Lovely Episode. Like a movie. Enjoyable every minute. It has romance, bromance, partnership, action, emotion, good versus bad, conflict everything required of an action movie. One of the mellowing and cool episode of the season.
The Train Sequence all reminded me of the movie Broken Arrow.
And the other highlight was that Deeks and Kensi after 6 episodes into season 5 after their kiss, actually are not only comfortable with each other, their flirting is not just limited to resorting to verbal affronts, but they are also being physically comfortable with each other. Like last episode, they still could tease each other but very subtly and without looking into each other's eyes while talking. However in this episode, they have no bar kind of interaction with each other. The flirting did become physical and to an extent permissible dirty talk. But what was more interesting to me was Deeks gesturing Kensi to come close to watch from the glass what he was looking(@jeremy). He actually trustingly calls her and holds her like she would listen to him, then later Kensi puts her hand over Deeks back when they are cuffing Bellamy at the Bus Stand. They looked very very comfortable away from Callen and Sam, away from Bull Pen and Ops room eyes. They were doing their job and also enjoying each other's company as if that was altogether a different plane.
There are few hits and misses like why Deeks thinks Capricorn is a Ram when it is not and Kensi already called it a Goat, why no one was picking up Bellamy's gun and why it has to be the last second when Sam finds the explosive and defuses it....the Editing was by Eric Wilson and it is great but it was too close.
The greatest emotional moment to me was the mother hugging Callen. There was so much I felt for that mother and son, who were so apart and so instead the mother hugs the nearest person available and the son just watches the mother. To think of it, although Mitch broke the law, I did feel upset that had to do his 2 month prison term for violations ..and so what happens to his life long ambition to become the engineer and his passion for trains. Hope he gets his job back. Callen was such a support there. Loved the scene.
Joe Sachs
Seeing him from last two seasons since Season 3 when he joined the team, I am seeing that Joe Sachs has good grip on the NCIS LA characters. He knows all of them. He is the Consulting Producer for the show and previously worked as the writer for ER along with R Scott Gemmill. He is a doctor by profession, but writes stories on varieties of subjects. On the NCIS interpersonal dynamics, he takes care of the partnership dynamics without compromising the story needs. He adds resolution of the emotion towards the actions that the characters perform. The reason in terms of the emotion is addressed and depicted. On the story side, he picks up sensitive movies or books and along the same sensitive lines, develops his story, using the same title albeit weaving the story differently. In his stories, the subjects are very important. They are responsible but frustrated human beings trying to make a point, fighting the system as the Higher Power governing them has cheated them, failing to protect them and instead doing the exact opposite for believing in them. They are remorseful of their drastic action that they are reduced to take and would not wanted to take this approach, but feel that they have reason enough to go for the drastic step to teach the lesson to the Higher Power. His stories are poignant portrayals of ideals gone wrong, passions and dreams of people belied and the individuals effort to make it good, fighting with the last straw they have.
So far I have liked all Joe Sachs stories. In this story, Joe Sachs has taken the title from Barbara Garson’s book, “All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work” and David Fenster’s movie “The Livelong Day” The movie is actually based on Trains and is about passionate people for whom Train is a way of life, who cannot see Trains being taken away from them.
The Train Sequence all reminded me of the movie Broken Arrow.
And the other highlight was that Deeks and Kensi after 6 episodes into season 5 after their kiss, actually are not only comfortable with each other, their flirting is not just limited to resorting to verbal affronts, but they are also being physically comfortable with each other. Like last episode, they still could tease each other but very subtly and without looking into each other's eyes while talking. However in this episode, they have no bar kind of interaction with each other. The flirting did become physical and to an extent permissible dirty talk. But what was more interesting to me was Deeks gesturing Kensi to come close to watch from the glass what he was looking(@jeremy). He actually trustingly calls her and holds her like she would listen to him, then later Kensi puts her hand over Deeks back when they are cuffing Bellamy at the Bus Stand. They looked very very comfortable away from Callen and Sam, away from Bull Pen and Ops room eyes. They were doing their job and also enjoying each other's company as if that was altogether a different plane.
