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NCIS: LOS ANGELES: Season 14, Episode 9: A Long Time Coming Plot Synopsis, Director, & Air Date [CBS]

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NCIS: Los Angeles A Long Time Coming Plot Synopsis, Director, and Air Date

CBSNCIS: Los Angeles: Season 14, Episode 9: A Long Time Coming plot synopsis, director, and air date have been released.

Cast and crew

NCIS: Los Angeles stars Chris O’Donnell, LL COOL J, Linda Hunt, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Barrett Foa, Renée Felice Smith, Medalion Rahimi, and Caleb Castille.

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Press Release

AGENTS ROUNTREE AND FATIMA ARE AMBUSHED WHILE SEARCHING FOR KILBRIDE, AND THEY LEARN THAT EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM HAS A HEFTY BOUNTY ON THEIR HEAD, ON “NCIS: LOS ANGELES,” MONDAY, JAN. 9

Editor’s Note: The airdate of NCIS: LOS ANGELES has changed since it was previously announced. This episode will now air on Monday, Jan. 9 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT).

This Episode Is the Conclusion to the Three-Hour Special “NCISverse” Crossover Event with “NCIS” and “NCIS: Hawai’i”

“A Long Time Coming” – Agents Rountree and Fatima are ambushed while searching for Kilbride, who has been MIA, and they learn that every member of the team has a hefty bounty on their head. The NCIS team must save Agent Rountree and find Kilbride while every cartel, hitman, gang and psychopath hunts them down, on the CBS Original series NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Monday, Jan. 9 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.* NCIS stars Gary Cole, Wilmer Valderrama and NCIS: HAWAI’I stars Vanessa Lachey and Yasmine Al-Bustami guest star in the episode, which is the conclusion to the three-episode crossover event with NCIS and NCIS: HAWAI’I.

For the first time, the NCISverse unites NCIS, NCIS: HAWAI’I and NCIS: LOS ANGELES in a special three-hour crossover event for the hit CBS Original series, Monday, Jan. 9 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream on Paramount +.

The NCISverse crossover will center around a very personal, high-stakes case to take down a mysterious hitman. Team members from the different NCIS divisions come together in Washington, D.C., to celebrate a beloved FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center) professor who taught multiple members of each of the squads. On the eve of the celebration, the professor is found dead of an apparent suicide and his former students immediately suspect foul play. While investigating his past, they uncover a mysterious hitman, and the more they dig into it, the bigger the targets on their backs become. Members of the team are suddenly kidnapped and all the agents must come together to take down the assassin and save their own.

REGULAR CAST:

Chris O’Donnell

(Special Agent G. Callen)

LL COOL J

(Special Agent Sam Hanna)

Linda Hunt

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(Operations Manager Henrietta “Hetty” Lange)

Daniela Ruah

(Special Agent Kensi Blye)

Eric Christian Olsen

(NCIS Investigator Marty Deeks)

Medalion Rahimi

(Special Agent Fatima Namazi)

Caleb Castille

(Special Agent Devin Rountree)

Gerald McRaney

(Retired Admiral Hollace Kilbride)

GUEST CAST:

Gary Cole

(NCIS Special Agent Alden Parker)

Wilmer Valderrama

(NCIS Special Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres)

Vanessa Lachey

(NCIS Special Agent Jane Tennant)

Yasmine Al-Bustami

(NCIS Agent Lucy Tara)

Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier

(NCIS Reserve Agent Shyla Dahr)

Lesley Boone

(Nina Barnes)

Maya Stojan

Jose Pablo Cantillo

Stephen Mendel

(Morgan Miller)

(Pierce)

(Jimmy McCann)

WRITTEN BY: R. Scott Gemmill

DIRECTED BY: Dennis Smith

GENRE: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Series Plot Synopsis

NCIS: Los Angeles‘ plot synopsis: “NCIS: Los Angeles follows Special Agents Sam Hanna (LL Cool J) and G. Callen (Chris O’Donnell), undercover operatives assigned to the Office of Special Projects, a specialist branch of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Sam is a former member of SEAL Team Six and dedicated family man. Callen is a former foster child who became a “legend” under the watchful eye of Operations Manager Henrietta “Hetty” Lange (Linda Hunt). Over the course of the series, Sam, Callen, and Hetty, are supported by Special Agent Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah), a hand-to-hand combat specialist, trained sniper and forensic whiz, and her partner-turned-husband Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen), an LAPD liaison officer turned NCIS Special Agent. Technical Operator Eric Beale (Barrett Foa), Assistant Director Owen Granger (Miguel Ferrer), and Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones (Renee Felice Smith) complete the team, while Operational Psychologist Nate Getz (Peter Cambor) and rookie agents Dominic Vail (Adam Jamal Craig), Fatima Nazami (Medalion Rahimi), and Devin Roundtree (Caleb Castille) offer support under the watchful eye of Executive Assistant Director Pacific (EADPAC) Shay Mosley (Nia Long).”

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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