I
That for me
Oh
You
Okay
Nice gangster walk like that's thrown out of a moving car
You
Worth throwing out of a moving car several times. Well, not recently
Was I
This is why I'm telling you jeep you don't take care of yourself it becomes cumulative every broken bone gunshot
Stable camel blade. It starts to add up. You need a real bed a real diet some flax seed oil
Maybe a little Pilates, you know I'll stick with coffee and aspirin
So you're treating the symptoms and not the problem. I can't have a partner. I need to push around in a wheelchair
What do you think you're gonna be in a few years you keep this up probably be killed on the job long before that?
What do you do that? Why don't I even talk to you?
Keep this up. I'm gonna stop
promises promises
Angry birds
Plants versus zombies played four hours straight last night. I
Know if I'm proud or ashamed of that
Did you get to
She get the little heady no
No
By the way, there's no such thing as a little heady note. It's a big heady note. There's a holy moly heady note
There's an oh dear god heady note
I get it
How bad is it expense account
Hygiene again, I haven't opened it. Oh
Brave man, mr. Deeks. I'd be quick about it. We have a problem
More specifically, I have a problem
With you me at a routine agent readiness audit
You were found to be woefully behind the rest of the team in professional development
Yes, coursework to further one skill set in a given profession while we may believe that you're up to the task
Statistically speaking an agent's training level has a high correlation to survival
Who am I to argue with statistics, right? No, no, of course, but my training comes from the streets
Oh really the tough streets of the San Fernando Valley not exactly Fallujah Kandahar and Medellin
Okay, you don't get to pull the special forces tough guy card because it's not in your wallet
Maybe Sam's maybe Callan's maybe Heddy's maybe
You will choose from that list of courses mr. Deeks and
You miss Bly will be in charge of overseeing its completion
Up center we have a case
CQB close-quarter battle urban warfare I took CQB and urban it's excellent
This is a terrible idea
I bet you even got your special agent friendship badge. You're lucky to let you get this far without your DoD advanced training
Okay, I am an LAPD liaison so we were led to believe offensive driving really this is Los Angeles
Everybody's driving is offensive besides I've already taken that isn't there like a
Like a master of disguise course or like a ninja weapons. You know that that would be cool
Let's make this quick Eric Deeks has got to get back to class
Is there no privacy here? Nope
Apparently Heddy is determined to make you a highly skilled operative. Good luck with that
I'm a highly skilled operative
What I am close you are mistakes
Eric please according to the timestamp these photos were taken two days ago at the Malibu pier
They were anonymously emailed to the NCIS headquarters last night guy in the green
Is lieutenant commander Daniel Chambers naval intelligence. Who's the other guy? We don't know yet, but let's just say this was his last trip to the pier
strangled
With a garot body was found by a surfer who called 911
Call came in just seven minutes after these photos were taken of his meeting chambers. What about chambers?
He's a fully trained and highly regarded intel officer assigned to the defense intelligence agency
He's not reported for duty in two days since the photos were taken now Chambers
He's an expert in Venezuelan politics. He's been tracking a rising star Antonio Medina
Who is supposedly going to give president Hugo Chavez a run for his money in the next election?
Medina is also pro-america
The kicker is Medina's on his way to Los Angeles. We have any idea where Chambers is now?
