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Season 1
- Near the end of "The Walking Dead", Pride and the other NCIS agents (with CGIS Agent Borin) find out that Lin's sister-in-law had to poison him with polonium due to her father's influence. And before the episode end, Lt. Lin makes his last running start at downtown New Orleans before he eventually dies of polonium poisoning.
- Brody reveals that she hesitated taking down a suicide bomber, who ended up killing five sailors, because his eyes reminded her of her twin sister, who'd died a few days before the bombing.
- LaSalle had thought his brother was responding well to treatment only to discover that Cade, once again, hasn't been taking his medication and is in the middle of a manic phase and on the verge of crashing into of depressive phase.
- Loretta, near the end of "My Brother's Keeper", offers to take up two foster children at her residence.
- LaSalle in "How Much Pain Can You Take", following Savannah's murder. This culminates in him attempting to murder Baitfish in cold blood. Only Pride and Brody's timely intervention convinces him not to pull the trigger. Loretta lampshades this earlier in the episode when she says fate has been dealing him "every bad card in the deck."
- The grief follows him into Season 2, to the point where he can't sleep at home anymore.
Season 2
- Near the end of "Broken Hearted", Dwayne notifies the team that Max didn't survive the heart transplant. Patton is devastated at having given Max false hope, only finding some closure in staying back at his hospital room to complete his computer program.
Season 3
- "Escape Plan": Dwayne's horrified reaction when he thinks he's found Sebastian's charred body—"No. No, no."—and his relieved reaction when he realizes that it isn't.
- This got a callback in "Down The Rabbit Hole", when it's possibly Dwayne's charred body that the team discovers—it isn't.
Season 4
- Chris deals with the news of his father's death. That includes wishing he'd picked up when the man called the last time rather than brush it off.
- When he comes home for the funeral, Chris is thrown to hear his dad had been having heart problems and this was coming. His mother sighs that his dad didn't want to burden him with such news, but Chris is thrown he didn't get a chance to say a real goodbye to his dad.
- Plus his Fridge Horror at realizing that this is why his dad was hounding him about taking over the family business. He suddenly realizes what a jerk he came across as by refusing.
- Percy deciding to leave the team to join the FBI.
- Just as it looks like Pride has managed to shake an attempt to wipe out his team, he gets shot three times by a straggler among the criminals when his guard is down.
Season 5
- The whole of "See You Soon" sees Pride in horrible shape in both real time (he's still being hunted by the straggler, Amelia) and his subconscious mind (he's torn between accepting death and fighting to live).
- Cassius' death in "Tick Tock", especially as he took several bullets to save Dwayne.
Season 6
- Christopher's frantic search for his missing brother ends with his worst fears confirmed—he's dead.
- Christopher's own death a few episodes later. Especially with the cruel Hope Spot of him surviving his surgery, only to die soon after.
Season 7
- Like many other shows, NCIS: NO has the cast dealing with Covid-19 Pandemic and a recurring theme throughout is how it affects the city and its people which has seen it fair share of tragedies. Lorreta, as a M.E., actually ends with PTSD from the constant flow of Covid victims.
- Into Thin Air is a major Bittersweet Ending for the family involved; the youngest daughter is kidnapped and is just barely rescued from her captors. It turns out the older sister had arranged in a rather stupid and not-well-thought-out plan to keep from their father.
- For full context, the father was in the Army when Katrina hit NOLA, his family left to fend for themselves after FEMA's failure to help the city. He became a major Doomsday Preper who lived in the woods and shared custody of his 15 year-old daughter with his ex-wife. The older one, remembering her own childhood and how it nearly "destroyed her life", arranged the kidnapping with her much older boyfriend before it all went off the rails. The end result is the family's reactions range from disappointment from the father to rage from the younger sister for what happened.
