Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, February 19, 2023, season 14 episode 12 called, “In The Name Of Honor” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. In tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 14 episode 12, as per the CBS synopsis, “The NCIS team must quickly find Kensi and Fatima after they are kidnapped and drugged while searching for a missing Navy lieutenant who they learn has ties to a dangerous Islamic militia.”
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In tonight’s MILF Manor episode, Fatima has been doing really great with her self-defense classes. She was even joined by her new “friend” during these classes and they would use the opportunity to flirt. They were transitioning from their safe date to one on one date stage when Fatima got called into work.
There was a missing Navy Nuclear Weapons Specialist. Her name was Lieutenant Zahra Mahmad. She’s been missing for several hours and that along was concerning because Zahra was involved in a top secret recon mission in hostile territory. She wouldn’t have disappeared during such a mission unless something happened to her.
Admiral Kilbride spoke to Zahra Commanding Officer. Captain Alonso couldn’t give the Admiral any word on where this mission was or what it entails. He just said that they have a day to find Zahra or this mission would get turned into a suicide mission in enemy territory. NCIS then split up to find Zahra.
They thought they would cover more ground that way, but it was hard to find a woman who might have walked away on her on own accord. Callen and Sam had gone to Zahra’s house. They found the place untouched. It hadn’t been ransacked. There were no clear signs of a struggle. And this was on top of Zahra getting twenty thousand out of her account.
There was also Zahra’s family. They claimed to have no idea where Zahra was or if she was in trouble. Only Zahra’s mother pretended not to know English. It was a lie and she might have been hiding the fact she knew English because she was scared of authority though it was still odd. The mother got caught when Fatima noticed she’s been following along in the conversation. It was therefore especially concerning when the woman broke down in tears when they mentioned Zahra’s brother. Zahra’s family hadn’t wanted to tell them anything about her brother.
They also didn’t want to talk about Zahra’s boyfriend. The boyfriend was trouble. It had taken Roundtree looking into him for the team to learn that Ted has a juvenile record and was heavily in debt. Ted did a lot of high risk loans when he was in school. His girlfriend may have been trying to help him pay those off and that’s why she took out twenty grand. The team figured that Ted would know about it if that was the case. Kensi and Deeks went to the boyfriend’s home and they found him tortured and left for dead.
They had to call an ambulance for him. They also spoke to his neighbors. One neighbor remembered a black SVU blocking her driveway the day before Ted was found. She had called it in and so there was a record of it with LAPD. The SVU was a rental. The guy who rented it had paid in cash and was therefore hard to trace. But NCIS did get into contact with Zahra’s brother, Omar. Omar said he stepped away from his family because they disagreed on religion. His family was traditionalists. They even beat him as a child for being too westernized.
Omar hasn’t spoken to his family in years because he moved away from their ideology. Zahra must have done the same because she was after all in a relationship with a non-Muslim and that man was tortured to almost the brink of death. It was only after they spoke to Omar that the pieces started to all fit. They found out Zahra had been taken by her family. They connected the rented SVU to Zahra’s cousin by the name of Muhammed Hassan. Hassan was part of an extremist group in Pakistan.
He boarded a flight to the States with two others under false pretenses. They pretended to be tourists when they were in fact there to collect Zahra. Her family had arranged a marriage for her. Its why they tried getting the boyfriend out of the way. They were going to marry Zahra to a businessman back in Pakistan. But Zahra hadn’t wanted to go. Zahra took out the money because she was trying to bribe the businessman to leave her alone and the plan didn’t work. Her cousin got to her first.
They abducted Zahra. Zahra’s parents then tried to intervene and the cousin beat up the father. Kensi and Fatima had stopped by the parents’ restaurant when the cousin snuck up on them. They got taken hostage. Deeks started freaking out. It was Roundtree that came through. Roundtree found out that Zahra’s uncle had bought up property in Long Beach. The team went there. By the time they arrived, Kensi and Fatima had escaped a burning car. They managed to sneak up behind the cousin and knock him out.
They also saved Zahra. It seems the plan was to honor kill Zahra for not doing as they demanded. NCIS was able to put a stop to that and they rescued her in time for that top secret mission not to go sideways. Zahra was later reunited with her boyfriend who was going to make a full recovery. Her parents were also doing alright. And they finally realized that they couldn’t force their American children into following their ideologies.
And Zahra’s uncle was in trouble overseas because he orchestrated this whole thing.
THE END!
