He's a bureaucrat, Sam thinks I have a deep-seated suspicion of them.
I'm a bureaucrat, Agent Callen.
I don't have a deep-seated suspicion of you, uh, Director.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[Callen, Sam and Jimmy dive for cover behind a car as an assassin fires at them.]
You want to peak your head over and take a look?
I'm good.
And the duress word is?
DDom
Uh, uh.
He who hesitates... is lost, Dominic. In your line of work... dead.
DDom
Uh, "shadows."
And with the utterance of that single word the cavalry will race to the rescue. Let's hope they don't get caught in traffic.
Operators are made, they're not born, G. Skills can be taught.
[...]
Teachers learn to be teachers, cops learn to be cops.
Mm-hmm. And somebody taught LeBron how to dunk from the free-throw line.
SEALs learn to be SEALs, G.
Oh, that's right. You couldn't swim when you enlisted, could you? How long did they let you wear the floaties? Look, I will take a lazy natural operator over an all-night studier any day of the week.
[sarcastic] It's too late, I already did it.
Mm-hm.
Nature versus nurture, quite the conundrum.
You cannot use the word "conundrum" before 9:30, Hetty.
9:31, which means, Mr. Callen, you're late.
So, do you think Hetty was born or made?
Hatched.
[Dom and Eric looking at busty woman on surveillance video]
DDom
Whoa!
Hel-lo!
If only your vocabularies could be augmented as much. [walks away]
DDom
Busted.
[Discussing Agent Giordano]
I don't date law enforcement.
I think you might want to make an exception this time.
Sam, you know the rule, if they've got their own handcuffs, I'm out.
Take her out to dinner, after the case is over.
Agent Giordano?
Hmm... and take Sam the next night, you know how he gets.
That phone call is for you, Mr. Callen. Director Vance. [Phone rings]
Callen. Yes, director. Standby. [hangs up] How does she do that?
I don't know, but that's the worst tea I've ever had in my entire life.
Someone's been watching you Agent Callen. I need to know who. I need to know why. Anything you might have forgotten to tell me about?
Not that would explain this.
[Nate and Kensi are whispering in Hetty's office.]
Where does she get all this stuff?
None of it's redacted, not a single word.
What if she's the redactor?
There's a scary thought. Hetty's the cleaning house for every censored government documents released to the public.
So how does a former KGB agent end up so wealthy, so fast?
Because he knows where the bodies are buried. [pauses] Most likely because he's the one who buried them.
We got a plan?
Yeah, how about we kick in his door and ask him why he's the only one of us that didn't get shot?
I've used that one before, it's a very effective plan.
[greeting Hetty] Welcome to DC, Henrietta.
Director Vance, door-to-door service, how out of character.
Well people can change and I owe you one, big time.
You do, especially for forcing me to leave the children in charge.
How much trouble can they get into in eight hours?
[Phone rings, Eric answers.]
This is Eric.
It's good to hear you still know who you are.
Ah, Hetty, you having a good time in Washington?
The last person to have a good time in Washington was General Jubal Early in 1864, he was attacking it at the time.
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