travels to Los Angeles believing something much larger is at play. In a beach town on the Black Sea in Romania, G, Sam, Kensi, and Deeks check out the neighborhood while Hetty chats with the head of the Comescu family, who describes a connection to G. The team shoot their way into a house and save Hetty. Vincent Hanlan | Carla Shear | Sometime after having her own family, two members of the Comescu Family found Clara at the beach in Romania while she was with her children. Gender: Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) Agent Abigail Borin joins the team to tackle the peculiar case. In the episode "Payback", Callen learns from Hetty that Joelle is an undercover CIA agent who has been assigned by rogue agency moles to spy on him. He was then killed by remaining family members in retaliation. Portrayed by: (season 20) The twentieth season of the American police procedural television series NCIS premiered on September 19, 2022 on CBS during the 2022-23 television season. That's when Hetty decided to get involved. Callen later goes to visit his sister's grave, and finds flowers and a recent note left "For my Sweet daughter always in my Heart". Callen's childhood was fraught with abuse, which is referenced during various episodes. An old photo of Clara from presumably the early 1970s. Callen specializes in deep undercover work. Hetty told Callen that Konstantin Chernoff died in 2008 and is buried in the town cemetery in Ruza. Adriana Gorgova | Can you list the top facts and stats about NCIS: Los Angeles (season 3)? Following this mission, where Callen accused Tracy of placing the success of the operation above both their professional and personal partnerships, the two 'divorced,' with Callen joking that in the settlement, Tracy received custody of Buddy, their dog. The Comescus soon became a business involved in human trafficking and various other highly illegal activities. The NCIS teams work together to track Abby's sibling down as part of this emotional, two-hour crossover event. Tilda | As part of their undercover mission in Uzbekistan, Callen and Tracy "married," using the surname Keller. Could this man be Callen's father? She then gives him his mother's name: Clara. (Deadline). He Keeps His Personal Life Private, Vanessa Lachey Hinted That Season 2 of 'NCIS: Hawai'i' Gets "Pretty Emotional" (EXCLUSIVE). In fact, this episode sets up a future appearance from another Kilbride family member. Callen interrogates his father, who admits he's in LA for worknot to see his son. List of Appearances Nikita, however, is killed, and Callen retreated separately from Darius due to a gas exposure set by Nikita's captor Pavel Volkoff. We dont hear too much about Kilbrides son, but by the end of the episode, we learn that their son is at a treatment center dealing with his addiction. The two had met and married in 1947. Picking up where the previous episode left off, McGee and, When the LAPD finds itself embroiled in a shootout with drug runners, a Navy officer winds up dead. Clara Callen With medical treatment, Hetty was able to survive her severe injury and soon returned to work. [6] In the Season 1 episode "Search and Destroy" (S1:E4), Callen is shown easily reading Arabic, with enough fluency to translate on the fly into idiomatic English. It's the work that Sam Hanna (LL Cool J), G. Callen (Chris O'Donnell), and their team have been doing for 14 seasons on the hit crime drama "NCIS: Los . We know so much about Callen's past, but do we really know anything at all? was finally made an official NCIS agent years after his debut on NCIS: Los Angeles. Wendy Smith. When Abby's mission with homeland security goes awry, the NCIS team gets input from both Lasalle and Pride on the case. The team tracks their safe house down to a house on the beach, and Callen starts to remember things from his past, as he realizes he has been on this beach before. Will Hetty be back on NCIS LA? She interrogated Hetty but didn't get anything out of her. But, instead of getting hurt, she's greeted by Vance who warns her that there may be a mole compromising their operation. They break up off screen but still spend Christmas together to avoid being lonely. Rachel Grant | When OSS Agent George Callen was still alive he killed five members of the Comescu Family--who then killed him in revenge. Callen spent time in 37 foster homes. In "Archangel", Callen states that the first time he fired a gun was at the age of 20. Welcome to the new Paramount Press Express website! The NCIS family, including NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans, has a tradition of incredible crossover episodes. But in season 5's "Reznikov, N." it is revealed that Hans Schreiber also kept track of Callen's life, as a favor to Callen's father. In a beach town on the Black Sea in Romania, G, Sam, Kensi, and Deeks check out the neighborhood while Hetty chats with the head of the Comescu family, who describes a connection to G. The team shoot their way into a house and save Hetty. It is never explained why the Comescu family let Callen and his sister live, though Alexa Comescu describes it as "a mistake". The episode ends with Callen being arrested by LAPD and Hetty resigning her position at OSP. This is Thesecret1070. His family is bigger than he realized. Daniel Budd | Alexa Comescu was the head of the Comescu family, the archenemies of Callen's family and is a main antagonist of second season. Clara Callen was born in Europe as the daughter of OSS agent George Callen and his wife (a Romanian woman). He was then killed by remaining family members in retaliation. Jonas