The Worst Episodes of JAG

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   2.7/10(3 votes)

   #1 - People v. Gunny

   S5:E172/22/2000

   Trouble in the JAG office starts when Gunnery Sgt. Victor Galindez, ""Gunny,"" is charged with assault following an off-duty altercation outside a gay bar. It comes to light that P.O. Tiner was also involved in the brawl, having come to the aid of his companion, whom Gunny was roughing up. Meanwhile, Mac finds herself wrestling with the ""don't ask, don't tell"" policy as attitudes toward Tiner change around the office under suspicions that he's gay.

   Director:Terrence O'Hara

   Writer:Larry Moskowitz

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   Director:Terrence O'Hara

   Writer:Larry Moskowitz
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   4.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - What If

   S9:E183/12/2004

   Members of the "JAG" staff are "helped" along to discover their true inner feelings while celebrating Jennifer Coates promotion to Petty Officer 1st Class.

   Director:Kenneth Johnson

   Writer:Don McGill

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   Director:Kenneth Johnson

   Writer:Don McGill
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   5.8/10(4 votes)

   #3 - King of the Fleas

   S3:E510/21/1997

   When a former Vietnam POW arrives at JAG headquarters to report a murder he's just committed, Harm confronts a very complex individual who may know something about his MIA father. When Willie relates the fact that he was imprisoned with Harm's father and then blindsides Harm by claiming that his father was a turncoat, the information has a profound effect on the JAG lawyer. Willie, a very complex individual, has been waiting 30 years to tell his story in his own way. Ultimately, Harm finds out that Willie's murder victim was the contemptible, sadistic commander of the POW camp where Willie had been -- but that's just the beginning of Willie's incredibly sad war story.

   Director:Tony Wharmby

   Writer:Dana Coen

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   Director:Tony Wharmby

   Writer:Dana Coen
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   6.0/10(2 votes)

   #4 - The Game of Go

   S2:E102/28/1997

   A Colombian drug lord wants to deal for the life of a Marine who was left behind when the covert mission to kidnap him went awry.

   Director:Ray Austin

   Writer:Tom Towler

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   Director:Ray Austin

   Writer:Tom Towler
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   6.0/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Ghost Ship

   S3:E19/23/1997

   Harm discovers evidence that his father, an MIA from the Vietnam War, may be alive and under KGB control in Russia. Harm and Mac are investigating the murder of a Navy pilot whose body was found hidden aboard the decommissioned aircraft carrier the USS Hornet. With help from a local police lieutenant, they discover a motive for the crime, which involves a list of MIAs and POWs supposedly still alive and under KGB control in Russia -- and the list includes Harm's father. But before Harm can act on the information, the book mysteriously disappears along with the helpful police lieutenant.

   Director:Donald P. Bellisario

   Writer:Donald P. Bellisario

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   Director:Donald P. Bellisario

   Writer:Donald P. Bellisario
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   6.0/10(3 votes)

   #6 - The Court-Martial of Sandra Gilbert

   S3:E29/30/1997

   A top female helicopter pilot is accused of disobeying an order---to cease her affair with a married enlisted man, and a Congresswoman is determined to ensure the pilot's fair treatment as a potential court-martial looms.

   Director:Alan J. Levi

   Writer:Stephen Zito

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   Director:Alan J. Levi

   Writer:Stephen Zito
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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - The Return of Jimmy Blackhorse

   S3:E214/28/1998

   Members of the JAG team encounter resistance from Navajo tribal elders when they insist on DNA testing to verify that human remains are those of heroic Navajo ""code-talker"" Jimmy Blackhorse, who has been missing since World War II. Forensic pathologist Lt. Cmdr. Teresa Coulter joins Harm and Mac on the case. The Navajo elders consider it a sacrilege to tamper with the remains of the dead and, furthermore, the Navajo medicine woman is certain that the remains do not belong to the esteemed Blackhorse. While the veracity of scientific evidence is argued against that of tribal custom and the metaphysical, Teresa finds herself falling for Harm and putting the entire assignment in jeopardy.

