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NCIS: Los Angeles Season Ten Rewatch: "The Patton Project"

The basics: The Patton Project is back as the team works with a familiar face and unfamiliar orders as an assassination squad.

Written by: Frank Military, which makes sense since Military’s “The Silo” introduced The Patton Project. Frank Military wrote/co-wrote “Little Angels”, “Deliverance”, “Lockup”, “The Job”, “Greed”, “Betrayal”, “Crimeleon”, “Vengeance”, “Out of the Past” Part One, “Rude Awakenings” Part Two, “Descent”, “Ascension”, “Allegiance”, “Spoils of War” (which he directed), “Black Budget”, SEAL Hunter”, “Rage” (which he directed), “Unspoken”, “Unlocked Mind”, “Revenge Deferred”, “The Seventh Child”, “Crazy Train”, “Uncaged” (which he directed), “The Silo”, “Monster”, “Line in the Sand” (which he directed) and "To Live and Die in Mexico” (which he directed).

Directed by: Ruba Nadda, who directed “Under Siege”, “Golden Days” and “All is Bright”.

Guest stars of note: Max Martini is back from "Asesinos" as NCIS Agent Arlo Turk. Three episodes in a row for Esaí Morales as NCIS Deputy Director Louis Ochoa. T.J. Ramini is back from "Home is Where the Heart Is" as Tobin Shaked. Kate Lacey-Kiley as the non-Rose Medical Examiner Amy Shuler in “Vengeance” and “Out of the Past” Mary-Bonner Baker as Amanda Kelby, Joni Bovill as TSA Agent, Dalila Ali Rajah as Bored TSA Agent and Janet Song as Female TSA Agent.

Our heroes: Prove that the sequel isn't always as good as the original.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Not wearing a recording device. Sam: Thinks racism isn't working out for the main suspect. Kensi: Argues the attack planned in "The Silo" is one of the worst terrorist attempts ever. Deeks: Defends the Constitution to the team. Eric: Spots Lawford testing TSA. Nell: Not telling Ochoa about the team going out to arrest Lawford. Hetty: May have suggested saving the team by making them open to assassin assignments.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Watching basketball. Sam: Playing basketball. Kensi: Taking pictures with a Canon. Deeks: Skateboarding. Eric: Rocking the long pants twice. Nell: Rocking a jumper. Hetty: Did not save the team by making them open to assassin assignments.

Who's down with OTP: Kensi and Deeks revisit the cut seating arraignments at the wedding conversation from "Line in the Sand" in season nine.

Who's down with BrOTP: Callen and Sam, and really the whole team, are a strong unit throughout.

Any pressing need for Harm and Mac: Someone should have requested a full debrief on the legality of an assassination squad to supplement Deeks's Constitutional questions.

Who is running the team this week? A hat-trick for Ochoa.

Mosley watch: The misadventures in Mexico is the reason the team is up for assassination squad status.

Fashion review: The episode begins with Callen in a blue plaids button down shirt. Sam is in a red henley and his weathered grey leather jacket. Kensi is in a blue-grey striped long-sleeve tee. Deeks has on a burgundy tee-shirt (lots of red on Deeks this season). Dark blue button down shirt for Eric with little cacti and long pants. Nell has a gold jumper over a black blouse with white polka dots and another awful bow.

Later in the episode in the park, Callen is in dark blue shorts and a grey tee-shirt watching Sam in all black – long sleeve tee and shorts – play basketball. Kensi is wearing a dark grey sleeveless top. Deeks is in a pale blue tee and dark wash jeans. Callen and Sam change into a medium blue dress-shirt (Callen) and black henley (Sam) after the park. Eric is wearing a print short-sleeve shirt and long pants. Nell has on a plaid dress with a v-neck in the back.

Music: Them Vibes's "Electric Fever" is playing when the team is in the park.

Any notable cut scene: No.

