"Hetty has resigned her position." " Who are you?" " Lauren Hunter." "Her replacement." "Zulu-November." "Operation Comescu." "You are not longer on this case, Agent Callen." "Operation Comescu is all about you." "Find her, Agent Hunter, before they all get killed." " Hetty's alive." " Where?" "I have a message for the head of the Comescu family." "I am the head of the Comescu family." "Callen died three weeks ago." "And why should I trust you?" "They are coming?" "Let them come." "♪ NCIS:" "LA 3x01 ♪ Lange, H. Original air date on September 20, 2011" "== sync, corrected by elderman ==" "♪" "The best fruit." "Handpicked." "Dulceata." "I learned this from my mother." "She learned it from her mother." "And her mother from hers." "And so on." "A family tradition then-- preservation." "Some things are more important to protect than others." "Yes, they are." "This feud-- how long has it been going on?" "Since the war." "Now... it's over." "Is it?" "I need to know you're gonna be okay." "I said, I need to know you're gonna be okay." "Yeah." "I'm all right." "Because if you're not gonna be okay, and you're gonna lose it when you're supposed to be watching my back," "I'd like to know." "That's the Black Sea." "Yes, it is." "I always assumed it was the Pacific." "California." "You do know where we are." "Romania." "We need to get off the street, figure out a plan." "Couple blocks back, there are some workshops, old warehouses." "Auto trade mostly." "Preferably an alleyway, in case we need to get out fast." "Workshop, warehouses and alleys." "Got it." "How do you know this place?" "I was born here." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "What are you doing?" "Coffee, black." "Sugar, brown." "Brewed, not stewed, and Oreos... if you want 'em." "No food or beverages in ops." "Who says?" "Doesn't seem right." "She's not here, Eric." "No, she's not." "She resigned." "Yes, she did." "She's somewhere in Eastern Europe." "Most likely." "She has zero control over what you do, what you say, or what rules you choose to break." "And yet..." "Did you say Oreos?" "No credit card usage." "No hotels booked under her alias." "No contact." "Nothing since that taxi dropped Hetty off at the address in Prague." "It's owned by a Comescu family company." "Let's see." "It's a residential area." "Probably a safe house, or maybe a courier drop, but nothing that makes it stand out" "Whoa." "What?" "It's a wire report out of Prague." "There was a shooting at that address overnight." "It's being reported as a gangland war." "Five dead." "All of them Romanian." "One was a Comescu." "I just got off the phone with Interpol." "Said it was more like a military black op than a gangland shootout." "When?" "Just after 10:00, local time." "Six hours after Callen and the others landed in Prague." "Officially, we only have one agent in that part of the world." "Of course, Director, and that's obviously what you came to tell us." "Director?" "That one agent-- would that be" "Agent Hunter?" "Agent Hunter is making enquires about a former employee." "Which would be Hetty." "Miss Lange, yes." "Hmm." "Uh... any news from Agent Hunter?" "If you find anything, let me know." "So, uh, judging by the dust," "I think we got a good 30 years before anybody comes back." "We got to find out what we're up against." "The Comescus probably heard about the shooting in Prague, but we got here fast." "They'll be expecting us, but not yet." "Well, what if Hetty's already gone?" "What if they've already moved her from the beach house?" "She's here." "They haven't moved her." "You want to share?" "This is where they live." "It's where they feel safe." "Go play tourist." "Count heads, map out the perimeter." "Back in 30." "You got it." "You got 30 minutes." "To do what?" "To tell me what just happened on the beach." "So... you are familia." "Roma." "Gypsy." "I was born after the war, in a refugee camp in Bucharest." "And your parents?" "Two years... in a German death camp." "My father died two months before I was born." "My mother... two days after." "A family in the camp raised me." "They were also Roma." "And what was this family's name?" "Pavlenco." "You lie." "I most certainly do not lie, Alexa." "Taken yesterday at Prague airport." "You lie, Henrietta." "You lie." "You lie." "You lie." "You killed two of our people in Prague." "And these killed five more." "One of them a nephew." "And you make soup." "These agents-- they come for me?" "No, me." "To kill you?" "No, to save me." "You try to save this one by bringing me evidence he is dead." "Call it a final attempt to end the bloodshed between his family and yours." "I'm sure you knew it must fail, which leaves me to wonder, Henrietta Lange, why, exactly, did you come?" "She went to protect Callen." "Callen's perfectly capable of protecting himself." " And then some." " Mm." "So why did she go?" "Director Vance said it was a thin file." "Maybe there