Cobb | The marriage and subsequent divorce were fake. Alexa Comescu: Head of the family and deceased. She spent six years abroad before she was murdered at the hands of the Comescu family. Callen had just spent three weeks in juvenile detention before escaping, robbing a storage locker, stealing a car, and then crashing it. The Comescus killed Callen but his wife and daughter fled to the US where they changed identities to be protected from them. The man was spinning a coin like the one that Callen and Arkady had while sipping a cup of espresso. Loretta Tennison | However, in one of his kills he ended up taking pity and raising a member named Darius who he filled the void left by Nikita's children. Ari Haswari | Nikita adopted Darius, whom Callen meets when they both attempt to rescue Nikita. The Series 450th episode. The family also gained another enemy in the form of Clara's husband Nikita Reznikov who enraged by them taking his wife and presumably his children would go on to wipe several members of the family. OccupationAffiliationRank / Title Callen and his sister were found by Clara's handler Hetty Lange who took them to America, while putting them in various families fearing they were being hunted by the Comescu. Worried, he enlists the Los Angeles team's help in hunting Keshwar down. After a Navy Lieutenant is poisoned with a lethal dose of radiation, he turns to the NCIS team to help solve his imminent murder. Anita Karr | Trent Kort | At the end of the episode, Hetty and Arkady Kolcheck explain to Callen that the real Reznikov was a KGB major who was arrested and sent to a Soviet gulag in 1974, around the time Callen and his sister came to America. When Hannah returned, she slept in Amy's bed, and the authorities there never realized what had happened. After passengers and crew on a private plane traveling from New Orleans to Washington D.C. are lethally poisoned, all evidence points to Abby's brother, Luca, the flight's missing chef. Chris O'Donnell portrays Agent G Callen in NCIS Los Angeles who has always struggled with his troubling childhood after the Comescu family murdered his parents. Greg looked up at a knock on the door; one of the bodyguards was standing at the door with a small looking older woman. Louise Moreau | He later found out it was the assassin who took out his mother, Clara and Dracul Comsecu in the car. We knew that the name "Callen" is from his mother's side of the family, but the G has long been a mystery. A total of 24 episodes were produced. Peter Clairmont| Contents 1 Biography 2 Appearances 3 Victims 4 Trivia Biography Watch NCIS: Los Angeles on Sundays at 8/7c on CBS and CBS . Feeling betrayed, Callen permanently severs his ties with Joelle. Nate holds both a master's degree and Ph.D. in psychology. Elizabeth Kilbride (Marilu Henner) makes her first appearance in NCIS: Los Angeles, but it doesnt seem like itll be her last. Even still, while some may only recognize Marilus voice, thats because she was the voice of Gotham City socialite Veronica Vreeland in Batman: The Animated Series, and its various spinoffs. The NCIS family, including NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans , has a tradition of incredible crossover episodes. He then married a Romanian girl, they had a daughter and returned to the US. Callen and Joelle are confirmed to be still together by both Sam and Callen himself. Unfortunately, Alexa saw through this deception and took Hetty hostage. Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions. Background [ edit] Like his mom, Callen worked for The Company. The second season mostly revolves around Callen, who has been stalked by someone he does not know. Hetty Lange- (took hostage, interrogated, presumably intended to kill). New episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles air every Sunday at 10 p.m. EST on CBS. They lived beside the Black Sea. Alive Noticing patterns between this case and others, Abby tells the team she believes the murder is the work of a serial killer called the Phantom. Helaine Morgan | Trent Kort, a longtime acquaintance of Gibbs, makes his way to L.A. and drums up past memories with Callen. Tahir Khaled | For some reason, the people who were behind the killing of Callen's mother gave him a toy soldier to distract him while the assassin completed the job. They appeared in the TV show NCIS: Los Angeles and appeared in Hawaii Five-O. G asks to go to Prague, but Vance refuses, so G lays down his badge and leaves, as do . Alexa was the granddaughter of the original Comescu, who had been an agent of a Nazi puppet regime during the war. Her father, George Callen, was an OSS Agent and killed several members of the Comescu family for war crimes during World War II. In the same episode, it was revealed that Hetty has beaten him on a race up the NCIS rock wall three times in a row, and Callen refuses to challenge her to a re-match despite goading from Sam Hanna. Garrison and Callen shared a poignant moment, with Callen indicating that he knew who the man wasand that he wanted to know more. Ruah opened up about these major revelations ahead of the May finale of her show. At the end of "Legend", Callen was almost killed in a drive-by shooting. Showing all 2 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Summaries . Callen once served with his friend Leroy Jethro Gibbs, who now works at the NCIS Headquarters located in the Washington Navy Yard. Callen and the team later realized (in the first-season episode "Pushback") that his shooting was related to a mission Callen took part in against the Russian Mob, as a DEA agent ten years earlier. Fans were overjoyed as the latest episode rolled out on CBS, though some of the excitement . After a prisoner, who was supposed to be delivered into DiNozzo's custody, gets loose, the D.C.