NCIS: Season 13
Season 13 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of NCIS Season 12.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 13 Progress Shield
Stop the Bleeding
Sep 22, 2015 · 44 min
After being shot, Gibbs fights for his life aboard a Navy hospital ship, while DiNozzo and Joanna travel to Shanghai to try and take down the Calling.
Personal Day
Sep 29, 2015 · 43 min
Gibbs calls on the team to assist DEA Agent Luis Mitchell with a case that keeps going cold, but DiNozzo discovers there is more to Gibbs’ personal connection to the agent and his
Incognito
Oct 6, 2015 · 43 min
After a Marine is found murdered in Quantico hours after calling Gibbs to discuss a possible case, Bishop and McGee go undercover as a married couple to run surveillance on a Marin
Double Trouble
Oct 13, 2015 · 41 min
Vance partners with Gibbs and returns to field duty when a murder case is connected to a former NCIS agent he locked up for stealing evidence.
Lockdown
Oct 20, 2015 · 44 min
While visiting a pharmaceutical lab on a murder case, Abby is trapped with no communication to the outside world after armed men take over the building and hold everyone hostage.
Viral
Oct 27, 2015 · 44 min
When a Petty Officer’s murder matches the M.O. of a local serial killer, the NCIS team must determine if this is the killer’s latest victim or the work of a copycat.
16 Years
Nov 3, 2015 · 44 min
The NCIS murder case of a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander forces Ducky to reveal his participation in a secret society that solves cold cases.
Saviors
Nov 10, 2015 · 43 min
DiNozzo is reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Jeanne Benoit, when insurgents in Sudan attack a group of volunteer doctors, including her husband.
Day in Court
Nov 17, 2015 · 44 min
In order to clear his name, a Petty Officer volunteers to be court-martialed if NCIS agrees to conduct its own investigation after his murder case is dismissed due to a mishandled
Blood Brothers
Nov 24, 2015 · 44 min
The Secretary of Defense calls on NCIS to help a sailor who is battling leukemia to locate a donor for a bone marrow transplant, after two of his siblings are killed in the line of
Spinning Wheel
Dec 15, 2015 · 44 min
After Ducky is attacked by a man claiming to have information about his half-brother who died decades ago, the NCIS team searches for the perpetrator.
Sister City (I)
Jan 5, 2016 · 41 min
The passengers and crew of a private plane traveling from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., are poisoned and the evidence points to Abby's brother, the aircraft's missing chef. The
Déjà Vu
Jan 19, 2016 · 40 min
While investigating the murder of a seaman who was set to testify before a grand jury, the NCIS team uncovers the resurgence of an international human-trafficking ring.
Decompressed
Feb 9, 2016 · 41 min
Four deep sea divers stay inside a diving chamber with a deceased body in order to decompress. The dead body belongs to a retired Petty Officer who died in mysterious circumstances
React
Feb 16, 2016 · 40 min
When Secretary of the Navy Sarah Porter learns her daughter has been kidnapped, the NCIS team partners with the FBI to track the case, determine a motive and bring her home.
Loose Cannons
Feb 23, 2016 · 43 min
Doctor Cyril Taft experiences the rush of an NCIS case after he is assigned surgical duty to Gibbs’ suspect and finds key evidence.
After Hours
Mar 1, 2016 · 41 min
The NCIS agents’ personal plans are interrupted when each of them catches errors in a seemingly cut-and-dried case.
Scope
Mar 15, 2016 · 43 min
The NCIS team re-examines an ambush on a group of Special Ops snipers in Iraq after an American couple is attacked in the same area six months later.
Reasonable Doubts
Mar 22, 2016 · 43 min
A Navy Public Affairs officer is murdered, and the victim's wife and mistress accuse each other of the crime.
Charade
Apr 5, 2016 · 41 min
Tony's identity is stolen by multiple perpetrators who go on to blackmail politicians.
Return to Sender
Apr 19, 2016 · 41 min
Gibbs and Senior FBI Agent T.C. Fornell unite after two British prisoners, including a former spy, escape and arrive stateside via a shipping container.
Homefront
May 3, 2016 · 41 min
When a 14-year-old foils a home invasion, Gibbs suspects the teenager is withholding pertinent details.
Dead Letter
May 10, 2016 · 41 min
The NCIS team, alongside the FBI and MI6, continue an international manhunt for an escaped British spy who has left one colleague fighting for their life in ICU.
Family First
May 17, 2016 · 43 min
NCIS, the FBI, and MI6 continue an international manhunt for an escaped British spy who is targeting current and former agents.