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NCIS: Los Angeles Season Eleven Rewatch: “Human Resources”

The basics: The team searches for a missing Navy Lieutenant with confidential information about military members.

Written by: Joe Sachs wrote or co-wrote "Higher Power", "The Dragon and the Fairy", "Drive", "Purity", "The Livelong Day", "Fish Out of Water", "The Black Wind", "Blaze of Glory", "Core Values", "Seoul Man", "Parallel Resistors", "From Havana With Love", "Under Pressure" and "Ninguna Salida" (the season nine finale), "The Sound of Silence" and "Choke Point".

Directed by: James Hanlon who directed "War Cries", "The Grey Man", "Kolcheck, A", "Driving Miss Diaz", "Command and Control" (number 150), "Angels and Daemons", "Where There's Smoke", "Black Market", "Tidings We Bring", "Can I Get a Witness?", "Cac Tu Nhan", "A Diamond in the Rough" and "Into the Breach".

Guest stars of note: JoNell Kennedy returns from “Where There’s Smoke” (also directed by Hanlon) as Navy Commander Susan Yelton, David Paul Olsen is back from “One of Us” as Tom Olsen, William J. Finley as Navy Lieutenant Paul Tatum, Ken Davitian as Narek, Jeanne Sakata as Martha De Leon, George Steeves as Isaac and Adam Hollick as Marco Ruiz.

Our heroes: Are on-brand – protecting members of the Navy while stuff blows up.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Worried about protecting his new family. Sam: Makes sure the Navy can’t find his children as a way to protect them. Kensi: Encourages Deeks to take care of Isaac financially. Deeks: On a 20-day no-complaint challenge. Eric: Would be jealous of Nell’s internet snooping. Nell: Checking post-bomb Callen and Sam since she’s in charge. Hetty: Left Nell in charge.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Doesn’t hate Deeks’s oyster beer. Sam: Happy because he doesn’t keep things bottled up inside. Kensi: Thought Deeks had tuna for breakfast. Deeks: Had sardines for breakfast. Eric: Absent. Nell: Checking out the digital dandruff. Hetty: Absent.

Who's down with OTP: Deeks is not complaining and Kensi is holding him to it.

Who's down with BrOTP: Callen and Sam start having a serious conversation about protecting family – a new concept to Callen.

Any pressing need for a young FBI Agent: Not really. There was lots to do in this episode but the team had it covered.

Who is running the team this week? Nell. Hetty left her in charge.

Fashion review: Blue-red flannel button down for Callen. Black long sleeve tee for Sam. Blue seersucker blouse for Kensi. Dark blue tee for Deeks. Nell is wearing a white blouse with cowboy boots on it a string tie - daring fashion choice.

Music: “The Strut” by Fuzz Evil opens the episode.

Any notable cut scene: No. Very light on cut scenes this season.

Quote: Callen: “You know, your personal information could have been compromised, as well.” Sam: “There's no way for them to find me from what the Navy still has” Callen: “Mm, hope you're right. Kids and all.” Sam: “They're safe. Trust me. Okay. You don't believe me?” Callen: “Course I believe you. I just want to be certain.” Sam: “I mean, part of the reason we do this is to protect those we care about, the very people that make us vulnerable.” Sam: “Easier when you're operating solo.” Callen: “Hell yeah. Nobody could hold anything over me 'cause I had nothing. Now…” Sam: “Having people you love makes it all the more worth fighting for.”

Anything else: A fit man is running through Delongpre Park in Los Angeles. Filming his workout with a selfie stick, he’s “encouraging” his viewers to match his five-mile run and then do pull-ups. He’s at the pull-up station just outside the park’s track when another man passes behind him. That fellow is picking up cans from the trash pail, ruining the man’s shot. After they discuss the can collector moving out of the shot, a rather nondescript four-door sedan drives up on the sidewalk and hits the pull-up station. Workout guy checks on the driver, who is out cold and wearing a Navy uniform. While tending to the injured driver, workout guy gets stun-gunned.

Sam is working on his ROIs, Kensi is drinking terrible coffee and Deeks is sort of hanging out and not complaining when Callen arrives. Nell has a case waiting for them. The computers are also down – Deeks is not complaining. He’s doing a 20-day not-complaining challenge. Deeks may think the complaint but he doesn’t say it. Sam disagrees – thoughts become things. To be happy, Sam does not keep things bottled up inside. Deeks thinks complaining is like bad breath – you may not notice your own but when it comes from others, it stinks. Kensi thinks his breath stinks. He had sardines for breakfast.

