Deeks disappears while on an undercover assignment for the LAPD; Hetty offers help, so Callen and company lend a hand; Eric follows a trace to a Serbian bad guy; Deeks shows up and solves the case, and the team get him out of a tight spot.
G awakens from a dream, and Hetty tells him that Deeks has disappeared while on an extended undercover assignment for the Los Angeles PD after leaving the OSP; the two targets of Deeks's operation have died in the explosion of a car bomb, and the LAPD has lost contact with him; Hetty offers help, so Callen and company lend a hand. One of the dead bad guys, who had a long criminal record, had become recruited into human trafficking on the payroll of Lazik, a Serbian; as soon as an LAPD detective briefs the team at the boathouse, she too dies in a car-bomb explosion; Kensi comments on the similarities between the two explosions. Hetty directs G to find Lazik; Deeks approaches Hetty and tells her that he wishes to continue his operation; Hetty helps; Deeks meets Lazik and speaks with him, but the conversation quickly goes downhill; however, the three musketeers arrive and change the odds. Deeks figures out the rest, and the team tie up the loose ends.