There are few hits and misses like why Deeks thinks Capricorn is a Ram when it is not and Kensi already called it a Goat, why no one was picking up Bellamy's gun and why it has to be the last second when Sam finds the explosive and defuses it....the Editing was by Eric Wilson and it is great but it was too close.
The greatest emotional moment to me was the mother hugging Callen. There was so much I felt for that mother and son, who were so apart and so instead the mother hugs the nearest person available and the son just watches the mother. To think of it, although Mitch broke the law, I did feel upset that had to do his 2 month prison term for violations ..and so what happens to his life long ambition to become the engineer and his passion for trains. Hope he gets his job back. Callen was such a support there. Loved the scene.
Joe Sachs
Seeing him from last two seasons since Season 3 when he joined the team, I am seeing that Joe Sachs has good grip on the NCIS LA characters. He knows all of them. He is the Consulting Producer for the show and previously worked as the writer for ER along with R Scott Gemmill. He is a doctor by profession, but writes stories on varieties of subjects. On the NCIS interpersonal dynamics, he takes care of the partnership dynamics without compromising the story needs. He adds resolution of the emotion towards the actions that the characters perform. The reason in terms of the emotion is addressed and depicted. On the story side, he picks up sensitive movies or books and along the same sensitive lines, develops his story, using the same title albeit weaving the story differently. In his stories, the subjects are very important. They are responsible but frustrated human beings trying to make a point, fighting the system as the Higher Power governing them has cheated them, failing to protect them and instead doing the exact opposite for believing in them. They are remorseful of their drastic action that they are reduced to take and would not wanted to take this approach, but feel that they have reason enough to go for the drastic step to teach the lesson to the Higher Power. His stories are poignant portrayals of ideals gone wrong, passions and dreams of people belied and the individuals effort to make it good, fighting with the last straw they have.
So far I have liked all Joe Sachs stories. In this story, Joe Sachs has taken the title from Barbara Garson’s book, “All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work” and David Fenster’s movie “The Livelong Day” The movie is actually based on Trains and is about passionate people for whom Train is a way of life, who cannot see Trains being taken away from them.
This what I found on the web.
The Movie : In THE LIVELONG DAY, we see three generations of train enthusiasts gather to pilot one of the largest, most obsessively realistic model railroads in the world. They are nostalgics and romantics, mourning the vanishing of railroad culture and craftsmanship while striving to maintain it at 1/87 scale.
Screening History:
LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
ROOFTOP FILMS (New York, NY)
PDX FILM FESTIVAL (Portland, OR)
BAD LIT Mike Everleth
“The Livelong Day paints a sensitive and intimate portrait of the model train enthusiast. At the end of the film, we may not feel connected to living the train lifestyle, but we at least can comprehend, understand and appreciate it on an emotional level.”
The Book : All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work
The essential argument underlying this book is that human beings want to work. We love work. Work is part of our nature. But human beings don't work with the unstoppable fervor of machines, so the people who dole out work have tried to compress us into the role of industrial robots.
Barbara Garson doesn't pretend to be impartial. She's outspokenly socialist, believing that the people who do jobs are best capable of judging how those jobs ought to be done. She is not looking for a free hand in the world, and she's not looking to loaf on the clock. But when work is stripped of its inherent meaning and reduced to trivial repetetive twists and pulls, this necessarily strips the workers of some of their noble humanity.
Episode
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5x07 - The Livelong Day
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The Livelong Day means the day in its entirety that never ends and gets more and more testing...
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Writer
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Joe Sachs
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Seeing him from last two seasons since Season 3 when he joined the team, I am seeing that Joe Sachs has good grip on the NCIS LA characters. He knows all of them. He is the Consulting Producer for the show and previously worked as the writer for ER along with R Scott Gemmill. He is a doctor by profession, but writes stories on varieties of subjects. On the NCIS interpersonal dynamics, he takes care of the partnership dynamics without compromising the story needs. He adds resolution of the emotion towards the actions that the characters perform. The reason in terms of the emotion is addressed and depicted. On the story side, he picks up sensitive movies or books and along the same sensitive lines, develops his story, using the same title albeit differently. In his stories, the subjects are very important. They are responsible human beings trying to make a point, fighting the system. They are remorseful and would not wanted to take this approach, but feel that they have reason enough to go for the drastic step to teach the lesson. His stories are poignant portrayals of ideals gone wrong, passions and dreams of people belied and the individuals effort to make it good, fighting with the last straw they have.
