
NCIS: Los Angeles — Season 8
New city. New team. Same attitude.
About this season
The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.
Episodes (24)

1. High-Value Target (1)
6.2Aired 25 September 2016 • 45 min
After NCIS fails to locate a mole in the department, Under Secretary of Defense Corbin Duggan insists on new leadership and takes over the Los Angeles unit from Hetty and Granger.

2. Belly of the Beast (2)
9.3Aired 25 September 2016 • 45 min
The team travels to Syria to apprehend a High Value Target where one team member is severely injured when the mission goes awry.

3. The Queen's Gambit
8.0Aired 2 October 2016 • 45 min
The NCIS LA team investigates an abduction case while down two members, with Hetty being held in D.C. for questioning, and another still in the ICU following the mission in Syria.

4. Black Market
5.8Aired 16 October 2016 • 45 min
After a Homeland Security agent is poisoned by a notorious Triad assassin, NCIS uncovers a warehouse of counterfeit purses and a money trail to stolen government funds. Also, Nell joins the team in the field.

5. Ghost Gun
7.7Aired 23 October 2016 • 45 min
The murder of a navy machinist with high security clearance sends the team on a city-wide hunt tracking evidence. Also, Anna Kolcheck partners with Callen, and Sam assists Hetty in the on-going mole investigation.

6. Home Is Where the Heart Is
7.3Aired 30 October 2016 • 45 min
After a maintenance man saved the life of a lieutenant commander, the NCIS team uncovers his dark past which puts a local teenager in danger. Also, Sam must decide which colleague to take to the Los Angeles football game.

7. Crazy Train
8.5Aired 6 November 2016 • 45 min
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.

8. Parallel Resistors
5.5Aired 13 November 2016 • 45 min
The team's investigation into the electrocution of a college student working on a classified Navy project leads them to his inquisitive daughter, who may be the key to accessing his work.

9. Glasnost
8.0Aired 20 November 2016 • 45 min
After Callen’s father, Garrison is found in an NCIS patient’s hospital room during a radiation poisoning case, Callen must take him to the boatshed for interrogation. Also, the team discusses their Thanksgiving plans.

10. Sirens
7.2Aired 27 November 2016 • 45 min
After an unknown female assailant kills two men disguised as Sherriff’s deputies in front of Callen’s home, the NCIS team gets a new lead in the ongoing mole investigation. Also, Nell visits a prison to interview an inmate withholding information on the department’s leak.

11. Tidings We Bring
8.3Aired 18 December 2016 • 45 min
The team goes on the chase for a Navy analyst being held hostage, only to discover things aren't as simple as they seem.

12. Kulinda
7.3Aired 8 January 2017 • 45 min
After a Navy reservist is killed while protecting a city councilman, Sam is sent undercover in a private security firm with links to several criminal organizations.

13. Hot Water (1)
5.3Aired 15 January 2017 • 45 min
The mole has once again compromised the NCIS team as planted evidence results in the arrests of Callen, Sam, Granger and Deeks, on the day Under Secretary Duggan (Jackson Hurst) returns for Hetty’s resignation.

14. Under Siege (2)
9.0Aired 29 January 2017 • 45 min
Hetty goes rogue, leaving the NCIS team completely in the dark, and the mole kidnaps one of the agents.

15. Payback (3)
9.5Aired 19 February 2017 • 45 min
As the team races to save Kensi from Ferris/Sullivan, they find themselves questioning who they can trust when old faces resurface.

16. Old Tricks
8.0Aired 5 March 2017 • 45 min
When a Navy lieutenant and his grandfather are kidnapped from a retirement home, the team's investigation leads them to a con artist couple and the hunt for a rare coin; Callen meanwhile has to deal with his father's actions when he kidnaps the father of his grandson (and Callen's nephew).

17. Queen Pin
4.0Aired 12 March 2017 • 45 min
Sam resumes an old alias to bring down a major criminal kingpin; Callen and Anna's romantic night is interrupted when they are tasked with escorting a high-value prisoner to Los Angeles for questioning.

18. Getaway
7.0Aired 19 March 2017 • 45 min
After the U.S. Treasury Department is hacked, Nell and Eric go undercover inside a couple's retreat to track a tech-savvy husband and wife linked to the crime. Also, Digital Forensics Specialist Dave Flynn (Scott Grimes) arrives from the NCIS cyber office in San Diego to run ops while Eric and Nell are on assignment.

19. 767
9.3Aired 26 March 2017 • 45 min
After an engineer who was developing a new guided missile destroyer is murdered, Callen and Sam go undercover to track his co-worker aboard a plane to Tokyo to sell the classified intel. Also, Deeks plans a surprise get-together for Kensi and her out-of-town friends.

20. From Havana With Love
7.5Aired 9 April 2017 • 45 min
The NCIS team investigates a defense contractor, Rebecca Larmont, designing a nuclear attack weapon after her estranged husband, Victor Larmont, says he has proof she is selling Navy secrets to a foreign government. Also, Kensi goes undercover as a professional dancer at the Cuban club where the husband works, while Deeks is undercover as the bathroom attendant.

21. Battle Scars (1)
6.8Aired 23 April 2017 • 45 min
After a highly decorated Navy Captain, Charles Langston, kidnaps a Veterans Affairs administrator who has been siphoning funds, the NCIS team must work with Hetty’s former Vietnam War colleagues, now-retired Admiral AJ Chegwidden and Admiral Sterling Bridges to solve the case.

22. Golden Days (2)
8.0Aired 30 April 2017 • 45 min
A gold heist investigation has the NCIS team working with Hetty's former Vietnam War colleagues, Retired Admiral AJ Chegwidden, Admiral Sterling Bridges and Retired Captain Charles Langston.

23. Uncaged (1)
8.5Aired 7 May 2017 • 45 min
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.

24. Unleashed (2)
10.0Aired 14 May 2017 • 45 min
Following the kidnapping of Sam's wife, Michelle Hanna, Sam goes rogue from the NCIS team and attempts to stop his arch nemesis Tahir Khaled from ever targeting his family again.