NCIS: Los Angeles (season 13)
The thirteenth season of the American police procedural television series NCIS: Los Angeles premiered on October 10, 2021, on CBS, for the 2021–22 television season.
| NCIS: Los Angeles | |
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| Season 13 | |
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| Starring | |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 19 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | October 10, 2021 – present |
| Season chronology | |
NCIS: Los Angeles follows a fictional team of special agents from the Office of Special Projects of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The series stars Chris O'Donnell, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Medalion Rahimi, Caleb Castille, Gerald McRaney, and LL Cool J. McRaney was promoted to series regular prior to the season following the departures of Barrett Foa and Renée Felice Smith after the previous season and Linda Hunt this season.
Cast and characters
Main
- Chris O'Donnell as Grisha "G." Callen, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) and Team leader
- Daniela Ruah as Kensi Blye, NCIS Special Agent
- Eric Christian Olsen as Marty Deeks, NCIS Investigator (Previously LAPD/NCIS Liaison Officer)
- Medalion Rahimi as Fatima Namazi, NCIS Special Agent
- Caleb Castille as Devin Roundtree, NCIS Special Agent (Previously FBI Agent)
- Gerald McRaney as Hollace Kilbride, a retired Admiral and friend of Henrietta Lange
- LL Cool J as Sam Hanna, NCIS Senior Field Agent, Second in Command
Recurring
- Olesya Rulin as Zasha Gagarin, former Russian spy
- Duncan Campbell as NCIS Special Agent Castor
- Briana Marin as Aliyah de León, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent
- Peter Cambor as Nate Getz, NCIS Special Agent and Operational Psychologist
- Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier as Shyla Dahr, NCIS Reserve Agent
Guest
- Linda Hunt as Henrietta Lange, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) and Operations Manager
- Bar Paly as Anatasia 'Anna' Kolcheck, Former ATF Agent and Callen's girlfriend
- Jeff Kober as Harris Keane, former member of Hetty's team during the Vietnam War
- Jolene Key as NCIS Special Agent Afloat Denise Morgan
- Stephanie Lemelin as Retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant Mary Smith
- Bill Goldberg as Lance Hamilton, DOJ Agent
- Erik Palladino as CIA Officer Vostanik Sabatino
Episodes
The number in the "No. overall" column refers to the episode's number within the overall series, whereas the number in the "No. in season" column refers to the episode's number within this particular season. "Production code" refers to the order in which the episodes were produced while "U.S. viewers (millions)" refers to the number of viewers in the U.S. in millions who watched the episode as it was aired.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [1] | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 281 | 1 | "Subject 17" | Dennis Smith | R. Scott Gemmill | October 10, 2021 | 1304 | 5.85[2] |
| While Callen suspects Hetty of keeping secrets about his past and Joelle surfaces in her quest to capture Katya, NCIS must track down Russian informant Zasha Gagarin (Olesya Rulin) whose life is in danger. Meanwhile, Kensi and Deeks continue their efforts to expand their family. | |||||||
| 282 | 2 | "Fukushu" | Dennis Smith | Kyle Harimoto | October 17, 2021 | 1302 | 5.62[3] |
| NCIS takes the case personally when an LAPD officer's father, a beloved elderly Japanese American veteran, is the victim of a vicious hate crime. | |||||||
| 283 | 3 | "Indentured" | Eric Pot | Frank Military | October 24, 2021 | 1303 | 5.78[4] |
| Sam and Kilbride clash when a case involving an arms dealer responsible for the slaughter of ATF agents leads them to a well-connected colonel and friend of Kilbride, accused of supplying militia groups with guns. | |||||||
| 284 | 4 | "Sorry For Your Loss" | Eric Pot | Chad Mazero | October 31, 2021 | 1301 | 5.07[5] |
| As Callen continues hunting Katya, Kilbride enlists NCIS help to find a truckload of stolen guns; the assignment becomes more challenging when their suspect, the son of a mob boss planning to sell the weapons, is found dead. | |||||||
| 285 | 5 | "Divided We Fall" | Terence Nightingall | Andrew Bartels | November 7, 2021 | 1305 | 5.37[6] |
| When an NCIS mission to protect a compromised undercover agent goes completely sideways, the agents are individually interrogated to find out what really happened; Kilbride must make a difficult decision. | |||||||
| 286 | 6 | "Sundown" | Suzanne Saltz | Lee A. Carlisle | November 21, 2021 | 1306 | 5.21[7] |
| Sam negotiates, and Roundtree goes undercover, when a man takes a busload of hostages and threatens to blow it up unless his daughter's war crimes are posthumously cleared. | |||||||
| 287 | 7 | "Lost Soldier Down" | Daniela Ruah | Indira Wilson | January 2, 2022 | 1307 | 5.17[8] |
| The NCIS team investigates the apparent suicide of a Navy intelligence officer who leapt to his death after taking LSD. Also, while Kensi is away at the Mexican border, Deeks makes plans to redo the backyard without her input. | |||||||
| 288 | 8 | "A Land of Wolves" | Tawnia McKiernan | Justin Kohlas & Adam George Key | January 9, 2022 | 1308 | 5.30[9] |
