NCIS Los Angeles s12e17 Episode Script
Through the Looking Glass
Oh, my God, is that Joelle's finger?
The leg couldn't be
salvaged below the knee.
She lost her leg? I'm inside you, Kensi.
You'll never get me out of your head now.
I'll be right back.
- Two, please.
- There you are, ma'am.
- Thank you.
- Anytime.
You got it.
Oh, thank you.
Enjoy.
Looks pretty full.
This is too frustrating.
Let's go upstairs.
You have too much? You are so hot.
Housekeeping.
Oh, my God.
Kens.
Yeah? You want to talk about this before we go inside? What is there to talk about? It sucks, that's it.
There's nothing to say.
It is what it is, it just sucks.
I-I have another test in here, so I can, I can try again later.
Kens we're gonna get pregnant.
You realize that after today it is full-blown IVF? That's egg retrieval.
That's more shots.
That's more money, which, by the way, we don't have.
I was in the office.
I understand.
So we get one shot at this, Deeks, and if we're lucky, it works.
If we're not lucky we have to sell our house to get a second chance.
I know.
I am so sick of being hopeful and crashing every time.
I woke up this morning and I said, "Today's the day to take the test.
"I'm gonna say a little prayer, "I'm gonna It's gonna be It's gonna be our day.
" I know.
I thought the same thing.
And then nothing.
But it's okay that it's not.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Sorry, just when you have a minute, I gotta show you something.
Sure.
We'll be right in.
It's okay that today is not our day.
- Shall we? - Yeah.
But I love you.
Love you, too.
What do we have? There's something else I gotta show you, - but a case just came in.
- What do you got? This is Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Whoa.
Did ONI send this to us? They did.
She was found dead this morning at 7:34 by the hotel maid.
Anything from the hotel security cameras? Mm-mm.
Looks like someone got into the system, erased all the drives.
This was a professional job.
What's the Office of Naval Intelligence say? Sorensen's branch director at ONI, Captain Chris Behr called, wanting to speak to us.
He's on his way up from San Diego right now.
Kensi and Deeks, meet us at the crime scene.
- Got it.
- But before you do that, there's something you need to see.
This came into NCIS headquarters at Quantico this morning.
Kessler.
That's definitely the Santa Monica Pier.
"Dear Agent Blye, wish you were here.
"Oh, right, you are.
"Hope there are no hard feelings.
Life can be too short.
David.
" The good news is he doesn't know where you work or he would have sent it here.
Okay, let's do a forensic analysis of this photo to see if it was a composite.
We don't even know if he's here in L.
A.
If it is real, let's analyze it for anything that can tell us the exact time and date it was taken.
If we can get that, then check the security cameras.
Hopefully use that to track him down.
Well, hold on, the trouble is he was pardoned by our former president.
So far, he's a free man that has done nothing wrong.
Come on.
"Life is too short"? That's an obvious threat - to a federal officer.
- It's a veiled threat, Deeks.
We'll never get a conviction off of it and you know it.
Let's just find him before he finds Kensi.
Rountree's on his way.
I'll fill him in.
We'll hit the crime scene, you meet us there with Rountree.
Kensi, Deeks, we're gonna keep you close to home.
You up for this? Of course I am.
All right.
You guys talk to Captain Behr when he gets there.
Copy that.
Watch your six.
NCIS.
One moment.
Something's up.
These are not LAPD, and they're not FBI.
They'd be wearing their jackets.
They're also not so willing to identify themselves.
Only Agents Callen and Hanna.
Wait here.
You didn't mention what agency you're with.
No, I didn't.
This way, please.
- Where's the body? - It's been removed.
By who? By me.
Joelle.
The CIA - has an interest in this? - Very much so.
With the approval of SECNAV and the Director of Central Intelligence, I'll be a liaison, coordinating and overseeing NCIS's investigation.
So you're in charge? Think of it as a partnership where I have oversight of everything.
You're back to work already.
Why not? I don't know, I thought maybe you'd take some more time.
Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen.
An outstanding intelligence officer by all accounts.
Any chance this was personal? No.
Not with how the security cameras were hacked.
The put the drives into continuous overwrite and then locked everybody out.
Some of the hotel staff did say she was seen with a man last night.
We have any idea who he is? That is the million- dollar question.
Here's how we found her.
What's the CIA doing here? We have concerns.
You care to elaborate? I'm waiting for confirmation on something.
- Confirmation of what? - Look, the CIA collects, controls, contorts and analyzes information.
NCIS investigates.
I requested your team specifically.
I really need your help on this.
All right.
Our team's gonna need access to the hotel staff.
Of course.
Let the other NCIS agents in.
And let them speak to the witnesses.
Yes, ma'am.
One of the advantages of having your leg cut off.
Everyone starts talking to you like you're the queen of England.
Was she gagged? She must've been.
And check out the photo of her fingers.
Looks like they were burnt with a lighter or a blowtorch.
She was tortured.
Possibly for information.
Any idea what she was working on? That is a question for her branch director, Officer Behr.
- He's on his way to us now.
- Take a look around.
Find me something.
I want the guy that did this.
It's not the greatest day for Kessler to show back up.
Is there ever a good day for Kessler to reappear? That's a good point.
Does he scare you? No.
Really? I've seen worse.
Yeah, but he's incredibly intelligent.
So am I.
- And highly disturbed.
- And I'm very, very skilled.
Well, he scares me.
I mean, granted, I'm a guy wearing a pink sweatshirt who cries every time he watches E.
T.
What's your point, Deeks? You yelled out his name a couple weeks ago while you were sleeping.
Okay.
I've been dreaming of him.
Well he did what he said he was gonna do then.
He's in your head.
I don't know if this, this is the day to have this conversation.
Well, you started it, - so - I did.
So I'm gonna approach this conversation as two people that are very much in love - just having a conversation.
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
And I'm thinking about you with Kessler, all this pregnancy stuff The logistics, the physicalities, the emotion, and I think that you should consider I think you should consider seeing somebody.
I don't need a therapist, Deeks.
I don't.
I don't need to see someone.
We all know how strong you are.
And we know that I, that I can see you just white-knuckling this.
Right? That you're trying to handle the whole thing by yourself, but I need you to know something.
I'm not with you because you're strong, I'm with you because you're you.
In sickness or in health, in strength or in weakness.
Deeks, I'm not weak, I'm not sick.
- I'm not any of those things.
- I'm not saying I'm not - So, Deeks - saying that you're sick or Hey, uh, Captain Behr is about 15 minutes out.
Cool.
Thank you.
Let me know if he has anything.
- Yep.
- Will do.
Great.
This is too much for one person to carry.
And if you don't want to talk to me about that, that's totally fine.
