NCIS: Los Angeles season 7
| NCIS: Los Angeles | |
|---|---|
| Season 7 | |
 Season 7 U.S. DVD cover | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 21, 2015 – May 2, 2016 |
| Season chronology | |
The seventh season of the police procedural drama NCIS: Los Angeles premiered on September 21, 2015 on CBS, and ended on May 2, 2016.[1] It featured 24 episodes.
Cast and characters
Main
- Chris O'Donnell as Grisha "G." Callen, NCIS Senior Special Agent (SSA) of the Office of Special Projects (O.S.P.) in Los Angeles
- Daniela Ruah as Kensi Blye, NCIS Junior Special Agent
- Eric Christian Olsen as Marty Deeks, L.A.P.D.Detective And Liaison To NCIS
- Barrett Foa as Eric Beale, NCIS Technical Operator
- Renée Felice Smith as Nell Jones, NCIS Special Agent and Intelligence Analyst
- Miguel Ferrer as Owen Granger, NCIS Assistant Director
- Linda Hunt as Henrietta Lange, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent and Operations Manager
- LL Cool J as Sam Hanna, NCIS Senior Special Agent, second in command
Recurring
- Vyto Ruginis as Arkady Kolcheck
- Peter Cambor as Nate Getz, NCIS Special Agent
- Ella Thomas as Jada Khaled
- Erik Palladino as Vostanik Sabatino
- Mercedes Mason as Talia Del Campo
- Elizabeth Bogush as Joelle Taylor
- Ravil Isyanov as Anatoli Kirkin
- Douglas Weston as Alex Elmslie
- Anslem Richardson as Tahir Khaled
- Pamela Reed as Roberta Deeks
- Bar Paly as Anna Kolcheck
Special Guest Star
- Michael Weatherly as Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo, NCIS Special Agent in D.C., second in command
Guest cast
- Shannon Cochran as Dr. Susan Rathburn
- Erin Krakow as Emily Moore
- Taylor Nichols as Chad Brunson
- Bobby Lee as Rio Syamsundin
- Cassius Willis as Russell Wallace
- Danielle Bisutti as Sarah Taylor
- Anthony Ruivivar as Agent Mark Ruiz
- Nicole Steinwedell as Allison Nelson
- Patrick St. Esprit as Roger Bates
- Nick Chinlund as Bruce Steadman
- Paulina Olszynski as Tiffany Williams[citation needed]
- Daniel J. Travanti as Nikita Aleksandr Reznikov / Garrison, Callen's father
- Karina Logue as LAPD Detective Ellen Whiting
- Matthew Del Negro as Jack Simon
- Malese Jow as Jennifer Kim
Production
On May 11, 2015, CBS renewed the series for a seventh season.[2] Originally, the episode "Defectors" was supposed to air on November 16, but the plot was too similar to the 2015 Paris attacks.
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145 | 1 | "Active Measures" | John Peter Kousakis | R. Scott Gemmill | September 21, 2015 | 701 | 7.89[3] |
Callen's search for information regarding Arkady leads him off the grid and in hot water, forcing the team to locate him before it's too late. | |||||||
| 146 | 2 | "Citadel" | Eric Laneuville | Dave Kalstein | September 28, 2015 | 702 | 7.66[4] |
DEA agent Talia Del Campo turns to NCIS for help after her partner is murdered. Also, after Kensi grows suspicious that Deeks is hiding something, he surprises her by introducing her to his mother. | |||||||
| 147 | 3 | "Driving Miss Diaz" | James Hanlon | Andrew Bartels | October 5, 2015 | 703 | 7.99[5] |
The NCIS Los Angeles team investigates a 20-year old Peruvian massacre after a well-known fashion model, believed to be one of the survivors, is now a potential target. Also, Kensi goes undercover as the model’s assistant and Deeks as her chauffeur. | |||||||
| 148 | 4 | "Command & Control" | Terrence O'Hara | Kyle Harimoto | October 12, 2015 | 704 | 8.45[6] |
Callen and Sam are forced to work on their day off when they mysteriously receive a cell phone and the caller threatens the lives of innocent people if they don't do exactly what he says but eventually they discover it is a revenge scheme/plot connected to a case that NCIS dealt with 19 months earlier. | |||||||
| 149 | 5 | "Blame It on Rio" | Dennis Smith | R. Scott Gemmill | October 19, 2015 | 623 | 8.77[7] |
Washington NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) partners with the Los Angeles team to search the city after his prisoner escapes the custody of a U.S. Marshal on a flight from Singapore to Los Angeles. | |||||||
| 150 | 6 | "Unspoken" | Diana C. Valentine | Erin Broadhurst & Frank Military | November 2, 2015 | 705 | 8.41[8] |