| The NCIS team, joined by Special Agent Aliyah de León (Briana Martin), scrambles to find Kensi, when she is attacked and kidnapped by a mysterious militia group while helping a group of migrants cross the border. While captured, Kensi bonds with one of the migrants captured with her, a teenage girl seeking a new life in the United States. | |||||||
| 289 | 9 | "Under the Influence" | John P. Kousakis | Anastasia Kousakis | February 27, 2022 | 1309 | 5.53[10] |
| The NCIS team, assisted once again by Agent De León, helps a U.S. ambassador search for her missing daughter, Gia (Caitlin Carmichael), a popular social media influencer, after she is kidnapped. The team is shocked when the kidnappers force Gia to ask her followers to raise ransom money and a counter-campaign of misogynists begins raising money for the kidnappers to execute her live on social media. | |||||||
| 290 | 10 | "Where Loyalties Lie" | Tawnia McKiernan | Matt Klafter | March 6, 2022 | 1310 | 5.45[11] |
| The NCIS team is called in when a civilian scientist working with the Marines on development of advanced radar technology is killed and the technology stolen. The team pinpoints the perpetrators as a white nationalist group attempting to bomb an immigrant center with explosives supplied by the Chinese government in exchange for the radar. Though the group is killed and a Chinese operative arrested, the technology remains unaccounted for. Meanwhile, Callen is confused when his doctor insists that the two had a phone meeting in recent days. The episode ends with an unidentified figure walking away from a computer that has been programmed with the deepfake technology, first seen in "Impostor Syndrome" (12x15), to mimic Callen's face and voice. | |||||||
| 291 | 11 | "All The Little Things" | Terrence O'Hara | R. Scott Gemmill | March 13, 2022 | 1311 | 5.34[12] |
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Kensi and Deeks are called to the USS Allegiance to help uncover the identities of the parents of a newborn baby found in the ship's cargo space. The search turns dire when the agents learn that the mother gave birth prematurely and is at-risk of bleeding out. Upon finding the birth mother, Deeks and Kensi are shocked to learn the young sailor's pregnancy was a result of being raped by a civilian contractor nine months prior, leaving Callen and Roundtree to make the arrest. Meanwhile, Kilbride calls in former OSP team member Nate Getz for advice on helping Callen, who is frantically searching for Hetty, with aid from Zasha Gagarin and Harris Keane, after a United States drone strike on Al Qaeda occurs at her last known location in Syria. The two also discuss the Drona Project - the CIA operation in the 1970s run by Hetty that groomed young children, including a freshly orphaned Callen, into future American operatives. The two fear that the information unraveled by the Droma Project could not only destroy the relationship between Hetty and Callen, but permanently fracture the entire OSP team. The episode ends with Anna Kolcheck, Callen's girlfriend, walking into the boatshed while talking to Callen, only for Callen to already be there and clueless to the conversation. Callen then video chats with the deepfake version of himself on Anna's phone, who indicates the two have met previously, warning the former that "he is coming for him". | |||||||
| 292 | 12 | "Murmuration" | James Hanlon | Samantha Chasse | March 20, 2022 | 1312 | 5.60[13] |
| The OSP team is called in to investigate when an unidentified aircraft crashes into a Navy fighter jet from the USS Allegiance. The investigation turns on its head, however, when the UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) is revealed to be a drone swarm purchased by the Department of Defense and operated by a rogue neural network AI system testing its learning capabilities against the US Navy, the "greatest potential opponent" the system could train itself against. Kilbride tells Fatima that the investigation was merely a formality to ensure that the response to the potential "threat" was appropriate to the programming of the AI system. Kilbride also warns Fatima that the United States is in a worldwide race to develop AI technology, reminiscent of the Space Race -- a race that, once again, America cannot afford to lose. Meanwhile, Deeks and Kensi begin to prepare for their foster inspection, arguing over the numerous purchases the former has made in an attempt to curry favor with the inspector and increase his likeability to a foster child. | |||||||
| 293 | 13 | "Bonafides" | Terrence O'Hara | Kyle Harimoto | March 27, 2022 | 1313 | 5.21[14] |
| When DOJ Agent Lance Hamilton's partner is killed, Sam dons his previous undercover persona of "Switch" to find the culprit. Also Kensi, Deeks, Roundtree and Kilbride work to catch an aerospace engineer who stole classified Navy schematics. | |||||||
| 294 | 14 | "Pandora's Box" | Daniela Ruah | Chad Mazero & Lee A. Carlisle | March 27, 2022 | 1314 | 4.91[14] |
| NCIS investigates the robbery of a high-end arts storage by going undercover as potential buyers on the black market, to find who is behind the stolen items. | |||||||