Lt. Paul Tatum from San Diego did not make his meeting in Los Angeles today. His car was the one found on the sidewalk by the park – there was blood on the steering wheel. Workout guy, Marco Ruiz, woke up from his stun-gunning to find Tatum gone and his phone stolen. He thinks the can collector took the phone.

Tatum’s meeting was at the VA. He’s an administrator, not a medical professional, dealing with benefits. Deeks wonders if someone denied benefits was looking for revenge. Nell tells the team that prior to taking his current position Tatum was a nuclear engineer on an aircraft carrier. He was transferred for medical reason – Nell throws an air quote around that phrase. She cannot access what the medical reason was.

Sam thinks Tatum’s knowledge of both nuclear engineering and aircraft carriers makes him a valuable kidnapping victim. Not disagreeing but Deeks thinks whatever his medical issues could be the reason he crashed his car, leaving him to wander off. All local ERs are on the lookout for Tatum. His immediate superior, Commander Yelton, is in the boat shed. Callen and Sam are meeting with her, Kensi and Deeks are off to the accident site. Deeks isn’t pleased – traffic on the 10 at this hour. Deeks is already challenged on his no-complaining challenge. Kensi suggest a no-annoying challenge. “Sweetheart, we aren’t going to make 20-minutes,” he tells her.

At the park, Kensi is recreating where Ruiz would put his camera while Deeks is hanging off the pull-up station. Deeks is “stretching it out” – “very sexy”. The two try to figure how Tatum wound up on the sidewalk. Taking down the trainer makes this less of an accident/wandering off scenario. Kensi finds a blood trail that just suddenly stops.

Diabetes is the medical reason Tatum was removed from his previous position. Callen thought diabetes kept you out of the Navy. Col. Yelton explains that Tatum didn’t have diabetes when he joined the Navy. After his diagnosis, he had to be moved to a non-combat position. Tatum had a spotless record – was well liked. His work was mostly with people separating from the Navy – end of active service, retirement, disability.

Tatum’s computer is missing. It is a secured laptop but Yelton shutdown his access and locked out his password when he was reported missing. The lockout happened at 8AM but the accident was at 6:30AM. The 90-minute gap means the personal information of every retired sailor, their spouses and their kids was not secure.

Nell finds that only one file was downloaded: Navy SEALs. Sam wants every SEAL to be notified immediately. Tatum used his cellphone as a hotspot to get the file. Nell pinpointed the hotspot to about 10-blocks from the accident. Callen is sure that Tatum was forced to download the file for someone interested in the SEALs. Tatum has access to far more specialized personnel’s background data – “cryptographers, weapons system experts, submariners.” This is a personal vendetta.

Tatum’s phone went dead after the file was downloaded. Sam is worried that Tatum was ditched at best, dead at worse. Nell is looking at traffic cameras in the area to see if they can find the vehicle with Tatum and maybe Tatum inside.

Kensi and Deeks had no luck with the local doorbell or security cameras. Deeks spots the can collector, Isaac. Deeks asks about the accident. Isaac saw it. When Kensi pulls her badge, Isaac runs. Deeks gets him back with the promise of money. Isaac lives in a group home for adults with autism -he redeems cans for snacks. He ID’s Ruiz but gives a generic description of the stun-gun wielder – white guy, sunglasses, baseball cap with a white star.

Telling Kensi and Deeks that the attacker took Tatum, Kensi asks if Isaac can identify the car. He can’t but he wrote down the license plate number. Deeks is thrilled – he gives Isaac $40.

The license plate belongs to a 1990 Ford Explorer – “not the most reliable getaway car” according to Sam. It is a rental – “Rent-a-Mess”. Kensi and Deeks are on their way. Nell found two traffic cam shots of the Explorer. One has Tatum slumped in the front seat, one does not. The second photo is in the opposite direction. The area is a busy part of LA – Century City. It will be tough to search but Sam thinks a bloody Naval Officer would merit some attention. There is a city baseball field in the search radius. Callen and Sam figure that’s where you could dump a bloody Navy Officer.

At the car rental office, the owner does not have a credit card for the Explorer rental. Leaving a $2,000 deposit for a $20-a-day rental was good enough for him. The copy of the driver’s license shows a middle age African-American man while the customer was white. Deeks asks about renting a Maserati in the lot. That’s the owner’s vehicle – not for rent. If the owner doesn’t start cooperating, Deeks is going to have LAPD in the lot to run all the VINs to see if Rent-a-Mess is renting stolen vehicles. The next call is to the IRS because how could a guy making $20-a-day renting clunkers drives a Maserati.

