NCIS: New Orleans: Season 5

2018 · 24 episodes · ★ 8.4

What Season 5 of NCIS: New Orleans

Season five opens with Dwayne Pride, played by Scott Bakula, admitted to the ICU after an assassination attempt. While he fights for his life, the team searches New Orleans for the woman who tried to kill him. Pride, for his part, weighs a new position at the agency and struggles to adjust to it. Cases take the team across much of the American South, and the Apollyon espionage network, responsible for his father's death, looms over him. Hannah Khoury, Tammy, Sebastian and Lasalle carry much of the storylines.

24episodes

Sep 25, 2018premiered

May 14, 2019latest episode

18 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 See You Soon
Sep 25, 2018 · 45 min
While Pride fights for his life in the ICU, the team scours the city for the hit woman who attempted to assassinate him.
Directing: James Hayman · Writing: Christopher Silber · Starring: Chelsea Field, Ellen Hollman, Amy Rutberg, Shanley Caswell
5x02 Inside Out
Oct 2, 2018 · 45 min
The team searches for a former IRA bomb-maker who was smuggled into the city, and are joined by Special Agent Hannah Khoury, Pride’s replacement during his medical leave.
Directing: Edward Ornelas · Writing: Adam Targum · Starring: Carlos Gómez, Tim Griffin, Shanley Caswell, Steven Waldren
5x03 Diplomatic Immunity
Oct 9, 2018 · 45 min
While NCIS investigates the murder of a Navy intelligence officer killed during a conference for foreign diplomats, the key witness cozies up to Sebastian. Pride has some trouble adjusting to his new position at the agency.
Directing: Gordon Lonsdale · Writing: Rob Kerkovich, Greta Heinemann · Starring: Izzie Steele, Christina Elizabeth Smith, Reggie Lee, Madison Thompson
5x04 Legacy
Oct 16, 2018 · 45 min
After a Petty Officer is found murdered under a shrimping boat, the NCIS investigation uncovers a conspiracy in the tight-knit local fishing community. Lasalle awaits the final results of the tax fraud investigation into his family’s company.
Directing: LeVar Burton · Writing: Chad Gomez Creasey · Cast: Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Emily Shaffer, Christina Elizabeth Smith, Steven Waldren
5x05 In the Blood
Oct 23, 2018 · 45 min
Pride’s father, Cassius Pride, is wrapped up in an NCIS case involving a notorious unsolved casino heist from several years ago. Pride meets a family member he never knew existed.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Ron McGee · Starring: Melinda McGraw, Stacy Keach, Amy Rutberg, Jason Alan Carvell
5x06 Pound of Flesh
Oct 30, 2018 · 45 min
After Pride's assistant escapes from a kidnapper, the team uncovers evidence of a suspect who is harvesting organs from multiple victims. Pride turns to a friend for guidance as he struggles with the ramifications of his recent brush with death.
Directed by: Hart Bochner · Written by: Talicia Raggs · Starring: Geoffrey Owens, Danny Burstein, Christina Elizabeth Smith
5x07 Sheepdogs
Nov 13, 2018 · 45 min
Following a deadly car explosion in the French Quarter, the NCIS team interrogates a professor and former member of a student protest organization. Tammy discovers a secret about Hannah’s personal life.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Brooke Roberts · Cast: Medalion Rahimi, Rebecca Wisocky, Steven Waldren
5x08 Close to Home
Nov 20, 2018 · 45 min
The team places Mateo Diaz, a high school gang member turned informant, in protective custody while they investigate the murder of his junior reserve officers' training corps instructor. Pride needs his brother's help to gain Mateo's trust.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Katherine Beattie · Cast: Reggie Lee, Jason Alan Carvell
5x09 Risk Assessment
Dec 4, 2018 · 45 min
The team investigates the murder of a Navy contractor who secretly lived two lives for decades.
Directing: Tessa Blake · Writing: Elizabeth Rinehart · Cast: Rowan Smyth, Samantha Soule, Jason Alan Carvell
5x10 Tick Tock Mid-Season Finale
Dec 11, 2018 · 45 min
While on a sunrise jog, Pride is grabbed by two masked men who order him to complete a series of tasks in order to save Wade and his father, Cassius Pride, who are being held captive.
Directing: Stacey K. Black · Writing: Christopher Silber · Starring: Ellen Hollman, Stacy Keach, Amy Rutberg
5x11 Vindicta
Jan 8, 2019 · 45 min
Pride and the NCIS team hope to take down a secret and lethal group of former intelligence agents and avenge the death of someone close to them.
