10.0/101 votes#1 - Whistle Stop
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2010
Mary and Marshall try to help FBI Agent Mike Faber convince his informant to enter WITSEC. Despite their best efforts, the informant refuses their protection and gets himself into a heap of trouble. After Mary, Marshall and Agent Faber save the informant from certain death, he and his family join Witsec.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
10.0/101 votes#2 - The Trouble with Hal
Season 22 Episode 3 - Aired 10/28/2024
NCIS is called in to investigate when a lieutenant returns home on the eve of Halloween to find a surprise party being thrown for someone else at his place.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Scott Williams
- 10.0/101 votes
#3 - First Episode
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/20/2002
The Spies take on their first mission - saving a former politician and talk show host from being assassinated on his own program.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Ron Osborn
9.0/101 votes#4 - As if by Fate
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2002
Jordan tries her hand at dating and is later called to the scene of her would-be suitor’s apparent suicide. A near death experience leaves Nigel asking lots of questions. Dr. Macy sets out to help validate a recently departed jazz legends personal image.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Gary Glasberg
9.0/101 votes#5 - Conspiracy
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2003
A mysterious death captures Jordan’s attention. Meanwhile, Dr. Macy revisits his past with a current case involving a former friend.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: James Morris
9.0/102 votes#6 - Matthew 5: 9
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2019
Lasalle hopes to avenge his brother’s murder by tracking a drug ring in Alabama he believes is responsible. Also, when Pride assists with the case, he crosses paths with Eddie Barrett (Eddie Cahill), an elusive individual who knows more than he is sharing.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Chad Gomez Creasey
9.0/102 votes#7 - Requital
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2019
Pride is cut off from the team and backed into a corner after the investigation into Eddie Barrett uncovers a malicious plot.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Christopher Silber
8.7/103 votes#8 - We Don't Need Another Hero
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2011
After taking a bullet in the Season Finale during a siege of the precinct, Jane Rizzoli is honored as a hero at a public event. The celebration is short-lived, however, when disaster strikes. The ensuing case reunites Jane with an old high-school flame, Sgt. Major Casey Jones, who may be just the person she needs to heal her emotional scars.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Janet Tamaro
8.7/103 votes#9 - Bloodlines
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/22/2011
Jane and the team investigate what appears to be a modern-day witch hunt in Salem. Meanwhile, Frankie's old girlfriend returns to town with a surprise, and Jane has no problem speaking her mind about the situation.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Dee Johnson
8.7/103 votes#10 - Burning Down the House
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/2011
When a warehouse fire kills a firefighter, Jane and Maura must investigate whether it was arson or an accident. But the investigation hits a snag when a hit-and-run leaves someone in the hospital. Guest star Billy Burke returns as FBI Agent Gabriel Dean, who hopes to rekindle his relationship with Jane. And guest star Jacqueline Bissett reprises her role as Maura’s mother, Constance Isles.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Janet Tamaro
8.5/103 votes#11 - Hail & Farewell
Season 16 Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/2019
NCIS investigates the murder of a Marine Major believed to have been killed in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon after human remains are discovered at a construction site. A personal history with the victim drives Gibbs to solve her crime.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Jennifer Corbett
8.5/102 votes#12 - Desperate Navy Wives
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2019
While undercover, Gregorio joins a social club for military wives after one of the members is contacted by an ex-boyfriend on the FBI Most Wanted List.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Chad Gomez Creasey
8.5/1053 votes#13 - What They Become
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2014
Coulson and Whitehall's forces meet in an explosive confrontation that dramatically alters everyone's fates. Meanwhile, Skye discovers shocking secrets about her past.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
8.4/105 votes#14 - One Man's Trash
Season 15 Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/2018
Gibbs and Ducky are watching TV when they see the host handling a 200-year-old war stick that could be a match from a decade-old cold case.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Scott Williams
8.3/103 votes#15 - Another Second Chance
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2010
Desperate to help his pregnant daughter, Mark (Eric Dane) follows Addison back to Oceanside Wellness, Dell and Naomi struggle to raise their children under the same roof, and Violet and Cooper heatedly disagree on how to treat a patient on.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Kathy McCormick
8.3/103 votes#16 - Sheepdogs
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2018
Following a deadly car explosion in the French Quarter, the NCIS team interrogates a professor and former member of a student protest organization. Also, Tammy discovers a secret about Hannah’s personal life.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Brooke Roberts
8.2/106 votes#17 - React to Contact
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 6/28/2010
Lightman is confronted with unsettling truths about his past while trying to save an Iraq war veteran.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
8.2/106 votes#18 - Delinquent
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/19/2010
When a pregnant girl is found murdered, Cal and the LMG team help Torres try to clear her juvenile-delinquent sister of charges, and protect her from the real killer.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Sarah Fain
8.1/1010 votes#19 - Sub Rosa
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2003
A decomposed body is discovered in a tub of acid at a naval base and Ducky and Abby learn that the victim was a submariner. Gibbs discovers that there have been no reports of a sub crewmember missing, so he deduces that one of the subs has an imposter on board. With this new information, the team must find out which sub the man posing as the victim is in and what intentions he may have towards the sub.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Frank Cardea
8.1/1010 votes#20 - Contact
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/2000
After seven young women in a six month time span are raped by a flash and dash assailant on the city subways, the brass calls in a psychiatrist to help the team get into the head of the perp. When he is caught, he possesses the driver's license of a new victim who could put him away.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
8.0/1027 votes#21 - Safe
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/2008
The team is called in on a bank robbery similar to other robberies in the area but this particular bank has the thief embedded inside the steel wall of the bank. Somehow the thieves have found a way to defy the law of physics. Walter thinks they're after something of his. As the investigation deepens it all comes to a head when the thieves ambush one of the team.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: David H. Goodman
- 8.0/101 votes
#22 - Caged Fury
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1976
The Hartleys miss their friend's gala Fourth of July Bicentennial party celebration when they become trapped in a storage locker.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#23 - The Slammer
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1976
Bob and his friend ""The Peeper"" take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#24 - Death Be My Destiny
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1977
Bob strikes out against a friend's fear of falling, but succumbs to the same phobia himself when he is subjected to a harrowing elevator experience.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
8.0/102 votes#25 - Turkeys Away
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1978
Carlson thinks up a wacko Thanksgiving promotional gimmick.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: N/A
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"Whistle Stop" is the best rated episode directed by Michael Zinberg. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 4/21/2010 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Trouble with Hal".