I
You got a pen yeah
You
Know you really want to say you care you should ditch the card and buy him a pint of bourbon for the big day
You
All right kitty cat behind the back standing on one leg double tap center mass
Oh
Miss your gun my gun what for it's a ferretta 92 FS right LAPD issue actually yeah
NCIS agents carry SIGs. I just want to see how yours fires. Sorry you want to fire my gun
You're acting weird. I just don't like people firing my gun
Okay, let me just hold it then. I don't like people holding my gun. You can fire mine
I don't want to fire your gun. All right. I don't want anything to do with your gun and it's not personal
Feels personal. It's just it's just a guy thing a guy thing a gun thing. I said it's a gun thing funny
You said a guy thing
Oh, buddy hell hath no fury like Kenzie Marie Bly
The groin really why does one practice shooting someone in the groin?
Rough night
Meditating looks like you're sleeping. It's called meditation
Is it normal to snore when you're meditating
Stop staring I'm not staring I can feel a g I honestly just don't understand what the big deal is
You don't trust me. I'd say that's a pretty big deal. Wouldn't you I just have a thing about my gun at this point in our
Relationship after all the stuff that we've done. What I'm sorry. Did you just say relationship? No as a partnership, okay?
You're very annoying. Maybe I just need a little bit of space
My desk
Listen here both of you you don't trust each other all the fist bumping is saying you got each other's back doesn't mean squat unless there's trust
So build it soon or risk the consequences you got it and for the record. I was meditating. Oh
Is that what meditation sounds like because I call that yelling you case on deck
Rise and shine
Meditation is over
I
Thomas Booth is an army sergeant turned Delta Force operator who until recently worked closely with the Marines in Afghanistan
Joint Task Force Ops highly classified missions last night
His car was discovered in a parking garage after closing time Booth had placed a wireless video cam on his dashboard
He knew the meeting could have gone wrong Booth put in for retirement 60 days ago. He was kidnapped on the exact day
He became a civilian. What was Booth working on before he retired?
Most of Booth's file was redacted. He was a member of Task Force 232
Unit responsible for hunting down high-value targets in Afghanistan
Terrorists leaders of prices on their heads
Bounties of up to 25 million that go to informants will give key tips to units like Boots
Bring them in dead or alive
Some of the deadliest guys around so Booth had access to information that was not only classified
But also worth millions of dollars
Task Force 232 is based at Camp Pendleton, but I've been told the squads at the team leader's house today for a barbecue
A half an hour after he was kidnapped six cars left the garage
And the first five checked out, but the sixth was reported stolen by LAPD just the night before
Police just found it. It's a silver Audi A4 empty, but it's a start you two check out the car
Sam and I'll handle Booth's unit. We're off to a barbecue
Would you do a 25 million dollars in reward money? I mean if I wasn't a government employee, and I could legally accept it
Probably buy a first-class ticket somewhere real quiet really quiet some place you don't take a partner
You I
Would hire the best private investigator money can buy and have him tracked down my partner when I found him
You'd follow me
You'd send him heady in an overnight package a big bow. I
Wouldn't sign for NCIS, right?
These are the men of Task Force 232
Gotta go native clean-cut marine stand out behind the lines in Afghanistan. You heard about Booth. He got snatched
You don't seem too upset about it. Maybe he had it coming. Not a very friendly bunch, are they?
Seems angry. He should take up meditation
Who was Booth's skill set? What was he a son of you you languages?
With his flu and impasse to not a lot of guys in the military are
When he retired early that left us in the lurch
Can't communicate with the locals
They've taken out our targets are why did he retire early?
You wanted to be hired by a private contractor as a translator they pay a premium for guys with his language skills
In a lot of ways we're closer with Booth than we are with our own families
But when he walked away from our unit with targets still in the ground he walked away from us
For money
Officer NCIS, I'm special agent Kenzie Bligh. What do we have here? We found some latent fingerprints inside
We didn't match up to any of our database gentlemen. How you doing? We talked to you guys for a second
So you guys see anything I should know about nope
Sure about that
Well last night we saw some guys around the corner in the empty lot with flashlights what they look like
It was too dark to see which means they didn't see us how many were there?
