NCIS: Los Angeles is an American television series that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2009. The series is set in Los Angeles, California, and follows the stories of the members of the Office of Special Projects, an undercover division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The program and its characters were introduced in a two-part episode during the sixth season of the television series NCIS on April 28 and May 5, 2009.
On March 25, 2016, it was renewed for an eighth season, which premiered on September 25, 2016. CBS aired the first two hours of the season together and called it Episode 1.
As of January 29, 2017[update], 182 original episodes of the show have aired; the show is currently airing its eighth season.
NCIS: Los Angeles and its characters were introduced during the sixth-season episodes of NCIS titled "Legend (Part I)" and "Legend (Part II)". These episodes served as a backdoor pilot for the series.
Having found that Rivkin is in Los Angeles searching for the same terrorist cell, the NCIS team redouble their efforts to stop Rivkin while attempting to arrest a live member of the cell. Unfortunately, Rivkin complicates things by putting the terrorists to sleep (killing them) before NCIS can catch up to them. Back in D.C., Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) is forced to question Ziva's loyalty to NCIS in the aftermath of Rivkin's appearance in LA.