NCIS: Los Angeles Review: Plain Sight (Season 9 Episode 4)
Sometimes, when TV shows you who it really is, you gotta believe it.
NCIS: Los Angeles Season 9 Episode 4 “Plain Sight” reinforces what this show is, and who these characters are, just as it introduces the notion that sometimes, even the people closest to us have hidden stories and problems we know nothing about.
Will this be a thread we pick up later in the season? If this were any other procedural, I’d say no, but considering this is NCIS: LA I’d say odds are good we come back to this idea.
Question is: Who’s the one keeping secrets?
Or maybe that’s not the question. Maybe the question is, if any of these characters are actually keeping a secret, does that really change who they are?
Nine seasons in, can’t we say we know them?
Everyone has their own answer to that, and here’s mine: Yes.
We know these people.
We care about these people.
And, if (more like when) their secrets come to light, those two things will still hold true.
Sometimes you gotta have faith in people, or in TV shows. More often than not, these days, it seems like that faith isn’t rewarded, like we give more to TV than it gives to us.
That’s not the case with NCIS: LA.
That’s not the case with Callen and Sam, Kensi and Deeks, Eric and Nell.
That’s not the case with this writing team.
It’s not even the case with Hetty, though seriously, some information would be good, Hetty. Communication is a skill. Work with us here.
This, however, doesn’t apply to you, Mosley. It really and truly doesn’t. And no, I’m not saying you’re automatically the bad guy, but I am saying you haven’t yet earned our trust and right now, after disappearing for half the episode while everything was going down, I’m more suspicious than not.
What I’m not, however, is disappointed. I rarely am with this show. Week to week I consume TV and sometimes sit in fear of what each hour of my favorite shows will deliver.
Now with this show. I know what I’ll get with NCIS: LA.
I’ll get an interesting case, one I might connect with or not, but one that will not bore me in a way that will make me turn off the TV.
I’ll get some humor, some friendly banter and some heartfelt interactions.
I’ll get action, and the bad guys will lose – or they’ll at least be temporarily thwarted.
And I’ll get some heart.
So thank you, NCIS: LA. Thank you for being my safe port in a TV storm. May this journey continue for a long, long time.
Other things to note:
- You know what’s better than friends who offer guidance, moral support and coffee? Friends WHO ACTUALLY HELP.
- Though the casual way in which Callen says we never fails to get me. Like it’s obvious. Common knowledge. Sam is never alone.
- Every time Callen makes pop culture references my heart grows three sizes.
- DEEKS DRIVES! The most conspicuous car ever, too. Because we gotta take our jokes where we can get them, I guess.
- Hetty disappears like once every two seasons and it always takes you all too damn long to track her. Plus, somehow, there’s always a moment where you’re all like: maybe she really did retire NO. This is Hetty we’re talking about.
- Guns AND alcohol. What could go wrong?
- Kensi being the one to get out of the car and chase the bad guy and Deeks just being like go get them tiger will never fail to give me a warm fuzzy feeling. #Relationshipgoals.
- #Equality.
- “You know what I do when I don’t know? I ask.” I feel like this is a little secret we gotta let a lot of shows in on.
- “What could push a man to go that far?” COME ON, WHY DID IT TAKE YOU ALL SO LONG TO GET TO FAMILY?
- Mosley sure went MIA in the middle of everything. Hmmmm.
- Everyone always confesses. Always.
- Also, either husband knew and gets arrested or he didn’t and he doesn’t get the cuffs. We can’t have both.
- The Porsche story-line is silly at best, but this was a good episode, so I’m just going to forget about that. Yup. Memory wiped.
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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz
Lawyer. Writer. Columnist. Geek. Falls in madly in love with fictional characters. Hates the color yellow, misogyny, and people who are late. Can always be found with a book. Watches an absurd amount of TV every week, often, while eating coffee ice cream. She has no regrets. You can check out her blog here: Absurday. Lissete is a senior writer for Tell-Tale TV. Follow @lizziethat
4 comments
I really enjoyed this episode. I thought is was fast paced and a lot of action. To me it felt like a back to basics episode. We had Sam and Callen in the field doing what they do best together. We had Deeks and Kensi partnered in the field,extremely competent , but also bantering and just being Densi. I loved the Porsche and the fact that Deeks was driving. I also enjoyed Eric in Ops being competent . So overall a good episode. I still do not like Mosley, she is still way too full of herself and not respectful of her team. I do not think her character fits with the show or with the audience that watches.
I liked this episode! There were good, individual scenes: Callen and Sam at the boat, Kensi and Deeks in the Porsche, Eric’s nod to ST as Scotty. When Callen and Sam had that conversation in the car (When someone shows you who they are, believe them), it made me think about the upcoming episode where Joelle returns and Asakeem is also set to return. So far this season I think the stories have been well-written. Again, there’s not as much humor as in season’s past, but then everyone was changed by the season 8 finale and it shows. I admit, I love Callen’s comment about he and Sam living together at the beach and Kensi’s practical side coming out (he wouldn’t have been able to jump over the Audi). I also thought the twist at the end was clever–and that Mosley knows exactly what happened to her car. Deeks’ line–“Say something nice at my funeral–was Eric’s line to Granger in Deep Trouble 2.
Thanks for another review. I found this episode entertaining. I loved the opening scene between Callen and Sam (it seemed early morning to me, as if Callen had just arrived, and he was picking up Sam). The practical side of Kensi is coming out more and more this season (worrying about where she would put her long gun and transporting prisoners in the Porsche). Did it take them that long to figure out family? I thought Sam had only just discovered that Byron was leveraged. As for criminals confessing, they usually do–even if it takes almost an entire episode like Claudia–but the buyer didn’t this time, and seriously, Tony isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. I wasn’t at all suspicious when Mosley disappeared; but I do think the conversation they had in the car foreshadows something later this season (Do we really know anyone? When someone shows us who they really are, we need to believe them.) Maybe it will even relate to Hetty’s current assignment. I liked the Porsche story immensely. Taking that car from the company lot just seemed like Deeks (and logical that Mosley would have it delivered there–and transport companies leave the keys in the cars). Anyway, I thought the twist was clever and am sure Mosley knows exactly who went joyriding.
Shay Mosely she got to go. Not the same anymore!!! Very bad,bad?
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