Quote: Callen: "We spoke to the M.E. who did the postmortem exam on White and we believe that either Shaked or his people interrogated him. And then, during the interrogation, he died." Deeks: "I'm sorry, what?" Turk: " He was waterboarded which led to a heart attack." Deeks: "So Shaked is an assassin who killed men during interrogation. Under whose authorization?" Callen: "You spoke to him first." Turk: "To answer your question, uh, it could be any agency. And I think I was brought in to provide a friendly face, put everybody at ease." Deeks: "Well, I'm sure that's working. Why us?" Callen: "Ochoa thinks that because of Mexico, we have gained a certain reputation." Deeks: "Okay, so get us off it." Kensi: "No, no. Wait a minute. The Patton Project attempted what I consider to be one of the most dangerous terrorist attacks on the United States." Sam: "They advocate genocide of Muslims worldwide." Deeks: "I understand that, and there's a-a lot of terrible groups that advocate genocide, but don't we toss the Constitution and our morality out the window." Kensi: "No. Last time, the Patton Project almost accomplished it. They are not a powerless group." Sam: "Then we have to ask ourselves are we people who do this?" Turk: "We back away, they'll find someone else." Kensi: "Well, then, maybe it's the right thing to do." Deeks: "And-and we're the ones to determine that? I mean, just to remind you all, we don't make the laws, we enforce them. And as this plays out, we are becoming the judge, the jury…" Sam: "And executioner." Callen: "I need to speak to Ochoa"

The best conversation the show has had about where the team draws the line since "Found" in season one.

Anything else: Wearing a visitor's badge, an older man watches a much younger woman join him at a table. The woman is a patient at a mental health facility. The man asks how she is feeling. She is suicidal and not sharing that with the doctors. The man approves. It Is her life to live or not to live. Passing her some meth surreptitiously, the man reminds her that she does not have to be in pain. She is grateful for the illegal drugs.

The man asks if she's thought about their plan – taking a package on a plane. She thinks going out with a bang would "show them." He agrees – everyone would think differently about her. She definitely wants to do it. The man suggests she take Michael with her. She agrees – with her gone, her parents or his father would have custody. The man approves – "you do get priority boarding with a baby." The woman is scheduled to be released from the facility Friday – four days away. The man promises he'll be waiting.

Outside of a two-story building covered with graffiti, Kensi and Deeks are discussing the seating arrangement at the wedding. There are eight seat tables but Mindy, Mandy, Kat and the Tiffanys with their plus ones are ten people. She doesn't want to split them up. Deeks isn't really interested. Then there is Deeks's basketball buddy Kip who he wants next to Kensi's recently divorced friend who doesn't live LA. If there is a love connection, the friend could move west, pleasing Kensi.

Callen and Sam arrive. Ochoa told them to meet a contact – the team is being farmed out but he would not tell them to what agency. A Mercedes SUV pulls up. Tobin Shaked is not overwhelmed by the team's greeting. He lets them know he's still in their debt for saving his daughter's life. Shaked takes them into the graffiti covered building.

While colorful outside, they pass through an all-white room before walking into a large, poorly lit room. Shaked is now working for a covert U.S. agency – won't say which one. Deeks guesses Department of Agriculture. Kensi just wants to know who they are working for. Sam wants to know how Shaked goes from Israeli ex-pat to "someone who can get you four to come to a meeting in the middle of Valencia," Shaked finishes Sam's thoughts. He tells Sam he has skills the U.S. government needs.

Shaked also makes it clear that the team's participation in what he has planned is not optional. Callen wants to know why. With his own large screen, Shaked reviews what happened the previous fall with the Patton Project. They want to attack Muslim countries to cause a genocide. Members of the Patton Project have access to the US's nuclear missiles, to submarines and bombers. The "Powers that Be" are terrified, as the team should be.

Callen asks about their assignment. The team is to track down a member of the Project who likes to meet contacts at Venice beach. Sam asks where did Shaked get the information just as Arlo Turk arrives. The source of the info has gone dark. All they have is Venice Beach. There are 105 potential suspects, all current or former military. Arlo give Callen a thumb drive with the 105 suspects' photos, political affiliations, intercepted suspicious communications and intel of why the suspects are suspects.

Sam asks why not use facial rec software to find possible members at Venice Beach They are going to use both facial rec and the team. The team's presence allows Shaked and his agency to be proactive – not wait for the computers to find someone. Shaked suggests they take the rest of the day to learn to suspect. Callen promises to get back to Shaked.

Walking into Ops, the team asks Eric and Nell about Shaked. Whatever agency has Shaked on staff has buried that fact. His immigration records have him somewhere in Poland, making him a ghost as far as the US government is concerned. Kensi asks about Shaked's Mossad duties. He was part of team doing political assassinations in Iran, Syria, Egypt and now Sam believes in the US. "So we're being forced to work with an assassination team," Deeks says. Callen agrees.