But I think you need to talk to somebody.
This is them.
- Mr.
Tatsuno.
- Yes? - Special Agent Fatima Namazi.
- Special Agent Rountree.
We understand that you served drinks to this woman? Yeah.
Uh, last night.
Was she with anybody? She was with a man.
Uh, like I told the other officers, he might have been Hispanic, uh, beard, mid-40s.
Did you get a name or a credit card? No, I d I didn't serve him.
Uh, they were sitting at the couch by the fire.
I was working the bar.
It was weird.
She kept coming up to the bar to order and bringing it back to the table to him.
And that's weird because? Well, I mean, it's usually the guy that buys the drinks and then brings it back.
She paid, as well.
Well, would you recognize him if you saw him again? Yeah.
No, absolutely.
I remember his face.
All right, well, would you be willing to work with a sketch artist? Uh, of course.
Um, yeah, I'm free the rest of the day.
Sometimes you get lucky.
All right, we'll set it up.
On the chair, the sleeve on her blouse is unbuttoned.
In this one, it's buttoned.
My people must have done that.
Sorry.
Your people have the body? Yes.
Until we know what's going on here, no aspect of this is out of our control.
Clearly.
Okay.
I've got confirmation.
Take a look.
John Bradbury.
He was a friend of mine and a colleague.
A CIA officer.
Yeah.
He was murdered about six months ago.
I wasn't involved in what he was working on, and the details were never made available.
But I heard some things, so I asked for his file, and this is what they sent.
Bound and zip-tied.
Check out this photo of his fingers.
Looks like they were burnt with a lighter or blowtorch.
Same as Sorensen.
Someone is torturing intelligence officers.
And slitting their throats.
And that's why I'm here.
The eyes are round like that.
Right.
You seeing the feed from the tablet? I got it.
Okay.
So, Callen says Lieutenant Commander Sorensen's murder has the same M.
O.
as a CIA officer named John Bradbury.
How good do you have to be to kill highly trained operatives? I'd say scary good.
Hey.
Thank you.
So, y-you believe she was tortured? It appears that way, yeah.
Is there any intelligence that you know of that would make Lieutenant Commander Sorensen a target of something like this? I would need to look over all the reports she authored and the projects that she was actively involved with.
So, she had access to highly classified information at ONI? Yes, she reviewed hundreds of investigations and reports.
Her expertise was cyberattacks and countermeasures.
There's not only the work she did at ONI, but also projects she participated in as a member of other interagency task forces.
And I'm not privy to a lot of that information.
Fatima.
See if you can find out what task force Sorensen might have been involved in.
That is all gonna be highly classified and not easily discoverable.
There might be another way.
What are you thinking? We check the service records of Sorensen and Bradbury, see if there's any correlation in their assignments or movement.
Yeah, that's smart.
We'll look into that.
Was the lieutenant commander married? She wasn't.
She ever talk about seeing anybody? She did say there was somebody that she'd met at a conference in Washington about three months ago.
She said she thought he might have been CIA.
She thought he was CIA or-or he was CIA? He presented as a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, but Lieutenant Commander Sorensen's Spidey-senses were telling her something different.
That he was a CIA officer? Something like that.
She joked that she didn't even think he gave her his real name.
- Did she give you a name at all? - No.
Well, if she did, I don't remember it.
Sam? - Callen? - We're here.
Officer Taylor is onto something.
Lieutenant Commander Sorensen and CIA Officer Bradbury were out of the country on the exact same date two years ago.
And they flew a commercial airline on the same flight.
What was their destination? Well, we were able to trace them together as far as Odessa, Ukraine, and they returned on a military flight originating out of a NATO base in Poland.
Most likely went into Ukraine undercover.
Probably so they could get into Russia covertly.
Then when their mission was finished, they escaped into Poland.
We're gonna need the names of anybody else associated with that task force.
It'd also be nice to know what the operation was.
I'll talk to Langley, see if they're willing to give me that information.
Why wouldn'tthey be? Sorensen was murdered, Bradbury's one of their own.
Dirty deeds.
There are some things, even given the assassination of an officer, that the CIA never wants the world to know about.
It's just so, so sad.
If Hetty were here, she'd have access to this information.
Whoa.
Little big.
Cheese and crackers.
The whining in this office is insufferable.
You would think, with all the colonics and the meditation, you'd be a little better at facing adversity.
You meditate, sir? Do you think I meditate, Ms.
Jones? I think you might meditate to relax or I do not meditate.
I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.
Noted.
It's just, Hetty was always helpful in these situations.
Mary Poppins is helpful.
She is also not here.
I am.
What would you like us to do, Admiral? Just pick up the damn phone and talk to me.
I have already started inquiries about Sorensen and Bradbury's task force.
Hetty's not the only one with connections.
Noted.
And whatever you do, don't text me.
Talk, use your mouth the way humans have done with each other for eons.
Well, at least he listens in on our conversations like Hetty.
You bet your ass I do.
And if anybody sends me an emoji, they will be boiled.
I'll bring Langley up to speed, see if they'll give me any information.
I'm gonna stay, see if Kensi and Deeks get anything else out of Captain Behr.
All right.
I'll head back, look at the threat assessments coming out of Russia and Ukraine, see if I can figure out what the task force mission was.
Haven't answered my calls in over a month.
That was intentional.
Why? Don't want Anna to become jealous.
Anna's the one that's been telling me to check in with you.
She's a good woman.
She is also a complex woman.
Look who's talking.
Point taken.
Hold on to her, Callen.
How did this become about me and Anna? Done.
I sent everything about the case to my section chief.
We'll see what they give us.
I know the Agency didn't ask you to come back to work so soon.
No.
Like I said, Bradbury was a friend.
The Agency gave me the go-ahead and the resources to initiate this investigation.
Granted, it could have been out of pity.
Your injury isn't even close to being healed.
You mean my amputation? Call it what it is.
You need time to recover.
Emotionally, physically.
Revenge is a strong motivator.
Uh, Captain Behr is heading back to San Diego.
Yeah, he'll see if anyone else has information on who Lieutenant Commander Sorensen may have been seeing.
Hey, guys, Admiral Kilbride got us two names that were also on the task force.
CIA Officers Paul Winters and Steven Erdnase.
Both are retired, both are not answering their phones.
We have an address in Agua Dulce for Winters, and Erdnase has a house in O.
C.
- We'll check out Erdnase.
- Yeah.
Have Sam and Rountree get Winters.
Yep, we're on it.
Paul Winters! NCIS! We need to talk to you immediately! Engine's not warm.
I got blood.
Looks like someone was dragged this way.
I've got a body.
