NCIS: Sydney Season 3 Episode 2: Release Date, Plot Teases, and Must-Know Details
Crime-fighting Tuesdays roar back as NCIS: Sydney reels from a premiere shocker—trust is splintering, nerves are frayed, and buried truths are ticking. Season 3 Episode 2 True Blue zeroes in on Blue’s abrupt exit and the shadowy player behind it, with answers that could blow the team apart.
Tuesdays just got noisy again. After NCIS: Sydney blew open its Season 3 premiere, the team is rattled, loyalties are wobbly, and the secrets are starting to leak. Episode 2 is called True Blue, and yes, that title is doing a lot of work.
When and where to watch
NCIS: Sydney Season 3 Episode 2, True Blue, airs Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on CBS. No cable? It will stream the next day on Paramount+, the official CBS platform.
Here is the rollout across time zones:
- USA, Pacific: Tue, Oct 21 – 7:00 PM
- USA, Eastern: Tue, Oct 21 – 10:00 PM
- Brazil: Tue, Oct 21 – 11:00 PM
- UK: Wed, Oct 22 – 3:00 AM
- Central Europe: Wed, Oct 22 – 4:00 AM
- South Africa: Wed, Oct 22 – 4:00 AM
- India: Wed, Oct 22 – 7:30 AM
- Philippines: Wed, Oct 22 – 10:00 AM
- Australia (South Australia): Wed, Oct 22 – 12:30 PM
- New Zealand: Wed, Oct 22 – 3:00 PM
Local daylight saving rules can nudge labels and offsets, so double-check your listings.
The Tuesday lineup shuffle
CBS axed FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International, which reshaped its fall schedule. Classic NCIS slides back into the familiar Tuesday 8/7c slot, NCIS: Origins follows, and NCIS: Sydney closes the night at 10 p.m. ET. If you want a full three-hour block of Navy-adjacent chaos, Tuesdays are your new home base.
Who is in the mix
The Sydney squad is still intact on paper: Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, and Mavournee Hazel are all back. Also new in the room is Travis, an AFP import tasked with auditing the team’s HQ who is already making waves.
Previously on NCIS: Sydney (Season 3, Episode 1)
Spoilers ahead for the premiere. The season opened both loud and personal. Mackey is still carrying the emotional debris from the Season 2 finale, and her therapist did not rubber-stamp her back to normal. JD, not exactly known for sugarcoating, called it plainly: she needs help, and soon. While all that was simmering, the team was sent to greet returning Navy personnel and found out the sailors were being used as pawns by an extremist group operating out of the Philippines.
Meanwhile, Blue submitted her resignation and vanished. In the gap, JD brought in Travis from the AFP to scrutinize the office. The welcome was icy, but Travis still pulled useful threads and pushed the case forward. Between the audit, the fallout, and a missing teammate, the vibe is tense.
What Episode 2 is actually doing
True Blue is set to dig into Blue’s abrupt exit and the identity of the woman we last saw trailing her at the end of Season 2. Doc is not letting this go; he goes off-book and breaks into Blue’s apartment because he is convinced something is seriously off. Expect heated confrontations and at least one oh-no-they-didn’t moment. Mackey is still on shaky ground, JD is watching the room like a hawk, and Travis is not going anywhere.
Things I am watching for
Is Blue truly gone, or is this the setup for a bigger arc? Is Travis just a by-the-books auditor, or is there more under the badge? And how far is Doc willing to push the line to figure out what happened? If you have theories on the woman trailing Blue or what is buried in Blue’s past, drop them. The messier, the better.
NCIS: Sydney streams on Paramount+ the day after it airs on CBS.