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It's done.
Good.
Gotta go.
(computer beeps)
(blipping)
What are you doing?
What does it
look like I'm doing?
You don't drink tea.
No, I don't.
I'm making it for hetty.
You're making tea for hetty?
I promised her I'd try some.
"yellow mountain tribute
Chrysanthemum tea.
"
nice.
That smells moldy.
Maybe it's supposed
to smell moldy.
You think I should
say something to her?
They didn't train you
for that at seal school?
Yeah, escape and evade.
Hetty (singsong):
Mr.
Hanna.
How's our tea?
Right here, hetty.
Did you warm the pot
the way I told you to?
I did.
And, uh, the water?
Fresh off the boil.
Oh, excellent.
You must never
underestimate
The cardiovascular benefits
Of tea.
You'll thank me in the morning.
Mr.
Callen?
I'm good.
Uh-huh, and you, uh,
You can't taste
the paper?
Huh.
Well, now,
Chrysanthemum tea is not
chrysanthemum tea
Without wolfberries.
"wolfberries.
"
Now, I want you to savor that,
And consider its
calming qualities,
Not to mention
its health benefits.
(slurping)
Mmm.
It's delicious.
That phone call is for you,
mr.
Callen.
Director vance.
(phone ringing)
Callen.
Yes, director.
Standby.
How does she do that?
I don't know,
but that's the worse tea
I've ever had in my entire life.
(sniffing)
(exclaims):
Aah!
Moldy.
Got a call from the lapd.
A woman was killed
in an apartment
Overlooking the marina
a couple of days ago.
They found a usb micro drive
Hidden in her baseball cap.
Had a file
Filled with what looks like
surveillance photos.
Different locations,
different people.
Anyone we know?
Yes.
You, agent callen.
Lapd ran the photos through
A facial recognition program.
Yours is the only one
that got a hit.
When they identified
Your classified status,
they called me.
Who was the victim?
Haven't been able
to identify her yet.
Someone's been watching you,
agent callen.
I need to know who.
Need to know why.
Anything you might have
forgotten to tell me about?
Not that it would explain this.
Lapd's on board with us being
involved in the investigation?
Full access.
I e-mailed eric their file,
Along with the contents
of the flash drive.
If you find anything
that links this
To you getting shot six months
ago, I need to know.
Do I need to write that down
for you, agent callen?
I think I get it.
Watch your back.
Eric:
Low-level encryption
On a usb drive.
Where do you want to start?
Uh Paparazzi.
It's good
a place as any.
That's near your
old apartment in venice.
Just before I got shot.
You said you felt like
you were being watched.
So they carried
out surveillance,
Pinpointed your
home location
And made the hit
right there on the street.
Mixed angles:
Some high from upper
story-level windows,
Some low
at the street level.
All shot with a telephoto lens.
Over how many days, g?
Two or three.
Eric, lapd file.
(computer trilling)
Kensi:
Crime scene photos
of our unidentified victim.
Furniture all seems
to be fold-and-carry,
So she brought it in herself.
Maybe the apartment was vacant.
Eric.
(gunshots)
G?
That's her.
The russian girl.
Who's the russian girl?
The last person I saw
before I got shot.
Eric:
A lot of surveillance
photos of the same guy.
Kensi:
None of them very clear.
Not a great photographer,
your russian girl.
Not a willing subject.
Can we find out when
they were taken, eric?
Yeah, the data's
embedded in the jpegs.
All right, oldest photo
was taken eight days ago,
And the most recent
was yesterday.
The day she died.
Long-term surveillance.
She was working
for someone.
Whoever this guy is, he doesn't
like having his picture taken.
Did you get enough
data to get a match
on his face, eric?
No.
I doubt it.
I mean,
he's either too far away,
Partially obscured or blurry.
But I will give it a shot.
Some of the photos
Were taken at a marina.
Including the photos of her.
Her body was found
in an apartment
In marina del rey, too.
Sam, kensi.
