NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series)

Honor (2011)

Linda Hunt: Hetty Lange

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Quotes 

• Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Where's Sam?

  G. Callen : He went home to spend time with his family.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Ah, that's good. He needs that... especially now.

  G. Callen : [Long pause]  What about you? You ever regret not settling down - and having a family?

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : I think about it sometimes. Maybe when I'm older.

  [Hetty chuckles] 

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : And you?

  G. Callen : I think I'll keep looking for mine first. Good night, Hetty.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Good night, Mr. Callen... Good night, Walter.

• G. Callen : [Callen and Sam enter. Hetty's on the phone with Deeks and Kensi watching]  I don't like the looks of this.

  Marty Deeks : We'll then you're not going to like the sound of it.

  Sam Hanna : What's going on?

  Kensi Blye : The State Department has suddenly gotten involved in our case, and graciously asked that NCIS stand down.

  G. Callen : Stand down?

  Kensi Blye : Yeah.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : As in withdraw, acquiesce, retrocede, cease and desist.

  Marty Deeks : Your thesaurus runth deep, Hetty.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : And your drawl runth over, Mr. Deeks.

• Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Well, on with it.

  G. Callen : On with what?

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Your new case, of course.

  G. Callen : Ah

  [Everyone heads upstairs. Eric starts downstairs and prepares to whistle. Callen signals him to stop] 

  G. Callen : Save it.

  Eric Beale : What? Hetty straight up ganked my whistle?

• G. Callen : There has to be something you can do about this.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Not if we want to keep our jobs. Director VAnce has me on a *very* short leash. He's even threatened to bring in an Assistant Director to oversee West Coast Operations *just* to keep an eye on us.

• Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : An illegal Japanese immigrant, and the reputation of a former Marine are hardly matters of National Security.

  Sam Hanna : Is that so? A Fire Team is composed of 3 Marines and their leader. 3 Fire Teams make a squad. 3 Squads make s platoon. 3 platoons, a company. And so on, and so one. All the way up to an entire division. But it all starts with one Marine. A SEAL never leaves a man behind. But that's exactly what we're doing.

  G. Callen : You know he's right, Hetty. Maeko is the only person who can prove Connor's innocent. If we let Tanaka get away with this, it's like saying that his money is worth more than an innocent life.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Why do I feel as if my short leash is about to strangle me? You can't go at it - guns blazing. Tanaka is a modern-day Samurai. Which means to pull this off, you guys have to be modern-day ninjas.

  Sam Hanna : Ninjas?

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : No one can know this was us.

  G. Callen : Who's more discreet than us?