Fatima, we're gonna need an ambulance out to Winters' place ASAP.
On it.
He's cold.
No pulse.
His fingers are burnt like the other two.
And I got a whole bunch of C-4.
Clear! Was that for us, or whoever found him? I don't know.
It was attached to a remote.
They were watching us.
Thank you.
Yeah.
All right, thanks.
LAPD is checking the area to see if anyone saw what happened.
Nell's checking traffic and security cameras.
They're not gonna find anything.
These guys were highly trained, area's too remote.
So you think it was more than one guy? It's a team, for sure.
Sam, you okay? All good.
How come he never asks how I'm doing? - He cares about me.
- Ah, that's cute.
Did you get a look at Winters' body before the explosion? Everything matched.
Restrained, burnt fingers.
Only thing different was the bomb.
Whoever they were, they saw us coming, and they waited till we got close to the body.
I uploaded all the information about the investigation back to Langley.
A lot of people knew we were coming here.
Sorensen said the guy she was dating could have been CIA.
You ready to stop sharing information about our investigation? Yeah.
Could have been me.
And I wouldn't have gotten away so fast with this cane.
- Callen, Sam.
- We're here.
Dylan Tatsuno and the sketch artist are finished.
Sending it to your phones.
They finished the sketch of the suspect.
Tatsuno seems pretty confident it looks like the man he saw in the bar last night.
Sorensen said the guy presented as a Defense Intelligence analyst.
That means there's an I.
D.
photo of him at DIA.
All right, let's start running the sketch against all male Defense Intelligence officers.
We're on it.
- Y'ello.
- Hey.
You guys there? Yeah.
Erdnase is not here.
We checked inside the house; Car's not here, either.
Stay there until he gets back.
But be careful.
Sam said whoever's behind this was waiting for them.
Yeah, we heard Winters' house was "da bomb.
" You're doing dad jokes now? Yeah, your kids are gonna love you.
Keep checking in with Nell? Um, yep, no, copy that.
That was a little brutal.
Yeah.
That's why you don't say anything until after the first trimester.
Hang in there.
Fatima.
You and Rountree, see if Erdnase has any other residences, hotel bookings, anything.
All right, let's do this.
Sam? I need you up here now.
So I think we have a match to the sketch.
Defense Intelligence Officer Michael Olmos.
He works out of the DIA headquarters in Washington.
That's a good match.
We need to find him fast.
Run him through facial rec, see if he came through any of the Los Angeles airports.
Yep, I'm on it.
You're missing the connective tissue.
Four officers from one task force have been hunted down one by one.
Why? It might go back to the task force's operation in Ukraine or Russia.
Olmos could be a deep-cover Russian agent who's killing U.
S.
operatives who were running a covert mission in his country? Good a place as any to start.
We need to find out what that op was.
I'm still trying to get the after action report on the task force without letting the entire agency know what I'm looking at.
And find Erdnase, fast.
If we don't, I can't imagine he'll be alive much longer.
What are you doing? I don't need all my conversations to be public.
I The only link I can find now is that CIA Officer John Bradbury and Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen were both experts in cybersecurity.
You shouldn't be back at work if you need to take that much pain medication.
Have I handled myself inappropriately? - No.
- Am I aiding in this investigation? That's not the point.
This is about your health.
My health is my business.
So please stay out of it.
I don't want to.
I care about you.
I always have.
Why? Is it so hard for you to believe that someone could feel that way about you? I know who I am, Callen.
So do I.
A friend I trust at the Agency just sent the after action report.
The task force was sent to the Ukraine to then covertly cross into Russia.
We got that part right.
They were targeting Aleksei Zhirkov.
Zhirkov was a principal at SVR in charge of cyberattacks against both U.
S.
military - and civilian infrastructure.
- I remember this.
Aleksei Zhirkov turned up dead in Poland.
Some people thought that he wanted to defect.
Mm, something must have gone wrong.
Hey, Nell? Send me anything we have on SVR Agent Aleksei Zhirkov's death.
Yep, I'm on it.
Look at his fingers.
They're burnt.
Aleksei Zhirkov was tortured the same way Sorensen, Bradbury and Winters were.
And his throat was cut.
He wasn't trying to defect.
This was a forced rendition.
They grabbed Aleksei Zhirkov and took him to a black site in Poland.
Wow.
And then the officers tortured and killed him.
You have no proof of that.
We don't even know if he was in their custody.
Well, take a look at this, then.
Aleksei Zhirkov is the illegitimate son of Yuri Kirilenko.
Yuri Kirilenko is second-in-command at SVR, the Russian intelligence agency.
According to CIA records, Kirilenko had Aleksei with a mistress.
And if the task force did kill Aleksei Zhirkov Yuri Kirilenko would have used every resource available to SVR to track down the agents responsible.
Aleksei was his son, his blood.
This is Kirilenko's revenge for his son's murder.
And Kirilenko is using DIA Officer Olmos, a Russian agent, to kill the four members of the task force.
And do it in the exact same way his son was killed.
Burning his fingers, torturing them, cutting their throats.
What comes around goes around.
That's another good reason not to use torture.
You don't prompt your enemies to do the same to you.
Sam? Hey, we may have found something.
- You want to come take a look? - Coming to you.
What'd you find? So, Erdnase has an LLC that he used to buy a large piece of land in Palm Desert.
We didn't find a home built on there, but he does have a mobile home on it.
I'll call local PD, tell them to get out to the property and see if he's there.
All right, if he is there, arrange a helo.
Callen and I will go pick him up.
Missing an opportunity.
You're right.
Don't pick him up.
Use him as bait.
Exactly.
I want Olmos, but it's got to be controlled, safe.
We are not losing the last CIA officer.
All right, Rountree, with me.
Have Kensi and Deeks meet us.
We're gonna need some support agents.
Two helicopters will be fueled and ready in 30.
We'll pick up Callen and Joelle.
Sam, Deeks, react team in position? We're about a mile out.
We can be there within a minute.
Kens, you set up? Good to go.
Okay, don't blink.
These guys are pros, and they could be coming from anywhere.
Rountree, you good? I'm in position.
Now we wait.
So what happened with Aleksei Zhirkov? Why'd your task force team kill him? That's a need-to-know piece of intelligence.
We almost lost two team members working on this case, so And right now, we're the only thing standing between you and a Russian operative hell-bent on slitting your throat.
So I think we need to know what this is about.
You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
We're pretty open-minded.
Why don't you take a shot? Okay.
Aleksei Zhirkov isn't dead.
We saw the case photos, we read the police report.
Aleksei lived his whole life under the thumb of his father, Yuri Kirilenko.
Aleksei wanted a clean way to defect.
Our mission was to get him out so his father could never track him down.
