I still want to be dead? Yeah.
Yeah.
Way to get to the point.
Have you, uh, told the doctors about it? Hell no.
It's your life to live or not.
Remember there's no rule that says you have to endure pain.
Yeah.
You're right.
What's my surprise? Same.
Meth.
(sighs) Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, have you thought any more about what we talked about? About taking the package on the plane? Yes.
Shh, shh, shh.
Yeah.
(scoffs) Go out with a bang? That'd show 'em.
Yeah, it would.
In a big way.
Get everybody thinking a little bit differently about you.
I definitely want to do it.
You know, bringing Michael along would really help ensure you get the package on board.
If I'm gone, the last thing I want is my parents to have him.
Or his scumbag father.
Think about taking him.
You do get priority boarding with a baby.
Yeah.
If I'm gone, I don't want him on this earth without me.
You still getting out on Friday? Yup.
(sighs) Four more days, I'm a free woman.
I'll be waiting.
NCIS: LA 10x08 The Patton Project (grunts) KENSI: Okay, Kat, Mindy, Mandy, Tiffany and Tiffany and their plus-ones are ten people.
We only have eight-people tables.
I don't know what the I mean, we're gonna have to separate them.
Okay.
No, no, not okay.
No.
It's like they're one person.
It's literally like cutting off a limb for them.
Well, that seems like a slight exaggeration.
Oh, gosh.
And when did you do this? When did you put Anna between your Uncle Bob and Kip Brigham? What are you talking about? Kip is recently divorced.
So is Anna.
Weddings are romantic.
Yes, romantic, but Kip is player.
Kip is a professional basketball player who is thoughtful and kind and heartbroken.
Listen, I got the whole thing planned out.
Uncle Bob's gonna get drunk, right? He's gonna tell sexist jokes and he's gonna drive Anna right into Kip's arms.
That sounds like a pack of hyenas circling their prey.
I am absolutely not doing that to Anna.
I'm gonna sit her next to Monika.
Okay.
But, just so you know, that if Anna and Kip do get together, good chance Anna will move out to Los Angeles.
Just putting it out there.
Well Kip is a nice guy, right? - So funny.
- He's handsome.
- (laughs) - Big.
- What? - What? - What? - What? No.
I don't mean like that.
- Oh.
- This is an H.
R.
violation.
This is very uncomfortable.
I feel uncomfortable.
DEEKS: Here comes Callen and Sam.
KENSI: Ah.
Right on time.
Hey, hey.
What's up? Hola.
What are we doing in the boonies? Don't know.
Ochoa told us to meet a contact out here.
Says we, uh, we're being farmed out.
To who? Wouldn't say.
Hello.
Nobody remembers me? Tobin Shaked.
Former Mossad.
We helped out your daughter.
No, you saved my daughter's life.
I'm in your debt for that.
Please, come this way.
Come in.
This is all a little odd for you, I'm sure.
A little.
Did you call this meeting? I'm working for a covert division of a United States agency now.
That's a little cryptic.
DEEKS: My guess is Department of Agriculture.
SHAKED: CIA, DIA, NSA, DHS-- Ultimately, what does it matter? It matters because it'd be nice to know who we're supporting.
All I can tell you is we are all working for the security of the United States.
So that's all we're gonna get? SAM: How'd you go from an Israeli ex-pat to SHAKED: Someone who can get the four of you to come to a random meeting in the middle of Valencia? - Yeah.
- Let's just say I have very specialized skills your government needs.
Hear me out.
I think you'll understand why you are involved in this operation.
We're not involved in anything yet.
My understanding is that your participation is not optional.
How's that? Please.
Last year your team subverted an attack on a nuclear missile silo by a group called the Patton Project.
It's a right-wing group within the military.
Yeah, they advocate for extreme force in the military.
What they advocate is nuclear carpet-bombing in the Middle East to begin a Muslim genocide.
The men and women inside the Patton Project potentially have access to all of the U.
S.
military's weapons of mass destruction.
