NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series)

Random on Purpose (2009)

Linda Hunt: Hetty Lange

Quotes 

• Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : But I must say, Abby. You are the first NCIS employee I've ever met with a sense of style.

  [to the LA team] 

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : You'd be well to note that. One can be functional and stylish at the same time. Right, Mr. Beal?

• Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : There's no fuzziness, Callen. You just shoot the ducks. I just row the boat.

• Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Nate, if your comment that they might be miffed constitutes trying to stop me, I suggest you learn more forceful ways of self-assertion, not that I would have listened.

• Special Agent G. Callen : Who gangs up on the Director of a Federal Agency?

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Oh, you'd be surprised, Mr. Callen.

  Special Agent G. Callen : And who's the expert?

  Abby Sciuto : [Off screen]  Oops. I think I took a wrong turn. Hello?

  Eric Beal : Abby? We're in here.

  Abby Sciuto : [Abby enters Ops]  There you are. Hi. Wow! This place is seriously cool.

• Eric Beal : Wait. He's toasting her? I thought he was going to gloat. What's with the wine and the bed?

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Men love women who appreciate them. And she *alone* has appreciated him.

  Nate Getz : I don't buy it. He's too smart. He know she's his downfall. He knows that she won't come around. At best, he's just playing with her.

  Eric Beal : Playing like chess?

  Nate Getz : More like a bear with salmon.

• Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : You're going to tell me that I should have consulted you before...

  Special Agent G. Callen : Nope... My team's getting half-a-day's deskwork in half an hour. You row pretty good.

• [last lines] 

  Special Agent G. Callen : My team is getting 1/2 a days paper done in 1/2 an hour. You row pretty good.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Thanks.

• Special Agent Kensi Blye : So *you* moved out stuff.

  Nate Getz : I tried to stop her.

  Special Agent G. Callen : Hetty. She's the only one -

  [Hetty enters] 

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Continue, Mr. Callen. Continue.

  Special Agent G. Callen : With the authority.

• Leon Vance : All right. You keep me in the loop. Gibbs and his team are en route to Manassass Airport. He's trying to get a favor with the FBI to borrow their G5. They'll be with you by mid-day.

  Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Let's pray Abby has that long.