[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS: Hawai’i Season 3 Episode 4 “Dead on Arrival.”]
The “million-dollar query” in NCIS: Hawai’i Season 3 is easy: What’s Sam Hanna doing on the island? LL COOL J has reprised his NCIS: LA position as a particular visitor star, and whereas he got here to Hawai’i to assist clear Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) for obligation within the premiere, he’s clearly not simply sticking round to assist out as wanted. However good luck getting any solutions out of him! Nevertheless, Jesse (Noah Mills) does get greater than anybody else has but within the newest episode.
However that solely comes after Jesse makes it very clear he desires Sam gone. He’s not impressed when Sam talks about him and Callen (Chris O’Donnell) being trapped in a submarine, stuffed with explosives (NCIS: LA Season 6 premiere “Deep Hassle, Half 2”). Then, “so Sam Hanna’s simply round now, huh,” he remarks to Jane as they stroll to a criminal offense scene. He claims it’s not an issue (although she will be able to inform it’s), however he’s questioning why he’s right here. So is everybody else.
After asking Ernie (Jason Antoon) for his tackle Jesse, Sam later tells the agent they should clear the air. He is aware of the staff depends on and trusts Jesse, however that the opposite man doesn’t belief him. “It’s not that I don’t belief you. I don’t know you. And I don’t know your intentions,” Jesse says. “Nothing however honorable,” Sam assures him. “Yeah, I admire that. Nonetheless doesn’t inform me why you’re right here,” Jesse factors out, and for as soon as, Sam doesn’t fake that he’s actually simply there to show a seminar.
“Effectively, I’m not going to inform you why I’m right here as a result of I can’t,” he reveals. “However I promise you, I’m not right here to look over anybody’s shoulder, not Tennant’s, not yours, and I’ll all the time have your six. I hope that works.” It does for Jesse.
Because of Ernie digging into Sam, we do get a bit extra about his present time in Hawai’i—but it surely simply results in extra questions. Ernie didn’t break any legal guidelines (simply decorum), he assures Jane after sneaking into her kitchen whereas everybody’s gathered in the lounge. “Sam Hanna was certainly TDYed to Pearl to show his seminar, however not from OSP. All of the paperwork, scheduling and pay are coming from one thing referred to as Elite,” he says. It’s unclear what that’s, however, he continues, “any additional particulars are hidden behind triple encrypted firewalls that I’d be committing espionage if I broke.” Jane’s decided to search out out what’s occurring.
Is that linked to one thing associated to an open case from NCIS: Los Angeles? There have been rather a lot over time, and Sam did say he was speaking to Kensi (Daniela Ruah) and Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) a few previous case within the earlier episode; perhaps he was solely mendacity about it being a previous case. Might it’s associated to the mission to rescue Hetty, which was how LA ended its sequence finale? We’ve got but to listen to if Sam, Callen, and the staff Nell (Renee Felice Smith) assembled had been profitable. Is it linked to anybody from Jane’s staff, and that’s why he’s working alongside them?
Additionally in “Lifeless on Arrival,” Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami) and Kate (Tori Anderson) are lovely undercover as newlyweds. They even play the stress of getting shut whereas hiding in a restricted space, solely with out the need they/gained’t they; as an alternative, it’s “not now.” And whereas snooping round, they discover a marriage ceremony gown, which Kate loves. Weddings are “speculated to be large and loud,” she factors out. Is that not Lucy’s factor? “I knew from a younger age that my dad and mom weren’t going to provide me a kind of,” Lucy says. “I simply figured I’d by no means get married, so why dream?” Kate’s mom, nevertheless, has been planning her marriage ceremony since she was 17. And marriage ceremony discuss after all has us questioning if a proposal may very well be in Kacy’s future. (Both then or on the marriage ceremony, if there’s one, we’d like Kate to sing once more.)
And in a candy second that makes us miss NCIS‘ Ducky and the late David McCallum much more, Jesse finds Chase (Seana Kofoed) speaking to the homicide sufferer. “My mentor within the coroner arts all the time spoke to his victims. He stated it was a reminder that whereas they might be useless, they’re actually all the time with us,” she explains.
So why do you suppose Sam’s in Hawai’i? Tell us your theories—and burning questions on what he’s as much as—within the feedback beneath.
