Eric Christian Olsen and Daniela Ruah  It may not be safe to
entrust Eric Christian Olsen with spoilers. "I'm off to go get
killed," he says, picking himself up from a shaded picnic table
and heading back out into a Southern California winter heat
wave. In the parched hills above Santa Clarita, sets for an
Afghan army base and village have been constructed, making NCIS:
Los Angeles suddenly seem like NCIS: Afghanistan. "This," he
repeats, "is the scene where Deeks dies."  He's joshing, of
course, since the only fatality for Olsen's character this
season is more along the lines of "I Just Died in Your Arms
Tonight," if you can stand an '80s-­music reference. His Deeks
and Daniela Ruah's Kensi have long provided the implicit romance
that complements the bromance of LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell
on the smash series. In November, the two finally hooked up,
however briefly, shocking fans who expected an endless variation
on the unconsummated flirtation common to coworkers on TV
procedurals. But no sooner had the p