#chris seaman | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

typingtess · 2 years

Video

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by GOLDBERG (@goldberg95)

instagram

NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch: “Bonafides”

The basics: When Lance Hamilton’s partner is murdered, he teams up with Sam and NCIS for justice.

Written by: Kyle Harimoto wrote “Omni”, “Merry Evasion”, “Chernoff, K”, “Command and Control” as episode 150, “Granger, O.”, “Ghost Gun”, “Kulinda”, “767”, “Se Murio El Payaso”, “Assets”/“Liabilities”, “Venganza”, “Superhuman”, “One of Us" (Lance Hamilton episode), “Let Fate Decide” (season 11 premiere), “Decoy” (Lance Hamilton episode), “Answers” , “Watch Over Me” (Lance Hamilton episode), “Cash Flow” and "Fukushu". He co-wrote “Three Hearts”, “Leipei”, “Humbug”, both ends of the “Matryoshka” two-parter, “Smokescreen” part two, “Searching” (Lance Hamilton episode), “A Fait Acompli” and “A Tale of Two Igors” (season 12 finale).

Directed by: Terrence O’Hara directed "The Only Easy Day”, “Brimstone”, “The Bank Job”, “Borderline”, “Tin Soldiers”, “The Job”, “Backstopped”, “Crimeleon”, “Blye, K.” Part Two, “San Voir” Part Two, “End Game”, “Paper Soldiers”, “Descent”, “Ascension”, “Fish Out of Water”, “Blaze of Glory”, “Command and Control” (episode 150), “Matryoshka” Part Two, “Belly of the Beast”, “Payback”, “Mountebank”, “Asesinos”, "Searching", “Yellow Jack”, “Raising the Dead”, “Overdue", "Red Rover, Red Rover" and "All the Little Things".

Guest stars of note: Bill Goldberg returns as DOJ Agent Lance Hamilton for the first time since season 11’s “Watch Over Me”. Christian George returns from “Head of the Snake” as Henrik Vuksan. Well-known Navy SEAL Jocko Willink plays Noah “Herbie” Herbert. Ski Carr as Percy Vander. Duncan Campbell is back from “Murmuration” as Agent Castor, Cindy Dolenc as Ryan Logue, Traci Belushi as Ms. Wilson, Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund plays Rexford Blake, Gregory Shelby as Scott Reid, Bradley Dodds as Bohdan Amantas, Eugene Young as Navy Seaman Harold Forest, Chris Mathieu as Humphrey and Beckett Gunderson is the latest “Young Callen”.

Our heroes: Welcome Lance Hamilton back under sad circumstances.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Staking out a former foster mom. Sam: Switch. Kensi: Not sharing her card with Amantas. Deeks: Sharing his card with Amantas Fatima: Not around much in this episode. Rountree: Personalizing his desk because he’s sentimental. Kilbride: Worried about Sam’s time as Switch.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Reminds Sam that the carport parking spot is a community spot. Sam: Reminds Callen that it is his parking spot. Kensi: Country music fan. Deeks: Open to country music but more West Coast fan. Fatima: Learns to take a man down by the small bones in his wrist. Rountree: Could buy the entire town where he was born for $10 million. Kilbride: Sharing his Challenge Coin.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange? In the back of a limo when young Callen is stolen from his happy foster home.

Who's down with OTP: Solid hour for America’s sweethearts.

Who's down with BrOTP: It was the Sam and Lance show today and they’re always good, even in rough times. The Admiral and Rountree made an entertaining pair.

Fashion review: Callen wore a pale blue polo – more a Chris O’Donnell look than a G. Callen look. Sam starts the day in a long-sleeve black tee. Sam as Switch wears the same tee with a ton of jewelry. Kensi is wearing a long-sleeve grey and white sweater. Deeks is in a super pale blue long-sleeve tee-shirt. Fatima is training in a red and black zip-up jacket. In the office, she’s wearing a red and white stripped turtleneck under a pale green sweater. Rountree trains in a long-sleeve green workout shirt. In the office, he’s wearing a grey hoodie with a black sleeves and a black pouch. Admiral Kilbride in his typical dark blue three-piece suit with a pale blue

Music: Kensi and Deeks have “Chicken Fried” by the Zac Brown Band on the radio.