Five went out there and four came back
That's all we saw
You can keep giving me money if you want to that's all I know
Hey
Cars are dead in for now
Come on
Smell that
It's a hell of a retirement party did Booth have any enemies
As a matter of fact it was someone who hated booth pretty bad
His son Brandon
Magic marker lines all over his skin correspond to non-lethal wound point lines are target for all these stab wounds
I mean just drawn him on must have been psychological torture
You want to inflict the worst pain possible without killing a guy? This would be the way
I'm shot to the head mercy kill
He was interrogated with that information once he gave it up kidnapped was capped him and dumped the body
No excessive mutilation that would indicate a personal grudge like a gunshot wound to the groin for instance
Judging by the wounds Booth must have been tortured for hours before he was killed he knew something
But what
Eric we're outside Brandon Booth's residence right now. Would you dig up on him 18 years old only child of Thomas and
Yasmin Booth parents divorced when he was 12
Brandon lived with his mom. She died two years ago breast cancer
Thomas Booth was deployed in a classified location at the time
Brandon's got a record
Vandalism disturbing the peace resisting arrest life for it's a little rusty
But I don't think we're looking at a kid capable of torture and murder. Thanks
You just name dropped Freud
Dead father rebellious son who was close with the mother had to address the adipus in the room
Brandon's not home
I'm his neighbor also his landlady and he was mom cut him a break on his rant. He's had a rough time of it
We just want to ask him a few questions
He's at the diner down the street
You probably already know this but they found his dad dead in an empty lot this morning
We heard they had issues they haven't spoken in the past two years since his mom died
What kind of a selfish bastard? Can you let us in?
Last time I checked this was a nation that protected civil rights. Let's see your search warrant
Better make that call gee
Eric
Remember that information I said we weren't gonna need we need it ma'am
We're federal agents investigating a homicide hundred dollars get you in what happened to civil rights
Does under-reporting rental income for six years count as a civil right? Well, I didn't hear that one mentioned and I have a dream speech
Thank you
Oh
Gee come check this out, excuse me
I
Storage area, huh brand is the kickboxer
This board
Would you look at that?
I
Look at that money and I've been cutting him a break on his rent all this time brand it his dad's
Itineraries for Thomas Booth
But you said they hadn't seen each other in a couple years
Either Booth is using his kids house as a staff spot without his knowledge
Her father and son are a lot closer than anyone though
Centenary has a flight from LAX to Peshawar Airport in Pakistan
Oh, I've been to Pakistan, but that food kept me in the bathroom for a week. See I sure wouldn't want anyone took you
Hey lock up when you leave departure date today
Yeah, no, no, I got it. Okay. Thanks. Hey
See the guy in the suit Taylor one that costs more than we make in a year. Yep
He's going
Take the car
What so now I'm your sidekick
Oh
Is this how salmon Callum do it one of them would crack a funny one liner right about now get
I'm waiting you need to listen to me. Thank you Deeks
You're making a mistake
Check inside my jacket pocket. You'll find credentials
Put down the gun what why
Diplomatic immunity
Your name is Jafar Khan. Yes, and I'm here voluntarily although I wouldn't mind seeing you work a pair of handcuffs
Ah
American girls so health-conscious
Why did you flee the scene?
I'm an operative for inter-services intelligence. My superiors would prefer and not be photographed brings it to Los Angeles. I'm an asset
United States Joint Special Operations Command and I have a specialty high value targets
Bounties of one million and up
Because you're not an employee of the US government you've pocketed a fortune and reward money
I can think of worse ways to make a living special agent Bly
Who killed Thomas Booth? I
Don't know
Prove it
voluntarily
There you go
Brandon Booth, what do you want NCIS I want to ask you some questions about your father
My father
Okay, how about this life-long soldier Delta Force hard ass chest full of metals total stranger
You guys know more about him than I do
Mom claims he was some kind of hero I
Knew him as the most selfish person I ever met. What do you mean selfish?
