Linda Hunt credited as playing...
Hetty Lange
- Special Agent G. Callen: [Hitting the phone's mute button] Does anybody else think this is weird?
- Eric Beale: Oh yeah. We all think it's weird.
- Special Agent G. Callen: Just checking.
- [Callen takes the phone off mute]
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: I heard that Mr. Callen.
- Eric Beale: How?
- Special Agent Sam Hanna: [Realizing Hetty's not in Ops] Are you punking us? Because you better not be!
- Eric Beale: No sir. I would not be!
- Special Agent Mike Renko: Then where is she?
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: [On the speaker phone] I'm everywhere Mr. Renko. Or have you been on assignments so long you've forgotten?
- Leon Vance: This isn't a witchhunt, Hetty.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: Oh, I recall same thing was said to my predacessor, before she disappeared. Last I heard of Macy, she was working out of a Quonset hunt in Djibouti.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: This is a crockpot cockamamie operation! I leave for a few hours and you all turn into lunatics. These militia groups are far more paranoid than you can possibly appreciate. Now this is what I want you to do -
- [Dialtone]
- Operator: If you'd like to make a call please hang up and try again.
- Eric Beale: It wasn't me!
- Leon Vance: I'll take care of it, Hetty. I promise.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: Some promises, you *can't* keep, Leon.
- Special Agent Dominic Vaile: [the phone rings] Uh, incoming. It's Hetty.
- Eric Beale: [Putting the call on speaker] Hetty, it's all of us. Please don't yell.
- Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange: I'm not yelling. What don't I know?