Any notable cut scene: No.

Quote: Vuksan: “This is, like, a big ask. Amantas is never gonna forgive me for - bringing the fuzz to his house. Never. Which means I could lose my biggest client.” Deeks: "Fuzz?" Vuksan: “You know I had a ten-month plan for going completely legitimate? Then you guys had to walk up the driveway.” Deeks: “ This guy never stops talking.” Kensi: “Oh, that's a big statement coming from you.” Deeks: “That's my point.”

Anything else: On a parking lot roof, a young man on a skateboard is having some fun until he’s nearly hit by a car as the driver looking for a spot. Making his way into the parking structure, the skateboarder is also once again nearly hit by a vehicle. This time it is an SUV leaving a parking space. The driver yells “hey” to the skaterboy by he’s long gone. Taking a deep breath, the driver takes a second to steady himself when he’s shot twice in the chest. The gunman comes up alongside the open driver’s window with his gun drawn. Reaching into the SUV, the gunman takes a notebook while the driver struggles to breathe.

As the driver is losing consciousness, a sedan races up to his spot. Lance Hamilton runs over to see “Reid” dying in the car. Asking about the notebook and the shooting, Hamilton is told in Reed’s dying breath that “Vander” was the shooter.

Sam pulls up to the office. He’s arguing with Callen on the phone. The Admiral told Callen that if he doesn’t use his leave, he’ll lose his leave. Realizing that Sam isn’t driving, Callen asks if Sam is at work – 20-minutes earlier than usual. Before Sam can answer, Callen asks if Sam is in so early so he can get his old space back. “It’s my spot.” In his car, Callen tells Sam he’s waiting for Anna outside of Eggslut before the two of them go to a motion picture museum. That’s not true. Callen is staking out an elderly woman as she gardens.

Driving to the office, Kensi is bopping along to some country music while Deeks is trying to keep an open mind to her driving music choices. She’s singing along to some Zac Brown Band music, Deeks is wondering why. Kensi can’t believe he doesn’t like country music. He reminds her that he grew up totally on the West Coast. His music of choice is more Sublime, Pennywise, Dr. Dre and Jack Johnson when he feels like he needs to be “herbally enhanced.”

Willing to evolve, he wants to know why this music works for her. If Deeks was just some rando in a bar, Kensi would tell him that she grew up on military bases where this was the music of choice. But since he’s not some guy in a bar, she tells him the music just makes her feel good. She isn’t being told she needs a $3,000 purse to be happy. The two sing on their way to the office.

In the gym, a hand-to-hand trainer is using Sam as part of a demonstration for Fatima and Rountree. The trainer wants to see what Fatima can do. As she engages with Rountree, Sam wanting to see what Rountree can do. Fatima gets Rountree to the ground and Rountree can’t get up. The trainer puts a stop to things. When Rountree is asked what happened, he is explains the tactics Fatima used. Instead of going after Rountree’s strengths – his arms, his legs, his core – she grabbed the small bones in his wrists and was able to position herself to take him to the ground. Fatima loved the exercise, she wants to do more like this.

“Herbie”, the trainer, was a SEAL with Sam. They would train for 18-months sometimes for one six-month assignment. The Admiral pops up on the screen and Herbie goes into full sailor mode. After an “As you were Commander Herbert”, the Admiral was grateful for the training session. He’d also like to see Sam immediately. While Sam leaves, Fatima and Rountree continue their work with Herbie.

