A good episode of NCIS-LA but with one major fault that I will talk about in a moment. The episode commences with a man buying a birthday card and then going to a clandestine meeting where he is tasered and kidnapped. The next day, his body turns up tortured and then shot in the head. Turns out he was an ex-marine who knew the where-abouts of a Taliban bomb maker and was going to collect the reward. While at the scene of the crime, a man in a suit is watching and captured and he turns out to be the dead man's brother-in-law but also a secret operative who was working with the dead man to capture high profile targets and share the reward. After hunting down and killing the Afghanastani operatives, the team are no closer to finding the killer when they find the birthday card the dead man had sent to his son contained a photograph with an invisible mark that gave the location and time to locate the bomb maker. They worked out that the killer had incorrect time info, so they were able to travel to Afghanistan and capture the bomb maker and then wait for the killer to reveal himself. It happened to be the brother-in-law. Surprise surprise.
A good story and it was good that they travelled, but two things wrong in their story telling. How did the Dad put a bag of money under a hidden floor board in his son's rented flat if he hadn't spoken to him for years? How did he know the kid had a space in the floor to hide things in and then a space under that to hide the bag?
Secondly, why did the brother-in-law go back to the scene of the crime? He says he was confirming it was his brother-in-law but he killed him so he knew that. If he had not returned to the scene, NCIS would never had known about him and he would have got away. Poor plot device.
I did love Hetty's line of "I sense impending mayhem and perhaps an outrageous petty cash request!" - Classic.
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