This mystery guy on the yacht--
All right, we're going to
have to try to sharpen up
These photos before
we run them through
facial recognition.
What did I miss?
Unnamed dead russian girl
who saw callen get shot.
Otherwise known as a "lead""
Callen's cold case
just got warmed up.
(typing)
Uh, I need access
to a personnel file.
Well, in your position
as our headshrinker,
You should already
have complete access.
I think my file's
a little out of date.
Ah.
What name?
Callen.
Hmm.
Ah.
(typing)
(computer trills)
Callen.
G.
Anything in particular
you're looking for?
The investigation
into callen's shooting.
Mm, still unsolved.
You worried this case
may open old wounds?
I'm hoping
we can help heal them.
November, alpha, forward slash,
Seven, nine, four.
(beeping)
Thanks.
You're welcome.
(sighs)
You sure you want to do this?
I'm fine.
Kensi:
Are you sure you're
allowed to do this?
Victim investigating
his own shooting?
It's not my shooting,
it's a russian girl's.
He'll keep investigating until
someone tells him he can't.
Someone I have to listen to.
Rules me out.
You never listen to me
even when you have to, g.
Name one time.
You're not listening to me now.
Yeah, I am.
No, you're not.
How long you two been married?
Thanks.
Kensi:
Unfurnished.
It's on the market.
Hmm
She was sitting here.
Back to the door.
Shooter came up from behind her.
See that blood spatter?
It starts low and then rises,
Which means she never stood up.
Excuse me.
Laptop power cable
And video lead right there.
Killer took the laptop
and the video camera with him.
Missed the micro drive that was
tucked away in her ball cap.
Oh, hello.
I've got three scuff marks here.
Camera was on a tripod
Right about Here.
The angle's about right.
The guy she was watching was on
one of those yachts out there.
Kensi: You know,
you can't just
Camp out in an apartment
without anybody knowing.
What about
the apartment manager?
He says he didn't know
she was here.
So where did she get a key?
Maybe she didn't
have one.
She could've snuck in.
Maybe she's a pro.
No, she's not a professional.
A pro wouldn't leave
their back to the front door.
No.
She had a key.
How many bedrooms?
Uh, just me.
Ocean view or marina?
What's the difference?
About $300.
A month?
No, a week, sweetie.
Look, I know some
cheap places on pico.
I'll get you the number.
Listen
I just need something
short-term.
I don't even have
any furniture.
I just
I just need a place to crash.
How short-term?
Three weeks.
It's going to have
to be cash in advance.
Okay.
Well, I got a vacancy.
New owner's moving in
in about a month.
$300 a week,
or we could work out
Some other sort of arrangement.
Less than 40 seconds.
What?
Less than 40 seconds!
She's good.
She's better
than good.
We owe ten bucks.
Callen:
Five apiece.
You're the one who bet her
she couldn't get him
To make an offer
in under a minute.
Yup.
And you stood there
and let me do it.
I'm not giving you
five dollars.
Oh, you're not?
No.
Mm-hmm.
She's good.
Who's that?
Ever heard of ncis?
No.
Fbi?
Dea, cia?
Look, this is
just a misunderstanding.
I was trying to help you out.
Just like you tried
to help out the russian girl
Who was found killed
in the apartment this week?
I guess you
forgot to tell
The lapd that, uh, you rented
her the apartment for cash.
Eh, freddy?
It's teddy.
Cute.
Eric:
Security footage
from the apartment building.
Hmm.
Funny how the apartment manager
Suddenly "remembered" he hadn't
deleted the security footage.
What did it cost her
for the room?
Her life.
Her body was found
Sunday evening.
Coroner placed her time of death
at 5:30 p.
M.
All right,
fast-forwarding
to Sunday.
Looking for our killer
leaving with her bag
And a camera tripod.
Kensi:
Whoa.
Gotcha.
All right, time stamp says 5:47.
That's got to be our guy.
Sam:
He's facing away from the camera
When he's leaving.
Let's see
he's looking when he arrives.
Hmm.
He knew the
camera was there.