In the fishbowl office, Lance Hamilton’s ID photo is on the plasma screen. Sam asks if he’s working with Hamilton. While he doesn’t have all the details, Hamilton was working a case investigating dirty federal agents. Yesterday, his partner Scott Reid was killed. Sam is bothered by this. It gets worse when the Admiral tells Sam that a target of the investigating was a Percy Vander, an undercover asset when Sam is Switch. Sam tells the Admiral that Vander was Switch’s mentor who gave Sam the bonafides to work in his criminal enterprise.

Reviewing the Switch file, the Admiral is impressed with all the good work Sam as Switch got done. The Admiral asks if the Switch persona is still viable. Sam isn’t sure – he’d have to check with King. “I don’t know if she kept quiet on the inside or if she told people who I was.” Hamilton believes Vander was responsible for Reid’s death. Sam knows where this is going – Switch would lure Vander out. The Admiral is worried about the person Sam is and the persona of Switch opened themselves to Vander. “Can you hunt this man Vander down?” The Admiral is worried Sam is too invested. Sam tells the Admiral, “I got this.”

In the boatshed, Sam and Hamilton share greetings. Sam learns Reid had a two-year old son. Reviewing the case, there is a notebook with the names of dirty federal agents from Texas, Mississippi and Alabama kept by a wealthy Texas ranch owner with ties to the Dixie Mafia. The ranch owner died. His son Luke Gilroy sold the notebook to Reid. The sale went through without incident – Luke Gilroy was even arrested – but someone came and shot Reid. As back-up, Hamilton is wrecked that he didn’t make it to Reid in time. Reid set up the purchase of the notebook in a hurry so no other buyers would be involved.

Sam asks where Vander fits in all of this. Hamilton explains Reid’s dying word and asks Sam about Vander. Saying that Vander was used to launch Switch, Sam tells Hamilton it was his most successful undercover operation ever. It was a bicostal set-up, New York and LA.

In Ops, Kensi, Deeks, Fatima and Rountree are reviewing a new case. Ryan Logue, a civilian airspace engineer at EXEC Aerospace stole highly classified Navy schematics. Fatima and Rountree aren’t sure what the schematics are for but the thought is that she’s going to sell them to a Ukrainian national named Bohdan Amantas. He’s been selling legal and illegal weapons for years. Kensi thinks this is an FBI case. It would be but Amantas has been in contact with an old friend of NCIS OSP – Henrik Vuksan, “Omni’s man in LA.”

After Rountree is brought up to speed on Vuksan’s past with NCIS, Rountree shares that Vuksan is now out of prison on parole for over a year. The FBI wants to know if Vuksan is involved. Is he helping Amantas buy the schematics or is using Amantas as a go-between to buy the schematics for Omni. Using social media, Fatima found Vuksan in a pricy neighborhood. Everyone stunned by the pricy real estate – Rountree thinks $10 million would buy the entire town where he was born. “Welcome to LA” is Fatima’s reply.

Checking with King, and admitting to Hamilton that he has some history with “Dana”, Sam tells Hamilton that King did not blow his cover. Hamilton asks if Sam trusts her. “We have no choice but to trust her.” Working on the plan, Sam tells Hamilton that Vander has a big personality that covers a very calculating man. Thinking that Sam as Switch is working out of Mexico City, Vander won’t trust Switch just showing up. Sam thinks he as to get something done for Switch instead.

Outside a mansion, Vuksan is showing around possible buyers, pointing out the features of the home. The buyers aren’t impressed. They had four “must haves” and the house only has three of them. Saying that the house is priced accordingly, the other real estate agent working with Vuksan calls the buyer friendly price “Grand Theft Mansion”

As the possible buyers drive off, Kensi and Deeks arrive. He recognizes them immediately, saying “NCIS!”. His real estate agent buddy thinks NCIS is a “tacky” real estate firm in the Valley. Kensi pulls her badge and Vuksan decides to send real estate agent buddy Rexford back to his office. Before he leaves, Rexford asks if Kensi and Deeks are looking for house. Deeks asks for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house near the beach. Rexford has a fixer-upper for $3.7 million. Kensi and Deeks have shocked faces. Rexford leaves, Vuksan wants to talk.

