6x10 - Reign Fall

“Reign Fall” – Sam reflects on his own upbringing and relationship with his father when the team investigates the murders of marines who have sons in military academies, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Dec. 8 (9:59-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

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Episode	6x10 - Reign Fall	Ode to Fallen soldiers?! http://genius.com/Chamillionaire-reign-fall-lyrics Reignfall is the third extended play by American rapper Chamillionaire released in promotion of his third studio album, Poison.
Writer	Joseph C Wilson	With CIA Torture Report going public (on 9th December 2014 , with NSA surveillance coming under scanner (last year), seems NCIS OSP is handling less and less of international scale terrorism elements. Reflects on Obama administrative and guiding policies. Instead NCIS is taking care of Domestic terrorism elements working against its national interests. CIA Subjects or Marine Lives or Military Academies are things to be taken care of as elements of National Interest when threatened of its existence.  And that is what in this episode story Joseph C Wilson weaves a drama around a serial killer who is killing Strict Military fathers using IED explosives, something the killer learned through his being in the army. Backstopping changes: Sam Hanna’s background is being changed. In Season 1 Legend Episode, Sam was coming from tough neighbourhood. Now in this episode, he comes from Military background. His father is a Colonel and Sam had been in a Military Academy. Also he was not as grumpy as he is increasingly growing into with Callen’s teases. However unlike Sam’s strictly disciplinary father, Sam is very soft with his daughters. He can do anything for them. A bit of Deeks background is added too. He has a Celebrity Basket Ball player for his best friend, A friendship where Deeks may have pushed his friend to go for Basket Ball. His friends’s name is Kip Brigham.
Director	Christine Moore	Its her second Episode after Tuhon.
Editor	Edward Salier ACE	-
Episode Summary	Granger has been asked of a favor from his CIA friends. Who is behind the blast in one of their Agents House?	A non-NCIS LA OSP calibre episode. It should be more of an LAPD Case. Its more of revelations about Sam Hanna and Deeks and a bit of Callen, where Callen expressed he would have appreciated even a strict father like Sam’s, who would be there to push his son, for Callen had none to push him or care for him with multiple foster care families.
NCIS Personnel Highlights / OSP fun	-	-
Ops Manager/s	OPs Manager Hetty Lange Asst Director Owen Granger	Granger is absent. Though it is because of him why the team is working on the case. Hetty is there for few seconds and we can forget that she was there.
Partnership 1-	G Callen & Sam Hanna	Read above, the Author’s section and Episode Summary. The Episode ends with Sam understanding his father’s care behind his strict persona. Callen helps Sam understand his luck in having a parent who cares for him enough to make his son run fifty miles in snow after a rainy day to make good on time lost on following a strict regime and keep following him in a truck to oversee him accomplish the feat. While working on the case, Callen feels for the sons who got left behind without care of a parent, a father, when their fathers got murdered. He feels the care even if that care may have been overbearing or oppressive to their sons.
Partnership -2	Marty Deeks - LAPD Liaison Officer Kensi Blye -Special Agent	Read above, the Author’s section So Deeks has celebrity Basket Ball players as his best friends. All from street though like his dog Monty and Roy in Season 2 Plan B. His friends sure do take a lot of interest in pairing up Kensi and Deeks. Just like Roy, even Kip Brigham winks to Deeks about Kensi.
Ops Room  Partnership	Eric Beale- Tech Operator Nell Jones - Intelligence Analyst	Nothing at all. But did Nell just kiss Eric (on his cheek though, in jubilation at her find!)?
Guest Characters	Miscellaneous - But all impressive	Yes all impressive. Only one who could get repetitive is Kirk Birgham, if the writers wished to bring him back.
Others/GK		-

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In crew's terms this is known as 608-130

The Production Crew has different numbers than what later becomes the air sequence. Season 5&6 Production Schedule had extra episodes shot for consecutive seasons. This changes the order of produced Episode and Telecasted Episode. 608-130 - *** realistically becomes 610-130 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 : by 9th October 2014
Prepping - 10th October to 21st October

