And, I've got a big-
Oh, my God!
And, I say, I'm the Ft.
Ooh!
And, I go out with my heart like a-
Ooh!
And, I've got a big-
And, I'm a pretty girl,
And, I've got a big-
And, I want a big-
And, I'm a woman,
And, I choose,
I'm the choice,
And, I shoot it,
I'm the shoot,
And, I'm the god,
I'm the star,
Oh, my God, he's out of control.
Look out.
Turn him over. Help me.
He's not breathing.
Open his mask.
He's been shot.
Call 911.
Open his mask.
Open your eyes.
Open 911.
Help.
I'm still looking for a place.
To live on a boat?
I tried that.
When?
I moved back from Long Beach.
Oh, come on.
That was on a dry dock, G.
Had sailed over 20 years.
Still a boat?
I'm talking about a real boat.
In a marina.
Ocean breezes.
Morning jogs on the beach.
You know someone with a boat?
Renko has a boat.
Renko knows nothing about boats.
30-footer.
Ask him.
Morning, Kevsey.
What's up?
Sam.
Hey.
So you finished filming me with your cell phone, Dom?
How did you know I was in texting?
Because he kept checking if he was looking.
Dad, give away, Dom.
I took an undercover course.
You pass?
Yes.
I'm a fully qualified NCIS agent.
Don't worry about it, Dom.
Still some things you have to learn on the job.
Yeah.
With a knife closely pressed against your ear by a bad guy
who was convinced you are a cop.
No, no, but seriously,
like, what happened to the other agent,
the guy that I replaced?
The problem with the weather.
Too windy.
It's hot and windy.
Dry desert airtight thing of allergies.
I guess they're still working on your office.
Yep.
No one is going to be ready?
I don't know.
Who knows?
Eddie.
You want to ask her?
You're armed.
You ask her.
You're the psychologist.
Look, I've been trained to profile suspects
and brief you guys operationally.
In the three years of college and two more years
to get my master's and my doctorate
when it comes to Eddie.
Clues.
Yeah.
Hi.
Eddie.
Yeah.
What?
I'll send them right up.
Hi.
Ops room.
You've all been summoned.
Do you think she heard me?
Probably.
The man on the jet ski is Dad Yil Su.
Two weeks ago, his company received funding
from the Defense Research Projects Agency.
Better known mercifully as DARPA.
Mr. Su was shot.
He died on the way to the hospital.
There is great consternation in the Pentagon.
SEKNAV has promised swift action
to determine who killed him and why.
They're afraid it could be the North Koreans.
Mr. Su defected from there five years ago.
This is all in the file.
Let me know what you require.
Eric.
This is not the beach.
This is the office.
Epic's well this afternoon.
Living dangerously, Eric.
Piles up.
Thank you.
Okay.
So why would the North Koreans wait five years
before coming after this guy?
The DARPA contract probably made him more visible.
Who's an electronics engineer?
Single.
Just bought a house in Koreatown.
One brother, Jimmy Su.
He has his doctor written engineering
and applied science.
Working on a lightweight squad-based
communication system for the Marine Corps.
This looks interesting.
He rented a jet ski from the same place
at the same time every Monday, Thursday
and Saturday morning.
Creature of habit.
And somebody knew it.
They were waiting for him.
Is that a comic book you're reading?
Uh, no.
No, it's a, uh, graphic novel.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it's a commentary on humanity's
struggle to differentiate between right and wrong,
and the social fabric of society
is torn asunder by technological change.
All that's explained in pictures?
I would have thought you could find something
more stimulating to read on your break.
But, personally, I'm clueless about these things.
How's Dominic settling in?
Oh, um, anxious to prove himself.
Oh, aren't they all?
Does he know that three agents before him
didn't pass mustard?
No.
Best that he doesn't, I think.
Yeah.
Daniel Sue Live Alone?
According to the file.
Home address and the office address are the same.
It's a start-up. Probably worked out of his garage.
No LAPD yet.
Get it out, then. Save the paperwork.
I'm going to the store.
Let me take you left down.
Sure.
Knock, knock.
Come on.
Upstairs is clear.
Clear.
Backdoor's locked.
Oh.
Got a blood and a lamp.
Got a body.
What?
Victim is Sally Morris.
She was Daniel Sue's business partner.
Sue's style of technologies, okay?
She was the money.
Bankrolled Sue's start-up for a 50% stake.
Not a small company, just the two of them.