As the older woman leaves her house, Callen flashes back to a holiday with her. They are making cookies with a Christmas tree behind decorations all over the house. Ms. Wilson is proud of Callen’s cooking-making skills. He’s likely 12. Back in the present, he watches her get in her car and drive off. Callen follows.

In Sam’s car, Hamilton wants to know what’s the plan. Vander, Sam explains, has made his name by providing protection for illegal shipments throughout LA. Never lost one. Hamilton thinks that’s a “lucrative market to have cornered.” Sam agrees but there is a new young crew – a Korean biker gang – looking to infringe of Vander’s territory. Hamilton thinks they are going to team up with the crew to go after Vander. No, Sam tells him, “we’re gonna rob ‘em.” Hamilton likes it.

Ready to go, Sam is getting geared up as Switch – lots of gold chains, a big gold watch, a black puffer coat – as Hamilton gets into place.

Arriving at their desks, Rountree asks Fatima if she found Ryan Logue. She has not. Rountree is holding a football – one he was awarded in college as the game ball. He is going to put it on his desk. Fatima thinks it is cute he’s personalizing his workspace. “Maybe I’m just more sentimental than you.” Fatima gets a hit on Logue’s ATM card – she maxed out her daily withdrawal limit. There is a hotel next to the ATM. Rountree is going to check it out with Castor, Fatima is going to talk to the Admiral about the case.

As members of the Korean gang leave their HQ, Sam as Switch pulls up. He speaks Korean to the leader – Sang. Sang wants to do some business with Switch. Things have changed since Switch left town. Sam says he knows Sang and his men are moving on Vander’s business. Thinking Vander is an old man, Sang wants to move on. Sam doesn’t so he pulls his gun on the four gang members. The gang members are also armed with pistols. Hamilton shows up with a much bigger gun than any of them are carrying so Sang orders his men to put their weapons down. Taking away their ill-gotten games, Sam and Hamilton clean out the gang members. When Sam and Hamilton leave, the gang members all jump on their motorcycles to follow. Hamilton chained them all to a wall – nobody is going to follow.

Walking from the mansion, Vuksan explains that he’s done with Omni, he’s opened a new chapter in his life. Omni gives him contacts and money to buy LA real estate with cash, everything is on the up-and-up according to Vuksan. When Kensi asks about Bohdan Amantas, Vuksan is evasive until he admits Amantas is a real estate client looking for two homes. Deeks asks if Vuksan is supplementing his income by selling military secrets. Vuksan says he makes far more selling real estate than he ever would selling military secrets. Kensi and Deeks are enlisting Vuksan to help them find Amantas.

In the Armory (was Hamilton ever in the super-secret office before? That goes for Herbie too – this place should be on the Hollywood Map of Stars at this point), Sam and Hamilton document their ill-gotten, ill-gotten gains for evidence. Sam is sure Vander had to hear about the robbery when his phone rings – Vander wants to meet with Switch.

In interrogation, the Admiral relieves Castor as Ryan Logue is sitting on the wrong side of the table. Rountree remains. Logue finds being detained ridiculous. She’s in a hurry to leave. Reviewing a file, the Admiral asks why she checked into a hotel not far from her home. Claiming her neighbors were doing construction, she wanted to get some sleep. The Admiral asks if she needed to sleep so much that she didn’t report to work in two-days. She tells him yes. Rountree asks why didn’t she contact the office and tell them she was sick. She wasn’t sick, just tired. She can’t believe she’s been brought in to answer these questions.

Closing the file, the Admiral asks if she’d rather speak about Navy Special Warfare N9 schematics? Saying there is a lot of physics and engineering involved, Logue doesn’t thinks the Admiral or Rountree did more than state schools with undergrad degrees so she doesn’t think they’ll understand. Rountree chuckles. The Admiral stands and tells Logue, “I don’t think this is a day you’re going to remember fondly.”