He's a pro.
Yeah, he's good,
but he's not great.
He did leave
the usb drive behind.
Well, that's not the only thing
that he missed.
She was backing
up her files
Onto a virtual storage account.
From the apartment?
Tapped into the apartment's
wireless router.
Does she have a name?
User name only: Citizen25.
Eric:
Whoa, that is a lot
Of files to scroll through.
(sighs)
Okay, let's start
at the beginning.
You want to share, g?
File named cossack, dom.
And what's cossack?
Joint operation in europe
against the russian mafia.
Oh, boy.
Three-man team.
Ethan stanhope.
Callen:
He works for the cia.
Ricky taylor.
Dea.
Same as me.
Sam:
When?
Ten years ago.
Guys, guys,
I got something.
Stanhope and taylor
are both dead.
Murdered.
Stanhope in vegas.
Taylor in chicago.
And they were both killed
on the same day
Fifth of may.
(gunshots, people screaming)
sam:
G!
Stay with me, g.
Don't do this to me.
Come on!
The same day I should have died.
Traffic cam captured
Stanhope being shot
in las vegas.
Taylor's shooting in chicago
was also a drive-by,
Same as, um
Mine.
Anybody charged
for either ***?
No.
When's the last time you saw
those guys?
When we were debriefed
in berlin.
I haven't seen them
in ten years.
Did you ever
catch the bad guys?
No.
It was a joint operation
with russia.
There was a syndicate
Trying to manipulate the flow
of oil from the black sea
Into europe, and, uh,
Someone let them know
that we were coming.
How come dea was involved?
Loan out.
Taylor and I
both spoke fluent russian.
Cia set it up?
Stanhope was their point person.
But we only ever saw him
in the bar the bar,
You know, drinking expensive
*** and eating caviar.
Did you ever find
who betrayed you?
No.
Okay, so
Some russian girl gets killed
while running surveillance
On an unidentified guy
on a yacht,
Which is somehow connected
To an operation
in russia ten years ago.
Who was the russian contact
for operation cossack?
Arkady kolcheck.
He was an officer
in the kgb.
Last-known address
would be moscow.
Wait, the dead girl only had
files of people
That were targeted,
not anyone named kolcheck.
Eric, dead or alive?
Alive And well.
And as of 2007,
an american citizen living in
Studio city.
Makes you wonder where arkady
was on the fifth of may, huh?
Eric, I need that address.
Already downloaded
into your gps.
Dom, I really
Need to know who that was
on the yacht.
Dom: Working on it.
Kensi?
Yeah?
I need a profile on arkady--
everything you can get, okay?
His friends,
his business associates,
Allies, enemies
I want to know why
He left the kgb
in russia and who
he paid to get here.
Work with nate.
Okay.
Arkady kolcheck.
You know him?
We've met, uh, once or twice.
Read about him
in callen's file.
Was there a lot to read?
Ooh, pages.
And 90% of it
Was redacted, yeah.
Censored by
Whomever it is
who redacts things.
Okay, can we get
an uncensored copy?
Have you ever tried
egyptian licorice mint tea,
Miss blye?
(whispers):
Where does she get
all this stuff?
(whispers):
None of it's redacted,
not a single word.
What if she's the redactor?
There's a scary thought.
Hetty is the clearing
house for every censored
Government document
released to the public.
Th-that's impossible.
Yeah, ridiculous.
(clears throat)
Anyway, arkady's done
well for himself.
He's a security consultant
Retained by big business
and foreign governments alike.
Kensi:
And it pays well.
He's got properties
In new york city,
los angeles and paris.
So how does
a former kgb agent
End up so wealthy, so fast?
Hetty:
Because he knows where
The bodies are buried.
Most likely
Because he's the one
who buried them.
We got a plan?
Yeah, how about
we kick in his door
And ask him why
he's the only one of us
that didn't get shot?
I've used that one before;
it's a very effective plan.
It's good as long as you know
what's behind the door.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Always works.
(cell phone ringing)
Yes, eric?