Directing: Jim Hayman · Writing: Adam Targum · Cast: Chelsea Field, Ellen Hollman, Stacy Keach, Amy Rutberg
5x12 Desperate Navy Wives
Jan 15, 2019 · 45 min
While undercover, Gregorio joins a social club for military wives after one of the members is contacted by an ex-boyfriend on the FBI Most Wanted List.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Chad Gomez Creasey · Cast: Steven Waldren
5x13 X
Feb 5, 2019 · 45 min
NCIS investigates the disappearance of a Navy entomologist after a deadly shooting at a research lab. Nero, with Naval Intelligence, joins the investigation when the team discovers a rare and deadly virus was also stolen.
Directing: Mary Lou Belli · Writing: Greta Heinemann · Cast: Steven Waldren, Aaron Mitchell
5x14 Conspiracy Theories
Feb 19, 2019 · 45 min
Pride and the team reunite with conspiracy journalist Oliver Crane after the source for his latest vigilante story is murdered. Also, Hannah’s former partner, Liam Somers, surprises her in New Orleans and shares a shocking revelation about an old case.
Directing: Tessa Blake · Writing: Ron McGee · Cast: Venus Ariel, Jason Alan Carvell
5x15 Crab Mentality
Feb 26, 2019 · 45 min
The team investigates multiple murders tied to a construction company creating an experimental chemical that strengthens sea walls. Also, evidence from Hannah’s previous mission in Oman is used against her as blackmail.
Directing: Stacey K. Black · Writing: Brooke Roberts · Starring: Liza Lapira, Joseph Gatt, Hoon Lee
5x16 Survivor
Mar 5, 2019 · 45 min
After an elusive terrorist with a personal vendetta against Hannah resurfaces, she is placed in protective custody with her family while the NCIS team searches for the suspect’s whereabouts.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Cameron Dupuy, Sydney Mitchel · Cast: Venus Ariel, Hal Ozsan, Joseph Gatt
5x17 Reckoning
Mar 12, 2019 · 45 min
After a reshuffling of assignments, Pride is no longer Special Agent in Charge of the Southeast and returns to the New Orleans NCIS office during the investigation of a missing Petty Officer.
Directing: Gordon Lonsdale · Writing: Christopher Silber, Adam Targum · Cast: Jeff Fahey, Derek Webster, Jason Alan Carvell
5x18 In Plain Sight
Apr 2, 2019 · 45 min
The NCIS team investigates the murder of Patton's friend, a former Navy Seal gunned down in a drive-by shooting while Patton helplessly watched.
Directing: LeVar Burton · Writing: Katherine Beattie · Cast: Jasmine Richard-Brooks
5x19 A House Divided
Apr 9, 2019 · 45 min
A Navy Lieutenant from a well-connected and affluent family has a fatal fall down a flight of stairs at a charity gala. The team investigates whether his death was an accident or foul play.
Directing: Deborah Reinisch · Writing: Elizabeth Rinehart · Cast: Jonathan Medina, Steven Waldren, Drew Moerlein
5x20 Jackpot
Apr 16, 2019 · 45 min
When Elvis Bertrand's "daughter" is linked to an NCIS murder case, he asks Pride to prove her innocence.
Directing: Mary Lou Belli · Writing: Talicia Raggs · Starring: Tom Arnold, Laura Sohn, Steven Waldren, Tim Dougherty
5x21 Trust Me
Apr 23, 2019 · 45 min
Tammy is convinced that a con man committed the hit-and-run murder of a Navy doctor, even though the evidence shows otherwise. Unbeknownst to Hannah, her husband, Ryan Porter, approaches Pride with new intel on Apollyon, the underground spy network responsible for murdering his father.
Directing: Jennifer Derwingson · Writing: Ron McGee, Austin Badgett · Cast: Steven Waldren, Hal Ozsan
5x22 Chaos Theory
Apr 30, 2019 · 45 min
The NCIS team investigates a deadly bombing at a military museum event with over 1,000 people in attendance.
Directing: Edward Ornelas · Writing: Brooke Roberts · Starring: Charlotte Schweiger, Cecilia Leal, Steven Waldren
5x23 The River Styx (1)
May 7, 2019 · 45 min
Pride and Lasalle travel to war-torn South Ossetia in Russia to locate FBI Special Agent Raymond Isler, who was kidnapped during a failed mission to apprehend the leader of Apollyon, the underground spy network responsible for murdering Pride's father.
Directing: James Hayman · Writing: Chad Gomez Creasey · Cast: Tim Griffin, Derek Webster
5x24 The River Styx (2) Season Finale
May 14, 2019 · 45 min
After tracking Apollyon, a deadly underground spy network, to war-torn South Ossetia, Pride is separated from the team and faces grave danger. In order to save Pride, the NCIS team must locate a mole who continues to feed information to Apollyon.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Christopher Silber · Starring: Chelsea Field, Amy Rutberg, Tim Griffin, Derek Webster