| 295 | 15 | "Perception" | Benny Boom | Faythallegrea Claude | April 10, 2022 | 1315 | 5.26[15] |
| Roundtree and his younger sister are pulled over by police and treated harshly in a clear case of racial profiling. Also, NCIS investigates the death of a Navy photographer who was assigned to document the building of a new weapons station. | |||||||
| 296 | 16 | "MWD" | Suzanne Saltz | R. Scott Gemmill | April 17, 2022 | 1316 | 5.64[16] |
| NCIS investigates the kidnapping of Master Sergeant Boomer, a military working dog. Meanwhile, Sam looks to sell his boat so he can take care of his father who is suffering from Alzheimer's, and Callen meets with Nate to discuss the troubling series of recent events surrounding his life. | |||||||
| 297 | 17 | "Genesis" | John P. Kousakis | Andrew Bartels | April 24, 2022 | 1317 | 5.65[17] |
| The team helps Naval intelligence officer Akhil Ali locate a fellow officer who went missing while recruiting foreign assets as potential sources of intelligence; Callen and psychologist Nate Getz track down a man, who appears to be the same man who train both Callen and Katya. | |||||||
| 298 | 18 | "Hard For The Money"[18] | Rick Tunell | Matt Klafter & Indira Gibson Wilson | May 1, 2022 | 1318 | TBD |
| 299 | 19 | "Live Free or Die Standing"[19] | Daniela Ruah | Eric Christian Olsen | May 1, 2022 | 1319 | TBD |
| 300 | 20 | "Work & Family"[20] | Dennis Smith | R. Scott Gemmill | May 8, 2022 | 1320 | TBD |
| 301 | 21 | "Down the Rabbit Hole"[1] | TBA | TBA | May 15, 2022 | 1321 | TBD |
| 302 | 22 | "Come Together"[1] | TBA | TBA | May 22, 2022 | 1322 | TBD |
Production
Development
On April 23, 2021, it was announced that CBS had renewed NCIS: Los Angeles for a thirteenth season.[21] Series regular Eric Christian Olsen wrote the nineteenth episode of the season, while fellow series regular Daniela Ruah directed the episode.[22] On January 5, 2022, it was reported that production had been suspended until February due to the COVID Omicron variant.[23]
Casting
When the series was renewed, in was announced that series stars Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J had signed deals to return.[21] On May 24, 2021, it was revealed that Barrett Foa and Renée Felice Smith would be leaving the series after the twelfth season.[24] Later that day it was confirmed that Linda Hunt would be returning for the season, after only appearing occasionally during the previous season.[25] On June 2, 2021, it was announced that Gerald McRaney had been promoted to series regular for the season.[26]
Release
On May 19, 2021, it was announced that the series would keep its Sunday 9:00 PM ET timeslot.[27] On July 12, 2021, it was revealed that the season would premiere on October 10, 2021.[28] The series continued to air after The Equalizer leading into SEAL Team for its first four episodes. Afterwards, the series led into S.W.A.T.
In the United Kingdom, Season 13 of NCIS: Los Angeles gave up its traditional December premiere slot to allow the final season of NCIS: New Orleans to be aired, on April 27, 2022 Sky Max set the Season 13 premiere date for May 15, 2022. [29]
Ratings
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Subject 17" | October 10, 2021 | 0.7 | 5.85[2] | TBD | TBD | TBD | [30][lower-alpha 1] |
| 2 | "Fukushu" | October 17, 2021 | 0.6 | 5.62[3] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 3 | "Indentured" | October 24, 2021 | 0.6 | 5.78[4] | 0.2 | 2.05 | 0.8 | 7.83[31] |
| 4 | "Sorry For Your Loss" | October 31, 2021 | 0.5 | 5.07[5] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 5 | "Divided We Fall" | November 7, 2021 | 0.5 | 5.37[6] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 6 | "Sundown" | November 21, 2021 | 0.5 | 5.21[7] | 0.3 | 2.04 | 0.8 | 7.25[32] |
| 7 | "Lost Soldier Down" | January 2, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.17[8] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 8 | "A Land of Wolves" | January 9, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.30[9] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 9 | "Under the Influence" | February 27, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.53[10] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 10 | "Where Loyalties Lie" | March 6, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.45[11] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 11 | "All The Little Things" | March 13, 2022 | 0.4 | 5.34[12] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 12 | "Murmuration" | March 20, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.60[13] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 13 | "Bonafides" | March 27, 2022 | 0.6 | 5.21[14] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 14 | "Pandora's Box" | March 27, 2022 | 0.5 | 4.91[14] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 15 | "Perception" | April 10, 2022 | 0.4 | 5.26[15] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 16 | "MWD" | April 17, 2022 | 0.6 | 5.64[16] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 17 | "Genesis" | April 24, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.65[17] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Notes
- Live+7 ratings were unavailable, so Live+3 ratings have been used instead.
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