Harris Keane was a CIA Officer and a Member of Henrietta Lange's Clandestine Unit at the end of the Vietnam War.
Appearances[]
- Season 9
- Episode 2: Se Murio El Payaso
- Episode 6: Can I Get a Witness?
- Episode 8: This Is What We Do
- Episode 13: Các Tù Nhân
- Episode 14: Goodbye, Vietnam
- Episode 20: Reentry
- Season 10
- Episode 1: To Live and Die in Mexico
- Episode 4: Hit List
Pre-Series[]
After the war, Harris was recruited into the CIA Clandestine Unit that was formed with intelligence operatives from different parts of the U.S. government. Members include the head of the unit & CIA Officer, Henrietta Lange; CIA Officer, Harris Keane; Navy SEAL, A.J. Chegwidden; Navy Admiral, Sterling Bridges; Navy Captain, Charles Langston; and CIA Officer, Owen Granger, who later joined the Clandestine Unit. The CIA unit was tasked with rescuing intelligence operatives with non-official covers that the U.S. government left behind when they backed out of Vietnam after the Vietnam War. The CIA unit was on a mission when their chopper crashed and Keane was believed to have died in the helicopter crash along with everyone else in the CIA unit. Keane’s status following the crash was unknown to the rest of the unit. Although Keane survived the crash, he was ultimately forced to survive in Vietnam by killing various Vietnamese people.
NCIS: Los Angeles Season 9[]
In Season Nine, when Hetty receives word of Keane's survival via Dang, a notorious animal and human trafficker and high-profile criminal, she secretly travels to Vietnam to investigate. After finding him being held captive, and ultimately reconciling with him, Dang then reveals he had ulterior motives for imprisoning Keane and revealing his location to Hetty: namely, to lure Hetty to Vietnam to make himself a tidy profit by subjecting her to ransom, intending to kill Keane when he has outworn his usefulness.
When Hetty is not forthcoming with information during an interrogation, Keane is brought in and shot by an American rogue operative in league with an old Vietnamese nemesis of Hetty's. To further ensure Hetty's cooperation and compliance, Dang threatens to feed Keane to his Tiger and nearly does, although he ultimately relents. Later, despite Hetty's supplications for medical treatment of Keane's gunshot wound, he is stowed in another part of Dang's Camp, after Dang lies to Hetty that Keane has been killed. Eventually a joint operation mission of the Office of Special Projects and Hetty’s former team members from the CIA Clandestine Unit arrive and overpower Dang and his men. They discover Keane alone in one room and Hetty being tortured by her old foe and his henchmen in another. A shoot out ensues, with the rescue teams getting Keane and Hetty to a waiting helicopter and all make it safely out of Vietnam.
Upon their return, Hetty assumes responsibility for Keane, providing him with a furnished apartment and arranging for psychological counseling sessions with Nate. Keane, suffering from PTSD and emotionally and psychologically scarred by his many years of survival by any means necessary in Vietnam, finds it extremely difficult to integrate into life back home and has isolated himself from everyone. Unable to forgive himself, he clings to memories of moral misdeeds and is tormented by demons from his past. After Hetty learns of Keane's missed appointments, she shows up unexpectedly at his apartment and temporarily misjudges the situation, believing he has tried to take his own life. Hetty takes him to the cemetery where one of their former comrades has just recently been buried and tells him of Granger and others who have died, admitting she herself doesn't have that much time left. Eventually Hetty persuades him that he must live life now, while he still has it. He later aided Hetty in saving the Office of Special Projects' team in Mexico.