NCIS: Season 16

2018 · 24 episodes · ★ 8.0

What Season 16 of NCIS

The season kicks off one month after the kidnapping of Director Vance. Gibbs takes over as acting director while the team searches for their boss around the world. Meanwhile, the agents continue working the highest-profile cases involving the Navy and the Marines, out of the Naval Yard in Washington. Some investigations begin with murders in quirky neighborhoods, while others revolve around possible terrorist attacks. McGee, Bishop and Torres have leading roles, and Gibbs, a former Marine sergeant and sniper, leads every case.

24episodes

Sep 25, 2018premiered

May 21, 2019latest episode

17 hrtotal runtime

Season 16 Episodes

16x01 Destiny's Child
Sep 25, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
One month after Director Vance was kidnapped, Gibbs is assigned the role of acting director in his absence while the team searches worldwide for his whereabouts.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Steven D. Binder · Starring: Alexa Hamilton, Jessica Gardner, Naomi Grace, Chad Lindberg
16x02 Love Thy Neighbor
Oct 2, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
After a Navy Lieutenant is found murdered in his hot tub, the team interviews several families in the victim’s peculiar neighborhood.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: Scott Williams · Starring: Zac Pullam, Nick Alvarez, Eliza Shin, Cory Tucker
16x03 Boom
Oct 9, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
One of the NCIS agents is starstruck after the team investigates an explosion outside the home of Navy Petty Officer First Class Todd Nicholas and his wife, popular reality TV star Sheba Nicholas.
Directing: Leslie Libman · Writing: Brendan Fehily · Starring: Scott William Winters, Dionne Gipson, Kent Shocknek, Naomi Grace
16x04 Third Wheel
Oct 16, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
Gibbs’ quiet vacation at his remote cabin is interrupted by a surprise visit from Tobias Fornell and Navy Captain Phillip Brooks, as well as a call from NCIS asking for his help locating a robber hiding in the woods near him.
Directing: James Whitmore Jr. · Writing: Christopher J. Waild · Starring: Don Lake, Jill Czarnowski, Joe Spano, Emily Rose
16x05 Fragments
Oct 23, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
After a 50-year-old tape recording left by a murder victim is found, the NCIS team tries to exonerate Ray Jennings, the Marine serving a life sentence for the crime.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Gina Lucita Monreal · Starring: Charles Robinson, Dee Wallace, Fred Dryer, Cayden Boyd
16x06 Beneath the Surface
Oct 30, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
After NCIS arrives at a Halloween crime scene, Torres recognizes the victim as a friend from federal law enforcement training.
Directing: Rocky Carroll · Writing: Matthew R. Jarrett, Scott J. Jarrett · Starring: Justin Welborn, Scott William Winters, Pat Fitz, Todd Anthony
16x07 A Thousand Words
Nov 13, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
After a mural by a street artist and activist is stolen, the NCIS investigation leads to a conspiracy regarding a Navy contractor and the safety of ocean mammals.
Directed by: Alrick Riley · Written by: David J. North · Starring: Abbie Cobb, Jeryl Prescott, Judith Moreland, Ian Alda
16x08 Friendly Fire
Nov 20, 2018 · 41 min · ★ 8.0
McGee and Bishop travel to Afghanistan after a murder case in the States is linked to a string of soldiers killed by friendly fire overseas.
Directing: Thomas J. Wright · Writing: Jennifer Corbett · Starring: Rif Hutton, Jason Gerhardt, Shea Buckner, Joe Nieves
16x09 Tailing Angie
Dec 4, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
When the lead suspect of an unsolved and high-profile robbery case is released from prison, the NCIS team resumes their investigation with an undercover stakeout.
Directed by: Terrence O'Hara · Written by: George Schenck · Starring: Cassi Thomson, James MacDonald, Miriam A. Hyman, Jeff Pierre
16x10 What Child Is This? Mid-Season Finale
Dec 11, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
The team’s holiday plans are put on hold when the murder investigation of a Navy veteran includes the discovery of a newborn baby who has no identification and no apparent ties to a family.
Directed by: Michael Zinberg · Written by: Scott Williams · Starring: Rahnuma Panthaky, Matt Nolan, Dan O'Connor, Sammi Hanratty
16x11 Toil and Trouble
Jan 8, 2019 · 40 min · ★ 8.0
United States Secretary of Defense Wynn Crawford shuts down Gibbs' murder investigation and demands that Special Agents McGee and Torres be arrested for their actions in the case.
Directing: Leslie Libman · Writing: Christopher J. Waild · Starring: Scott William Winters, Kent Shocknek, Michael Alan Collette, Kasey Mahaffy
16x12 The Last Link
Jan 15, 2019 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
An old family friend, Army Corporal John Sydney, beseeches Gibbs to join him on a road trip to search for a missing military I.D. bracelet. Also, a Navy Lieutenant in NCIS protective custody is poisoned by an infamous drug dealer.
