The WORST episodes of NCIS
Every episode of NCIS ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of NCIS!
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 - Peacekeeper
Season 19 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2021
NCIS investigates the case of a Navy reservist whose body is found in a beat-up car at the end of a gun range. Kasie weighs the pros and cons of buying a gun.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Blood in the Water
Season 19 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2021
As the NCIS team searches for Gibbs after wreckage from his boat is discovered, they find out he was tracking a serial killer with journalist Marcie Warren, who wrote an exposé on him.
#8 - Nearly Departed
Season 19 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2021
While trying to find the serial killer Gibbs was after, the NCIS team discovers another person has been tracking the case as well.
#9 - Road to Nowhere
Season 19 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2021
Gibbs and Parker go on a road trip to find one of the serial killer's victims. Also, Agent Knight goes undercover at a large manufacturing company with ties to the murders.
#10 - Great Wide Open
Season 19 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2021
Gibbs and McGee head to Alaska while the team works at home to uncover the conspiracy behind the serial killer.
#11 - Face the Strange
Season 19 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2021
The NCIS team investigates the death of a Navy commander whose body suddenly explodes before Jimmy can examine it.
#12 - False Start
Season 19 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2021
NCIS investigates the death of a beloved Navy commander who trained some of the top athletes in the country.
#13 - Docked
Season 19 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/2021
NCIS investigates the death of a man on a cruise ship whose body is discovered in the ship's sauna by none other than McGee's mother-in-law, Judy.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Collective Memory
Season 19 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2021
When a hotshot financial advisor is found shot at a naval station, NCIS investigates the case by interviewing the victim’s three-dimensional hologram of herself, which she created before her death.
#16 - Pledge of Allegiance
Season 19 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/3/2022
NCIS is called in when Navy Chief Warrant Officer Rafi Nazar is suspected of trying to sell stolen classified Navy software used to pilot combat drones.
#17 - All Hands
Season 19 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2022
After a civilian research vessel in the North Atlantic picks up a small boat of wounded Navy officers, NCIS arrives on the ship and is forced to hide after discovering terrorists on board. Also, Agent Knight takes a paper doll with her on the mission to capture photos for her niece’s grade school class.
#18 - Fight or Flight
Season 19 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2022
When the body of a Navy lieutenant is discovered missing an eye, the NCIS investigation leads to the world of cage fighting.
#19 - The Helpers
Season 19 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/28/2022
While investigating the death of an intruder at Quantico, Jimmy and Kasie are exposed to a deadly biotoxin, and the NCIS team calls on Doctor Carol Wilson for help as they race to find the antidote. Also, Torres tries to distract Jimmy’s daughter, who came to the office to spend the day with her dad.
#20 - First Steps
Season 19 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/7/2022
As NCIS investigates the cause of death of a reservist Navy Seal surgeon, they’re forced to bring Vance’s daughter, Kayla, who recently trained with NCIS, to help with a highly dangerous mission.
#21 - Thick as Thieves
Season 19 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/14/2022
Parker’s delinquent past resurfaces when NCIS is called to Philadelphia to investigate the death of a Navy petty officer.
#22 - The Wake
Season 19 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/21/2022
A gruesome mishap at a Navy petty officer’s gender-reveal party leads NCIS to the case of a missing teacher that was popularized on a true crime podcast.
#23 - Starting Over (1)
Season 19 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/2022
NCIS investigates the apparent suicide of a retired Navy officer who was in Palmer and Knight’s grief group. Also, Torres gets a call from NCIS Special Agent Jane Tennant to come to Hawai’i when she gets a lead on a witness from a case they worked on together. The crossover continues on NCIS Hawai'i S01E18.
#24 - Last Dance
Season 19 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/18/2022
When an infamous arms dealer, Reymundo Diaz, is released from prison and bodies start piling up, Torres is forced to face the repercussions of his actions during an undercover operation he worked on years ago.
#25 - The Brat Pack
Season 19 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/2022
NCIS investigates a ring of clever teenage partygoers when a string of break-ins takes place at Marine Base Quantico. While working the case, Special Agent McGee forms a bond with one of the teens, Teagan Fields.