‘NCIS: LA’ Plans to Deliver Again Linda Hunt’s Hetty in Season 14

“NCIS: LA” viewers had been alarmed this week when the Season 14 premiere of the CBS procedural didn’t embody Linda Hunt’s Hetty, the character whose final identified location was Syria. Within the episode, the staff obtained phrase {that a} physique had been a physique present in Syria. By the tip, they be taught that it was a toddler’s physique however they’d Hetty’s IDs hooked up to them — probably as a result of she needed to stage her personal dying.

Whereas it hasn’t been decided what precisely she’s as much as, there are plans for her to return to the present this season, confirms govt producer R. Scott Gemmill, particularly with Callen (Chris O’Donnell) and Anna’s (Bar Paly) nuptials.

“Hetty has been an integral pressure inside the company and an particularly necessary a part of Callen’s previous,” Gemmill informed Selection in an announcement on Tuesday. “As Callen begins fascinated about his upcoming wedding ceremony to Anna, he would need Hetty current. The plan is to go and rescue her sooner or later and discover out what she’s gotten herself into in Syria, however we’re simply attempting to determine once we can pull it off. The purpose is to make it occur this season.”

Hunt final appeared within the Season 13 premiere, titled “Topic 17,” which aired in October 2021. Gemmill confirmed final yr that, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Hunt’s position was made smaller as a way to preserve the 77-year-old actor secure.

“NCIS: Los Angeles” airs on CBS Sundays at 10 p.m.