At its core, this is the same NCIS: Los Angeles that it’s always been. However, change is inevitable. With loss comes recovery, and the realization that things don’t stay the same forever. Sometimes that is a good thing, sometimes it isn’t. As of this moment, no drastic changes will be made to the team. Depending on what the new boss in town has to say, that could change at any moment. The case of the week doesn’t impress Assistant Director Mosley. It only puts the team on even thinner ice.
Navy Lieutenant Naomi Elder is killed by an expert sniper, but other than that, the clues are strangely clean. Nothing out of the ordinary about her routine, her schedule, or her belongings. The one thing she had that she shouldn’t have was classified surveillance operations on the Chinese. Not only should she not have been in possession of that information, she shouldn’t have even had access to that information, let alone made a copy of it. Plus, she was carelessly active on social media. Her boyfriend Gino Preston turns up dead as well. The team quickly realizes that she managed to sell the information to the Chinese, but NCIS is at a dead end because both of her killers end up dead. This does not impress Mosley. Methinks her housemates looked a little suspicious, but this case isn’t over just yet.
Things in the office are not the same. Assistant Director Mosley and her own assistant Hikodo aren’t against the team, but they mostly keep to themselves. They jumped in with both feet without getting to know the team beforehand. Mosley is a cautious with her words, but getting the lay of the land doesn’t seem to change her original intent to tear the team apart and build her new office without adapting to the building. Granger did his homework beforehand, and while he went about introductions in an unconventional way, he still made sure he got to know everyone. With Deeks on thin ice with Mosley, it has Deeks questioning his future with NCIS. It’s not as if he has no plans. He loves his job, but he can already see a future with Kensi and their daughter surfing the waves. Eventually, that might mean him leaving NCIS for good.
Sam has no choice to move on, since he finally moved out of his home. After Michelle died, he couldn’t bear to go back there. Callen offers him a place to stay, but Sam is taking a different approach. He’ll be living on a boat he’ll be refurbishing, living out of a single duffel bag. My initial reaction is “When did Sam turn into Callen?”, but Sam has a good plan to fix up the “Michelle”. He’ll then sail her out to sea and spread his wife’s ashes in one of her favorites spots in the world. That’s how you honor the past. You don’t honor the past by pushing it away to suit your current needs. That’s what the rest of NCIS might be facing in the coming days.
Could Mosley be the person to break NCIS’s cracks?
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