User Reviews

If you think the show is "woke"( a word that has been captured, misused, and weaponized by the right) don't watch it. I don't care much about the political left or right but people always leave their mad comments and low rating once it has to do with something consider leftist, woke, or P. C. What's wrong about putting real issues in a T. V show?

I'm not always in support of episodes like these because sometimes it makes a mockery of what real people go through in real life.

If you watched a Cop show would you give an episode because the cops complain about low wages or poor benefits?

NCIS: Los Angeles has always been political. It's a show about the U. S. Navy that operates worldwide. If you don't like black politics, well good for you. Talking about Russia, China, Iran, etc is politics. You don't want social justice that is in your backyard but geopolitics about China and Russia specifically is quite fine.

Again in this world when you do a law enforcement show you deal with political and social issues. Even in previous seasons NCIS shows dealt with them. Even JAG showed social issues in the milatry world. Only issue is how you write it. In previous seasons NCIS LA showed them in subtle way not forcing the viewers to listen to lectures, the writers made want to listen and think. This time I was waiting for the episode to end. It felt forced especially when the characters asked us why this is still happening, it felt they didn't had real conversations between characters it felt they were talking to the viewers and that that didn't feel right. The last scene between Sam and roundtree was over the top.

The second plot wasn't that great either, I get it was just filter but you could guess the plot before the characters understood it . And I didn't like Deeks talking dirty with kensi in a crime scene where a women was murdered. Not funny just gross, they can't write humour as well? Deeks was the funny guy..

Right off the back. Officer asked for his license, registration and insurance. When black guy goes to get, cop tells him to stop reaching.

This would never happen. Why ask him for something and then pull gun on him.

Dumb episode.

It is important for shows to have episodes like this and focus on this issue just because it is timely. I do not want to take sides politically, we know what side of this ripped from the headlines issue NCIS: Los Angeles has taken, but I am fine if it is entertaining. This did not seem entertaining at all though and felt completely forced to be frank.

I kept wondering to myself while watching this wondering why now was the time to have this. We had this character on the show for quite some time now and it just seemed so random to pull this kind of episode out of the closet for seemingly no reason with no payoff.

Even I was disgusted by the boneheaded-ness of the LAPD in this episode.

First, there was the contradictory orders by the bald senior partner: "License, registration, and insurance..." followed by "Stop reaching."

I felt like saying: "Make up your mind, Baldy!"

Then, there was the asinine junior partner with the itchy pepper-spray finger. I felt like shouting: "Hello! What harm can he do you with his hands cuffed behind him? Render you permanently infertile with one kick?!"

Then, there was that unbelievably lame attempt by the female detective lieutenant to empathize with Rountree's justifiably righteous indignation after first telling him he should have had his Federal agent's badge with him: "I've been a woman on the police force for ten years. I have my own list of "I-should-be-able-to's..."

Rountree should have replied: "How often do you drive around, on your days' off, with your badge in your pocket? And how many times, during those ten years, have you been pulled over by uniformed cops looking for a white female burglary suspect?"

Nope! Rountree and Sam had every right to be p.o.'d.

As for the subplot involving the murdered photographer? I knew it was the yuppie civilian assistant right from the start. Hence, only nine stars.

I was so close to deleting this episode from my DVR after the officer blatantly ignored Rountree's claim that he is a federal agent. Unless a racist officer didn't care about risking his job, being charged with assault or worse (hate crime) - and/or being sued in civil court, they never would have ignored the agents claim. It would be very easy to verify. HE HAS TO KNOW that assaulting a federal officer equals prison time. Not buying this for one second. This is not a "ripped from the headlines" scene but it's not the first time I've seen an African American law enforcement officer mistreated during a traffic stop on a TV crime drama. It was bad enough that Rountree had both hands on the steering wheel and the officer flipped out AFTER asking him for his ID and documents because Rountree reached with his right hand. You need at least one hand to get those things! These two things are not believable, a cardinal sin in crime drama writing. Too many times writers think it is OK to sacrifice believability for more conflict and drama. Viewers want believability before everything else!!!

For goodness sake, can the industry stop milking the already exhausted racism card? And if you're going to do so, at least act it out well. Not some poorly over-dramatised unrealistic scene with a police officer.

If you have ever watched MythBuster you would know the mystery of the obvious racial profiling is busted. It is easy, Roundtree had the windows rolled up on the Land Rover and they are also tinted. From the direction and distance, the police were following him there is no way they could have seen who was in the car until they approached the car on foot. Sam said they had no description of the suspect so answer me why pull this car over? If you can't see who's in the car and you have no description of who you're looking for the only plausible reason left is you ran the tags on the car. Remember Fatima said he had his UC tags which stand for undercover tags. If Roundtree is undercover without his badge and his proper credentials the odds are he had credentials and tags registered to a criminal persona because he was on a mission. Callen and Sam go undercover all the time as criminals so there is no reason to think that Roundtree wasn't doing the same thing. Therefore, the police would have a reason to pull him under that circumstance. Myth busted and the rest of the righteous indignation isn't needed. As far as the pepper spray goes, if you are detained by the police you know not to make sudden movements. They see this aggression as a safety issue and respond in kind. That is on you not them. Stay put and avoid confrontation. The whole plot seemed gratuitous to me.