   Director:Alan J. Levi

   Writer:Dana Coen

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   Director:Alan J. Levi

   Writer:Dana Coen
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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - Angels 30

   S4:E711/3/1998

   When a fighter pilot claims he heard the voice of God tell him not to fire on an attacking Iraqi, Harm and Mac are sent in to investigate his claim. Despite the pilot's assertions that he heard God, Harm insists on finding a more ""military"" explanation. When Harm fails from the ground to discover the origination of the voice, he suggests that Rice duplicate his earlier mission to see what they can learn about the incident in the sky.

   Director:Tony Wharmby

   Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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   Director:Tony Wharmby

   Writer:R. Scott Gemmill
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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Mr. Rabb Goes to Washington

   S4:E811/10/1998

   Harm is sent to Washington, D.C., to join a committee formed to judge the validity of a shocking television report -- that U.S. forces used sarin gas on fellow Americans during the Gulf War. What he uncovers, though, is so unexpected that he can't present it without testimony from a key witness, Sgt. Morrison, who was actually on the mission in question in the Gulf, but has been missing ever since. Meanwhile, Mac is caught off guard when an old flame, Christopher Ragle suddenly reappears in her life.

   Director:Jeannot Szwarc

   Writer:Stephen Zito

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   Director:Jeannot Szwarc

   Writer:Stephen Zito
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - People v. Mac

    S4:E911/17/1998

    Mac is arrested and placed on trial for a major felony, along with her former commanding officer and mentor, Col. John Farrow. Conviction could result in long prison terms. Harm volunteers to defend her, but his efforts are thwarted by Farrow's defense attorney, JAG exchange officer, Australian Navy Commander Mic Brumby. Harm feels that neither defendant has come clean with the truth and he begins to search for evidence which is not forthcoming from either one. Ultimately, he learns that Mac and Farrow have each been trying to protect the other. The key witness in the case turns out to be a major surprise to both defendants.

    Director:Tony Wharmby

    Writer:Larry Moskowitz

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    Director:Tony Wharmby

    Writer:Larry Moskowitz
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Black Jet

    S4:E1011/24/1998

    Harm and Mac's original mission is to represent a Navy flier whose Stealth jet is thought to have crashed in Iran due to a mechanical failure. But when the pilot slips Harm a message indicating that the $80 million plane didn't crash and is hidden, the assignment becomes nearly impossible: get the pilot -- and the costly aircraft -- back to the U.S. without letting the Iranians know that the plane is intact.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:David Zabel

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    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:David Zabel
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Jaggle Bells

    S4:E1112/15/1998

    Mac's ""little sister"" unexpectantly shows up at JAG headquarters, declaring that she's run away from her abusive stepfather. While she investigates whether Chloe has been abused, Mac has her hands full keeping her from turning the office upside down, then learns that her real father is still alive serving on a ship in the Navy. Despite the cost, Mac convinces the Admiral to allow the two to talk to each other via satellite video-conferencing. Meanwhile, Harm spends the evening interrogating a beautiful Navy doctor arrested for DWI after she lost control of her vehicle on icy roads and ran over a Nativity scene. Harm agrees to defend her when he learns that just before the accident and before she took the breathalyzer test, she had drank some liquid cold medicine (which contains 25% alcohol) Adm. Chegwidden's attempts to fly to Italy to spend Christmas with his daughter, however, with the Washington, DC area mired in snow, most of the flights out have been cancelled.

    Director:Greg Beeman

    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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    Director:Greg Beeman

    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Dungaree Justice

    S4:E121/12/1999

    Harm and Mac are assigned to prosecute three sailors charged with the vicious beating of a man they say raped a fellow shipmate. The rape victim, Petty Officer Lopez, tells Mac that, after an evening of drinking with her three male shipmates, she found herself alone at the bar where they ditched her as part of an initiation into their team. The next morning when she awakened in her car, she realized that she had been raped. When the shipmates heard Lopez's story, they exacted revenge on the man they thought attacked her -- the bar owner. But as Harm and Mac wear down the testimony of the three sailors, a very different story about what happened that evening begins to emerge. This episode starts with tying up the loose end of Mac being charged in an Article 32 hearing for perjury (People vs. Mac). She is acquitted, thanks to fancy legal-speak from Harm - although she does not have to face a court-martial, she does end being sent up on an Admiral's Mast, which just might be worse.

