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The Best Episodes of NCIS: New Orleans Season 2

Every episode of NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NCIS: New Orleans Season 2!

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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
    NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 1 - Sic Semper Tyrannis
    7.8/10(374 votes)

    #1 - Sic Semper Tyrannis

    S2:E1

    A military convoy is attacked in order to steal a missile that is part of a Naval exercise. Pride and the team, believing that it is perpetrated by a group of anti-American militants, make plans for a dangerous undercover operation with potentially deadly consequences.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 2 - Shadow Unit
    7.9/10(355 votes)

    #2 - Shadow Unit

    S2:E2

    The NCIS team investigates the murder of a blogger dedicated to exposing government corruption and cover-ups and discovers a Navy Seal and CIA humanitarian mission with a dark secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 3 - Touched by the Sun
    7.9/10(351 votes)

    #3 - Touched by the Sun

    S2:E3

    When a female combat pilot and Navy hero dies in an air-show plane crash, the NCIS team must investigate if it’s the fault of the pilot or the new jet that was just approved to deploy to bases globally.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 4 - I Do
    7.9/10(362 votes)

    #4 - I Do

    S2:E4

    The NCIS team must determine why a murdered Navy drone pilot was using a black market drone to obtain military surveillance, and whether the drone’s footage is linked to his death.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writer:Sam Humphrey

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  5. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 5 - Foreign Affairs
    7.6/10(362 votes)

    #5 - Foreign Affairs

    S2:E5

    Special Agent Pride is sent a partner from the Australian Defence Force Investigation Service, Special Agent Naomi Parsons, after an Royal Australian Navy Lieutenant, who was key to international negotiations on nuclear weapons, is murdered in New Orleans.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 6 - Insane in the Membrane
    7.7/10(330 votes)

    #6 - Insane in the Membrane

    S2:E6

    The team’s participation in the annual Red Dress Run is cut short when a Petty Officer is found dead in the French Quarter from a drug overdose.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #7 - 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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  8. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 8 - Confluence
    7.9/10(329 votes)

    #8 - Confluence

    S2:E8

    Pride and Sonja are ambushed after traveling to Texas to escort a key witness for the trial of an infamous arms dealer who Pride apprehended.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #10 - 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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  11. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 11 - Blue Christmas
    7.9/10(359 votes)

    #11 - Blue Christmas

    S2:E11

    A string of Christmas burglaries turns deadly and the evidence leads the NCIS team to Wade’s adopted son, Danny. Lasalle and Brody tease Sonja about the high stakes of drawing Pride in the team’s Secret Santa holiday exchange.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 12 - Sister City (II)
    7.9/10(441 votes)

    #12 - Sister City (II)

    S2:E12

    While Special Agent Pride and the New Orleans team investigate a Russian sleeper agent who was involved with Abby’s brother, Luca, Sebastian flies to D.C. to partner with Abby on the forensics in the case. Also, Bishop drives through the night to deliver a package and work the case with the New Orleans team. The crossover starts on NCIS S13E12 Sister City (I).

    Director:James Hayman
    Writer:Christopher Silber

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  13. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 13 - Undocumented
    7.5/10(329 votes)

    #13 - Undocumented

    S2:E13

    The team investigates the murder of an immigrant Petty Officer that was staged as a suicide. The agents secretly create an online dating profile for Pride.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 14 - Father's Day
    7.9/10(343 votes)

    #14 - Father's Day

    S2:E14

    A Mardi Gras party at Pride's bar ends up being cut short after he and Mayor Douglas Hamilton are abducted by some unknown assailants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #15 - 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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  16. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 16 - Second Chances
    7.8/10(316 votes)

    #16 - Second Chances

    S2:E16

    After tracking stolen Navy TNT to a cocaine warehouse, Special Agent Pride and the NCIS team uncovers a domestic drug ring that is producing their own cocaine and headed by Sonja’s childhood friend, Marion Watkins.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 17 - Radio Silence
    7.7/10(316 votes)

    #17 - Radio Silence

    S2:E17

    A Navy Captain ends up being murdered during an appearance on a local radio show. Pride's daughter returns home to discuss her plans for the future.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #19 - 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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  20. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 20 - Second Line
    7.8/10(308 votes)

    #20 - Second Line

    S2:E20

    The NCIS team investigates the murder of a Navy Lieutenant during a French Quarter second line funeral procession, a New Orleans tradition that celebrates the recently deceased with a musical street parade.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 21 - Collateral Damage
    7.9/10(326 votes)

    #21 - Collateral Damage

    S2:E21

    After a Navy Lieutenant dies during a clandestine visit to a General’s hotel room, Pride and the NCIS team are asked to break standard protocol for the murder investigation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 22 - Help Wanted
    7.7/10(329 votes)

    #22 - Help Wanted

    S2:E22

    A Navy culinary specialist is the target of an explosion while visiting her family’s 100-year-old restaurant in the French Quarter. Brody is in D.C. tracking a lead in the General leak case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #24 - 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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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Sic Semper Tyrannis" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: New Orleans" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 374 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/2015. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Shadow Unit".