wasn't enough evidence to make a case." "Hmm, but she must have known" "Callen would have come after her." "Wherever Callen goes, Sam goes, and Kensi." "And Deeks." "What if she couldn't get approval to run the operation, so instead she puts herself out there, knows they'll all come to back her up?" "Kind of a desperate play." "Yeah, but what if she had no choice?" "They were about to come after Callen." "Offense is the best defense." "Mm." "Wait, what did you say?" "Offense is the best defense?" "No, no, before that, you said it was a thin file." "I didn't say that;" "Director Vance did." "I heard him telling Callen." "Okay, but the file Hetty erased was a big file-- 20 megabytes, at least;" "hundreds of pages." "Maybe it was all for show so we'd stop looking?" "Two files." "A fat file for show and a thin file, and if she only erased one..." "Then the real Comescu file is still in there." "You gonna tell me what spooked you?" "You said I had 30 minutes;" "it's only been seven." "How long is it gonna take you to tell me?" "About a minute." "Then you got 22 minutes." "Good." "That's the third time you've stripped that pistol." "You'll wear it out." "Yeah, just load your ammo, okay?" "Those memories I told you about-- the guy giving me the toy soldier." "I always just assumed that's where it took place-- on a local beach, kids playing." "I was making sand castles." "This is where I'm from, Sam." "How can you be so sure?" "I remembered a woman." "My mother." "They shot her." "If you tell me... how this all started I'll tell you why I came." "In the war... my grandfather did what he had to do to keep his family safe." "Safe from the death camps." "Late in the war, there was a coup." "The power shifted." "From being someone the government could rely on, my grandfather became someone to be despised." "There was an American." "OSS." "You know of the OSS?" "Now the CIA." "This American hunted my grandfather down and killed him, along with two of his brothers." "This OSS agent was" "Callen's grandfather." "And the Comescu family responded in kind?" "It took two years to find him." "He had married a Roma girl, they had... a child." "My father was the one to find him." "The mother and child-- a daughter-- escaped to America." "But it didn't end there." "25 years later, the daughter came back." "She had changed her name." "She had two children." "A girl and a boy." "My father swore on his father's grave to end their bloodline." "She died not far from here on a beach while her son played." "He won't go easily." "No, he won't." "It is in his blood." "Why did you come?" "To make amends." "Big smile." "This one's going to be for the album." "What album is this?" "Honeymoon, yeah?" "Honeymoon?" "We are on honeymoon in Romania?" "Romantic Romania." "Look at this place-- it's perfect." "Yeah?" "Well," "I don't see a ring on this finger, lover-boy." "Well, that's because you, darling, left it at the hotel when we went swimming." "Swimming?" "And our swimsuits are...?" "Optional." "Our swimsuits are optional." "Actually, you know what?" "There's a swimsuit-optional beach right up there, and, yep, the batteries are fully charged." "We could do this." "Yeah, well, I'm really sorry, not today, little brother." "Little brother-- are you kidding me?" "Why's it always got to be the brother-sister thing with you?" "Well, we're on a family vacation, so keep snapping." "All right." "Two guys leaving the house." "Well, it hasn't been partitioned on the main drive." "Nothing on the user or new file logs." "It's not here." "It's got to be here." "It can't be anywhere else." "Okay, so if you were Hetty, where would you hide a file on a server that you didn't want anyone else to find?" "In plain sight." "She wouldn't, would she?" "She made a simple copy and parked it." "The Comescu file has been right there all along." "What now?" "Zulu-November-Tango-1179-- the director's access code." "We could get fired." "Your computer." "Hmm, looks like someone got access to the Comescu family album." "The captions are translated." ""Vasile with Dracul and Ilena on his birthday, 1987."" ""Ilena with Auntie Alexa at the beach house."" ""Dracul, Vasile, Ion, Alexa, and Ilena at Uncle Petru's, January 2011."" "Look at Ilena's face-- it's completely out of focus." ""Ilena's welcome home party, 2009."" "Can you unblur them?" "Maybe." "Here they come." "Female visitor." "Why would the Comescus blur her face?" "The blurring was done after it was downloaded onto our server." "The Comescus didn't do it." "We did." "That's a warm welcome, little kissy-kissy." "They've obviously met before." "That can't be." "What?" "Who is it?" "It's Hunter." "Vance must have sent her." "But how did she know where to find them?" "She's got to be undercover." "Maybe it's not her first time at the beach house." "Yeah, they've clearly met before." "She's undercover... she targets him, picks him up at a bar or the gym... starts