Eric (on phone):
All right, good news
and bad news.
The bad news is that arkady's
house is state of the art.
It is seriously impressive.
He spent a small fortune
on security.
The grounds are covered
With a network of electronic
motion sensors
And microphones;
he's got infrared
And high-definition
daylight cameras.
And it's a closed system;
I can't even access it.
That's an impressive door.
Might have to kick
it a few times.
All right, good news?
Good news is, the car's equipped
with a gps device.
I hacked into it.
So he's on the move.
It is a maybach.
We're feeding it
to your gps.
It should show up
any second on your
screen as a red icon.
He's actually coming towards us.
Turning left into
Left into what?
I need a street name, g.
Where's he going?
I don't know, but
we're not going with him
If you don't tell me
which street to turn down.
Shopping.
He's going shopping.
Let's go shopping.
Okay.
Let's go shopping.
Sam:
Hmm, body guards are tight,
discipline.
Probably former military.
That's him?
That's him.
You got another plan?
I guess that's plan b, huh?
I got it.
Tanner, on your six.
I thought I recognized you.
Do I know you?
Nah, but you know my fiancée.
I'm sorry?
Oh, now you want to apologize?
"apologize"?
You didn't think
I'd find out, did you?
Hey, everyone, take a look
at this home-wrecker!
You ought to be
ashamed of yourself.
He's even got kids!
Back off, friend.
I'm not your friend
and I'm not his friend!
What is it with this guy?
I'm trying to tell him
I don't know him.
You got the wrong guy, buddy.
Joelene.
Tuesdays and fridays
In the storeroom
behind the florist shop!
Don't even try to deny it, man.
I got witnesses.
I don't know you.
And I don't know joelene.
A light mustache.
Big-legged joelene,
I don't know her.
With the jheri curls.
Oh, all of a sudden now,
you ashamed to know joelene?
She ain't good
enough for you?
That's my girl!
Nice car, arkady.
It's all right, alex.
Mr.
Callen is a friend
from the old days.
I heard you were dead.
Like stanhope and taylor?
Yeah And I alone,
unscathed.
You think I was responsible?
Were you?
No.
Give me a reason to believe you.
I sent someone to warn you.
I tried to warn stanhope
and taylor as well.
You sent who to warn me?
A russian girl.
Why didn't you
just warn me yourself?
I know you did not trust me
because of what happened
In moscow ten years ago.
So what makes you think
I would trust some russian girl?
You knew her.
When you were a boy, you used
to bounce her on your knee.
Her name was
Alina.
Her name was alina.
Nice crib,
arkady.
How did you know
about her?
You told me
ten years ago.
When I asked you where
you learned russian,
You said "from a little girl
Named alina rostoff.
"
I filed it away.
Is there anything
you don't file away?
(chuckles)
Everything is useful
sooner or later.
I heard rumors
That someone had targeted us.
I tried to contact everyone,
Warn them,
Tell them
to be careful.
Seen joelene?
But stanhope and taylor,
They had retired,
Lost to the dream you americans
so fervently pursue.
(chuckles)
You were the only one
left in the game, g.
So, I called in a favor,
Got an address
where you might be living.
I knew if she found you,
you would believe her.
You didn't think
I'd believe you?
(laughs)
Do you?
Not yet.
But I barely knew her.
I was 14;
she was four years old.
That's how she said
she would greet you.
And you would remember her.
She tried once.
I scared her away.
I
The-the-the second time,
it was too late.
She wept for you.
She thought you were dead.
We all did.
Callen was lucky.
Stanhope and taylor weren't.
So what does that make you,
arkady?
Prepared.
The day you were shot,
they came for me.
Since then, two more times.
They're beginning to annoy me.
Who are they?
You remember what
operation cossack was about?
Of course, the, uh,
Russian mafia was
being paid off to allow
the flow of russian oil
Into europe.
Our job was to try
And infiltrate the syndicate
And find out who was
being paid off.
And before we could even start,
we were betrayed.