Nuclear missiles, submarines, bombers The powers that be are not just concerned.
- They are - Scared.
Terrified.
As should you be.
What's our involvement? We have new intelligence that could lead us to finding a member of the Patton Project.
I need your help.
What's the Intel? A high-ranking member likes to meet contacts in Venice Beach.
That's it? Where do you get this information? SHAKED: I believe you all know each other.
Hey.
101 was a nightmare.
Well, don't worry about it.
It's just domestic terrorism.
Oh, hey.
Remember me? I'm the guy that saved your life.
SHAKED: Your friends were just asking Oh, we're friends now? I didn't say it.
Your colleagues were just asking where the Intel came from.
All right, well, it's my understanding that we lost contact with the source of the Intel, and now all we have is Venice Beach.
We have a list.
105 potential suspects.
They are all either current or former military who, because of their background, political affiliations or intercepted communications, could be part of the Patton Project.
I have service photos, military files, intelligence on why they're on this list.
If we're staking out Venice Beach, why not just use facial rec? We'll use both.
The suspect could change their pattern at the last minute.
We can't wait for computers.
We must be proactive.
Last time the consequences could have been catastrophic.
It's a priority, to say the least.
SHAKED: Take the day.
Digest the information.
Try to memorize the faces.
Then we begin.
We'll get back to you.
I'm sure you will.
What did you find out about Shaked? Well, whoever he's working for now has him buried deep.
According to airline and immigration records, he's currently somewhere in Poland.
- Meaning what, exactly? - He's a ghost.
Doesn't exist inside the U.
S.
Well, that is some serious Secret Squirrel stuff.
What was Shaked doing for the Mossad before he came to the U.
S.
? That's where it gets really interesting.
Shaked was part of an elite team responsible for nearly two dozen assassinations.
ERIC: Wet work in Iran, Gaza, West Bank, Syria.
And now, most likely, the United States.
So we're being forced to work with an assassination team? Looks that way.
He has clearance to be here now? Well, he did save your life.
- (chuckles) - Not gonna let us forget that? No, I'm not.
Are you? Uh, not for a long time.
Why did they come to us? All I know is that SecNav asked that we meet with Shaked.
You knew him, and the op was part of the continued investigation into the Patton Project.
There was no discussion on what type of op it was? I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
Yeah, they just left out the part where Shaked is an assassin.
Making us part of that.
Nobody's asked you to execute a target, correct? They don't have to.
They asked our help in locating the target.
That makes us complicit.
And that is not what we do.
Well, what happened in Mexico says different.
You went outside the lines.
It was noticed.
So now there's a perception that we're good for this type of op? Seems like it.
Trouble is they're not wrong.
Next.
Next.
Got it.
Next.
Got it.
Yeah, no.
You don't No.
This is gonna be impossible to memorize all these faces in one day.
And plus, this is not your forte.
What are you talking about? I'm talking about that you are facially challenged.
I am not facially ch I'm great with faces.
I am a face savant.
- Really? Okay.
- Well, let's do this.
- Yeah.
- How about that? Who's this? - Okay.
Well, I'm not trying to recognize their names, I'm just trying to recognize their faces.
No, that's fine.
Do you know this person? No, I do not know this person.
- That is my Uncle Jimmy.
- That is what? KENSI: We had a dinner together.
He's coming to our wedding.
Oh.
Well, that's a trick question.
That's not really fair.
Okay.
What about this? So what, now we're playing "terrorist or relative"? Shouldn't be that difficult of a distinction, and plus, these people are about to become your relatives, so get to know them.
Yeah, I'm super excited about this extended family.
- What? - Go ahead.
Who is it? - I need a clue.
Give me a clue.
- Okay, this is my Your Cousin cousin Adam.
- Michael.
- (sighs) Went surfing together.
Went to the Hollywood Bowl.
Saw Randy Travis.
David Hasselhoff, one night only.
He's coming to the wedding, is he? - Yeah.
- Hmm.
Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but your cousin looks like a terrorist.
That beard? - Well, that's awkward.
- Well, he's awkward.
What'd you find? (sighs) I dug deeper into the file that contained the photos.
Over the last few months, faces were added to the file.
It makes sense.
As they discovered new suspects, they were added.
One face, however, was removed.
Well, Shaked or someone must have cleared him as a suspect.
That's what we thought, but when we looked into the military file of that person-- Marine First Sergeant Dean White-- he's He's dead.
You stole my reveal.
- I thought it was our reveal.
- Well - I did all the setup.
- How'd he die? - My turn? - Go ahead.
Okay.
(Clears throat) When we looked into the cause of death, it was NELL: It was redacted.
TURK: Redacted.
Did he have some sort of special security clearance? ERIC: No.
Uh, White's body was taken to the office of Medical Examiner Amy Shuler.
CALLEN: We know her.
ERIC: Yeah.
You interviewed her a few years ago.
Uh, she is in charge for-- wait for it The classified autopsies of the military, CIA.
Stole your reveal.
Sorry about that.
We should have a conversation with her.
I'll stay here, drill down on Shaked.
I got shotgun if you want.
Yeah, okay.
- Address is on your phones.
- Address is on - you got to be kidding me.
Guys.
It's not a competition.
Let's talk in here.
You have something you want to show us? No.
Why are we in with the bodies? This room is secure.
Swept for listening devices, shielded against surveillance.
My office and the hallways are not.
You afraid of something? I take my security clearance very seriously.
I shouldn't be speaking to you.
But you are.
First Sergeant Dean White's postmortem medical exam came from black division.
Which division? You don't have to know that right now.
Well, are you afraid of them? Of course.
And you should be, too.
Then why are you talking to us? Let's just say what I saw hasn't sat well with me.
Look, we've been asked to work with some people.
We'd like to know what we're getting involved in.
(sighs) After 9/11, I did work for some of the black sites in Europe, Abu Ghraib Classified autopsies of suspected terrorists.
It's what I do.
What I saw when I examined First Sergeant White looked exactly like some of those bodies.
Which was? If this ever gets out, I'll deny we ever spoke.
Understood.
With a hundred percent certainty, I can tell you White was waterboarded.
The stress on his pulmonary system caused a cardiac arrest that led to his death.
Did he have a heart condition? No.
Look, guys, you can dance around it, call it "enhanced interrogation.
" Plain English White was tortured to death.
Yes.
Secure the room.
Okay.
Okay, so First Sergeant White was part of several extreme right wing political organizations.
He also spouted some pretty vile anti-Islamic rhetoric in various chat rooms.
That makes sense why Shaked would target him as a potential member of the Patton Project.
I'm sorry, didn't Eric say that White was taken off the list because he died? That's not the whole story.
We spoke to the M.
E.
who did the postmortem exam on White, and we believe that either Shaked or his people interrogated him.
And then, during the interrogation, he died.
I'm sorry, what? He was waterboarded, which led to a heart attack.
So Shaked is an assassin who killed men during interrogation.
Under whose authorization? You spoke to him first.
To answer your question, uh, it could be any agency.
And I think I was brought in to provide a friendly face, put everybody at ease.
DEEKS: Well, I'm sure that's working.
Why us? Ochoa thinks that because of Mexico, we have gained a certain reputation.
Okay, so get us off it.
No, no.
Wait a minute.
The Patton Project attempted what I consider to be one of the most dangerous terrorist attacks on the United States.
They advocate genocide of Muslims worldwide.
I understand that, and there's a-a lot of terrible groups that advocate genocide, but don't we toss the Constitution and our morality out the window.
No.
Last time, the Patton Project almost accomplished it.
They are not a powerless group.
Then we have to ask ourselves are we people who do this? We back away, they'll find someone else.
Well, then, maybe it's the right thing to do.
And-and we're the ones to determine that? I mean, just to remind you all, w-we don't make the laws, we enforce them.
