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The Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles

Every episode of NCIS: Los Angeles ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles!

The Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles

The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
  1. Background image for A Long Time Coming (III)
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - A Long Time Coming (III)

    S14:E10

    While Agent Rountree and Fatima are searching for Kilbride, who has been MIA, they are ambushed and learn that every member of the team has a $200,000 bounty on their head via the dark web. The NCIS team must save Agent Rountree and find Kilbride while every cartel, hit man, gang and psychopath hunts them down. The crossover starts on NCIS S20E10 Too Many Cooks (I) and NCIS: Hawai'i S02E10 Deep Fake (II).

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    8.9/10(516 votes)

    #2 - Till Death Do Us Part

    S10:E17

    After months of planning, the NCIS family celebrates the wedding of Kensi and Deeks. Also, an old acquaintance, Anatoli Kirkin, pays Deeks a surprise visit on his wedding day and he isn’t alone.

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  3. Background image for Hot Water (1)
    8.8/10(475 votes)

    #3 - Hot Water (1)

    S8:E13

    The mole has once again compromised the NCIS team as planted evidence results in the arrests of Callen, Sam, Granger and Deeks, on the day Under Secretary Duggan (Jackson Hurst) returns for Hetty’s resignation.

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    8.6/10(509 votes)

    #4 - Blame It on Rio

    S7:E5

    NCIS Special Agent DiNozzo partners with the NCIS: Los Angeles team to search the city after his prisoner escapes custody on a flight from Singapore to Los Angeles.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.6/10(438 votes)

    #5 - Internal Affairs

    S7:E10

    Deeks is arrested and interrogated in connection with the murder of his former partner, while the team tries to prove his innocence.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.6/10(446 votes)

    #6 - The Seventh Child

    S7:E19

    Callen and the team try to save a child in imminent danger who has been brainwashed by a terrorist cell. Also, Deeks and Kensi discuss having children.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.6/10(356 votes)

    #7 - Uncaged (1)

    S8:E23

    After Sam's wife, Michelle, is taken from her home, the kidnappers demand the prison release of Tahir Khaled, Sam's arch nemesis, in exchange for information on her whereabouts.

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    8.5/10(454 votes)

    #8 - Blye, K. (2)

    S3:E17

    The NCIS: LA team continues to search for new evidence to prove Kensi Blye’s innocence after a private meeting involving her deceased father’s sniper unit turns deadly.

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Neighborhood Watch
    8.5/10(479 votes)

    #9 - Neighborhood Watch

    S3:E22

    Kensi and Deeks are sent undercover as married couple Melissa and Justin when evidence points to a Russian sleeper cell in a suburban neighborhood.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.5/10(355 votes)

    #10 - Talion

    S7:E24

    Sam receives a distress code from Aiden saying that his school is being taken over by an extremist group.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.5/10(368 votes)

    #11 - Under Siege (2)

    S8:E14

    Hetty goes rogue, leaving the NCIS team completely in the dark, and the mole kidnaps one of the agents.

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    8.5/10(394 votes)

    #12 - Payback (3)

    S8:E15

    As the team races to save Kensi from Ferris/Sullivan, they find themselves questioning who they can trust when old faces resurface.

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Unleashed (2)
    8.5/10(327 votes)

    #13 - Unleashed (2)

    S8:E24

    Following the kidnapping of Sam's wife, Michelle Hanna, Sam goes rogue from the NCIS team and attempts to stop his arch nemesis Tahir Khaled from ever targeting his family again.

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    8.5/10(450 votes)

    #14 - To Live and Die in Mexico

    S10:E1

    Gravely injured and unable to communicate with the team in the U.S., Callen, Sam and Kensi, with an unconscious Deeks in tow, search for a safe way home as a cartel boss places a “dead or alive” bounty on their heads. Also, Mosely and retired Navy Admiral Hollace Kilbride beseech their contacts in Mexico and D.C. for assistance with their missing colleagues

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  16. Background image for The One That Got Away
    8.5/10(299 votes)

    #15 - The One That Got Away

    S10:E21

    After Anna Kolcheck escapes from prison with her cellmate, Callen and the NCIS team assist with the investigation and search for her whereabouts.

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    8.5/10(375 votes)

    #16 - Mother

    S11:E10

    Akhos Laos , a former black ops agent originally recruited and trained by Hetty Lange, returns to seek revenge on Hetty for the life she introduced him to, on the 250th episode

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    8.4/10(432 votes)

    #17 - Familia

    S2:E24

    Hetty's sudden resignation prompts Callen and the NCIS team to investigate the reason why she would disappear in the hopes of tracking her down.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.4/10(409 votes)

    #18 - Spiral

    S6:E12

    The team investigate an arms dealer but are interrupted as the suspect's building is overrun by terrorists.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Goodbye, Vietnam
    8.4/10(335 votes)

    #19 - Goodbye, Vietnam

    S9:E14

    Callen, Sam, Kensi and Deeks join Hetty’s team from the Vietnam War, Sterling Bridges, A.J. Chegwidden and Charles Langston, in a dangerous and off-the-books rescue mission to save Hetty from her captors in Vietnam. Also, Mosley calls in Nell’s sister, homeland security specialist Sydney Jones, to assist the team in Los Angeles with processing evidence connected to Hetty’s time in Vietnam.

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    8.4/10(373 votes)

    #20 - Better Angels

    S10:E13

    The NCIS team works with the Global Criminal Tribunal when a Syrian seeking justice, David Sarraf, is brutally attacked while delivering evidence that would prove chemical weapons were used on civilians. Also, Kensi stays at the crime scene and comforts Sarraf who is pinned behind a vehicle.

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    8.4/10(374 votes)

    #21 - False Flag

    S10:E24

    Callen and Sam work with Navy Captain Harmon "Harm" Rabb, Jr. (David James Elliott) to locate a group of ISIS sympathizers aboard the USS Allegiance. Also, Hetty enlists her friend, Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac". Mackenzie (Catherine Bell), to help obtain information from a Russian diplomat.

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    8.3/10(444 votes)

    #22 - Personal

    S2:E17

    Deeks' morning routine is disrupted when he is shot during a convenience store robbery, leaving the NCIS team to investigate whether he was the assailants' intended target.

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    Director:Kate Woods
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    8.3/10(471 votes)

    #23 - Lange, H.

    S3:E1

    The Special Projects team travels to Romania to search for Hetty, while delving into the history of the Comescu crime family, and their connection to Callen.

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    8.3/10(416 votes)

    #24 - Crimeleon

    S3:E15

    With Assistant Director Granger critiquing every move, the NCIS team must track down a chameleon-like killer who has evaded law enforcement agents, including their very own Special Agent G. Callen, across several countries.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.3/10(397 votes)

    #25 - Sans Voir (2)

    S3:E24

    The L.A. team is drawn into a deadly mind game against a master criminal motivated by Revenge.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"A Long Time Coming (III)" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: Los Angeles". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Dennis Smith and written by R. Scott Gemmill, it aired on 1/9/2023. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Till Death Do Us Part".