After suffering heartbreaking losses, agents g callen chris o donnell, sam hanna ll cool j and crew are ready to go where america needs them. Hetty summed it up best when she said, its about bloody time. Elsewhere, sam is still, happily on leave, while hetty has gone awol. Linda hunt, the actress who plays hetty lange, has a very good reason for being away from the ncis. Hetty s brilliant comeback proves why she should be calling all the shots. Hetty linda hunt will accommodate an old friend from the vietnam war who is back in the u. When it returns in march, viewers can expect to see the search and rescue operation for. Nia long joined the cast as shay mosley for the ninth season after miguel ferrers death the ninth season ranked 23 with a total of 10.
In the closing minutes, the producers finally revealed the good news. The disappearance of hetty was the major focus of much of the season, and it feels like a. The ncis seeks guidance from a monk as they search for a missing hetty in vietnam. I once had a dream that hetty and i were in a hot tub with charles nelson reilly and grimace, and that got disturbing. We expected to see more of her after she surprised us at deeks and kensis wedding. Some shows will use a successful season and a solid audience to push the boat out, try to add new things, make it more interesting. The ncis team joins hettys old friends from the vietnam war in an offthebooks rescue. After missing all of season 10, fanfavorite character henriette hetty lang came back to ncis. In one way, we know the answer to that question the show is giving us a taste this season of her past in vietnam along with a man she once apparently served with. The season contained 24 episodes and the series 200th episode. Played by linda hunt, is her time on the show coming to an end. Also, hetty tries to help keane acclimate to life in the. Callen, sam, kensi and deeks join hetty s team from the vietnam war in a dangerous and offthebooks rescue mission to save.
David james elliott to apprehend spies aboard the uss allegiance. In the episode titled reentry, the synopsis reveals that hetty will be helping keane jeff kober adjust to living in the country again. Callen chris odonnell and the others will stop at nothing until they locate hetty linda hunt in the upcoming episode of ncis. Last november, in a statement published by tv line, hunt revealed she was taking time away from the show to recover after being in a car accident. The ncis team joins hetty s old friends from the vietnam war in an offthebooks rescue mission to save her from her captors. A new executive director arrives and immediately makes staffing changes. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets. Henrietta hetty lange is the current operations manager for the office of special projects. The below contains major spoilers for season 11, episode 11 of ncis. It remains to be seen whether granger will succumb to his injuries, or be written out of the show some other way. Watch a thrilling, actionpacked trailer for cbs ncis. Callen, sam and nell travel to the angeles forest to search for pieces of a failed rocket launch, including a topsecret government device.
With much anticipation and unblinking attention, on october 1, 2017, the world witnessed the premiere of ncis. In season nine, sometime following the events of the season eight finale, hetty got word of the survival of one of her former cia unit members named keane via dang, a notorious human trafficker and h ighprofile criminal, and secretly went to vietnam to investigate. Theres a lot to look forward to in 20192020, including an episode that will reveal more about hetty linda hunt. While the team searches for hetty s mysterious whereabouts, executive assistant director shay mosley nia long is brought in to oversee the team. Written and produced by shane brennan, the series would follow a mobile team of agents who live and work together as they go across the country to solve crimes. There have been many questions revolving the fanfavorite character hetty, played by linda hunt. Sarah mac mackenzie to neutralize a missile attack in the middle east, and kensi and deeks are trapped in a. A lot of things are expected to happen in the upcoming episodes, particularly on the rescue mission of hetty. Last season, actress linda hunt took a hiatus from her beloved character while she recovered from a scary car accident. The character was kidnapped in vietnam during season 9, held hostage, and then eventually rescued. Her team and her friends rescued hetty and corrected a episode mistake on ncis. Las eric christian olsen promises that hettys rescue by all means necessary is worth the wait. While the team at ncis was up to their usual crimefighting and bringing bad guys to justice this season, their cases took a backseat to the emotional drama surrounding the characters personal lives. Linda hunt as henrietta lange, ncis supervisory special agent ssa and.
She is still very much alive, shes not leaving the show, and she is off on a supersecret mission in vietnam. While the team searches for hetty s mysterious whereabouts, executive assistant director shay mosley nia long is brought in to oversee the team, and her changes cause friction with callen chris odonnell and sam ll cool j. Nia long joined the cast as shay mosley for the ninth season after miguel ferrers death. The first season of the american television series ncis. The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of ncis.