Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, March 20, 2022, season 13 episode 12 called, “Murmuration” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. On tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 13 episode 12, as per the CBS synopsis, “The NCIS team investigates an unidentified aircraft that flies into U.S. airspace and crashes into a Navy plane. Also, Deeks and Kensi begin to prepare for their foster inspection.”
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In tonights NCIS LA episode, when the call came in, the team were all busy. Kensi and Deeks were preparing for an inspection from a social worker and the inspection will determine if their home is safe for future foster children. But Deeks too it to mean if their house was fun. He got a bunch of games he played as a kid. Games that were woefully out of date for modern kids.
It was a waste of money and it got them overly familiar with their deliveryman. Kensi tried telling Deeks as much when Roundtree came in. Roundtree was supposed to have deliver news about the case only he saw the toys first and he started playing with them.
Sam and Callen were also busy. They were training for a triathlon. Sam signed up for it because he loves these types of things and he somehow managed to talk Callen into it as well. Callen tried to back up, but Sam wasn’t having it and they were interrupted by once again this case. An unidentified aircraft was spotted in US airspace and it threatened US Navy vessel.
It even managed to take out a pilot. The pilot survived the ordeal. He discharged himself early and he went to the boatshed to answer questions because he wanted to know what hit him. And he wasn’t buying the official theory that it might be birds.
There was footage of this unidentified aircraft. It was all over social media and everyone was saying it was aliens. Even Navy Lieutenant Landry Joseph didn’t have anything better than aliens. The pilot had said that he was directed by the USS Allegiance of something on the radar and that he tried to spot the item. He never saw it. He bumped into something while up in the air.
It could have been attack. It wasn’t missile or anything that was fired at him or at least what his own radar could detect. Whatever it was, it was destructive. Something that managed to take out one of his engines and almost caused him to crash.
Which is where the team came in. They were asked to investigate the unidentified aircraft and they spoke to the pilot. He said Navy Intelligence were refusing to tell him anything. The team also spoke to the XO on the USS Allegiance. He was doing his best to deter the investigation and so something was going on. The team only knew what Admiral Killbride told them.
He said that they had to find an unidentified aircraft and that was that. The team didn’t stop for a moment to consider they should be told more. It wasn’t until later that the questions started mounting. The team looked into the pilot. He graduated at the top of his class. He would know if he was hit by a missile.
The team looked into social media footage. They saw the aircraft crash somewhere in the Santa Monica mountains. Kensi and Deeks went to the location. They found an item missing. There was an item that crashed and it was no longer. But what they did find was a podcaster. The podcaster said the drone was gone by time he got there. The podcaster believed in the theory that the unidentified aircraft was in fact a drone swarm. The podcaster also added that the swarm was seen at least once everyday for the past week. The team took the drone theory to their boss and the USS Allegiance didn’t think it was a drone swarm because their systems would have told them so.
The team therefore had to speak to an expert about a drone swarm fooling frequency channels. Their expert said that this drone swarm was learning with its every mistake and that’s she developed this and sold it to the United States. It was now and operated by the DOD. It didn’t make sense why it would now be target an American vessel. The team kept digging and they were later able to determine why the ship hadn’t picked up on any frequencies. There was no frequency. There was no one on the other this of this drone talking to it or giving it orders. It was operating all on its own.
Their expert who turned out to be the maker had said she designed the AI to think for itself. To adapt. The only way to take it down is to attack it from angles and leave not a single one around or else pieces of the AI will leave on and rebuild. But just as the team was getting somewhere, that’s when Killbride pulled the plug. He said he knew it was a UAV swarm. It was being operated by Americans to spy on Americans as a way of teaching it how to spy on their enemies. And the Americans are going to cover it up by claiming it was a flight exercise.
Only the team knew better.
THE END!