Hamilton asks about Vander and Sam talks about the good times he had with Vander. Telling Sam that if Vander was involved in Reid’s death, he needs to know Sam has his back. Sam does.

The older woman is reading in the park with Callen watching from his car. Callen once again flashes back to time with Ms. Wilson reading “The Wizard of Oz” to him with a fire going in the fireplace.

As Logue paces around the interrogation room, Rountree asks the Admiral how long are they going to “sweat” her out. The Admiral says answers a while – Logue is a thinker. Rountree mentions the FBI has proof she’s been downloading the schematics. She has but they can talk to her about that down the road. He’s happy to wait until they have proof she was trying to sell the schematics. As a thinker, the Admiral thinks Logue is going over everything she said to them to find the perfect answer to her dilemma. Logue looks into the security camera in interrogation and tells them she’s willing to talk.

Walking down a pier with the drugs stolen from the Korean gang, Sam hears from Hamilton that he’s in the overwatch vehicle in about 30-seconds. On his boat, Vander sees Switch and welcomes him back to LA – he already heard about the robbery. Sam as Switch isn’t happy that someone is muscling in on Vander’s territory. Switch asks permission to come on board the boat – permission is granted.

In the Audi, Vuksan is complaining about what he’s been asked to do – bringing the “Fuzz” to Amantas’s house. Vuksan could lose his biggest client. Deeks chuckles at “Fuzz”. Luskin goes on about his 10-month plan to go legit and Deeks has had enough of his talking. Kensi thinks that is funny coming from Deeks. Deeks thinks that’s the point. Vuksan complains that working with law enforcement is making it harder for him to go legit.

On the boat, Sam and Vander are sharing some champagne on the top deck of the boat, talking about Switch’s business in Mexico City. There is a bodyguard nearby Vander and a woman in bikini near the bodyguard. Vander wants to hear more about Switch’s business and drink some more champagne.

Logue admits to downloading the schematics, which the Admiral says they already have proof of her actions. Rountree asks Logue how she thinks she’ll survive in federal prison. She asks what they want? Bohdan Amantas is the answer. Crying, Logue says she met Amantas after a night in a sports bar. He threatened her – if she didn’t steal the schematics, they’d kill her family. Her only family is her father, who lives in a care facility in Minnesota – Shore Lake - that Logue doesn’t know its address. Barely knows the name. As the Admiral leaves, he asks her what game was she watching at the sports bar. She talks about the Minnesota Wild.

Outside of interrogation, the Admiral knows the Minnesota Wild didn’t play that week. Checking out Shore Lake, Rountree finds it is a hospice. Everyone there is already dying. The Admiral thinks Logue believes she enhanced her story with the details. She just made it easier to take her story apart.

In a park, Amantas is sparring with a trainer and two bodyguards watching him. Kensi, Deeks, Vuksan approach and introduce themselves. Amantas dismisses his bodyguards and ends Vuksan’s crime-free future by firing him as his real estate agent. Vuksan is dismissed by Amantas – offering him sushi with the bodyguards - leaving him with just Kensi and Deeks.

Kensi asks Amantas about Ryan Logue. He doesn’t know why he’d have to answer until Deeks brings up the three homes Amantas has in escrow. If Amantas doesn’t keep them busy with answers to their questions, they’ll be busy looking to see where Amantas got the money to buy the houses. Deeks is going to need tax returns for the last three years.

Told that he threatened Logue if she didn’t steal the schematics, Amantas tells a different story. Logue contacted him, not the other way around. Amantas’s people shut her down – they don’t do business with people they don’t know. Kensi and Deeks asks why should they believe Amantas story and not Logue’s? Asking if NCIS has good computer people – they do – Amantas provides a site on the dark web for them to investigate. Logue is open for business. As they’re about to leave, Amantas wants Kensi’s card in case he remembers anything useful. He gets Deeks’s card instead before Deeks grabs some sushi with Vuksan and the bodyguards.

