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Search and Destroy is the fourth episode of NCIS: Los Angeles Season One.

Synopsis[]

A former Marine arrives in Los Angeles with his arrival triggering a series of killings. As OSP hunts for the missing Marine who is a person of interest in the investigation in the murder of a prominent Iraqi businessman, Citdential, a private security firm muscles in on the case with their own private agenda...

Cast[]

Main Characters[]

Name Portrayed by Occupation
G. Callen Chris O'Donnell Special Agent-in-Charge, NCIS:OSP
Kensi Blye Daniela Ruah Special Agent, NCIS:OSP
Sam Hanna LL Cool J Special Agent, NCIS:OSP
Henrietta Lange Linda Hunt Operations Manager, NCIS:OSP
Nate Getz Peter Cambor Operational Psychologist, NCIS:OSP
Dominic Vail Adam Jamal Craig Special Agent, NCIS:OSP

Recurring Characters[]

Name Portrayed by Occupation
Eric Beale Barrett Foa Tech Operator, NCIS:OSP
Leon Vance Rocky Carroll Director of NCIS

Guest Characters[]

Name Portrayed by Notes
Walton Flynn Chris Tardio A Marine suspected of killing an Iraqi businessman.
Jim Rivers Rob Evors Intelligence Agent and friend of Hetty.
Cherise Dawson Jeanette Brox
Peter Caldwell Jonathan Adams
Adriano Carlson Jay Malone
Brent Duffy Isaiah Mustafa
Delores Fay Wolf
Aimes Antal Kalik Agent, uncredited
Tailor Arne Starr Uncredited
Airport Traveler Stephan Todd Uncredited

Detailed Summary[]

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Dom and Sam having a confrontation with two of Citdential security's agents.

Two men chase down another man in the LAX airport. The man being chased steals a car and in the process of his escape, he mows down one of the men chasing him with the car before getting out and running away on foot.

In the operations center, Eric celebrates his 1,000th friend on Facebook while Sam, Callen, and Nate discuss their own views on social media, or lack thereof. Hetty, meanwhile, rats out Callen for getting blood on a nice shirt from the wardrobe and tries to cover for Kensi who looks like she's coming from a late night.

Vance calls in and briefs the team on the case involving a former marine working for private security, Walton Monroe Flynn, who is also accused of killing an Iraqi businessman he was tasked to protect. The private security firm, Citdential, tried to catch him in the airport earlier, but failed and in the process, lost one of their own. While called in, Vance also congratulates Eric on his Facebook friend milestone.

Sam and Callen interview Citdential's CEO, Peter Caldwell who explains that Flynn became trigger happy and became involved in a series of bad habits. Caldwell elaborates that Flynn was part of security detail on Nasir Amini, an Iraqi business man, but snapped and killed him flying back to Los Angeles.

As the team examines the camera footage from LAX, Nate provides some insight regarding Flynn's background explaining that Flynn came from a broken home, had a string of foster homes, juvenile detention, but eventually landed in the marines. Nate also explains that Flynn most likely had a psychotic break possibly due to PTSD from his upbringing. As the team plays back the LAX footage, they spot a jeep with bumper stickers that looks to be waiting for Flynn and identify a person with Tabori-style tattoos. Eric further identifies a connection Flynn has to LA - his foster brother Chad Ellis, owns a gun shop.

Dom and Kensi head to Ellis' gun shop and find his dead body strung up, evidently tortured. Meanwhile, Callen and Sam follow up on the person with the tattoo and speak with Delores who identifies the tattoo as a work of her own. She gives mentions that the client was a woman named Cherry. Eric later cross-checks the name with the jeep on the DMV and identifies Cherise Dawson who went to the same high school as Flynn and is Facebook friends with him. Sam and Callen follow up on Cherise's residential address and place wires inside. Kensi and Dom follow up with Cherise at work and Kensi pretends to be someone from Cherise's high school. Kensi mentions Flynn's name and Cherise clams up which Kensi concludes that she's probably talked or visited her already.

The team waits, however the only action at Cherise's address comes in the form of two Citdential security agents looking for Flynn. Kensi stops them from exiting their vehicle by taking a battering ram to their front engine. With out any leads, the team decides to become more proactive and send Callen undercover as a coworker.

Eric sets up Callen with a resume and some leverage on the head of the company, Adriano Carlson, while Hetty provides him the wardrobe. Callen makes it through the interview by using Eric's leverage which turns out to be a creatively put-together tax return. At his desk, Callen calls in for a distraction from his lackluster gaming skills so his cover doesn't get blown so Eric shuts down the electricity in the building. Meanwhile, Sam is rigging Cherise's jeep for car trouble outside but gets stuck underneath the car next to Cherise's to hide from being spotted. Callen manages to distract the car Sam is stuck under enough so Sam can get away and diagnosing Cherise's car troubles as she can't seem to get the jeep started. Callen gives Cherise a ride home and briefly makes small talk until Flynn arrives unexpectedly. Flynn and Callen briefly talk as well before Citdential employees show up and exchange gunfire with Sam, Callen and Flynn. Flynn escapes, and Cherise and Callen talk more. Cherise reveals that Flynn wanted her to decrypt a SIM card for him but she couldn't. Flynn calls Cherise then and asks to speak with Callen proclaiming his innocence and needing to cut the head off the snake.

Back at the operations room, Eric is working on pulling the data off the SIM card while Callen notices that Citdential's logo is a snake and concludes that Flynn is going to try to take down Caldwell. Sam, Callen, Kensi, and Dom head to Caldwell's location and spot Flynn aiming a gun at Caldwell. Caldwell's security team aims back at Flynn while Sam, Callen, and Kensi are trying to defuse the situation. Eric reports that they managed to pull the video from the SIM card and show it on a billboard screen in the area of where Caldwell, Flynn, and the team are. The video reveals that it was Caldwell who shot the Iraqi businessman Amini, not Flynn.

Eric reveals that the video is from Flynn's mini camera that was mounted on Flynn's gun and Caldwell was trying to set Flynn up to take the fall and Callen takes Flynn into protective custody.

Major Events[]

Trivia[]

External Links[]

CBS Press Release for Episode 1.04

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