He's always requesting deployments. I always wanted to go back. Why man has skills bread. You mean sacrifices this country needed I
Spent my 16th birthday watching my mother die in a hospital bed
Dad was off doing things. He couldn't talk about in places. He couldn't mention
Maybe we needed him to
Last week was my 18th birthday spent it waiting for him to call
I'm not sure what pisses me off more
I didn't call or that I was dumb enough to think that he might
Are you hungry
If I didn't tell them they'd find out this can't be good
I hope you're not accusing me of being a harbinger of doom mr. Deeks. What no a harbinger of doom, of course not
You know
This guy isn't just an informant for joint special operations command. He's a bloody folk hero
He's put his life at risk to help our cause
If terrorists knew that he was passing sensitive information
Onto Americans both calm and his family would be brutal ends
Go ahead mr. Beal
I'm messaging you cons dossier now heading. It's a variety of files and images from joint special operations command
You should be getting them now
Getting the merit that's big game
Conn sends his tips on to Jaysock
They vet the intel and when the targets location is confirmed
They send in task force two three two to eliminate them the man has more than 13 million in reward money
Hey Eric do we have any information on cons personal life? Yeah, here it is
You getting that got it booths former unit two three two booth and con were buddies
Booth filed for retirement, but kept getting calls from his local sources in Afghanistan
He said he had a tip a big one price on the target said was ten million dollars. He wanted to discuss it
But he never showed up. I got concerned and began monitoring police scanner reports when LAPD discovered a body matching booths description
I had to see for myself
Booth was a private citizen
He was gonna go back there take out the target himself and get rich
Thomas Booth and I trusted each other
We were family
Family yes, he was my brother-in-law
That's all joint special operations command gave you on con
Embedding more intel on him exists. The problem is he's too valuable an asset for them to reveal as much as we'd like
Government agencies are territorial if he's receiving special treatment from one it might put him on the wrong side of another
Okay, but even if con does have dirty laundry that j-soc hasn't told us about how are you gonna find out who has it?
Con's a cloak and dagger guy
He hasn't been hanging out with the department of agriculture
Okay, what are you thinking now?
We found something in your house a bag of things that belonged to your father
You went through my stuff. Can we get a check like right now? I know he was keeping things there
Seems strange given what you just told us about your relationship with him that doesn't make any sense
Last time I saw him was two years ago. Then why was he stashing his things on your property? I don't know Brandon
I know what it's like to not want to talk about your family, especially to a couple guys like us
But your dad was headed back to the middle east
If he came to you for anything at all you need to tell us look. I didn't know him at all
Gee it's a little warm for an overcoat
Ah
You good? Yeah, where's the kid?
Gone
You
Booth married my sister yasmin almost 20 years ago. I had just started at isi. He was a young army recruit
We became close friends spy and the soldier different sides of the same coin
like brothers booth
He brought you into jay sock
The high value targets the bounties
What was the tip you wanted to discuss he didn't get into specifics over the phone too risky
He said it involved the location of the taliban's master bomb maker kazi sharif
In 48 hours the location goes cold
And their bomb maker will get away
I'm reviewing traffic cams around the diner and working on tracing brand of booth cell phone keep looking. He's in danger
What do we have in the shooters afghani citizens with ties to the taliban
Their fingerprints match the ones on the car. LAPD found taliban
A long way from home. They kidnapped booth either. They were protecting the target
It was going to go after or they were going after the target too and they wanted what he knew
One of the shooters was carrying a burn phone
Series of text messages with addresses the garage where booth was snatched the location where his body was dumped brandy booth's house
someone was giving the orders
We able to dig anything else up in the pakistani spy jafar khan
No, but i'm still looking
Yo, hold on
You guys it's deeks
Go ahead
Booth was killed because he knew the whereabouts of the taliban's master bomb maker
The guy has a 10 million dollar bounty on his head one of the top five most wanted men in the world kazi sharif
This man was behind the police academy bombing last month in Kabul which killed 189 people
Weakens he teaches teenagers how to rig a dead door
So full of thermite that it takes out an ebrams tank
And whoever is running the shooters
Now has booth's intel as well
The shooters went after brandy booth because they think he knows about it. Is it possible brandy knows something
He's not telling us either way the clock is ticking because according to calm this intel is only good for another 48 hours
Just because booth did it for the money doesn't mean he wasn't doing the right thing for his country
The target gets away. He died for nothing
Our work is cut out for us gentlemen
Locate booth's killer and he'll give us the intel we need to take out this taliban bomber
lose him
And those 189 blast victims in Kabul won't be his last
Send a text
Whoever's given the orders may not know the guys are dead yet. We may get something
We're going undercover make contact get some answers
I
It's an address in tai town
How's your patch too sam? It's better than yours
Fine brandy booth
Couldn't meditate on the way over I reflect on zen and the art of locking your hair some trunk
I'll work my contacts if anything comes up. You'll be my first call
Sounds good
I was talking to agent bligh
What you just slipped james bond your number there for k's purposes only
How long did it take for calin and sam to trust each other?