Directing: Rocky Carroll · Writing: Brendan Fehily · Starring: Daniel E. Smith, Dabney Coleman, Luke Edwards, Johnny Wactor
16x13 She
Feb 12, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.8
After a malnourished and confused 9-year-old is found hiding in a storage unit, NCIS reopens an old missing persons case when the girl is believed to be the daughter of a Navy recruit who disappeared 10 years ago. Also, Bishop discovers notes that Special Agent Ziva David kept on the case long after NCIS officially stopped investigating.
Directing: Mark Horowitz · Writing: Gina Lucita Monreal · Starring: Max Deacon, Sunnie Pelant, Tim Lounibos, Elayn J. Taylor
16x14 Once Upon a Tim
Feb 19, 2019 · 41 min · ★ 6.9
McGee reluctantly visits his high school after the unique computer password he used as a teenager is linked to the murder of a department of defense contractor. The case escalates when an intruder breaks into McGee’s home in an attempt to steal his archaic high school computer.
Directed by: Tony Wharmby · Written by: David J. North, Steven D. Binder · Starring: Matthew Glave, Charles Tyler Kinder, Sammi-Jack Martincak, Audrey Moore
16x15 Crossing the Line
Feb 26, 2019 · 42 min · ★ 7.5
The NCIS team investigates a man overboard fatality from a Navy destroyer at sea. Also, Torres is frustrated with Vance’s assignment to mentor three high school students.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Jennifer Corbett · Starring: Sean Patrick Thomas, Sloane Morgan Siegel, Griffin Freeman, Ashley Liao
16x16 Bears and Cubs
Mar 12, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
Jimmy is torn between family and work after his father-in-law, Ed, asks him to tamper with evidence from NCIS’ current murder investigation. Also, Ed’s poker buddy, Anthony DiNozzo, Sr., offers to help with the case.
Directing: Diana Valentine · Writing: Scott Williams · Starring: Larry Miller, François Chau, Ping Wu, Connie Jackson
16x17 Silent Service
Mar 26, 2019 · 41 min · ★ 7.9
Director Vance is notified by the Pentagon that the nuclear submarine Gibbs and Bishop are aboard to conduct a murder investigation has gone radio silent.
Directed by: Rocky Carroll · Written by: Matthew R. Jarrett, Scott J. Jarrett · Starring: Matthew Bellows, Arlene Santana, Tommy Walker, Michele Boyd
16x18 Mona Lisa
Apr 2, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
Torres relies on his team's investigative skills after he wakes up on a dilapidated fishing boat and is covered in blood and unable to remember the last 12 hours.
Directed by: Alrick Riley · Written by: David J. North, Brendan Fehily · Starring: Scott William Winters, Adam J. Harrington, Aaron O'Connell, Dionne Gipson
16x19 Perennial
Apr 9, 2019 · 42 min · ★ 7.8
Following an active shooter lockdown at a Naval hospital, the team searches for a suspect who fled the scene.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Gina Lucita Monreal · Starring: Brian McNamara, Sam Daly, Kate Hamilton, Elayn J. Taylor
16x20 Hail & Farewell
Apr 16, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
NCIS investigates the murder of a Marine Major believed to have been killed in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon after human remains are discovered at a construction site.
Directing: Michael Zinberg · Writing: Jennifer Corbett · Starring: Garrett M. Brown, Doug Savant, Erin Cummings, J.J. Hawkins
16x21 Judge, Jury...
Apr 30, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
After entering cold case DNA into the system, Kasie solves a 30-year-old murder case, but a loophole in the legal system may set the suspect free.
Directed by: James Whitmore Jr. · Written by: Christopher J. Waild · Starring: Mike Farrell, Cooper Huckabee, Anna Khaja, Jennifer Marsala
16x22 ...and Executioner
May 7, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
After NCIS finds a secret government bank account that’s funding a nationwide network of vigilante justice, the team must determine who is acting as judge and jury.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: Christopher J. Waild, David J. North · Starring: Mike Farrell, Scott William Winters, Dionne Gipson, Connie Jackson
16x23 Lost Time
May 14, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
The NCIS team investigates the murder of a Marine Sergeant in the States who was hailed as a war hero for his efforts overseas.
Directed by: Diana Valentine · Written by: Frank Cardea, Scott Williams · Starring: Anne Leighton, Carl Beukes, Mary Faber, Laura San Giacomo
16x24 Daughters Season Finale
May 21, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
Former FBI Agent Tobias Fornell pleads with Gibbs to do whatever is necessary to take down drug dealers and suppliers in the area after his daughter, Emily Fornell, is hospitalized from an opiate overdose.
Directing: Tony Wharmby · Writing: Steven D. Binder · Starring: Cote De Pablo, Melinda McGraw, AJ Achinger, Juliette Angelo