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The Best Episodes of NCIS: New Orleans

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A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 24 - Sleeping with the Enemy
    8.3/10(359 votes)

    #1 - Sleeping with the Enemy

    S2:E24

    The NCIS team uncovers a mole in the ranks while working with the Department of Homeland Security to locate 900 missing pounds of explosives that pose an imminent threat to New Orleans.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 13 - The Walking Dead
    8.1/10(422 votes)

    #2 - The Walking Dead

    S1:E13

    A Navy Lieutenant Commander in impeccable shape turns to Pride and the NCIS team to solve his imminent murder after discovering he has been poisoned with a lethal dose of radiation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 19 - The Insider
    8.1/10(385 votes)

    #3 - The Insider

    S1:E19

    While conducting an autopsy on a Petty Officer who is believed to have died from natural causes, an armed man enters the morgue and holds Wade, Sebastian, and Danny hostage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 22 - How Much Pain Can You Take
    8.1/10(379 votes)

    #4 - How Much Pain Can You Take

    S1:E22

    To send a message to Pride, Baitfish murders someone close to the NCIS team, prompting a citywide manhunt for the elusive criminal.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 10 - Billy and the Kid
    8.1/10(366 votes)

    #5 - Billy and the Kid

    S2:E10

    The murder of a Marine provides new clues in the first case Pride and Lasalle ever worked together, just before Hurricane Katrina struck the city and washed away any evidence. The team celebrates Thanksgiving together in Pride’s bar.

    Director:Mary Lou Belli
    Writers:Gary Glasberg, Samuel Humphreys

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  6. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 15 - No Man's Land
    8.1/10(337 votes)

    #6 - No Man's Land

    S2:E15

    When a mystery man saves the life of a Lieutenant and then disappears from the scene, the NCIS team unravels a new case when forensic evidence suggests he is a soldier who was captured in Afghanistan years ago and never found.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 19 - Means to an End
    8.1/10(330 votes)

    #7 - Means to an End

    S2:E19

    The NCIS team discovers a surveillance van filled with photos documenting Pride’s every move after his daughter Laurel is attacked on campus and placed in protective custody.

    Director:Alrick Riley
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 23 - The Third Man
    8.1/10(318 votes)

    #8 - The Third Man

    S2:E23

    The NCIS team partners with Homeland Security after the murder of a Navy master diver is linked to chatter of a foreign attack on the city.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. NCIS: New Orleans Season 3 Episode 11 - Let it Ride
    8.1/10(314 votes)

    #9 - Let it Ride

    S3:E11

    Sebastian is sent undercover and Patton exercises his former gambling skills, as Pride and the team attempt a dangerous operation to trap Garcia.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. NCIS: New Orleans Season 3 Episode 24 - Poetic Justice
    8.1/10(335 votes)

    #10 - Poetic Justice

    S3:E24

    Unable to trust anyone in New Orleans, the NCIS team calls in FBI Assistant Director Isler to help expose and stop the sinister scheme Mayor Hamilton has planned for the residents of Clearwater.

    Director:James Hayman
    Writer:Christopher Silber

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  11. NCIS: New Orleans Season 4 Episode 21 - Mind Games
    8.1/10(325 votes)

    #11 - Mind Games

    S4:E21

    Gregorio calls on her former behavioral science professor, when the team's latest case matches one she studied during FBI training.

    Director:Gordon Lonsdale
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. NCIS: New Orleans Season 5 Episode 12 - Desperate Navy Wives
    8.1/10(290 votes)

    #12 - Desperate Navy Wives

    S5:E12

    While undercover, Gregorio joins a social club for military wives after one of the members is contacted by an ex-boyfriend on the FBI Most Wanted List.

    Director:Michael Zinberg
    Writer:Chad Gomez Creasey

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  13. NCIS: New Orleans Season 5 Episode 15 - Crab Mentality
    8.1/10(290 votes)

    #13 - Crab Mentality

    S5:E15

    The team investigates multiple murders tied to a construction company creating an experimental chemical that strengthens sea walls. Also, evidence from Hannah’s previous mission in Oman is used against her as blackmail.

