NCIS: Los Angeles: Season 8
Season 8 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of NCIS: Los Angeles Season 7.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 8 Progress Shield
High-Value Target (1)
Sep 25, 2016 · 45 min
After NCIS fails to locate a mole in the department, Under Secretary of Defense Corbin Duggan insists on new leadership and takes over the Los Angeles unit from Hetty and Granger.
Belly of the Beast (2)
Sep 25, 2016 · 45 min
The team travels to Syria to apprehend a High Value Target where one team member is severely injured when the mission goes awry.
The Queen's Gambit
Oct 2, 2016 · 45 min
The NCIS LA team investigates an abduction case while down two members, with Hetty being held in D.C. for questioning, and another still in the ICU following the mission in Syria.
Black Market
Oct 16, 2016 · 45 min
After a Homeland Security agent is poisoned by a notorious Triad assassin, NCIS uncovers a warehouse of counterfeit purses and a money trail to stolen government funds. Also, Nell
Ghost Gun
Oct 23, 2016 · 45 min
The murder of a navy machinist with high security clearance sends the team on a city-wide hunt tracking evidence. Also, Anna Kolcheck partners with Callen, and Sam assists Hetty in
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Oct 30, 2016 · 45 min
After a maintenance man saved the life of a lieutenant commander, the NCIS team uncovers his dark past which puts a local teenager in danger. Also, Sam must decide which colleague
Crazy Train
Nov 6, 2016 · 45 min
After an NSA analyst is found eaten by a shark, the team's investigation leads them to a cartel's money-laundering scheme and sends Callen into a mental asylum to find a key witnes
Parallel Resistors
Nov 13, 2016 · 45 min
The team's investigation into the electrocution of a college student working on a classified Navy project leads them to his inquisitive daughter, who may be the key to accessing hi
Glasnost
Nov 20, 2016 · 45 min
After Callen’s father, Garrison is found in an NCIS patient’s hospital room during a radiation poisoning case, Callen must take him to the boatshed for interrogation. Also, the tea
Sirens
Nov 27, 2016 · 45 min
After an unknown female assailant kills two men disguised as Sherriff’s deputies in front of Callen’s home, the NCIS team gets a new lead in the ongoing mole investigation. Also, N
Tidings We Bring
Dec 18, 2016 · 45 min
The team goes on the chase for a Navy analyst being held hostage, only to discover things aren't as simple as they seem.
Kulinda
Jan 8, 2017 · 45 min
After a Navy reservist is killed while protecting a city councilman, Sam is sent undercover in a private security firm with links to several criminal organizations.
Hot Water (1)
Jan 15, 2017 · 45 min
The mole has once again compromised the NCIS team as planted evidence results in the arrests of Callen, Sam, Granger and Deeks, on the day Under Secretary Duggan (Jackson Hurst) re
Under Siege (2)
Jan 29, 2017 · 45 min
Hetty goes rogue, leaving the NCIS team completely in the dark, and the mole kidnaps one of the agents.
Payback (3)
Feb 19, 2017 · 45 min
As the team races to save Kensi from Ferris/Sullivan, they find themselves questioning who they can trust when old faces resurface.
Old Tricks
Mar 5, 2017 · 45 min
When a Navy lieutenant and his grandfather are kidnapped from a retirement home, the team's investigation leads them to a con artist couple and the hunt for a rare coin; Callen mea
Queen Pin
Mar 12, 2017 · 45 min
Sam resumes an old alias to bring down a major criminal kingpin; Callen and Anna's romantic night is interrupted when they are tasked with escorting a high-value prisoner to Los An
Getaway
Mar 19, 2017 · 45 min
After the U.S. Treasury Department is hacked, Nell and Eric go undercover inside a couple's retreat to track a tech-savvy husband and wife linked to the crime. Also, Digital Forens
767
Mar 26, 2017 · 45 min
After an engineer who was developing a new guided missile destroyer is murdered, Callen and Sam go undercover to track his co-worker aboard a plane to Tokyo to sell the classified
From Havana With Love
Apr 9, 2017 · 45 min
The NCIS team investigates a defense contractor, Rebecca Larmont, designing a nuclear attack weapon after her estranged husband, Victor Larmont, says he has proof she is selling Na
Battle Scars (1)
Apr 23, 2017 · 45 min
After a highly decorated Navy Captain, Charles Langston, kidnaps a Veterans Affairs administrator who has been siphoning funds, the NCIS team must work with Hetty’s former Vietnam
Golden Days (2)
Apr 30, 2017 · 45 min
A gold heist investigation has the NCIS team working with Hetty's former Vietnam War colleagues, Retired Admiral AJ Chegwidden, Admiral Sterling Bridges and Retired Captain Charles
Uncaged (1)
May 7, 2017 · 45 min
After Sam's wife, Michelle, is taken from her home, the kidnappers demand the prison release of Tahir Khaled, Sam's arch nemesis, in exchange for information on her whereabouts.
Unleashed (2)
May 14, 2017 · 45 min
Following the kidnapping of Sam's wife, Michelle Hanna, Sam goes rogue from the NCIS team and attempts to stop his arch nemesis Tahir Khaled from ever targeting his family again.