NCIS: Los Angeles boss on Season 13's happy finale: "We couldn’t in good conscience put the fans through any more trauma"

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"Well, it wasn’t what we were going to do, that’s for sure," R. Scott Gemmill says of the season finale that included Hetty's unexpected cameo. "We were going to use the finale that we had written for last season, which got bumped because of COVID, and then we realized everyone had such a tough, sh*tty year, that we couldn’t in good conscience put the fans through any more trauma. So we decided to go in the exact opposite way and do a fun, feel-good episode that leaves everyone happy and hopeful for what is coming down the line."