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No. of episodes | 24 |
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Original network | CBS |
Original release | September 21, 2010 (2010-09-21) – May 17, 2011 (2011-05-17) |
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The second season of NCIS: Los Angeles an American police procedural drama television series originally aired on CBS from September 21, 2010, through May 17, 2011. The season was produced by Shane Brennan Productions and CBS Television Studios, with Shane Brennanasshowrunner and executive producer. The season continues to follow the stories of the members of the Office of Special Projects, an undercover division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).
The season features a major cast change: Eric Christian Olsen joins the cast, reprising his role as Marty Deeks from season one. Renée Felice Smith joins the team in episode 4 in a recurring capacity, and is promoted to a starring role in the eleventh episode. Peter Cambor is no longer a series regular, and is credited as a special guest star in the 4 episodes he appears.
No. overall | No.in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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25 | 1 | "Human Traffic" | James Whitmore Jr. | Shane Brennan | September 21, 2010 (2010-09-21) | 201 | 15.76[1] |
The NCIS team's LAPD liaison officer, Detective Marty Deeks, goes missing while undercover, right after the subject of his investigation is killed by a bomb planted in their car. LAPD Detective Jess Traynor, Deeks's partner, dies from a similar car bomb just after briefing NCIS. The team is tasked to find the missing detective. | |||||||
26 | 2 | "Black Widow" | Kate Woods | Dave Kalstein | September 21, 2010 (2010-09-21) | 202 | 13.60[1] |
An NCIS undercover agent is assassinated while in Cyprus investigating illegal arms sales to Chechen extremists. The same hit team is later detected arriving in Los Angeles, and the NCIS Los Angeles team is in a race against the clock to stop the assassins from killing their next target, a suburban housewife who is more than she appears to be. | |||||||
27 | 3 | "Borderline" | Terrence O'Hara | R. Scott Gemmill | September 28, 2010 (2010-09-28) | 203 | 16.51[2] |
Four Marines are ambushed while participating in a joint DEA-Marine task force interdicting Mexican criminals along the U.S.-Mexico border. The NCIS team works to recover the captured marines and uncover the mastermind behind the operation: a textile manufacturer who wants the US military to go to war with the cartels so they will stop interfering in his factories south of the border. | |||||||
28 | 4 | "Special Delivery" | Tony Wharmby | Gil Grant | October 5, 2010 (2010-10-05) | 204 | 16.14[3] |
The NCIS team investigates the murder of a sailor with top-level security clearance after he is found dead and missing a hand in a Rodeo Drive parking lot. The case takes a turn after it is discovered he was selling artifacts that were looted from a museum during his tour in Iraq. | |||||||
29 | 5 | "Little Angels" | Steven DePaul | Frank Military | October 12, 2010 (2010-10-12) | 205 | 16.05[4] |
When the teenaged daughter of a Navy commander is kidnapped by what appears to be a serial killer who buries his victims alive, the team needs to determine whether he is the target of blackmail for military secrets or if the crime is random. Sam takes the case personally after getting flashbacks of being buried alive while doing a mission in Bosnia as a Navy SEAL. | |||||||
30 | 6 | "Standoff" | Dennis Smith | Joseph C. Wilson | October 19, 2010 (2010-10-19) | 206 | 16.00[5] |
After a downtown Navy Recruitment Center is held hostage by Callen's ex-CIA partner and undercover wife, Tracy Keller (Marisol Nichols), he realises she is searching for him for help. Tracy explains she is on the verge of exposing a group of corrupt FBI Agents and their arms dealer contact in the aim of recovering stolen missiles. But not everything is as it seems, and the NCIS team worry whether Callen has fallen under the charms of his ex-wife. | |||||||
31 | 7 | "Anonymous" | Norberto Barba | Christina M. Kim | October 26, 2010 (2010-10-26) | 207 | 16.00[6] |
A State Department employee and plastic surgeon are murdered. The team discovers a terrorist cell has had their faces surgically altered. They must find the one person who can identify them and foil an impending terrorist attack. | |||||||
32 | 8 | "Bounty" | Félix Alcalá | Dave Kalstein | November 9, 2010 (2010-11-09) | 208 | 15.61[7] |
