Howard Pembrook

Howard Pembrook (AKA "Arnold Baines") is a man who was the head instructor and behavioural psychologist for the C.I.A’s Drona Project - a program that the C.I.A ran through the Department of Education created with the intention of identifying children who were part of the foster care system (more specifically orphans) and might be gifted despite their circumstances.
==Biography==
===Pre-Series===
Pembrook had a degree in psychology and worked black ops, having a sort of friendship with Henrietta Lange. who he worked with on Drona. The best known Drona subject being G. Callen himself who attended the program for years.
After the program was disbanded or ended abruptly in 1986, Pembrook took the name Arnold Baines, keeping the former school’s property and continuing to work black ops for the C.I.A. He worked for the Institute of Noble Maidens as an instructor at one point, teaching with the same Drona methods and training Katya Miranova. 
===NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14===
In March 2023, during the NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 episode, Sleeping Dogs (episode), Callen (Subject 17) and the OSP team received a cryptic message on their servers that was later traced back to Novak (Subject 11), leading the team to it was all connected to Pembrook and the Drona Project. 
In May 2023, during the NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 episode, The Reckoning (episode), while Novak was being transported to an off-site area, four members of the Drona Project were shot dead while C.I.A officer Chris Behr escaping. This prompted the C.I.A and the NCIS Office of Special Projects to begin investigating the attack with fellow C.I.A officer Rafael Cortes arriving at OSP HQ to meet with Operational Manager Hollace Kilbride, Cortes wanting to talk to Callen and informing Kilbride the group responsible were Russian operatives with Cortes and Kilbride butting heads as well.
Later, after receiving a phone call from Pembrook, Callen met with him Pembrook revealing that Beltran and other subjects of the Drona Project went rogue and became mercenaries, resulting in Pembrook taking matters into his own hands and killing them so they presumably wouldn't target the other surviving members of the project.
Upon retrieving Cortes's phone after a shooting at OSP, Fatima sent NCIS agents Kensi Blye and Devin Roundtree to a location where Callen and Pembrook were, the two fending off Beltran and another attack before Kensi and Rountree arrived to arrest the other three.
Later, as their conversation wound down, Pembrook gave Callen his file and informed him that Hetty considered Callen her son. He also informed Callen that Hetty had not known about Pembrook’s methods when enrolling him into the program and that she pulled him out when she’d found out shortly before taking him in. He also explained he had been the one to suggest to Hetty that Callen be partnered up with Sam Hanna, hoping that Sam could be the friend Callen needed and admitting it was an attempt to look out for him and to make up for what he’d done to Callen.
==Personality==
He admits to having been denied emotion growing up, just like how he tried to teach Callen not to feel. He feels guilty about his training methods on the Drona subjects and has tried to discretely look out for an help his former subjects. 
==Physical Appearance==
Category:Recurring NCIS: Los Angeles Characters