8.9/10505 votesLoading...#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
8.8/10464 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10495 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10428 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10436 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10382 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10348 votesLoading...#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
8.6/10211 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10443 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10469 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10342 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10358 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10320 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10443 votesLoading...#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
8.5/10295 votesLoading...#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: Andrew Bartels, Erin Broadhurst
8.5/10369 votesLoading...#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
8.4/10424 votesLoading...#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
8.4/10329 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.4/10365 votesLoading...#19 - 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
8.4/10369 votesLoading...#20 - 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
8.4/10261 votesLoading...#21 - 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
8.3/10434 votesLoading...#22 - 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
8.3/10463 votesLoading...#23 - 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
8.3/10409 votesLoading...#24 - 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
8.3/10390 votesLoading...#25 - Sans Voir (2)
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/15/2012
The L.A. team is drawn into a deadly mind game against a master criminal motivated by Revenge.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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 505 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)".