And as this plays out, we are becoming the judge, the jury And executioner.
I need to speak to Ochoa.
Deputy Director.
- You getting a workout in? - Yeah, all done.
Heading out.
What's going on? I need some information if we're gonna continue with this operation.
I don't have much.
I believe that Shaked's op, simply put, is to find members of the Patton Project and have them executed.
Is that what this is? Off the record? Yeah.
Do you have a recording device on your person, or are you aware of this conversation being recording? That's where this is going? I'm from Washington.
Welcome to my world.
(scoffs) I'm not trying to trap anyone, I'm trying to understand my team's involvement.
Okay.
You have an accurate assessment of the situation.
So you knew what this was? Obliquely.
Things like this aren't exactly spelled out unless they absolutely have to be.
We went to Mexico to save a child.
This is completely different.
This-this is this is contract killing.
Maybe it's the price of having gotten out of the consequences of Mexico.
No.
We never made that deal with anybody.
Maybe Hetty did, or Kilbride.
I mean, think about it.
You've got a good team who's willing to operate in the gray zone.
This isn't gray.
This is black.
Either way, they can shut you down or Or they can use us.
Exactly.
Have a good night.
Oh, and, uh, Agent Callen, you realize this is something you might not be able to say no to.
So think long and hard about how you want to play it.
I was born on electric fever How many days are we gonna do this? DEEKS: At least until Turk gets a suntan.
I'm not gonna be out here that long.
TURK: You remember I did save all of your lives.
CALLEN: Wow, it is not gonna stop, is it? TURK: Especially when you gang up on me like that.
You know I'm a quivering lily pad of emotion right now, if you haven't noticed.
So what, you're feeling vulnerable? (shutter clicks) Picking on the new guy, huh? I may cry.
Keep it up.
Check out the jogger.
I got something for you No, not a match.
Hey, we ought to think about doing this for money.
Get a little, uh, White Men Can't Jump type deal.
That would mean you'd have to be able to play.
Oh, snap! Somebody just got called out.
Dear God, please stop talking.
You never get out alive.
Guys, I got him.
Colonel Trevor Lawford.
Buttoned-up gray shirt by the hot dog cart.
We're moving to you.
Think I got his contact, too.
Long sleeve red shirt, gray pants.
SAM: Got to go, fellas.
Oh, come on.
(indistinct chatter) (indistinct conversation) KENSI: Guys, he's about to get on his motorcycle.
SHAKED: Do not let him get on that bike.
Get out of here.
Go, go, go! I lost him.
Got the contact.
MAN: Whoa, man! (tires screech) All right, Kensi, we're stuck in traffic.
Put out a BOLO out on Lawford and a description of the motorcycle.
I got him going into the building on the corner of Pacific and Market.
(grunts) That's a block up.
Sorry.
Whoa, whoa.
I'll take the back.
The building's secure.
He's not going anywhere.
SHAKED: Clear the floor.
We'll take the roof.
On your right, your right.
Go, go.
Got him.
Show me your hands.
Now! Show me your hands! Nowhere to run.
Hands on your head.
SHAKED: We said hands on your head.
G, anything? I got nothing.
(screaming) (thud) Where is he? We're good.
No traffic camera footage where we can be identified.
I grabbed the building's security drive before the LAPD showed up.
Wait a minute, so that's how this works-- we get away with murder and we're good? No-Nobody's been murdered.
He jumped off that roof.
He just ran off the edge? I know it sounds crazy, but it's true.
- Why would he do that? - I don't know, but it's the truth, Callen.
- Are you working with him? Are you asking me if I threw that man off the roof? Well, if she's not, I am.
Why did Shaked go to you first? SAM: Maybe you guys are the ones who suggested us for this op.
You know something? It doesn't matter.
We're done.
Find yourself another team.
We just located our target and you're backing out? Hey, we've got this guy.
Look.
Retired Army colonel Trevor Lawford.
Lives in Orange County.
There's nowhere for him to hide.