1. Concept Meeting - 
2. Departmental Meetings : Video Effects Meeting, Stunts and Special Effects Meeting, Casting, Costumes 
3. Location/Tech Scouting : 
4. Table Read : End of Prepping and before shooting starts 

Shoot Schedule : 22nd October to 31st October

Post Production : 3rd November to 12th November

Press Release : Storyline - Nov 20th 2014 |Photos - Nov 20th 2014

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Promotions: CBS
CBS2 Air Date : Dec 8th 2014.
CBS2 Rating : 

Credits
Writer : Joseph C Wilson
Director : Christine Moore
1st Assistant Director : Suzanne Saltz
2nd Asst Director: Hillary Cohen

Co Producer: Christopher J Molnar, Chad W Murray
Producer : Eric Whitmyre, David Bellisario, Rick Tunell, Jordana Lewis Jaffe
Consulting Producer : Joe Sachs, Gil Grant
Story Editing: Andrew Bartels
Supervising Producer : Joseph C Wilson, Kyle Harimoto
Co-Executive Producer : Dave Kalstein, 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

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

Set Production Assistant : Jimmy Ramirez
Production Accountant : Mathew Klipper
1st Production Accountant : Dana Micahaelsen
Art Department Coordinator :
Location Manager : Jason Savage
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 : Elisa Forni
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 : John McKnight
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
Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation

Cast
SERIES REGULARS:
Chris O’Donnell (NCIS Special Agent G. Callen)
LL COOL J (NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna)
Linda Hunt (Henrietta "Hetty” Lange)
Daniela Ruah (NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye)
Eric Christian Olsen (LAPD Detective Marty Deeks)
Barrett Foa (Tech Operator Eric Beale)
Renée Felice Smith (NCIS Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones)
Miguel Ferrer (NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger)


GUEST CAST:

Bart Johnson: (Marine Gunnery Sergeant Mike Johnson)
Merle Dandridge: (CIA Officer Nicole Borders)
Shane Coffey: (Richard Mills)
Estelle Mills: (Wylie Small)
Zach Callison: (Devin Johnson)
Dawan Owens: (Kip Brigham)
Chris Olivero: (David Mills)
Celestin Cornielle: (Marine Master Sergeant Shawn Lewis)
Ethan Scheid: (Brian Lewis)

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John Peter Kousakis @jpkouz · Oct 25

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Game for Game: Personal Vs Professional, Deeks Vs Hetty

Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning! 

Granger: Beginning of the End?
Hetty: No. End of the Beginning.

That was Hetty getting Deeks message. 

The End of Profanity
The End of Indecisivness
The End of Beating around the Bushes
The End of Hide and Seek
The End of How it Began. The "This Thing" "No Thing" "Our Thing"
Its the Beginning of serious commitment - Its a Love Story
Its the Beginning of serious consideration.

You might have noticed that there is an increasing distance between Deeks and Hetty from 5x14-War Cries. All we can see is a boss and subordinate relationship from 5x14-War Cries onwards. At first Hetty distances herself from Deeks. Hetty becomes pronounced as a tough boss from 5x17-Between the Lines. And by 5x19-SpoilsOfWar, Deeks does notice himself being singled out from the rest of the Kensi Search and Rescue Mission. I have traced this in each of the episodes so far. While Hetty relented to Deeks rebellious seeking of his partner in 5x20-Windfall, who would have suspected that she had plans of making a mockery of Deeks personal relationship with his partner, to her professional use of having a breakthrough to another NCIS Agent Paulo Angelo going rogue. It was downright making it public and that too in a demeaning way, like a commodity available for trade. She used Densi relationship for her professional gain and she justified as it being okay. Perhaps, these are the unforeseen ugly consequences of falling in love with partners at work places. Others making a joke or game out of it. What follows is an humiliated and outraged response from Densi, especially Deeks, as he can see where this is all leading to. And he makes a decision. Perhaps, Hetty can let Kensi and Deeks work together without worrying. But can Hetty be sure that, her relationship with Deeks is still intact. Would he be able to see that, by taking that extreme step, perhaps, she might have protected him before, it became more ugly?!!! We cannot tell. We have to wait.

