NCIS: Season 18
Season 18 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 17.
- 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 18 Progress Shield
Sturgeon Season
Nov 17, 2020 · 45 min
Gibbs and Fornell attempt to track down the leader of a drug ring who supplied drugs to Fornell's daughter.
Everything Starts Somewhere
Nov 24, 2020 · 45 min
Flashbacks reveal the murder case that first introduced young Gibbs to NCIS and his introduction to young, new-to-America Ducky.
Blood And Treasure
Dec 8, 2020 · 45 min
The discovery of two dead bodies leads the NCIS team into the wild world of modern-day treasure hunting.
Sunburn
Jan 19, 2021 · 45 min
McGee and his wife Delilah's Bahamian vacation turns into a high-stakes mission when a case NCIS is tracking of a dead escape room manager has ties to the island.
Head of the Snake
Jan 19, 2021 · 45 min
Gibbs and Fornell's crusade to find the head of the drug ring responsible for Fornell's daughter Emily's overdose comes to a climax.
1mm
Jan 26, 2021 · 45 min
Following a tip about smuggled weapons, Bishop and Torres engage in a shootout in a former sheriff's residence that's now a historical site, only to find themselves locked in aband
The First Day
Feb 9, 2021 · 45 min
NCIS investigates the murder of a Navy officer who was killed while driving home a recently released inmate.
True Believer
Mar 2, 2021 · 45 min
When Sloane’s name is discovered in Afghanistan at the site of an abandoned bus with a dead driver, Gibbs accompanies her on a trip to find a group of girls who were kidnapped from
Winter Chill
Mar 9, 2021 · 45 min
NCIS dives into the competitive world of food trucks after finding a man frozen to death in the back of one.
Watchdog
Mar 16, 2021 · 45 min
NCIS uncovers a secret dogfighting ring, which leads to an unexpected move by one of the team members.
Gut Punch
Apr 6, 2021 · 45 min
Vance assigns McGee, Torres, and Bishop to Covid compliance duty at a foreign affairs summit, where they discover a link to another NCIS team's murder case.
Sangre
Apr 27, 2021 · 45 min
Evidence from the stabbing of a Marine Sergeant leads Torres to meet his father who left when he was a child.
Misconduct
May 4, 2021 · 45 min
The team investigates a cyclist killed in a hit and run. Gibbs prepares to testify against a financial advisor who stole millions from his Navy clients.
Unseen Improvements
May 11, 2021 · 45 min
NCIS tracks a stolen laptop to the uncle of a young boy, Phineas, Gibbs’ former neighbor.
Blown Away
May 18, 2021 · 45 min
When members of an NCIS Regional Enforcement Action Capabilities Training Team (REACT) are killed during an explosion, NCIS Special Agent Jessica Knight, the lone surviving member,
Rule 91
May 25, 2021 · 45 min
While pursuing a dangerous arms dealer, the team is shocked when Bishop is implicated in an old NSA leak while Gibbs and Marcie realize the killer they've been tracking may be onto