His death was faked.
You worked for the company, Agent Callen.
You know what we're capable of.
The CIA creates its own reality.
Well, then, your reality just backfired on you and got three officers killed.
Callen, I'm seeing three what look like SUVs moving quickly to your position.
They're about 30 seconds out.
Looks like Olmos is coming in with two other cars.
Three SUVs, that could be 12 guys.
You want us to move? No, hold.
Let them get close.
I don't want to spook him.
They stopped.
He's out.
Move in.
Agent Callen.
How does he know who I am? Agent Callen, I'm CIA Officer Michael Olmos.
CIA? Check it, fast.
Finding out now.
This is CIA Officer Chris Behr.
You also knew him as ONI Captain Behr.
She said she thought he might have been CIA.
She give you a name at all? Well, if she did, I don't remember it.
Just step outside, and we'll explain everything.
What the hell is going on? Kens, you got him? I got Olmos.
I got Behr.
Right there! Hold it! - Out of the vehicle! - Let's take it easy.
- Don't move! - Just hear me out.
Yeah, I need to speak to Intelligence Director Northrop.
This is an emergency.
Check 'em, check 'em.
Whoa.
Put the gun down.
We're all on the same side.
Back up, back up.
Where I can see you.
Just tell your men to lower their weapons.
Callen, what the hell is going on? Hold your fire.
I understand you need proof.
Watch.
I'm CIA Officer Dylan Tatsuno.
They were sitting at the couch by the fire.
I was working the bar.
Would you recognize him if you saw him again? Yeah.
I remember his face.
Keep watching.
Let's go upstairs.
This is Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen, CIA Officer John Bradbury He was murdered about six months ago.
CIA Officer Paul Winters.
I've got a body.
All very much alive and well.
Aren't they supposed to be dead? What is happening? Special Agent Callen, you are through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole.
Tell your men to lower their weapons.
I spoke to the director.
They're telling the truth.
Stand down.
Lower your weapons.
Can we speak privately? I've been selling intelligence to SVR for nearly two years to establish myself as a double agent.
After we ran our operation to get Aleksei Zhirkov to defect to the United States by faking his murder, we found out Yuri Kirilenko, Aleksei's father, put out a bounty on the heads of the officers responsible for his son's death.
It was a prime opportunity we couldn't pass up.
By faking the four officers' deaths And having NCIS, a legitimate U.
S.
law enforcement agency, investigate those deaths It would secure my position inside Russian intelligence.
I'd become a trusted confidant to Yuri Kirilenko for the killing and torturing of the people who murdered his son.
So we were used? We're foot soldiers, Callen.
We're all used.
You know about this? No.
But we saw the dead bodies.
You did.
And in a way, you didn't.
We used Jane and John Does that matched our officers, culled from the morgues all over the country.
Great.
Thanks.
Let's bring in our Jane.
These are the bodies that will be found.
As soon as local police are called, we step in, take over.
There's never a comparison, so the bodies only have to roughly match our officers.
Weight, hair color and clothing are all that's needed.
Everything wiped, even the backups.
Almost finished.
Just taking care of these last two cameras.
That's why the sleeves didn't match up.
The sleeve on her blouse is unbuttoned.
This one, it's buttoned.
My people must have done that.
Sorry.
Because your team was going to find Winters' body, he had to be blown up.
Otherwise, you'd have seen it wasn't really Winters.
So you weren't trying to blow us up.
That's really thoughtful.
Appreciate it.
We don't blow up federal agents.
Once you saw the body, we just needed to get you the hell out of there.
They're far enough away.
Blow it.
Hmm.
And the "dead officers" go into hiding.
Until Olmos's op as a Russian agent is terminated.
So having us do all this was just to make it look real to the Russians? Yes.
- You could have told us.
- It was all on a need-to-know basis.
And you didn't need to know.
It made it all that much more authentic, though, don't you think? So now we make our story.
Local PD receives an anonymous call and arrives here to report finding the body of retired CIA Officer Steven Erdnase.
Killed with the same M.
O.
as the other members of his task force.
All right, Steve, that's good.
We got it.
Thanks.
All right.
Told you.
Through the looking glass.
This is the body you found when you sadly arrived too late to save CIA Officer Erdnase.
You take over the case.
Officer Taylor will remove this body for reasons of national security, blah, blah, blah.
The photos we took of the real Officer Erdnase will be leaked, eventually making their way back to Kirilenko in Moscow as proof of death.
And I become a trusted hero in the eyes of Russian intelligence.
I've seen enough.
Let's get out of here.
Trust you'll fill out your report appropriately.
Or we could do it for you, if you like.
Hey.
One line.
Negative.
That's okay.
That's okay.
Hey, wanted to catch you before you left.
Uh, that photo of Kessler wasn't a composite.
He was here in L.
A.
And there's nothing in that photo that tells us when it was taken.
I'm really sorry.
It's okay.
Have a good night.
You, too, and drive safe.
What can I do? You want to know what I need? Yes.
Always.
I think I need time.
Okay.
Time.
Great.
What does, what does, what does? - What does that mean? - We need to put a pause on trying to have this baby.
Okay.
I don't want you to be disappointed in me.
And I'm sorry.
Baby, I don't think I've ever been disappointed in you in my whole, entire life.
Um It's just with Kessler still being out there, you know, and, um, I feel like I'm constantly under attack.
Listen, these are horrible circumstances to try to get pregnant.
- It's too much.
- Too much.
So we take time.
And I say time As much time as you need.
Yeah.
But I do need you to know that I'm not quitting.
- Okay? I am not quitting.
- No.
Of course.
I know that.
There's something I've been thinking about.
There's a lot of kids out there with no parents.
Yeah, there are.
And I'm not saying that we have to adopt, you know.
I'm just saying it's something that we I have thought of.
- Why are you smiling? - It's just that great moment when I realize this is just one of the many reasons that I love you.
Why? I mean, you're getting attacked from all sides, you're trying to punch your way out, and in the midst of all that, you're thinking about helping some kid? Thank you for being you.
Could we go home now? That would be so amazing to go home with you.
Come on.
You know what we should do instead of going home? - Come here.
- What? I think we've earned ourselves a margarita.
- Ooh.
- Like, multiple margaritas.
Joelle? Wait up.
It's late, Callen.
You know I was a CIA officer.
What's your point? I made some calls.
You played us.
You knew everything.
It was an opportunity to place an operative within the highest levels of Russian intelligence.
What's more important than that? Nothing.
So this was all about revenge, getting back at Katya, or SVR, whoever did this to you.
I know you're hurting.
I understand, but living obsessed like this is not good.
No, you don't understand.
I've lost my husband and my child.