One might wonder, what I am rambling about. Well..I am rambling about, why Deeks felt outraged coming out of the Boatshed Interrogation of Paulo Angelo, and how he felt like taking a shower. And how what he did in the end actually is his step to protect his third heart. Hetty asked Deeks in 5x05-Unwritten Rule, "How's your emotional Center?". And Kensi asked in 5x21-ThreeHearts, "What does your Third Heart say?" A long journey indeed for Deeks to learn that one can be exploited even by the persons you trust most. It is perhaps too early for me to even say this, but one cannot ignore the vibes we get. Hard as it was for Deeks to break away from Kensi, but he just got his personal dignity back by securing his Third Heart. 

How did Deeks come around this decision? or rather how did the writers take him there?

The Fight between Being Professional and Personal

It was Deeks all over again, with his Love Story in EP 5x21-ThreeHearts. A repeat of 5x16-Fish Out of Water mental state leading to 5x19-Spoils of War vulnerable state, seeking a release from the 5x10-FrozenLake. Can he be patient with Kensi? He can be provided Kensi wants to. Is Kensi serious enough about him. Yes. To the point of her letting him go to protect him. What does Deeks do? Take the plunge. He lets her go and do whatever she wants to do with him. He will wait for her.

In 5x16-Fish Out of Water, Joe Sachs weaves a story for Densi and Deeks, with the serious side of the “Love Story” coming up for the first time after Frozen Lake. The complication of two working partners falling in love and what implications each can have regards to his or her career is touched upon through the Guest character DEA Agent Talia. And yet by the end of the episode, Deeks is adamant about what he wants. If he fell in love with his work-partner and it has become a purposeful and meaningful existence for him, makes him a better person, he would fight for all of it, and be ready for any kind of fight he has to take up with his authorities. The simple human reason being, how can falling in love be demeaned as complicated if one can be reasonable enough to work it out. 

For all of these arguments, there are consequences and the persons, who ask these sort of questions get charged of breaking the law, like Paulo Angelo, but in the end, their question is valid enough for us to put our thoughts to amend a wrong. We can see that the emotional meltdown that Deeks goes through in 5x16-Fish Out of Water consequences both professionally and personally, he starts to fight for his own individuality, his beliefs, all that his existence is made of in the subsequent episodes. It starts becoming a fight between him and authority as represented by Henrietta Lange and a fight between him and professionalism as represented by Special Agent Kensi Blye. In 5x19-SpoilsofWar, Deeks disproves Hetty that he can let his emotions get in the middle of the rescue operation. Even if he loses himself briefly, Deeks finds his ground and is instrumental in rescuing all the others.

When Kensi is back, she is not allowed to work on field with Deeks. Nell is asked to work with Deeks and Kensi is asked to help Eric Beale in Ops Room. Can Densi and Neric take all this? Neric take it professionally. Deeks though disappointed that he did not get Kensi's company even when, she was there, he still manages working on a good footing with Nell. He continues mentoring Nell as Senior to Junoir and supportive and appreciative of her skills on the field. In contrast, Kensi miserably fails to work with Eric Beale. After watching Nell and Eric make her feel totally incapable as them, her spirit just kicks in honestly to be humble enough to approach her boss and ask her to allow her to get back to “Agent-ing”. It was a big step for Kensi. Like in 5x02-Impact, Deeks came back to form at the carrot stick of Hetty having to find his replacement for Kensi’s partner, Kensi in 5x20-Windfall, feels the jolt of not being able to work with Deeks and that too someone who replaced her in a better way on the field and in the Ops Room where she was assigned for the day. Why this is important is because, Kensi has gone back to her shell and has grown comfortable in her inner pain by not reigning in her emotions. She also has stopped being responsive to Deeks as someone who loves her to infinity. But being left alone, with no partner, makes her kick herself alive. And then comes her possessive response about losing Deeks to someone else. The return and the punch.

All of this is being favourable and understanding to Kensi. But the wait is getting longer for Deeks. Who is taking care of him for his fallout in Afghanistan? Apparently no one. Not only had Deeks seen his Third Heart with regards to vulnerability caused by his feelings for Kensi, Deeks also had to see the revelation, that in Kensi's heart, Deeks had never been able to make a place for him in last 3 years, that Jack Simon had in Kensi's heart apparently gone missing and presumed dead from last 9 years. While Deeks sees Kensi as his soul mate and home, apparently Kensi does not see him that way.

