Tue, Feb 2, 2010
A TV reporter accompanies a group of ATF agents on a raid of suspected gunrunners; on the deck they find the bodies of five civilian men, already dead, two of whom (career criminals) wear authentic uniforms of the US Marine Corps and bear counterfeit ID cards; Director Vance orders the Callen team to investigate. G and Sam find dead birds and squirrels; Eric and Kensi find telephone traces and a street address, which allow the team to meet Esther, a sweet elderly retired researcher in biological warfare, who now suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Esther tells about her recent work, believing that she serves her country; she tells also about her two "Marine" drivers, who take her to and from a lab, where she recently isolated a protein responsible for botulism. The team find someone who provides answers; Sam goes undercover and attends a party and breaks it up; G musters a number of helpers, who catch the bad guys; G and Kensi go shopping; G and Sam take matters in hand.
Tue, Mar 16, 2010
While a Marine gunnery sergeant, Wendell, walks down a sidewalk by night in Los Angeles, two cars roll by, and four gunmen with AK-47 machine guns shoot him to death; Callen and company investigate; G and Sam visit Wendell's father, learn about James, a younger son, and find themselves in a hail of gunfire; Sam says that the weapons and the ammo are the same as what killed Wendell. Eric finds two links to the same black street gang; G and Sam check out James's place of employment, and they find him inside Wendell's pad; while Nate spends time with James, the three musketeers check out other angles, and a gang battle breaks out and kills four; then James makes an amazing confession to G; a gang rampage goes down by night in a turf war over drugs; Sam and James attend a conference with several local businessmen; G takes a ride with three of them, and they do a job at a worksite; another gunfight breaks out and ends, and the team learn the remaining answers.
Tue, Apr 27, 2010
At 02:15 one morning a Navy lieutenant (j.g.), Brian, with two gunshot wounds, in a car not his own, drives into a canyon from Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, then dies; Callen and company, including Deeks, investigate; Deeks has a couple of awkward moments; the team pick up several clues about the circumstances of the preceding night, including Aubrey, a young socialite woman. Kensi and Deeks speak with Aubrey's stepfather. G, Kensi, and Deeks go nightclubbing; Kensi discovers an alive missing girl, and she says that a victim just became a suspect; the team meet several interesting people; Kensi decks one and cuffs him, and G pops another one; the team escort away Aubrey, who gives Kensi much useful information. Kensi and Aubrey go to the latter's home, where Kensi sees more clues, more people, and a part of a solution; Aubrey leaves, Kensi gets into trouble, and G, Sam, and Deeks ride to the rescue. The team finish putting together the pieces about the death and more.
Tue, May 25, 2010
While G, Sam, and Kensi visit Keelson's computer center and physical records, the computer files self-destruct, and the premises ignite and burn; however, they rescue several documents, which include a list of G's 37 foster homes and orphanages plus five more addresses, which he does not recognize. The team, tracing clues, find a birth certificate for Amy Callen, now known as Amy Taylor; Hetty sends Sam and Kensi to Amy's place but chats up G; Eric gives G some data; Sam and Kensi find a tossed pad with nobody at home; G pursues a lead and finds a trashed home, the infamous Trent Kort, of the CIA, with whom G previously worked, and who shows him the body of a contact killed by bizarre means. Eric gives clues to G, who traces a lead to Amy, who as a teenager said that she had a brother; while pursuing a van, G runs into trouble, but he finds Amy, who's truly Hannah Lawson, but who tells G about Amy; the cavalry arrives, so they all take care of the bad guys.
Tue, Sep 28, 2010
On state-owned property near Imperial Beach, California, south of San Diego, while four Marines patrol the area (along the US-Mexico border) to support federal customs and immigration agents, unknown people for unknown reasons ambush the Marines and their Humvee; one escapes, and three remain missing; officials wonder whether the intruders are Mexican smugglers; Callen and company investigate. A search party finds the body of one Marine; the lone survivor says that one of the missing is a pregnant lance corporal, and the dead one was the father; a snitch gives a tip to G and Sam, the latter of whom checks it out while playing it cool; Nate suggests an alternate possibility; while Kensi and Deeks take a bike ride, they find something but run into trouble; G and Sam get a lift and lend a hand, then they find evidence confirming Nate's idea. G and Sam put it all together, so they confront the bad guy in charge. Nate prepares for a journey.
Tue, Oct 5, 2010
In a parking garage on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, near Los Angeles, two shoppers find the body of a man less a crudely severed hand, which is missing; the victim was a Marine corporal, stationed at Camp Pendleton and assigned as a clerk in the G2 (intelligence) office with a top-secret clearance; Vance has expressed interest, so Callen and company investigate. Nell, an enthusiastic new analyst who finishes the sentences of others, has arrived for duty. Eric and Nell see a clue about the amputation; the musketeers conduct interviews; Eric and Nell find more clues; G and Sam find a body and another severed hand; Kensi, Eric, and Nell follow a trace to a Muslim jeweler in Beverly Hills; G and Sam start toward a lunch but bump into the jeweler and some friends; Kensi and Deeks meet the jeweler's wife and find a bloody knife; Sam adds a factoid; the team seek and find the real killer and the rest of the story. Kensi arranges to make a special delivery.
Tue, Nov 16, 2010
In Hollywood two men ambush a limousine and shoot the occupants to death; Hetty says that the target, Renner, was a Swiss antiques dealer and black marketeer; she persuades the LAPD to allow her to take over the investigation because of the nature of a little black book, which she believes is the object of the activity. While Hetty visits a man in an assisted-living place, G and Sam visit Renner's pad, which someone has tossed; Eric identifies a man, Lee, who appears in a number of photographs around Renner's house; G and Callen visit Lee's office and break up a meeting; Eric says that Lee's two visitors are German "agricultural attachés" (that is, spies); G and Sam question a retired operative, and Kensi and Deeks also search Renner's pad, where they meet two foreigners with alternate identities; Hetty visits the Hollywood Bowl, and the four musketeers rescue her. Hetty again calls on her elderly friend, whom she finds dead, executed by gunfire. [To be continued.]