The BEST episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles season 7

Every episode of NCIS: Los Angeles season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles season 7!

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: 2/16/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Internal Affairs
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7.93
886 votes

#1 - Internal Affairs

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2015

Deeks is arrested and interrogated in connection with the murder of his former partner, while the team tries to prove his innocence.

Directors: Eric A. Pot
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Talion
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7.90
1084 votes

#2 - Talion

Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/2/2016

When Sam receives a distress code from his son Aiden that his school has been taken over by an extremist group, Sam, Callen, Kensi and Deeks rush to San Francisco to protect Aiden and free the hostages.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Seventh Child
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7.85
994 votes

#3 - The Seventh Child

Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/21/2016

Callen and the team try to save a child in imminent danger who has been brainwashed by a terrorist cell. Also, Deeks and Kensi discuss having children.

Directors: Frank Military
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Citadel
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7.84
1005 votes

#4 - Citadel

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2015

DEA agent Talia Del Campo turns to the NCIS: Los Angeles team for help after her partner is murdered. Also, after Kensi grows suspicious that Deeks is hiding something, he surprises her by introducing her to his mother.

Directors: Eric Laneuville
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Blame It on Rio
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7.78
970 votes

#5 - Blame It on Rio

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2015

NCIS Special Agent DiNozzo partners with the NCIS: Los Angeles team to search the city after his prisoner escapes custody on a flight from Singapore to Los Angeles.

Directors: Dennis Smith
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Matryoshka (2)
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7.76
937 votes

#6 - Matryoshka (2)

Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2016

While they’re in Russia, Callen, Sam and Anna craft a plan to break Anna’s father and his CIA agent companion out of prison. Also, Special Agent G. Callen finally learns what the “G” in his name stands for, and in Los Angeles, Kensi and Deeks take Eric into the field on an assignment.

Directors: Terrence O'Hara
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Revenge Deferred
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7.74
900 votes

#7 - Revenge Deferred

Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/29/2016

After extensive surveillance footage of Sam’s family is found in Africa, Sam and Callen fly there to determine who is responsible and for what purpose. Also, Sam’s family is moved from their home to a safe house.

Directors: Rick Tunell
Watch Now:Apple TV
The Long Goodbye
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7.74
865 votes

#8 - The Long Goodbye

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2015

The team searches for Jada, the woman Sam led to asylum in the United States four years ago, after she goes missing. Also, Kensi goes undercover with DEA Agent Talia Del Campo.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Matryoshka (1)
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7.72
923 votes

#9 - Matryoshka (1)

Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/2016

In order to locate Arkady in Russia, the NCIS team goes undercover with his daughter, Anna, at a gala in Los Angeles to gain access to the Russian Consul General’s computer.

Directors: Dennis Smith
Watch Now:Apple TV
Angels & Daemons
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7.72
890 votes

#10 - Angels & Daemons

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/2016

The team investigates the murder of tech entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who secretly developed a daemon, a background computer program that allows for undetectable data collection.

Directors: James Hanlon
Watch Now:Apple TV
Seoul Man
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7.71
997 votes

#11 - Seoul Man

Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/28/2016

While assigned to protective details for the commander of the Pacific Command, the team searches for a North Korean spy.

Directors: Diana Valentine
Writer: Joe Sachs
Watch Now:Apple TV
Come Back
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7.70
895 votes

#12 - Come Back

Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/2016

When Kensi and Deeks announce to the team they are moving in together, coincidentally, Hetty assigns them to protection detail for Jack, Kensi’s ex-fiancé, who is in possession of a list containing important contacts in Afghanistan that people are willing to kill to get their hands on.

Directors: Eric Laneuville
Watch Now:Apple TV
Command & Control
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7.70
881 votes

#13 - Command & Control

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2015

Callen and Sam are forced to work on their day off when they mysteriously receive a cell phone and the caller threatens the lives of innocent people if they don’t do exactly what he says.

Directors: Terrence O'Hara
Watch Now:Apple TV
Cancel Christmas
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7.69
866 votes

#14 - Cancel Christmas

Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/2015

When a suspected North Korean spy is poisoned and hit by a truck carrying Christmas trees, the team must search for who is responsible for smuggling spies into the country. Also, Deeks and Kensi try to find a way to include their mothers in their Christmas plans, and Hetty notices that Granger isn’t feeling the holiday cheer.

Directors: Paul A. Kaufman
Watch Now:Apple TV
An Unlocked Mind
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7.68
855 votes

#15 - An Unlocked Mind

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2015

After a former Department of Defense employee reveals government secrets to a cult, The Church of the Unlocked Mind, Kensi and Deeks go undercover in order to protect him. Meanwhile, the team must prevent the church from selling the secrets to a Chinese spy.

Directors: Chris O'Donnell
Watch Now:Apple TV
Core Values
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7.67
901 votes

#16 - Core Values

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/2016

Kensi and Deeks go undercover at a decommissioned nuclear power plant as the team investigates the radiation poisoning of a Gunnery Sergeant moonlighting as a security guard there.

Directors: Karen Gaviola
Writer: Joe Sachs
Watch Now:Apple TV
Granger, O.
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7.67
1075 votes

#17 - Granger, O.

Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/18/2016

As Granger escorts Jennifer Kim back to Los Angeles, he interrogates her regarding a North Korean spy and she admits to knowing he is her father.

Directors: Dennis Smith
Watch Now:Apple TV
Head of the Snake
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7.66
1067 votes

#18 - Head of the Snake

Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/11/2016

After Operational Psychologist Nate Getz fails to check in with Hetty while working undercover on a mission linking organized crime to terrorism, the team learns he is working with an infamous crime leader.

Directors: Robert Florio
Watch Now:Apple TV
Defectors
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7.65
934 votes

#19 - Defectors

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2015

The team searches for a missing teenage girl who is feared to have been recruited by a terrorist organization,

Directors: Dennis Smith
Watch Now:Apple TV
Where There's Smoke...
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7.63
1084 votes

#20 - Where There's Smoke...

Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/25/2016

Sam and Callen go undercover as firefighters when top secret information about suspected terrorists is stolen from a secure Department of Defense container at the site of a fire.

Directors: James Hanlon
Watch Now:Apple TV
Exchange Rate
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7.63
900 votes

#21 - Exchange Rate

Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/2016

When a convicted Cuban spy escapes U.S. custody just before he is set to return to his country in a prisoner exchange, the team is shocked to learn that Anna helped him break out. Also, Deeks admits to Kensi that he thinks she is too messy.

Directors: Tawnia McKiernan
Watch Now:Apple TV
Driving Miss Diaz
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7.63
943 votes

#22 - Driving Miss Diaz

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2015

The NCIS: Los Angeles team investigates a 20-year old Peruvian massacre after a well-known fashion model, believed to be one of the survivors, is now a potential target. Also, Kensi goes undercover as the model's assistant and Deeks as her chauffeur.

Directors: James Hanlon
Watch Now:Apple TV
Active Measures
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7.57
1023 votes

#23 - Active Measures

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2015

Callen embarks on a secret project, leaving Sam and the entire team in the dark. After Hetty demands his operation be shut down, the team is tasked with locating Callen before he finds himself in over his head.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Unspoken
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7.48
916 votes

#24 - Unspoken

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2015

The NCIS team searches for Sam’s former partner, Ruiz, who disappears during an undercover operation to buy a deadly explosive.

Directors: Diana Valentine
Watch Now:Apple TV