He starts to fight for his own survival and standing and negotiates clearly with his boss and his love interest, what he considers as professional and personal boundaries. He starts questioning in talk-back style. For the first time. And he sends his message across rightly to Hetty and Kensi, both professional par excellance.

Deeks waited for 5 months for Kensi to be back. And he complainingly asks Hetty to give him back his partner in 5x20-Windfall. It takes a loving boss to take Deeks demand kindly. Otherwise, Deeks tone to Hetty is rebellious and demanding, when he asks, “I want my partner back”; just like it was in 5x03-Omni when he says,”Ask me tomorrow” when she asked him if he was back. Shows his losing his edge, trying to find a meaning, why would Hetty not trust Kensi with him?! Is he not capable of taking care of Kensi?! more than anyone?! that seems to be his questioning as against Hetty’s administrative and qualified judgement call to detain Kensi from going on field without making her feel responsible enough on how serious she has to be while at work now. His whole attitude about questioning Hetty, is if she is ready to trust him. There is clear articulation of Hetty remarking on Deeks questions, "yet you question about my judgement".

Hetty in her official capacity and also in personal capacity; does relent by the end of the episode that, she or for that matter anyone else other than Deeks cannot assess Kensi's true emotional condition after her stint in Afghanistan. If she must have her Special Agent recover quickly from a traumatic experience, she would have to entrust Kensi to Deeks care. There is no doubt about it that Kensi will not open herself to anyone else. The only person, close enough to break her walls has been Deeks. And Hetty is well aware of it. Hetty remains impartial in this decision from administrative point, Hetty employs Eric Beale and Nell Jones to come to this decision. She trusts Neric as friends of Densi and yet quite capable of deductive reasoning much needed on the job. After speaking to Eric, Hetty is able to table it in her official assessment that Kensi is bored and restless when not in the field and appears totally stable emotionally to him. She informs Kensi, that she is allowing her to work on the field as she has come to an understanding that, if she is kept apart from the field or Deeks, revelations would not happen about her emotional state.

And after working a case together, Deeks goes for another rebellious questioning with Kensi and shows her what he thinks of her personal investment towards him. That's in 5x21-Three Hearts. Kensi's indecisiveness towards their relationship, Deeks sees it as a professional affront to his capabilities as seen through her personal and professionally critical eyes. She goes at length at protecting him before Angelo, which kind of puts Deeks in a bad light, as if he cannot manage himself. Could be true. But if Kensi was really professional, she would not have bothered to cut into Deeks negotiating style with Angelo. She would have had that trust on him both personally and professionally and they could still have their private thing going on. By protecting Deeks, Kensi exposes herself too. She forgets that Deeks has raised himself, is a negotiator by profession and would know how to manage interrogation. Its pleasure seeing someone going at length to protect you, but then it also means that the other cares about you in wholesome manner. Can Deeks be sure of that now? After what he saw in Afghanistan? Is Kensi protecting her work partner or protecting him for other personal reasons? Then it just remains for Deeks to take care of the fact that she need not get protective on him when working. Remove his "emotional center" and end the bother. 

So just by being a good work-partner to her, he lets go off the personal dangling "thing" between them, showing Kensi that if she prefers professionalism, then so be it until they both are ready to handle their personal versus profess He breaks away from her. Its slam dunk case he makes for himself against two judging women against his professional integrity. One has to either trust or distrust. One cannot be in perpetual doubtful state of "is he going to be one of us or be the weakling or a traitor, just because he is good at his undercover persona or wears his heart on his sleeve." Deeks neither can let Kensi become the DEA Agent like Talia, who can go ahead and dump him; nor can let himself get turned into Paulo Angelo the "doubted" as the NCIS under Hetty make of him. Slam Dunk rebellion of the Crass Distrust and the mockery that Hetty makes of his Love Story by sending him into the Interrogation Room to question Angelo, something that was so personal to him treated as a commodity by others.

That was Deeks point of view. What is Hetty's point of view? And how do they hash it out?