Why come after you now?
Next week,
They are signing
a billion-dollar deal
Opening up the flow of oil
out of russia into europe.
They are legitimizing
their corruption.
The deal was
brokered by an american
in the oil business.
His name is john cole.
He works for the syndicate?
Maybe he is the syndicate.
For whatever reason,
someone believed it better
The four of us not be around
to see the deal signed.
And alina?
(sighs)
I had her find out everything
she could about cole.
She found out he liked
to stay on a yacht.
I set up surveillance.
So you used her.
I trained her.
'cause she was a pretty girl
She wanted to avenge you.
She waited.
She watched.
And then finally, there he was.
And one day later,
alina was dead.
Everything I know
about john cole.
It worries you how little
there is in his file.
Every time I come back to it,
I hope someone has
filled in the blanks.
But it's still
just a single page.
No family history.
No next of kin.
All the things
we take for granted.
You don't think I should let him
work this case.
I could put in an official
psychological assessment
To director vance
recommending he didn't.
And the director
would be obliged
To accept your
recommendation.
And I'd lose the trust
of everyone else on the team.
Nate.
What others may view as the most
inconsequential of things
Can be a revelation to callen.
A thread here,
a scrap there.
Maybe this time, a tiny piece
of the fabric of his life.
And if it goes badly?
Well, then you get
to tell me I was wrong.
The director gets
to rip me a new one.
(chuckles)
And callen?
Does what he's always done:
Survive.
Okay, let's see what
arkady has got for us.
Our mystery man
From the yacht has a name:
John cole.
Lives in the shadows.
He's got an oil refinery
company,
Which he bought
seven years ago.
Who's his friend?
His friend is
Max tyrus.
Could be a bodyguard.
Could be our killer.
Same height and build as the guy
in the apartment video.
So, eric, what else do we have?
Not a lot.
This guy has built some
Serious firewalls
around his personal life
And business operations.
He's even got his own server.
Current location?
Usual tricks are
coming up blank.
Cole is as close to invisible
as anyone I've ever seen.
He's not leaving an electronic
footprint anywhere.
That hand gesture
looked like a sign
of surrender, eric.
I, I was stretching my arms.
Forget about cole
for a second, okay?
Find max tyrus.
You find max
tyrus, you're gonna find cole.
(keyboard clacking)
(beeping)
okay, okay.
Luck's changing.
Max tyrus--
I got a cell phone number.
Gps is blocked.
Pulling up his call log.
(sighs)
Last call was made
from cole's refinery
To a jet charter company
Planning a trip.
When did arkady say
the deal's being signed?
End of the week.
Where?
Moscow.
Eric, call that charter company.
(auto dialing)
Man (on phone)
brad jet charter.
Yeah, hi,
I called about
Okay.
What's your name, please?
Yeah, max tyrus, it was
For west oil consolidated,
the charter to moscow.
Tyrus?
That's right.
Can you just confirm again
the details?
Departs 6:30.
And the return?
No return booked.
What am I thinking?
Of course.
Yeah, we'll be ready for you.
Thank you so much.
Leaves in less
than four hours.
Returning?
One way.
Guys, we don't have evidence
To stop him
from leaving the country.
We're going to get
one shot at this.
Sam:
You got a plan?
Well, he already
thinks I'm dead.
Let's see how he reacts
when he finds out I'm not.
Got to get in the oil refinery.
Attract his attention.
If I'm the owner
of an oil refinery,
Who do I fear the most?
Epa inspectors.
I do.
Epa guidelines
and credentials
To get you guys
through the gate.
Mm-hmm.
Nice.
And for us,
A button cam.
You don't know
what cole looks like.
Based on the photos,
he's kind of blurry looking.
Yeah, but he knows
what you look like,
Which means your cover is blown
the moment he sees you.
Yeah, but he also thinks
I'm dead,
Which gives me the advantage.
So you're going in as bait?
You're trying
to get him to react,
To attack you?
Yeah.
And if he does,
we've got him.
Do you have a problem, nate?