So far I have liked all Joe Sachs stories.
In this story, Joe Sachs has taken the title from Barbara Garson’s book, “All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work” and David Fenster’s movie “The Livelong Day” The movie is actually based on Trains and is about passionate people for whom Train is a way of life, who cannot see Trains being taken away from them.
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Director
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Dennis Smith
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The entire episode was lovely to watch. Only thing magical and incredible was Sam finding the bomb and defusing it in the last second and diving off the tracks to save himself. It was quite close. But what can we say? it was screeplay and story as written by Joe Sachs.
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Episode Summary
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A railway track gaurd gets killed and an Arabic Allahu Akbar slogan is heard, suggesting to NCIS that it might be case of terrorism.
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Mitch Rome is the Train Brakesman for FWRY Railroads. He has always loved trains and wanted to be the engineer.He was to be promoted as the engineer when he is fired on charges of Marijuana intake and causing an accident. Its a false charge on Mitch Rome by his company as he was being the whistle-blower to his corporation when he was sending letters to them to stop running the freight trains carrying dangerous chemicals from busy downtown areas against the FRA guidelines. His employers instead of listening to his pleas, fire him and then hire a detective Anthony Tregor to end him. Anthony Tregor successfully frames Mitch Rome in the Train Gaurd killing case along with Bellamy, convinces Bellamy to blow up the train that Mitch Rome was planning to hijack. Mitch Rome has only one intention- to make people hear and see what he is saying. He wants to make a point by stopping the train in busy down-town area. Alas his train brakes are failed and he cannot do that.
The NCIS team helps him in two ways, 1) clearing him of marijuana intake and finding evidence of how his employers framed him 2) preventing the disaster that he set on the sabotaged train when he started his mission.
His mother and him are actually good people. The son gets caught in the employers punishing him for doing his job. His plight is like Barbara Garsen’s Book “All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work”. Mitch’s work is demeaned by his own employees when they should have been proud of him for doing the job correctly.
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NCIS Personnel Highlights and Bull Pen Fun
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Its Mercury Retrogade and Trains
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Deeks and Mercury Retrogade chanting - somehow there are too many coincidences to dismiss it altogether. Deeks love for trains. Eric’s Train Whistle. And Hetty’s excitement for the same train that Deeks likes.
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Ops Manager
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Hetty Lange
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Hetty as the Ops Manager. Nothing much to do when she has Callen undertaking it all admirably, so just teases Deeks in the beginning about his mercury retrogade and in the ending ruining Deeks efforts to run the train. Though she does share his excitement at the Prairie Tac train.
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Bull Pen Partnership -1
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G Callen & Sam Hanna
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The usual Bromance. From this episode onwards SCallen partnership takes larger proportions. Sam is the saviour as he relentless goes about his task of finding the bomb hidden in the tracks. With 30 seconds left for the train to come where he is, Sam defuses the bomb within that 30 seconds, preventing the disaster that could have affected 100 thousands of people in the city. Sam remains true to his character….never leaving the mission until it is completed.
Callen shines as the able leader, directing the team of Sam, Deeks-Kensi, Eric-Nell. He is the one talking to Mitch Rome along with his mother trying to talk him down to change his plan, only to find that Mitch Rome’s train brakes are sabotaged. Later when team is asked to finish their reports, again like a good team lead brings coffee for everyone and explains to all why they need to finish the work right on that night.
