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NCIS Season 16 Episodes
Season 16 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2018 - 2019
Episode 1
Destiny's Child
Tue, Sep 25, 201843 mins
Vance is still missing, and Gibbs is assigned as acting director while the team searches his whereabouts.
Episode 2
Love Thy Neighbor
Tue, Oct 2, 201843 mins
A Navy lieutenant's peculiar neighbors are the key suspects in his murder; Torres has a crazy night out with Palmer.
Episode 3
Boom
Tue, Oct 9, 201843 mins
The team investigates an explosion outside the home of a Navy petty officer and a popular reality TV star.
Episode 4
Third Wheel
Tue, Oct 16, 201843 mins
Gibbs decides to take some time off and goes to his cabin. Fornell shows up, as does his friend, Captain Brooks. They butt heads over who has the right to stay. The team searches for an armed robber who broke into a naval base and snuck aboard a cargo plane that took off. The team orders the plane to land and discovers that someone did sneak on board and apparently parachuted out. They determine that the robber landed in the vicinity of Gibbs' cabin. Gibbs calls and finds out about the robber and heads out to find him. Fornell and Brooks join him. A fingerprint they found of the robber brings an FBI agent to them whom Sloane knows but refuses to talk about, which has Torres intrigued. The agent tells them the robber is in the witness protection program.
Episode 5
Fragments
Tue, Oct 23, 201843 mins
The team works to exonerate a Marine serving a life sentence for murder after the discovery of a 50-year-old tape recording of the victim.
Episode 6
Beneath the Surface
Tue, Oct 30, 201843 mins
At a Halloween crime scene, Torres recognizes the NCIS victim as a former friend from federal law enforcement training, and Jimmy thinks his lab may be haunted!
Episode 7
A Thousand Words
Tue, Nov 13, 201842 mins
The theft of a street artist's mural leads the team to investigate a conspiracy regarding a Navy contractor and the safety of ocean mammals.
Episode 8
Friendly Fire
Tue, Nov 20, 201841 mins
McGee and Bishop travel to Afghanistan after a murder case in the states is linked to a string of soldiers killed by friendly fire overseas.
Episode 9
Tailing Angie
Tue, Dec 4, 201843 mins
Three years ago, an unknown person burglarized the house of an admiral and the admiral's wealthy wife. Angie Grey served as the getaway driver. She was photographed by the admiral, and arrested by the NCIS. She refused to identify her partner out of loyalty, and willingly spend a longer sentence than expected. On the day that Angie is finally released from prison, the NCIS has decided to keep surveillance over her in hopes that she will lead them to her partner. A shady private detective is also tailing Angie, with the NCIS worrying about her safety. The admiral demands secrecy from his wife, which indicated to Vance and his subordinates that something more personal than money was stolen in the original burglary. Another complication in the case is that Angie's former cellmate Lanny Peete has become Angie's best friend and goes out of her way to protect the troubled girl.
Episode 10
What Child is This?
Tue, Dec 11, 201843 mins
A homeless Navy veteran protected the local homeless shelter and its staff members from local criminals, until he was killed in an apparent ambush. The drug dealer Albert Leary (who uses the alias Vicious) is the primary suspect for the murder. Leroy Gibbs impulsively leads most of his team in invading the suspect's house without a warrant, and an angry Vicious shoots at Ellie Bishop. Vicious misses his target and is immediately killed. The team finds a newborn baby in Vicious' custody and decide to keep it under their protection until they can locate his parents. Ellie and Nick act as the baby's surrogate parents, despite having no previous experiences with parenting. Ellie also tries to deal with the idea that she could have died that day. Meanwhile, Kasie Hines takes the homeless veteran's case personally. The man is a lookalike of her deceased father, and coincidentally has a tattoo identical to that of her father. Jimmy Palmer gets Kasie to confide in him that her father died suddenly shortly before she started working for NCIS, that she is dealing with mixed feelings of grief and guilt about his death, and that she has been avoiding the rest of her family since her father's death. Jimmy encourages Kasie to meet her mother for Christmas.
Episode 11
Toil and Trouble
Tue, Jan 8, 201940 mins
The Secretary of Defense shuts down Gibbs' murder investigation and demands that McGee and Torres be arrested for their actions in the case.
Episode 12
The Last Link
Tue, Jan 15, 201941 mins
An old family friend beseeches Gibbs to join him on a road trip to search for a missing military I.D. bracelet.
Episode 13
She
Tue, Feb 12, 201943 mins
After a malnourished and confused 9-year-old is found hiding in a storage unit, the team reopens an old missing persons case that Special Agent Ziva David had a personal interest in.
Episode 14
Once Upon A Tim
Tue, Feb 19, 201941 mins
McGee reluctantly visits his former high school after the unique computer password he used as a teenager is linked to the murder of a department of defense contractor.
