The BEST episodes written by Jordana Lewis Jaffe
#1 - Payback
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 8 - Episode 15
Emotions run high for the team as one agent is held in an unknown location and tortured by the mole, while another discovers he was betrayed by someone he least expected.
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#2 - Battle Scars
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 8 - Episode 21
After a highly decorated Navy Captain, Charles Langston, kidnaps a Veterans Affairs administrator who has been siphoning funds, the NCIS team must work with Hetty’s former Vietnam War colleagues, now-retired Admiral AJ Chegwidden and Admiral Sterling Bridges to solve the case.
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#3 - Iron Curtain Rising
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 5 - Episode 11
When a former Romanian Communist leader and suspected war criminal is discovered to be living in Los Angeles under a false identity, the NCIS: LA team must locate him before he disappears again.
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#4 - Unwritten Rule
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 5 - Episode 5
Analyst Nell Jones joins the NCIS: LA team in the field when a former Navy officer’s girlfriend is kidnapped in exchange for Navy intelligence. Meanwhile, Deeks unknowingly breaks one of Hetty’s rules.
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#5 - Vendetta
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 9 - Episode 18
Callen and Sam join forces with Anna Kolcheck and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), when Arkady Kolcheck warns NCIS that a notorious international weapons dealer has returned to the states. Also, the case requires Eric to go undercover as a bank IT technician.
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#6 - Signs of Change
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 12 - Episode 16
When military grade technology is stolen, a deaf engineer, Sienna Marchione, who always wanted to serve her country, and the only member of her team to survive the theft, helps Kensi and NCIS track down the tech before it's taken out of the country.
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#7 - Liars
The Whole Truth - Season 1 - Episode 6
Nothing is as it seems when a dentist is murdered in his own chair - and his "Stepford wife" is accused of the crime. After Jimmy and Kathryn learn that the dentist was doing more than just fixing teeth, they become entangled in lies of their own with Kathryn's mother and Jimmy's ex-wife.
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#8 - Pro Se
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 10 - Episode 5
While assisting NCIS with an undercover operation, informant Elizabeth Williams is arrested and the team is unable to provide her with an alibi. Also, Callen meets with ATF Agent Anna Kolcheck who remains on suspension following her last joint case.
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#9 - Heist
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 10 - Episode 10
An elaborate bank heist to steal a single safe deposit box held by Veronica Stephens, a Navy contractor, leads NCIS to investigate her corrupt consulting firm.
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#10 - War Crimes
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 12 - Episode 2
As the trial begins of a Chief Petty Officer who Callen and Sam arrested for war crimes last year, the NCIS team is called to help find the missing star witness.
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#11 - Commitment Issues
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 11 - Episode 14
The NCIS team investigates the murder of a Naval warfare engineer at a spoken poetry event. Also, Callen asks Nell to assist him in a worldwide search for Anna's whereabouts.
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#12 - Born to Run
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 10 - Episode 18
Sydney turns to her sister Nell for help after her high school crush, Andre Martinez, is mixed up in a Russian plot to steal intelligence from the Department of Defense. Also, Special Prosecutor John Rogers conducts mandatory performance reviews with the team.
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#13 - Mountebank
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 9 - Episode 5
Sam goes undercover as a day trader after a prominent investment banker with ties to a Russian oligarch is murdered. Also, one of Callen’s aliases is the victim of credit card theft, and Mosley is concerned it signals something bigger.
#14 - Big Brother
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 5 - Episode 6
Callen goes undercover at a prestigious high school after a 15-year-old hacker compromises terrorist missions.
#15 - Where Everybody Knows Your Name
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 9 - Episode 21
NCIS partners with the FBI after a Marine is murdered by a rare nerve gas. Also, Deeks shares his dream to quit law enforcement and open a bar.
#16 - Honor
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 3 - Episode 7
The NCIS team must determine whether a dishonorably discharged Marine is the target of an international set-up or if he committed murder
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#17 - Patriot Acts
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 3 - Episode 20
When a former Marine is suspected of creating a chemical bomb, the NCIS: LA team joins the FBI’s domestic terrorist task force including Operational Psychologist Nate Getz.
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#18 - Defectors
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 7 - Episode 9
The team searches for a missing teenage girl who is feared to have been recruited by a terrorist organization,
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#19 - The Frogman's Daughter
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 12 - Episode 10
When Sam's daughter, Kam, is kidnapped after leading citywide protests, he will stop at nothing to find her. Also, Deeks rejoins NCIS and Callen searches for answers about Anna.
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#20 - Paper Soldiers
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 4 - Episode 12
A distraught widow is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding her Marine husband’s last battle and Sam and Callen help to determine if there has been a cover-up. Meanwhile, Hetty summons Operational Psychologist Nate Getz to be her “pawn” and the rest of the NCIS: LA sense another evaluation on the horizon.
#21 - Exchange Rate
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 7 - Episode 18
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.
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#22 - Beacon
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 6 - Episode 21
Callen and Sam are shocked when an old acquaintance, who they thought was the recent victim of a murder, appears and asks for their help. As the team investigates, they uncover a possible breach of America's economic sanctions against Russia.
#23 - Knock Down
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 11 - Episode 20
NCIS assists the DOJ in the investigation of an arsonist who targets an FBI safe house that's protecting a political activist seeking asylum. Also, Eric deals with the aftermath of Nell leaving the team.
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#24 - Savoir Faire
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 6 - Episode 17
While the team investigates the death of one of three Afghanistan soldiers who are training in the U.S., they discover two other soldiers are missing and must find them before they’re forced to reveal classified military operations to their captors. Also, Sam is back to work but his team worries it may be too soon, and Callen realizes he has very little in common with his partner.
#25 - Provenance
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 11 - Episode 5
The NCIS team searches for a stolen painting valued at $40 million after online chatter indicates the artwork is being sold on the black market to fund terrorist activity.
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#26 - Dead Body Politic
NCIS: Los Angeles - Season 4 - Episode 4
The NCIS: LA team investigates the tragic death of a U.S. senatorial candidate’s staffer who is run over crossing the street. The high-profile case becomes a matter of national security as the agents must determine whether it is an isolated tragic incident or a politically connected plot that might put others in danger.
#27 - There's the Rub
CSI: Vegas - Season 2 - Episode 6
Max leads her team to investigate the death of a prestigious Michelin-starred chef found hanging in his restaurant’s walk-in freezer.
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#28 - Scar Tissue
CSI: Vegas - Season 3 - Episode 2
With a new piece of evidence at play, Catherine Willows reopens an investigation from her past that never got solved after a violent attack left her hospitalized. Internal affairs begins questioning Folsom.
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#29 - When the Dust Settles
CSI: Vegas - Season 2 - Episode 12
Catherine’s day off with her granddaughter gets interrupted when a woman wakes up from a four-year coma and remembers details from the night her sister died.
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#30 - True Confessions
The Whole Truth - Season 1 - Episode 4
NYPD officers responding to a 911 call find Victor Esposito and his wife shot in their living room. Their 16 year-old son Anthony, the only person there, is arrested for their murder. While the police conduct an 11-hour interrogation of Anthony, Anthony's brother Mark hires Jimmy. Jimmy rushes to the Precinct only to arrive moments after Anthony confesses…
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