Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, October 09, 2022, season 14 episode 1 premiere called, “Game of Drones” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. In tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 14 episode 1, as per the CBS synopsis, “The NCIS team searches for a suspect and their motive following the bombing of a large facility where military combat drones are assembled. Also, Callen and Kilbride get troubling news about a body found in Syria.”
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Kensi and Deeks are foster parents. They took in a teenager named Rosa. She was a good kid. She didn’t mind how super vigilant they were about her safety. She just memorized their contact information and she assured them she’d be fine on her first day at school. Rosa had never attended an American school prior to now. She was from South America. She immigrated by herself and even came close to dying just to make it to LA. But she’s here now. She was close to being deported when Kensi and Deeks stepped up to adopt her and gain custody of her. Their doing that helped ensure Rosa gets to stay in the U.S.
But besides the fact that they were now finally parents, the two of them still had cases to work on. There was also some sad news at the office. It seems that one of Hetty’s aliases was found dead in Syria. Admiral Kilbride was told about the alias’s death alongside Callen. They both wondered if Hetty really was dead. She’s been “dead” before. It’s normally just a ruse and she returns to the living right when she’s needed the most. There’s also no telling who they found in Syria. It could be Hetty. It also could be a decoy that Hetty set up so that she could escape a bad situation. And there’s also a possibility that Hetty really is dead this time.
There’s no way clear way of knowing. The authorities on the ground in Syria were waiting on some dental records to properly identify the body and it didn’t make sense to worry about it until it was proven one way or another. Callen still told members of the team. He also made them focus on their current case instead of what might be going down in Syria. The team was investigating the death of a janitor. The janitor’s name was Luis Estevez. Estevez died in a factory fire that was naval property and the team wanted to know if it was an accident or not. They ran tests on Estevez’s body. They were later able to determine that Estevez had been murdered before the fire.
Which begged the question of why? Why was Estevez murdered? What happened in that factory? The team knew that military drones were stored there, but how would the potential thieves know about it? The team had to investigate Estevez. They had to see if he maybe told someone about the factory. They got Estevez’s daughter to give them permission to go digging through her father’s life. She had been her father’s power of attorney. With her permission, they got to look at Estevez’s bank accounts as well as his phone records. It turns out it was just the daughter and her family. Estevez’s wife died of covid two years ago. And so the remaining family wants to know more than anything why he died.
The janitor Luis Estevez didn’t seem complicit in the fire at the factory. If anything, it seems like he had been stalked. Estevez led a very routine life. He worked two jobs and only rested on Sundays. He had dinner with his family every Sunday. He also used most of his free time doing carpeting work. Estevez was a very boring man. It was easy to spy on him. The team had traced a hack on one of the drones that were taken and it led back to Beirut. As for a Lebanon connection to Estevez, there was none. There was however a car that was surveilling him for hours on end and the truck they used was the Bunny Vale Laundry’s truck.
Only the company’s owners weren’t from Lebanon. They were Persian. The real-life Bunny Vale was a first-generation American and he used his vans to spy on a janitor because his family in Iran had been threatened. The poor guy didn’t want anyone to die, but the Iranians have wanted revenge ever since one of them was assassinated by Team America and so Team Iran wanted a win. Something they got by getting their hands on the drone. They then needed to just move it back to their shores and that’s where the team stopped them. The team found the Iranian spies operating on American soil.
They used deadly force, but they stopped pertinent information from leaking out and they stole back a win from the other side. They got back the drone. They arrested people they need to arrest and they still didn’t get answers from Syria. Callen was so fed up with this back and forth with Hetty that he wanted to jump on the next plane to Syria. He wanted to go look for Hetty himself. Killbride talked him out of it. He warned Callen that going after his foster mom would do no one any good. Callen hadn’t liked hearing that but the advice wasn’t wrong.
The team still stopped the Iranians and Sam returned home to find out his elderly father had more of a love life than he did.
DONE