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10×1 - "To Live and Die in Mexico” - Gravely injured and unable to communicate with the team in the U.S., Callen, Sam and Kensi, with an unconscious Deeks in tow, search for a safe way home as a cartel boss places a “dead or alive” bounty on their heads. Also, Mosely and retired Navy Admiral Hollace Kilbride (Gerald McRaney) beseech their contacts in Mexico and D.C. for assistance with their missing colleagues, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Sunday (9:30-10:30, ET/PT) on CBS.
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So after watching tonight’s amazing episode of NCISLA, I decided to try something new for the site. Hopefully we can continue it for the rest of the season and into the next. While everyone on the show is amazing and shines in every episode, we have decided to pick out who we think stood out in the episode, and write up a little reason to why.

In tonight’s episode 5×19 Spoils of War we believed that actor Eric Christian Olsen stood out in the episode. While the episode had so many great moments, here are our top picks for the best moments in the episode. From the start of the episode you knew this wasn’t going to be an easy mission for Deeks. That it was in fact going to be gut-wrenching mission for him. His partner, the woman he cares the most about in the world is missing. Hetty already knows Deeks is emotionally involved in this case and tells Sam if he needs to he can pull Deeks out. We all know this is something Deeks wouldn’t do, not when it comes to Kensi. When they arrive in Afghanistan they have no idea what is going on. Sam then tells Deeks to stay at the house. Of course Deeks isn’t too happy about that one. After Deeks and the other guy left behind by Granger enter the house Deeks searches for the information to the questions he needs answers. Deeks is a cop and not an agent or a seal so doing things the way he knows how to do them. It makes the scene where Deeks talks about torturing the guy for information, but says he wouldn’t do that. That he has morals.

Cut to the scene where Deeks get the phone call and he starts it off with a little light comedy. When Hetty give Deeks the news of the photograph (one I am still trying to figure out why she would do that when she knew he was emotionally invested in this mission) you just see this change in Deeks. What Eric Christian Olsen does so beautifully is how he conveys emotion in his eyes. You watch as Deeks gets the news and you see him slowly start to realize Kensi is dead. They have this picture of Kensi where she appears to be dead, but even when they say they don’t believe it for a second, he’s still in this mentality of “she is dead, she is gone”. He brings you to this place Deeks is at right now and you heart breaks for him. What continues to shatter your heart over and over is when he asks for them to send him the photo and he tries to come to terms with the photo of Kensi dead. You know this is the moment where Deeks changes. And he does change, because now he’s angry and hurting and blaming himself for all this. He makes a comment about how Kensi is the person he cares about most on this planet and that she’s here because of him. We all know it had nothing to do with him, sure timing was a little off – Cough Hetty Cough-, but we find out that she was sent because Hetty was ask for help by Jack and she knew Kensi would never kill Jack. Olsen is able to bring you to that place Deeks is at in that moment, you feel his pain and his angry and how he feels responsible for this.

Then you have the moment were Deeks has just given up, this guy isn’t telling him what he wants to know and now he needs to do what he ever it takes to find the answers he needs. So Deeks slowly pushes past this point where if he truly crosses this line, he might not return. You get to see that played out when Deeks gives the guy one more chance and when he doesn’t tell him what he wants, Deeks starts to water board the guy. He’s filled with anger and this need for the information and says if you tell me what I want I’ll stop, but only to realize how wrong it really was. That whole quick change in the character and the ability to go from this man on a mission to a guy helping out this person he hurt and realizing he went a bit to far. Beautifully done transformation. Which leads Deeks to be more caring to the guy and it shows that even in the situation where the person he loves and cares about most is in danger, he still not okay with crossing that line. The Season ended and started with Deeks being tortured, so yeah he’ll have person issues with it, demons he needs to face, but it also shows that he’s not a ruthless person. Like he had mentioned early in the episode he had morals. (If you look at the scene with Callen, Sam, Granger, Sabatino and the other guy, just about three of them were willing to kill a young girl and/or let the young girl die to protect themselves. I’m thankful Callen and Sam were so not on board with that.)

The end is from Deeks seeing Kensi for the first time to the finale hug. As Deeks is walking across for the trade you see him look back at Kensi and you know he wants to just walk away from the guy and go to her. You can see the struggle on his face because he can’t go to her just yet. You all see that worry and sadness because she’s just this wounded person. He knew she’d be hurt, but don’t think he ever expected it to be this bad. When he goes back to the team, kind of sad you never really saw him with her, but you did kind of see her with Jack. Cue time jump, Deeks back in street clothes and he goes to find Kensi. Only he finds her with Jack and you kind of see him want to go, but doesn’t want to interrupt at the same time. You also got this whole he’s not sure of what this is that is happening. Only walks over after Jacks starts to walk away, really enjoyed that moment. Deeks knew about the history between Kensi and Jack, so could be seen as a moment of like take care of her. When they finally see each other and talk to each other so many emotions in one scene. Deeks starts off with just trying to be like I want to hug you and tell you how happy I am to see you again, because I thought you were dead and going out of my mind, but instead tried to act normal. Things between them are not normal, and it’s nice to see this whole what do I do kind of thing. You get the hug where they are just embracing for the first time after being apart for so long, than along comes Callen and Sam. They try to have this normalcy between them, even though a lot as changed. I really liked that aspect, they are like we are so glad you are safe, but try and make it seem like things are okay for Kensi. After they leave Kensi has this moment where she opens up to Deeks and leans on him. Deeks just pulls her into his arms and tells her it will be okay and that they are going home. You see his face his heart breaks for Kensi. He just wants to make it okay for her, but he doesn’t know how.

I don’t think I have seen so many sides to Deeks in one episode. Each new element that was brought in during the episode Eric Christian Olsen was able to pull you into his mind. He had to play so many emotions in this episode and so many different sides to Deeks, each one you were able to be in that moment with the character. I believe one of the big things in this episode with Deeks were Eric Christian Olsen eyes and how he was just in the moment. It was the eyes.




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