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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 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.
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaCrimeMystery
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Till Death Do Us Part" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: Los Angeles". It scored 8.9/10 based on 504 votes. Directed by Tony Wharmby and written by R. Scott Gemmill, it aired on 3/17/2019. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hot Water (1)".

  • Till Death Do Us Part
    8.9/10504 votes
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    #1 - Till Death Do Us Part

    Season 10 Episode 17 - Aired 3/17/2019

    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.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • Hot Water (1)
    8.8/10463 votes
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    #2 - Hot Water (1)

    Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/2017

    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.

    Director: Dennis Smith

    Writer: Anastasia Kousakis

  • Blame It on Rio
    8.6/10495 votes
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    #3 - Blame It on Rio

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2015

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Internal Affairs
    8.6/10427 votes
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    #4 - Internal Affairs

    Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2015

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Seventh Child
    8.6/10435 votes
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    #5 - The Seventh Child

    Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/2016

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Payback (3)
    8.6/10382 votes
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    #6 - Payback (3)

    Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/2017

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

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

  • Uncaged (1)
    8.6/10348 votes
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    #7 - Uncaged (1)

    Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/2017

    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.

    Director: Frank Military

    Writer: Frank Military

  • The Reckoning
    8.6/10210 votes
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    #8 - The Reckoning

    Season 14 Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/2023

    When four people, including a CIA officer, are shot and killed in broad daylight, the NCIS team suspects the attacks have something to do with DRONA. Also, Pembrook meets with Callen and gives more insight into his past.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blye, K. (2)
    8.5/10443 votes
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    #9 - Blye, K. (2)

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/2012

    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.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

  • Neighborhood Watch
    8.5/10468 votes
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    #10 - Neighborhood Watch

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2012

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Talion
    8.5/10342 votes
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    #11 - Talion

    Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 5/2/2016

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Under Siege (2)
    8.5/10358 votes
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    #12 - Under Siege (2)

    Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/2017

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

    Director: Ruba Nadda

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • Unleashed (2)
    8.5/10320 votes
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    #13 - Unleashed (2)

    Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/2017

    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.

    Director: John Peter Kousakis

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • To Live and Die in Mexico
    8.5/10443 votes
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    #14 - To Live and Die in Mexico

    Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2018

    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

    Director: Frank Military

    Writer: Frank Military

  • The One That Got Away
    8.5/10294 votes
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    #15 - The One That Got Away

    Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/2019

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

    Director: Eric A. Pot

    Writer: Erin Broadhurst, Andrew Bartels

  • Mother
    8.5/10368 votes
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    #16 - Mother

    Season 11 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/2019

    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

    Director: Dennis Smith

    Writer: Eric Christian Olsen, Babar Peerzada

  • Familia
    8.4/10423 votes
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    #17 - Familia

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/2011

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Shane Brennan

  • Spiral
    8.4/10399 votes
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    #18 - Spiral

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/2015

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Goodbye, Vietnam
    8.4/10329 votes
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    #19 - Goodbye, Vietnam

    Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 3/11/2018

    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.

    Director: John Peter Kousakis

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill

  • Better Angels
    8.4/10365 votes
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    #20 - Better Angels

    Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/2019

    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.

    Director: Diana Valentine

    Writer: Frank Military

  • False Flag
    8.4/10368 votes
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    #21 - False Flag

    Season 10 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/2019

    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.

    Director: Dennis Smith

    Writer: Frank Military

  • New Beginnings (2)
    8.4/10260 votes
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    #22 - New Beginnings (2)

    Season 14 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2023

    The NCIS team continues the case with ATF and the stolen weapons. Also, Callen and Anna decide on an impromptu wedding.

    Director: John Peter Kousakis

    Writer: R. Scott Gemmill, Kyle Harimoto

  • Personal
    8.3/10433 votes
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    #23 - Personal

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/2011

    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.

    Director: Kate Woods

    Writer: Shane Brennan

  • Lange, H.
    8.3/10463 votes
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    #24 - Lange, H.

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2011

    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.

    Director: Tony Wharmby

    Writer: Shane Brennan

  • Crimeleon
    8.3/10409 votes
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    #25 - Crimeleon

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/2012

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Frank Military