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NCIS: Season 21

10 episodes Premiered Feb 12, 2024 Updated Oct 3, 2026
Previously on NCIS

Season 21 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 20.
  • ⚡ 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.
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Season 21 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 21: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (6): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S21·E1 Mytharc

Algún Día

Feb 12, 2024 · 43 min

The NCIS team must help Torres when he puts his future at stake by confronting the man who tormented his family when he was a child.

S21·E2 Core

The Stories We Leave Behind

Feb 19, 2024 · 44 min

As NCIS mourns the loss of Ducky, the agents find comfort in working on one of his unfinished cases involving a woman whose father was dishonorably discharged from the Marines.

S21·E3 Core

Lifeline

Feb 26, 2024 · 44 min

When the NCIS team engages in Walk-a-Mile day to gain a new perspectives on different departments, things take a turn when Kasie receives a distress call from a mysterious man.

S21·E4 Core

Left Unsaid

Mar 4, 2024 · 42 min

The NCIS team is in a race against time to find a missing officer who disappeared during his wedding proposal.

S21·E5 Core

The Plan

Mar 25, 2024 · 44 min

With the help of Knight's dad, NCIS works to unravel the mystery of a recently used service weapon belonging to a missing agent.

S21·E6 Mytharc

Strange Invaders

Apr 1, 2024 · 43 min

After discovering a Navy pilot's body riddled with unusual wounds, NCIS' investigation draws the team into the rabbit hole of UFO conspiracy theories.

S21·E7 Core

A Thousand Yards

Apr 15, 2024 · 43 min

NCIS comes under attack by a mysterious enemy from the past.

S21·E8 Core

Heartless

Apr 22, 2024 · 44 min

The NCIS team looks for a motive behind the kidnapping and death of a famous heart surgeon.

S21·E9 Mytharc

Prime Cut

Apr 29, 2024 · 44 min

After discovering the remains of a Marine captain, the NCIS team travels to Texas to interrogate the suspected killer.

S21·E10 Mytharc

Reef Madness

May 6, 2024 · 44 min

Parker and Knight discover three bodies on an old Navy ship that's about to be sunk and turned into an artificial reef, when they're suddenly locked inside by a mysterious figure.

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