Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, November 21, 2021, season 13 episode 6 called, “Sundown” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. On tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 13 episode 6, as per the CBS synopsis, “Sam negotiates and Rountree goes under cover, when a man takes a busload of hostages and threatens to blow it up unless his daughter’s war crimes are posthumously cleared.”
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In tonight’s NCIS: LA episode, a grieving father took several hostages on a bus. He threatened to kill them all with a hidden explosive device if the federal government didn’t open an investigation into his daughter’s death and his reasoning is that someone killed his daughter. His daughter was Marine Corporal Kiera DeMayo. She died a few weeks ago. It was suspected suicide and everyone believed the reason she did it was because she was dishonorably discharged from the Marines.
She supposedly fell asleep while on duty. She and several others were injured when the Taliban attacked their base. They later tested Kiera. They found narcotics in her system and so she was kicked out of the military. But Kiera told her father that someone set her up. She was apparently looking into it when she died from alleged suicide and now her father wants justice.
Or what he believes is justice. Gary DeMayo wanted them to open an investigation into his daughter’s death as well as whoever framed her for what happened overseas. His daughter had no history of drug use. She was also forbidden from handling any firearms when she came back and so that’s why her father was stumped. His daughter couldn’t get a weapon legally. How then did she shoot herself with a gun?
DeMayo was demanding justice and NCIS were called. No one wanted the hostage situation to get out of control and there was already one injured party on the bus. DeMayo shot an off-duty cop who tried to take his gun and so he’s proven he’s willing to be violent. And no one wanted him to hurt anyone else.
DeMayo’s demands also never wavered. Kiera was his only child and he was separated from his wife. They got a separation after their daughter died because they just couldn’t handle it together as a couple. But his wife did mention that their daughter doesn’t remember what happened before she fell asleep. She was seeing a therapist before she died and she was told to write down everything she remembers in a journal.
Her mother still has that journal. She hasn’t read it. She was afraid of what it my say because she thought it would prove Kiera really did take drugs and so NCIS collected it. They also spoke with DeMayo. Sam tried to reach him as someone who’s also lost a loved one and it wasn’t working because DeMayo wanted to get his daughter’s story out there.
So, Sam came up with an idea. Sam told Roundtree that he was sending him in a false journalist and that he was going to pretend to interview DeMayo about his daughter and Fatima had even planted fake stories to let DeMayo think Roundtree was legit.
The team was doing this as they actually looked into DeMayo’s claims. They found out that his daughter Kiera was in contact with someone named Lawrence Kerr and that Kerr was overseas serving as a private contractor the same time as she was. This proved that Kiera was investigating what happened during her last deployment. The team continued to look into this and Roundtree tried to get close enough to the bomb to disarm it, but DeMayo saw that the cops were getting too close and turned around fast enough to catch Roundtree in the act.
DeMayo asked Roundtree to explain himself. He claimed that he just wanted to verify there was a bomb for his story and so DeMayo told him to sit back down. He then told the cops to back away. He didn’t want them getting any closer and Roundtree wrote in the window what kind of bomb it was. Sam therefore found out the bomb is very real.
Its also really dangerous because it’s the reason why airplanes don’t allow liquids onboard anymore and unfortunately they had bad news for DeMayo. The team found out that Kiera really did buy the gun from a pawn shop. They had evidence and so that confirmed she killed herself. Sam told DeMayo. He didn’t take it well. He ordered everyone off the bus and Roundtree refused to leave without him.
Roundtree knew DeMayo wanted to kill himself. He stayed behind to convince him differently when someone began taking sniper shots at them and it wasn’t LAPD. It was actually someone who worked with Kiera. It turns out that DeMayo was right about his daughter.
She doesn’t take drugs. She was drugged because some of the private contractors wanted to steal weapons and pretend it was the insurgents. The guy who drugged Kiera must not have done a great job because she woke up. She woke up and saw them trying to steal the weapons and she began firing. Kiera tried to do her job in spite of the state she was in. And so when she began remembering, she went looking for answers and she was stonewalled.
Kiera tried to get justice for herself. But she failed and so she killed herself. Meanwhile the person responsible for her death saw the news about her father. He saw that DeMayo was bringing attention to what happened to Kiera. He then went to the hostage scene and tried to shoot DeMayo. But Sam and Roundtree got him safely off the bus. Callen also went on to arrest their sniper. They proved that Kiera was drugged and framed. Sam gave the news to DeMayo and it was a consolation. He now knows that his daughter was pushed into killing herself by others.
Kensi and Deeks in the meantime began attending a seminar for adoptive parents and it was hard, but it made them realize they were open to fostering a child.
THE END!