Standoff - Recap

The show opened with Marty laughingly playing the three card trick in the NCIS LA headquarters with a few of his male team members. He quickly moved the three cards about the table, all the while egging his companions on, taking bets as to whom might pick the winning card. Surprisingly, one of them won, leaving Marty with egg on his face, so to speak. He had been so very sure that none of them would win, even though he seemed to be giving them broad hints as to where the winning card might lie, though, in reality, he was giving them some misleading information. All the while, one of the other team members was filming the card action from the upper floor of the building.

The team received a call from LAPD that a female had invaded the Naval recruitment building across town, taking many male and female hostages, forcing them to stand on chairs in front of the windows of the structure to protect herself whilst she negotiated with LAPD for release, then she demanded to talk with her ex partner, (and ex-husband) Callen who rushed to the scene. Callen conversed with the woman via phone and found out it was Tracy Keller, his ex-partner and ex-wife who had disappeared five years ago without an explanation. Tracy demanded that Callen enter the building and talk with her because she said her life was in danger and she could not come outside. Fearfully, Callen entered the building and talked with her, asking her if she understood just how dangerous a move she had made and why she had made it. Tracy stated that "they were after her" and explained the predicament to him: she claimed that she and another partner had come into possession of some sim cards that operated some stolen Spikes missiles. She told Callen that the sim cards were safely ensconced in a certain warehouse across town and that a certain arms dealer and his men wanted the cards and missiles.

Callen seemed taken aback by all this and demanded proof upon which Tracy told him the address of the warehouse. Meanwhile, some of the NCIS LA team members were busily jamming the electronics in the Naval Recruitment building to be able to listen in on Tracy's conversation with Callen for his own safefty.

Tracy tried to arouse Callen's past affection for her as his ex-wife, but she didn't seem to get anywhere with him. Callen told her that he would go with her to the warehouse as soon as it was safe for the two of them to leave the building. Outside the recruitment center, the LAPD and FBI were fretting, guns and other protective equipment at the ready in case Tracy were to make a fatal move. They noticed that the hostages were trickling from the front of the building one by one, but were still on guard. An LAPD sniper had been stationed on the roof of a building across the street and was shot in the back of the neck. A survelliance camera caught his killer, the corrupt FBI agent John White, one of three corrupt agents in on the illicit sim cards and stolen missiles deal.

Sam instructed Tracy to call Agent John White to meet her at the beach where they would talk about and seal the deal. What Tracy did not know was that White intended to kill her, but she did strongly suspect him. The team was waiting nearby in various disguises to protect her. When White approached her, he drew his gun and she did, also, warning him not to shoot. He surrendered his gun and was going for the backup gun hidden in his sock when Sam winged him. Tracy fired two rounds which killed him. Sam and the others came running. Tracy explained to Sam that she knew White had intended to kill her and had no regrets shooting him. Sam had to agree and the body was removed.

Meanwhile, Callen and Tracy traveled to the warehouse she had told him about in the guise of arms sellers. Tracy had called the number of the arms buyer/dealer to meet them at the isolated warehouse to peruse the weapons. Once there, Tracy offered the arms dealer a sim card to test a missile. He aimed it at a metal shipping container which Sam was hiding behind and fired, totally destroying the container. Sam indicated via radio to the other team members that he was alright and to watch Tracy carefully, protect her and Callen. The arms dealer demanded another sim card to shoot another missile which Tracy handed over once more, but this time, the sim card did not seem to work which made the arms dealer very suspicious. He drew his gun and fired, missing Tracy and Callen, and the NCIS team moved in with gunfire all around. One of the arms dealer's men was killed and the arms dealer drove his car into a truck, smashing the front end of his car, making it inoperable. The team closed in on him, handcuffing him. The sim cards and stolen missiles were recovered.

Tracy begged Callen, for old time's sake, to let her go, to not arrest her. He did, with misgivings. Later, near the end of the show, Callen stepped aboard a sumptuous yacht that Tracy had purchased for herself. The scene was in the Cayman Islands on a beautiful day on the water. Tracy tried once again to seduce Callen into coming back to her, to try to restore their old relationship, stating that she missed him, still loved him very much, but Callen realized that too much time had gone by, too many things had happened. for that to come about again. He asked Tracy why she had disappeared on him five years ago and she merely said that she was just keeping him safe, that at that time she had become mixed up in something very dangerous and that he, as an FBI agent, would have been killed. Callen asked Tracy what her real name was and as she was saying Rosetti, Sam stepped out onto deck, joining them. Tracy turned to Callen as Callen told her, "You really didn't think that I would show up without my partner, did you?" He said it with an ironic, somewhat sad smile and bade Tracy a reluctant goodbye as he and Sam left her boat.

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