Tonight on CBS NCIS: Los Angeles returns with an all-new Sunday, November 21, 2021, season 13 episode 7 called, “Lost Soldier Down” and we have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. On tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 13 episode 7, as per the CBS synopsis, “NCIS investigates the apparent suicide of a Navy intelligence officer who leapt to his death after taking LSD; while Kensi is away, Deeks makes plans to redo the backyard without her input.”
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In tonight’s NCIS: LA episode, Kensi is away. She’s in Mexico. She needed the time away and so she warned her husband not to change a single thing while she was gone. He promised her he wouldn’t. He then literally started making plans to break that promise right after speaking to her on the phone. Deeks wants to redecorate the backyard and his team warned him that his wife would kill him if she found he renovated without her. But Deeks was saved from poor decision-making when the team caught a case. They were investigating the apparent sucidie of Naval Intelligence Officer Adrian Vargas. He jumped off the balcony of his high rise after taking LSD and the reason it’s a case is because of the drugs.
NCIS had another case involving a high-ranking naval officer taking drugs. They arrested him but he never gave up his supplier and that’s who the team wanted. They wanted to arrest the drug dealer to military officials. They were so many in the military that was struggling as it is and they couldn’t be on drugs as well. It was a threat to national security. Vargas’s former bunkmate got arrested for drugs. He wasn’t talking about his supplier to anyone and so Sam and Callen decided to give it a shot themselves. They brought in Petty Officer Renfro. They leaned on him and he spilled.
Renfro admitted to micro-dosing. He and a couple of others were taking LSD to help them focus on the job and stay awake. They weren’t just using to get high. Renfro said it was suggested to him to try LSD. He doesn’t remember who said it. It could have come from anywhere. The same could be said about the drugs itself. Renfro doesn’t know where the drugs came from because he didn’t reach out to any single person for the drugs. Neither Sam nor Callen understood at first, but luckily that’s where Deeks and Roundtree come through.
Deeks and Roundtree checked out Vargas’s apartment. They found his laptop and his gaming system. He was a serious gamer. It seems he was using that along with message boards to try and get help for PTSD. Vargas wasn’t a known drug user. He didn’t seek out drugs or visited any of the local dealers. The agents met with Vargas’s boyfriend. He lived in the same building and he said that Vargas was struggling. He suffered PTSD after he was onboard of a ship that caught fire. Several naval officers were killed in the fire and Vargas never truly recovered.
The Navy also didn’t take his concerns seriously. They merely transferred to a new ship. Vargas struggled for years and it was only recently that his bosses finally acknowledged the problem. Deeks and Roundtree figured that’s why Vargas took the drugs. But the boyfriend said Vargas never touched drugs. Vargas grew up with a drug addict for a father and he would never touch drugs. He didn’t even drink. Renfro confirmed this. He said Vargas didn’t try to contact him for drugs and technically he was a source on the ship. Renfro received a mysterious package one day that held drugs.
There were even notes inside on how to take just enough of it to stay in the zone. Renfro later told people about it and they gave him money for drugs. Money that he put under his pillow and would later find gone but with drugs there instead. Renfro never made a profit for helping anyone with the drugs. He never knew who he was dealing with. He just knew one day the drugs were just there. Renfro was no help on figuring out the supplier. Vargas’s boyfriend blames the Navy for Vargas’s death and so the team turned to a person that Vargas used for spiritual enlightenment. They turned to his guru.
The guru wasn’t much help. He had an alibi for the time of death. He also doesn’t know where to score drugs much less supply them and the team weren’t getting anywhere else with people that knew Vargas. They spoke to his therapist. She had two sessions with Vargas. She said she had never seen anyone that troubled in fifty years of doing this and so Dr. Bernhard did tell Vargas about an experimental therapy involving LSD. There was a waiting list for this particular therapy and she didn’t think that Vargas would then try to circumvent the long line by buying the drugs himself and taking it in an uncontrolled environment.
The team later looked into everyone with access to the ship that had increased in funding. They found Randall Davis. He’s runs a printer repair shop and it was a front. He was secretly cooking the LSD right in the shop. He was also selling it. Davis tried to fight back when they arrested him but they got him in the end and he was brought in. Along with his records. He never sold to Vargas. He sold to Bernhard. The therapist was the one who gave Vargas the drugs and she later admitted it. She also confessed that she thought it would help him with his symptoms. And now he’s dead.
Bernhard was arrested for the part she played in that death.
Deeks soon realized that he shouldn’t surprise his wife and so he told her about it and she made suggestions.
And later Admiral Kilbride talked to Fatima about her own PTSD since she was injured on the job.
THE END!