Callen and Sam visit Ochoa, who is in Mosley's office. Turk is with Ochoa. Callen asks if Turk has clearance to be in the office. Dude, you brought Joelle there earlier this season. Mosley had a defense attorney in the building – a guy getting paid by NCIS probably belongs. Callen asks why did the team get the assignment. The SecNav, Ochoa tells him, asked that the team meet with Shaked. The team knew Shaked, the team worked the original Patton Project case.

Sam asks about the type of operation. Ochoa thinks it is self-explanatory. Callen brings up that this is an assassination. Ochoa disagrees – the team is not being asked to kill anyone. No, Sam objects, they're being asked to locate targets, "that makes us complicit." Callen tells Ochoa that is not what the team does. The Mexico misadventures says otherwise, according to Ochoa. They went outside the lines and official Washington saw that. There is a perception that the team is up for this type of operation. Arlo tells Callen and Sam official Washington isn't wrong.

Kensi and Deeks are reviewing photos. He's not very good at this confusing suspects with members of Kensi's family attending the wedding. "Terrorist or relative" is a game they start playing. Deeks is not good at this at all.

With Turk, Callen and Sam arrive in Ops. Eric and Nell went through Shaked's file. Names have been added in recent months which makes sense as more is learned about possible suspects. One person, however, was removed. Permanently. Marine First Sergeant Dean White's cause of death has been redacted. He did not have any special security clearance that would make information about his death top secret.

The ME in charge of White's death is Amy Schuler who has worked with the team in the past. Part of her assignment is classified autopsies for military and CIA. Sam is going to look for more info on Shaked's background. Callen and Turk are off to speak to ME Schuler.

In an empty autopsy room, Schuler wants to have a private chat with Callen and Turk. It is the secure autopsy room – swept for listening devices, shielded against surveillance equipment. Her office and the hallways are not. Telling the men she takes her security clearance seriously, she should not be talking to either of them. But she is, Turk notes. Dean came from a black division of the intelligence agency. What she saw did not sit well with her.

After 9/11, Schuler did autopsies from US black sites. The dead were suspected terrorists. The markings on the dead terrorists' bodies were the same as the ones she saw on Sgt. White. Schuler promises to deny they ever spoke if they leak what she's telling them. White was waterboarded. The stress on his system caused cardiac arrest, leading to his death. Without a history of heart troubles, White was tortured to death.

With the entire team and Turk back in Ops, Eric presses the button that seals the shutters and locks the door. The room is secure. White was part of some extreme political organization. He "spouted" anti-Islamic statements in chat rooms. Callen updates the team on what he and Turk learned from ME Schuler.

Deeks is stunned Shaked is an assassin who killed men during interrogation. "Under whose authorization," Deeks wants to know. Callen turns that over to Turk, who thinks it could be any agency. Deeks wants to know why is the team involved. Callen talks about their newfound reputation.

Deeks wants Callen to get the team out of this assignment. Kensi and Sam disagree. Kensi saw up-close the terrorist attack the Patton Project attempted. Sam talks about genocide against Muslim nations. Deeks agrees – they're awful. So are other groups they've investigated. They don't toss their moral code and the Constitution away. Kensi talks about how close the Patton Project came to achieving their goals. As military (current and retired), they have real power. Sam thinks they need to ask themselves – are they people who can do this? Turk makes it clear, if the team backs out, someone else will do it. Kensi says that maybe it is the right thing to do. Deeks reminds them, they don't make the laws, they enforce them. The team, according to Deeks is now the judge, jury and Sam adds "executioner." Callen wants to talk to Ochoa.

Ochoa is leaving the gym – he's just finished his post-work workout. Callen needs some clarification. Callen believes Shaked's operation is to find Patton Project members and execute them. Ochoa asks if their conversation is off the record. It is. He then asks if Callen is wearing a wire. Callen is offended by the way the conversation is going. Ochoa says he's from Washington, "welcome to my world."

Callen isn't looking to make trouble for Ochoa he wants an accurate idea of the assignment. Ochoa tells Callen his assessment is correct. Callen can't believe the team would be assigned this operation. Ochoa says the assassination end is not exactly part of the official assignment. More just an outcome. "Things like this aren't spelled out," Ochoa tells Callen. Callen can't believe going to Mexico to save a child becomes contract killing assignments. Ochoa thinks it is the consequences of the team being exonerated for their actions in Mexico. Callen never agreed to that deal. Maybe not – maybe Hetty or Kilbride made the deal. The team could be disbanded or used. This may be something the team can't turn down – "think long and hard about how you want to play it," is Ochoa's advice.