With the DARPA contract, all of that would have been changed.
Maybe it wasn't the North Koreans.
Could have been a business rival.
Or a jealous lover.
No, check that. See if there was either.
Preliminary autopsy report on Daniel Sue hot off the facts.
Bullet hit him high in the chest, traveling right to left.
This is hard by about a quarter of an inch.
His, uh, life jacket acted like a compression bandage,
and that slowed the bleeding, but...
not enough.
Bullet path took it down with trajectory.
Shoot was firing from above.
Had a moving target on a jet ski.
Hmm. Shooters got talent.
Trailer park.
You want me to live in a trailer park?
Talking about an RV, one of those triple pop-outs.
It's like a mansion on wheels.
That way, if you want to move, you can just drive away.
They have places all along the coast where you can just camp out.
I don't know. I think I like the boat idea better.
I can just kind of sail on.
Do you know how to sail?
No.
Well, that could be a problem.
This is where Daniel Sue hit.
Yep.
He ran into jet ski in the marina.
Came around through the entrance there.
Now, there's a speed limit probably five miles an hour at the entrance.
You need to know that location on the sail.
Five miles an hour. Got that.
That's where I shoot and made the shot.
While he was going slow, he must have accelerated and tried to make it back.
Nobody heard anything.
No gunshot on the videotape.
No silencer.
Bullet goes right to left, down with trajectory.
That's where I'd be.
Clean line of sight to the target.
Good concealment.
The mast is rocking. The target's bobbing and moving.
It's a damn good shot, G.
Eric?
Yeah, east of the breakwater, there's a security camber overlooking the marina.
You're gonna need to access that hard job.
All right, I narrowed it down to the hour before the shooting.
Gives a shooter time to get into position and settle in.
I would have carried the rifle or the tackle box or a cooler.
Just another guy going fishing.
There's a guy with the tackle box right there.
Walked right past the boat. Strike one.
What about the guy in the hat?
He's going in the opposite direction.
Strike two?
No. That's him.
Sam, he's going towards the parking lot.
Watch. He's taking a long way around, scope things out.
That's what I'd do.
He's in no hurry.
He's got another 45 minutes before Seoul arrives.
Look at that. He's back.
All right, resolution is not good.
But now that we know what our guy's wearing, all we need to do...
All right, I got it.
There's another camera in the marina parking lot.
I'm accessing the hard drives for the hour after the shooting.
You're not gonna need an hour.
Five minutes after he made that shot, he was in his car on his way home.
Good call. There he is.
Three minutes after the shooting.
Zoom in and hand zoom in.
It's a woman.
He's a woman. I mean, she's a woman.
She looks Asian.
She is.
Her name's Lee Wan Kai.
And we are in a whole pile of trouble.
Lee Wan Kai flew into Los Angeles a week ago on a fake passport.
By the time her passport was flagged by ICE, she was gone.
Eric, NCIS server.
Watch this, Lee Wan Kai.
These passport photos are our best lead.
But she can and she does change her appearance.
North Korean.
She's a fanatical girl.
She's a fanatical nationalist.
Who, as far as we can tell, hasn't been home in three decades.
She's an assassin in exile.
She's based in Eastern Europe somewhere.
Do not underestimate this woman.
She will not give you a second chance.
Callen, Sam.
The local DARPA analyst is gonna brief you on the technical aspects
of Daniel Soo's DARPA contract.
Meeting is in 15 minutes at the safe house.
His name is Frank Davis.
Kai could be halfway home by now.
But she is an issue.
This isn't technology that Daniel Soo started after he defected.
It started as a classified project for the North Korean Army.
Soo kept a lot of the software secrets under wraps.
Kyle killed anybody she thinks he shared those secrets with.
Because if they can't have the technology, then nobody else is either.
That explains the Salamore's murder.
DARPA's got another list of people that she might come after.
He's got a brother.
He's married to no other family.
He's refusing protection,
but he insists on staying holed up in his house.
We got a couple of units out front.
This is one fight Kai's not gonna win.
I think he's met her before.
Yeah.
And she won.
How's the lady in charge this morning?
If I'd known you were coming, Leon,
I would have bought some Xiao Heng Pao tea.
And if I'd known I was coming, Henrietta,
I would have bought you that Emilio Pucci scarf
you've always wanted.
You've been threatening to buy that for me
for ten years, Leon.
Eleven.
Are you getting settled into the new office?