Oh
Uh new year's day 2007 what happened
Oh
Uh, they don't even partners for a month and it wasn't going well no chemistry at all
Mr calin went undercover to meet the armenian mob
Mr. Hannah stayed outside his backup
But saw that his new partner was badly outnumbered
He moved in a little closer
What was caught by a sentry
Sam was dragged before calin
The mob boss
Handed calin a gun and demanded that he prove his loyalty
Or they'd both be killed on the spot
calin
Pointed the gun at sam's head and pulled the trigger
The gun dry fired
Was empty
They went on to solve the case afterwards
Mr calin said
He knew the gun wasn't loaded because of its weight and sam believed him
Why else would mr. Callan pull the trigger?
It's a pretty big leap of faith
That's trust
Location is the condemned gym across the street
I may contact tell them we're willing to cut a deal betray ncis for a payday gain their trust
They'll take me to whoever's at the top of the food chain
I will move fast because times are running out of booths in town
We find his killer. We still got a shot at this Taliban bomb maker
Callan we're gonna lock up randabood's cell phone looks like he's on foot just off labrea and fountain
Kenzie dakes keep an eye on brandon you sure he's not involved
He's booth son jafar khan is his uncle
Right now we can't be sure of anything
Okay
You
Stop right there don't look at me face forward you're gonna be searched in this armed
I'm a federal agent assigned to thomas booth's murder. I know the tip he was sitting on
Meet my asking price. I won't turn it over to my superiors
I'm here to cut a deal
My men have been captured killed by me
How do you know about boots intel hidden in booth son's house the exact location of the taliban's bomb maker
You're bluffing
I feel safe the information if I don't place a call once every hour it goes straight to the joint special operations command
Pay me off and the tip stays a secret
I'm only negotiating with the guy running the show and don't tell me as you
How do I know you're telling the truth?
What are you willing to offer me
And I have a partner he knows what you know. Yes
I hand them over to you
I killed your man. You do what you want with him
Betrayal comes easy to you
It's the cost of doing business
You
The hell are you doing to me man shut up
You guys make whatever calls you need to make you have one minute to come to a decision
He's collateral damage as far as I'm concerned. I won't need a minute
I thought you were bluffing me then and I think you're bluffing me now. Whoa. Whoa. Wait a minute
I came here to show you I meant business
Now put down the guns and let's make a deal nice plan
Hope it's worth it. I can get them to change their minds in less than 10 seconds. Yeah, right
You get what you deserve you greedy
That's nine nine what
I
At times we've done the
corrupt agent
Betrays his partner routine, and I know you will keep in count
You keep track too if you're the one getting the need of the solar plexus. You got a light touch tree
They're both dead
Damn it
Which means we're no closer to find it out who's behind this back to square one
Brandon Booth
You want to talk about my dad too because the last time someone asked me about I'm I almost got killed
We're just here to make sure you're safer, right? You don't have to talk about your dad if you don't want to god knows
I'm not talking about mine. Kenzie. You feel like talking about your dad at all? Not a chance. See we're all on the same page
I live a few blocks away. All right, we'll give you a ride car's just around the corner
Savannah is high, huh
You either ran a search on me or that was a lucky guess. Oh, come on man. It's obvious
You're not the only person that grew up in Los Angeles
I
Received a bingo
I hated receipt of guys
You know van eyes used to have the hottest girls back in the day
Still does
But they got attitude
They all got attitude
Hold on
It's clear Kenzie backyards clear coming around, okay
Someone's birthday that's my dad's handwriting only a week late this time so typical you know open it
No
You know I was uh
After high school, I didn't have any plans
I don't know uh, no job didn't know about college. I know the feeling
Yeah
My dad and I are polar opposites because he's the kind of guy that looks like six different directions before he crosses the street
He actually said to me one time he said that if you don't get your act together
You're gonna spend the rest of your life trapped in this town
You know just like every other loser it's too
scared to venture out in the world and
Make his mark and so why don't you do it?