The team investigates the murder of a retired Delta Force operator who previously worked with a Marine SOCOM unit tasked to capture high-priority targets in Afghanistan. | |||||||
33 | 9 | "Absolution" | Steven DePaul | R. Scott Gemmill | November 16, 2010 (2010-11-16) | 209 | 15.81[8] |
The murder of an arms dealer has Hetty and the NCIS team searching for his missing book of top-secret information. The episode ends with Hetty discovering that her "husband", Branston Cole, a security guard, and a nurse have all been killed. | |||||||
34 | 10 | "Deliverance" | Tony Wharmby | Frank Military & Shane Brennan | November 23, 2010 (2010-11-23) | 210 | 14.96[9] |
In the aftermath of Cole's death, Hetty and the NCIS team continue to search for a book that was the target of various intelligence agencies, both foreign and domestic. Things heat up when various spies and agencies from numerous countries begin heading to Los Angeles, forcing the team to race against time to stop the respective gangs from tearing LA apart in their search for the book. The conclusion of a two-part episode. | |||||||
35 | 11 | "Disorder" | Jonathan Frakes | Teleplay by : Gil Grant & Dave Kalstein Story by : Dave Kalstein | December 14, 2010 (2010-12-14) | 211 | 16.82[10] |
When two men are killed in a shootout, the NCIS team must rely on a former Navy intelligence officer suffering from PTSD to help them solve the case. | |||||||
36 | 12 | "Overwatch" | Karen Gaviola | Lindsay Jewett Sturman | January 11, 2011 (2011-01-11) | 212 | 18.13[11] |
The NCIS team uncovers an experimental Navy tracking system when a body containing a top-secret residue is stolen from an autopsy room. It is discovered that the thieves merely needed the eyes of the victim in order to access a locked hospital storage room in order to steal radioactive material. Meanwhile, Callen challenges Hetty on the rock wall. | |||||||
37 | 13 | "Archangel" | Tony Wharmby | R. Scott Gemmill & Shane Brennan | January 18, 2011 (2011-01-18) | 213 | 17.29[12] |
The NCIS team sets out to find the individual responsible for stealing a classified Pentagon document before the file's decryption code is cracked by the wrong party. | |||||||
38 | 14 | "Lockup" | Jan Eliasberg | Christina M. Kim & Frank Military | February 1, 2011 (2011-02-01) | 214 | 17.70[13] |
As G goes off the grid for a day for personal reasons, Sam goes undercover in prison in an attempt to infiltrate a Yemen-based terrorist group by getting close to its leader, another inmate. | |||||||
39 | 15 | "Tin Soldiers" | Terrence O'Hara | R. Scott Gemmill | February 8, 2011 (2011-02-08) | 215 | 17.16[14] |
What begins as a break-in at G's house leads to a pursuit of black market microchips, and a series of double-crosses. Callen agrees to investigate an Indian "slum dog millionaire" who happens to be Arkady Kolcheck's business rival. Kolcheck also promises Callen to shed some light on the cemetery incident (season 1 finale "Callen, G"). | |||||||
40 | 16 | "Empty Quiver" | James Whitmore Jr. | Dave Kalstein | February 15, 2011 (2011-02-15) | 216 | 16.80[15] |
Callen and Sam go undercover with the California Highway Patrol to investigate a corrupt group of CHiPs officers and their connection to missing weapons. But a routine job takes a dramatic turn, and a stolen nuclear warhead sends the OSP team scrambling to recover the bomb. | |||||||
41 | 17 | "Personal" | Kate Woods | Joseph C. Wilson | February 22, 2011 (2011-02-22) | 217 | 18.69[16] |
LAPD–NCIS Liaison Detective Marty Deeks's routine is thrown when he interrupts a convenience-store robbery and is shot, but the NCIS team finds out Deeks was targeted, but not to kill him, instead to lure out NCIS Junior Special Agent Kensi Blye by Vakar (first mentioned in "Black Widow"). | |||||||
42 | 18 | "Harm's Way" | Tony Wharmby | Shane Brennan | March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01) | 218 | 15.67[17] |
The story arc that started in the episode "Lockup" is concluded as Sam is sent on an undercover mission to Yemen. But the stakes are raised when it's revealed that the terrorist group has taken a young seven-year-old boy hostage and things get even worse for the team when it's discovered Nate's cover has been compromised which means that Sam has been exposed as well, forcing Callen, Sam and Nate into a fight for survival against terrorists who want them dead. | |||||||
43 | 19 | "Enemy Within" | Steven DePaul | Lindsay Jewett Sturman | March 22, 2011 (2011-03-22) | 219 | 16.56[18] |