Oh.
I just bring it all with me.
It's not the outside that matters.
It's the inside.
That was taken on the set for Incheon.
Olivier and I used to have the most wonderful chats.
I was responsible for his uniform.
He played General MacArthur.
Korean War.
Funny that,
given the current circumstances.
Is there anything you don't know?
Oh, many, many things, I'm sure.
It's her, isn't it?
Kai.
Yeah.
I first met her in Prague in 1984.
Then in Tokyo, seven years later.
Three times since then.
Sierra Leone.
Paris, New York City.
She left the body count every time.
I should have been in that count in Prague.
I was green, I got lucky.
She your nemesis, Leon?
Only if she buries me.
Then we must ensure that doesn't happen.
Well, at least until you get your scarf.
Sally Morris arrives at Jimmy Sue's place for work.
She discovers Kai turning the place over.
She tries to get away, and Kai whacks her with the lamp.
It's a really odd weapon for a pro.
First thing at hand.
Crime scene analysis?
Tomorrow at the earliest.
It's too long.
Lab.
Miss Youdo, I hope I haven't called you in a bad time.
Hi, Leon. I'm just doing an experiment.
What sort of experiment?
With light. Well, dark, actually.
Whoa.
You know, though, technically, darkness is the absence of light,
so I guess it should be called lightlessness, don't you think?
Good luck with the experiment.
I need you to look at some spatter.
Ooh, I love spatter.
I'm an expert. That's why I'm sending it to you.
Hey, are you still in LA?
Yes, I am.
Would you say hi to Eric for me?
Well, you can say hello yourself. He'll send you the files.
So what am I looking for?
I'll be happy with whatever you can find, Miss Youdo.
I need you on it right away.
I see the light.
That was a joke, Leon.
Who's Eric?
Hey, Abby.
Hey, is Leon in a bad mood?
Well, he wasn't, but he might be now.
Well, sometimes he grinds his teeth.
Like, if you listen, you can hear it.
Yeah, so the crime scene photos are on their way.
So what are the pertinent and juicy details?
Woman, lamp, a lot of blood spatter.
Bedroom?
Living room and hallway.
Well, I guess you can't have everything.
All right, I will call you as soon as I find something.
Cool. See you, Abby.
One day, Eric. One day.
Belt, got it.
What are we chasing now?
I'm trying to get a clearer image of the car the killer drove from the arena parking lot.
So I'm searching hard drives of nearby traffic cameras.
We get our car, we get our license plate.
We might just be able to figure out where she's staying.
Keep at it.
Got it, Leon.
Director.
Frank Davis with DARPA. Are we being recorded?
Do you like to be?
Absolutely not. Are we?
No. This is your safe house. I just figured it was wired.
You don't want us to share? Is that it, Frank?
This is a classified briefing. It doesn't leave the room.
She...
Daniel Sue was very secretive.
We put it down to the fact that he had grown up in what is virtually a police state
where sharing information with someone could put their life at risk.
As a result, there were certain key aspects to the technology he was developing
that only he knew about.
He didn't share with you?
No.
Now that's embarrassing.
I mean, I can see how you wouldn't want this to leave the room, Frank.
Of course, under the terms of the DARPA contract, that was all about to change.
Did Sally Morse know?
She told me she didn't.
She was a financier, a businesswoman.
I have no reason to disbelieve her.
Maybe he told his brother, Jimmy Soop.
They defected together.
Jimmy married a U.S. citizen. He runs an importing company.
He's not a scientist. Didn't go to college.
Says his brother didn't tell him anything.
Daniel Sue's technology died with him.
The only problem is Kai doesn't know that.
And she's going to go after anyone associated with Daniel Soop.
Why don't I trust that guy?
Because he's a bureaucrat that stands the reason you hate all bureaucrats.
I do?
Yeah, all those forced-to-homes when we were a kid.
The way the people used to push you around, tell you where to go, where to go.
I don't know.
You've been targeted, Nate, or something?
Oh, no. This is my theory.
Uh-huh.
Dr. Hannah M.D.
Nice.
This is it.
Right here.
Yeah.
Dr. Vance, it's Callan.
The director's coming online now.
Vance?
Yeah.
Vance?
Yeah.
Our DARPA guy thinks that Danny Sue took his technology to the grave.
No one else knows.
He's certain.
Yeah.
Do you believe him?
He's a bureaucrat.
Sam thinks that I have a deep-seated suspicion of them.
