NCIS: Los Angeles

Step on it, Mateo. He's gonna be mad.

Nina, where you been?! What the hell happened?!

The plane was two hours late. Big storm off Costa Rica.

Doors open in five minutes.

You're costing me money.

Ponte las pilas.

Got it, jefe.

It's always our fault, right?

Always.

Excuse me.

Come on, Betsy.

Oh, sweet baby.

You look so cuddly.

What's up, Deeks? You going on a ski trip?

No, man, I'm just trying to stay toasty.

We got a lot of winter ahead of us. Oh, yeah?

In case you haven't heard, couple weeks ago,

the groundhog saw its shadow.

Groundhog. So you get your weather forecast

from a groundhog?

Where do you get your financial advice-- squirrel?

No, 'cause that would be nuts.

You see how quick that was when I said nuts?

That's a... No?

Yeah, I get it. Nuts is right.

Really, Deeks?

The temperature drops into the 50s,

and everyone starts walking around town

with the down jacket and nose warmers on.

L.A. breeds weather wimps.

No, no, I can handle the cold, man.

You try surfing Mavericks

in a one-mil suit.

Try bivouacking the Serbian Alps in a blizzard.

Tracking down Russian mobsters

in Yakutsk, where the January high is 34 below.

Yakutsk? Mm-hmm.

All right, fair enough. I admit defeat.

You guys have the biggest icicles.

(plays "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" off-key)

It's left over from my Presidents' Day party.

I bet that was quite the shindig.

Well... we really are alone here.

3:00 a.m., the wholesale fish market

down at the harbor.

Ooh. Yeah.

The bomb blast killed two: Eduardo Barajas

and Young Jae Kim.

Looks like it

could have been worse.

Who targets a fish market?

FBI and LAPD are currently on the scene,

but Hetty wants us down there to see

if this was just an isolated domestic incident

or the beginnings of an international threat.

Keep your mittens on, Deeks. You're coming with us.

They're fingerless gloves.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

If the glove fits...

Watch your back.

My son had a gentle soul...

like his mother.

Did you see anything suspicious before the blast, sir?

No.

Nothing.

Business as usual.

Have you or your son had any conflicts

with any workers or other vendors?

We all like a family here.

Originally from Korea?

Yes.

Why?

Have either of you traveled to North Korea in the past year?

No.

No family there?

I have two sisters in Seoul.

I should go now.

My daughter-in-law and grandchildren,

they need me now.

Of course.

Thank you.

I'm, uh... I'm very sorry for your loss.

Nothing useful out of the father.

Bomb squad confirmed it was a pressure cooker.

It's just like Boston.

Probably got the recipe off the Internet.

Gunpowder, blasting cap.

But only a small amount of nails and screws for shrapnel.

Lucky for us, they didn't know what the hell they were doing.

What are you thinking?

Just seems weird, this location, the device.

You think test or specific target?

I don't know.

Checked the office.

Somebody covered their tracks.

The security camera hard drive was erased

from 1:00 a.m. until 2:45 a.m.

So, we see the explosion...

But we don't see who placed the backpack.

Did you find anything else?

Thought I did. Turned out to be this.

What is that?

Don't ask.

He's got to know.

Deeks, I'm warning you. Trust me. Walk away.

It's a red herring.

Uh, uh... (scoffs)

Come on, man. This is an actual red herring.

Don't encourage him. I'm not!

I told you that I work here, right?!

Ma'am, this is a crime scene. Where's Eduardo?

Where's the body?

Stay back or you will be arrested.

Okay. All right. Thank you.

Ma'am! Who else died?

I have friends. I have friends in there. Whoa, easy.

Just let go of me! Aah!

Hey, take it easy.

You just assaulted a federal agent.

: I am a federal agent.

Undercover DEA. We have to talk.

Officer, we got it from here.

One of the men who was killed, Eduardo Barajas,

he imported fish from Ecuador.

I think somebody wanted him dead.

Why?

He, uh...

he contacted us because he was suspicious

of one of his new employees.

Are you all right?

Yeah. Um...

the guy's name was Mateo.

Does Mateo have a last name?

Nina! Whoa!

Watch your head.

She's barely breathing.

Call for a paramedic. Guys, move it!

Come on, Nina, wake up.

Nina, come on.

She's shocky. Elevate her legs.

Got something here.

What?

Fresh puncture wounds.

There's fragments in the skin.

They're hard and sharp.

Oh, what is that?

That is a dorsal spine from a stonefish.

Deeks, get some hot water. It'll destroy the venom.

On it.

You learn to stay far away from these when you dive.

How toxic is it?

Another five minutes, she'd be dead.

It wasn't an accident.

The spines came in from the side with force.

And she didn't feel it?

Somebody wanted to shut her up. For good.

She must have been close to something.

So, she's signing herself

out AMA, refusing further medical treatment.

She's a tough little lady.

Why don't you take her back the boatshed

and find out what else she knows.

We're gonna track down this Mateo character.

And if she refuses?

Charm her.

She'll love it.

There you go.

Sure you, uh, don't want to go

to the hospital, Nina?

I'm sure.

Actually, it's Talia.

Talia Del Campo.

Marty Deeks.

Yeah, sorry about the mittens.

I'm sorry about the elbow.

I was undercover.

Couldn't let anybody know

I was cooperating with the investigation.

Listen, somebody tried to kill you

and you almost died. You sure you don't want

to just take a break, let us take over?

No chance.

This is my case, my collar.

All right.

You okay?

: Yeah.

Maybe I should just stay off my feet for a bit.

Yeah, you're lucky to be alive.

Why weren't you working with a partner?

'Cause they just complicate things.

Mmm.

What's your excuse?

I'm a one-man army.

GRANGER (in distance): It went down 90 minutes ago,

and you can't find it?

What about a rescue team?

You got night vision. Do your damn job.

Keep searching the area.

What's going on?

We lost a chopper somewhere in here.