His car has been parked in the same spot for two days. His credit cards have not been used and his phone's been turned off
Not promising that I did access his cell phones incoming calls mostly from his ex-wife and the base
But on the day he went missing there's three calls from the Malibu hotel room 303
That's just five blocks from the Malibu pier
All right, Sam and I'll take the motel Kenzie Deeks talked to the ex-wife one guy strangled one guy missing another guy taking photos of it
Just another day in Tinseltown
What do you think the chances our chambers is still alive I'm hoping for the best
But expecting the worst half empty
Clear clear
Antonio Medina's LA itinerary times places and standard operating procedures
Everything you need to assist with his security detail
Or an assassination
It's a quick trip in and out lands in one hour they're gonna hit him it'll be in the next six hours tick tock
Okay
Surveillance video doesn't show the room or the parking lot or the manager's office. Oh, that's effective
Manager says the room was rented by a woman who paid in cash for the entire month. It doesn't remember chambers
Make sense
It looks like the kind of place you come not to be remembered
What about the woman medium height dark hair sunglasses, so basically half the women in LA
Erickson in a surveillance crew in case somebody comes back two guys meet one ends up dead
Other hasn't been heard from since there's no way this plays out well for chambers easy to the killer. He's on the run or he's dead
Medina needs to cancel his visit Eddie spoke the State Department Medina's visit is still on they think we're overreacting
Typical
Political ambition Trump's common sense apparently Medina some critical ally and he's supposed to raise over a million dollars in tonight's fundraiser
So well canceling all visible security is bad for business
At the very least they need to alter his itinerary change the venue
Dignitary doesn't believe the threat
It's a valence unit is two minutes out chambers directors at the Bochette now is an expert on South America. She's already there
Okay, thanks
Call an instant just found evidence that someone might be trying to assassinate Medina
Plot thickens you ready to check out chambers ex-wife. I don't know
I've been taking my bungalow breaching course or my tactical ex-wife interrogation using household objects. Oh, no
What are you sulking?
Not sulking because I don't so oh you so what happened the other boys hurt your feelings. How nice now you're mocking me
That's awesome. You know why cuz that's who you are. You're a mocker
Mocker yes
And we chambers I'm detective Marty Deeks. This is special agent Kenzie Bly NCIS. We want to test some questions about your ex-husband
Sure, of course
Is Daniel in some sort of trouble? That's what we're trying to find out. Come on in
It's a commander chambers joined DIA two years ago
Put on our Venezuela task force last August
Tracking Antonio Medina who's not only a rising star
He's also pro-american and that is a rarity in Venezuela chambers turn up anything interesting. Yeah, you covered his bases
submitted multiple intelligence reports
our job
Is to keep an eye on the local political terrain particularly nations hostile to US interests
See if anything big is coming down the pike. He was very meticulous
Any chance chambers is doing something illegal
He's an absolute straight arrow. You know if anything the guy was too passionate about his work
Medina is quote an opportunist if he was elected to hire office. He would be worse than Hugo Chavez
Worst than Shavas a guy who called America a terrorist state
So Medina was a US ally hold on chambers background is computer science
And by that you mean he was basing his assumptions on a souped-up hips analysis hips is experimental not to mention classified
Chambers was beta testing a version of hips high precision search
Basically, it analyzes everything a person says publicly over a lifetime to uncover extremist views otherwise missed in essence. Yes
We're any of these views missed by the intelligence community
CID I according to chambers. Hmm awkward excuse me. Who are you?
Intelligence analysts now Jones
The algorithm as used by chambers is unproven and no replacement for human intel
Yeah, I've played around with it a fair bit
I was able to spot general Manuel Noriega back when the US supported him pull pot in the early days and Mikhail Gorbachev
When we still hated him came out of moderate
Chambers was in the early stages of intelligence gathering. Oh, it's interesting stuff
But ultimately a bit far-fetched really because the stakes aren't
I mean Venezuela has known ties to Iran does it not and we know that Iran has a clandestine nuclear program that could
Potentially spread to the Southern Hemisphere. It's a remote risk
And isn't it true that Venezuela has been trying to form a block with Bolivia
Nicaragua and Cuba to counter US dominance in the region there have been concerns you add into the mix a
