NCIS Special Agent Pride and the NCIS team investigate the murder of an immigrant Petty Officer that was staged as a suicide. Also, the team secretly creates an online dating profile for Special Agent Pride. 2026-09-23 Special Agent Pride opens his bar to the public with a Fat Tuesday party, but the celebration is cut short when he and Mayor Douglas Hamilton (Steven Weber) are both kidnapped from their respective Mardi Gras events and held hostage by an unknown assailant. 2026-09-23 When a mystery man saves the life of a Lieutenant and then disappears from the scene, the NCIS team unravels a new case when forensic evidence suggests he is a soldier who was captured in Afghanistan years ago and never found. 2026-09-23 While the NCIS team deals with Kate's death, Gibbs' determination to finally put an end to Ari's reign of terror mounts. 2026-09-24 Ari continues to wreak havoc on the NCIS team as he uses its members as pawns in the game he is playing with Gibbs. 2026-09-24 Under order from the Governor of Virginia, a skeptical Gibbs is forced to meet with a serial killer he helped to convict a decade before. 2026-09-24