Suddenly, the owner remembers that the old clock radio on top of the bookshelf by his desk is a video camera. He can’t reach the camera so he asks Kensi. The owner enjoys the view of Kensi getting the clock radio.

In the parking lot of the ball field, Callen is worried that Sam’s personal information has been compromised. The Navy does not have up-to-date info, Sam tells Callen. Sam is protecting his children at all costs. Callen thinks it was easier when he had nobody. “Having people you love makes it all the more worth fighting for,” Sam tells him. Callen sees Tatum struggling to sit up in one of the dugouts.

Tatum was bleeding from his head. Disoriented, Tatum can’t speak. He was eating food from a bag. Callen is worried it was poisoned. Sam runs to his car to get Tatum something to help with his blood sugar.

Video footage of the man with the baseball cap gets a somewhat clear shot of him without the sunglasses. Kensi snaps a photo of the man and sends it to Nell. Hoping he is off the hook, the owner asks if they’re all good. Deeks thinks they’re definitely coming back.

Sam’s food has Tatum in a much better place. He knows the day and year, he knows he should be at the local VA in a meeting. He’s missing five-hours. Tatum needs his phone to show Callen and Sam something. With the phone bagged and tagged, Tatum can access his insulin pump using the phone through the evidence bag. Revising the last five hours – his info from breakfast until being found was missing. Tatum wasn’t poisoned – his phone insulin pump app was hacked.

While the app was hacked, the pump maker has a backup in the cloud. He was given enough insulin to put him in a coma. Tatum’s finger is sore – there are blood sugar testing pricks on the figure – the old-fashion way to check. The pump does everything. He was altered enough to be cooperative but out of it. EMTs take Tatum to the hospital.

The insulin pump hack is traced by Nell to a public library. She also found the Explorer driver, 25-year old Zachary Vale with a computer science degree. He was working as a math tutor but now is unemployed. They have a search warrant to check out his apartment. Kensi and Deeks are on their way to the apartment. Callen asks about social media – Vale has been inactive on both Twitter and Instagram since high school. Nell has confirmed that all the SEALs have been notified. Sam can’t understand why a loner wants info on the SEALs.

Vale’s apartment is sparsely furnished and immaculate. Other than instant noodles, there is no food in the apartment. Kensi sees a quote hanging on the fridge – “So fight against the friends of the devil, surely the struggle of the devil is ever feeble.” Deeks thinks they have a “righteous man.”

Nell has some info about Tatum – he got into a heated argument with his ex-wife’s new boyfriend outside a bar. No charges were filed but the ex-wife married the boyfriend last week. Could that be a triggering moment? Nell finds Vale at the library at the time of the hack.

Calling the search of Vale’s apartment, a waste of time, Kensi wants to know if Deeks is complaining. He’s not. Nell found the Explorer ditched in Inglewood. Deeks tells Callen, Sam and Nell about the quote. Sam recognizes it from the Koran. The quote is about not going to war for wealth or fame but is often misread as a call to jihad. Callen thinks this changes things. Nell starts a deeper dive Vale.

Sam gets a call from Tom Olsen. Putting him on speaker, Tom tells Callen and Sam that he got the alert. His gas cap has been tampered with and there are signs of forced entry to his truck. Sam asks Tom to keep the perimeter clear – they are on their way. At Tom’s truck, Sam can’t find any explosives. Tom tells him the ignition has not be fiddled with – maybe he overrated someone siphoning gas. The bomb squad is on the way, anyway.

Tom mentions something about chemical weapons used in Iraq. They were put in gasoline to become toxic. An “uh-oh” from Sam is quite concerning. So is the foam coming out of Tom’s gas cap. Realizing it is chlorine gas, Sam, Callen and Tom make a run for it. The truck explodes just as they get to across the street. Tom goes down hard while Callen and Sam keep their feet. All men are good, “unlike my truck,” Tom says.

The LAPD bomb squad confirms it was chlorine gas. Nell arrives at the crime scene – much to Callen’s surprise. She was checking out everyone out since Hetty would kill her if anyone got hurt on her watch. Tom was taken to the hospital for some stitches but is otherwise OK. Callen has security footage from Tom’s house for Nell.

Nell checked out Tatum – he and his ex-wife are on such good terms that he was not only at the wedding last week, he bought her a nice gift. As for Vale, he’s well-hidden on the web but Nell found some “digital dandruff” – a term that delights Sam. Nell created a bug that would make Eric jealous so she could trace Vale. Vale is a homegrown al-Qaeda supporter who downloaded bomb-making instructions looking to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden. Vale has no connection to bin Laden but he’s looking for something. Nell found one particularly disturbing message – Vale isn’t just going after the SEALs, he’s going after all of the US’s Special Forces members.

