• Director(s)

    Shawn Seet

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar

TV Show

NCIS: Sydney

NCIS: SYDNEY is a US-Australian crime drama series; in this episode, the team investigate the death of an American seaman on a U.S. nuclear submarine in Sydney Harbour.…

NCIS: SYDNEY is a US-Australian crime drama series; in this episode, the team investigate the death of an American seaman on a U.S. nuclear submarine in Sydney Harbour.

  • Director(s)

    Shawn Seet

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama

  • Cast

    Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar

strong injury detail, brief violence
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is shot in the head. Bloody detail is present in the aftermath of a murder made to look like a suicide.
injury detail
There is brief sight of a man's torso which has been cut open during a post mortem. In the aftermath of a shooting, a man's mouth and clothing are bloody and blood is splattered over the wall. A man drips with blood and falls into a harbour turning the water red.
additional issues
Use of moderate bad language ('wanker') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'bloody', 'piss', 'son of a bitch', 'arsehole' and 'damn'. There is use of the middle finger rude gesture. Scenes include moderate threat. There are mild verbal sex references.
brief strong violence
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A person is shot in the head, resulting in a close-up blood spurt and brief subsequent sight of wound detail. Guns are held to people's heads, and there is a brief undetailed shootout.
additional issues
There is brief sight of a partially decomposed corpse; however, injury detail is limited. There is moderate bad language ('bitch'), as well as milder terms ('ass', 'piss', 'bastard', 'God', 'damn', 'hell').
strong injury detail
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
A post-mortem examination includes close-up sight of a severe head wound and a bloody arm stump. A severed arm is occasionally shown within the context of a crime scene investigation.
additional issues
A shark approaches a group of people during a surf lesson, however, they quickly rush to safety. There are also brief scenes of mild gun threat. Special agents discover wrapped packages of Class A drugs and subsequently interrogate suspects over the haul. These scenes occur within a clearly anti-drug context. Mild bad language ('crap', 'bugger') is accompanied by even milder terms such as 'hell'.
strong injury detail
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
A person falls to their death from a window and is impaled on metal railings. There is close-up sight of the bloodied body. There is also sight of the corpse on a mortuary table with bloody wounds visible.
additional issues
There are scenes of gun threat. There is also mild and very mild bad language ('son of a bitch', 'ass', 'screw', 'God', 'damn', 'hell) and verbal death references.
moderate threat, violence, injury detail, language
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
Moderate violence includes undetailed shootings, without sight of bloodshed.
threat and horror
There is moderate threat throughout as people are held in a tense hostage situation by a person wearing a bomb vest. A sick young girl is used as a bargaining tool with a family member by a ruthless criminal who threatens to hurt her unless his demands are met. There are also moments of gun threat.
language
There is moderate bad language ('dick'), as well as milder terms such as 'fricking', 'bloody', 'balls', 'arse', 'son of a bitch', 'dickhead', 'bastard', 'crap', 'shit', 'bugger', 'hell' and 'God'.
injury detail
There is brief sight of a bloody bullet wound in a person's arm in the aftermath of a shooting.
additional issues
There are references to drug dealing and drug misuse during the course of a police investigation. There are upsetting scenes centred on medical conditions, including cancer and dementia. There are infrequent, very mild, comic sex references.
strong injury detail
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
A dead body is shown covered in blood and there is a close up on a bloodied drill, indicating that the dead man was a victim of torture. There are also close up images of another man's dead body which has been cut open during a post mortem. In another scene a man's nose bleeds after a drug overdose.
additional issues
There is moderate threat, including a scene in which a man is chased by two drug dealers. There are also scenes of gun threat. References to drugs include scenes in which undercover cops 'cook' drugs in a lab. There are also references to cocaine dealing, A man and woman kick and punch each other in a scene that includes brief knife threat. The episode also features mild bad language ('bugger' and 'ass') and uses of 'hell'.
strong sex references, injury detail
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
sex
When a nude corpse is found with a plastic bag covering his head, investigators make a series of innuendo-laden comments implying that the man may have died as a result of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
injury detail
A naked corpse with a plastic bag over his head and a bloody wound on his temple is discovered in a hotel room. The nudity is not graphic due to the position of the body.
additional issues
During scenes of moderate threat, a group of people are trapped in a bunker with rapidly diminishing oxygen and a killer on the loose; however, the main focus of these scenes is not the victims’ fear but the efforts to rescue the characters or escape the bunker from within. Other issues include mild bad language (e.g. ‘bloody’).
brief strong violence
Classified Date:
26/04/2024
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is shot in the head with a glimpse of bloody detail. Crime scene images feature dead bodies, occasionally with grisly burn injuries. Other violence includes undetailed shootings and federal agents struck by explosive blasts.
additional issues
A 9-year-old boy is kidnapped from his birthday party and is used for ransom. Suspenseful scenes involve the boy and his father held at gunpoint; however, neither of them come to any serious harm. There is also mild bad language ('son of a bitch', 'bugger') and even milder terms ('hell', 'God' and 'damn').
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brief strong violence
Classified Date:
07/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
