NCIS Los Angeles s12e17 Episode Script

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