The team has spent several days in the park around Venice Beach. Deeks is skateboarding, Callen is watching Sam play basketball. Turk is hanging around with Shaked near the beach. Kensi is taking photos.

Sam eyes a jogger but it isn't a Patton Project member. While the team banters away, Shaked begs them (and God) to stop talking. Kensi spots the man who spoke with the woman in the mental health facility hanging near a hot dog cart. He is speaking to another, much younger man. The older man is Col. Trevor Lawford, US Army, Retired. Kensi describes Lawford's younger friend to the team.

As they all leave their positions to follow Lawford and his friend, Kensi sees Lawford getting on a motorcycle. She moves into a full run as Callen and Sam get into Callen's car. Seeing he's been made, Lawford tells his friend to run and dons his helmet, he's off for a ride. Kensi loses Lawford but Deeks is skateboarding behind the friend fleeing on foot. Deeks, Turk and Shaked chase the man to a building.

Callen and Sam, caught in traffic trying to get Lawford, can make a turn and join the chase with Deeks and the others. The man they're chasing starts climbing the stairs in the building. Following him, Deeks checks the top floor while Turk and Shaked go to the roof. On the roof, Turk and Shaked corner the man. As Callen and Sam get to the building, the man cornered on the roof comes crashing down on the ground. Deeks gets on the roof just in time to see Shaked and Turk looking at the ground.

Back in Shaked's building, he's pleased none of the team or the dead guy's swan dive off the roof was picked up by any security cameras. Turk took the building's security footage before LAPD arrived. Deeks is not happy Shaked and Turk "get away with murder and we're good." Turk says nobody was murdered. Shaked agrees – the man ran off the roof when he was cornered. Kensi asks if Turk is working with Shaked. Turk wants to know if Kensi is asking if he threw a man off the roof. If Kensi isn't asking, Sam is.

Deeks wants to know why Shaked asked for Turk first. Sam adds that maybe Turk suggested the team for this case. Callen doesn't care either way – they're done. Shaked and Turk ask why are they quitting? They found the target, he has a family, lives in Orange County. There is no way out for Lawford. Deeks isn't in for executing a guy, his wife and two kids and walks out. The team is right behind him. Shaked yells that anything the Patton Project does will be on their heads but the team is done.

As they are walking to their vehicles, Eric updates Callen, Sam, Kensi and Deeks on the man who went off the roof. He is Brad Kelby – no military background. Instead, he spent time in the Metropolitan State Hospital, a psychiatric facility. Since his release, he was living with his sister. Everyone hurries to their cars as Eric sends the sister's address.

In a kitchen, Lawford puts a suicide vest on the woman from the hospital. He then picks her infant from the child's bouncer seat. The woman brings the child to her and starts wrapping on the baby carrier.

Callen and Sam arrive just as homicide detectives are leaving the home of Brad Kelby's sister. Agreeing to tell everyone they are done with Shaked's operation, Callen and Sam plan on doing their own investigation. That includes keeping Ochoa out of the loop. If they can arrest Lawford and put him in the system, Shaked can't assassinate him. The team can also question Lawford.

Amanda Kelby welcomes Callen and Sam into her home. Her brother was only released from the hospital three weeks earlier after a battle with depression and paranoia. She said he was getting "really dark." Sam asks about Lawford but Amanda was not familiar with that name. Brad had a new friend, Tyler, who Amanda thought was a bad influence on her brother. Twice, Brad tried to kill himself – "serious attempts," according to his sister. Tyler told Brad that suicide was "a sane act." Brad wanted to kill himself even more but wanting a spectacular death, one that everyone would remember. Amanda weeps.

Returning to the office, Callen and Sam meet with Kensi and Deeks in the gym. Obviously, Trevor Lawford is Tyler and suicide as an act of terrorism is right out of the ISIS playbook. Kensi realizes Kelby may have jumped after all. With Kelby dead, the team doesn't know what his assignment was going to be. "Shaked would say what difference would it make if we kill Lawford," Sam answers. Kensi agrees.