During the episode recap, a man is shot in the head with a glimpse of bloody detail.
additional issues
Suspenseful sequences of gun threat occur although these result in reassuring outcomes. Slightly bloodstained corpses are shown within crime scene and post-mortem contexts. Bad language includes ‘bitch’, 'bloody', 'crap', 'ass', 'damn', 'screw up', 'butt' and 'hell'. Infrequent upsetting scenes centred around death and bereavement occur.
moderate violence, injury detail, threat, sex references, drug references
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
Moderate violence includes undetailed gunfire and punches.
threat and horror
Terrorists armed with guns and explosives take hostages aboard a ship during scenes of moderate threat and suspense.
sex
An investigator jokes that a basement room might contain a ‘sex dungeon’.
drugs
An agent jokingly refers to pink powder found at a crime scene as ‘Barbie’s cocaine stash’.
injury detail
A person sustains a bloody bullet wound in their shoulder. Another scene contains close-up images of bloodless abrasions on a corpse’s wrist.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘arse’, ‘crap’, ‘hell’, ‘damn’ and ‘God’.
moderate crime scene detail, threat
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A substance implied to be a deadly nerve agent is sprayed onto a person’s face in a sequence of moderate threat.
injury detail
There are close-up crime scene images of a mummified skeletal corpse, and of another body lying next to a pool of vomit.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘arse’, ‘bastard’, ‘lunatic’, ‘God’, ‘hell’ and ‘damn’. There are mild sex references and rude humour, in addition infrequent mild violence, and scenes involving death and bereavement.
moderate crime scene detail, threat, suicide references
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
Moments of gun threat occur throughout. In another scene, a car bomb explodes, knocking two people backwards; however, they are unharmed.
injury detail
Crime scene detail includes sight of a bloodied corpse.
suicide and self-harm
There are implied references to a person taking their own life.
additional issues
There are undetailed references to naval officers being killed in action. In another scene, a person is pushed over during a confrontation, and there is mild rude humour referencing 'budgie smuggler' swimwear. Mild bad language ('piss') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
strong sex references
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
sex
Several scenes show semi-dressed women dancing on poles, while other scenes contain verbal and visual references to stripping and brothels. There are also comic verbal references to gastropod semen having been found on a dead body.
additional issues
There are undetailed verbal references to sex trafficking, and to clients harassing dancers at a strip club. Moderate images of a bloodied corpse include brief sight of a splinter being removed from a wound on the victim’s chest. A person is punched in the face, and another scene contains moderately intense gun threat. Bad language includes ‘son of a bitch’, ‘arse’, ‘bloody hell’ and ‘bastard’.
moderate violence, threat, suicide references, drug references
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
Shootout sequences result in people being shot in the head and body. Bloody wounds are seen on people's bodies following violence.
threat and horror
People are threatened by villains with guns.
drugs
References are made to people dealing drugs including steroids, and the health problems caused by misusing such drugs.
suicide and self-harm
People consider whether a person has taken their own life when his body is discovered.
additional issues
Mild bad language ('crap', 'ass') is used, as are milder terms such as 'hell', 'damn' and 'screw'. Adults drink alcohol.
moderate threat, domestic abuse references, drug references
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
References are made to a man's abusive behaviour towards his adult daughter, including his control over her finances and plying her with prescription drugs.
threat and horror
A man traps a lone woman inside a house and prepares to kill her during a suspenseful scene.
drugs
There are visual and verbal references to a prescription drug overdose.
additional issues
There is a discreet, passing reference to suicide. A person collapses and has an allergic reaction. Mild bad language includes 'ass', 'hell' and 'God'. There are also brief bloody images.
strong sex references, medical detail, violence
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman bites a man's neck drawing blood and references are made to a man's body being emptied of blood.
sex
Verbal and visual references are made to consenting adults engaging in 'vampire' sex play in which they become aroused by biting each other's necks and drinking blood.
injury detail
There is sight of a man's open chest cavity and organs during a post-mortem. Blood accompanies moments of violence.
additional issues
It is discovered that a man has been 'roofied' and 'pimped out' by his girlfriend to her mother. Moderate threat and horror occurs in which people live a vampire lifestyle. References are made to cancer. Language is very mild ('moron', 'hell', 'butt').
strong injury detail
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There is strong bloody injury detail in the aftermath of an explosion and a shooting. A man's bloodied dead body is examined during a post-mortem.
additional issues
Moments of moderate violence and threat include grenade explosions and gunfire. Moderate bad language ('son of a bitch') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'bloody', 'ass' and 'hell'. Mild sex references and rude humour occur.
strong violence, bloody images
Classified Date:
16/05/2025
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
There are scenes of strong violence, such as shootings at close range. A man is attacked and eaten by a crocodile.
injury detail
Violence is accompanied by blood spurts and bloody aftermath detail. There is sight of crime scene photographs depicting bloody injuries.
additional issues
Moderate threat occurs due to a possible terrorist attack. Two women are abducted and held at gunpoint by a terrorist leader. Moderate bad language ('son of a bitch') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'damn', 'God' and 'hell'.
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  • Classified date

    26/04/2024

  • Distributor

    Paramount Pictures International Limited

  • Language

    English