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Partnership -2
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Marty Deeks and Kensi Blye
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Fruitful partnership and important for the case. They investigate Mitch Rome’s apartment, witness his passion for trains and also see Gil Bellamy’s bombs, get to see Anthony Tregor snooping on Mitch Rome’s apt, go undercover as FRA employees to get evidence from the train company that Mitch Rome works for, nab Gil Bellamy from the Bus Station and bring him to Boat Shed to interrogate. They do a good job.
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Ops Room Partnership
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Eric Beale- Tech Operator
Nell Jones - Intelligence Analyst
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Critically important team. And nice work. Neither overplayed not underplayed. Just the right balance.
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Love Story
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Densi
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Deeks finally is making effort to get closer to Kensi on the personal level. Its almost as if Deeks is playing his cards well with the girl he is interested in. He is collecting all characteristic information on Kensi through horoscope and actually talking to her , touching her, teasing her. He is comfortable and enjoys his undercover Ops with her. [He is wrong though. Ram is Aries and Goat is Capricorn. Kensi was right.Kensi has zodiac & astrological planetary knowledge than Deeks.] The only difference between this Deeks and season 4 Deeks interested in Kensi is that this Deeks is softer and actually treats Kensi as a princess. There are no rough edges to his banter with her even if he is having fun with her. The closeness between the two starts looking like dancing and talking...just that in their case, they are agents in action. We can notice how Deeks gets smiley and has musical and musing tones while talking to Kensi. Its like he is trying to create a symphony with her. All the Densi scenes are enjoyable. Cannot miss any one of them.
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PTSD
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Marty Deeks
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The last of PTSD exposition from the writers. Deeks PTSD is completely cured. The PTSD symptoms are actually enacted by Deeks in his undercover role. Deeks plays the undercover part of FRA employee Matthew Dunkins who suffers from OCD and has anxiety issues on a simple case as Fire alarm ringing. Deeks in clear contrast is far recovered from PTSD issues.
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Others/GK
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Trains, FRA,
| CIA Detention and Rendition Programs referred. Throws light on what techniques National Security Agencies use. It is well known worst ever program started by CIA under Bush Administration and even continued now. More to be written by me...later. |
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In crew's terms this is known as 505-102
The Production Crew has different numbers than what later became the air sequence. Season 4 Production Schedule had an extra episode shot which was telecasted as Unwritten Rule 5x05-101 in airing reality. This changed the sequence numbers for all the season 5 episodes either in terms of Season Episode number or actual episode number for show's grand total serial number. Livelong Day realistically became 5x07-103 for Viewers.
Production Planning and Rollout - Prepping - 7 Business days days | Shooting -7 Business days | Post Production - 7 Business days | Promotions - 2 weeks before Air date
Story writing/Script : A week before prepping it has to be ready for read.
Prepping - 26th August to 4th September
- Concept Meeting
- Departmental Meetings : Video Effects Meeting, Stunts and Special Effects Meeting, Casting, Costumes
- Location/Tech Scouting : 10th October to 17th October
- Table Read : End of Prepping and before shooting starts - 4th September 2013
Shoot Schedule : 5th September to 16th September
Post Production :
Press Release : Photos - 24th October 2013 | Storyline - 17th October 2013
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/view?id=37006
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/photos/?episode=2722
Promotions: CBS after
CBS2 Air Date : 5th November 2013
CBS2 Rating : http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/view?id=37226
NCIS: LOS ANGELES was first in viewers (14.65m) and second in adults 25-54 (3.3/08) and adults 18-49 (2.4/06).
Credits
Writer : Joe Sachs
Director : Dennis Smith
1st Assistant Director : **
2nd Asst Director: **
Co Producer: Christopher J Molnar, Chad W Murray, Jordana Lewis Jaffe
Producer : Joseph C Wilson, Eric Whitmyre, Kyle Harimoto, David Bellisario, Rick Tunell
Consulting Producer : Joe Sachs, Gil Grant
Supervising Producer : Dave Kalstein
Co-Executive Producer : Frank Military
Executive Producer : John Peter Kousakis, R Scott Jemmill
Assistants to Executive Producer : Chad Mazero, Samantha Chasse and Sarah K Mosse
Production Designer: Thomas Fichter
Director of Photography : Victor Hammer
Editing : Edward Salier ACE
Music : Jay Ferguson
Landslide Song at the end of the episode - Diane Birch recorded a cover for Landslide.