Nuclear Venezuela and now you have a nuke 90 miles off the coast of Florida
Not to mention the more realistic possibility that these countries become a training and launching ground for Al Qaeda
Okay. No, thank you
Can we have the captain for a minute, please? Yeah, I'm sure it was nice to meet you
Pleasure's all mine
But you're not buying it are you Medina was resolutely pro-american he's beloved by the expat community here
Chambers hips analysis contradicts everything we know. What if he's right? I doubt it
Occam's razor the simplest explanation is the best
Usually the best
Sounds to me like you ignored your intel officer
You may have stumbled across something that might have gotten upkilled. Well, I truly hope not
Chambers was a good man
Let's hope he still is
And
Am I in trouble no the next time pick on someone your own size
Take a look at this
But we would also like the pride and respect to come back to the people of Venezuela
You don't just need a leader
You need a great leader
Affrontations large and small
Impressive speaker
Arisma despair the right contacts to you'd be a force to be reckoned with kind of force is he
Probably anti terrorist threat of the kind of threat the truth is it doesn't matter what kind of threat
Medina is the only thing that matters is that we keep him safe from being assassinated on US soil
Has your husband ever mentioned the name Antonio Medina to you
No
But we don't talk about work. I mean we talk all the time about Ali
Because she doesn't speak to the two of us, but that's your cousin any given day one of the two of us is ruining her 12-year-old life
Hey mom, yes, can I have your laptop? Why don't you finish your homework because I really don't feel like it
So I pretty cool trampoline I'm back there you might have a jump on it
What cops can't jump on trampolines
That's right. I'm a cop chase bad guys. I eat donuts
It's okay house
Why don't you show the detective the backyard? Oh, I saw that you rolled your eyes
Race you on three point two three
So can you tell me what is going on who is Antonio Medina
Your ex-husband thinks that he might be a national security threat
And he just might be caught up in something dangerous
Daniel
No, that is not possible Daniel's way too by the book and he wouldn't do anything they would take him away from Ali
Don't say that in a while she's actually laughing
Yeah, he has that effect on people
She's had a really tough time lately, you know at her age with friends in school plus a divorce
Something what happened to her dad
It sounds like you two are pretty tight
He's a great guy. He's a great dad, but you're not a great couple
Hello
That's a third time today, do you think that might be your ex trying to reach Ellie she got one too
Hey Eric, I needed to trace the last call to Emily Chambers searching
It's a cell phone
Tracing the GPS
Got it. Kenzie the call came from right outside the house
Deeks. Oh, yeah
I'm coming. Hey, we'll see you later. Let's go. That's fun
Awesome kid by the way, thank you
There blue truck
What is he doing hold up
They say by the drivers
Eric yeah, I need you to pull every surveillance camera in a 10 block radius blue pickup truck GMC
07 or 08 no plates just trying to run it down
Accessing surveillance
ATMs traffic cams. Can you track the cell phone?
Turned off. It was a burnt phone probably dumped it. Kenzie. Did you get a look at the driver?
No, the man strangled in the parking lot his family reported him missing. We have a name and address
My uncle Juan was a day laborer
He'd go to the Home Depot or car wash every morning. We're very sorry for your loss
It's just so ironic
We left what is because of the violence
The cartels the drug war
Juan was from Mexico not Venezuela
Yes, we all are
Everyone in this complex
Everyone we know really that's Ellie
When was the last time you saw your uncle two days ago?
I have a driver's license, so I dropped the guys off by the car wash on to hunger at 4 a.m.
Hard-working guys and girls
And my family didn't come here just to sit around we came for a better life and I'm determined to see it through
I'm sure you will
Stay labor hangouts got a hundred guys probably could have been any and they just needed someone to be the delivery guy
Yo, Eric. Yep, send you the address where a delivery guy was last seen
Got it sending to Kenzie and Deeks now
I
Stop sure
Nothing they say they know nothing but it'd be more exact
I started speaking Spanish and they said no
Nada think they think I'm ice I
Think they just don't like you
All right, go get him tiger
When I
I'll meet you one
It's about key. You see those days. She see see see a setback on someone in one of my tassel
Alpaca like that. I don't know. I don't get a soul. Yes. We didn't get him. It's a man. I don't know
I see see Mirabella Camerata
This is my Sucia, but it's recalculated. Okay. Gracias. Oh, yeah
Okay.
Eric, I got a positive ID on the truck.
Juan Muñoz was picked up at the car wash.
Copy that.
Nice.
I'm impressed.
Don't do that.
