NCIS: Los Angeles

- Season 5

(2013)

G, Kensi, and the office crew continue to pursue the wrongdoers and the missing nuclear bombs while Sam and Deeks remain in custody; later the team gather on a helipad, where they hold a shootout; a NEST team seizes the bombs.

An aircraft crashes in Burbank, killing a retired vice admiral, erudite and outspoken, and the ghostwriter for his tell-all memoirs; the team realize the enormous proportions involved; Nate and Kensi talk with Sam and Deeks; Sam returns.

Deeks returns; in LA the CEO of a biotech firm dies in an explosion of his car; the firm does research for a vaccine against the deadly ricin virus; the G team figure out the bombing and a theft by extortion, and they catch the bad guys.

Someone abducts a German immigrant man; Hetty sends G to Camp Pendleton; everyone else on the team starts working on the abduction; G tails them and joins them; Arkady lends a hand; the gang figure out some of it, and Hetty tells the rest.

In broad daylight three bad guys forcibly abduct Robin, the girlfriend of William, a recently discharged Naval intelligence officer, who specialized in the design of highly classified drone navigation; G and Sam find William in his office, and Nell joins them; a bad guy calls William, so the foursome converge on a building just in time for an explosion; Eric belatedly catches an important clue; William and Oscar, his business associate, make admissions; the foursome rush a rural shack and wipe out the kidnappers, but they do not find Robin, whom Nell then sees at ...

A joint task force (involving the CIA, FBI, and NCIS) raid a meeting in a house in an attempt to capture members of the Molina drug cartel and the Al Qaeda; however, they walk into an ambush; the new SecNav, suspecting a mole or other leak, directs the Callen team to investigate and correct; at the boatshed Kensi and Deeks interview four participants in the raid; Eric determines that the problem is not a mole but rather a hacker, which, Hetty says, is even worse; on the cellphones of two agents Eric discovers the hacker's malware, which allowed the hacker to intercept...

Two trespassers kill a security guard in a rail yard in LA; Hetty expresses concern about terrorism; the team soon target the rail company; a recently fired brakeman hijacks a train; the team solve the puzzle, and Sam prevents a disaster.

At a research facility of the US Department of Energy in Los Angeles, an intruder steals electronic data and leaves, then a third thug shoots the thief and his wheelman, then a security guard intervenes, and the third bad guy shoots the guard while the wheelman escapes, leaving the thief and the guard on the pavement and taking the stolen data; the guard was a retired Marine gunnery sergeant; the data pertains to an antiterrorism nuclear-detection system. G and Sam visit the home of the wheelman, whom they find dead; G and Sam visit the injured guard; Nell does a ...

A lieutenant commander in Naval intelligence dies at an upscale addiction-rehab villa in Malibu, near Los Angeles; Kensi and Deeks go undercover at the spa; Eric and Nell give much help; the team solve the case and prevent a major tragedy.

A masked intruder decapitates a Pentagon consultant in Bahrain and steals a flash drive containing top-secret data; the drive turns up in Hollywood; a Gurkha works with the team; they find the answers and eventually the drive as well.

A Romanian suspected war criminal and human trafficker has lived 20 years in the LA area; he eludes the FBI; the G team help to find and seize him; a CIA guy adds facts; against orders the threesome grab him; Kensi arrives in Afghanistan.

An intruder attacks a senator's daughter, but she eludes him; the senator has led an investigation of certain activities of a unit of the Chicom Army; the G team find much action and the real reason; Hetty makes gifts to Kensi and to Deeks.

A man dies in an explosion of his car; he's an undercover agent of the US Department of the Treasury, who investigated an ancient Middle Eastern technique for anonymous transfers of funds; the team solve the puzzle and prevent a tragedy.

Two dead bodies show up in an alley; the LAPD calls the G team; the vics were former military and former employees of the private contracting firm linked to a previous story; Nell goes into the field and does well; the team solve the case.

At a consulate in LA a thug kills the envoy and two security men; he tries to lay the blame elsewhere; G and Sam go to Mexico City, take part in a rumble, and return with an old friend.

At a fish market in LA an explosion kills two employees; G, Sam, and Deeks look for evidence of international terrorism; while working with a DEA agent, the team solve the case and find the bad guys; Kensi overseas takes a shot but misses.

In LA a local gang torture and execute an ATF undercover agent, who worked with the US Navy on a joint task force; G and Sam find the body and a clue, which leads to a club, where the team solve the case, find a leak, and take care of it.

While Eric and a buddy, Ira, play an online game, a sniper opens fire on Ira's pad, and thugs break in; the G team look into security involving Russia and Chechnyan separatists; the team safely work out everything. Kensi remains in trouble.

Hetty, suspecting that Kensi has become a prisoner of Taliban insurgents, sends G, Sam, and Deeks to aid her; G, Sam, and Granger overcome trouble and find Kensi and another; Deeks produces help; all works out; the gang prepare to go home.

In LA two Iraqis demand money from a discharged Marine, who's also a former security contractor from Iraq and a recently released federal prisoner; the Callen team find surprises, explanations, and bad guys; Kensi returns to field work.

G and Sam abduct an undercover NCIS agent suspected of having turned to the side of the smuggler whom he's investigated; Kensi and Deeks play head games with the agent, G and Sam play them with the suspect, and the teams win on all counts.

At an avionics firm in LA four armed thugs steal a flash drive containing software pertaining to a drone for the US Navy; Sam knows the lead engineer on the drone project; the G team figure out everything and find the bad guys and a child.

During a Marine-sponsored charity-benefit volleyball tournament at Venice Beach, a car bomb explodes, killing two and injuring 29; promptly an aggressive TV reporter, Dana, says on the air that, according to sources, an Iran-based Islamic militant group, the JLF, is responsible for the bomb. One honcho at the DoHS firmly denies that the JLF is responsible; G and Sam lean on Dana, who gives a name; Eric finds another lead; Eric and Nell exchange notes; Kensi and Deeks chat with a man who believes in alien creatures who watch everyone; G and Sam make a productive stop ...

While investing the death of a missing submarine officer, which first resembles a suicide, the G team find conflicting clues and other evidence; G and Sam discover a distinctive vessel, they board it, and it gets underway. [Continued.]