8.1/10367 votes#1 - High-Value Target (1)
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2016
After NCIS fails to locate a mole in the department, Under Secretary of Defense Corbin Duggan insists on new leadership and takes over the Los Angeles unit from Hetty and Granger.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
8.2/10206 votes#2 - Belly of the Beast (2)
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2016
The team travels to Syria to apprehend a High Value Target where one team member is severely injured when the mission goes awry.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: R. Scott Gemmill
8.0/10330 votes#3 - The Queen's Gambit
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2016
The NCIS LA team investigates an abduction case while down two members, with Hetty being held in D.C. for questioning, and another still in the ICU following the mission in Syria.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10323 votes#4 - Black Market
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2016
After a Homeland Security agent is poisoned by a notorious Triad assassin, NCIS uncovers a warehouse of counterfeit purses and a money trail to stolen government funds. Also, Nell joins the team in the field.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10327 votes#5 - Ghost Gun
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2016
The murder of a navy machinist with high security clearance sends the team on a city-wide hunt tracking evidence. Also, Anna Kolcheck partners with Callen, and Sam assists Hetty in the on-going mole investigation.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10330 votes#6 - Home Is Where the Heart Is
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2016
After a maintenance man saved the life of a lieutenant commander, the NCIS team uncovers his dark past which puts a local teenager in danger. Also, Sam must decide which colleague to take to the Los Angeles football game.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10318 votes#7 - Crazy Train
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/2016
After an NSA analyst is found eaten by a shark, the team's investigation leads them to a cartel's money-laundering scheme and sends Callen into a mental asylum to find a key witness; Kensi struggles with her therapy.
Director: Diana Valentine
Writer: Shane Brennan, Frank Military
7.7/10314 votes#8 - Parallel Resistors
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2016
The team's investigation into the electrocution of a college student working on a classified Navy project leads them to his inquisitive daughter, who may be the key to accessing his work.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Shane Brennan, Joe Sachs
8.0/10322 votes#9 - Glasnost
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/2016
After Callen’s father, Garrison is found in an NCIS patient’s hospital room during a radiation poisoning case, Callen must take him to the boatshed for interrogation. Also, the team discusses their Thanksgiving plans.
Director: John Peter Kousakis
Writer: Andrew Bartels
7.9/10314 votes#10 - Sirens
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2016
After an unknown female assailant kills two men disguised as Sherriff’s deputies in front of Callen’s home, the NCIS team gets a new lead in the ongoing mole investigation. Also, Nell visits a prison to interview an inmate withholding information on the department’s leak.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: N/A
7.7/10306 votes#11 - Tidings We Bring
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/2016
The team goes on the chase for a Navy analyst being held hostage, only to discover things aren't as simple as they seem.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10311 votes#12 - Kulinda
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/2017
After a Navy reservist is killed while protecting a city councilman, Sam is sent undercover in a private security firm with links to several criminal organizations.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Kyle Harimoto
8.8/10463 votes#13 - 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
8.5/10358 votes#14 - 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
8.6/10382 votes#15 - 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
8.1/10331 votes#16 - Old Tricks
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/2017
When a Navy lieutenant and his grandfather are kidnapped from a retirement home, the team's investigation leads them to a con artist couple and the hunt for a rare coin; Callen meanwhile has to deal with his father's actions when he kidnaps the father of his grandson (and Callen's nephew).
Director: N/A
Writer: Andrew Bartels
7.5/10295 votes#17 - Queen Pin
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/2017
Sam resumes an old alias to bring down a major criminal kingpin; Callen and Anna's romantic night is interrupted when they are tasked with escorting a high-value prisoner to Los Angeles for questioning.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Joseph C. Wilson
7.9/10309 votes#18 - Getaway
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2017
After the U.S. Treasury Department is hacked, Nell and Eric go undercover inside a couple's retreat to track a tech-savvy husband and wife linked to the crime. Also, Digital Forensics Specialist Dave Flynn (Scott Grimes) arrives from the NCIS cyber office in San Diego to run ops while Eric and Nell are on assignment.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Erin Broadhurst
8.1/10313 votes#19 - 767
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 3/26/2017
After an engineer who was developing a new guided missile destroyer is murdered, Callen and Sam go undercover to track his co-worker aboard a plane to Tokyo to sell the classified intel. Also, Deeks plans a surprise get-together for Kensi and her out-of-town friends.
Director: Benny Boom
Writer: Kyle Harimoto
7.8/10288 votes#20 - From Havana With Love
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 4/9/2017
The NCIS team investigates a defense contractor, Rebecca Larmont, designing a nuclear attack weapon after her estranged husband, Victor Larmont, says he has proof she is selling Navy secrets to a foreign government. Also, Kensi goes undercover as a professional dancer at the Cuban club where the husband works, while Deeks is undercover as the bathroom attendant.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Joe Sachs
8.0/10303 votes#21 - Battle Scars (1)
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 4/23/2017
After a highly decorated Navy Captain, Charles Langston, kidnaps a Veterans Affairs administrator who has been siphoning funds, the NCIS team must work with Hetty’s former Vietnam War colleagues, now-retired Admiral AJ Chegwidden and Admiral Sterling Bridges to solve the case.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Andrew Bartels, Jordana Lewis Jaffe
8.0/10294 votes#22 - Golden Days (2)
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 4/30/2017
A gold heist investigation has the NCIS team working with Hetty's former Vietnam War colleagues, Retired Admiral AJ Chegwidden, Admiral Sterling Bridges and Retired Captain Charles Langston.
Director: Ruba Nadda
Writer: Joseph C. Wilson
8.6/10348 votes#23 - 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
8.5/10320 votes#24 - 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
The Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8
Every episode of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8!
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 8 Ratings Summary
"High-Value Target (1)" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: Los Angeles" season 8. It scored 8.1/10 based on 367 votes. Directed by Tawnia McKiernan and written by R. Scott Gemmill, it aired on 9/25/2016. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Belly of the Beast (2)".