Don't gloat.
Did you choose a class yet?
Or nag.
And I'm happy to share.
I'm thinking facts.
Firearms training simulator.
Nice.
Lots of interesting theories and techniques for you to get your head around.
I can test you.
No, no, no.
I picked it because I know it.
It's in here.
Do you want to know why?
Because working a case is my classroom.
That is a very small classroom.
What do we got, Eric?
This is from a traffic camera outside the car wash.
Footage was taken at 10.04 a.m. two days ago.
What's Muñoz?
And here's our driver.
It's a she.
We're in facial recognition, but the image doesn't work.
That fits the description of the woman from the motel.
So now our mystery woman picks up day laborer Muñoz,
who winds up dead after a handoff to our missing chambers.
She then rents a motel room from which chambers receives
numerous phone calls,
and we find classified details of Medina's itinerary.
And now the truck she's driving is staking out chamber's house.
If they've killed Muñoz,
the question is why.
What did he know that could have jeopardized their plan?
What if chambers didn't stumble on the plot?
What if he's a part of the plot?
Chambers went rogue?
He sent up warning flares, and nobody believed him.
He sees Medina's rise to power as an issue of national security.
Chambers gets the Manila envelope with Medina's itinerary.
He disappears.
Kills Muñoz to cover his tracks.
Or what if he's being forced into it?
I mean, someone could have leverage over what we don't know about.
No, chamber's record was squeaky clean.
No evidence of alcohol or drug abuse.
No gambling, no debts.
Or maybe someone needs leverage over him.
We still don't know what that blue truck is doing
outside the family's house.
The only way you get to a man like Chambers
is through his daughter.
OMG.
I know.
He was a total crazy person.
But to a man like him,
he was a total crazy person.
But totally cute too.
I can't believe I just said that.
You can't tell anyone.
Please, please, please.
Hey.
Callan.
Kenzie, anything?
No.
Emily's hanging in there.
An Amber alert was sent out.
It's all over the local news, freeway signs, and internet.
Thanks, Callan.
You have it.
It's all over the local news, freeway signs,
and internet.
Thanks, Callan.
Thanks to the internet.
Yeah, but it wasn't us.
911 got three calls in four minutes.
Four minutes?
Including two accurate license plate numbers
and a lady ID of the van at Block-A-Way.
She'd gotten a text from a friend.
Hah.
Nice neighbors.
Yeah.
Well, everyone's okay here,
so thank your mom for participating and coming back.
The agents will let us know if she calls.
Okay.
Ha ha.
You know what?
Okay.
Ready?
Tough?
Huh?
What?
Eight wins in a row.
Wow.
Huh.
Oh, card shot.
Anything?
No.
Ally?
She's happy she's played a part one.
She's worried about her dad.
If they're trying to leverage him,
we've taken that option away from them.
And if he's acting alone,
this might flush him out.
Unless he doesn't care about his daughter,
because he's really snapped.
Boy, he thinks killing Medina
will protect her from what he sees
as a growing threat to her future.
I gotta tell ya,
I'm not liking any of these scenarios.
Top three things to think of
in a good-shoot-bad-shoot operational scenario.
What?
Come on, your professional development.
Oh, bad guys.
Hostages,
bird of movement,
and anomalies.
Something like a guy
wearing a ski-parkage during the summer.
What an anomaly it is.
Medina's security team has been with him
a long time.
Military training.
Highly qualified,
no red flags.
The plan is good.
Rive of Santa Monica Airport,
no public access.
Head straight to the fundraiser
at a private reception hall
in Beverly Hills.
Turn around and leave.
All right, but the route they're taking
hasn't been determined yet.
Decide that at the last minute
to avoid having to secure miles
of city streets.
The best point of contact
is a reception hall.
Or catch him during his entrance or exit.
So where would you set up
to take the shots, Sam?
It's a good vantage point from up here.
Hide a collapsible rifle in your jacket.
You'd have a clear shot.
Maybe arrive in the morning
and find a place to hide.
Why don't you sneak in through the exit?