We see that even Hetty goes through a Fight between Personal and Professional desires. Her personal desire is that she wants Deeks and Kensi get to together. And she has helped them a lot from last 4 seasons. But then there is that professional side of hers, that also needs to assess the partners in love, dedication and objectivity towards work. It would have been easy for us to manage her two loved team members. But as fate would have it, she has a friend in Afghanistan, Jack Simon; who is in trouble and needs her help. Coincidentally, Jack Simon is also Kensi's Ex-Fiance, whom Kensi believes as dead. Hetty has to make the tough choice between her two personal wishes of seeing Kensi with Deeks, but having to send Kensi for rescuing Jack Simon. Its a tough call, but more on the professional lines, she decides to send Kensi to Afghanistan, well aware of the repercussions it may have on Deek's budding Love story with Kensi.

I am sure Hetty might have started feeling heavy about this. And thus she starts distancing herself from Deeks. This is where I started with the post above. How did then Hetty's decision affect her personally by affecting both Deeks and Kensi?  The answer is that, both Kensi and Deeks get to their Third Heart, that part of them that is so vulnerable that they cannot ever let it seen by others and have to always gaurd it. Both Kensi and Deeks lose stability when in Afghanistan. Its good and bad that they have seen what can happen to them. But what is the fallout?  The Fallout is that, its a step back for The Love Story. Kensi can see, that in her heart there was still Jack Simon. And until she flushes him out, she cannot let in Deeks. And Deeks, sees for himself, that he could go to a dark place for Kensi, but its not worth at all, because Kensi does not love him. She might care for him a lot, they have their Thing going on, but definitely its not the kind that Kensi feels for Jack Simon.  Hetty is all aware of this fallout. This is her personal loss. But first things first, she needs to get back her Special Agent Kensi Blye into shape, even if that means; having to exploit her other skilled team member Deeks closeness to Kensi. A Manager indeed!

5x23 Exposure

What's good about the episode was that it like a holiday from all stress of seriously watching the show. This episode had nothing remarkable in terms of story elements or character growth. And yet we like it because it was just a filler, where, indeed we needed a break from all thinking after a long series of seriousness in 21 episodes. Nothing needed to be analysed and everything was casual like their casual clothes of working on a weekend. Watch the NCIS LA without any bother. The explosion (BOOM!!) is there. The Patriot Act is there. The need to save people is there. The race against time is there. The Homeland Security is there. And yet....nothing serious other than regular stuff.

We need not analyse anything about this episode and yet I am here to write about it. :)