My body has been permanently mutilated.
All I have left is my taste for blood.
She lost her leg? I'm inside you, Kensi.
You'll never get me out of your head now.
I'll be right back.
- Two, please.
- There you are, ma'am.
- Thank you.
- Anytime.
You got it.
Oh, thank you.
Enjoy.
Looks pretty full.
This is too frustrating.
Let's go upstairs.
You have too much? You are so hot.
Housekeeping.
Oh, my God.
Kens.
Yeah? You want to talk about this before we go inside? What is there to talk about? It sucks, that's it.
There's nothing to say.
It is what it is, it just sucks.
I-I have another test in here, so I can, I can try again later.
Kens we're gonna get pregnant.
You realize that after today it is full-blown IVF? That's egg retrieval.
That's more shots.
That's more money, which, by the way, we don't have.
I was in the office.
I understand.
So we get one shot at this, Deeks, and if we're lucky, it works.
If we're not lucky we have to sell our house to get a second chance.
I know.
I am so sick of being hopeful and crashing every time.
I woke up this morning and I said, "Today's the day to take the test.
"I'm gonna say a little prayer, "I'm gonna It's gonna be It's gonna be our day.
" I know.
I thought the same thing.
And then nothing.
But it's okay that it's not.
Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Sorry, just when you have a minute, I gotta show you something.
Sure.
We'll be right in.
It's okay that today is not our day.
- Shall we? - Yeah.
But I love you.
Love you, too.
What do we have? There's something else I gotta show you, - but a case just came in.
- What do you got? This is Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Whoa.
Did ONI send this to us? They did.
She was found dead this morning at 7:34 by the hotel maid.
Anything from the hotel security cameras? Mm-mm.
Looks like someone got into the system, erased all the drives.
This was a professional job.
What's the Office of Naval Intelligence say? Sorensen's branch director at ONI, Captain Chris Behr called, wanting to speak to us.
He's on his way up from San Diego right now.
Kensi and Deeks, meet us at the crime scene.
- Got it.
- But before you do that, there's something you need to see.
This came into NCIS headquarters at Quantico this morning.
Kessler.
That's definitely the Santa Monica Pier.
"Dear Agent Blye, wish you were here.
"Oh, right, you are.
"Hope there are no hard feelings.
Life can be too short.
David.
" The good news is he doesn't know where you work or he would have sent it here.
Okay, let's do a forensic analysis of this photo to see if it was a composite.
We don't even know if he's here in L.
A.
If it is real, let's analyze it for anything that can tell us the exact time and date it was taken.
If we can get that, then check the security cameras.
Hopefully use that to track him down.
Well, hold on, the trouble is he was pardoned by our former president.
So far, he's a free man that has done nothing wrong.
Come on.
"Life is too short"? That's an obvious threat - to a federal officer.
- It's a veiled threat, Deeks.
We'll never get a conviction off of it and you know it.
Let's just find him before he finds Kensi.
Rountree's on his way.
I'll fill him in.
We'll hit the crime scene, you meet us there with Rountree.
Kensi, Deeks, we're gonna keep you close to home.
You up for this? Of course I am.
All right.
You guys talk to Captain Behr when he gets there.
Copy that.
Watch your six.
NCIS.
One moment.
Something's up.
These are not LAPD, and they're not FBI.
They'd be wearing their jackets.
They're also not so willing to identify themselves.
Only Agents Callen and Hanna.
Wait here.
You didn't mention what agency you're with.
No, I didn't.
This way, please.
- Where's the body? - It's been removed.
By who? By me.
Joelle.
The CIA - has an interest in this? - Very much so.
With the approval of SECNAV and the Director of Central Intelligence, I'll be a liaison, coordinating and overseeing NCIS's investigation.
So you're in charge? Think of it as a partnership where I have oversight of everything.
You're back to work already.
Why not? I don't know, I thought maybe you'd take some more time.
Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen.
An outstanding intelligence officer by all accounts.
Any chance this was personal? No.
Not with how the security cameras were hacked.
The put the drives into continuous overwrite and then locked everybody out.
Some of the hotel staff did say she was seen with a man last night.
We have any idea who he is? That is the million- dollar question.
Here's how we found her.
What's the CIA doing here? We have concerns.
You care to elaborate? I'm waiting for confirmation on something.
- Confirmation of what? - Look, the CIA collects, controls, contorts and analyzes information.
NCIS investigates.
I requested your team specifically.
I really need your help on this.
All right.
Our team's gonna need access to the hotel staff.
Of course.
Let the other NCIS agents in.
And let them speak to the witnesses.
Yes, ma'am.
One of the advantages of having your leg cut off.
Everyone starts talking to you like you're the queen of England.
Was she gagged? She must've been.
And check out the photo of her fingers.
Looks like they were burnt with a lighter or a blowtorch.
She was tortured.
Possibly for information.
Any idea what she was working on? That is a question for her branch director, Officer Behr.
- He's on his way to us now.
- Take a look around.
Find me something.
I want the guy that did this.
It's not the greatest day for Kessler to show back up.
Is there ever a good day for Kessler to reappear? That's a good point.
Does he scare you? No.
Really? I've seen worse.
Yeah, but he's incredibly intelligent.
So am I.
- And highly disturbed.
- And I'm very, very skilled.
Well, he scares me.
I mean, granted, I'm a guy wearing a pink sweatshirt who cries every time he watches E.
T.
What's your point, Deeks? You yelled out his name a couple weeks ago while you were sleeping.
Okay.
I've been dreaming of him.
Well he did what he said he was gonna do then.
He's in your head.
I don't know if this, this is the day to have this conversation.
Well, you started it, - so - I did.
So I'm gonna approach this conversation as two people that are very much in love - just having a conversation.
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
And I'm thinking about you with Kessler, all this pregnancy stuff The logistics, the physicalities, the emotion, and I think that you should consider I think you should consider seeing somebody.
I don't need a therapist, Deeks.
I don't.
I don't need to see someone.
We all know how strong you are.
And we know that I, that I can see you just white-knuckling this.
Right? That you're trying to handle the whole thing by yourself, but I need you to know something.
I'm not with you because you're strong, I'm with you because you're you.
In sickness or in health, in strength or in weakness.
Deeks, I'm not weak, I'm not sick.
- I'm not any of those things.
- I'm not saying I'm not - So, Deeks - saying that you're sick or Hey, uh, Captain Behr is about 15 minutes out.
Cool.
Thank you.
Let me know if he has anything.
- Yep.
- Will do.
Great.
This is too much for one person to carry.
And if you don't want to talk to me about that, that's totally fine.
But I think you need to talk to somebody.
This is them.
- Mr.
Tatsuno.
