Daniela Ruah: Is it the end for Kensi and Deeks?
One fair aspect of NCIS: Los Angeles is that the show is all about gender equality when it comes to putting its characters in jeopardy, so this week its female agent — Special Agent Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah) — is transported to a nuclear missile launch facility to try to stop a takeover in what could turn out to be a suicide mission.
One fair aspect of NCIS: Los Angeles is that the show is all about gender equality when it comes to putting its characters in jeopardy, so this week its female agent — Special Agent Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah) — is transported to a nuclear missile launch facility to try to stop a takeover in what could turn out to be a suicide mission.
The rest of the team doesn’t even know what’s happening as they are back in Los Angeles, but little by little, they begin to put the pieces together and do what they can from a distance — but Kensi’s fiancé and partnerL.A. P.D. Detective Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) is out of his mind with worry.
“Assistant Director Mosley [Nia Long] calls Kensi in privately and says, ‘You are going to go to this place. Something is going on over there and you have to go.’ Kensi has no information until she gets there, but on her way out, she tells Deeks. She is not supposed to but she doesn’t want to leave him hanging. She says, ‘This is what I’ve been told. Do what you can.'”
Kensi isn’t the only woman in jeopardy on the hit CBS naval drama. At the end of last week’s episode, former operations manager Henrietta “Hetty” Lange (Linda Hunt) was taken prisoner in Asia with the plan to auction her off to the highest bidder. Ruah says that not much about Hetty will be revealed in this Sunday’s episode, but it is definitely a developing story.
“It’s following in the footsteps of a lot of the great storylines on our show, where seeds are planted and scenes are just drips here and there in different episodes, until it culminates into a big episode where we go and figure everything out,” she says. “That is a story that is definitely in development and will be shown to the audience sooner rather than later actually.”
So how bad does it get for Kensi at the missile launch facility?
At one point, Kensi makes a goodbye call to Deeks because this is kind of a suicide mission, so that obviously ups the stakes for the episode. I think people will be glued to their seats, to be honest. The phone call heightens the notion of this being a suicide mission and Kensi truly believes she may not come out of this alive so she calls Deeks to say goodbye.
What I can tell you is while we were shooting the phone call scene, you see my side and you see Eric’s side. When he was doing his coverage, I had the day off. I was home basically cooking pancakes for my kids to go to school, so I could hear him, and I was responding to whatever he was doing.
So it’s cool because when you see him, I’m actually on the other end of the line. Eric is so good, though, he doesn’t need that help. He is such an intelligent actor. Moments like that, if the other actor can do it, it is always better. I wanted to hear what he was doing so when it was my coverage, I would know what he had done so I could act accordingly.