Laughing and having a good time, Vander wants to do right by Switch for helping with the Korean gang. Sam asks about the notebook – he wants in. It would be a big help for his business in Mexico. Vander is unhappy – he liked Switch, he trusted Switch. Another bodyguard appears and they pull their weapons on Sam. Hamilton does not have a shot.

When Vander orders his bodyguards to search Sam, the one who approaches gets knocked out by Sam for his trouble. The movement allows Hamilton to take out the other bodyguard. Sam runs after Vander, who went to the lower deck. Sam approaches Vander, telling him to put the gun down. Saying that only the police knew he had the book, Vander won’t go down like this. Sam offers to help while Hamilton tries to get a shot on Vander but can’t. Vander accuses Sam of being a cop. Sam tries to warn Vander that there is a sniper waiting for him to move – surrender and he’ll live. “I loved you like a son, how are you going to do me like that?” Vander asks. Sam asks Vander to put the gun down again. Vander walks into Hamilton’s line of sight and raises his gun. Hamilton makes his shot.

As Vander dies, Sam holds his hands.

Fatima confirms Amantas’s story. Logue was selling the schematics on the dark web but not having much success. Thinking that she did the hard part by stealing the schematics, Logue didn’t understand that criminals don’t go into business with people they don’t know. Deeks wants Fatima to call the Admiral and tell him what is going on.

Asking if NCIS looked after her dad, the Admiral tells Logue they didn’t even try. Rountree says everything she told them was a lie. Logue tries to sell being railroaded – this is why everyone hates law enforcement. The Admiral is pretty sure not everyone hates them. He also wants her copies of the schematics she stole since she approached Bohdan Amantas not the other way around. He’s willing to go on the record for that. Rountree is feeling pretty good about his state university undergraduate degree.

At the docks, Sam watches the EMTs wheel Vander’s body away. Hamilton says he’s sorry but Sam blames himself for getting so attached to Vander. Hamilton thinks that’s what makes Sam a human being. While listing what Vander did and his plans for taking the names of the dirty feds from the notebook and make them work for him, Hamilton gets a call. The DoJ found the notebook in Vander’s Tarzana apartment. Sam admits Vander’s death hurts. Hamilton understands.

Packing up his gear, Herbie is greeted by the Admiral. Explaining he can only take LA in 30-hour chunks, he’s is returning to San Diego. The Admiral agrees. Herbie is grateful for the opportunity the Admiral offered his new training company. Herbie has put a lot of his family’s money into getting the company off the ground. The Admiral stops the thank you’s. After Ramadi, the Admiral can’t do enough for Herbie. NCIS will be employing Herbie’s company for all of the agents under the Admiral’s command and the Director plans to roll it out to all offices. Herbie is thrilled. The Admiral gives Herbie his Challenge Coin.

At night, Callen is still watching the older woman in her home from his car. In a flashback, Callen is being removed from Ms. Wilson’s care. He’s crying. The man taking young Callen from Ms. Wilson wants him to meet someone – Henrietta.

What head canon can be formed from here: I’ll stop complaining about the Callen backstory debacle at some point but not today. Early episodes had Callen moving from place to place sometimes only last a day or two but he blanked out on Ms. Wilson whose kindness and decency would be the thing you think he’d remember. Earlier this season Callen had memories of a foster father who built furniture and let Callen help but a woman who seemed to genuine care for him is only now a memory. Feh.

The cases of the week mirrored each other. Sam as Switch was able to work his way right back into Vander’s trust circle by once again proving his worth. Logue could not get Amantas to give her a second of his time because there was no trust there.

Episode number: This is the Munsters episode – 1313 (season 13, episode 13). It is episode 293 overall.1

#NCIS: Los Angeles Rewatch #NCIS: Los Angeles #NCIS: LA #NCIS Los Angeles #ncis la

4 notes · View notes