- Yes? - Special Agent Fatima Namazi.
- Special Agent Rountree.
We understand that you served drinks to this woman? Yeah.
Uh, last night.
Was she with anybody? She was with a man.
Uh, like I told the other officers, he might have been Hispanic, uh, beard, mid-40s.
Did you get a name or a credit card? No, I d I didn't serve him.
Uh, they were sitting at the couch by the fire.
I was working the bar.
It was weird.
She kept coming up to the bar to order and bringing it back to the table to him.
And that's weird because? Well, I mean, it's usually the guy that buys the drinks and then brings it back.
She paid, as well.
Well, would you recognize him if you saw him again? Yeah.
No, absolutely.
I remember his face.
All right, well, would you be willing to work with a sketch artist? Uh, of course.
Um, yeah, I'm free the rest of the day.
Sometimes you get lucky.
All right, we'll set it up.
On the chair, the sleeve on her blouse is unbuttoned.
In this one, it's buttoned.
My people must have done that.
Sorry.
Your people have the body? Yes.
Until we know what's going on here, no aspect of this is out of our control.
Clearly.
Okay.
I've got confirmation.
Take a look.
John Bradbury.
He was a friend of mine and a colleague.
A CIA officer.
Yeah.
He was murdered about six months ago.
I wasn't involved in what he was working on, and the details were never made available.
But I heard some things, so I asked for his file, and this is what they sent.
Bound and zip-tied.
Check out this photo of his fingers.
Looks like they were burnt with a lighter or blowtorch.
Same as Sorensen.
Someone is torturing intelligence officers.
And slitting their throats.
And that's why I'm here.
The eyes are round like that.
Right.
You seeing the feed from the tablet? I got it.
Okay.
So, Callen says Lieutenant Commander Sorensen's murder has the same M.
O.
as a CIA officer named John Bradbury.
How good do you have to be to kill highly trained operatives? I'd say scary good.
Hey.
Thank you.
So, y-you believe she was tortured? It appears that way, yeah.
Is there any intelligence that you know of that would make Lieutenant Commander Sorensen a target of something like this? I would need to look over all the reports she authored and the projects that she was actively involved with.
So, she had access to highly classified information at ONI? Yes, she reviewed hundreds of investigations and reports.
Her expertise was cyberattacks and countermeasures.
There's not only the work she did at ONI, but also projects she participated in as a member of other interagency task forces.
And I'm not privy to a lot of that information.
Fatima.
See if you can find out what task force Sorensen might have been involved in.
That is all gonna be highly classified and not easily discoverable.
There might be another way.
What are you thinking? We check the service records of Sorensen and Bradbury, see if there's any correlation in their assignments or movement.
Yeah, that's smart.
We'll look into that.
Was the lieutenant commander married? She wasn't.
She ever talk about seeing anybody? She did say there was somebody that she'd met at a conference in Washington about three months ago.
She said she thought he might have been CIA.
She thought he was CIA or-or he was CIA? He presented as a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, but Lieutenant Commander Sorensen's Spidey-senses were telling her something different.
That he was a CIA officer? Something like that.
She joked that she didn't even think he gave her his real name.
- Did she give you a name at all? - No.
Well, if she did, I don't remember it.
Sam? - Callen? - We're here.
Officer Taylor is onto something.
Lieutenant Commander Sorensen and CIA Officer Bradbury were out of the country on the exact same date two years ago.
And they flew a commercial airline on the same flight.
What was their destination? Well, we were able to trace them together as far as Odessa, Ukraine, and they returned on a military flight originating out of a NATO base in Poland.
Most likely went into Ukraine undercover.
Probably so they could get into Russia covertly.
Then when their mission was finished, they escaped into Poland.
We're gonna need the names of anybody else associated with that task force.
It'd also be nice to know what the operation was.
I'll talk to Langley, see if they're willing to give me that information.
Why wouldn'tthey be? Sorensen was murdered, Bradbury's one of their own.
Dirty deeds.
There are some things, even given the assassination of an officer, that the CIA never wants the world to know about.
It's just so, so sad.
If Hetty were here, she'd have access to this information.
Whoa.
Little big.
Cheese and crackers.
The whining in this office is insufferable.
You would think, with all the colonics and the meditation, you'd be a little better at facing adversity.
You meditate, sir? Do you think I meditate, Ms.
Jones? I think you might meditate to relax or I do not meditate.
I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.
Noted.
It's just, Hetty was always helpful in these situations.
Mary Poppins is helpful.
She is also not here.
I am.
What would you like us to do, Admiral? Just pick up the damn phone and talk to me.
I have already started inquiries about Sorensen and Bradbury's task force.
Hetty's not the only one with connections.
Noted.
And whatever you do, don't text me.
Talk, use your mouth the way humans have done with each other for eons.
Well, at least he listens in on our conversations like Hetty.
You bet your ass I do.
And if anybody sends me an emoji, they will be boiled.
I'll bring Langley up to speed, see if they'll give me any information.
I'm gonna stay, see if Kensi and Deeks get anything else out of Captain Behr.
All right.
I'll head back, look at the threat assessments coming out of Russia and Ukraine, see if I can figure out what the task force mission was.
Haven't answered my calls in over a month.
That was intentional.
Why? Don't want Anna to become jealous.
Anna's the one that's been telling me to check in with you.
She's a good woman.
She is also a complex woman.
Look who's talking.
Point taken.
Hold on to her, Callen.
How did this become about me and Anna? Done.
I sent everything about the case to my section chief.
We'll see what they give us.
I know the Agency didn't ask you to come back to work so soon.
No.
Like I said, Bradbury was a friend.
The Agency gave me the go-ahead and the resources to initiate this investigation.
Granted, it could have been out of pity.
Your injury isn't even close to being healed.
You mean my amputation? Call it what it is.
You need time to recover.
Emotionally, physically.
Revenge is a strong motivator.
Uh, Captain Behr is heading back to San Diego.
Yeah, he'll see if anyone else has information on who Lieutenant Commander Sorensen may have been seeing.
Hey, guys, Admiral Kilbride got us two names that were also on the task force.
CIA Officers Paul Winters and Steven Erdnase.
Both are retired, both are not answering their phones.
We have an address in Agua Dulce for Winters, and Erdnase has a house in O.
C.
- We'll check out Erdnase.
- Yeah.
Have Sam and Rountree get Winters.
Yep, we're on it.
Paul Winters! NCIS! We need to talk to you immediately! Engine's not warm.
I got blood.
Looks like someone was dragged this way.
I've got a body.
Fatima, we're gonna need an ambulance out to Winters' place ASAP.
On it.
He's cold.
No pulse.
His fingers are burnt like the other two.
