Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, April 17, 2022, season 13 episode 16 called, “MWD” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. On tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 13 episode 16, as per the CBS synopsis, “CIS investigates the kidnapping of Master Sergeant Boomer, a military working dog. Also, Sam looks to sell his boat so he can take care of his father who is suffering from Alzheimer.”
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In tonight’s NCIS: Los Angeles episode, Roundtree wasn’t back to being his old self. He was kind of acting out of character lately. He wasn’t really talking much. This is reasonable because he did go through something traumatic. His dealings with the police were traumatic and if he doesn’t want to go around telling jokes or laughing with Fatima? It makes sense. He was going to need time to heal and no one can rush him. Not even Fatima.
Fatima tried talking to Roundtree about what happened and he didn’t want to talk. He just wanted to keep his head. Do his job and keep his head down. Roundtree didn’t take time off of work. He reported in like everyone else and so the only significant change has been the attitude as well as him using all his spare time at the shooting range.
Roundtree’s recent incident with the police along with Callen’s issues with Katya is why the admiral brought in an operational psychologist to talk to everyone. The psychologist was read in all the reports. He’s someone that has the clearance and so they could tell him anything and everything. They could talk about their feelings. Or talk about their time on a case. Nate Getz was just there to help.
It was probably one of the admiral’s best ideas so far and so up first was Callen. One of the first things that Callen noticed about the place was that the psychologist’s office looks like a spa. Getz said he wanted people to feel comfortable. And like they could relax there.
Callen hadn’t necessarily wanted to talk to anyone. He only agreed to do so because the admiral said Getz had information on what went down overseas and with Hetty and so that’s why Callen showed. He wanted information. Not to talk. Callen was busy there while Sam and the others were working an abduction case. Recently Retired Marine Master Sergeant Boomer Hayes was missing.
But he wasn’t a man. He was a dog. The dog has been working as a “consultant” for local police operations or military missions stateside and he was a good dog. His owner Mary wants him back. She came home one day to find her house broken into and her dog missing.
Mary reported it to the police. Only, they weren’t taking it seriously while NCIS has to because Boomer was technically a vet. Boomer was a military dog before he retired. He still works to sniff out drugs and he’s even helped put people behind bars. Sam thought Boomer’s enemies could be behind his kidnapping.
The team looked into that angle and they found out that Boomer was one of the best drug-sniffing dogs in the area except it doesn’t make sense why he was taken. Some angry drug dealer could have easily poisoned him at his house. He or she didn’t need to break into the house or grab the dog.
Kensi suspects that the dog was taken because it was an expensive breed. The dog was purebred. He was well-trained and so there was a chance someone saw it and thought it was cute enough to take home. They were considering that idea when the techies found out that the dog had a bounty on its head. It was fifteen grand if the dog was killed and twenty if the dog was captured alive. The team looked into the person who posted that bounty. They couldn’t find the person and so the next best thing was to recheck the neighbor’s surveillance cameras. They hadn’t found anything the first time they checked.
A second try yielded more results. One camera managed to pick up someone hauling what looks like the dog into the back of his truck. They traced the tuck back to Joseph Jones. He even looks like a bad guy. He’s someone that would do anything for money and so he only took the dog due to the bounty. The team moved on Jones. They arrested him at his place of work. They searched his car and the dog wasn’t there. The dog was still missing. They think Jones was the one who grabbed the dog and that he gave it to whoever put out the bounty. What the team couldn’t do was prove their theory.
Jones denied everything. They searched his workplace and even his home. They couldn’t find a single thing. What they did find was a lot of mysterious money. Money that Jones couldn’t have made in one sitting if he had nothing to do with the dog. But the team checked the money. They found fingerprints on them and it led back to a guy who runs a dog fighting ring. He runs it as a money laundering place for a drugs operation. The guy in charge was someone that got sent to jail by Boomer’s drug sniffing nose. And so that’s why they wanted Boomer.
Boomer was taken in revenge and he was thankfully found at the second guy’s house which NCIS raided. This thankfully happened before he could be put in a ring with another dog and so Boomer was saved from that fate. He was later returned to his owner. His kidnappers were arrested for the meth they were cooking up and so that will put them in jail longer than the dognapping.
And in the end, Callen spoke to Getz. He realized he was being assessed at the same time and he didn’t fight it. And so that’s where Fatima got the bright idea to suggest Roundtree speak to Getz as well. She made it seem like it would help his sister and there’s nothing Roundtree wouldn’t do for his sister.
THE END!
