NCIS: Los Angeles
Sunday, Feb. 23, 9/8c, CBS
The past returns with a vengeance tonight for Special Agent G. Callen (Chris O’Donnell). Luckily, he has boss Hetty Lange (Linda Hunt, above, with O’Donnell) on his side, and she’s committed to keeping him safe. “She’s been a part of his life since he was 5 years old, when his mother was killed,” says writer and supervising producer Andrew Bartels. “She’s become that mother to him.”
The episode’s title, “The Circle,” “refers to the circle of revenge—specifically the blood feud between the Callens and the Comescus,” Bartels says. That would be the organized crime family once hunted by Callen’s grandfather George, a U.S. intelligence agent with the OSS. These violent
Romanians would go on to murder George and his daughter, Clara—Callen’s mom—who…