The team searches for Sam's former partner, Ruiz (Anthony Ruivivar), who disappears while buying a deadly explosive during an undercover operation. | |||||||
| 151 | 7 | "An Unlocked Mind" | Chris O'Donnell | Frank Military | November 9, 2015 | 624 | 7.91[9] |
Kensi and Deeks go undercover as cult members to rescue a former Department of Defense employee brainwashed into revealing classified information as the rest of the team works to prevent the cult from selling the government secrets. | |||||||
| 152 | 8 | "The Long Goodbye" | John Peter Kousakis | Dave Kalstein | November 16, 2015 | 708 | 7.91[10] |
When a convoy carrying Jada Khaled (Ella Thomas) is ambushed, the team ends up in a race to find her, but after their last encounter with her four years earlier, they soon begin to suspect that she doesn't want their help. | |||||||
| 153 | 9 | "Defectors" | Dennis Smith | Jordana Lewis Jaffe | November 23, 2015 | 706 | 7.80[11] |
The team searches for a teenage girl who may have been recruited by a terrorist organization. | |||||||
| 154 | 10 | "Internal Affairs" | Eric A. Pot | Chad Mazero & R. Scott Gemmill | December 7, 2015 | 707 | 9.52[12] |
The team has to find a way to clear Deeks' name when he is arrested for allegedly having murdered his LAPD partner some time in his past. | |||||||
| 155 | 11 | "Cancel Christmas" | Paul A. Kaufman | Joseph C. Wilson | December 14, 2015 | 709 | 9.22[13] |
After the victim is revealed to be a suspected North Korean agent, the team has to find out how many North Korean agents are currently in the country. Meanwhile, Granger is bitter about the upcoming holidays. | |||||||
| 156 | 12 | "Core Values" | Karen Gaviola | Joe Sachs | January 4, 2016 | 710 | 10.51[14] |
When a Marine is discovered to have radiation poisoning, the team investigates a decommissioned nuclear plant he was moonlighting as a security guard at, discovering that the plant's supposed safety protocols have been compromised. | |||||||
| 157 | 13 | "Angels & Daemons" | James Hanlon | Andrew Bartels | January 18, 2016 | 711 | 10.64[15] |
After a Navy computer programmer-turned-billionaire is killed, the team's investigation into his death leads them to discover a covert data-retrieving program he developed has been stolen and placed into a popular app, forcing the team to race against time to prevent the program from going online. | |||||||
| 158 | 14 | "Come Back" | Eric Laneuville | Erin Broadhurst | January 25, 2016 | 714 | 10.06[16] |
Kensi and Deeks are assigned to protect Jack Simon, Kensi's former fiancee, after an attempt is made on his life, while Callen and Sam investigate what Jack was up to recently in Afghanistan. | |||||||
| 159 | 15 | "Matryoshka" | Dennis Smith | Kyle Harimoto & R. Scott Gemmill | February 8, 2016 | 712 | 9.75[17] |
When Anatoli Kirkin is abducted, the team's investigation leads them to Arkady's daughter, Anna, and with proof that Arkady is still alive, the team and Anna go to locate where Arkady is being held. | |||||||
| 160 | 16 | "Matryoshka, Part 2" | Terrence O'Hara | Kyle Harimoto & R. Scott Gemmill | February 22, 2016 | 713 | 8.82[18] |
Callen, Anna, and Sam go to Russia in order to extract Arkady and a CIA agent held alongside him, but they have to deal with a very short timeframe to get in and out of the prison they are being held without risking a major international incident; Eric joins Kensi and Deeks in the field. | |||||||
| 161 | 17 | "Revenge Deferred" | Rick Tunell | Frank Military and Chad Mazero | February 29, 2016 | 715 | 7.94[19] |
Callen and Sam are called to Africa when pictures of Sam and his family are found in a Lord's Resistance Army outpost, and from there, the two go in search of Tahir Khaled as well as Jada. Back in Los Angeles, Kensi and Deeks try to track down information about the LRA leader, but they don't have good inter-agency cooperation when another leak is found inside the office. | |||||||
| 162 | 18 | "Exchange Rate" | Tawnia McKiernan | Jordana Lewis Jaffe | March 14, 2016 | 716 | 8.78[20] |
After a Cuban spy about to be involved in a prisoner exchange escapes custody, the team discovers that Anna was involved with the escape, and the situation gets crazier when inconsistencies in his trial are discovered. | |||||||
