This performer of the week is guest star Daniel Henney who played Special Agent Paul Angelo. In the beginning you didn’t know if Paul Angelo was still an agent or if he had turned. By the end of the episode I was still left with this unsure feeling. One thing is for sure he owes Hetty a debt, which means we will be seeing him again.

They say it’s all in the writing, that as long as you have a great script or dialog then it’s going to be a fantastic episode. I believe that it isn’t just having a good script, but also having an actor who can make the script come to life. That is something the cast of NCIS:LA has no problem doing week after week. What was truly unique about this weeks guest star Daniel Henney was that not only was he calm and collected but he was also able to just throw you in six different directions and you didn’t know it til it was the end of the episode. From his characters first interrogation with Hetty and Granger, he was able to outsmart the both of them. You just sat there going who is this guy and what’s his game plan. Then he starts talking about how he grew up and different stories of his past, only to find out later on that they are just stories. Or were they?

Then when Kensi and Deeks were told to talk to him, he starts calling them out on how they are closer then partners should be. He tells the story of how everyone has Three Hearts. The first heart is the one you show to strangers, the second is the one you show to your family and the person you walk with, your soul mate. The third heart is one you never show to anyone. He called out Deeks for showing his third heart to Kensi, only for her to call him out for showing his third heart. He doesn’t say a thing he just looks down and you know Kensi had gotten it right. The way he placed his things on the table you knew these where the things that belonged to his undercover version of himself. It was very telling along with the dialog. It was the layers of who he built himself to be and the persona he left behind.

When he was talking with Hetty you were slightly waiting for that moment where Hetty just takes over the conversation and just doesn’t take any shit. Only he gave back to Hetty as good as he got. For a brief moment you got the sense he was really a good guy, till the person he claimed he had converted, turned on the team. While Granger wanted to kill him for being a betraying the agency Hetty prevented him as she had another plans in mind. The biggest shocker of them all was that Paul Angelo wasn’t even who he really was, but he responded back that Hetty wasn’t her real names either. Now the question is what does this mean?

Daniel Henney had you guessing the whole episode whose side he was really on. The character was calm and collected and had no tells. He was in control of everything and proved to be almost one step a head of everyone. If it had been played any other way it might not have had the impact it did.