Episode	5x23 - Exposure	Exposed to terrorism and atrocites? Exposing an event with false information ?
Writer	Joseph C Wilson Jordana Lewis Jaffe	As usual….JLJ stories are about Patriot Act, its use and misuse. And the debate goes on.  And as usual Joey Wilson’s stories are about BOOM! There is an explosion.   This team has previously written 5x05-Unwritten Rule together. They gave us cute NERIC moments. Eric was getting possessive about Nell in that previous episode. And in this one, Eric again feels something for Nell, imagining what if it were the doomsday and he had not yet told her what he wanted to say to her most. Good one. I like it. Thats the only interesting thing of the episode. Kensi’s plant killing habits are from JLJ. She showed it to us in Season 4. I wonder if Deeks making fun of Kensi was JLJ or Joey Wilson’s idea but that thing about Kensi’s hoarding and boxes, reminds us of 5x21-Three Hearts; and it sounds exactly like us;  making fun of boxes about Kensi and her writer Dave Kalstein. Writers to Writers and teasing each other. NERIC is IN and DENSI is OUT. Deeks knows Kensi thoroughly, and that much of DENSI is still given back to us through his chit-chat with Kensi. That was Joey Wilson all the way. I can feel that. The emotions within the team, Granger, Hetty, Callen, Sam, Deeks, Kensi, Nell and Eric, all part of Joey Wilson’s stuff. JLJ is totally unsympathetic to Kensi. And her penchants Patriot Act, Ordinary people committing breach on national security and in process hurting the Marines. Haha!!!!
Director	Robert Florio	He is our seasoned Editor of the series and an occasional Director. Previously he directed NeighbourHood.
Editor	****	Will come back with this information.
Episode Summary	Random Explosion causing Civilian Casualties	South Sudan Conflict and USA  as the saviour of world conflicts are the subjects. Watch it. Terrorist Attack in US City?!!! No. Not possible at all. US Homeland Security keeps a tab on immigrants. Then how do bombings happen. Domicile population variables. Thats how we look at things.  CBS Summary:“Exposure” – When a news reporter announces the group responsible for the deadly explosion at a military-sponsored charity event, the team must investigate her claims and search for the attacker, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES. Tiffany Dupont (“Greek”) guest stars as ZNN Reporter Dana Steele and Tony Okungbowa (Guest DJ on “Ellen”) guest stars as Bakri Deng.
NCIS Personnel Highlights and Bull Pen Fun	Weekend Work under Emergency	Called back to work on a Saturday, it doesn’t look a regular work-day. Everyone is in their casuals. By everyone, I mean, Deeks, Hetty and Granger. Deeks is in his beach shorts. Granger and Hetty are not in formals but are dressed casually. Rest of the three Agents and Ops operatives Neric are dressed as usual.
Ops Manager/s	OPs Manager Hetty Lange Asst Director Owen Granger	I just don’t get it how writers write something so smoothly that we cannot remember it as nothing is remarkable and yet it does not hurt us in any ways. I liked Joey Wilson and JLJ’s work in this episode. Hetty and Granger talk, which btw I mean to say, “Granger Proposes and Hetty Disposes.” and yet it does not look any bad or serious.
Partnership 1-	G Callen & Sam Hanna	Saviours of Los Angeles. What will the city do without these two agents, always defusing bombs and backing each other. Sam - the family man.  Callen - becoming a team lead. Feels responsible enough to advise the younger team members (like Hetty said to them), “Get back in one piece”.  Ofcourse it sounds wierd and Sam covers it up saying, it sounded better when Hetty said it.
Partnership -2	Marty Deeks - LAPD Liaison Officer Kensi Blye -Special Agent	Just Partners. No other messing around. But also Deeks teasing Kensi about hoarding, boxes and killing plants was not required, but then Densi would have become a bore to watch. They did not get much to do except digging info, which was kinda boring even for them. Personally I liked to see Deeks in beach shorts. Don’t know why Kensi rolled her eyes.
Ops Room  Partnership	Eric Beale- Tech Operator Nell Jones - Intelligence Analyst	Neric is back. Neric is cute. Neric are agile. This couple was the best in this episode.  It was cute of them exchanging personal notes to each other, then deny all about it to Granger and finally leaves notes at the other 3+1 Field Agents tables. Its still a secret what Nell and Eric wrote to each other. They are never going to talk about it. But they were full of smiles.
Others/GK

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In crew's terms this is known as 522-119

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. Exposure realistically becomes 523-119 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 : by 5th March 2014
Prepping - 18th March to 27th March

1. Concept Meeting - 
2. Departmental Meetings : Video Effects Meeting, Stunts and Special Effects Meeting, Casting, Costumes 
3. Location/Tech Scouting : 
4. Table Read : End of Prepping and before shooting starts 

Shoot Schedule : 28th March to 8th April

Post Production : 9th April to 21st April
Press Release : Storyline - 17th April |Photos - 25th April

http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/view?id=38686
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/photos/?episode=3435
Promotions: CBS
CBS2 Air Date : May 6th 2014.
CBS2Rating: http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/view?id=38875
Sweeps Time Period with Growth in Adults 18-49
NCIS: LOS ANGELES was first in viewers (14.00m), adults 25-54 (3.2/08) and adults 18-49 (2.2/06). NCIS: LOS ANGELES beats second-place NBC by +68% in adults 25-54 (vs. 1.9/05), +57% in adults 18-49 (vs. 1.4/04) and by +8.21m viewers (vs. 5.79m, +142%). Compared to last week, NCIS: LOS ANGELES was up +5% in adults 18-49 (from 2.1/06).

