The BEST episodes of NCIS season 18
Every episode of NCIS season 18, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of NCIS season 18!
Explore the inner workings of the government agency that investigates all crimes involving Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position. Leading this team is NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a skilled investigator and interrogator who is smart, tough and willing to bend the rules to get the job done.
#1 - Sturgeon Season
Season 18 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/17/2020
Gibbs and Fornell attempt to track down the leader of a drug ring who supplied drugs to Fornell’s daughter. The team deals with the case of a missing cadaver from the NCIS autopsy room.
#2 - Everything Starts Somewhere
Season 18 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/24/2020
Flashbacks reveal the murder case that first introduced young Gibbs to NCIS and his introduction to young, new-to-America Ducky.
#3 - Blood and Treasure
Season 18 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/8/2020
The discovery of two dead bodies in a forest leads the NCIS team into the wild world of modern-day treasure hunting. Gibbs and Fornell get deeper into their search for the opioid kingpin.
#4 - Sunburn
Season 18 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/19/2021
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. Gibbs fears the worst when his search for Fornell leads to blood.
#5 - Head of the Snake
Season 18 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/19/2021
Gibbs and Fornell’s crusade to find the head of the drug ring responsible for Fornell’s daughter’s overdose comes to a climax. Gibbs and Vance finally let the team in on a case that has dangerous implications.
#6 - 1mm
Season 18 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/26/2021
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 abandoned jail cells there.
#7 - The First Day
Season 18 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/9/2021
NCIS investigates the murder of a Navy officer who was killed while driving home a recently released inmate. Gibbs helps Palmer deal with a personal trauma.
#8 - True Believer
Season 18 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/2021
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 the bus. McGee, Bishop and Torres track down a hacker who emailed compromising information to the Taliban.
#9 - Winter Chill
Season 18 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/9/2021
NCIS dives into the competitive world of food trucks after finding a man frozen to death in the back of one.
#10 - Watchdog
Season 18 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/16/2021
NCIS uncovers a secret dogfighting ring, which leads to an unexpected move by one of the team members.
#11 - Gut Punch
Season 18 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/6/2021
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.
#12 - Sangre
Season 18 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/27/2021
Evidence from the stabbing of a Marine Sergeant leads Torres to meet his father, who left when he was a child.
#13 - Misconduct
Season 18 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/4/2021
While the team investigates a biker killed in a hit and run, Gibbs prepares to testify against a financial advisor who stole millions from his Navy clients.
#14 - Unseen Improvements
Season 18 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/11/2021
NCIS tracks a stolen laptop to the uncle of a young boy—Gibbs' former neighbor.
#15 - Blown Away
Season 18 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/18/2021
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, helps crack the case using high-tech body armor.
#16 - Rule 91
Season 18 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/25/2021
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 them.