The matter was social attitudes towards sexual id.
That none-too-subtle message was woven all through NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 Episode 14.
Not that there is something mistaken with that.
Of course, the episode directed by Daniela Ruah took some time to get to that time. It started merely as an investigation of a sailor’s mysterious demise.
It was amusing that the OSP was tasked with that mission as a result of Lucy Tara, the Allegiance’s former agent afloat, had returned to her submit on NCIS: Hawaii.
This circumstance meant that the L.A. workplace would sort out the query of why three sailors had dedicated suicide on the Allegiance in latest months.
Kilbride appeared to take this spate of suicides personally. It appeared like one thing he had handled earlier than throughout his prolonged profession.
What wasn’t evident was why Kensi felt the necessity to tear into Chief Adebayo, the useless sailor’s supervising officer.
Yes, Adebayo had a few complaints about her hard-nosed management type on file. But you’ll assume that sort of feminine officer would have been one which Kensi would respect, not denigrate.
Whatever her cause, Kensi’s strategy saved that preliminary interview with Adebayo from being in any respect productive.
Fortunately, forensics rapidly put the investigation again heading in the right direction. When Wassner’s suicide notice proved faux, his demise went from suicide to homicide.
That meant neither working situations on the Allegiance nor Abedayo’s management had something to do with Wassner’s demise.
Also, Wassner’s widow famous that Adebayo had been an enormous supporter of her husband prior to now.
Which made Kensi really feel horrible about her earlier assault on Adebayo. But Adebayo refused Kensi’s apology, accepting some blame for Wassner’s demise. Once she discovered Wassner was murdered, Adebayo even equipped a suspect to be checked out.
This new suspect, Bradshaw, instantly led to a different false lead for his connection to Fryer, a bar proprietor receiving cash from China.
It positive appeared like espionage at that time. However, when Sam and Rountree confronted Fryer, issues turned towards the reality.
The cash from China was a reimbursement of a mortgage from his twin brother, a instructor in that nation.
Also, Fryer ran a speakeasy behind his bar for closeted, homosexual navy personnel and celebrities. Bradshaw was an everyday at his institution.
So why was Bradshaw close to the place Wassner was discovered on the night time he died, an space the place he wasn’t licensed to be?
It turned out that Wassner was a sufferer of an archaic navy coverage, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
This coverage began through the Clinton Administration and lasted for 20 years.
The coverage prohibited navy personnel from discriminating in opposition to or harassing closeted gay or bisexual service members or candidates whereas barring brazenly homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual individuals from navy service.
Bradshaw’s lover, Chief Hughes, who had hidden his sexual desire and endured “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” for his complete navy profession, unintentionally killed Wassner to maintain him quiet.
For all his youthful brokers baffled about why this was even a problem, Kilbride gave his group perspective, speaking about all those that had been pressured from the navy merely for being homosexual.
That speak impressed Sam to return to Kam’s house for a critical dialogue together with her.
After abusing Rountree throughout some coaching, poor Sam took a time off to spend with Kam.
Yet, as shut as the daddy and daughter sometimes are, one thing gave the impression to be off this time.
Kam could not be bothered along with his go to as she was tied up with a paper that was due.
Then it got here up that she had damaged up together with her boyfriend, Josh, but she hadn’t instructed Sam about that. It was evident that Kam was hiding one thing necessary from him.
So Sam should have been relieved when Kilbride put him again to work as muscle when Rountree went to interview Fryer.
Sam is a detective who had already established that Kam had damaged up with Josh and was now courting a lady. It additionally was heartwarming how he defined to her that he would all the time be there for her, no matter her sexual desire was.
Then, for much-needed comedian reduction, we acquired an replace on Anna and Callen’s marriage ceremony “planning,” to make use of the time period loosely.
The all the time perky Rosanna Pansino (Baketopia) made this storyline work. Her Tara took the thought of planning a marriage so severely, and she or he gave Callen and Anna a much-needed wake-up name, a lot as Fatima had been attempting to do for Callen already.
Since they plan to have a marriage in only a few months, they need to start agreeing on the assorted elements essential for the ceremony and reception.
It wasn’t stunning that Callen had given little thought to this. G’s work has all the time come first.
But you’ll have thought Anna, together with her schedule extra open, would have given extra thought to the event. But she appeared simply as unprepared as Callen, which was scary.
Since their marriage ceremony is probably going the sequence finale, it is acquired to be an enormous occasion. Despite what Callen recommended, elopement is not an choice for this couple.
To revisit Sam and Kam’s relationship, watch NCIS: Los Angeles on-line.
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