I'm a bureaucrat.
Agent Callan?
I don't have a deep-seated suspicion of you, director.
Well, I'm pleased to hear that.
That's the case.
I think we should talk to Jimmy Sue.
Jimmy?
That's his wife.
That's him.
All right, we got Sue on the ground.
We'll call you back.
Callan.
He wouldn't want to come back inside.
Please, Jimmy.
Gun! Roofing the mall!
Get down!
Do you want to peek your head over and take a look?
I'm good.
Hey, Sam.
I just arrived.
Thanks.
Are they okay, G?
Yeah.
Anything?
Nothing.
She even took her shell casings.
Did your brother say what he was working on?
No, Daniel did not share things.
Everything was kept a secret.
My country has come for me.
Her name is Lee Won Kai.
She's North Korean.
So what happens now?
We're trying to neutralize the threat.
And if that doesn't work,
what if this...
this woman gets away?
Well, the government will offer you protection.
They have programs.
You might have to consider relocation.
New identity.
Daniel loved America.
He said that one day of happiness here
was worth 100 days of sadness
in our home country.
That will not relocate.
And that will not change my name.
Do you understand?
We get it.
I found Kai.
Traffic cam and the freeway on ramp
recorded her seven minutes after the shooting.
She headed east.
She was right.
Checking against hotel registrations.
It's already up and running.
And we have a winner.
W.H. Hotel, West Hollywood, room 1805.
Registered as a Kim Andrews.
Tell Callen to meet me there.
Callen.
W.H. Hotel, 57809, Rogers Boulevard.
West Hollywood.
Bobby.
Thanks, Eric.
He'll be safe here.
Sam.
Thanks.
They find her?
Hotel, West Hollywood.
What?
They're going all married couple on us.
They're kissing?
Fighting.
Nate.
Oh.
You're reading?
Trying to, without staring.
And there's the cat right there.
In order to live free, you need to stare.
Which is far too obvious.
Better?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, she's not happy.
He said, don't tell.
Don't tell?
He's saying that...
What?
What do you say? Did you get it?
Yeah, I got it.
What's he keeping from us?
He knows his brother's business.
All of it.
Callen.
Manager says Kai's not here.
I'm going to look in a room.
All right, we're just pulling up to the valet.
We'll be there in one minute.
Got it.
You're right.
It is personal.
No.
You flatter me.
The head of the federal agency personally searching my room.
After all these years.
Yeah.
We finally get to speak.
Can you call him to give yourself up, Kai?
Eric, Trace the call is coming into room 1805.
It's Kai.
All right, it's a cell phone in the building.
Getting the GPS signal.
Looks like the seventh floor south corridor.
You never give up, do you, Leon?
Turn left.
Now.
Tell me I didn't pass you in the foyer.
No, but close.
You haven't changed much since New York City, Leon.
You have to move to your right.
Look 30 yards in closing.
Tell me.
Are you calling for a reason, Kai?
Or just to catch up?
Something I need to tell you.
What do you need to tell me?
Eric, you're breaking up. How close?
Eric.
30 yards in closing.
You're almost on her.
I know you can hear me.
Kai.
Kai?
Kai, are you still there?
She's gone.
Why did she call?
To tell us she didn't kill Sally Morris.
Well, this is not the first time a bad guy made a call to the investigating officer.
The question is, do we believe her?
Director, I think I found something.
I ran a program on Daniel Sue's security system.
It was a sophisticated system
with motion sensors tracking every corner of the house.
Now, 30 minutes leading up to her death,
there was someone else in the office with her.
I mean, the red and the blue spans,
that indicates movement, so two people.
So, things get a little crazy.
As the intruder chases her around the house,
and then...
the intruder wins.
Which means she knew her killer.
Let him in through the front door.
Eric, phone logs for Daniel Sue's home office.
Highlight calls by frequency over the past 24 hours.
Call in.
Okay.
Three numbers all linked.
The primary number's the home office.
More calls went back and forth between it and the two other numbers
more frequently than any others.
But the most frequent calls were made between the two other numbers to each other.
They have names, Eric.
A friendly bureaucrat and a victim's brother
have been real chatty over the last four days.
Planning something, maybe.
Thanks, Nate.
Jimmy Sue knows more about his brother's technique
than he's letting on.
Kenzie read him talking to his wife.
So, after his brother's death, he went to visit the business partner.
They had an argument over who owns the technology.