Credits
Writer : Joseph C Wilson and Jordana Lewis Jaffe
Director : Robert Florio
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 : ****
Music : Jay Ferguson

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

Set Production Assistant : Jimmy Ramirez
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 : John McKnight
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

Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation

Cast
SERIES REGULARS:
Chris O’Donnell (NCIS Special Agent G. Callen)
LL COOL J (NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna)
Linda Hunt (Henrietta "Hetty” Lange)
Daniela Ruah (NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye)
Eric Christian Olsen (LAPD Detective Marty Deeks)
Barrett Foa (Tech Operator Eric Beale)
Renée Felice Smith (NCIS Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones)
Miguel Ferrer (NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger)

GUEST CAST:
Tiffany Dupont (ZNN Reporter Dana Steele)
Tony Okungbowa (Bakri Deng)
Eric Allan Kramer (Homeland Security Special Agent Tom Panetti)
Ivar Brogger (Merle Jarvis)
Carlease Burke (Car Rental Shop Owner)
Matt Biedel (Marine Staff Sergeant Edward Jones)
Rolando Boyce (Foreman)
Darrell Lake (Roommate #1)
Andres Perez-Molina (Marine Sergeant Roy Kilpatrick)
Nina Rausch (Linda Jones)
Dave Lopez (Himself)

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Twitter News

 Retweeted by Barrett Foa

NCIS LA ‏@NCISLA_CBS                                                                                          May 6

What did Eric's note say? Weigh in w/ the CBS app & get #NCISLA extras when u Sync http://bit.ly/1m1MTYE  @BarrettFoa pic.twitter.com/4qsRXdhU5B

LL COOL J ‏@llcoolj                                                                                                            May 6

Time is of the essence.... #Exposure #NCISLA tonight @ 9pm on #CBS http://instagram.com/p/nq2uQWo6qB/ 

NCIS LA ‏@NCISLA_CBS                                                                                                    May 6

Is Beale about to make a move for Nell??? Tonight's #NCISLA Sneak Peek: http://bit.ly/1jxsJ9L 

One attack has already happened, but can the #NCISLA team stop a second? Tonight's Sneak Peek: http://bit.ly/1nhdi8R 

Joe Wilson ‏@JoeyWilson57                                                                                             May 6

NCIS: LA - TONIGHT! "EXPOSURE" - Gonna be a blast! Literally! #BOOM #NCISLA #bestcrewinhollywood

NCIS LA ‏@NCISLA_CBS                                                                                                    May 5

Los Angeles is under attack and the clock is ticking! #NCISLA Preview: http://bit.ly/1iWcZIO 

Get ready for the last two episodes this season and go #BTS of tomorrow's new #NCISLA with the Insider's Blog!: http://bit.ly/RmeD0l 

NCIS LA ‏@NCISLA_CBS                                                                                                     May 2

Break out the badges! Early look as @Ericcolsen & @DanielaRuah chase a lead in Tuesday’s episode. #NCISLAShowNShare pic.twitter.com/j3CrKLodb1

NCIS LA ‏@NCISLA_CBS                                                                                                        May 2

.@ChrisODonnell & @LLCOOLJ search the crime scene following an explosion at a military event. #NCISLAShowNShare pic.twitter.com/b4yNRYLVRq

NCIS LA ‏@NCISLA_CBS                                                                                                        May 1

Crime scene from next week’s episode….can you find @chrisodonnell & @llcoolj?! #NCISLAShowNShare #NCISLA pic.twitter.com/Bms55Z2O2R

Katie Barker ‏@KBarkertweets                                                                                                    Apr 29

Day 2 of #NCISLAShowNShare Week- the Venice location in next week's episode with @kristenjane & @llcoolj pic.twitter.com/fXaOnjbZv8

Joe Wilson ‏@JoeyWilson57                                                                                                          Apr 8

BOOM! 522 wrapped!

 Retweeted by Gregory Gerardo

Grill Em All ‏@GrillEmAll                                                                                                  Apr 8

True Ghoul @ChrisODonnell always goes for a Witte at the truck. What's your favorite burg to crush? pic.twitter.com/YVB3hfwOLh

Gregory Gerardo ‏@GregGerardo                                                                                                  Apr 8

Best part of my day = when I saw this on call sheet #NCISLA @GrillEmAll @chrisodonnell & I are gonna crush burgers pic.twitter.com/WgrUTaTfKK

Miguel Ferrer ‏@Miguel_J_Ferrer                                                                                                 Apr 8

Got Hetty and the main men today.