-based agent makes his way to L.A. to help clean up the mess. When she's in town after the exes spend the night together the two reminisce about when Alex was born, and she recalls Kilbride fighting to stay awake while holding him. Hetty had been sent to meet her on the beach where the Comescus killed her. Clara Callen Callen realises he was working in Moscow at the same time his father frequented the city. George Callen was OSS (which later became the CIA) and hunted Romanian war criminals after WWII and killed Comescus. Paloma Reynosa | Callens mother, Clara, was born in Romania, but fled for the United States as a refugee before becoming a CIA agent. The Comescus are a Romanian crime family that had an ongoing feud with the Callens since World War II. Gene Farber She once stated "Never underestimate a Comescu". Sara Strand | In the season two premiere "Human Traffic", Hetty makes arrangements for Callen to purchase a house of his ownthe very same house where he lived with Alina Rostoff as a foster child. It has not yet been revealed why the two siblings were split up and sent to opposite sides of America, although it can be assumed this was on instruction of their father, in order to keep them safe from the Comescu family. Lieutenant Egan | In Reinhardt's house, Deeks discovered an 8mm film of Callen and Amy playing with Reznikov. Pedro Hernandez | He reveals that Callen's birth name is Grisha Aleksandrovich Nikolaev, but has to leave before he could find out any more information. Alejandro Rivera | but the team overcomes. Her mother was a member of the KGB who didn't die but was extracted from her mission and was therefore absent throughout Sydney's childhood. Alexa's father swore to end the agent's bloodline on his father's grave. Never one to sit still, Hetty escapes from her trial and is taken to an empty dinosaur museum. Darius and IIlem are the only non-hostile members of the Comescu Family. On a happier note, Callen is no stranger to magic. Now, Marilu is married to Michael Brown, who recently struggled with a bladder and lung cancer diagnosis. Dr. Nate Getz (portrayed by Peter Cambor) is an operational psychologist working with NCIS, stationed in Los Angeles, introduced in the series' backdoor pilot, the NCIS episode "Legend". When a mission to find a ship with stolen barrels of oil leads to Russia, Arkady accompanies the team. After a year of the mission, Clara vanished for six years and resurfaced with two children, desperate to get out of Romania. Luckily, though, Callen and his colleagues, Sam Hanna, Kensi Blye and Marty Deeks gained access to the room. Even though he's a tough-as-nails agent, it was revealed on "Citadel" (Season 7, Episode 2) thatCallen actually previously failed his HL7, which is a behavioral test for top-secret clearance. Kensi Blye was first introduced to the fans in Season 6. In 2010 a watcher for the Comescu Family was monitoring G. Callen at his sister's gravesite. Callen realizes Arkady Kolchek knows more about his father than he's revealed. They agreed to meet at a beach in Prague, Romania before the small family were to be extracted. In Season 14, Episode 13, A Farewell to Arms, Kilbrides ex-wife makes an appearance. After Janvier and Callen are traded back to their respective sides in a prisoner exchange, Callenfollowing his fake suspensionreturns to lead the OSP team once again. to help the OSP with their investigation. The 70-year-old actor is most well-known, however, for her starring role as Elaine Nardo in the sitcom, Taxi. In 2019 when Callen was looking for his father he discovered that Nikita Alexander Reznikov had hunted the Comescus for killing his wife Clara. You think your family can be tough sometimes? At the table sat Alexa's husband Daniel, Greg, three cousins and a few of the higher family members. She returned to Romania and then a year later vanished for six years. They were then placed in separate orphanages. [5] That fluency allowed Callen to infiltrate a Chechen terrorist cell in the season four episode "The Chosen One" which eerily presaged the Boston Marathon bombing by Chechen immigrants less than three months later. (The addition of an "A" means "son of", so Dracula means the son of the Defender of the Faith.). NCIS: Los Angeles offers a look at who Retired Admiral Hollace Kilbride ( Gerald McRaney) is away from the job in the February 26 episode, and honestly, life isn't much easier, with his ex-wife . [3] Callen also claims to speak Czech and Romanian;[4] furthermore, his Russian is arguably good enough to be taken for one, but not the other, Chechen dialect. Despite their intentions to wipe out the Callen Family, a majority ended up being killed by G. Callen. In a beach town on the Black Sea in Romania, G, Sam, Kensi, and Deeks check out the neighborhood while Hetty chats with the head of the Comescu family, who describes a connection to G. The team shoot their way into a house and save Hetty. When a Petty Officer with a special connection to Pride is found dead. NCIS - Los Angeles Database is a FANDOM TV Community. Anna Boudreau | In 1947 he met and married a 'Romanian Girl' (Callen's grandmother, name unknown). While in Russia, Callen learned that his father was a loyal customer of a cafe there, which had been serving the same espresso from the same machine dating back 100 years. 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