Argument gets heated.
He kills her.
And Kai gets the blame.
We need him to admit his involvement.
That's going to require putting somebody under cover that hasn't met Jimmy Sue.
Not bad.
The trousers are a little snug,
so don't plan to run anywhere.
Earpiece.
Put it in deep.
We'll worry about digging it out later.
The button on your left pocket is a camera.
The button on your right pocket is a microphone.
And the duress word is...
Uh, uh...
He who hesitates is lost, Dominic.
In your line of work, dead.
Shadows.
And with the utterance of that single word,
the cavalry will race to the rescue.
Let's hope they don't get caught in traffic.
Sign.
The uniform is new, so try not to get any blood on it.
Here's all yours.
Make the call.
Dom, you're gonna be fine.
Sam and I will have your back.
Oh.
Picture is up.
Jimmy Sue has left the safe house.
She's still out there.
Yeah, she is.
Come on.
That's him.
Here we go.
Okay, what do you want?
Like I said on the phone,
I was the first unit to get to your brother's house this morning.
Found the woman on the floor.
She whispered a name to me before she died.
Thought you might like to buy that information from him.
Whose name?
Yours.
You guys, we got a problem.
I attached an alert to Jimmy Sue's cell phone
so we know if someone was trying to trace his location,
it just got tripped.
Someone else is out there. There's a strong signal strength.
Abort the mission.
There's an imminent threat.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Dom, get him the hell out of there.
Cover me!
Get out!
You all right?
Yeah, good.
Get behind the car!
Come on!
You all right?
Yeah, I'm all right.
You believe him?
All right, sign him in the LAPD custody.
Jimmy Sue denies killing anyone.
You're wondering if I set him out as bait.
He was well-covered.
Yes, he was.
Miss Chudeau?
Hey, Leon.
Cool spatter. It's not all spatter.
There's some smears and some drag marks.
A little bit of pooling.
Anything revealing, Miss Chudeau?
The lamp. Lamp was revealing.
1699 from Walmart.
Made in China.
Not much of a lamp.
It's not a lamp.
It's a lamp.
1699 from Walmart.
Made in China.
Not much of a lamp, but a pretty efficient bludgeon.
Miss Chudeau?
There's one more thing. There's no prints.
Lots of smears.
This outlining thingy.
A what?
It's a partial outline of the killer's hand.
Like I said, it's too smeared to get prints off of.
But there's a mark.
It's like the blood flowed over and around the fingers.
There's two marks, actually.
And they're really close together.
What do you think made these marks?
Yes, she is.
I will.
How long have you been married?
For years.
Our forensics lab found a bloody handprint
on the lamp used to kill Sally.
Our killer wore two rings.
Left hand.
Ring finger.
Sally knew her killer, Amy.
She let her in through the front door.
She stayed half an hour?
No.
You want to tell me how it happened?
Jimmy was a smart one.
Not Daniel.
Only the three of us knew.
Frank suspected he was signing a deal with the wrong brother.
He was making a lot of phone calls to Jimmy.
He wanted to know the truth.
Jimmy doesn't care about the money.
He just wanted to help his brother.
And I was with Sally.
This morning.
She got the call about Daniel.
I told her the truth.
She was furious.
Because Daniel and Jimmy had lied to her.
She was saying that she would have Jimmy
locked up and sent back.
She was shouting at me.
And so the lamp was there.
I just picked it up.
And afterwards, he told Jimmy.
But they...
They're not going to send it back, are they?
No.
No, they're not going to send it back.
It's Vance.
Get out of here.
Director.
She bailed at the top of the ramp.
Half a dozen exits she could have used.
She lost a lot of blood.
She doesn't turn up at a hospital by the night.
She's dead.
Agent Vale.
It's good work.
Thank you, director.
Gentlemen.
You know he doesn't believe it for a second.
But he's never been stopped looking for it.
He drives the stake through her heart
and buries her.
He's still going to wake up in the middle of the night.
I wonder if she's hiding under his bed.
Just irrational fear at the strange things that people do.
Oh, shh.
Uh, guys?
Hey, I lost a button.
You lost a button? The camera button.
Whoa.
You lost the headies? Camera button?
Where'd you lose it?
If I knew, then it wouldn't be lost.
It's got to be around here somewhere.
You've got to find that button.
How could you lose a headies camera button?
Just look under there.
Okay, okay.
Oh, no.
Headies going to kill me.
All right.