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review: Searching for answers  See also  The Tuesday, March 18
episode of "NCIS: Los Angeles," 517, "Between the Lines," sees
the L.A. team investigate when an undercover ATF agent is
brutally murdered on video and other agents' lives are
threatened and Kensi go looking for the White Ghost in
Afghanistan.  This "NCIS: LA" case isn't anything really new to
a procedural drama. There have been many episodes in this genre
about dirty cops and agents, and this one plays out pretty much
exactly as expected. That said, the ride to the end is an
entertaining one, and it begins in a way that immediately grabs
your attention: with the agent being shown already beaten up and
forced to identify himself and relay threats to the other "rats"
before he's shot on camera.  ATF Agent Clark had been working
undercover in a case involving sailors moving guns over the
border, and when Deeks visits ATF to find out