dating him." "Gets invited home to meet the family." "That's what I'd do." "What do we do?" "Having her in the house changes the plan." "We have a plan?" "Yeah." "Kill 'em all." "The mobile customer you are trying to call is not available or out of range." "Please" "We're going to have to tell the director." "What, that we illegally used his password to access an Eyes Only file?" "He must know what's in the file." "I wouldn't be so sure." "I mean, Hetty had two files." "Maybe she had more." "Maybe she only showed him what she needed him to know." "What, like, a plausible deniability kind of thing?" "More like a Hetty trying to save her butt kind of thing." "Okay, Eric, Hetty doesn't work here anymore." "Director Vance is our boss now." "And always has been." "Director Vance." "I thought Hetty had a rule about eating in ops, Eric." "Um, she does." "She did." "Do you have anything to report?" "Nothing." "That can't wait." "I need you to locate an active GPS device." "Who are we tracking?" "Agent Hunter." "Excellent." "Tracking GPS." "Overlaying pictometry." "All right, she's at a beach house on the Black Sea." "Or at least her GPS tracker is." "Who owns this beach house, Eric?" "Um..." "Property is owned by a company registered in the Cayman Islands." "CFQ Limited." "Three listed directors" "Alexa Comescu, Vasile Comescu and Dracul Comescu." "How do you say "bingo" in Romanian?" " Bingo." " Bingo." "In the camp of the enemy." "How did she know to go there?" "That's a very good question, Miss Jones." "Why hasn't she called?" "So, basically, those were Callan's instructions." "So that's the plan-- just kill them all?" "Yep." "Mm-hmm." "Has anyone figured out exactly how we're going to do that?" " No, not yet." " Right, okay." "Well, listen..." "I'm on my third gelato here, and I'm beginning to wonder if my new wife has up and dumped me, but..." "I think you mean sister." "Okay, fine." "My sister." "Thank you." "And I was..." "Hold on." "What's happening?" "Deeks?" "Hello?" "Okay, I'm starting to feel exposed here." "I think I'm going to move." "I will, uh, I'll call you back." "Deeks good?" "Yeah." "Moving position." "You see any electronic security?" "Cameras?" "Sensors?" "Just lots of guards." "A dozen on the grounds at least;" "probably more inside." "Going to have to draw them out." "Need a diversion." "Oh, joy." "Really?" "Luka!" "I hate Romania!" "There's stairs up from the beach here, but all the beach approaches are heavily guarded, so..." "I got three prisoners." "Where?" "Right behind me." "Okay, make that one prisoner and two dead guys." "Over!" "You got made?" "I didn't get made." "you definitely got made." "Not because of anything that I did." "One gelato too many." "Dracul Nicolae Comescu." "Well, I definitely didn't get made." "They knew who to look for." "Looks like somebody knew we were coming." "This narrows down our options." "We get within a hundred feet of that place, we're compromised." "And we still don't know if Hetty's even there." "Think they got a chance to call it in?" "I didn't wait around to find out." "As soon as I got made-- spotted" " I took off." "They were snapping at my heels." "Maybe not." "We need to move before they miss these guys." "What about Hunter?" "There's no photo of her." "We got to assume her cover's still intact." "What cover might that be?" "Who is she?" "It's a good-looking woman, Sam." "You think she's his girlfriend?" "A woman like that wants a man with power and money." "You got power and money, Dracul?" "Didn't think so." "He's just tenth-rate muscle, 20 times removed from the head of the family." "What's her name?" "Why don't you knock on the door and ask her yourself." "Right answer." "We just might do that." "What do you know of the boy on the beach?" "His time should have ended with his mother." "This was a mistake." "Instead, he grew into a man." "You know a lot about him then." "More than you." "More than he knows about himself." "Who he is." "From where he comes." "He was given his grandfather's name" " Callen." "Yes." "What about his first name?" "You know what it is?" "What is this thing you did that was so bad that you must come to my house and die to make your amends?" "It's not what I did." "It's what I didn't do." "What I couldn't do." "Save her." "Save his mother." "And we are on stream." "Ready to track Hunter's cell phone." "Colonel, thank you for making this happen." "Take care." "Yes, you, too." "Low orbit, oblique angles-- so coverage could be a little scratchy." "What's our window, Eric?" "We've tasked a small target area, only two square miles, so our window's less than 15 seconds, starting in ten." "Big screen, Eric." "And we are capturing data." "Every pinpoint of light is an active GPS cell phone." "Romanians love their cell phones." "Data capture terminating in three, two, one." "And the show's over." "We got it, I hope." "Just need to overlay it with our satellite