So we're gonna execute a guy with his wife and his two kids? - No, man.
I'm out.
So what the Patton Project does from here on out, it's on your heads.
ERIC: Hey, I got the name of the man who fell from the building.
Brad Kelby.
He lived in Echo Park.
Is he former military? Uh, no.
No military experience at all.
He spent the last year in Metropolitan State Hospital.
He was sick? No, it's a psychiatric hospital.
Kelby's been living with his sister since then.
Send us the address.
Come on.
That's right, it's okay.
Here you go.
(giggling) Hi, pumpkin.
Okay.
Okay.
I can't back out.
These are bad guys that need to be stopped.
LAPD's finishing up.
We tell Ochoa we're out.
Then we take over the investigation ourselves.
We find Lawford first, we'll put him in the system.
Make Shaked irrelevant.
(car engine starts) Question Lawford ourselves.
Homicide detectives are gone.
Let's go.
Excuse me, miss? NCIS.
Can we ask you a few questions? Sure.
My brother had only been out of the hospital three weeks.
He battled depression his whole life.
He was getting really paranoid and dark.
Did he ever mention the name Lawford? No.
Any new friends? He did meet a man named Tyler, who I didn't think was a good influence.
Why's that? Brad tried to kill himself twice.
Serious attempts.
One day he told me his friend Tyler thought that suicide was a sane act.
Did he still want to kill himself? More than ever.
Only now he wanted it to be glorious.
Something that would get the world to remember him.
(crying) So you think that Trevor Lawford was trying to convince Brad Kelby to kill himself in some sort of act of terrorism? Same tactic as ISIS.
They prey on the mentally ill.
So Kelby might have actually jumped off the roof? Well, it makes sense.
You know, he was gonna himself anyway.
At this point, the only thing left for him was jail time.
Uh, question is what was his op? Shaked would say what difference does it make if we kill Lawford? It's not a bad argument.
It means I'm gonna have to apologize to Turk.
Well, he did save your life.
You need to see this.
We've been tracking Lawford's movements for the last few months using Kaleidoscope.
He's been travelling around to psychiatric hospitals in California, Arizona and Nevada.
- How many? 53 and counting.
Ooh.
DEEKS: That means Lawford was targeting other patients.
CALLEN: These are people with mental illness.
He'd have to work with a critical mass if he was gonna find a couple who were willing and able to complete the mission.
Okay, so Kelby was not working on his own.
Lawford has to have another op in play.
That's even more reason for us to apprehend him and not let Shaked take him out.
Hey, I just found Lawford's bike.
It's parked outside a motel in Cerritos.
- Let's go.
- Should we tell Ochoa? No, he'll tell Shaked.
We need Lawford alive.
They wanted black, that's what they're gonna get.
This is our op now.
Okay.
NCIS.
Take a look.
What room is this man in? Thanks.
CALLEN: Put your hands up! Move, get up, you Get away from the computer.
Turn around, hands on the wall! - Turn around.
- He's erasing the hard drive.
Pull out the battery.
Let's go.
Don't even think about it, with my team down there.
You work for the Navy, but you don't really support our troops.
Or even our citizens.
Hmm.
Is that part of the philosophy of the Patton Project? Patton Project? I don't know what that is.
It's a group that advocates using overwhelming military force on Muslim nations.
Really just a bunch of fancy words for genocide.
Interesting.
Would solve a lot of problems.
CALLEN: And you have no problems Deputy Director.
Well, I guess our secret hideout isn't that secret anymore if you keep letting in the riffraff.
This is Shaked's op.
He should have been notified when you took Lawford into custody.
It was no secret that Lawford was put into the system.
There was complete transparency.
Too much transparency.
I need to speak with him.
Well, Sam and Callen are interrogating him right now, but I'm sure there's a sign-in sheet here - This way? - Yeah.
somewhere if you want to just Okay.
Good talk.
Hello, gentlemen.
Please, clear the room.
Excuse me? Should I have your deputy director ask you? He's just outside the door.
