What happened to G Callen on NCIS Los Angeles?

NCIS: Los Angeles shares sneak peek into this Sunday's episode and shared a surprising detail into the backstory of Chris O'Donnell's G. Callen.

NCIS: Los Angeles has given fans a sneak peek into this Sunday's episode and shared a surprising detail into the backstory of Chris O'Donnell's G. Callen.

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In the clip, Callen and Marty Deeks walk into a home where two parents have been kidnapped, with Deeks revealing they own an architecture firm.


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"I wanted to be an architect when I was a kid," Callen then says, before he adds: "Hotels, train stations, airports, that sort of thing."

"Lots to unpack with that statement," Deeks then quips in response before their attention turns to the crime scene.

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Fans were quick to share their love for the scene and the reveal with one writing: "Yes I love This Show. I like Callen and all of the team. I can't wait until Sunday 16th October 2022 to See All-New Season 14 of #ncisla."

"Love Deeks and Callen together, need more of this," shared another.

What happened to G Callen on NCIS Los Angeles?

Chris O'Donnell stars as Callen

The clip comes after show bosses confirmed the return of the iconic character Hetty Lange, played by Linda Hunt. Linda last appeared as Hetty in the series 13 premiere, which aired in October 2021.

Ahead of the season's release, Gemmill revealed that Linda's role had been reduced in order to protect the actress amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In the premiere episode of season 14, it was revealed that a body had been found in Syria, which was Hetty's last known location, and by the end of the episode, fans learnt that the body discovered was a child but had Hetty's IDs attached to them, suggesting that she had tried to stage her own death.

What happened to G Callen on NCIS Los Angeles?

Linda will return as Hetty

However the show's executive producer R. Scott Gemmill put fans' minds at ease, however, when he told Variety that Hetty would return at some point in the season.

"Hetty has been an integral force within the agency and an especially important part of Callen's past," he began.

"As Callen starts thinking about his upcoming wedding to Anna, he would want Hetty present. The plan is to go and rescue her at some point and find out what she’s gotten herself into in Syria, but we're just trying to figure out when we can pull it off. The goal is to make it happen this season."

NCIS LA stalwart G Callen may finally find his days numbered as season 13 edges towards its finale. A handful of sneak peeks from the penultimate instalment Down the Rabbit Hole has fueled the theory Katya will finally kill off her nemesis.

By Alex Davies

01:01, Sat, May 14, 2022

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Callen (played by Chris O’Donnell) has been hot on the tail of Katya Miranova (Sasha Clements) throughout NCIS LA season 13 as she continues to try and bring down her old enemy and Anna (Bar Paly). CBS viewers have witnessed the wicked and high-tech ways in which Katya’s got one over on Callen, particularly through her use of deep fakes, and in episode 21, it looks like the long-serving agent has finally fallen into her trap.

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CBS has released a number of NCIS LA sneak peeks from the episode, with one opening with a rather panicked Callen and Sam.

“You didn’t call me just now?” a worried Callen says to Sam over the phone after receiving a distressing call from his colleague.

After Sam confirms he hasn’t, Callen puts two and two together and tells him: “I just got a deep fake call from you and Fatima.”

“Both of us? Well, that’s gotta be Katya,” Sam replies to which Callen drops the ominous warning: “Whatever she’s been planning, it’s starting.”

“She’s gonna build deep fakes on all of us. Kilbride, Anna, Set-Nav, anybody,” Sam remarks, clearly worried about Katya’s capabilities.

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However, Callen did have one positive for his colleague: “Good news is she doesn’t know our verbal codes, I said, ‘Sam Hanna, greatest partner in the world.’”

“She didn’t know the reply?” Sam answers, to which Callen confirms: “No, who’d have thought you saying you loved me would save my life?”

“I’ll talk to Fatima,” Sam weighs in. “Tell her to put our comms on an encrypted loop. We gotta know we’re not talking to deep fakes.”

Callen continues: “It gets worse, she tried to lure me to our stakeout we’ve been having for Marshall Davis.”

“She knows about our case? That’s scary. We were running that stakeout for a long time, that means she was running surveillance on us,” Sam says although Callen suggests they go along with the wicked Katya’s plan: “I think we follow her lead.”

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However, Callen will undoubtedly wish he had opted against this as another sneak peek shows him being brutally assaulted at the stakeout.

After Fatima, Sam and Kensi (Daniela Ruah) arrives at the stakeout once Callen’s comms have gone offline, they watch CCTV footage of Katya and her henchmen beating Callen to a pulp.

What follows is them kidnapping Callen and holding him hostage in a freight container - and present him with arguably the most haunting warning yet death may be on the cards.

As Callen slowly regains his composure after being brutally beaten by Katya and her men, a deep fake appears on a screen left in the corner.

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The deep fake Callen says to the real-life agent: “Wow, not looking so good bud, rough morning?”

“Katya,” an exasperated Callen says to himself before the deep fake issues a harrowing warning.

It says to Callen: “We’ve got a great show for you today. Have you ever seen This Is Your Life? Really moving… 

“Well, this is like that but I call this one This Is the End of Your Life.”

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The final sneak peek released shows Katya confronting Callen in the container.

She lands a number of punches on the agent after accusing him of lying to her about Pembroke.

Callen tells Katya that hitting him won’t do anything as the pair had been trained to endure pain.

But as Callen tries to empathise with Katya, she drops another spine-tingling warning: “Let’s see how much we are the same.”

Will Katya go too far in inflicting pain on Callen and end up killing him? Or is murdering the agent what she’s been planning all along?

What happens to Callen in NCIS?

Inside the house, Hetty fails to convince Alexa Comescu, the matriarch of the Comescu family, that Callen died three weeks ago, showing her a clip of the attempted assassination and a death certificate.

Are Callen and Anna still together?

After she was sentenced to nine years in jail, the couple eventually reunited after Anna escaped to save Callen's dad and relocated to Cuba.

Why is Hetty not on NCIS: LA anymore?

Hunt last appeared in the Season 13 premiere, titled “Subject 17,” which aired in October 2021. Gemmill confirmed last year that, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Hunt's role was made smaller in order to keep the 77-year-old actor safe.

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The NCIS team's loyalties will be tested in next week's episode when G. Callen (played by Chris O'Donnell) goes under the wire after being exposed as a Russian double agent.