When do I do what move out of la conquer your demons prove the old man wrong?
That's the next chapter this little pep talk, right?
To this day, I've never lived further away than two miles from the house that I grew up in
Eric just sent me brandon's cell phone log he called jafar con three times today
So he's my uncle when I heard about my dad uncle jafar was the only family I had left to call
Okay, I handle this okay. Callan wants us back at ops. All right
I'm telling the truth I believe you
But if I come back here looking for you and you're not here
I'm gonna find you you know that right
Okay
Wait
Do you ever wonder what your dad thinks about you?
No
You never got it anyway
Dude moved to Iowa
Oh
What is that it's probably nothing
Jafar con maybe loved by joint special operations command but once upon a time he had another patron saint
The cia it was a messy breakup
So it didn't take much convincing to get Langley to slit me the file they kept on him
What was con doing for the cia?
Well from 2002 to 2005 they outsourced interrogations of terrorist suspects to nations that weren't well overly concerned with human rights
Uh peck stamping one of them
Seems jafar con had a very specific
Style of questioning. We've seen those body markings before
This body was in the exact same condition when we found it con did this to his own brother-in-law so he can have the bounty for himself
You want to see if there's anything there booth mailed at the brand of the day who's killed
Eric where's con now isi is refusing to divulge his whereabouts
Hey, check this out
What are we looking at it's a spectrum seal
Invisible to the naked eye
This photo is not an original it's a scan with a seal embedded into it
The pattern contains some sort of message
Hmm it's a series of numbers our coordinates latitude and longitude with a time stamp
That's somewhere in afghanistan
Location corresponds to a tea house in afghanistan's hindu kush mountain range
The time stamp is 36 hours from right now
This is booth's tip
Booth knew if anything happened to him there'd be an investigation
He also knew that we'd question his son
He didn't send the intel for brandon to find
He sent it to us con said we had 48 hours before the tip went bad
But according to this embedded message his intel's late. He's eight hours behind
Booth misled him on purpose by the time con gets there the high value targets are going to be long gone
But con won't know that
I sense impending mayhem and perhaps an outrageous petty cash request one simple question heady you trust us
Oh
I'm glad you could join us.
Reimbursing my boss for travel expenses
would have set me back in a major way.
Booth plagiar.
Task Force 232 got here hours ago.
Bagged the Taliban's master bomb maker.
Your immunity isn't valid in Afghanistan, is it?
Drop it.
He said drop it.
He said drop the gun.
Cure that weapon.
Let's go.
Come on.
Everything's negotiable when you know what I know.
Remember that.
Yeah, yeah. Get him out of here, Sergeant Weaver.
You got it.
I can't believe Hedy authorized us to do this in person.
We had her at the word T.
Deeks, what's up?
Hey, um, I just came to give you this.
I threw this out for a reason.
I know, and I'm not telling you to open it.
All I'm doing is giving you another chance.
If you feel like it.
Let's go.
What is that on your fingers?
That's nothing.
I carry a Beretta 92 FS because the manual safety saved my ass one time during a gun snatch attempt by a junkie.
And if the magazine ever jams, I can just pop a bullet straight into the chamber.
Take a look.
Maybe some other time.
Hey, hey, welcome back guys.
Is he staring at us?
Yeah.
What I wanted to say is that I heard about the whole 2007 New Year's Day with the Armenian mob when they came in and dragged the...
This actually went better in my head.
I'm derealing. Let me finish.
I have a lot of admiration for the trust that you two have in each other.
That's it.
Okay. Good night.
What the hell is he talking about?
Armenian mob.
No idea.
Oh, goody tea.