This is a list of episodes for the second season of the police procedural

Police procedural

The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...

 drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 NCIS: Los Angeles. The second season of NCIS: Los Angeles premiered on September 21, 2010 in the same time slot as the previous season and the eighth season of NCIS

NCIS (TV series)

NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...

premiered before.

Cast

Eric Christian Olsen

Eric Christian Olsen

Eric Christian Olsen is an American actor. He currently portrays Detective Marty Deeks on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:...

 (Marty Deeks) is now a series regular. Renée Felice Smith

Renée Felice Smith

Renée Felice Smith is an American actress, best known for portraying Nell Jones on NCIS: Los Angeles.She attended Patchogue-Medford High School on Long Island, New York, as well as the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.-External links:...

 (Nell Jones) joined the team in "Special Delivery" as a recurring character and is later promoted to a series regular. Peter Cambor

Peter Cambor

Peter Cambor is an American film and television actor. During the 2009–2010 TV season he appeared as part of the main cast of NCIS: Los Angeles, in the role of operational psychologist Nate Getz. However in the second season Cambor's only appeared in 3 episodes as part of the guest cast as a...

  (Dr. Nate Getz) is no longer a series regular and is credited as a special guest star in the episodes in which he appears.

Character	Portrayed by	Main cast	Recurring cast
G. Callen	Chris O'Donnell Chris O'Donnell Christopher Eugene "Chris" O'Donnell is an American actor. He has played Robin in two Batman films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, Peter Garrett in Vertical Limit, and more recently, Jack McAuliffe in The Company. O'Donnell...	entire season
Kensi Blye	Daniela Ruah Daniela Ruah Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah is a Portuguese-American actress best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS series NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early years:...	entire season
Marty Deeks	Eric Christian Olsen Eric Christian Olsen Eric Christian Olsen is an American actor. He currently portrays Detective Marty Deeks on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:...	entire season
Eric Beale	Barrett Foa Barrett Foa Barrett Foa is an American actor. He portrays Eric Beale on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:...	entire season
Nell Jones	Renée Felice Smith Renée Felice Smith Renée Felice Smith is an American actress, best known for portraying Nell Jones on NCIS: Los Angeles.She attended Patchogue-Medford High School on Long Island, New York, as well as the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.-External links:...	episode 11 onwards	episodes 4–10
Hetty Lange	Linda Hunt Linda Hunt Linda Hunt is an American film, stage and television actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye , Hunt portrayed Billy Kwan, her breakthrough performance in The Year of Living Dangerously...	entire season
Sam Hanna	LL Cool J LL Cool J James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J , is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor...	entire season
Nate Getz	Peter Cambor Peter Cambor Peter Cambor is an American film and television actor. During the 2009–2010 TV season he appeared as part of the main cast of NCIS: Los Angeles, in the role of operational psychologist Nate Getz. However in the second season Cambor's only appeared in 3 episodes as part of the guest cast as a...		episodes 1, 3, 14, 18
Leon Vance	Rocky Carroll Rocky Carroll Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the FOX comedy-drama Roc, as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the medical drama Chicago Hope, and as Leon Vance on the CBS drama NCIS and its spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:Carroll was born Roscoe Fulton Carroll...		episode 24
Lauren Hunter	Claire Forlani Claire Forlani Claire Antonia Forlani is an English actress.-Early life:Claire Forlani was born in Twickenham, London, the daughter of Barbara , who was English, and Pierluigi Forlani, a music manager from Ferrara, Italy. At the age of 11, Forlani entered the Arts Educational School in London, where she began to...		episodes 23-24

Episodes

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Ratings

The episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles are broadcast on Global

Global Television Network

Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...

 in Canada at the same time as CBS broadcasts the show in the U.S.

Episode	U.S. ratings		Canada ratings			Australia ratings
	Original airdate	Viewers (millions)	Viewers (millions)	Rank		Original airdate	Viewers (millions)	Day Rank
				Night	Week
"Human Traffic"	September 21, 2010	15.76	1.708	3	18	January 30, 2011	0.718	13
"Black Widow"	September 21, 2010	13.60	1.373	5	25	February 6, 2011	0.552	17
"Borderline"	September 28, 2010	16.51	1.941	4	15	February 13, 2011	0.437	21
"Special Delivery"	October 5, 2010	16.15	1.867	3	12	February 20, 2011	0.460	21
"Little Angels"	October 12, 2010	16.05	1.925	2	13	March 6, 2011	0.406	21
"Standoff"	October 19, 2010	16.00	1.931	2	10	March 13, 2011	0.429	22
"Anonymous"	October 26, 2010	15.99	1.892	2	12	March 20, 2011	0.399	25
"Bounty"	November 9, 2010	15.61	1.825	2	14	March 27, 2011	0.387	25
"Absolution"	November 16, 2010	15.81	1.870	2	14	April 5, 2011	0.703	14
"Deliverance"	November 23, 2010	14.96	1.906	2	10	April 12, 2011	0.744	14
"Disorder"	December 14, 2010	16.82	1.728	1	8	April 19, 2011	0.694	15
"Overwatch"	January 11, 2011	18.13	1.929	2	9	April 26, 2011	0.732	18
"Archangel"	January 18, 2011	17.29	1.989	2	11	May 3, 2011	0.755	15
"Lockup"	February 1, 2011	17.70	1.817	3	15	May 10, 2011	0.773	14
"Tin Soldiers"	February 8, 2011	17.16	1.900	2	12	May 17, 2011	0.643	19
"Empty Quiver"	February 15, 2011	16.80	1.783	2	16	May 24, 2011	0.687	16
"Personal"	February 22, 2011	18.69	1.983	1	10	May 31, 2011	0.761	15
"Harm's Way"	March 1, 2011	15.67	1.856	3	10	June 7, 2011	0.656	19
"Enemy Within"	March 22, 2011	16.56	1.820	2	11	June 14, 2011	0.672	19
"The Job"	March 29, 2011	15.34	1.730	2	13	June 21, 2011	0.633	21
"Rocket Man"	April 12, 2011	15.46	2.186	1	6	June 28, 2011	0.668	17
"Plan B"	May 3, 2011	14.16	1.693	2	12	July 5, 2011	0.546	19
"Imposters"	May 10, 2011	14.74	1.764	4	18	July 12, 2011	0.593	20
"Familia"	May 17, 2011	15.61	1.764	6	14	July 19, 2011	0.770	16