And I got a whole bunch of C-4.
Clear! Was that for us, or whoever found him? I don't know.
It was attached to a remote.
They were watching us.
Thank you.
Yeah.
All right, thanks.
LAPD is checking the area to see if anyone saw what happened.
Nell's checking traffic and security cameras.
They're not gonna find anything.
These guys were highly trained, area's too remote.
So you think it was more than one guy? It's a team, for sure.
Sam, you okay? All good.
How come he never asks how I'm doing? - He cares about me.
- Ah, that's cute.
Did you get a look at Winters' body before the explosion? Everything matched.
Restrained, burnt fingers.
Only thing different was the bomb.
Whoever they were, they saw us coming, and they waited till we got close to the body.
I uploaded all the information about the investigation back to Langley.
A lot of people knew we were coming here.
Sorensen said the guy she was dating could have been CIA.
You ready to stop sharing information about our investigation? Yeah.
Could have been me.
And I wouldn't have gotten away so fast with this cane.
- Callen, Sam.
- We're here.
Dylan Tatsuno and the sketch artist are finished.
Sending it to your phones.
They finished the sketch of the suspect.
Tatsuno seems pretty confident it looks like the man he saw in the bar last night.
Sorensen said the guy presented as a Defense Intelligence analyst.
That means there's an I.
D.
photo of him at DIA.
All right, let's start running the sketch against all male Defense Intelligence officers.
We're on it.
- Y'ello.
- Hey.
You guys there? Yeah.
Erdnase is not here.
We checked inside the house; Car's not here, either.
Stay there until he gets back.
But be careful.
Sam said whoever's behind this was waiting for them.
Yeah, we heard Winters' house was "da bomb.
" You're doing dad jokes now? Yeah, your kids are gonna love you.
Keep checking in with Nell? Um, yep, no, copy that.
That was a little brutal.
Yeah.
That's why you don't say anything until after the first trimester.
Hang in there.
Fatima.
You and Rountree, see if Erdnase has any other residences, hotel bookings, anything.
All right, let's do this.
Sam? I need you up here now.
So I think we have a match to the sketch.
Defense Intelligence Officer Michael Olmos.
He works out of the DIA headquarters in Washington.
That's a good match.
We need to find him fast.
Run him through facial rec, see if he came through any of the Los Angeles airports.
Yep, I'm on it.
You're missing the connective tissue.
Four officers from one task force have been hunted down one by one.
Why? It might go back to the task force's operation in Ukraine or Russia.
Olmos could be a deep-cover Russian agent who's killing U.
S.
operatives who were running a covert mission in his country? Good a place as any to start.
We need to find out what that op was.
I'm still trying to get the after action report on the task force without letting the entire agency know what I'm looking at.
And find Erdnase, fast.
If we don't, I can't imagine he'll be alive much longer.
What are you doing? I don't need all my conversations to be public.
I The only link I can find now is that CIA Officer John Bradbury and Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen were both experts in cybersecurity.
You shouldn't be back at work if you need to take that much pain medication.
Have I handled myself inappropriately? - No.
- Am I aiding in this investigation? That's not the point.
This is about your health.
My health is my business.
So please stay out of it.
I don't want to.
I care about you.
I always have.
Why? Is it so hard for you to believe that someone could feel that way about you? I know who I am, Callen.
So do I.
A friend I trust at the Agency just sent the after action report.
The task force was sent to the Ukraine to then covertly cross into Russia.
We got that part right.
They were targeting Aleksei Zhirkov.
Zhirkov was a principal at SVR in charge of cyberattacks against both U.
S.
military - and civilian infrastructure.
- I remember this.
Aleksei Zhirkov turned up dead in Poland.
Some people thought that he wanted to defect.
Mm, something must have gone wrong.
Hey, Nell? Send me anything we have on SVR Agent Aleksei Zhirkov's death.
Yep, I'm on it.
Look at his fingers.
They're burnt.
Aleksei Zhirkov was tortured the same way Sorensen, Bradbury and Winters were.
And his throat was cut.
He wasn't trying to defect.
This was a forced rendition.
They grabbed Aleksei Zhirkov and took him to a black site in Poland.
Wow.
And then the officers tortured and killed him.
You have no proof of that.
We don't even know if he was in their custody.
Well, take a look at this, then.
Aleksei Zhirkov is the illegitimate son of Yuri Kirilenko.
Yuri Kirilenko is second-in-command at SVR, the Russian intelligence agency.
According to CIA records, Kirilenko had Aleksei with a mistress.
And if the task force did kill Aleksei Zhirkov Yuri Kirilenko would have used every resource available to SVR to track down the agents responsible.
Aleksei was his son, his blood.
This is Kirilenko's revenge for his son's murder.
And Kirilenko is using DIA Officer Olmos, a Russian agent, to kill the four members of the task force.
And do it in the exact same way his son was killed.
Burning his fingers, torturing them, cutting their throats.
What comes around goes around.
That's another good reason not to use torture.
You don't prompt your enemies to do the same to you.
Sam? Hey, we may have found something.
- You want to come take a look? - Coming to you.
What'd you find? So, Erdnase has an LLC that he used to buy a large piece of land in Palm Desert.
We didn't find a home built on there, but he does have a mobile home on it.
I'll call local PD, tell them to get out to the property and see if he's there.
All right, if he is there, arrange a helo.
Callen and I will go pick him up.
Missing an opportunity.
You're right.
Don't pick him up.
Use him as bait.
Exactly.
I want Olmos, but it's got to be controlled, safe.
We are not losing the last CIA officer.
All right, Rountree, with me.
Have Kensi and Deeks meet us.
We're gonna need some support agents.
Two helicopters will be fueled and ready in 30.
We'll pick up Callen and Joelle.
Sam, Deeks, react team in position? We're about a mile out.
We can be there within a minute.
Kens, you set up? Good to go.
Okay, don't blink.
These guys are pros, and they could be coming from anywhere.
Rountree, you good? I'm in position.
Now we wait.
So what happened with Aleksei Zhirkov? Why'd your task force team kill him? That's a need-to-know piece of intelligence.
We almost lost two team members working on this case, so And right now, we're the only thing standing between you and a Russian operative hell-bent on slitting your throat.
So I think we need to know what this is about.
You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
We're pretty open-minded.
Why don't you take a shot? Okay.
Aleksei Zhirkov isn't dead.
We saw the case photos, we read the police report.
Aleksei lived his whole life under the thumb of his father, Yuri Kirilenko.
Aleksei wanted a clean way to defect.
Our mission was to get him out so his father could never track him down.
His death was faked.
You worked for the company, Agent Callen.
You know what we're capable of.