It's a race against time as the team attempts to foil an assassination plot against a Venezuelan politician on U.S. soil. | |||||||
44 | 20 | "The Job" | Terrence O'Hara | Frank Military & Christina M. Kim | March 29, 2011 (2011-03-29) | 220 | 15.34[19] |
A secure facility on a marine base becomes compromised, causing Kensi to go undercover as a thief in the hope of finding out what a world-class thief planned to steal from the secure facility without having her cover blown. | |||||||
45 | 21 | "Rocket Man" | Dennis Smith | Roger Director | April 12, 2011 (2011-04-12) | 221 | 15.46[20] |
After a rocket engine expert is killed, OSP tech operator Eric Beale goes undercover for the first time to ensure that the classified technology used to build satellites is safe. | |||||||
46 | 22 | "Plan B" | James Whitmore Jr. | Dave Kalstein & Joseph C. Wilson | May 3, 2011 (2011-05-03) | 222 | 14.16[21] |
To protect his best friend and primary informant from a group of arms traffickers, Deeks must go deep undercover to an old alias. | |||||||
47 | 23 | "Imposters" | John Peter Kousakis | R. Scott Gemmill | May 10, 2011 (2011-05-10) | 223 | 14.74[22] |
The stolen canisters from "Overwatch" resurface after a Navy SEAL imposter is set ablaze. Hetty sets her affairs in order as she prepares to resign from NCIS. | |||||||
48 | 24 | "Familia" | James Whitmore Jr. | Shane Brennan | May 17, 2011 (2011-05-17) | 224 | 15.61[23] |
Hetty's resignation from NCIS prompts Callen and the team to initiate an investigation to find her. It is revealed that she has been working on a case involving Callen's mysterious past, and that she herself is a member of the family that has been trying to kill him for years. |
NCIS: Los Angeles was renewed for a second season on January 14, 2010.[24]
Season two of NCIS: Los Angeles premiered on September 21, 2010.[25]
NCIS: Los Angeles ranked #7 with a total of 16.54 million viewers for the 2010–11 U.S. network television season.[26]
No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) |
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DVR (18–49) |
DVR viewers (millions) |
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Total viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Human Traffic" | September 21, 2010 | 3.4/9 | 15.76[1] | 0.7 | 1.94 | 4.1 | 17.70[27] |
2 | "Black Widow" | September 21, 2010 | 3.0/9 | 13.60[1] | — | — | — | — |
3 | "Borderline" | September 28, 2010 | 3.7/10 | 16.51[2] | 0.7 | 1.90 | 4.4 | 18.41[28] |
4 | "Special Delivery" | October 5, 2010 | 3.4/9 | 16.14[3] | 0.8 | 2.02 | 4.2 | 18.16[29] |
5 | "Little Angels" | October 12, 2010 | 3.5/9 | 16.05[4] | 0.7 | 1.89 | 4.2 | 17.94[30] |
6 | "Standoff" | October 19, 2010 | 3.9/10 | 16.00[5] | 0.6 | 1.97 | 4.5 | 17.97[31] |
7 | "Anonymous" | October 26, 2010 | 3.4/9 | 15.99[6] | 0.7 | 1.97 | 4.1 | 17.96[32] |
8 | "Bounty" | November 9, 2010 | 3.3/9 | 15.61[7] | 0.7 | 2.13 | 4.0 | 17.74[33] |
9 | "Absolution" | November 16, 2010 | 3.3/9 | 15.81[8] | 0.7 | 2.13 | 4.0 | 17.94[34] |
10 | "Deliverance" | November 23, 2010 | 3.2/9 | 14.96[9] | 0.7 | 2.21 | 3.9 | 17.17[35] |
11 | "Disorder" | December 14, 2010 | 3.3/9 | 16.82[10] | 0.7 | 2.14 | 4.0 | 18.96[36] |
12 | "Overwatch" | January 11, 2011 | 3.7/10 | 18.13[11] | 0.8 | 2.21 | 4.5 | 20.34[37] |
13 | "Archangel" | January 18, 2011 | 3.3/9 | 17.29[12] | 0.8 | 2.09 | 4.1 | 19.38[38] |
14 | "Lockup" | February 1, 2011 | 3.8/9 | 17.70[13] | 0.6 | 1.94 | 4.4 | 19.64[39] |
15 | "Tin Soldiers" | February 8, 2011 | 3.5/9 | 17.16[14] | 0.8 | 2.13 | 4.3 | 19.29[40] |
16 | "Empty Quiver" | February 15, 2011 | 3.3/9 | 16.80[15] | 0.8 | 2.28 | 4.1 | 19.08[41] |
17 | "Personal" | February 22, 2011 | 3.9/11 | 18.69[16] | 0.8 | 2.03 | 4.7 | 20.72[42] |
18 | "Harm's Way" | March 1, 2011 | 3.2/9 | 15.67[17] | 0.7 | 2.15 | 3.9 | 17.82[43] |
19 | "Enemy Within" | March 22, 2011 | 3.2/9 | 16.56[18] | 0.9 | 2.37 | 4.1 | 18.93[44] |
20 | "The Job" | March 29, 2011 | 3.5/9 | 15.34[19] | 0.7 | 2.29 | 4.2 | 17.63[45] |
21 | "Rocket Man" | April 12, 2011 | 3.3/9 | 15.46[20] | 0.9 | 2.47 | 4.2 | 17.93[46] |
22 | "Plan B" | May 3, 2011 | 2.9/7 | 14.16[21] | 0.9 | 2.55 | 3.8 | 16.71[47] |
23 | "Imposters" | May 10, 2011 | 2.8/7 | 14.74[22] | 0.8 | 2.37 | 3.6 | 17.11[48] |
24 | "Familia" | May 17, 2011 | 3.3/8 | 15.61[23] | 1.0 | 2.89 | 4.3 | 18.50[49] |
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August 23, 2011[50] | August 22, 2011[51] | September 1, 2011[52] |
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