Episode 15
Crossing the Line
Tue, Feb 26, 201942 mins
Kendrick Allston was a cryptology technician on a Navy ship, who managed to achieve at least one early promotion within his first few years in service. He was considered highly efficient in his job, but he did not like to socialize and never had any friends among his shipmates. During a traditional shell-back ceremony on the ship, he apparently falls overboard and drowns despite being an excellent swimmer. An autopsy indicates that he died of a drug overdose, despite having a reputation of avoiding drugs for most of his life. His bunk-mate overdoses the following day. The NCIS team suspects that both men were poisoned, but they have to figure out a motive for anyone to target them. Back on land, Nick Torres has been tasked with mentoring three high-school students who won an outreach contest and will be serving as NCIS trainees for a few days. He hates the task, but soon finds out that Haley and Blake are pretty skilled in dealing with his paperwork and eager to complete any task. The third student, Max, seems full of rage and resentment, while having a habit of wandering the building by himself. Max is actually the son the deceased agent Girard, who was killed in an explosion years ago. Max is more eager to explore his father's working place and to evoke his memory than to actually train with the other students or make himself useful. Torres eventually tries to help Max cope with his grief and anger, while revealing that he also had a traumatic childhood.
Episode 16
Bears and Cubs
Tue, Mar 12, 201943 mins
Jimmy is torn between family and work after his father-in-law asks him to tamper with evidence from the team's current murder investigation.
Episode 17
Silent Service
Tue, Mar 26, 201941 mins
Vance is notified by the Pentagon that the nuclear submarine Gibbs and Bishop are aboard to conduct a murder investigation has gone radio silent.
Episode 18
Mona Lisa
Tue, Apr 2, 201943 mins
After Torres wakes up on a dilapidated fishing boat covered in blood, the team helps him piece together the last 12 hours.
Episode 19
Perennial
Tue, Apr 9, 201942 mins
An unidentified young man in a military uniform enters a hospital with a heist plan, but he discovers that his map of the hospital rooms is outdated and useless. He looses his temper and shoots several people before fleeing. NCIS discovers that the only witness who took a good look at his face is the young nurse Faith Tolliver. The team alternatively tries to use Faith for information, and to shield her from murder attempts. For agent Jacqueline "Jack" Sloane the case is unusually personal. Faith is the estranged daughter which Jack gave up for adoption a few decades ago, and she feels very protective of her only offspring. On the other hand, Faith is angry at her mother and she is not eager to have interactions with Jack.
Episode 20
Hail & Farewell
Tue, Apr 16, 201943 mins
The Marine Major Ellen Wallace supposedly died on September 11, 2001 during the attacks on the Pentagon, along with most of the office workers in her section of the building. Nearly 20 years later, her hidden remains are located in an unmarked grave. Ellen was apparently murdered in her office, late at night on September 10, and her killer had apparently created a grave for her. At the time of her death, she was investigating American war crimes in the Kosovo War of 1998. There are many suspects with a motive, including her own father James Wallace. He was a highly decorated Marine General, but he was suspected at the time of either having ordered war crimes or having covered up the crimes of others. The NCIS team is less than pleased when evidence at the crime scene implicate Leroy Jethro Gibbs himself as a suspect, since Ellen was his ex-fiancee and he had no alibi for the night of the murder.
Episode 21
Judge, Jury...
Tue, Apr 30, 201943 mins
Kasie solves a 30-year-old murder case after entering cold case DNA into the system but a loophole in the legal system might set the suspect free. Also, McGee visits a technology company in Silicon Valley that's offered him a well paid job.
Episode 22
...and Executioner
Tue, May 7, 201943 mins
The NCIS team locates a pattern of vigilante murders across the United States. Hardened criminals were set free for various legal reasons, only to be targeted by assassins shortly after their release. A group of corrupt federal judges are secretly orchestrating the murders, and the seemingly friendly Miles Deakin turns out to be their leader. Deakin wants Gibbs to be killed, because he found evidence that Gibbs performed a vigilante murder of his own several years ago. Gibbs had murdered Pedro Hernandez, the man responsible for the deaths of his first wife and his only daughter. The team tries to use Deakin's character flaws to undermine his master plan, but Gibbs is disturbed when he notices similarities between himself and his foe.
Episode 23
Lost Time
Tue, May 14, 201943 mins
A few years ago, a small task-force was assigned to capture a high-ranking officer of the Taliban and to also capture the man's financial assets, worth many millions in dollars. The mission was a success, but only three men survived it. There were suspicions that they stole part of their target's wealth, but the investigative authorities failed to provide enough evidence to arrest them . In the present, two of the men are murdered at about the same time. The NCIS team uses Lori Wilson (the widow of the first victim) for information on their personal lives, and Nick Torres develops a bond with the relatively young widow. But then Nick meets a second Lori Wilson and realizes that his new friend is an impostor. Meanwhile Gibbs is plagued by self-doubt since his subordinates were informed about shadier aspects of his past. He skips work and spends the day drinking in a bar, and talking to his former therapist Dr. Grace Confalone. Grace talks him out of destroying his own career and confessing about past crimes to the police, but she suggests to him that he can not remain a field agent for life and that he should start making retirement plans.
Episode 24
Daughters
Tue, May 21, 201943 mins
Emily Fornell is the only daughter of T.C. Fornell and the beloved surrogate niece of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. She is currently a college student, but she collapses from a drug overdose during a party. The NCIS team initially believes that her drink was spiked at the party, but they eventually realize that she has secretly developed a drug addiction over the last year or so. The team and Fornell himself (a retired FBI agent) go out of their way to locate whoever supplied drugs to Emily and other students, and they are intrigued when one of Emily's friends is found murdered. But they have trouble convincing Emily herself that her behavior is self-destructive and that she needs professional help. Meanwhile, Gibbs founds himself talking to the apparent ghost of his ex-wife Diane Sterling, who happens to be Emily's mother.
