When Will ‘NCIS: LA’ Reveal What Happened to Hetty?
The NCIS: Los Angeles team has been without its operations manager full-time for quite a while now, and the last we heard, Henrietta “Hetty” Lange (Linda Hunt) was in Syria at the site of a bombing. So when will we get answers as to what happened after that?
“She was in at the beginning of this season and then we had her disappear,” showrunner Scott R. Gemmill told Parade.com. “The plan is to follow that up next year with some reveal.”
So that means that not only will we have to find out how Hetty survived — more on that in a moment — but Special Agent G. Callen (Chris O’Donnell) will also have to wait to talk to her about that CIA project he recently learned he was a part of as a child. He does currently have his hands full, tracking down a man, Arnold Baines (Jere Burns), who was part of it and with the deep fakes Russian spy Katya (Eve Harlow) is using (the latest left inappropriate videos and messages for his superiors).
For now, what we do know is that Hetty was meeting with the target of the U.S. drone strike in Syria, Al-Qaeda leader Mohammad al-Kalmira, in “All the Little Things.” Zasha (Oleysa Rulin), there on Callen’s orders, didn’t find a body, so the assumption was she, her target, and his operatives left before the strike (which everyone agreed may have been called in by Hetty herself). Dr. Nate Getz (Peter Cambor) told Admiral Kilbride (Gerald McRaney) Hetty was meeting with Al-Qaeda leaders to negotiate the release of unknown hostages, and her old friend Harris Keane (Jeff Kober), there as her overwatch, told Callen that those hostages were really her “people,” possibly NCIS.
Then, in “MWD,” Nate updated Callen about a text he received from Hetty reading “the game’s afoot.” He took it to mean she’s “on foot with or going after al-Kalmira” and hadn’t heard anything since.
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I am giving up on NCIS: LA until they move the story along. Callen
is down the rabbit hole about his identity, Hetty is who knows where, and Kinsey and Dieks are constantly worrying about children. The show is stalled with too many loose ends. Move along, people.
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For heaven's sake, skip the whole thing about Callen's past and move along already. He knew Hetty had chosen him to be trained or groomed to be an agent from a young age, so why is it front-and-center again? Keep it on the back burner, if you must, but skip the obsession he has. And if Hetty's gone, she's gone. They already have another older, crusty curmudgeon to take her place, big surprise there.
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You mean an old man who doesn't give a whiff about them and would rather complain about how much he hates LA then try to help them? Yeah, some 'replacement' there! He's more then likely there so she could trap him, there's no way she'd ever leave him in charge for good.
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Yeah, the McRaney character is crusty and a complainer, but rather than not giving a "whiff about them" (whatever that means), he respects the agents and treats them like professionals and expects them to do their jobs efficiently. Which they do.
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'respects'? He clearly prefers the rookie agents over everyone else, and lets them suck up to him like spineless children! Hetty would never play favorites like that or allow sucking up. Why? Because it's not professional or wise to allow tough people to suck up to you or prefer to 2 agents who frankly shouldn't even be working with such an elite unit anyway because of how much they screw up over everyone else.
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Tired of the Katya storyline. They need to move past it. About ready to quit watching.
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They should just say Linda is not coming back
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This show use to be so good, but the shows now are boring. Tie up some loose ends and make it the quality show it use to be with interesting storylines. I really thought the Admiral would be good, but I'm sick of him. Hetty needs to come back. I'm sick of Callen looking for his past. The show is terrible now. The writers are tanking it and they are loosing their audience.
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I have too many theories, none of which will probably end up being the truth. So I'm just going to say this: I believe she's still alive, still fighting like the warrior she is, and also really wants to come home.
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I think they need to
Move on with the story line the show is dragging right now.
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They have gone completely away from what drew me to watch the show in the first place.
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Show needs a new writer.
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I WANTING TO SEE THE DEATH OF KENSI STALKER AND BE THERE TO BACK HER UP THEIR CHILD IN SAFE TRUSTED HANDS THE DEEKS AND KENSI DUMP THE BODY IN THE OCEAN NEAR THE 7 MILE DEEP TRENCH WHERE MEGATRON WAS DUMPED AT INTO OKAY ?
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