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The Best Episodes of NCIS: New Orleans

Every episode of NCIS: New Orleans ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of NCIS: New Orleans!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaComedy
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Sleeping with the Enemy" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: New Orleans". It scored 8.3/10 based on 339 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/17/2016. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Walking Dead".

  • Sleeping with the Enemy
    8.3/10339 votes
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    #1 - Sleeping with the Enemy

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/2016

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Walking Dead
    8.1/10396 votes
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    #2 - The Walking Dead

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2015

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Insider
    8.1/10362 votes
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    #3 - The Insider

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2015

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • How Much Pain Can You Take
    8.1/10355 votes
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    #4 - How Much Pain Can You Take

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/2015

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Billy and the Kid
    8.1/10347 votes
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    #5 - Billy and the Kid

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/2015

    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. Also, the team celebrates Thanksgiving together in Pride’s bar.

    Director: Mary Lou Belli

    Writer: Gary Glasberg, Samuel Humphreys

  • No Man's Land
    8.1/10323 votes
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    #6 - No Man's Land

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2016

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Means to an End
    8.1/10314 votes
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    #7 - Means to an End

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/22/2016

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Third Man
    8.1/10303 votes
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    #8 - The Third Man

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/10/2016

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Let it Ride
    8.1/10303 votes
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    #9 - Let it Ride

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2017

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Poetic Justice
    8.1/10322 votes
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    #10 - Poetic Justice

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/16/2017

    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. Season Finale.

    Director: James Hayman

    Writer: Christopher Silber

  • Mind Games
    8.1/10306 votes
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    #11 - Mind Games

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/2018

    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: N/A

  • Desperate Navy Wives
    8.1/10275 votes
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    #12 - Desperate Navy Wives

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2019

    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

  • Crab Mentality
    8.1/10274 votes
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    #13 - Crab Mentality

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/2019

    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

  • Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler (2)
    8.1/10261 votes
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    #14 - Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler (2)

    Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 5/20/2021

    On the eve of his wedding to Rita, and Connor leaving for the Witness Protection Program, Pride must track down who attacked Jimmy and Connor, while navigating Sasha's ulterior motives regarding her son.

    Director: Tim Andrew

    Writer: N/A

  • Baitfish
    8.0/10392 votes
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    #15 - Baitfish

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2015

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • My Brother's Keeper
    8.0/10369 votes
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    #16 - My Brother's Keeper

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2015

    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: N/A

  • Broken Hearted
    8.0/10342 votes
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    #17 - Broken Hearted

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2015

    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

    Writer: Zach Strauss, Greta Heinemann

  • If It Bleeds, It Leads
    8.0/10308 votes
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    #18 - If It Bleeds, It Leads

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/2016

    Agent 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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Escape Plan
    8.0/10328 votes
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    #19 - Escape Plan

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2016

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Checkmate (1)
    8.0/10299 votes
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    #20 - Checkmate (1)

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/2018

    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

  • Checkmate (2)
    8.0/10314 votes
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    #21 - Checkmate (2)

    Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/15/2018

    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: N/A

  • Close to Home
    8.0/10267 votes
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    #22 - Close to Home

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2018

    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

  • The River Styx (1)
    8.0/10261 votes
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    #23 - The River Styx (1)

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/2019

    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

  • Bad Apple
    8.0/10287 votes
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    #24 - Bad Apple

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2019

    Pride travels to New York after new evidence links to a 20-year-old cold case from his time at Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office.

    Director: Stacey K. Black

    Writer: Ron McGee

  • Relentless
    8.0/10278 votes
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    #25 - Relentless

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 3/15/2020

    Tammy must protect Rachel, a research-obsessed teenage girl, after her father is shot in their home, while the rest of the team searches for a motive.

    Director: Gordon Lonsdale

    Writer: Cameron Dupuy