(scoffs) Colonel Lawford, because of your involvement with the Patton Project - I'm not involved.
and your involvement with the attempted takeover of the nuclear missile silo in Colorado, you're going to be charged with treason.
That's absurd.
Your computer didn't completely erase your hard drive.
We have your phone.
I'm sure we find your plane trips to Colorado.
I just need the names of the other members of the group.
(chuckles softly) I'm proud to give my life for my country.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, I wonder if your wife-- she will also be proud to give her life for her country? WOMAN: Why did Colorado fail? LAWFORD: We believe it took too long.
They should've redirected just one missile and launched it immediately.
WOMAN: That's so disappointing.
After all the work we put in.
She had nothing to do with this.
You created that recording.
I have another recording of your daughter, 17 years old.
They both go to jail forever.
I need the names of the other members of the group.
You have five minutes.
I have your wife, your daughter arrested.
CALLEN: Lawford's smart.
He knows that that recording won't hold up in court once it's technically analyzed.
My techs assure me it will.
Excuse me? It will stand up in court.
They've been working on the technology for a while.
It's good.
So you're gonna charge his wife and daughter even though you know the phone call was fabricated? Once it gets real, they may flip on him.
But what if they don't know anything about this? We tell them what to say.
Really? You just force them to commit perjury? Or we let Lawford hear a verdict and watch his wife and daughter walk into a supermax.
Even if they're innocent? Oh, you wouldn't do the same? I mean, we use that tactic to get information.
We don't put innocent people in prison.
Even if it means saving hundreds, if not thousands, of American lives? Let's stay focused.
Lawford's recruited possibly dozens of mentally-ill patients for suicide missions, but we've got no idea what kind of missions.
Shootings, explosives, biological weapons.
And we have no idea if any of them are currently in play.
ERIC: We may be able to help with that.
Uh, using the GPS in Lawford's phone and car, we were able to track his movements, and, uh, noticed a lot of trips to Hollywood Burbank Airport.
We scanned airport cameras and found that Lawford was booking a lot of flights on various airlines.
He'd then move back and forth through security several times in a day.
We think he was trying to look for a gap in the system.
Now, he seems always to refuse the, uh, full-body scanners and opt instead for the pat down.
Think he's trying to figure out which TSA agents are the most lax or easily distracted.
Well, even with a lax TSA agent, you're still not gonna get a gun through.
Well, or blades.
I mean, you'd have to be trained in fighting with knives.
It's probably some kind of explosive.
Or it's biological.
'Cause a plane is a great way to spread a pathogen.
He's the only one with the answers.
Well, it's a good thing he's not dead.
WOMAN (on P.
A.
): Welcome to Burbank Airport.
(beep) AGENT: Next.
(P.
A.
announcement continuing indistinctly) Uh, excuse me, I don't want to go through the machine with my baby.
All right.
Okay.
Come this way.
- Got a pat down.
I'll do it.
MAN: All right.
Okay.
- Just a second.
- Here.
(gasp) Whee! Oh.
MAN: If you could step out.
WOMAN: Thank you.
.
- You're good.
- Okay.
AGENT: Arms up.
Thank you, sir.
Palms up.
Thanks for that.
Nitromethane.
That's one part of a binary explosive.
And he's handled it recently.
Means this is about to go down.
We need to get him to talk.
If you clear this building, I can do that very quickly.
Deputy Director, he could've placed a bomb on a plane as we speak.
Don't do it.
Let us work on him first.
Something's bothering me.
Let me talk to this guy.
Give me two minutes.
Take your shot.
So, just speaking hypothetically, you think wiping out all the Muslim nations would be a good thing? Of course.
Wouldn't you agree? I'm Muslim.
So, no, I wouldn't agree.
Should've guessed.
This racism thing's really working out for you, huh? You call it racism.
I call it realistic.
Pragmatic.
You get a lot of blue-eyed, blonde Muslims? - Plenty.
- Huh.
