User Reviews

The best episode of the season and one of the best NCIS: LA episodes in a long time. This is what the show should be. A well-crafted story that produces a lot of action, not just shootouts for no reason.

The Kensi and Deeks scene airing their issues was some of the best work from those two. Incredible tension.

NCIS LA, is a great tv show. To understand the show, you need to understand the characters. This episode may be far from following "protocol" as some of the reviews have stated but. It makes you Angry, Sad, tense and frustrated at how shay molesley acts, probably not much different from how a mother would act to retrieve their son in the same situation. You can not dissect every fact, protocol, MO, of how feds are supposed to act. If you want something Factual, watch a documentary. This is show for entertainment and is definitely does that. Great cast and great show.

Without a shadow of doubt, this was the worst NCIS LA episode I have ever seen and for reasons i can't even begin to count. So here are a few. Moseley obliterates protocol in an effort to save her son. All of her agents are placed in imminent peril, not only from the impossible mission but for legal reasons that would have landed all of them in federal prison. Frankly, Moseley is made an abhorrent character, far worse than she already is. I was rooting for her to lose everything, including her team. As it turns out, she gets her son back at the expense of her team. Why did Callen go along with any of this? How and why did Sam go along with any of this, and with a nicked artery no less. Absurd and utterly ridiculous. And the whole Kensey and Deeks thing left me thinking she had no real emotional investment in him at all. The best scene was Deeks standing up to Moseley, which is about as ballsy as I have ever seen him. Kudos, Marty.

So.....Mosley beats up a handcuffed prisoner, orders an illegal wire tap, and Deeks gets fired because he knows she is out of control. Ooooo-kay. Sure, I know, she is a mother who wants her son back. I get that. But she crossed the line with all of this. That's not bad enough, the team goes along with her when they should know better. Oh, and because Mosley fired Deeks, he and Kensi have a falling out and it looks like their romance is over. Okay, so that's a big plus, worth one star. Soap opera romances belong in soap operas, not a (supposedly) serious crime drama. Oh, that 2 star rating dropped back to one star when Deeks shows up at the end and gets on the plane to Mexico with the team. If he was any kind of a dedicated police officer he would have gone back to LAPD and filed charges against Mosley.

Hopefully (fingers crossed!) Mosley won't be back next season. She deserves to be in prison for abuse of power.

Quite possibly the worst episode of TV I have ever watched. NCIS LA has always been a more over the top cartoonish series than the original NCIS and while there have occasionally been moments of personal revenge and licensed vigilantism it has never been as ridiculously written as this. Moseley is such a poorly written and acted character, and the *new boss comes in and throws their weight around but eventually is accepted* trope is tired and as overdone as *boss uses agency as their own personal weapon of vengeance .. just yawn. Her behaviour to the team is baffling, getting stroppy about not telling them, then stroppy when G tells them, then firing Deeks, when he points out shes committing multiple crimes, it makes no sense it is just dreadful writing. And frankly no one with that backstory would of got that job in the first place, obvious blackmail, leverage or other ways that could be used to compromise the agency. Just dreadful in every way. Take my advice and skip to next season.

I read earlier reviews and I was going to skip this entire season but my daughter talked me into watching it just once. BIG MISTAKE!! Nia Long is a terrible actress and a complete mistake to have her on this show. Watching the season I thought maybe it would get better, nope! It just got progressively worse. EAD Mosley was the atypical power hungry bi$&@ that bullies and abuses everyone that dares disagrees with her. She deserved to be prosecuted and thrown in prison for her abuses and for getting Hidoko killed. I wish I had skipped season 9 completely. It really doesn't give any pertinent information for any of the characters so you won't miss much not watching this.

To be honest the episode was not that horrible just many parts of it were. I think you could very much enjoy it if this was the first one you ever watched. The music is pretty alright and the beginning was good. The fact that some one gets shot(though it not the person who ran unprotected at a guy firing a machine gun)is something I feel happens way to little. It doesn't have to be such a dangerous thing as this one is(near an artery), it can just be a shot that isn't at a dangerous place, or even one that didn't get through the protective vest, real cops get shot all the time, and I find it a bit unrealistic that they almost never do.

But the problem is that the characters act very out of character and some things just don't make sense. The fact that Deeks feels its better to call of the wedding because they don't agree on want they want in the future(an indeed very imported thing, and a good reason to reconsider. Except for the fact that after this episode it is NEVER mentioned again, so the problem was only created for cheap tension)and Kensi being shocked at this and seeing that as blackmailing... I've never seen them communicate so poorly and Kensi react so dumb.

The rest of the team is supporting Mosley, I don't know why as she has almost always been mean or disrespectful or bossy to them and she is now constantly threatening them if they don't do all the illegal stuff she wants them to do. Why is everybody so okay with that(except for Deeks)? And I would expect some of them to simply say No and say they rather be fired than do something like this.

What also didn't make sense is the fact that Mosley is constantly saying she is doing all this to save her son(while I agree with Callan, that kid is in no danger, just being with his father, having a pretty good life. It is bad that he doesn't get to see his mother but he is not is real danger), but when she hears his voice she is surprise and says ''I didn't think he was alive''. But if she thought he was dead, then why did she keep saying that she was doing this so save the life of her son.

But the most annoying thing for me this entire episode is Sam. He gets shot and doesn't want anesthesia as they take the bullet out, they do this to make him sound though or strong to us, but it just sounds stupid. Then he gets out of the hospital and takes no care of himself at all! His leg is bleeding, somebody suggests to him to sit down and he doesn't! Why not?! Why would you purposely slow down the healing progress by not sitting while there is a chair right there! This doesn't make him cool and strong, just an idiot. And he wants to go and help 'save' Mosley's kid, but what about his own!! He is all they have, and he is going on a suicide mission. What a horrible father!