The BEST episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles season 13

Every episode of NCIS: Los Angeles season 13, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles season 13!

NCIS: Los Angeles is a drama about the high stakes world of undercover surveillance at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation's security, specifically Naval and Marine assets and personnel.

Last Updated: 11/22/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
Come Together (2)
star
7.87
374 votes

#1 - Come Together (2)

Season 13 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/2022

The NCIS team hunts for a heist crew that robs a Los Angeles casino with military-grade power. Also, Kensi and Deeks hear exciting news regarding the adoption and Callen takes a big step in his relationship with Anna.

Directors: John P. Kousakis
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Down the Rabbit Hole (1)
star
7.78
348 votes

#2 - Down the Rabbit Hole (1)

Season 13 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2022

The NCIS team must quickly find Callen after he falls for Katya’s trap using Sam’s deepfake to coordinate a weapons deal.

Directors: Frank Military
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Live Free or Die Standing
star
7.74
339 votes

#3 - Live Free or Die Standing

Season 13 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/2022

The NCIS team works with DEA Agent Talia Del Campo to find a missing whistleblower set to testify against gun manufacturers marketing to drug cartels.

Directors: Daniela Ruah
Watch Now:Apple TV
Divided We Fall
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7.70
401 votes

#4 - Divided We Fall

Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2021

When an NCIS mission to protect a compromised undercover agent goes completely sideways, the agents are individually interrogated to find out what really happened. Also, Kilbride must make a difficult decision.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Work & Family
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7.69
351 votes

#5 - Work & Family

Season 13 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2022

NCIS investigates after two men are blown up by their own explosives while attempting to break into a military base. Also, Callen wants to take the next step with Anna, and Sam moves in with his father, Raymond.

Directors: Dennis Smith
Watch Now:Apple TV
Subject 17
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7.68
388 votes

#6 - Subject 17

Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2021

While Callen suspects Hetty of keeping secrets about his past and Joelle surfaces in her quest to capture Katya, NCIS must track down an informant whose life is in danger. Also, Kensi and Deeks work to expand their family.

Directors: Dennis Smith
Watch Now:Apple TV
Indentured
star
7.68
378 votes

#7 - Indentured

Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2021

Sam and Kilbride clash when a case involving an arms dealer responsible for the slaughter of ATF agents leads them to a well-connected General and friend of Kilbride, accused of supplying militia groups with guns. Also, Kensi and Fatima go undercover at a rehab facility to question the arms dealer's girlfriend.

Directors: Frank Military
Writer: Eric Pot
Watch Now:Apple TV
All the Little Things
star
7.66
358 votes

#8 - All the Little Things

Season 13 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/2022

When a newborn child is found abandoned on a Navy ship, Kensi and Deeks search for the mother on board before she dies of complications. Also, Nate meets with Admiral Kilbride and learns about the CIA project from the ‘70s and ‘80s involving children.

Directors: Terrence O'Hara
Watch Now:Apple TV
Sundown
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7.66
381 votes

#9 - Sundown

Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/2021

Sam negotiates and Rountree goes undercover, when a man takes a busload of hostages and threatens to blow it up unless his daughter’s war crimes are posthumously cleared.

Directors: Suzanne Saltz
Watch Now:Apple TV
A Land of Wolves
star
7.65
396 votes

#10 - A Land of Wolves

Season 13 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/9/2022

The NCIS team scrambles to find Kensi, when she is attacked and kidnapped by a mysterious militia group while helping a group of migrants cross the border.

Directors: Tawnia McKiernan
Watch Now:Apple TV
Sorry for Your Loss
star
7.60
378 votes

#11 - Sorry for Your Loss

Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2021

As Callen continues hunting Katya, Kilbride enlists NCIS to help find a truckload of stolen guns. The assignment becomes more challenging when their suspect, the son of a mob boss they believe was planning to sell them, is found dead.

Directors: Eric Pot
Writer: Chad Mazero
Watch Now:Apple TV
Lost Sailor Down
star
7.59
384 votes

#12 - Lost Sailor Down

Season 13 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/2/2022

NCIS investigates the apparent suicide of a Navy intelligence officer who leapt to his death after taking LSD. Also, while Kensi is away, Deeks makes plans to redo the backyard without her input.

Directors: Daniela Ruah
Watch Now:Apple TV
Murmuration
star
7.55
350 votes

#13 - Murmuration

Season 13 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/2022

The NCIS team investigates an unidentified aircraft that flies into U.S. airspace and crashes into a Navy plane. Also, Deeks and Kensi begin to prepare for their foster inspection.

Directors: James Hanlon
Watch Now:Apple TV
Genesis
star
7.55
340 votes

#14 - Genesis

Season 13 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/24/2022

The NCIS team helps Naval intelligence officer Akhil Ali locate a fellow officer who went missing while recruiting foreign assets as potential sources of intelligence. Also, Callen and psychologist Nate Getz track down a man Callen believes was present for his training when he was young.

Directors: John P. Kousakis
Watch Now:Apple TV
Pandora's Box
star
7.55
331 votes

#15 - Pandora's Box

Season 13 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/27/2022

NCIS investigates the robbery of a high-end arts storage by going undercover as potential buyers on the black market, to find who is behind the stolen items.

Directors: Daniela Ruah
Watch Now:Apple TV
Bonafides
star
7.53
335 votes

#16 - Bonafides

Season 13 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/2022

When DOJ Agent Lance Hamilton’s partner is killed, Sam dons his previous undercover persona of “Switch” to find the culprit. Also, Kensi, Deeks, Roundtree and Kilbride work to catch an aerospace engineer who stole classified Navy schematics.

Directors: Terrence O'Hara
Watch Now:Apple TV
Where Loyalties Lie
star
7.51
354 votes

#17 - Where Loyalties Lie

Season 13 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/2022

When a civilian scientist working with the marines is killed, and her advanced radar technology stolen, the NCIS team must scramble to find the missing technology and the culprit.

Directors: Tawnia McKiernan
Writer: Matt Klafter
Watch Now:Apple TV
MWD
star
7.50
333 votes

#18 - MWD

Season 13 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/17/2022

NCIS investigates the kidnapping of Master Sergeant Boomer, a military working dog. Also, Sam looks to sell his boat so he can take care of his father who is suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Directors: Suzanne Saltz
Watch Now:Apple TV
Hard for the Money
star
7.47
328 votes

#19 - Hard for the Money

Season 13 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/2022

NCIS investigates the murder of a woman employed in the Navy’s missile defense program and its connection to stolen Navy missile technology. Also, a strict social worker stresses out Deeks, and Sam debates selling his boat.

Directors: Rick Tunell
Watch Now:Apple TV
Under the Influence
star
7.43
359 votes

#20 - Under the Influence

Season 13 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/27/2022

The NCIS team helps a U.S. ambassador search for her missing daughter, Gia, a popular social media influencer. Also, Agent Aliyah De León returns to support the team with the case.

Directors: John P. Kousakis
Watch Now:Apple TV
Perception
star
7.43
360 votes

#21 - Perception

Season 13 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/10/2022

Rountree and his younger sister are pulled over by police and treated harshly in a clear case of racial profiling. Also, NCIS investigates the death of a Navy photographer who was assigned to document the building of a new weapons station.

Directors: Benny Boom
Watch Now:Apple TV
Fukushu
star
7.39
397 votes

#22 - Fukushu

Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2021

NCIS takes the case personally when an LAPD officer’s father, a beloved elderly Japanese American veteran, is the victim of a vicious hate crime.

Directors: Dennis Smith
Watch Now:Apple TV