Miguel Ferrer ‏@Miguel_J_Ferrer                                                                                                   Apr 8

Tuesday morning. pic.twitter.com/Bf1jU1djl1

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                   Aprl 5

A hearty thanks to #bestcameraassistantever @jacqniv Undisputedly...the BEST! #NCISLA

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                    Apr 5

A week of shooting E522 is coming to a close. Thanks #bestcrewinhollywood #HappyWeekend @Ladydi2000 @GregGerardo @johnscottmills #vichammer

jacqniv ‏@jacqniv                                                                                                                            Apr 4

#ncisla @chrisodonnell @llcoolj @danielaruah @ericcolsen #bestcrewinhollywood pic.twitter.com/2q8uyhoR6w

John Mills ‏@johnscottmills                                                                                                             Apr 2

One of the nicest guys around. Key Grip Jerry. #ncisla #setlife @ Sprinkles Cupcakes http://instagram.com/p/mT7rXGgm5X/ 

Katie Barker ‏@KBarkertweets                                                                                                       Apr 1

That's a wrap for today's #NCISLA set visit. Jump for joy photo credit @kristenjane pic.twitter.com/V0om4HsoY5

Rick Tunell ‏@rtunell                                                                                                                        Apr 1

Happy "Spoils of War" Day! First shot 8:24am. Ep#522 #ncisla #bestcrewinhollywood pic.twitter.com/3a3NxKChBQ

John Mills ‏@johnscottmills                                                                                                         Mar 31

Special Agent Kensi Blye. http://instagram.com/p/mN32hmgm_0/ 

Joe Wilson ‏@JoeyWilson57                                                                                                         Mar 28

BOOM! DAY 1. DONE!

Miguel Ferrer ‏@Miguel_J_Ferrer                                                                                                  Mar 28

Another Nanger day. A guaranteed ratings bonanza.

renee felice smith ‏@reneefsmith                                                                                                  Mar 28

#NANGER round 2 #dowesmellaspinoff? @miguel_j_ferrer http://instagram.com/p/mGrq2Shgvc/ 

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                    Mar 26

Mr. @JoeyWilson57 Riding tech scout bus along side #JordanaJaffe smiling all the way! #bestcrewinhollywood#NCISLA pic.twitter.com/4DCQ58xFjE

Joe Wilson ‏@JoeyWilson57                                                                                                        Mar 26

Windy Venice scout. #NCISLA @jpkouz pic.twitter.com/llUJJoqhOh

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                   Mar 25

.@JoeyWilson57 is leading our dept. Meetings. E522 is going to rock! #NCISLA #bestwriters pic.twitter.com/1GRaXKn3Ir

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                      Mar 20

.the #bestwriters @JoeyWilson57 Jordana Jaffe #NCISLA discussing Set design w/Tom Fichter. #HappyDay pic.twitter.com/nZR0lUqfMQ

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                      Mar 20

Sporting the Starbucks and checking his tweeter account @JoeyWilson57 BOOM! Scouting Locations 4 E522. pic.twitter.com/LE47Av1TrF

Joe Wilson ‏@JoeyWilson57                                                                                                           Mar 20

LOCATION SCOUT! JLJ! Florio. Tom Slick. Size. Jason. JPK. @JoeyWilson57 #jpkteaser #NCISLA pic.twitter.com/oqzEuVxejP

Joe Wilson ‏@JoeyWilson57                                                                                                            Mar 20

LOCATION SCOUT VAN EP 522 #jpkteaser #NCISLA pic.twitter.com/5c5iUZdPnt

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                     Mar 20

Great start this morning. E521,D3.Prep E522 all day. Morning workout w/@thefitartist NCISLA E517,ZERO DAYS airs next Tuesday @9p #HappyDay

John Peter Kousakis ‏@jpkouz                                                                                                     Mar 19

Prep begins on an exciting Ep.522 Directed by Robert Florio. We R producing extraordinary episodes leading to S5finale.#NCISLA #staytuned

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