NCIS: Los Angeles  Season 1 Episode 5   Aired Monday 10:00 PM
Oct 20, 2009 on CBS  Episode Fan Reviews (6)  out of 10 238
votes   • I wanted to give this 6, and in many ways it deserved
it but for the one flaw...      In many ways this was a typical
NCIS style episode, which means it was good. It was fast-paced,
with some nice banter between Callen & Sam, good vignettes by
Rocky Carroll as Director Vance (or, as we learned in NCIS
itself, the man who may have been masquerading as Vance for
several decades), some sharp scenes from Hetty and good work
from the other characters - Eric, Kensie, Dominic, etc. There
was a small but decent red herring in that the killer of the
business partner wasn't who everyone thought, and we got
character development in that Kensie is revealed to be able to
lip-read. Unfortunately, I couldn't give it more stars because
Vance said the assassin was a fanatical North Korean "who hasn't
been home in 3 decades". 3 decades is 30 years and I'm sorry,
she was patently too young. Unless