As Callen and the team go rogue to find her, they discover Hetty's disappearance is tied to a decades-old blood feud involving a Romanian mob family called the Comescus .

The episode begins with the team in chaos after their enigmatic leader, Henrietta "Hetty" Lange , suddenly resigns and vanishes without warning.

The subject refers to the , titled " Familia ," specifically an early 2011 "XviD-LOL" digital release from the internet pirate scene.