Things AD Learned This Week (11/6) on Homeland Security

A dead shark with a body inside. Sharks swim underwater, and the Navy has submarines that operate underwater. "We should call the police"? Uh-uh. Call NCIS! If AD doesn’t see someone call the LAPD, it must never happen (the other TV shows he watches must be pretty heavy on the basic chain-of-command aspects of day-to-day work).

PEBG has a better grasp of human anatomy than does TTS. It could be he just eats more. 😋

The body turns out to be an NSA employee. We didn't even get the formality of the NSA requested NCIS on this one. Awww, the NSA left AD out of the chain-of-command again. Poor guy!

TTS doesn't need no stinkin' ID card! He has a badge! Right, ‘cause when you think you’re being pursued by “bad guys,” you want to stand in plain view and ask to see all kinds of ID “cards.”

News of shark stomach contents travels fast in Southern California:
NSA supervisor: You know one of our co-workers was found inside a shark this morning.
TTS: That's why we're here. Well, they work for the NSA and they’re probably receiving calls from their agency; they’re just not responding to them. So, they probably were told about Larson (after all, Larson’s co-workers might be in danger).

NSA analysts are trying to keep up with SN by engaging in field work. Flying from L.A. to Washington, DC, is now considered “field work.”

Fortunately, ISIS gun thugs are lousy shots- unless you are a car window. Of course they are because it’s easy to hit targets crouching behind parked cars. Besides, they weren't ISIS; they were drug cartel thugs (maybe they were on some).

Also fortunately TTS did not take the headshot so PEBG could take one with a camera. Sam was probably just interested in killing or wounding the guy; it’s doubtful he was concerned about where on the body he shot him.

This was a shooting incident. The FBI will need to speak to you. FBI? What has TTS been smoking? This is an NCIS case! AD forgot that the FBI is also a federal organization which handles crimes.

NSA security? What has the supervisor been smoking? This is an NCIS case! Because if you work for a federal security agency it’s unlikely that they’d actually have a security team.

Deeks is perfect for an assignment at a mental facility. Maybe, but the patients in this facility seem calmer than “homeless Artie,” so he probably would have been out of place.

At NCIS, if your personnel file's psych evals indicate you have issues, you can continue to carry a gun and work the field. Of course Granger doesn’t have a sense of humor, so he must have been serious (and Sam immediately asked for a new partner).

None of the physical therapy chicks recently gave birth, so they can wear polo shirts. Kensi however is stuck with a baggy hoodie- even in warmer outdoor scenes. Of course the PT “chicks” all wear uniforms—how unprofessional of them! And nobody ever wears a “baggy hoodie” in LA because the temperature is always a balmy 82 degrees.

Salute to military-based movies #1: The tall psycho dude with the phone is either related to Psycho in Stripes (1981) or saw the movie. I was disappointed he didn't threaten to kill "Noah" for touching his stuff. Or he could just be an actor who was hired for the role. But since he was hiding in a mental hospital, killing somebody is not quite as “crazy” as threatening to bite someone’s nose off—killing is so ordinary.

NSA chick: That's an illegal search!
TTS: That's legitimately funny coming from the NSA.
Hands down best lines in the episode. Seriously though, hasn't the NSA chick ever watched the show? Guess AD doesn’t realize that in the NCIS “world” there is no NCIS “show”—so no, the NSA “chick” (or dude) hasn’t seen the “show.” Duh!

If drug cartel activity is confirmed, avoid involving the DEA. This is an NCIS case! In this case, AD probably forgot that the case is actually the kidnapping of an NCIS agent and not drug activity, so NCIS can handle it.

TTS does not work for the morality police. That's probably the only area where NCIS: LA has not worked a case. Based on his HL7 score, Sam would be the perfect candidate to do this, but they have actually worked a case for “moral” reasons—when they helped Martin because it was the right thing to do.

Highly educated people like NSA supervisors and accountants will never ask for lawyers. Fat lot of good it would do them on this show anyway. Why would they? They weren’t under arrest; they weren’t even suspects. lol

Granger is definitely ill- process the NSA people to the FBI? This is an NCIS case! More like practical: one agent’s in the hospital, one’s undercover, and one’s “taking care of” the agent in the hospital. One agent left. Why not let the FBI do some work?

Whole Foods prices in LA can cost you the shirt off your back. This would be true if Dill had ONLY been wearing a shirt since he was shopping naked.

PEBG can pass for an FBI agent. Seems like the FBI is getting a lot of mentions on this show. Maybe a spinoff is in the works: Criminal Minds: NCIS AD thinks all FBI agents look alike or fit a description (which works great for undercover work).

Good thing TTS has a Hemi Challenger. It can reduce LA drive time from 10 minutes to 6. AD doesn’t listen or can’t read a map; the MHS facility was in Irvine which is NOT in LA.

Dead security guards at mental facilities garner no attention. Especially true when no one can see them.

Even though they have a budget for all sorts of stuff for overseas operations, NCIS has no boat in LA and must rely upon a former SEAL. Well, since the boat with Callen left from Balboa which is NOT in LA, it may be that the former SEAL was closer. But AD, a stickler for protocol, would prefer Sam wait for NCIS to bring their boat down from LA because there’s no urgency when a drug cartel kidnaps a federal agent.

TTS apparently has multiple personality disorder as he announced Federal Agents! when arresting the drug cartel dude. Considering Sam just saved Callen, it’s possible that he recognized that two is more than one, hence, agentS.

No shark repellent is needed when TTS is in the water- he is the Chuck Norris of the sea and the sharks know it. Actually, having lived in an area where sharks were abundant, no experienced divers used “shark repellant” because it was as useful as “snake repellant”—which means it isn’t.

Salute to military-based movies #2: PEBG has seen Top Gun (1986) as far as telling someone classified info and then having to kill them. Because this type of joke has never appeared in any other movie, story, or TV show other than Top Gun. And just a few weeks ago, AD was complaining about how unoriginal Hollywood is.


NCIS: LA Character Acronyms
DYM--dirty, yellow-haired man (Deeks)
NKADG--now known as Deeks' girlfriend (Kensi)