10.0/102 votes#1 - To Live and Die in Mexico
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2018
Gravely injured and unable to communicate with the team in the U.S., Callen, Sam and Kensi, with an unconscious Deeks in tow, search for a safe way home as a cartel boss places a “dead or alive” bounty on their heads. Also, Mosely and retired Navy Admiral Hollace Kilbride beseech their contacts in Mexico and D.C. for assistance with their missing colleagues
Director: Frank Military
Writer: Frank Military
9.3/103 votes#2 - False Flag
Season 10 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/2019
Callen and Sam work with Navy Captain Harmon "Harm" Rabb, Jr. (David James Elliott) to locate a group of ISIS sympathizers aboard the USS Allegiance. Also, Hetty enlists her friend, Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac". Mackenzie (Catherine Bell), to help obtain information from a Russian diplomat.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Frank Military
9.0/103 votes#3 - Betrayal
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/2011
After Sam’s undercover mission in Sudan turns deadly, Callen and the NCIS team must track down their missing agent before it is too late.
Director: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Frank Military
9.0/102 votes#4 - Better Angels
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/2019
The NCIS team works with the Global Criminal Tribunal when a Syrian seeking justice, David Sarraf, is brutally attacked while delivering evidence that would prove chemical weapons were used on civilians. Also, Kensi stays at the crime scene and comforts Sarraf who is pinned behind a vehicle.
Director: Diana Valentine
Writer: Frank Military
9.0/102 votes#5 - Code of Conduct
Season 11 Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/2020
Sam, Callen and Rountree travel to Afghanistan when Marine Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie asks NCIS to help with a sensitive case after two SEALs claim their chief murdered an unarmed prisoner.
Director: Frank Military
Writer: Frank Military
9.0/101 votes#6 - Down The Rabbit Hole
Season 13 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2022
The NCIS team must quickly find Callen after he falls for Katya’s trap using Sam’s deepfake to coordinate a weapons deal.
Director: Frank Military
Writer: Frank Military
8.5/102 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: Frank Military
8.5/102 votes#8 - 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
8.5/102 votes#9 - The Silo
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2017
Kensi is transported to a missile launch facility to help thwart a takeover of nuclear weapons.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Frank Military
8.5/102 votes#10 - The Monster
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 4/1/2018
While investigating a missing person’s case, the team uncovers a killer who puts on shows for high-paying voyeurs. Also, Mosley assigns Callen as her partner on a joint ATF mission to apprehend someone from her past.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Frank Military
8.5/102 votes#11 - Through the Looking Glass
Season 12 Episode 17 - Aired 5/16/2021
When a Naval Intelligence Officer is tortured and murdered, NCIS must work with Joelle, who informs them that other CIA operatives are being killed in the same way. Also, Kensi receives a threatening postcard from David Kessler, the sociopath who is obsessed with her.
Director: Frank Military
Writer: Frank Military
8.0/101 votes#12 - Coalition of the Willing
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/2007
The residents of Jericho and New Bern fight over precious resources and Gray must make a tough decision after the streets of Jericho are bombed.
Director: Guy Norman Bee
Writer: Frank Military
8.0/103 votes#13 - Deliverance (2)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/2010
Hetty and the NCIS team continue to search for an elusive book that has the attention of several foreign security agencies.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Frank Military
8.0/103 votes#14 - Lockup
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/2011
Sam goes undercover as a prisoner to track down a terrorist group responsible for several bombings around the world.
Director: Jan Eliasberg
Writer: Frank Military
8.0/103 votes#15 - Crimeleon
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/2012
With Assistant Director Granger critiquing every move, the NCIS team must track down a chameleon-like killer who has evaded law enforcement agents, including their very own Special Agent G. Callen, across several countries.
Director: N/A
Writer: Frank Military
8.0/103 votes#16 - Out of the Past (1)
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2012
When a CIA agent who worked with Sam Hanna over eight years ago seeks his help and is soon found dead of an apparent suicide, Hanna and Callen suspect foul play and a bigger conspiracy. Meanwhile, Deeks finds his inner “dog whisperer” with Kensi as the two go undercover and enter a dog show with a prized poodle.
Director: N/A
Writer: Frank Military
7.7/103 votes#17 - The Job
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/2011
When an attempted robbery takes place at a secure facility on a Marine base, Kensi must determine what the thief intended to steal.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Frank Military
7.7/103 votes#18 - Greed
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2011
When a Navy ID is found on a dead body tied to a hazardous material smuggling case, NCIS is granted permission to investigate in Mexico and asked to help locate the missing materials.
Director: Jan Eliasberg
Writer: Frank Military
7.7/103 votes#19 - Vengeance
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/27/2012
When the body of a Navy Intel Officer is found, evidence points to a team of Navy SEALs who are about to depart on a hostage rescue mission, leaving former Navy SEAL Sam Hanna to interrogate the group and possibly compromise the mission.
Director: N/A
Writer: Frank Military
7.6/107 votes#20 - Conspiracy Theory
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/12/2005
The team investigates a suicide case, believing that the main reason of her death is a nervous breakdown, but Ducky believes that she was actually murdered. FBI Special Agent Fornell helps them in the investigation. The team discovers that the dead woman was involved in a love triangle and that this may have contributed to her death.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Frank Military
7.5/102 votes#21 - The Patton Project
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2018
Deputy Director Ochoa volunteers the NCIS team to assist with a covert operation tied to a terrorist group advocating for extreme military force. Also, Callen has concerns as to what an assignment of this nature could mean for the future of the team.
Director: Ruba Nadda
Writer: Frank Military
7.1/107 votes#22 - Chained
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2004
Tony disappears while doing an undercover operation as an escaped prisoner who is forced to stick to a convinct that owns a key to an expensive ancient Iraqi sculpture. The GPS locator that Abby planted on Tony stops working and the team is forced to find Tony before he gets murdered by the thief.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Frank Military
7.0/109 votes#23 - The Meat Puzzle
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2005
A "meat puzzle" starts when Ducky identifies the pieces of three bodies that were stuffed inside a barrel few months ago and they turn out to be bodies of a judge, prosecutor and jury foreman that worked with Ducky on a rape case 10 years ago. Gibbs believes that Ducky might be the next victim of the killer, so he orders the team to keep him and his mother safe. Even so, Ducky is kidnapped during the investigation and now the team must find him before it's too late.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Frank Military
7.0/104 votes#24 - Little Angels
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2010
The team races against time to save a Naval Commander's daughter after seeing a video of her being buried alive.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: Frank Military
7.0/102 votes#25 - Hail Mary
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2019
Callen and Sam run protection detail for retired Navy Admiral Kilbride in an operation to locate a missing Naval intelligence officer.
Director: Benny Boom
Writer: Frank Military
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"To Live and Die in Mexico" is the best rated episode written by Frank Military. It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Frank Military. It aired on 9/30/2018 and is rated 0.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "False Flag".