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NCIS fans love the show but there are some episodes they really hate. Here are the 10 worst NCIS episodes according to fans on IMDb.

NCIS cast |Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
NCIS cast |Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

10. Caught on Tape (Season 2, Episode 15)

  • Rating: 7.7 out of 10

A Marine sergeant dies while hiking with his wife and his best friend, another sergeant; the gang investigate. Ducky finds a wood-fiber fragment, and Abby reconstructs video footage. Gibbs questions and the team put it all together.

9. Black Water (Season 2, Episode 11)

  • Rating: 7.7 out of 10

IMDb synopsis: A two-year-old cold case involving a missing naval officer heats up when a reward-seeking private investigator finds the body. NCIS is on the case, while Kate gets particularly close to the suspect.

8. Bikini Wax (Season 2, Episode 18)

  • Rating: 7.6 out of 10

IMDb Synopsis:A petty officer enters a bikini contest but fails to appear on stage when introduced. Later someone finds her body face-down in a toilet bowl in a women’s restroom. The gang pursue the leads and find the killer.

Wilmer Valderrama, Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, and Mark Harmon | Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images
Wilmer Valderrama, Sean Murray, Emily Wickersham, and Mark Harmon | Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images

7. An Eye for an Eye (Season 2, Episode 17)

  • Rating: 7.7 out of 10

IMDb Synopsis:A neighbor of a petty officer opens a package from Paraguay containing two human eyeballs mistakenly delivered to the mailbox of the neighbor. Gibbs and company investigate. Kate and Tony make discoveries in Paraguay, then they return.

6. A Weak Link (Season 1, Episode 22)

  • Rating: 7.5 out of 10

IMDb synopsis: A SEAL lieutenant falls to his death due to a failed fitting in his gear while rappelling during an exercise. Gibbs and company investigate; the CIA expresses intense interest. Abby and McGee provide answers and the team solves the case.

5. Thirst (Season 9, Episode 6)

  • Rating: 7.4 out of 10

IMDb synopsis: An 18-wheel truck accidentally and fatally hits a Naval Reserve lieutenant who had swerved and woven on a freeway; Gibbs and company investigate. Ducky sees telling evidence at the site, finds an explanation in his workshop, and offers a theory. While hiking through a state park, the team find a dead SUV and a dead body under circumstances similar to those of the other victim; this vic is a civilian, but his estranged wife is a Marine on active duty in Afghanistan.

Sean Murray and Pauley Perrette | Cliff Lipson/CBS via Getty Images
Sean Murray and Pauley Perrette | Cliff Lipson/CBS via Getty Images

4. Road Kill (Season 6, Episode 10)

  • Rating: 7.4 out of 10

IMDb synopsis: A boatswain’s mate dies after a single-car crash; Gibbs and company find evidence of gunfire plus beatings of the victim, who was a member of a fight club and, they learn, the operator of an illicit business. The gang figure out all of it.

3. Tribes (Season 5, Episode 11)

  • Rating: 7.3 out of 10

IMDb synopsis:  A Marine lance corporal, of Arabic lineage and the Islamic faith, dies two blocks from a mosque in Washington, DC; Gibbs and company investigate. Ducky uses an alternate method; Abby finds a deadly neurotoxin. A tip helps; justice prevails.

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2. Rock and a Hard Place (Season 11, Episode 17)

  • Rating: 7.3 out of 10

IMDb synopsis:  Backstage before a charity-benefit concert in Washington, DC, an explosion kills a Navy petty officer first-class; Gibbs and company investigate. Abby fingers the bad guy, McGee finds out about him, and Gibbs and Ellie catch him at work.

1. Philly (Season 14, Episode 5)

  • Rating: 7.3 out of 10

IMDb synopsis: Gibbs sends Bishop and Quinn to Philadelphia to work with MI-6 Officer Clayton Reeves on the murder case of a British operative. Meanwhile, Quinn deals with the NCIS case that caused her to leave the field.

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