Use a syringe.
A syringe?
Wouldn't you feel that?
Do it fast in a crowded room.
You'd never know what hit him.
Nobody would know what happened.
And you created diversion
to cloud the intended exit.
Yeah, by the time they lock everything down,
he'll be long gone.
That's how I do it.
Got me, too.
I'll teach you guys that in lethal injection 101.
Who's mocking now?
I got something on the pickup truck.
No plates,
but I found a small sticker.
It's a rental obtained
with a bogus driver's license.
It is, however, fitted
with a GPS navigation system,
and I have an address.
If I ever go off the reservation,
you have my permission to take me out.
Well, how far off?
I mean, you pushed it pretty far,
and I haven't killed you yet.
All the way.
You don't go rogue.
You?
Never gonna have it.
I've never seen anybody
see more sides of a coin than you.
If anybody's gonna snap,
it's me.
You?
Textbook seal.
And blood pressure is undetectable.
Do you even have a blood pressure?
If something gets you,
you take it out on the heavy bag.
You're lucky like that.
If anybody's gonna snap.
Kenzie.
Good luck, Deeks.
Okay, perimeter's clear,
except for the two guys at the entrance.
Everything chambers is in there.
Truck's the common denominator.
And our only lead.
They're packing.
All right, so how do we want to play this?
Hmm.
Biscuit?
Biscuit.
What the hell's a biscuit?
Biscuit.
What the hell's a biscuit?
Biscuit!
Hey, have you seen my dog?
I lost him.
He's kind of medium-sized.
I have no idea where he is.
Dude, you just fell for the biscuit.
Jose!
Jose, que tu hace?
Don't.
Is he alive?
Yeah.
So much for our sense.
I got it. I got to sit down again.
Can you tell us what happened?
Uh, a guy said that he had damning evidence of, uh,
Medina's ties to the Middle East.
He said to meet him on the pier.
He said to meet him on the pier in 20 minutes or he'd leave.
I figured it was safe.
Last thing I remember is walking my car.
They're not talking.
What is this all about?
You're the Patsy.
You sounded the alarm on Medina.
Asking questions, writing reports.
Medina gets assassinated. You take the fall.
You're lucky.
By the looks of things, we probably would have found you
in a motel room dead with a suicide note
and a murder weapon.
It's a perfect cover.
Naval intel agent, highly critical Medina.
Snaps. Kills him.
You almost convinced us.
What do you know about her?
My name is Helen.
I met her at a lecture series at UCLA a few weeks ago.
I knew she was out of my league.
We were, um, together at a motel when, uh, I got the call.
She drove me there.
Said she'd wait for me.
Found this inside.
It's surveillance photos from your meeting at the Malibu Pier
or in the memory card.
I can't believe that I fell for this.
They said you look good.
Really, really good.
Question is, who are they?
Look, there is a hard-line faction in the country
led by a guy named Miguel Cortez.
He's like the Karl Rove of Caracas.
They stand again the most out of this.
They eliminate their biggest opponent on American soil.
We take the blame and anti-Americanism just runs rampant.
So instead of leading the charge against America,
Chavez would ride on the coattails of the masses.
Yeah, he's had a 70% approval.
Imagine 95.
It's a hard-line agenda.
Where's Medina now?
He just landed.
Being at Beverly Hills in an hour.
The state won't shut it down either way, Medina.
And if they do, we'll probably never catch them.
Call the calls. The itinerary.
Send inside job.
Someone close to Medina.
Yeah, but other than Helen, we have no idea who the players are,
making their chances for success uncomfortably high.
We're just gonna have to smoke them out.
Can you walk?
I'm fine. I've been through Sierra.
Van's hostage training.
You guys in your classes...
Waiter.
Why don't I get waiter?
Talk to Hedy.
Deeks.
Even Kinsey, I'll get.
Deeks?
In that suit?
I'm a polyester.
Take exception to that.
Yeah, accept away.
Deeks?
In that suit?
I'm a polyester.
Take exception to that.