Unit Production Manager : Rick Tunell
Casting : Suzanne Bluestein. CSA|Jason Kennedy CSA
Casting Associates : Meredith Forney and Krysty Baxter
Costume Designer: Darry Levine
Art Director : Anthony Parrillo
Set Decorator : Michele Poulik
Property Master : Steven B Melton
Make-up Artist : Chris Burgoyne
Hair Stylist : Brooks Stenstrom
Production Coordinator : Laura P Napoli
Assistant Prod Coordinator : Adam Rex
Production Accountant : Mathew Klipper
1st Production Accountant : Dana Micahaelsen
Art Department Coordinator :
Location Manager : Tony Salome
Stunt Coordinator : Troy Brown
Special Effects Supervisor : Don Frazee
Production Sounds Mixer : David M Schneider
Construction Coordinator: Mike Brooks
Construction Assistant : Krista Schoenbaum
Transportation Coordinator : Dave Bassett
Script Supervisor : Diana Valentine
Script Coordinator : Jimmy Donchey
A Camera Operator : Russell McEllhatton
B Camera Operator : Terence Nightingall
Gaffer : David B Jarell
Key Grip : Jeryll L Marshall
Assistant Editor : Eric J Lucas
Post Production Supervisor : Dillom Gemmill
Sound Supervisor: Wilson Dyer MPSE
Post Production : Digital Film Tree
Post Production Sound : Larsen Studios
Re recording Mixer : Chris Haire CAS, Alexey Mohr
Online editor : jacob Tillman
VFX Supervisor : Dylan Chudzynski
Colorists : Patrick Woodard
Music Supervisor : Mark Wiki
ADR Supervisor : Jay Keiser
Sound Effects Editor : Kevin Fischer
Theme by : James S Levine
Technical Advisor : Osama Shofani USMC (ret)
Multi Media Coordination : Justin Maradiegue
Specialized Imagery, Software and Promotional Consideration : Furnished by Lockheed and Pictometry International Corporation
Twitter News
Deeks and Kensi are the best. Last night on #NCISLA: http://bit.ly/1hkmQgM
#ncisla Tonight #cbs 9pm ! @danielaruah @ericcolsen and Director Dennis Smith pic.twitter.com/k3LSkapgGp
Mercury is in retrograde until November 10. Take precautions and sync now for more #NCISLA http://bit.ly/Z1Khw6 pic.twitter.com/KifosClciX
Want more undercover #Deeks? Download the CBS app for #NCISLA extras when you sync http://bit.ly/Z1Khw6 @ericcolsen pic.twitter.com/NeVhoeTTk2
Hetty getting down with the lingo. #NCISLA starts in 10 minutes! http://ow.ly/i/3DvKW
Here's a sneak peak at tonight's episode of #NCISLA: The Livelong Day, tonight at 9pm on @cbstweet… http://instagram.com/p/gWbGleI6oK/
Sam Hanna with the best comeback #EVER. Tonight at 9/8c on #NCISLA. Sneak Peek: http://bit.ly/177MFfG
It never ends with these two. New episode of #NCISLA tomorrow at 9/8c. Sneak Peek: http://bit.ly/1b19uPo
The #NCISLA team can stop anybody in their way, but can they stop a train? Tomorrow at 9/8c: http://bit.ly/1cIdrtm
EP.505 completed, today. Begin E506 tomorrow! It's going to be an outstanding week! Many plans in the works for future Eps. #NCISLA
A fine Director and an Oscar winning actor! ##@NCISDIR #LindaHunt #ncisla D7,E505 pic.twitter.com/ow7iI7iU1S
@NCISLAMagazine @Ladydi2000 Wrap E505, Monday!