    Director:Hugo Cortina

    Writer:David Zabel

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    Director:Hugo Cortina

    Writer:David Zabel
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - War Stories

    S4:E131/13/1999

    When three U.N. peacekeepers are taken hostage in Kosovo, a SEAL team is sent in to rescue them before the end of a 24-hour deadline set by the terrorists. But when heavy ground fog delays the SEAL team by 30 minutes, the hostages are found dead and the team is blamed for their deaths. Mac and Bud begin to defend the team only to have Bud removed because of the defendants' lack of confidence in his legal expertise. Meanwhile, Admiral Chegwidden spends his vacation acting as technical advisor on a movie about the Navy and runs afoul of the Hollywood types who hired him.

    Director:Greg Beeman

    Writer:Dana Coen

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    Director:Greg Beeman

    Writer:Dana Coen
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Webb of Lies

    S4:E142/9/1999

    When Harm and Mac set out to find C.I.A. Agent Clayton Webb's killer after his body is found aboard a burning ship, they inadvertently uncover a rogue government spy agency. Retracing Webb's steps, Harm and Mac learn that he was on a top-secret mission to deliver a high-tech weapons project to the proper authorities when he was stopped. Waiting for Harm and Mac when they discover this, though, is none other than Harm's former nemesis, ex-C.I.A. Agent Clark Palmer, now working with the rogue spy agency, who will stop at nothing -- including Harm's murder -- to get his hands on the top-secret project.

    Director:Mark Horowitz

    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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    Director:Mark Horowitz

    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Rivers' Run

    S4:E152/16/1999

    When Navy SEAL Medal of Honor winner Lt. Curtis Rivers is fired upon while on a training mission, he returns fire only to discover that he has shot a seemingly unarmed 14-year-old boy. During Harm and Mac's investigation, they discover that the boy may have been accompanied by his uncle, a fugitive wanted by the F.B.I. When Rivers goes AWOL to track down the fugitive and is captured by separatists, Harm and Mac find themselves not just investigating the case, but trying to defend Lt. Rivers in a court that does not recognize the U.S. government and its laws.

    Director:Greg Beeman

    Writer:Larry Moskowitz

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    Writer:Larry Moskowitz
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Silent Service

    S4:E162/23/1999

    Harm and Mac find themselves too close for comfort when they are sent to investigate an international incident on a nuclear submarine. When Harm and Mac, who are already getting on each other's nerves, find themselves in the cramped quarters of the submarine, their relationship is stretched to the absolute limit. Their attempts to stay out of each other's way as much as possible are futile since they must work together to find out why the sub surfaced miles off course, sinking a Norwegian boat in the middle of a regatta. Initially, it seems that the incident was the result of reduced staffing due to a breakout of E-coli. However, as more health problems begin to arise aboard the sub, Harm and Mac suspect a more criminal element than disease.

    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writer:Dana Coen

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    Writer:Dana Coen
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Nobody's Child

    S4:E173/2/1999

    When Harm views the body of the severely neglected, abused and abandoned young girl, he unexpectedly becomes emotionally involved and decides to call in the help of Teresa Coulter to help him identify the child and find her killer. After Teresa performs her own autopsy, she uncovers some clues to the girl's history that lead her, along with Harm and Mac, to the last place the child lived -- as well as to a recently released convicted child molester.

    Director:Tony Wharmby

    Writer:Stephen Zito

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    Writer:Stephen Zito
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Shakedown

    S4:E183/30/1999

    Numerous power outages & a ruptured steam line injuring a sailor sends Mac & Harm to the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA. While there, they discover two civilian technical representatives onboard and their plan to steal over a million dollars in cash from the Disbursement Office vault; as well as their plan to smuggle it off the carrier. Adm. Chegwiggen helps a former juvenile delinquent who became a decorated SEAL face his leukemia.