The CIA creates its own reality.
Well, then, your reality just backfired on you and got three officers killed.
Callen, I'm seeing three what look like SUVs moving quickly to your position.
They're about 30 seconds out.
Looks like Olmos is coming in with two other cars.
Three SUVs, that could be 12 guys.
You want us to move? No, hold.
Let them get close.
I don't want to spook him.
They stopped.
He's out.
Move in.
Agent Callen.
How does he know who I am? Agent Callen, I'm CIA Officer Michael Olmos.
CIA? Check it, fast.
Finding out now.
This is CIA Officer Chris Behr.
You also knew him as ONI Captain Behr.
She said she thought he might have been CIA.
She give you a name at all? Well, if she did, I don't remember it.
Just step outside, and we'll explain everything.
What the hell is going on? Kens, you got him? I got Olmos.
I got Behr.
Right there! Hold it! - Out of the vehicle! - Let's take it easy.
- Don't move! - Just hear me out.
Yeah, I need to speak to Intelligence Director Northrop.
This is an emergency.
Check 'em, check 'em.
Whoa.
Put the gun down.
We're all on the same side.
Back up, back up.
Where I can see you.
Just tell your men to lower their weapons.
Callen, what the hell is going on? Hold your fire.
I understand you need proof.
Watch.
I'm CIA Officer Dylan Tatsuno.
They were sitting at the couch by the fire.
I was working the bar.
Would you recognize him if you saw him again? Yeah.
I remember his face.
Keep watching.
Let's go upstairs.
This is Lieutenant Commander Susan Sorensen, CIA Officer John Bradbury He was murdered about six months ago.
CIA Officer Paul Winters.
I've got a body.
All very much alive and well.
Aren't they supposed to be dead? What is happening? Special Agent Callen, you are through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole.
Tell your men to lower their weapons.
I spoke to the director.
They're telling the truth.
Stand down.
Lower your weapons.
Can we speak privately? I've been selling intelligence to SVR for nearly two years to establish myself as a double agent.
After we ran our operation to get Aleksei Zhirkov to defect to the United States by faking his murder, we found out Yuri Kirilenko, Aleksei's father, put out a bounty on the heads of the officers responsible for his son's death.
It was a prime opportunity we couldn't pass up.
By faking the four officers' deaths And having NCIS, a legitimate U.
S.
law enforcement agency, investigate those deaths It would secure my position inside Russian intelligence.
I'd become a trusted confidant to Yuri Kirilenko for the killing and torturing of the people who murdered his son.
So we were used? We're foot soldiers, Callen.
We're all used.
You know about this? No.
But we saw the dead bodies.
You did.
And in a way, you didn't.
We used Jane and John Does that matched our officers, culled from the morgues all over the country.
Great.
Thanks.
Let's bring in our Jane.
These are the bodies that will be found.
As soon as local police are called, we step in, take over.
There's never a comparison, so the bodies only have to roughly match our officers.
Weight, hair color and clothing are all that's needed.
Everything wiped, even the backups.
Almost finished.
Just taking care of these last two cameras.
That's why the sleeves didn't match up.
The sleeve on her blouse is unbuttoned.
This one, it's buttoned.
My people must have done that.
Sorry.
Because your team was going to find Winters' body, he had to be blown up.
Otherwise, you'd have seen it wasn't really Winters.
So you weren't trying to blow us up.
That's really thoughtful.
Appreciate it.
We don't blow up federal agents.
Once you saw the body, we just needed to get you the hell out of there.
They're far enough away.
Blow it.
Hmm.
And the "dead officers" go into hiding.
Until Olmos's op as a Russian agent is terminated.
So having us do all this was just to make it look real to the Russians? Yes.
- You could have told us.
- It was all on a need-to-know basis.
And you didn't need to know.
It made it all that much more authentic, though, don't you think? So now we make our story.
Local PD receives an anonymous call and arrives here to report finding the body of retired CIA Officer Steven Erdnase.
Killed with the same M.
O.
as the other members of his task force.
All right, Steve, that's good.
We got it.
Thanks.
All right.
Told you.
Through the looking glass.
This is the body you found when you sadly arrived too late to save CIA Officer Erdnase.
You take over the case.
Officer Taylor will remove this body for reasons of national security, blah, blah, blah.
The photos we took of the real Officer Erdnase will be leaked, eventually making their way back to Kirilenko in Moscow as proof of death.
And I become a trusted hero in the eyes of Russian intelligence.
I've seen enough.
Let's get out of here.
Trust you'll fill out your report appropriately.
Or we could do it for you, if you like.
Hey.
One line.
Negative.
That's okay.
That's okay.
Hey, wanted to catch you before you left.
Uh, that photo of Kessler wasn't a composite.
He was here in L.
A.
And there's nothing in that photo that tells us when it was taken.
I'm really sorry.
It's okay.
Have a good night.
You, too, and drive safe.
What can I do? You want to know what I need? Yes.
Always.
I think I need time.
Okay.
Time.
Great.
What does, what does, what does? - What does that mean? - We need to put a pause on trying to have this baby.
Okay.
I don't want you to be disappointed in me.
And I'm sorry.
Baby, I don't think I've ever been disappointed in you in my whole, entire life.
Um It's just with Kessler still being out there, you know, and, um, I feel like I'm constantly under attack.
Listen, these are horrible circumstances to try to get pregnant.
- It's too much.
- Too much.
So we take time.
And I say time As much time as you need.
Yeah.
But I do need you to know that I'm not quitting.
- Okay? I am not quitting.
- No.
Of course.
I know that.
There's something I've been thinking about.
There's a lot of kids out there with no parents.
Yeah, there are.
And I'm not saying that we have to adopt, you know.
I'm just saying it's something that we I have thought of.
- Why are you smiling? - It's just that great moment when I realize this is just one of the many reasons that I love you.
Why? I mean, you're getting attacked from all sides, you're trying to punch your way out, and in the midst of all that, you're thinking about helping some kid? Thank you for being you.
Could we go home now? That would be so amazing to go home with you.
Come on.
You know what we should do instead of going home? - Come here.
- What? I think we've earned ourselves a margarita.
- Ooh.
- Like, multiple margaritas.
Joelle? Wait up.
It's late, Callen.
You know I was a CIA officer.
What's your point? I made some calls.
You played us.
You knew everything.
It was an opportunity to place an operative within the highest levels of Russian intelligence.
What's more important than that? Nothing.
So this was all about revenge, getting back at Katya, or SVR, whoever did this to you.
I know you're hurting.
I understand, but living obsessed like this is not good.
No, you don't understand.
I've lost my husband and my child.
My body has been permanently mutilated.
All I have left is my taste for blood.