"Before she can finish her next sentence he takes her face in his hands and kisses her. He pulls away and asks, "How's that for communication?" She looks at him surprised. She takes his jacket collar, pulls him in closer, and kisses him again. They pull away and looking in his eyes and in a sultry voice she asks, "Is Quinn an agent?" He appears stunned by her question. She lets go of his jacket and slaps him hard across the face.
Day - Siderov's safe house.
Siderov yells, "Is Quinn an agent?"
Andros lifts Deeks' head off his chest and slaps him. Deeks doesn't react, he mumbles incoherently.
Andros moves in to hit Deeks again.
"Enough." says Siderov impatiently looking at Deeks and then Sam. He looks at Andros with determination. "We've got to prepare to make the meet. Besides if he is who he says he is," gesturing towards Deeks, "LAPD will start wondering why he hasn't checked in. Come."
Once Siderov and Andros are gone Deeks slowly lifts his head and makes eye contact with Sam through the glass door. Sam looks over at him and lets out a sigh of relief.
Day - On the 30th floor of the office building.
Kensi fires two shots in the direction of Siderov's Russian "friends." They quickly turn away from the shattered window and run off towards the stairs. Kensi, heading towards the broken window, yells for Michelle. She hears Michelle screaming from outside the window and looks down to see her hanging from a sheet of plastic. Kensi places her gun in the small of her back, peers over the edge of the broken out window then immediately begins pulling Michelle up and into the safety of the room.
"Are you okay?" Kensi asks as they both lay on the floor catching their breath. Michelle nods.
"Ms. Blye, you must stop those two women. They must not contact Siderov. Is that understood?" Hetty says through Kensi's earwig.
"We need to stop them, they cannot get away." Kensi says as she stands up and begins running in the direction of the two women. Michelle grabs the gun that was lost during the scuffle with the dark haired Russian and follows Kensi to the elevators.
Kensi and Michelle arrive on the ground floor. As the elevator doors open a peppering of gun fire makes them scatter to the inner edges of the elevator. They peek around the open elevator door just in time to see the two Russian women head out the exterior door of the office building to their motorcycles. The blond Russian turns around and fires her gun in the direction of Kensi and Michelle as the brunette continues running to her motorcycle. Kensi rolls to the ground, aims her gun and shoots the blond dead. Kensi sees the brunette get on her motorcycle and take off. "I'm going after the other one on the bike, follow me in the SUV." Kensi yells at Michelle as she heads off in pursuit of Veronica.
Michelle jumps into the SUV and follows Kensi. Her hands tight on the steering wheel and foot heavy on the gas pedal she doesn't want to lose Kensi.
Kensi can see Veronica a quarter a mile in front of her. She down shifts and twists the throttle knowing that she can't afford to lose her. Veronica is ignoring lights and pedestrians leaving a trail of near misses and car crashes in her wake. Veronica is heading east out of LA through dangerous twists and turns. Kensi weaves in and out of the collateral damage that Veronica has left behind on the roadway and finally catches up to her, but Veronica speeds up and pulls away. Suddenly Veronica loses control on a sharp curve when her back tire kicks out and she crashes to the road. Veronica and her bike finally tumble to a stop on the hard shoulder. Kensi screeches to a halt a few feet from Veronica. Training her gun on Veronica, Kensi cautiously gets off her bike and walks over to where Veronica is holding onto her injured knee and swearing at Kensi in Russian.
"NCIS, keep your hands where I can see them!" Kensi kicks Veronica's nearby gun away. Michelle drives up, gets out, and aims her gun at Veronica. Kensi puts her gun away and frisks Veronica roughly, not overly concerned with her injuries. Kensi finds no other weapons and takes Veronica's cell phone. Using zip ties Kensi secures Veronica's hands behind her back leaving her laying on the hard shoulder of the road.
OSP - Day
"I'm putting you on speaker." says Nell.
"Agent Hannah, Kensi, we think Sam has been compromised. Siderov has taken him and Detective Deeks to an unknown location." Hetty says calmly.
Both women are shocked, realization of the repercussions of that clearly written on each of their faces.
Kensi can't believe this is happening. "Deeks? How did he get taken?"
"Sam got into some trouble and Detective Deeks went in to help him."
"We must find him – them." Michelle corrects herself with a rise in panic evident in her voice.
"Our first priority is to the mission Ms. Hanna." Granger says firmly.
Hetty looks at him knowingly, but still shocked. To Michelle and Kensi, "We will do all that we can to find Sam and Detective Deeks - and find the nukes at the same time."
"We will do what we can, but we will not compromise the mission. We want those nukes. Agent Hannah and Detective Deeks are secondary to the mission. We all need to be clear on that."
Ignoring Granger. "I need to talk to Siderov." says a determined Michelle.
"Agent Hannah, we're not sure if Sam and Detective Deeks have been made and if they have you could just as easily be made as well. I understand your concern, but we need to tread lightly and carefully if we want to see both our agent and detective back alive." Hetty says with the voice of reason.
"If one of them has broke and you go back to Siderov it will not end well." Granger says.
"Sam won't break. He's trained for this." Michelle says.
There's dead silence from all parties. Michelle looks at Kensi. Granger and Hetty glance at each other as do Nell and Eric.
"Deeks won't break either." says Kensi determined. "I'll stake my life on it."
"We'd actually be staking Ms. Hannah's life on it, Ms. Blye." Hetty says.
"I'm telling you, he won't break. He's too loyal, not to mention stubborn. I know him." Kensi says with a catch in her throat.
"Sooner or later everyone breaks." Granger says sadly.
"All the more reason to find them now." Kensi says in an agitated and lower voice. She looks at Veronica, "Hold on a minute," and walks over to where Veronica is laying down.
Kensi, angry and determined, leans over Veronica. In a voice unfamiliar to even herself she says, "Does Siderov have other property in LA?"
"I don't know."
"Where is he keeping the nukes?"
"I don't know."
Kensi slowly pans down Veronica's broken body. She picks out the most injured area and slowly steps onto Veronica's mangled knee until Veronica screams in pain.
"What other building have you been to with Siderov?"
Veronica stares at Kensi with intense hatred, but doesn't say anything.
Kensi takes pressure off of Veronica's knee, takes a step back, and draws out her gun holding it at her side. "I need to know if Siderov has other property in the LA area."
"I told you . . . I – don't - know."
Kensi takes a breath, casually looking up and down the highway, and then looking at Michelle. Michelle nods to her. Kensi looks back at Veronica.
"You won't shoot me." Veronica says smugly.
"I'm not asking again." Kensi says in a monotone voice and waits. Veronica says nothing but she is clearly afraid. Kensi raises her gun and aims it at Veronica's chest . . .
Hetty, softly through Kensi's comm. "Kensi."
Kensi redirects her aim to the ground just off Veronica's shoulder and quickly fires.
Veronica jumps which causes her more pain."Okay, okay." she yells.
Kensi brings her gun down to the side of her leg,"Where?"
Veronica doesn't say anything.
Kensi moves closer and aims her weapon at Veronica's chest and says calmly. "This time (pause) I won't miss."
"A warehouse, 451 West Commerce."
"Eric?"
"Got it, Kens. Sending you GPS coordinates.
(As Hetty leaves OPS) "Mr. Beal I want that audio and video from when Ms. Blye gets off her bike to its conclusion on my desk in 5 minutes. . . no copy. Is that clear?"
(Glances at Nell) "Crystal."
