In the episode, Kensi must come face-to-face with a sociopath who has been obsessed with her since she put him in jail years ago, in order to get intel on a matter of national security.
The episode starts with two fugitive men named Randy Sinclair (Daryl Crittenden) and David Kessler (Frank Military) making an escape.
The rest of the team, minus Deeks due to his NCIS-LAPD liaison having been suspended amidst major department realignments, is looped in on the case.
Kessler proposes another solution: he gets a three-minute phone call with the President of the United States in exchange on Sinclair's whereabouts.
In the aftermath, Fatima alerts Kensi, Deeks and Callen that Kessler was released from prison eight hours ago under a Presidential Executive Order.