Eric arrives and calls the team to the armory. Using Kaleidoscope, Eric has been tracking Lawford's movement for the last few months. He has been visiting psychiatric hospitals in California, Arizona and Nevada – 53 in total. Lawford has been targeting other patients. That makes sense – he would need a lot of potential candidates to find the right person to use. With Kelby dead, there are others likely ready to step up. Sam thinks they have to bring Lawford in and find out who before Shaked kills Lawford.

Nell arrives. She found Lawford's bike outside a motel in Cerritos. The team is on their way but Nell is not to tell Ochoa. He will tell Shaked and the plan is to bring in Lawford alive. If the government wants to make them a black-ops team, this is how they are going to run things now.

Arriving at the hotel, Callen shows a photo of Lawford to a hotel workman who points out Lawford's room. In the parking lot, Shaked is in a brown van with a window slightly opened, allowing his sniper rifle to have a clear shot. As the team enters Lawford's room, he starts erasing his laptop's hard drive. Deeks pulls out the battery while Kensi cuffs Lawford.

The team march Lawford out of the hotel room. Before Shaked can get off a clean shot – both Callen and Deeks were in the way for a few steps – Turk opens the van door. "Don't even think about it with my team down there," Turk warns with his gun pointed right at Shaked. Shaked is not pleased.

Lawford is in interrogation running down Callen and Sam for working for the Navy but not supporting either the troops or US citizens. Callen asks about the Patton Project but Lawford plays dumb. After Sam explains the mission statement of the Patton Project, Lawford is interested, thinking it would solve a lot of the world's problems.

Kensi and Deeks are watching from the main room in the boat shed when the door opens. Ochoa and Turk arrive with Shaked. Deeks again talks about the secret hide out not being all that secret but I think Shaked was there in season eight (in Deeks’s defense, he may have been with a hospitalized Kensi at the time). Ochoa is annoyed – Shaked is running the operation, he should have been notified when his suspect was arrested. Kensi makes it clear that Lawford was put in the system – everyone has access to him – "complete transparency."

Too much transparency for Shaked who wants to speak to Lawford immediately. Deeks recommends the sign-in sheet but Shaked moves right to the interrogation room. Not surprisingly, Callen and Sam don't vacate interrogation the minute Shaked orders them to. They do leave when Ochoa's name is dropped.

Explaining that Lawford would be charged with treason for his involvement in the Colorado nuclear launch site near-takeover, Shaked wants the names of the other Patton Project members. Lawford calls Shaked's charges absurd and states he is proud to give his life for his country. Shaked asks if Lawford's wife feels the same way. Shaked has a fake recording of Lawford's wife being disappointed the nuclear attack in Colorado failed and had suggestions for how it could work in the future. With a similar call with his 17-year old daughter, Shaked assured Lawford both women will go to jail forever. Lawford has five minutes or his family will be arrested.

Callen tells Shaked that Lawford's lawyers will make sure the fake phone calls will not hold up in court. Shaked's techs tell him it will – the technology is good, they've been working on it for a while. Sam is outraged. Innocent people will be arrested. Shaked thinks once they are in custody they will flip on Lawford. And if they know nothing about what Lawford is planning, Shaked will tell them what to say. Deeks can't believe they are going to force two innocent women to commit perjury. Shaked is also fine with both women being sent to a Supermax prison and having Lawford flip. That even gets Turk's attention.

Lying about locking up loved ones is a tactic used, Deeks tells Shaked, but they don't put innocent people in prison. Shaked pushes the lives that will be saved. Ochoa brings things back to Lawford and who he recruited.

Eric and Nell pop up on the screen. Using Lawford's GPS and cellphone, they know he spent a lot of time going to Hollywood-Burbank airport. Security cameras has him booking flights and testing the security at the airport – looking for gaps in the system according to Nell. He won't use body scanners – always a pat down. He could test to see what TSA Agents are lax in their duties or easily distracted.

With TSA doing pat downs, guns and knives on a plane are out. Plus the person recruited has to know how to use them. Sam thinks explosives, Deeks a biological weapon. Lawford is the only one with answers, Ochoa says. Callen is glad he's not dead, throwing some serious shade at Shaked.

The woman, her baby and her suicide vest are making their way through TSA security at the airport. Not wanting to put the baby through the x-ray machine, she asks for pat down. She gets a quick look from the TSA agent but not a serious security check.

Deeks enters interrogation and swabs Lawford's hands. Lawford handled explosives recently. Shaked wants Ochoa to clear the building, he can have Lawford giving up his accomplice quickly. Callen wants to talk to Lawford first. Sam wants two minutes with Lawford. Sam gets it.