imagery and we are good to snoop." "Okay." "Let's see." "Agent Hunter's cell phone." "Now for the fun part." "Let's start with all calls over the last 24 hours and check for callbacks." "And we have a winner." "Three calls to the same number." "Looks like a cell phone registered to the same Comescu family company that owns the beach house." "Local search, Eric." "Got it." "The cell phone's just a couple blocks from Hunter's current location." "Not residential." "Guessing a light industrial area." "Business is bad." "Hardly any active cell phones." "Although four are in the same building as our guy." "Whoever he is, he's got company." "Huh... the four numbers are sequential." "Means they were bought at the same time." "Burn phones." "Bought where, Eric?" "Prague Airport yesterday." "I think we just found Callen." "Or their cell phones." "Well, they're all in close proximity." "I'm guessing same room." "Which means they could have one of the Comescus." "Or Comescu could have all of them." "Text message, Eric." "Who to?" "All four of them." "Maybe one of them will answer." "So what do you want to do with him?" "We could tie him up, call an ambulance, once we're clear of the beach house." "Or do you have something else in mind?" "Your call." "I found something." "It's in his address book." "Tell me about Ilena." "She's not the woman you should fear." "You still want to be breathing when you walk out of here, you tell me about her." " You think she's my girlfriend?" " Tell me!" "I've known her all my life." "We played together when we were children." "Ilena is my cousin." "Oh, I'm so not expecting a phone call." "They found us." "Eric's good." "Eric and Nell are good." "This is Eric." "It's Callen." "Uh, hold for Director Vance." "It's Callen." "You're a long way from home, Agent Callen." "Well, a couple of days ago," "I would have agreed with you." "Right now, I'm not so sure." "Is your team okay?" "Not my team." "Hetty's team, then." "We're fine." "Have you found her?" "She's in a beach house a couple blocks from where we are." "I see." "Anything else?" "They knew we were coming." "They've been tracking us since we landed in Prague." "Have you heard the name, Ilena Vadim?" "No, I haven't, but it appears that Eric and Miss Jones have." "There were two Comescu files on the server." "Ilena's face had been blurred out." "Eric unblurred it." "Ilena Vadim and Agent Hunter appear to be the same person." "Agent Hunter has been gathering intel in Romania on the Comescu case for the past three months." "But some of the photos go back further than three months." "How much further?" "At least two years." "Some to when she was a little girl." "The photo captions suggest she's one of the family." "Cousins, according to Dracul Comescu." "And you believe him, Callen?" "He has no reason to lie." "Somebody told them we were coming." "The Comescus are in the human traffic business." "They pay corrupt officials to keep them informed." "Okay, well, that is one explanation." "I don't want to believe the other explanation, Agent Callen." "Incoming call" " Comescu's phone." "It's Hunter." "He's with me." "Callen." "You're here already." "Dracul couldn't make it to the phone." "He's dead?" "Bleeding." "Where are you?" "Close enough to see you arrive at the beach house." "Hetty?" "I haven't seen her yet." "But they're keeping her alive to flush you out." "Well, it's working." "How do you want to do this?" "I am open to suggestions." "Tell me where you are." "An old auto workshop." "Two blocks off Main Street, one block south." "There's a broken gas pump in front." "Give me ten minutes." "Ten minutes." "Get that?" "Agent Callen, do you have a plan?" "I gave up being an agent when I turned in my badge." "You didn't turn in your badge." "You mistakenly left it on Hetty's desk." "I put it in her drawer for safekeeping." "Do you have a plan?" "Yeah." "Enlighten me." "Save Hetty." "Carry on, Agent Callen." "Hunter's on our side." "I mean, she has to be, right?" "So... you knew his mother." "Yes." "Tell me..." "Ilena was taken away by her father after her mother died." "Two years ago, she came back to us." "Came back to you?" "She's my niece." "Kensi, Deeks, go, go, go." "I counted 12." "Evens up the odds." "Only until they discover we've gone." " You see Hunter?" " Nope." "On your right!" "Hetty." "I know who you are." "I know your family." "I know everything about you." "When did you trust me?" "Not until you pulled the trigger." "You're good?" "Mm." "You didn't play with Dracul when you were kids." "That would be his real cousin, Ilena, who's happily married in Argentina and wants nothing to do with her family." "And you came back as Ilena." "They wanted to believe their niece would come back to them one day." "But why you?" "For what?" "This." " We good?" " We're good." "Hetty, time to hustle." "Deeks and Kensi are at the car." "Hetty?" "Hetty?" "== sync, corrected by elderman =="