The BEST episodes of The Last Ship
Every episode of The Last Ship ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Last Ship!
After a pandemic kills 80% of the world's population, the crew of an unaffected Navy ship - the USS Nathan James - must try to find a cure to save humanity. Their mission is simple: Find a cure, stop the virus.
#1 - Cry Havoc
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/30/2015
After retrieving the mastermind behind the Immune communications network, Nathan James finds itself trapped between the sub and civilian blockades set up by the Immunes. Chandler sends Dr. Scott and the cure off the ship under the protection of XO Slattery as the James heads towards its inevitable final showdown with the sub.
#2 - Solace
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/5/2015
The crew of Nathan James discovers that hospital ship USNS Solace was sent to sea to wait for Dr. Scott's cure. Captain Chandler sees an opportunity to add another ship to their fleet while Rachel is eager to find a lab better equipped to replicate the vaccine. When Solace fails to respond to radio communications, Chandler and his team board the ship...and come face-to-face with an unexpected enemy.
#3 - A More Perfect Union
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/6/2015
Season Finale- With their mission now fully dedicated to spreading the cure, Nathan James puts a call out to civilians to meet at pre-selected ports across the country, where all will receive the cure. However, small Immune factions remain active in their quest to fight the cure and fulfill Ramsey's dreams.
#4 - Unreal City
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/21/2015
After the horrifying revelations and reversals of fortune in Baltimore, Chandler and his fractured team join forces with an underground resistance in an attempt to defeat Amy Granderson. With doses of the cure running low, Rachel tries to do some good for the sick while remaining a prisoner at Avocet. Meanwhile, Slattery and the crew of Nathan James are in a race against time to save an injured Dr. Tophet and regain control of their ship.
#5 - Long Day's Journey
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/19/2015
Chandler tracks a new threat to Northern Florida. Meanwhile, Rachel comes across a secret formula that her mentor, Dr. Hunter, had been perfecting.
#6 - Valkyrie
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/23/2015
After a message is broadcast implicating the Navy in a devastating disaster, Chandler looks to infiltrate the network and regain the trust of the American people.
#7 - Fight the Ship
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2015
After the horrifying revelations and reversals of fortune in Baltimore, Chandler and his fractured team join forces with an underground resistance in an attempt to defeat Amy Granderson. With doses of the cure running low, Rachel tries to do some good for the sick while remaining a prisoner at Avocet. Meanwhile, Slattery and the crew of Nathan James are in a race against time to save an injured Dr. Tophet and regain control of their ship.
#8 - In Medias Res
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/20/2017
When the fourth season opens, it's sixteen months after thwarting the coup in America and the Nathan James must face yet another global disaster. The question remains, where in the world is Tom Chandler?
#9 - Achilles
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/12/2015
With a small group of survivors from Solace in tow, Chandler and his crew square off against an enemy of the most dangerous kind - a nuclear-powered submarine led by rogue British naval officers, Sean and Ned Ramsey. XO Slattery interrogates a captured mercenary from the hospital ship in an effort to extract information on the sub and its mission. As Nathan James engages in a perilous game of cat-and- mouse, the truth about the mercenary sub unfolds.
#10 - Uneasy Lies the Head
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/9/2015
With Dr. Scott on the verge of a breakthrough, Chandler and his team set out to land in search of much needed supplies and materials for her lab.
#11 - Safe Zone
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/2/2015
Still trying to piece together Dr. Hunter's lost formula, Rachel grapples with the fact that Niels, her sworn enemy, is now on board Nathan James, while Chandler works to gain intel and reverse the brainwashing Michener suffered at the hands of the Ramseys.
#12 - Friendly Fire
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/16/2015
Rachel is hard at work on a new, more efficient version of the cure while Alisha decodes a message found on a recovered cell phone.
#13 - Don't Look Back
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/11/2016
The fight for America comes to an end; Chandler faces a challenge that could change his life forever.
#14 - The Pillars of Hercules
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/20/2017
Having lost their only lead, the crew of Nathan James continues their search for an item that could save the world. Chandler immerses himself in a mission for revenge.
#15 - Alone and Unafraid
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/26/2015
While XO Slattery struggles to evade the sub in the water, Chandler and the land team infiltrate the Immune compound. Danny poses as one of Ned's workers and discovers that Niels, a.k.a. Patient Zero, is now working for the Ramseys. Meanwhile, Captain Chandler manages to encroach on Sean's inner circle, which includes an important government official, Jeffrey Michener. Has Michener been brainwashed by the Immune propaganda along with the rest of the camp? Or can he be an ally?
#16 - Phase Six
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/22/2014
Captain Tom Chandler and the crew of the USS Nathan James set out for the Arctic with two civilian virologists, Dr. Rachel Scott and Dr. Quincy Tophet, who claim to be studying birds. When they come under attack by a renegade team of Russian forces, Chandler learns these virologists are actually collecting samples of the source of a deadly virus that has wiped out over half the human population while they've been at sea. As they head home on the orders of the remaining U.S. government, Chandler and his crew realize that home is a shadow of what they left, and the safest place to develop a vaccine for this deadly disease is out at sea on their ship.
#17 - We'll Get There
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/13/2014
Days after a trying series of events at Gitmo, Chandler and his crew are put under extreme duress when the ship's propulsion system suffers a catastrophic event. With Dr. Scott in danger of losing all her research on the virus and a crew overworked, overtired and desperately low on drinking water, Chandler’s leadership and ingenuity are put to the test.
#18 - No Place Like Home
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/24/2014
Chandler and his crew finally returns home, where a former D.C. power player is fending off a dangerous warlord who threatens her hopes of restoring law and order in society. Now with a location and a means to finalize their mission, Chandler sets out to save his dying family, only to discover something absolutely terrifying about this brave new world.
#19 - Scuttle
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/21/2016
Chandler finds himself making a difficult decision when an order comes in from the White House.
#20 - Welcome to Gitmo
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/29/2014
Chandler and his crew head to the U.S. Military base at Guantanamo Bay in hopes of collecting food, medical supplies and fuel replenishments. Three teams are dispatched to carry out these varied tasks. While there, they come under attack by escaped Gitmo prisoners and enlist the help of a grizzled private contractor who's been surviving for weeks and living off the land.
#21 - Dead Reckoning
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/6/2014
The James faces off against a new foe who demands Chandler hand over Rachel and her research. When Chandler refuses, he and his crew are put to the test as Chandler engages in a series of risky strategic moves. But it turns out their new enemy has his own horse in the race to find a cure for the virus..
#22 - Trials
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/17/2014
Rachel and Chandler ask for six volunteers to participate in human trials of her vaccine, but the tests could be a living hell as the virus and the vaccine do battle inside their bodies. Meanwhile back in the States, Chandler’s wife and father are doing everything they can to keep their family alive.
#23 - It's Not a Rumor
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/28/2015
Nathan James returns home to Norfolk on a mission. With his family now safely aboard the James, Chandler sends his crew in search of their friends and loved ones.
#24 - Minefield
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/10/2016
Chandler's mission becomes complicated as his position is worsened. President Michener faces pressure from the regional leaders.
#25 - Paradise
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/14/2016
Chandler gets a lead that could help answer threatening questions. Kara does some digging in the White House.