Look, the first few seconds
will be critical.
Just don't give him time
to think, or else he'll see
What you're trying to do,
and he won't react the way
You want him to.
Thanks.
I'm good?
Kensi.
(indistinct chatter)
I'm in.
Callen, good to go.
How're you doing?
Epa.
It's time
for your unscheduled
Health and safety
inspection.
I'm going to have to check you
for regulation compliance.
Okay.
Thank you, friend.
Hey.
Epa coming in.
We on the air, eric?
Picture's up.
Excuse me, ma'am?
Epa.
Yes, can I help you?
Is your boss here?
Through the breezeway,
first door on your right.
Thank you.
Yeah, I got 'em.
Excuse me.
This is the third epa
Inspection we've
had this year.
Ha!
Tell me about it.
It's new paperwork every time.
Personally, I think
it's overkill.
I mean, one report
With supplementals--
that's all it needs.
Unless there's an issue.
Kensi:
Oh, god, yeah.
Seriously, you don't
want an issue.
I mean, filling out
those e37s
I want to call your boss.
Won't stand in your way.
And I don't think you want
to stand in ours, either.
I'm going to need to see
all the usuals, okay?
The outflow reports,
The monitoring logs,
the test results
What's in here?
It's off-limits
to visitors.
You think we're visitors?
This is a working refinery.
And that's why we're here.
G, behind you.
Could be cole.
Man:
What seems to be the problem?
They said you were dead.
They said the same thing
about you.
Kensi, meet an old friend
from moscow:
Ethan stanhope.
Now known as john cole.
I think we just lost
the advantage.
You pay people
Good money, you expect them
to finish the job.
Maybe you can get a refund.
Must've cost you a lot
to falsify
A death certificate in vegas.
Who did they shoot anyway?
Someone no one
would miss.
World's full of them.
Couldn't afford
people asking
Why I had survived
when the rest of you hadn't.
Yeah, that's why I thought
arkady was behind this.
He said you tried to kill him,
you missed.
Two times.
Third time's a charm,
set for next week.
Well, I misjudged him.
Lots of people do.
Still fighting the
old enemy, you know?
Even though the curtain's down,
and the wall is rubble.
I need to remember
to apologize.
So this was all about the oil?
Deal's about
to be signed.
Gonna have to show myself,
go public.
And if any of those
three men saw you, then
Would have been embarrassing.
Not to mention costly.
What is the going rate
these days to sell out
To a russian crime syndicate,
ethan?
More than I'll ever spend.
How many hits did you take?
Five.
Thanks for asking.
I'll just need one.
Sam, you got a shot?
Yeah, but if it goes
through him, I'll hit
A gas storage tank.
You don't really think
we came here alone, do you?
My car's at the
back service gate.
Go!
(gunshots, bullets ricocheting)
(groaning)
(body thuds)
(grunts and groans)
Don't move!
Don't you move!
(cole groaning)
We good?
We're good.
Turn over, tough guy.
Turn over.
Turn over.
Put your hands
behind your back.
Not such a bad day after all.
Hard call.
But the right call.
Have you ever
counted up the homes before?
Thirty-seven.
From when he was five
To the age of 18,
He changed foster homes
every few weeks,
And sometimes every few days.
The longest he ever stayed
in one place
Was with alina rostoff's family.
Three months.
I checked.
The, uh, parents died years ago.
Alina stayed on
with the house, so
Three months.
Must have been
something special.
Don't you think?
As I live and breathe,
a convert.
I was tasting the paper.
Aha.
Anything exotic?
Just tea.
Well
Every journey starts
with a small step.
From arkady.
Through back channels.
Enjoy.
wish I was a normal man
a normal life
and a simple plan
a normal home
on a normal street
normal thoughts
and normal needs
but sometimes
I might get angry
wish I had a normal life
to have and hold
and do what's right
hi.
(giggling)
simple dreams
and bills to pay
children in a normal way
wish I had a normal life
wish I was a normal man
wish I was a normal man.