Look the world would be a different, much safer place without Islam.
We just need the reason to unleash the might and the power that God has given to us.
(door opens, closes) SAM: Okay.
So, Patton Project wants to provoke a war between the U.
S.
and Muslim nations, right? - An excuse for genocide.
- Right.
So how does having Kelby, a U.
S.
citizen, blow up a plane help the Patton Project cause? - It doesn't.
- Then why do it? Members of the Patton Project are military.
KENSI: Right.
Right? They could have access to no-fly lists.
All types of people-- you know, teachers, students-- they get put on those lists, then they're cleared, then they're taken off the lists.
Lawford finds suspected terrorists who were eventually cleared and then allowed to fly.
And they figure out what flights they're on.
Puts his person on the plane.
Plane is blown up by an American with mental illness.
And it looks like it's the work of a suspected terrorist.
Nell, Eric.
Find flights with Muslims that were previously on the no-fly lists.
Got it.
- Coming your way.
- Nice work.
I believe something this overt is not your specialty.
Thank you.
So cross-checking flights out of southern California, we found quite a few with Muslims who were on the no-fly lists who were then removed.
There are 12 in the next two weeks, but one to Washington, D.
C.
is boarding right now.
Okay, we got to ground that flight.
Get me the DHS and the FBI now.
On our way.
Hey, tell Kensi and Deeks to bring Lawford to the airport.
Yeah.
PILOT (over P.
A.
): Flight crew, prepare for takeoff.
Please secure all tray tables and turn off all electronic devices.
Oh, flag on the play.
I'm sorry, folks.
Tower's gonna hold us here a few minutes.
(fusses) Flight's grounded.
There's talk of sending passengers through security a second time.
Do not do that.
They could spook the bomber, and when they get off, they'll exit the airport.
Start cross-checking the passenger list, see if any NELL: See if any passengers spent time in state psychiatric hospitals Lawford visited.
Already on it.
PILOT: Ladies and gentlemen, just a few more minutes here and we'll be on our way.
Thank you for your patience.
(quiet, indistinct chatter) Excuse me, miss, can your son come with me, please? What's this about? Just please come with us.
How'd we do? Looks like we have a winner.
Let's go.
Where'd you take my son? He's okay.
You'll see him in a few minutes.
I'm gonna have to ask you to remove your shirt.
Ally.
Okay.
We're gonna do it.
Stop.
Looks like a liquid binary explosive.
I think I found the detonator.
- Got to get the bomb squad in here.
- Let's go.
You had your son on that plane, Ally.
(sniffles) We're gonna get you the help you need.
Okay? Nothing's ever helped me.
(chuckles) You can say that again.
Hmm, you look like men with an agenda.
We know who made the deal.
What deal is that? (scoffs) The one that got someone thinking that we'd work for Shaked, or people like him.
Right.
I made it.
After Mexico, a lot of people up the food chain had a problem with the NCIS Office of Special Projects.
They wanted to take it apart, discard its people.
So you offer us out as a black ops team.
I saw good agents No, scratch that.
I saw great agents who were about to go down for the wrong reasons.
And, yeah, I made a deal with the devil to save your asses.
To save your careers.
And, more importantly, to save lives.
So you could do what you did today.
Today is not what we do.
- Yes, it is.
SAM: Hey.
We're not assassins.
We don't do torture.
No, it's not that simple, and you know it.
You know, in this business, we all have to walk a moral tightrope.
It's our job.
You guys want easy get a job at the post office.
OCHOA: And, FYI there's no team I'd rather walk that tightrope with than this one.
Mm.
Come with me.
(sighs) Whoa.
That's nice.
(alarm chirps) Try to not burn this one.
Good night, gentlemen.
Well, if this is cause for celebration, there is a nice little Mexican place down the street if you want to join us.
They got tequila? I believe they do.
Well, it sounds good, 'cause, uh, there's something that I'd like to talk to you guys about.
Yeah? What's that? TURK: How cool it was when I saved your lives.