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The Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8

Every episode of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 1 - High-Value Target (1)
    8.1/10(380 votes)

    #1 - High-Value Target (1)

    S8:E1

    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.

    Director:Tawnia McKiernan
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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  2. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 2 - Belly of the Beast (2)
    8.2/10(217 votes)

    #2 - Belly of the Beast (2)

    S8:E2

    The team travels to Syria to apprehend a High Value Target where one team member is severely injured when the mission goes awry.

    Director:Terrence O'Hara
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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  3. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 3 - The Queen's Gambit
    8.0/10(338 votes)

    #3 - The Queen's Gambit

    S8:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 4 - Black Market
    7.7/10(334 votes)

    #4 - Black Market

    S8:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 5 - Ghost Gun
    7.9/10(337 votes)

    #5 - Ghost Gun

    S8:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 6 - Home Is Where the Heart Is
    7.8/10(339 votes)

    #6 - Home Is Where the Heart Is

    S8:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 7 - Crazy Train
    8.0/10(328 votes)

    #7 - Crazy Train

    S8:E7

    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
    Writers:Frank Military, Shane Brennan

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  8. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 8 - Parallel Resistors
    7.7/10(323 votes)

    #8 - Parallel Resistors

    S8:E8

    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.

    Director:Eric Laneuville
    Writers:Joe Sachs, Shane Brennan

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  9. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 9 - Glasnost
    8.1/10(334 votes)

    #9 - Glasnost

    S8:E9

    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.

    Director:John Peter Kousakis
    Writer:Andrew Bartels

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  10. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 10 - Sirens
    7.9/10(326 votes)

    #10 - Sirens

    S8:E10

    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.

    Director:Jonathan Frakes
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 11 - Tidings We Bring
    7.7/10(315 votes)

    #11 - Tidings We Bring

    S8:E11

    The team goes on the chase for a Navy analyst being held hostage, only to discover things aren't as simple as they seem.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 12 - Kulinda
    7.6/10(319 votes)

    #12 - Kulinda

    S8:E12

    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.

    Director:Tawnia McKiernan
    Writer:Kyle Harimoto

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  13. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 13 - Hot Water (1)
    8.9/10(478 votes)

    #13 - Hot Water (1)

    S8:E13

    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.

    Director:Dennis Smith
    Writer:Anastasia Kousakis

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  14. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 14 - Under Siege (2)
    8.5/10(372 votes)

    #14 - Under Siege (2)

    S8:E14

    Hetty goes rogue, leaving the NCIS team completely in the dark, and the mole kidnaps one of the agents.

    Director:Ruba Nadda
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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  15. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 15 - Payback (3)
    8.6/10(397 votes)

    #15 - Payback (3)

    S8:E15

    As the team races to save Kensi from Ferris/Sullivan, they find themselves questioning who they can trust when old faces resurface.

    Director:Terrence O'Hara
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 16 - Old Tricks
    8.1/10(342 votes)

    #16 - Old Tricks

    S8:E16

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Andrew Bartels

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  17. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 17 - Queen Pin
    7.5/10(304 votes)

    #17 - Queen Pin

    S8:E17

    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.

    Director:Eric Laneuville
    Writer:Joseph C. Wilson

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  18. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 18 - Getaway
    8.0/10(319 votes)

    #18 - Getaway

    S8:E18

    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.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writer:Erin Broadhurst

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  19. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 19 - 767
    8.1/10(321 votes)

    #19 - 767

    S8:E19

    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.

    Director:Benny Boom
    Writer:Kyle Harimoto

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  20. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 20 - From Havana With Love
    7.9/10(298 votes)

    #20 - From Havana With Love

    S8:E20

    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.

    Director:Dennis Smith
    Writer:Joe Sachs

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  21. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 21 - Battle Scars (1)
    8.1/10(310 votes)

    #21 - Battle Scars (1)

    S8:E21

    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.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writers:Andrew Bartels, Jordana Lewis Jaffe

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  22. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 22 - Golden Days (2)
    8.0/10(300 votes)

    #22 - Golden Days (2)

    S8:E22

    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.

    Director:Ruba Nadda
    Writer:Joseph C. Wilson

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  23. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 23 - Uncaged (1)
    8.7/10(360 votes)

    #23 - Uncaged (1)

    S8:E23

    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

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  24. NCIS: Los Angeles Season 8 Episode 24 - Unleashed (2)
    8.6/10(331 votes)

    #24 - Unleashed (2)

    S8:E24

    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.

    Director:John Peter Kousakis
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"High-Value Target (1)" is the best rated episode of "NCIS: Los Angeles" season 8. It scored 8.1/10 based on 380 votes. Directed by Tawnia McKiernan and written by R. Scott Gemmill, it aired on 9/25/2016. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Belly of the Beast (2)".