Today I worked with the 103 year young actress Connie Sawyer. She was awesome! pic.twitter.com/yAH80GHLmd
End of day4,E505! @NCISDIR knocked it out of the park, again. Fights, explosions and run and jump tackles! All in a days work. #alwaysfun
JPK @jpkouz
Good morning from #NCISLA central! Day 4,E505 shoot. Day 3, E506 Prep. It's an exciting day with Densi, Running, jumping and tackles. #LAfun
@ahks84 The Train footage is spectacular! #bestcrewinhollywood
Saturday workout complete. Resting up for another big week on #NCISLA We had a blast on the trains. One of our most challenging Episodes.
@NCISLAMagazine @jpkouz @johnscottmills @jacqniv @NCISDIR Suns down, let the night work commence! #bestcrewinhollywood #comeon1am
JPK @jpkouz
Treat of the day: @llcoolj @chrisodonnell staying cool in Fillmore. Fun week. #happyFriday #ncisla pic.twitter.com/anfVt09z5R
@NCISLAMagazine @Ladydi2000 thank you. We have night shooting tonight. It should cool down to a mild80degrees😩 #bestcrewinhollywood #NCISLA
The most involved insert ever...loving S5 #NCISLA pic.twitter.com/xS3x47P3L2
Is this a cool train, or what? Loving #ncisla #bestcrewinhollywood @NCISDIR pic.twitter.com/x8bbkQbLh0
@Ladydi2000 She knows how to ride the rails #bestcrewinhollywood @NCISDIR #funinfillmore pic.twitter.com/56hp5YpaHZ
This is what I'm talking about when I say... #bestcrewinhollywood @GregGerardo @NCISDIR #ncisla pic.twitter.com/oFUjn1amvR
@carigast E505-Nothing but pure suspenseful train action. Spoilers... soon about the upcoming debacle within the ranks of the #NCISLA team
I start shooting NCISLA tomorrow. Trains, bombs, murder and more danger! Will keep ya posted. Photos to come
@RonTreger No TR on 505. Only two cast working today. #staytuned TR will resume on 506. #NCISLA #tablereadworks
JPK @jpkouz
Good morning. Production mtg. E505 w/@NCISDIR
Let the 4 day week begin! Good morning to #bestcrewinhollywood Tech scout, today. #NCISLA @Ladydi2000 @jacqniv @johnscottmills @GregGerardo
A great week ahead. Tech scout tomorrow-E505. Fillmore, to survey trains and tracks. Downtown LA scouting train admin. Bldg. #NCISLA
Good Sunday morning. Going to be another fine day. Next week on #NCISLA completes Wharmby's 100 and @NCISDIR gets on the tracks w/E505.
Casting on #NCISLA day two! Love the casting process.The actors helping define the character.
To my hard working colleagues...HAPPY LABOR DAY! Have a restful weekend. The trains are coming around the bend, early next week. #NCISLA
Looking forward to the Labor Day weekend. E505 is 85%prepped and ready to launch. #NCISLA #happyweekend
Ok heading into casting, wish me luck!
@NCISDIR conducting the Video effects mtg.w/Bellisario E505 #NCISLA @chrisodonnell @llcoolj -listening in! pic.twitter.com/e6WwFrGkmc
One of the Great aspects of directing NCISLA is working with funny talented and creative people like @chrisodonnell "keyword funny"
Early wrap today. More train scouting tomorrow E505 @NCISDIR exciting episode! #allthelivelongday
Looking at trains! This is the train mockup used on Unstoppable! with Denzel Washington! Scouting forE505 #NCISLA pic.twitter.com/4xAPqUUX9t
@NCISDIR is in the House of #NCISLA E505. Welcome back, Dennis! @Ladydi2000 @jac@@johnscottmills pic.twitter.com/AteantOPny
Trains! E505 concept mtg. Dennis Smith on the house. #NCISLA pic.twitter.com/RAf3mNERPz
Back with friends on #NCISLA starting an episode that deals with trains! Pretty cool.
@jpkouz can't wait. Trains a comin! Hint Hint :-)
You'll see planes in E.502...automobiles in E.503...you won't believe what we're bringing you in E.505 🚂! #ipromiseideliver #NCISLA #October
