NCIS: Season 16
Season 16 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 15.
- 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 16 Progress Shield
Destiny's Child
Sep 25, 2018 · 43 min
One month after Director Vance was kidnapped, Gibbs is assigned the role of acting director in his absence while the team searches worldwide for his whereabouts.
Love Thy Neighbor
Oct 2, 2018 · 43 min
After a Navy Lieutenant is found murdered in his hot tub, the team interviews several families in the victim’s peculiar neighborhood.
Boom
Oct 9, 2018 · 43 min
One of the NCIS agents is starstruck after the team investigates an explosion outside the home of Navy Petty Officer First Class Todd Nicholas and his wife, popular reality TV star
Third Wheel
Oct 16, 2018 · 43 min
Gibbs’ quiet vacation at his remote cabin is interrupted by a surprise visit from Tobias Fornell and Navy Captain Phillip Brooks, as well as a call from NCIS asking for his help lo
Fragments
Oct 23, 2018 · 43 min
After a 50-year-old tape recording left by a murder victim is found, the NCIS team tries to exonerate Ray Jennings, the Marine serving a life sentence for the crime.
Beneath the Surface
Oct 30, 2018 · 43 min
After NCIS arrives at a Halloween crime scene, Torres recognizes the victim as a friend from federal law enforcement training.
A Thousand Words
Nov 13, 2018 · 42 min
After a mural by a street artist and activist is stolen, the NCIS investigation leads to a conspiracy regarding a Navy contractor and the safety of ocean mammals.
Friendly Fire
Nov 20, 2018 · 41 min
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.
Tailing Angie
Dec 4, 2018 · 43 min
When the lead suspect of an unsolved and high-profile robbery case is released from prison, the NCIS team resumes their investigation with an undercover stakeout.
What Child Is This?
Dec 11, 2018 · 43 min
The team’s holiday plans are put on hold when the murder investigation of a Navy veteran includes the discovery of a newborn baby who has no identification and no apparent ties to
Toil and Trouble
Jan 8, 2019 · 40 min
United States Secretary of Defense Wynn Crawford shuts down Gibbs' murder investigation and demands that Special Agents McGee and Torres be arrested for their actions in the case.
The Last Link
Jan 15, 2019 · 42 min
An old family friend, Army Corporal John Sydney, beseeches Gibbs to join him on a road trip to search for a missing military I.D. bracelet. Also, a Navy Lieutenant in NCIS protecti
She
Feb 12, 2019 · 43 min
After a malnourished and confused 9-year-old is found hiding in a storage unit, NCIS reopens an old missing persons case when the girl is believed to be the daughter of a Navy recr
Once Upon a Tim
Feb 19, 2019 · 41 min
McGee reluctantly visits his high school after the unique computer password he used as a teenager is linked to the murder of a department of defense contractor. The case escalates
Crossing the Line
Feb 26, 2019 · 42 min
The NCIS team investigates a man overboard fatality from a Navy destroyer at sea. Also, Torres is frustrated with Vance’s assignment to mentor three high school students.
Bears and Cubs
Mar 12, 2019 · 43 min
Jimmy is torn between family and work after his father-in-law, Ed, asks him to tamper with evidence from NCIS’ current murder investigation. Also, Ed’s poker buddy, Anthony DiNozzo
Silent Service
Mar 26, 2019 · 41 min
Director Vance is notified by the Pentagon that the nuclear submarine Gibbs and Bishop are aboard to conduct a murder investigation has gone radio silent.
Mona Lisa
Apr 2, 2019 · 43 min
Torres relies on his team's investigative skills after he wakes up on a dilapidated fishing boat and is covered in blood and unable to remember the last 12 hours.
Perennial
Apr 9, 2019 · 42 min
Following an active shooter lockdown at a Naval hospital, the team searches for a suspect who fled the scene.
Hail & Farewell
Apr 16, 2019 · 43 min
NCIS investigates the murder of a Marine Major believed to have been killed in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon after human remains are discovered at a construction site.
Judge, Jury...
Apr 30, 2019 · 43 min
After entering cold case DNA into the system, Kasie solves a 30-year-old murder case, but a loophole in the legal system may set the suspect free.
...and Executioner
May 7, 2019 · 43 min
After NCIS finds a secret government bank account that’s funding a nationwide network of vigilante justice, the team must determine who is acting as judge and jury.
Lost Time
May 14, 2019 · 43 min
The NCIS team investigates the murder of a Marine Sergeant in the States who was hailed as a war hero for his efforts overseas.
Daughters
May 21, 2019 · 43 min
Former FBI Agent Tobias Fornell pleads with Gibbs to do whatever is necessary to take down drug dealers and suppliers in the area after his daughter, Emily Fornell, is hospitalized