The best episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles
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- 01
When an ATF agent goes missing, the bureau seeks help from the NCIS team to investigate stolen military-grade weapons and locate the agent. Also, Callen and Anna continue to plan their wedding, Rountree's sister interviews for medical school and Sam encourages his father to take part in the drug trial.
- 02
The NCIS team continues the case with ATF and the stolen military-grade weapons. Also, Callen and Anna decide on an impromptu wedding.
- 03
The NCIS team is tasked with assisting NCIS' cold case homicide unit with a case from 2003 and a missing Navy petty officer. Also, Kilbride and his son, Alex, work to rebuild their relationship.
- 04
Kensi and Deeks are sent undercover as married couple Melissa and Justin when evidence points to a Russian sleeper cell in a suburban neighborhood.
- 05
While Agent Rountree and Fatima are searching for Kilbride, who has been MIA, they are ambushed and learn that every member of the team has a $200,000 bounty on their head via the dark web. The NCIS team must save Agent Rountree and find Kilbride while every cartel, hit man, gang and psychopath hunts them down.
- 06
When the NCIS team receives a cryptic, urgent message, Fatima and Rountree must work together to solve the case. Also, Kilbride plans to visit his son, and Callen asks Sam to be his best man.
- 07
When four people, including a CIA officer, are shot and killed in broad daylight, the NCIS team suspects the attacks have something to do with DRONA. Also, Pembrook meets with Callen and gives more insight into his past.
- 08
Botched assignment forces Hetty to fire Deeks and send him back to the LAPD. Meanwhile, an awkward goodbye between Kensi and Deeks leaves her with unexpected emotions for her old partner.
- 09
The NCIS: LA team continues to search for new evidence to prove Kensi Blye's innocence after a private meeting involving her deceased father's sniper unit turns deadly.
- 10
Sam Hanna must go undercover as a fighter to catch the leader of a gang dealing drugs on the streets.
- 11
When Sam's Son's school is taken over by an extremist group, the team rushes to San Francisco to protect him and free the hostages.
- 12
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.
- 13
After Anna Kolcheck escapes from prison with her cellmate, Callen and the NCIS team assist with the investigation and search for her whereabouts.
- 14
When a mystery woman attacks the founder of an AI company, the NCIS team must identify the woman before the next major global conflict ensues. Also, Kilbride's ex-wife, Elizabeth (Marilu Henner), comes to visit and asks him to think about reconnecting with their son.
- 15
The NCIS team must investigate when a Navy reservist is stabbed and his lab full of pesticides and insects is ransacked. Also, Kilbride offers Sam the interim operations manager position and Rountree thinks about his future.
- 16
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.
- 17
Callen and Sam travel to the USS Allegiance in the Persian Gulf to work with Navy Captain Harmon "Harm" Rabb, Jr. when the NCIS team uncovers ISIS sympathizers who are targeting military.
- 18
When Sam's friend Tom Olsen finds himself being hunted down by enemies from his past, the NCIS team must find out who is after him.
- 19
Following the murder of a Russian woman, the NCIS team uncovers evidence that answers who and why Callen was shot six months ago.
- 20
Forensic scientist Abby Sciuto joins the Los Angeles NCIS team when a murder case resembles the pattern for a serial killer she has been tracking.
- 21
Callen races against a ruthless adversary to locate a woman who knows the whereabouts of a forgotten fortune earmarked to fund a new war in the Middle East - and also holds the tantalizing key to his unknown past.
- 22
Deeks resumes an old alias he is not fond of in order to protect his best friend and chief informant from a criminal group that wants him dead.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
When an NCIS mission to protect a compromised undercover agent goes completely sideways, the agents are individually interrogated to find out what really happened. Also, Kilbride must make a difficult decision.
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