At work

'I'm worried about Hetty.' Callen told Sam.

'And why is that?' Sam replied.

'She left a note on her desk saying she was going camping with a friend, and I havn't heard from her in 5 hours.'

'She's probably somewhere without Wi fi. Plus, she's an ex spy. She knows her way around.'

Then Eric whistled.

'What's the case?' Callen asked.

'There is no case. We got an SOS.' Eric replied.

The whole team was in OPS.

'This coded message marked SOS somehow got through our firewall. We're tying to decode ir.' Eric said.

'A message getting through all of this security? Either this person is from here, or is really good with computers.' Kensi chimed in.

Callen seemed to know the code.

'I might know what this code is.'

He told Eric how to decode the message, and here is what the message said:

'Companion dead. Lost. Need help. HL.'

'It's from Hetty. She needs help.' Callen said.

'Eric, find out where that SOS was sent from!' Sam exclaimed.

'On it!'

The message was traced to somewhere in the woods.

'Well, we know how she sent the message. Messed with the wiring enough on this satalite, and had equipment to send the message.' Kensi said.

'Got a live body!' Deeks exclaimed.

'Okay, Kensi, Deeks. Take him to the boatshed. Sam and I will keep looking here.' Callen said.

Boatshed

'Dude! I was attacked, knocked out and woke up restrained! You should be looking for the person who did this!' The culprit said.

'Do you know who attacked you?' Kensi asked.

'No idea. Some tiny vixon.'

'Did this vixon look like this?' Deeks asked, showing him a picture of Hetty.

'Yeah. That's who attacked me. And ma, she was nuts!'

'Yeah um, that tiny vixon, is our friend. And she's missing. Do you know where she is?' Kensi asked.

'No idea. She's the one who knocked me out.'

Eric called them, saying that the culprit had 2 friends. And they were also criminals.

'Okay buddy, we know you have 2 criminals for friends, and you're gonna have to tell us where they are and what you were all doing because our friend's life is on the line here and if anything happens to her, it'll be on you.' Deeks said.

Silence.

'Okay. My pals and I were betrayed by this guy. And we were going to get even with him. We heard he was going to this cabin, so we went up there. I was the driver, I heard gunshots, none of them came out, I got the hell out of there.'

'And where is this cabin?' Deeks asked.

Deeks and Kensi told the boys where the cabin was.

They went up there, and found the 3 bodies. And Hetty's bags.

'This is where she was going to stay.' Callen said.

'Well, looks like she had to shoot her way out judging from the bullet wounds.' Sam replied.

'And I see her knife in this guy's back.' Callen said.

They checked the cabin for clues. Even checked her bags. Found clothes, weapons, and her underwear (which weirded them out severely.) And a coded message.

Callen decoded it, it was map estimates.

Efric found the location, it was another cabin in the area.

'Must be a safe house.' Callen said.

They went up there, she wasn't there.

'She must have been trying to get up here and got lost.' Sam said.

'Let's scan the whole area. She can't be far.'

They started scanning the area. It got dark.

Then Callen found a mini shelter of leaves and brances.

'Hetty!'

'Callen?!'

They hugged. She was shaking. He gave her his jacket.

'It all happened so fast. My friend was shot by 2 men, I shot them, I went after a 3rd guy, I found the way to send that SOS, I was trying to come up to that cabin, but I hurt my foot and I have a couple of bloody scratches, I I…' Hetty talked fast.

'Shh shh shh. It's okay now. We found the 3rd culprit and he's in custody. We'll get those scratches and that foot checked out.' Callen said calmly.

'I just wanted a peaceful weekend!' Hetty said, crying.

'Nothing wrong with that.'