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The Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 7

Every episode of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 7!

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

Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Active Measures" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: Los Angeles" season 7. It scored 8/10 based on 373 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/2015. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Citadel".

  • Active Measures
    8.0/10373 votes

    #1 - Active Measures

    Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2015

    Callen embarks on a secret project, leaving Sam and the entire team in the dark. After Hetty demands his operation be shut down, the team is tasked with locating Callen before he finds himself in over his head.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Citadel
    8.3/10373 votes

    #2 - Citadel

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2015

    DEA agent Talia Del Campo turns to the NCIS: Los Angeles team for help after her partner is murdered. Also, after Kensi grows suspicious that Deeks is hiding something, he surprises her by introducing her to his mother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Driving Miss Diaz
    7.8/10319 votes

    #3 - Driving Miss Diaz

    Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2015

    A 20-year-old Peruvian massacre is investigated after a famous fashion model, believed to be one of the survivors, becomes a potential target. Kensi goes undercover as the model's assistant, while Deeks poses as her chauffeur.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Command & Control
    8.3/10344 votes

    #4 - Command & Control

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2015

    Callen and Sam are forced to work on their day off when they mysteriously receive a cell phone and the caller threatens the lives of innocent people if they don’t do exactly what he says.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blame It on Rio
    8.6/10495 votes

    #5 - 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

  • Unspoken
    7.8/10322 votes

    #6 - Unspoken

    Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2015

    The NCIS team searches for Sam’s former partner, Ruiz, who disappears during an undercover operation to buy a deadly explosive.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • An Unlocked Mind
    8.0/10350 votes

    #7 - An Unlocked Mind

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2015

    After a former Department of Defense employee reveals government secrets to a cult, The Church of the Unlocked Mind, Kensi and Deeks go undercover in order to protect him. Meanwhile, the team must prevent the church from selling the secrets to a Chinese spy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Long Goodbye
    7.7/10305 votes

    #8 - The Long Goodbye

    Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2015

    The team searches for Jada (Ella Thomas), the woman Sam led to asylum in the United States four years ago, after she goes missing. Also, Kensi goes undercover with DEA Agent Talia Del Campo (Mercedes Mason).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Defectors
    7.9/10309 votes

    #9 - Defectors

    Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2015

    The team searches for a missing teenage girl who is feared to have been recruited by a terrorist organization,

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Internal Affairs
    8.6/10428 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Cancel Christmas
    8.3/10326 votes

    #11 - Cancel Christmas

    Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2015

    When a suspected North Korean spy is poisoned and hit by a truck carrying Christmas trees, the team must search for who is responsible for smuggling spies into the country. Also, Deeks and Kensi try to find a way to include their mothers in their Christmas plans, and Hetty notices that Granger isn’t feeling the holiday cheer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Core Values
    8.1/10309 votes

    #12 - Core Values

    Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/2016

    Kensi and Deeks go undercover at a decommissioned nuclear power plant as the team investigates the radiation poisoning of a Gunnery Sergeant moonlighting as a security guard there.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Angels & Daemons
    7.8/10308 votes

    #13 - Angels & Daemons

    Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/2016

    The team investigates the murder of tech entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who secretly developed a daemon, a background computer program that allows for undetectable data collection.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Come Back
    7.9/10313 votes

    #14 - Come Back

    Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/2016

    When Kensi and Deeks announce to the team they are moving in together, coincidentally, Hetty assigns them to protection detail for Jack, Kensi’s ex-fiancé, who is in possession of a list containing important contacts in Afghanistan that people are willing to kill to get their hands on.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Matryoshka (1)
    8.1/10322 votes

    #15 - Matryoshka (1)

    Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/2016

    In order to locate Arkady in Russia, the NCIS team goes undercover with his daughter, Anna, at a gala in Los Angeles to gain access to the Russian Consul General’s computer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Matryoshka, Part 2
    8.0/10326 votes

    #16 - Matryoshka, Part 2

    Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2016

    While they’re in Russia, Callen, Sam and Anna craft a plan to break Anna’s father and his CIA agent companion out of prison. Also, Special Agent G. Callen finally learns what the “G” in his name stands for, and in Los Angeles, Kensi and Deeks take Eric into the field on an assignment.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Revenge Deferred
    7.6/10287 votes

    #17 - Revenge Deferred

    Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 2/29/2016

    After extensive surveillance footage of Sam’s family is found in Africa, Sam and Callen fly there to determine who is responsible and for what purpose. Also, Sam’s family is moved from their home to a safe house.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Exchange Rate
    7.9/10301 votes

    #18 - Exchange Rate

    Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/2016

    When a convicted Cuban spy escapes U.S. custody just before he is set to return to his country in a prisoner exchange, the team is shocked to learn that Anna helped him break out. Also, Deeks admits to Kensi that he thinks she is too messy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Seventh Child
    8.6/10436 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Seoul Man
    7.9/10296 votes

    #20 - Seoul Man

    Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 3/28/2016

    While assigned to protective details for the commander of the Pacific Command, the team searches for a North Korean spy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Head of the Snake
    7.9/10292 votes

    #21 - Head of the Snake

    Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 4/11/2016

    After Operational Psychologist Nate Getz fails to check in with Hetty while working undercover on a mission linking organized crime to terrorism, the team learns he is working with an infamous crime leader,

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Granger, O.
    8.1/10295 votes

    #22 - Granger, O.

    Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 4/18/2016

    As Granger escorts Jennifer Kim back to Los Angeles, he interrogates her regarding a North Korean spy and she admits to knowing he is her father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Where There's Smoke...
    7.9/10293 votes

    #23 - Where There's Smoke...

    Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 4/25/2016

    Sam and Callen go undercover as firefighters when top secret information about suspected terrorists is stolen from a secure Department of Defense container at the site of a fire.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Talion
    8.5/10343 votes

    #24 - 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