    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Adversaries

    S4:E194/13/1999

    Bud's first case as a newly sworn in JAG attorney is to defend his father, a retired Navy Chief who's been accused of having been involved in defrauding the Navy when he was in charge of Ship's Stores. Though the two have been estranged, Bud feels a strong obligation to his father, who specifically requested him to be his attorney. Harm is the designated prosecutor, which spooks Bud, as he knows he's going up against the best.

    Director:Tony Wharmby

    Writer:Larry Moskowitz

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    Writer:Larry Moskowitz
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Second Sight

    S4:E204/27/1999

    Word of her father's imminent death forces Mac to look back at the years of anger and resentment he caused her. She is furious that a priest is trying to convince her to forgive this abusive alcoholic, who was responsible for her own alcoholism. She comes to realize, however, that perhaps her anger had been misdirected all these years when her mother shows up -- after having abandoned Mac many years earlier. Meanwhile, Harm takes a gamble and undergoes laser surgery as a possible cure for his night-blindness.

    Director:Terrence O'Hara

    Writer:Dana Coen

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    Director:Terrence O'Hara

    Writer:Dana Coen
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Wilderness of Mirrors

    S4:E215/4/1999

    Harm fears he's losing his mind when he begins to see and hear his deceased father. Worried that he may be going insane, Harm finally confers with his Navy psychiatrist girlfriend who tells him she's treating a Marine officer with similar symptoms and suggests that Harm isn't experiencing anything unusual for someone who's lost a loved one under stressful circumstances. But before Harm can come to terms with the visitations, he begins to suspect that there's something more sinister involved that could cost him more than just his sanity.

    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writer:Paul J. Levine

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    Writer:Paul J. Levine
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Soul Searching

    S4:E225/11/1999

    Admiral Chegwidden and Clayton Webb make an unlikely team when they join forces to save a C.I.A. agent from Italian terrorists. Webb already tried once unsuccessfully to liberate the C.I.A. agent, who was his mentor, and knows he needs backup in order to retry the mission. He approaches the Admiral, with whom he has a tenuous relationship, but who he knows credits the agent with saving his life in Vietnam. Together, Webb and Chegwidden go to Italy and put into motion a dangerous trap for the terrorists that, if it backfires, will kill all involved. Meanwhile, Harm suffers an identity crisis when his classic Corvette is stolen.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario

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    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Yeah Baby

    S4:E235/18/1999

    With Harm's eyesight fixed, Harm decides to go ahead and submit a request to be transferred to a fighter squadron. When Lt.Cmdr Parker finds his written request, she is upset at the prospect of Harm being gone for months at a time. Afterwards, Harm goes over to Mac's apartment who has Chloe spending the night with Mac before she is reunited with her real father. Harm informs Mac of the eye surgery and his plans. Mac is equally upset at the prospect of losing Harm. Mic shows up at Mac's apartment after Harm leaves attempting to court Mac's feelings. After Mic leaves, Chloe tells Mac that Brumby and Harm have a crush on her and begins teasing Mac: ""Harm & Mac, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g."" Admiral Chegwidden passes Harm's request to be transferred onto the SecNav. Not willing to do any favors for Harm, the SecNav is reluctant to intervene.

    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Goodbyes

    S4:E245/25/1999

    As Harm considers his future at JAG, he learns that Charlie Lynch -- the ex-Navyman responsible for the murder of Annie, the abused child whose death still haunts Harm -- has resurfaced, placing the little girl's twin sister, Dar-lin, in danger. Putting his career decision on hold until he closes the chapter on Lynch, Harm tracks him to a shipyard where the vicious killer is holding Dar-lin hostage. Overflowing with anger against all Lynch's grisly acts of murder, Harm finds himself in an intense stand-off with him that will leave only one man standing.

    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Stephen Zito

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    Director:Jeannot Szwarc

    Writer:Stephen Zito