Accept away.
I'm in maroon.
Can I mention that dress is off the charts?
Deeks, don't.
No, I'm just roleplaying the gushing date.
Oh, come here. You have a little...
You do?
I'm just roleplaying.
Okay.
All right, so if we're right,
this guy should recognize you except a course of people
that are responsible for it.
That includes that woman Helen
or whatever her real name is.
I'm on that.
A guy talking to a CEO.
I'm on him.
Got another one.
Deeks, stay with the chambers.
No, no.
Ferocious!
Suspect down, Sam.
Too bad.
One to go.
My friends, my countrymen,
mis amigos.
Better yet, my friends with money.
I want you to be able to tell your friends here in LA,
here in the city of angels.
Soy venezolano y a mucho orgullo.
I am Venezuelan.
Soy venezolano y a mucho orgullo.
I am Venezuelan.
And I am proud of it.
I love America.
You know, it sounds like he likes America.
You have to read between the lines.
Orgullo, pride,
his overriding desires for a strong Venezuela.
You know, if he's so dangerous
while you're risking your life to save him,
assassination is rarely the answer.
If he gets shot, someone else will take his place.
Statistically speaking,
he's meticulous.
Education is the foundation
we need for our...
Ooh, we got incoming.
Education is a matter of social justice.
We need to talk about a greater Venezuela.
A brilliant and freer Venezuela.
Freedom and justice.
Girl, mind dress, two o'clock.
You know what?
Those words
Helen.
Kenzie, we got Helen leaving.
East side exit.
Stay with Chambers.
Freedom and greatness will be ours for the taking.
I invite you to join me in this journey.
Let me get out of my way.
No siento, chica.
Drop it.
Just once I would love to get dressed up
to go out and not have to chase a suspect
or get shot at.
Where's the fun in that?
Another wardrobe malfunction, Miss Bly?
I'm sorry, Eddie.
Small price to pay for a successful assignment.
Thank you.
Any word on our three musketeers?
Yes. Diego Brason, head of security,
and Jose Garcia at Tashé.
We're in the Army and the same unit as Miguel Cortez.
Cortez is his leader, the hard-line faction in Venezuela.
Yeah, Chambers said he's the Karl Rove of Caracas.
What about Helen?
Uh, real name is Maria Rivera.
She's Cortez's girlfriend.
No wonder she set off my Spidey senses.
Anything in a skirt sets off your Spidey senses.
You're right. She's right.
The State Department has come round
to Chambers' assessment of Medina.
Just because someone's paranoia doesn't mean they're not right.
Or in this case, just because you shouldn't assassinate someone
doesn't mean it wouldn't make the world a nicer place.
What about Medina?
Any thanks for saving his life?
Who doesn't know?
What about his disappearing security detail?
He's suspicious?
The campaign has been informed that they were detained
on smuggling charges.
Sounds to me like the wait-and-see approach.
It's wait-and-see if he gets assassinated somewhere else.
Well, that's it for me.
I need a bath while you can eat chicken and waffle buffet.
Not necessarily in that order.
Not so fast, Mr. Deeks.
We need to discuss your exam.
Ooh.
Do we?
Alley!
Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!
Come here, baby.
Oh.
Cute kid.
Except she cheats at Slabjack.
Who doesn't?
You know, saving politicians from getting assassinated
is cool, you know?
This.
This is what keeps me in the game.
Fire red.
Come on.
You?
Yeah.
And we get to drive some pretty cool cars.
You need to hang with me.
That's not exactly the selling point.
You'd rather be partnered with Kenzie and Deeks.
Doesn't that have any choices?
It's like choosing between being burned,
flayed, or stoned to death.
You want to walk? You could walk.
That'd probably be safer.
Thank you.
You ready, Detective Deeks?
Bring it on like Donkey Kong.
Let's begin.
Okay.
You ready?
Oh, Deeks won bad guy zero.
Oh, little girl with the lollipop. You live.
Oh!
Uh...
Oops.
Cheeky bastard.
Whoo-wee!
The End