When Marine Gunnery Sgt. Wendell Dobbs is killed in a drive-by shooting, the OSP team turns up a link between his younger brother James and some form of contraband being smuggled into the U.S. that seems to be intensifying gang violence in L.A.
The escalating gang violence was effectively shocking and made for good tension throughout. Soon after gunning down Wendell, the gang shot up his father’s house. Luckily, Callen and Sam were there at the time and protected the man.
Locating James Dobbs (Paul James), the team learned he was an innocent who worked as night watchman for a company that refurbished military vehicles. He only let the gang members through the gate. He didn’t know what they did once they were in.
Sam developed a surrogate brotherly feeling toward James, a role that, Hetty pointed out, he previously played for Mo and Agent Vail this season. The episode’s tensest moments were when Sam went undercover as James’s cousin looking to join the gang, and his surveillance camera got cut off. Earlier episodes relied too heavily on surveillance technology for my taste.
I appreciated how cleverly the contraband was hidden and that it wasn’t guns as first suspected, but heroin smuggled from Afghanistan. Greater action was always meant to distinguish NCIS: Los Angeles from the more mystery-oriented NCIS. “Blood Brothers” is a good example of how the show has learned to blend action with enough story to hold viewers’ interest.
I thought the glasses in humvee’s were bulletproof, poor soldiers who was about to get out in battle in that humvee when a crapy ak shots a hole thru the main window