    Director:Stacey K. Black
    Writer:Brooke Roberts

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  14. NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 9 - Chasing Ghosts
    8.0/10(428 votes)

    #14 - Chasing Ghosts

    S1:E9

    A stolen Navy-issue gun appears to belong to a Petty Officer who died 40 years ago, meaning the team have to re-open a cold case. The team celebrate Thanksgiving.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writers:Sonya Winton, Jonathan Kidd

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  15. NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 11 - Baitfish
    8.0/10(417 votes)

    #15 - Baitfish

    S1:E11

    The NCIS team investigates a deadly explosion at the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Gala, and discover Pride was the intended target of the bomb.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 16 - My Brother's Keeper
    8.0/10(393 votes)

    #16 - My Brother's Keeper

    S1:E16

    The NCIS team tries to narrow down the motive when a Navy recruiter is murdered in a hit-and-run. Lasalle worries about his brother.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 21 - You'll Do
    8.0/10(383 votes)

    #17 - You'll Do

    S1:E21

    With no memory of the night before, Lasalle’s brother, Cade, turns to NCIS for help when he finds his girlfriend’s body in the trunk of his car.

    Director:Alrick Riley
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 7 - Broken Hearted
    8.0/10(359 votes)

    #18 - Broken Hearted

    S2:E7

    The life of a genius Navy coder employed by Brody’s mother, Olivia Brody, hangs in the balance after the heart intended for his transplant is stolen. Olivia joins the NCIS team as they race to locate the missing organ.

    Director:Elodie Keene
    Writers:Zach Strauss, Greta Heinemann

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  19. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 9 - Darkest Hour
    8.0/10(341 votes)

    #19 - Darkest Hour

    S2:E9

    The fiancé of Pride's daughter's friend goes missing during a blackout. The team locates the man's dead body, which holds clues to the cause of the blackout.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 18 - If It Bleeds, It Leads
    8.0/10(321 votes)

    #20 - If It Bleeds, It Leads

    S2:E18

    Brody realizes that there is a connection between the case of a sailor hit by a party bus and the death of her sister.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. NCIS: New Orleans Season 3 Episode 4 - Escape Plan
    8.0/10(343 votes)

    #21 - Escape Plan

    S3:E4

    The NCIS team must rescue one of their own after Sebastian is kidnapped while at a restaurant with his mother, Sylvia Lund, and forced to use his gaming skills in a prison break.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. NCIS: New Orleans Season 4 Episode 23 - Checkmate (1)
    8.0/10(318 votes)

    #22 - Checkmate (1)

    S4:E23

    Pride assembles an off-the-books team with hacker Elvis Bertrand, retired Green Beret Sydney Halliday, journalist Oliver Crane, and attorney Elliott Newman, to search for a loophole when he faces a grand jury indictment for abuse of power.

    Director:James Hayman
    Writer:Brad Kern

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  23. NCIS: New Orleans Season 4 Episode 24 - Checkmate (2)
    8.0/10(334 votes)

    #23 - Checkmate (2)

    S4:E24

    Pride’s newly formed off-the-books team and NCIS team uncover a sinister plot during the New Orleans Tricentennial Fleet Week celebration.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. NCIS: New Orleans Season 5 Episode 8 - Close to Home
    8.0/10(283 votes)

    #24 - Close to Home

    S5:E8

    The team places Mateo Diaz, a high school gang member turned informant, in protective custody while they investigate the murder of his junior reserve officers' training corps instructor. Pride needs his brother's help to gain Mateo's trust.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writer:Katherine Beattie

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  25. NCIS: New Orleans Season 5 Episode 23 - The River Styx (1)
    8.0/10(277 votes)

    #25 - The River Styx (1)

    S5:E23

    Pride and Lasalle travel to war-torn South Ossetia in Russia to locate FBI Special Agent Raymond Isler, who was kidnapped during a failed mission to apprehend the leader of Apollyon, the underground spy network responsible for murdering Pride's father.

    Director:James Hayman
    Writer:Chad Gomez Creasey

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Best Episodes Summary

"Sleeping with the Enemy" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: New Orleans". It scored 8.3/10 based on 359 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/17/2016. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Walking Dead".