Vale is making money killing SEALs – five Bitcoins or $50,000 per dead SEAL. Callen wonders if this isn’t about being al-Qaeda but more about making money. Nell is returning to Ops to dig a little deeper but was just glad to see Callen and Sam were safe. “Text us when you get home,” Sam tells Nell.

On the security camera footage, Callen sees someone with a hoodie on a bike stop by Tom’s truck. He’s there for 10-seconds – long enough to drop something into the gas tank. The hoodie is not identifiable but the bike is an electric share-bike rental. They can trace the bike and its renter.

The renter is a Martha De Leon, one of Vale’s neighbors. Kensi and Deeks are back at Vale’s apartment building when they see De Leon. She is an older woman using a walker. The last time she rode a bike, Ronald Reagan was president. She calls Vale “a nice boy” who carries her groceries to her apartment and won’t accept a tip. He puts away her food so he has been inside her apartment. Kensi asks about a credit card. De Leon has one but doesn’t use it much – interest rates are criminal. Kensi and Deeks are going to get her current card canceled and a new one reissued. As they are leaving, she hopes they see Vale – she made him cookies.

While Vale disabled the GPS on the bike, there is a backup system in the bike’s frame in case someone tries to take it by removing the GPS. Vale bought the materials for another bomb. Sam looks at the bike route and realizes the times don’t match the maximum speed of the bike. “Three-pointer for the mathlete,” Callen says. The bike could have been tossed into a truck, leaving Vale at his second to last stop. That second to last stop was an abandoned school. Telling Nell to have Kensi and Deeks “Tac up,” Callen with Sam will meet them there.

With a FLIR – a thermal imaging camera – Callen and Sam enter the school property. Sam is operating the FLIR. He finds most of the building is clear but lots of heat coming around the door. Sam thinks about calling in the bomb squad but Callen thinks Vale will blow up the building if he sees law enforcement surrounding the school and making a run for it in the chaos.

Callen wants to go in alone. Sam disagrees – Sam is the one who knows how to defuse bombs. Callen says knows how to defuse bombs too. The stairs to the building are wired. The FLIR only shows electronic bombs. A bomb like the one in Tom’s gas tank won’t register. They need a better plan.

Kensi and Deeks arrive with a drone. With the drone programmed with the building’s blueprints, Callen and Sam are going to carefully go inside. Kensi and Deeks are securing the building. Once inside, the drone is able to check different classrooms. They are clear. “Slow and steady” Callen and Sam follow the drone, making their way through the school.

A van pulls up outside. Callen tells Kensi and Deeks to take the driver and passengers out quietly. If Vale hears gunfire, he could blow up the school, Callen and Sam. Kensi and Deeks stop the van. The passenger flees one way with Kensi following while Deeks has the driver.

The drone spots a pressure cooker bomb in a classroom that would explode if a wire was tripped. Sam disarms the bomb.

Kensi takes down her man after a bit of a struggle.

On the second floor of the school, Sam finds a mercury switch on a door of the school’s auditorium. If the door moves – “kaboom.” Sam notices that the mercury switch is attached to a second trigger on the door’s hinge. Missing that second trigger would be fatal. Sam looks for a second entrance to the auditorium while Callen places the drone inside the auditorium’s door.

Vale tries to shoot the drone, bringing attention to his exact location. Callen and Sam shoot him. Sam gives a look at Vale’s work area – there are semi-processed bombs. Callen finds the address of the special forces members. Nell is having the neighborhood evacuated just to be safe. The bomb squad is also going to visit the homes of the people on Vale’s “top 10 list.”

At The Squid and the Dagger, Callen gets news of two SEALs who had letter bombs defused in their mailboxes. Callen and Sam are the first folks to try “Squid and Dagger Stout”. It isn’t good – it is made with oysters. Sam thinks more real squid. Callen won’t complain. That earns a “touché” from Deeks.

Deeks realizes that happiness is gratitude minus the complaining. More gratitude means less complaining and that makes him super happy. Callen is grateful – grateful they took care of business, his luxury accommodations above the bar and his team. They toast Callen.

What head canon can be formed from here: Sam hiding his family from the Navy, is that a pre-Michelle’s death move or post? Otherwise this was a perfectly generic hour where the basics of the case could have been in season one or season 11.

Episode number: Season 11’s eighth episode, episode 248.

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