We have your weekly NCIS: Los Angeles recap below. NCIS: Los Angeles returns tonight on CBS with an all-new Sunday, May 7, 2023, season 14 episode 19 titled, “The Reckoning.” According to the CBS synopsis for tonight’s NCIS Los Angeles season 14 episode 19, “When four people—including a CIA officer—are shot and killed in broad public, the NCIS team assumes the attacks had something to do with DRONA. Pembrook meets with Callen and shares more details about his past during the meeting.
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In tonight’s NCIS: LA episode, Leah Novak was transferred to a rehabilitation center. She’s been showing signs of being aware and the doctors believe that meant she’ll be coming out of her coma soon. Leah was one of the victims of the Drona program. It’s a program that tortured children to determine their potential in the governmental jobs.
Like the CIA, the FBI, and even NCIS. Callen was one of the victims as well. The kids from this program are all grown up now and they wanted to come together to bring a lawsuit against the man that tortured them. They wanted to take down Pembrooke. And one of the victims didn’t want to be beaten to the punch.
Anthony Beltran started targeting people in the lawsuit. He wanted to have Pembrooke all to himself and so he killed people. He also shot Leah. He just didn’t kill Callen when he had the chance. Callen was right in front of him. He could easily have killed him. He chose not to because Callen was never a part of the lawsuit and because Callen understood the need to kill Pembrooke. Most of Pembrooke’s children wanted to kill him. He had a program in Russia doing the same thing for them that he did in the United States.
Pembrooke was the psychopath that created Katya. Katya was now dead. She was killed by Joelle only Katya tried to get to Pembrooke first. She tried to kill him. She was killed right outside of his hiding spot. Pembrooke went into hiding right after that. No one could find him because he was a well-trained spy himself.
He went into hiding. The investigation into him stalled and then Leah was transferred. She was being transferred by the CIA when her ambulance escort took a detour. They stopped to meet up with a group of allies and someone began picking them off one by one.
Four people were killed. There was just one person that got away and he drove Leah away from the scene. The people that died were all CIA Officers. Pembrooke had trained them too. The CIA sent one of their own to deal with the fallout. CIA Officer Raphael Cortez came in to oversee the investigation. CIA also wanted NCIS to get involved, but Cortez personally didn’t want Callen anywhere near the case. He thought he’d be compromised. He tried to order Admiral Killbride into recalling Callen back to the office and he refused to do so. He knew Callen had to see through this to the end.