Episode
NCIS: Los Angeles: The Queen's Gambit
Overview
The NCIS LA team investigates an abduction case while down two members, with Hetty being held in D.C. for questioning, and another still in the ICU following the mission in Syria.
Details
- Series
- NCIS: Los Angeles
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2016-10-02
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Queen's Gambit is Episode 3 in Season 8 of NCIS: Los Angeles. It aired on 2016-10-02. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 2: Belly of the Beast (2)
The team travels to Syria to apprehend a High Value Target where one team member is severely injured when the mission goes awry.
Episode 4: Black Market
After a Homeland Security agent is poisoned by a notorious Triad assassin, NCIS uncovers a warehouse of counterfeit purses and a money trail to stolen government funds. Also, Nell joins the team in the field.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: High-Value Target (1)
After NCIS fails to locate a mole in the department, Under Secretary of Defense Corbin Duggan insists on new leadership and takes over the Los Angeles unit from Hetty and Granger.
Episode 5: Ghost Gun
The murder of a navy machinist with high security clearance sends the team on a city-wide hunt tracking evidence. Also, Anna Kolcheck partners with Callen, and Sam assists Hetty in the on-going mole investigation.
Episode 6: Home Is Where the Heart Is
After a maintenance man saved the life of a lieutenant commander, the NCIS team uncovers his dark past which puts a local teenager in danger. Also, Sam must decide which colleague to take to the Los Angeles football game.
Episode 7: Crazy Train
After an NSA analyst is found eaten by a shark, the team's investigation leads them to a cartel's money-laundering scheme and sends Callen into a mental asylum to find a key witness; Kensi struggles with her therapy.
Episode 8: Parallel Resistors
The team's investigation into the electrocution of a college student working on a classified Navy project leads them to his inquisitive daughter, who may be the key to accessing his work.
Episode 9: Glasnost
After Callen’s father, Garrison is found in an NCIS patient’s hospital room during a radiation poisoning case, Callen must take him to the boatshed for interrogation. Also, the team discusses their Thanksgiving plans.
Episode 10: Sirens
After an unknown female assailant kills two men disguised as Sherriff’s deputies in front of Callen’s home, the NCIS team gets a new lead in the ongoing mole investigation. Also, Nell visits a prison to interview an inmate withholding information on the department’s leak.
Episode 11: Tidings We Bring
The team goes on the chase for a Navy analyst being held hostage, only to discover things aren't as simple as they seem.
Episode 12: Kulinda
After a Navy reservist is killed while protecting a city councilman, Sam is sent undercover in a private security firm with links to several criminal organizations.
Episode 13: Hot Water (1)
The mole has once again compromised the NCIS team as planted evidence results in the arrests of Callen, Sam, Granger and Deeks, on the day Under Secretary Duggan (Jackson Hurst) returns for Hetty’s resignation.