Sam ask Lawford, hypothetically, if wiping out all the Muslim nations would be a good thing. Lawford turns that questions back at Sam who doesn't think it is a good thing, as a Muslim. "Should have guessed," Lawford sneers. Sam says "this racism thing" is working out for Lawford. Lawford says he's more realistic than racism. "You got a lot of blue-eyed, blonde Muslims." In Lawford's view, the world would be safer without Islam so he supports "the power God has given to us" to be unleashed on the world.

Sam returns to the main room. The Patton Project wants to attack Muslim nations. Having someone like Kelby – a white man – blow up a plane does not help that plan. With the Patton Project's military connection, they can access no-fly lists. Explaining that the US government puts people on no-fly lists but some are cleared to return to flying, Ochoa realizes that Lawford found someone the US originally thought was a terrorist but cleared. Lawford puts his person on the flight with the cleared passenger. When the plane explodes, that person is blamed for the act of terror. Eric and Nell start combing thought flight manifests to find a cleared Muslim flyer.

Callen and Sam are on their way back to the office. Shaked is dismissed by Ochoa – something this overt "is not your specialty." Back at the office, Eric and Nell found a dozen former no-fly people booked on flights in the next two weeks. One person is on a plane now that is about to leave for Washington. Ochoa is calling the FBI and DHS to get the flight grounded. Callen and Sam are on their way. Kensi and Deeks are too – they are bringing Lawford.

As the plane is about to depart, the pilot announces there is a slight delay. The airline wants to rescreen the passengers. Sam thinks that's a bad idea – the bomber could set off the explosive while being rescreened or leave the airport. Eric and Nell are checking to see if any passengers have a history with the psychiatric facilities Lawford visited.

Kensi, Deeks and Lawford start walking through the aisles of the plane. The woman with the baby starts fishing around in her handbag. Callen and Sam walk up to the woman. Callen asks if the woman and her child will come with him. Lawford is frowning – Kensi and Deeks know Callen and Sam have the right woman.

The woman – Ally – is in a private TSA office. Her son is being held in another room – he is safe. TSA is examining all the items in her luggage. Kensi asks Ally to remove her top. When Ally did not comply, a very attentive TSA agent starts unbuttoning the top. Two buttons down, Kensi sees the suicide vest. A second TSA agent and the one working on Ally's top grab Ally by the arms as Kensi calls in their discovery. A third TSA Agent found the detonator in Ally's handbag. The bomb squad is coming. Kensi is shocked Ally had her son on the plane but promises to get Ally the help she needs. Ally starts crying – nothing has ever helped her.

Turk and Ochoa are leaving the office as Callen and Sam arrive. They learned who cut the deal that lead the government to think that the team would work with Shaked or men like him. Ochoa admits he did. After Mexico, "a lot of people up the food chain" had a problem with OSP. The plan was to take it apart, "discard its people." Ochoa, however, saw "great agents" who were going to down for the wrong reasons. He made a deal to save everyone's careers and to save innocent people's lives. Sam objects – they don't do assassinations, they don't do torture. Turk thinks they might now and they know that's because of what happened in Mexico. Ochoa talks about walking a moral tightrope and that there is no other team he'd rather walk that tightrope with. Turk thinks if they want an easy job, join the Post Office.

Ochoa takes Callen and Sam to the driveway. There is a shiny new Challenger waiting. "Try not to burn this one," Ochoa tells an impressed Sam. Callen, Sam and Turk decided to go out for Mexican. Turk wants some tequila and to tell them how cool it was to save everyone's lives in Mexico.

What head canon can be formed from here: This episode firms up Ochoa as pro-team, reasonable and a good guy.

The episodes is also duller than dishwater and I'm not sure why. In every episode, the viewer knows the DVD cover guys, the happy couples and Hetty are likely going to survive any near-death situation. The season premiere – by the same writer – is proof that you can know what the outcome is but make getting there interesting. The terror attacks in "The Silo" – again, same writer – weren't going to happen, Kensi wasn't going to die in a nuclear mishap at the Air Force base but the episode was tense. Here, I never thought the team was going to be assassins, I never thought the terror attack would happen and I certainly did not think a baby would be involved. How they got there turning into a complete snoozefest I'm not sure.

Episode number: Season ten's eighth episode and 224th episode overall. "The Silo" was 199 and season nine's seventh episode.

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