Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, March 19, 2023, season 14 episode 15 called, “The Other Shoe” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. In tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 14 episode 15, as per the CBS synopsis, “Sam Hanna must go undercover as a fighter to catch the leader of a gang dealing drugs on the streets”
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In tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles episode, Detective Ellen Whiting showed up on Deeks’s doorstep needing help. She was disheveled. She had blood on her and she didn’t ask for help. She told Deeks he owes her help. She was calling on the many favors he owes her for her helping him out and so it was only fair that he return the favor.
Whiting was in trouble. She started investigating a possible connection between dirty cops and the fentanyl drug trade when suddenly she had to run for her life. She was being framed for the death of her informant. They were people shooting at her. She couldn’t use her cell phone or her credit cards. She didn’t know who to trust and she turned to Deeks because she knew he wouldn’t turn her away.
Deeks could have said this whole situation was too much for him. Only he didn’t. He chose to help Whiting because he does owe her. She wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea only that didn’t stop her from being a good cop. She does good work. Deeks didn’t even need to think about it before he was agreeing to help her and he got everyone else onboard too. He brought in Admiral Killbride. He had Whiting tell her story to the admiral herself so that none of the information gets lost in a game of telephone. And Whiting’s story went beyond what happened to her.
Whiting said that everything began after she warned Roundtree about Officer McNeil’s punishment. McNeil had been the one to mace Roundtree during a traffic stop and the brass had wanted to put him on paid administration leave. Whiting hadn’t thought that was enough. She told Roundtree about it and he decided to pursue his official complaint against the officer. Well, someone didn’t like that. They told Whiting to pressure him into dropping the complaint. They even threatened her job and so Whiting decided not to play ball.
Whiting instead chose to look in why McNeal was so important. McNeal was very connected within the department and it seems that he and some officers were stealing fentanyl from drug dealers to then sell it back on the street. Whiting tried to make a case of it. She was contacted by Sean Turner.
Turner asked her to meet with him so that they could discuss it. But she goes to the meeting place to find Sean dead on the floor. And she was forced to fight for her life as she was being attacked by the killer.
Whiting claims to have lost her gun during the struggle. She went on the run and that’s everything so far. This all started because of what happened to Roundtree. Now, Roundtree could have been happy to help Whiting take down some rogue dirty cops but he wasn’t happy at all to be helping her. He just saw her as a cop.
He thought she was no better than the cops that maced him. He didn’t think they should help her because he painted all cops as the same. And Deeks had to remind him that she was one of the good ones.
Whiting once saved Hetty’s life. She’s even got a scar to prove it. She was good people and she was only after dirty cops. She was IAB. She wasn’t actively after anyone else and so Roundtree did come around in the end. He agreed to work with her. He also allowed her to leave the boatshed. She wanted to follow Detective Andy Price.
She knew Price was dirty. She suspected he was involved in the drug trade and so she had Roundtree follow him in their car. They followed Price to a meet up with a known felon. The felon’s name was Scot Upson. He was a part of a gang known as “the Wanted”.
The gang was heavily in drug trade. They also ran a side business. They have bare knuckle fighting and Roundtree thinks one of them should go in the ring. He suggested Sam. Sam was big. He was a great boxer. He also had a deep underworld cover in case anyone recognizes him. Sam was the perfect guy to go undercover. He got dressed for the job and he later infiltrated the secret fight club that the Unwanted were running. He got in thanks to Upson. Upson was willing to work with authorities in return for protection and a deal with the District Attorney.
They roped in the DEA as well. They went to the club. They got Sam close enough to the gang leader named Odin. Once Odin was identified, Sam dealt with him. The DEA moved in to arrest everyone and a bunch of drugs got collected before it could be sold. They also arrested the dirty cops that attacked Whiting and tried to pin a murder on her. The cops said this was far from over. They said they would keep coming after them and so Roundtree reminded them that have a right to remain silent. Maybe they should use it.
Whiting was cleared of her informant’s death. She was free to be a cop again. She didn’t have to hide anymore and she and Roundtree have both developed some respect for the other’s profession.
And who knows? Whiting teenage son might be dating Deeks and Kensi’s teenage daughter.
THE END!