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And, yes, he had some pretty good ones… 🙂

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There’s a definite love/hate relationship with the Assistant Director, and his time on NCIS:LA can be broken down into three stages: Love to Hate, Love and Hate, and Hate to Love. Let’s start at the beginning.

Love to Hate.

You know what I’m talking about. The feeling of ire that comes over you when you see his face on the screen. That feeling that makes you want to snarl. Or huff in indignation. He started off on a bad footing, showing up and ‘kidnapping’ Hetty and proceeding to rip into the team about how poorly they were executing their job. There was much grumbling when he left, as he took their success with him, but the team was also relieved he was gone. But not for long; he continued to pop up and judge, criticize, and generally make himself unlikable.

Love and Hate.

This is the point where you found yourself begrudgingly admitting that maybe he wasn’t so bad. He was no longer solidly in the ‘villain’ category. You might have even smiled at his joke. This seemed to happen part way through 4×06 ‘Rude Awakenings’ when Sam was certain that Granger was going to throw him off the case and thereby put his wife in danger. Instead, Granger informed him that he was behind him and threw interagency niceties out of the window. His appearances after this point had you questioning his motives; it maybe seemed like he was going to step back over that line and make the team’s lives more difficult, but there were also moments where he genuinely had their best interests in mind…as long as they weren’t doing any extracurricular activities that were illegal.

Hate to Love.

It’s hard to admit it, but there’s a soft spot for Granger that has been slowly growing. He snuck up on you. Maybe you’ve had a similar conversation:

Me: “I kind of like Granger now.”
Friend: “Sure, now that you like him, he’s going to die soon.”
Me: “That wouldn’t be good…wow, never thought I’d say that. Also, that was mean.”
Friend: “Mwhahahah!”

You can probably even pinpoint the moment where your opinion turned. Remember the season 5 opener? From the start to the end he was doing everything he could to help save the whole team, whether they were a NCIS agent, LA detective, or former CIA agent. Before, the team would celebrate when he was gone at the end of the case, but now they were hanging out together after work. While he still maintains his gruff and grouchy exterior, it appears his bark is worse than his bite when it comes to the team. He’s even partnered up with some of them and no one has been fired.

Here’s to another season of questioning his motives and somewhat begrudgingly smiling, much like Granger himself, when he shows up.

With help from ChrisDaisy, Diane, Mary, and Richtsje.

The idea has been floated by Miguel Ferrer himself that Granger has a double standard when it comes to proper behaviour. There are many examples of this. He expects the agents below him to act within the law, and then he goes and breaks it to retrieve information from a suspect. He does not support the agents going rogue on a case and pushes inter-agency cooperation, but it has been hinted at that Granger had a lone-wolf tendency in his days as a younger agent. He easily handed credit for an arrest over to another agency, but has also run interference between the team and his bosses. He has ambitions to move upward, but then is found on the ground in Afghanistan acting like a regular agent, not the Assistant Director. His relationship with Hetty, which is a whole different convoluted discussion fraught with ticking bombs and booby traps, also follows a similar theme; sometimes he seems to be afraid of her and then he purposefully provokes a response from her. His personality is like two sides of a coin and until you flip it, you don’t know what side will be facing up this time.

With input from Diane

– Miguel Ferrer has been credited in 44 episodes
– Owen Granger has appeared in 35 episodes
– Official title (presently): Assistant Director

Granger: I’m an ambitious man, Agent Blye, who won’t be Assistant Director forever.
[4×09 ‘The Gold Standard’]

– Status: Single
– Previous relationships: Unknown
– Driven by: sense of duty and loyalty, purpose and mission (Thanks to M.F. for that insight)
– Go-to attire: Suit with an open-collar shirt

(Pictures from @Vicki)

– Formerly employed by the CIA
– Worked and was friends with Kensi’s dad
– Ambitious, and knows it
– Sense of humor: dead pan
– Personality: cranky and gruff
– Has a bad knee
– Wears black pajamas (Want proof? 4×18 ‘Red: Part 1’)

– It is believed he has the ability to produce a genuine and broad smile, but only the most patient have seen one. It is said it’s much like a double rainbow: both rare and has the power to bring happiness.

(Help from Diane and Vicki)

Here’s another call for all the FanArtists out there…

Share your favorite NCISLA FanArt with NCISLAFamilia !!

Post a link to your FanArt in the comments so we can all appreciate your work… remember it’s “Granger Appreciation Week” so the FanArt should be Granger related… 🙂

Oh and you’re welcome to share FanArt from other artists as well but please make sure to credit the original creator.

Thanks !! And have fun !!