NCIS: Los Angeles (TV Series)
Empty Quiver (2011)
Linda Hunt: Hetty Lange
Quotes
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Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : What did you just do?
Eric Beale : I used the VNC controller to piggyback the upload with a trojan and corrupt the streaming data packets by initiating stack overflow.
Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : In English, Mr. Beal.
Eric Beale : I broke the Internet.
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Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : [On the phone] Could you repeat that? "Empty quiver" indeed.
[to everyone]
Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Empty quiver ladies and gentlemen.
Marty Deeks : What-what does "empty quiver" mean?
NCIS Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones : Empty quiver is a Pentagon term. It refers to the loss or theft of a functioning nuclear weapon.
Marty Deeks : They stole a nuke?
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Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : The blame game has begun. High level officials interested in covering their own asses. They're demanding to know why the two NCIS agents on scene weren't able to prevent the incident. The uh, word investigation has already been banded about.
Special Agent G. Callen : It's pretty meaningless given what's at stake.
Special Agent Sam Hanna : And politicking isn't our job.
Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Oh no, Mr. Hanna. It's mine!
Special Agent Sam Hanna : You don't need to protect us!
Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Oh yes I do! And I've feared for years that the day would come when I wouldn't be able to. I hope this isn't it. There is only one solution: recover the warhead before it can be used!
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Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : You found a map of Los Angeles with nuclear radiuses marked off and you kept it from me?
Special Agent G. Callen : I made a judgment call. If we told you about it, you wounld have been bound to report it to the Pentagon.
Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : *I'm* the one who decides whether or not to fulfill these obligations, Mr. Callen. I don't need your protection! I need your trust!
Special Agent G. Callen : I need your trust. Marchetti is trying to play us.
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Special Agent G. Callen : There's not much time until the New York Stock Exchange opens.
Special Agent Sam Hanna : We need to move on that factory now!
Special Agent G. Callen : Shooters that highjacked that trailer will be there.
Marty Deeks : Anything we should know about them?
Special Agent Sam Hanna : They're not the type to stop when you yell "freeze."
Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange : Mr. Callen, lethal action has been authorized.