| 163 | 19 | "The Seventh Child" | Frank Military | Frank Military | March 21, 2016 | 717 | 8.76[21] |
After a child is killed by a bomb strapped to his chest, the team soon chases after his twin brother, also with a bomb strapped to his chest and ready to blow. | |||||||
| 164 | 20 | "Seoul Man" | Diana C. Valentine | Joe Sachs | March 28, 2016 | 718 | 8.91[22] |
While on protection detail for a conference attended by the heads of multiple Navies, the OSP team finds themselves searching for a possible North Korean mole hidden in the delegation. Includes a cameo appearance by Andrew L. Traver, actual Director of NCIS 2013-2019, as Agent Gates in the firing range scene near the start. | |||||||
| 165 | 21 | "Head of the Snake" | Robert Florio | Joseph C. Wilson | April 11, 2016 | 719 | 8.24[23] |
Following the theft of weapons en route to be disposed of, the team becomes concerned that Nate has turned on them, and must figure out his true game before it's too late. | |||||||
| 166 | 22 | "Granger, O." | Dennis Smith | Kyle Harimoto | April 18, 2016 | 720 | 7.79[24] |
While Callen and the team investigate the death of a North Korean spy, Granger talks with Jennifer Kim (Malese Jow), who happens to be his illegitimate daughter. | |||||||
| 167 | 23 | "Where There's Smoke…" | James Hanlon | Andrew Bartels | April 25, 2016 | 721 | 7.87[25] |
When investigating the death of a firefighter in a Navy Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), the team discovers that someone had stolen hard drives from the SCIF, sending Callen and Sam undercover as firefighters to find who is responsible, and what was stolen. | |||||||
| 168 | 24 | "Talion" | John Peter Kousakis | R. Scott Gemmill | May 2, 2016 | 722 | 8.10[26] |
When Sam's son, Aiden's military school is attacked by Tahir Khaled, the team rushes to San Francisco to bring Khaled down, before other agencies get involved and complicate matters. | |||||||
Ratings
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) |
Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Active Measures" | September 21, 2015 | 1.2/4 | 7.89[3] |
| 2 | "Citadel" | September 28, 2015 | 1.2/4 | 7.66[4] |
| 3 | "Driving Miss Diaz" | October 5, 2015 | 1.2/4 | 7.99[5] |
| 4 | "Command & Control" | October 12, 2015 | 1.1/3 | 8.45[6] |
| 5 | "Blame It on Rio" | October 19, 2015 | 1.3/4 | 8.77[7] |
| 6 | "Unspoken" | November 2, 2015 | 1.3/4 | 8.41[8] |
| 7 | "An Unlocked Mind" | November 9, 2015 | 1.3/4 | 7.91[9] |
| 8 | "The Long Goodbye" | November 16, 2015 | 1.3/4 | 7.91[10] |
| 9 | "Defectors" | November 23, 2015 | 1.2/4 | 7.80[11] |
| 10 | "Internal Affairs" | December 7, 2015 | 1.4/4 | 9.52[12] |
| 11 | "Cancel Christmas" | December 14, 2015 | 1.4/5 | 9.22[13] |
| 12 | "Core Values" | January 4, 2016 | 1.6/5 | 10.51[14] |
| 13 | "Angels & Daemons" | January 18, 2016 | 1.6/5 | 10.64[15] |
| 14 | "Come Back" | January 25, 2016 | 1.5/5 | 10.06[16] |
| 15 | "Matryoshka" | February 8, 2016 | 1.6/5 | 9.75[17] |
| 16 | "Matryoshka, Part 2" | February 22, 2016 | 1.3/4 | 8.82[18] |
| 17 | "Revenge Deferred" | February 29, 2016 | 1.2/4 | 7.94[19] |
| 18 | "Exchange Rate" | March 14, 2016 | 1.3/4 | 8.78[20] |
| 19 | "The Seventh Child" | March 21, 2016 | 1.3/4 | 8.76[21] |
| 20 | "Seoul Man" | March 28, 2016 | 1.2/4 | 8.91[22] |
| 21 | "Head of the Snake" | April 11, 2016 | 1.3/4 | 8.24[23] |
| 22 | "Granger, O." | April 18, 2016 | 1.2/4 | 7.79[24] |
| 23 | "Where There's Smoke…" | April 25, 2016 | 1.2/4 | 7.87[25] |
| 24 | "Talion" | May 2, 2016 | 1.3/4 | 8.10[26] |
Home video release
| NCIS: Los Angeles: The Seventh Season | |||||
| Set details | Special features | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD release dates | |||||
| Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
| August 30, 2016[27] | September 19, 2016[28] | September 29, 2016[29] | |||
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External links
- Official website at CBS
- USA Network's NCIS: Los Angeles site Archived 2013-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
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