Never fails.
Just when our boys are making progress and we’re all cheering for them, we realize…
G DUCKED BEHIND HETTY’S JAG?!?!
And we stare, wide-eyed and mouth gaping.
In the moments of silence, when Callen is surveying the shot-up vintage car, we all realize: there’s going to be trouble with Hetty…
And that trouble?
May last weeks.
Months.
This is the part where we all tremble.
And, GOOD! The boys survived another one.
Yes, Callen may have been on the receiving end of Sam’s pulled punches, but they survived a bad situation, again. No one was shot. No trips to the hospital. No creepy bad guy got away. Just resolution and sighs of relief.
Five years to the day.
Time to celebrate?
Then, there’s the argument… In surround sound: Let’s drink your present. What? Heck no.
How the scotch seemed like a good idea, we’ll never know.
All we know is, Hetty is smarter than that.
“Gentlemen, keep your grubby hands off my scotch!” – Hetty (penned by Gil Grant, Dave Kalstein, Shane Brennan)
I like to add Hetty’s undertone in writing: “Under penalty of the severest kind… Think about that.”
My conclusions?
Sometimes trouble with Hetty happens.
Other times? G and Sam walk right into it.
Name your thoughts on past trouble with Hetty below.
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I loved it when G got a lecture for getting blood on a shirt he had worn while on an Op. Of course, he tried his hand at being a “diversionist,” bringing attention to the fabric make up rather than the blood stain. And then he tried to get off the hook by telling her it wasn’t HIS blood; that it belonged to the bad guy. Neither tactic got past Hetty, however. She was NOT backing down. He had failed to tell her about the stain and had permanently damaged an item in her precious wardrobe.
I loved the scene at the end of this episode, when Hetty found the shirt Callen had worn on the case they had just completed. On it, G had pinned a note pointing out that there was “no blood.” His boyish charm broke through Hetty’s tough exterior… she was amused… she smiled.
So no matter how much trouble our guy gets in to (and he’s done plenty to really, really test her patience), she smiles, forgives, and takes him back under her wing.
“Distractionist.” (;
Yeah. “Distractionist.” Must have been too early in the morning. Ha Ha!