NCIS: Los Angeles

I know you're busy with school.

I'm glad you're busy with school,

but your poor mother misses you, Lily.

I can't tomorrow. I'm heading out of town for work.

Us Song girls stay busy.

That's just who we are.

So it has to be tonight.

It won't take long. I promise.

It'll be quick.

And I got a surprise for you. I got a few surprises, actually.

I love you, too.

Bye.

Laura Song?

NCIS Special Agent Callen.

Agent Hanna.

What's going on?

We think you might have been compromised.

We need to get you to a secure location

immediately.

Where is everybody?

Well, it's a Sunday,

so Sam is fishing, Fatima's drag racing,

Rountree's crushing it in a hot dog eating contest,

Callen is probably smooching it up with Anna

and you and I are at the beach right now

drinking mojitos out of a can.

Except for the fact that we're not 'cause we're here

because Kilbride called us in on a Sunday.

Well, you forget that he probably also had to cancel

his plans, right? He doesn't work 24/7.

That's a good point. I wonder what Kilbride does on a Sunday.

I mean, besides the obvious goat yoga and ASMR.

Well, I know he has a son. I don't know where he is

or what their relationship is like.

Son of Kilbride. Wow, I do not envy that.

Oh, come on. You're assuming he's the same kind of parent

as he is the Director of Special Operations.

I mean, look at me and my dad.

You know? He was a tough son of a bitch

with all those Marines under him, but...

with me, he was just... dad.

My best friend. My whole world.

Wow. That's another good point.

You know what? In fact,

next time I see him up in his office, Kilbride,

I'm gonna go in there and I'm gonna ask him about fatherhood.

You know? Maybe he'll have some advice for me.

We could hold hands, cry it out,

do some trust falls. What do you think?

Yeah. No, I think that you might walk out of there

missing a limb.

That is another good point. God, you're en fuegotoday.

I'm always on fuego.

You know what, I know what he does on Sundays.

He wanders up and down the aisles of Home Depot,

wearing a little orange vest...

just answering people's questions

about the right diameter for wood screws

for their planter boxes. Then he gets home

and watches Dirty Dozen and takes notes from Lee Marvin.

Oh, God.

Thank you for the compliment,

Agent Blye.

Admiral Kilbride. Hi.

We thought you were gonna...

meet us here in person.

I'm on a flight into Santa Monica.

I'll be landing within the hour.

Until then, I have an urgent matter

I need your team to handle.

You're gonna be late for Home Depot.

Okay. What is it? Protectiondetail.

An operative working deep cover may have been compromised.

That's not good.

Did you not hear me when I said

it was an urgent matter?

So how 'bout we shelve the useless commentary?

Sorry.

Her name is Laura Song.

For the past two decades, she has provided

the Office of Naval Intelligence with crucial intel

on the capabilities of China's navy.

So if her cover has been compromised...

They're gonna want her dead.

What happened there? Was there a leak?

We have people working on that.

Your team's priority is Laura's protection.

Now, Callen and Sam are

in the process of securing her at a safe house,

along with Agents Namazi and Rountree.

Send us the address. We'll join 'em.

No, I want you to pick up her daughter.

She is a freshman at USC.

Take her to the boatshed. Keep her there

until I give the all clear. Understood?

Understood, sir. I have sent her address to your phones.

Go.

I just feel bad, you know? It's like Ben was really excited

about this dinner.

So go next weekend.

Yeah, doesn't work like that.

I mean, L'Ardoise is, like, the hottest reservation in L.A.,

and they know it.

There's literally a 90-second grace period,

and then they just give away your table.

You serious? Yeah.

Seriously, you should drive by sometime.

There's a line of people waiting to pounce.

Okay, correct me if I'm wrong...

You know I will. All right.

Aren't dinner dates supposed to be relaxing?

Fun? And not, like, a whole Hunger Gamesexperience

where only the richest people get to eat steak?

Well, actually, this place is vegan.

Come on. Hmm?

Vegans can't pounce. They're too anemic.

Maybe in Texas. But L.A. vegans take supplements.

You don't want to mess with them.

I'm not seeing the appeal of any of this.

So crazy and stressful, trying to dine out in this city.

Not where I go. Where's that?

Normal places

without apostrophes in their name.

Where you just show up and get a good plate of food.

Here? In L.A.?

I don't think so.

I'm not making this up.

These places exist.

I'll make a list for you, and you can take your date.

Well, at this point, I don't think I'm going anywhere.

Not with this last-minute protection detail.

Do you think you can get the cameras up and running

while I reroute comms through the system?

Uh... sure.

Let me just figure out the right

input setting...

There you go.

I could've done that. I just haven't worked

with this particular system yet.

Mm-hmm.

We are ready for Laura Song.

Well,

thank you, gentlemen, for a lovely tour

of this city's freeways.

I know it was long, but we had to be sure you weren't followed.

Fatima! Rountree!

Hey. Sorry, we were just taking care

of a few last-minute things.

We good to go? We're good.

Agent Devin Rountree.

Laura Song. So where you putting me up?

Oh, it's a secure apartment on the top floor.

Pretty nice by safe house standards.

Fatima's up there right now making sure

everything's good for you guys.

All right, I'm-a take the stairs,

make sure the rest of the floors are secure.

They are. I...

already did that.

Agent Rountree,

your efforts are appreciated. No problem.

Hope you enjoy your stay.

I mean, I...

hope you're comfortable. Uh...

Have your agents picked up my daughter yet?

They're almost there. When they do, you can speak with her.

Good. She doesn't know what I do.

I've protected her all these years from all this,

and I don't want to throw it away

until I know what's going on.

Ah. Agent Rountree

wasn't wrong. This'll do.

Laura Song, this is

Agent Fatima Namazi.Hi.

Sorry to meet you under these circumstances.

But if you need to lay low for a spell,

this is the place to do it.

All the doors in this apartment are solid steel.

The windows are bulletproof.

And there's a panic room in the bedroom.

Impressive.

But I don't think I'll be using it.

If this is the end...

I'm gonna die out in the open, not in a box.

This isn't the end.

Your cover may still be intact. So sit tight.

We'll know more when Kilbride gets here in about an hour.

Well, until then, I guess my life is in your hands.

Confirm interior secure.

Copy that. You're clear.

Stand by for 10-15.

Copy that.

What the hell happened?

This is Office of Naval Intelligence

Inspector General Akhil Ali.

It's Tuesday, November 9, 2021.

09:54.

I've been tasked with determining

the sequence of events that led to Operative Laura Song's death.

As none of the cameras at the safe house recorded anything,