G. Callen quotes from NCIS: Los Angeles

Hetty

You asked me why I went off on my own to face the Comescus. I did it... because of your mother.

Callen

You knew my mom?

Hetty

Sit down. I'll tell you everything I know.

Callen

Why now?

Hetty

Because you're safe from the Comescus now. And because I can't hold on to these secrets any longer. Please Mr. Callen.

Hetty

Where do I begin?

Callen

What was her name?

Hetty

Clara... Her name was Clara.

Callen

Charlene is a 1970 Challenger Sam's been restoring for the last 10 years. It was stolen last night.

Kensi

Oh that's horrible.

Callen

Yeah, big guy's heart broken. He was up all night questioning everyone in a 2 mile radius of the storage unit. Working on that car was Sam's theraputic refuge. Honestly, I don't think he ever wanted to finish it.

Kensi

Car like that is either in a chop shop, or being driven really hard south of the border. That's not good.

Sam

Whoever stole Charlene better hope LAPD catches them before I do.

Callen

You don't mean that.

Sam

Yeah, okay.

Callen

Stage 2.

Sam

What?

Callen

Anger. It's the second stage of grief.

Sam

I'm not grieving. I just want my car back!

Callen

You good?

Sam

Why do you ask?

Callen

So far, you've done a car, a gun and I believe that's a dead body. Amazing detail.

Sam

I'm good.

Callen

It's okay to be depressed.

Sam

I'm not depressed.

Callen

You will be. Stage 4.

Sam

Look, I'm not depressed, bargaining, angry, or in denial. But I *am* getting a little irritated.

Callen

Are you hungry?

Sam

Hunger's not a stage.

Callen

It's true. But loss of appetite is a sign of depression.

Sam

Keep it up.

Kensi

Have you guys seen Deeks?

Callen

Uh, good morning to you, too.

Kensi

Hi. Have you heard from him?

Sam

It's only 9:00.

Kensi

I know, but he was supposed to pick me up at the airport this morning and he never showed.

Callen

That's right. How was Hawaii?

Kensi

It was fine.

Sam

Meet anyone? Go to any luaus? Solve any crime?

Kensi

It was fine. Back to Deeks. I called his house number, I called his cell. No answer anywhere.

Callen

He's probably just hungover.

Sam

Or surfing.

Callen

Or he forgot.

Sam

Or all of the above.

Kensi

He has flaked on me before, and I suppose he does sleep through his alarm on a regular basis. So, yeah, you guys are right. Of course. Whatchya eating?

Callen

Bacon, eggs, mine.

Deeks

Really? That's it? No phone calls to the hospital or the morgue? I mean, I could be lying in a ditch someplace.

Kensi

What are we talking about?

Deeks

Nothing! We're talking about absolutely nothing.

Callen

Someone called into a talk radio show last night, sounded exactly like Deeks.

Kensi

Did he now? What was he calling about?

Callen

Oh, he just wanted to talk about his feelings... for a co-worker (Kensi smiles)

Kensi

Speaking of partners, where's Sam? Mr. Always 5 minutes early is late - again.

Deeks

And he's taken 3 long weekends this month.

Kensi

You know what that means?

Deeks

He's in rehearsals for an off Broadway revival of Cats.

Callen

I'll tell him you said that.

Deeks

Don't you think it's strange that Callen's a talk radio guy?

Callen

Why's that?

Deeks

I don't know. I've always kind of considered you more of a - you know a - TV static white noise type of guy.

Callen

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Deeks

Well, I am a man of mystery.

Kensi

Mystery or misery?

Hetty

Where's Sam?

Callen

He went home to spend time with his family.

Hetty

Ah, that's good. He needs that... especially now.

Callen

[Long pause] What about you? You ever regrett not settling down - and having a family?

Hetty

I think about it sometimes. Maybe when I'm older. [chuckles] And you?

Callen

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

Hetty

Good night, Mr. Callen... Good night, Walter.

Hetty

I would love to teach the two of you the traditional Viennese Waltz with each other as partners.

Sam

[chuckles] She's kidding.

Callen

...No, she's not.

Hetty

Agent Hanna, take your partner by the waist - back straight. Do I need to repeat myself.

Callen

And there's a third body. Nell, please read the C.I.A. report - verbatim.

Nell

"At approximately 1730 the remains of a black male approximately 40 years of age were found in a field 20 kilometers outside of Khartoum. The body was badly burned preventing immediate identification."

Hetty

The body is a match for Sam - in height and weight.

Hetty

Mr. Callen, it appears that Agent Salleh is right. There is a leak in the C.I.A.'s chain of command.

Callen

I understand.

Hetty

[Callen leaves Ops. To Kensi and Deeks] Find that leak.

Callen

There's a leak.

Sam

If Khaleed knew about me, I'd be dead already.

Callen

Doesn't mean it's not gonna happen.

Sam

I'm staying in, G.

Kensi

Hey, Nell, whatever happened to that file I asked you for? The one on the aryan low rider that Deeks shot at the park.

Nell

Oh right, um, I'm sorry I guess I forgot.

Kensi

You never forget anything, Nell.

Nell

Um, yeah. I told them this wouldn't work.

Eric

Okay, so right after you guys left Monica Lee's office, she called a pay phone located two blocks away from the LAPD Precinct. I'm seeing a dozen other incoming calls to her PDA over the past few days, all from pay phones within walking distance of the same area.

Callen

So the mole's definitely a cop or someone who works closely with them.

Sam

And he's making life way too easy for Fisk. If we don't find him, that RDX is as good as gone.

Kensi

[Entering Ops] You kept me in the dark!

Callen

Please tell me you didn't waterboard Nell.

Kensi

The guy Deeks killed this morning, he isn't dead. He's an undercover NCIS agent working out of D.C. , who, in fact, just landed in Dulles Airport alive and well. You stuck fake tattoos on him and made me believe that my partner shot an unarmed man. Why would you do that?

Sam

Had to be convincing for LAPD and Bates or else they never would have taken Deeks back.

Nell

Sorry guys.

Callen

The woman Deeks rescued is also one of ours.

Sam

The whole thing is a setup.

Kensi

That is why you stationed me and Deeks so far away from Fisk and the Aryans. The op this morning wasn't about them. It was about your ruse. I knew something was off. I knew it!

Callen

We suspected Fisk had a mole. It was a ploy to force Bates to cut ties and take Deeks back from us.

Kensi

Do you guys have any idea what I've been through today?

Sam

It was Hetty's call, Kensi.

Callen

All right. There must be other toy ponies.

Sam

You don't get it. She talks. She flaps her wings. And she responds to 30 commands.

Kensi

OH! Five more than Deeks.

Deeks

[enters] How's that? Talking about me?