6.0/101 votes#1 - Crossing the Line
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/1997
Harm and Mac investigate a female fighter pilot's charge of sexual harassment against her commanding officer. The pilot, Lt. Marilyn Isaaks, claims to have been grounded for pressing charges of sexual harassment against her commanding officer, Capt. Boone (guest star Terry O'Quinn). Capt. Boone claims he grounded her because she's a bad pilot. While Harm and Mac are called in to conduct a thorough investigation into the allegations, congressional intervention forces Boone to schedule Isaaks for a training flight -- an action that Harm feels will have deadly consequences.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#2 - Washington Holiday
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1997
Harm is assigned to escort a rambunctious and ravishing Romanian princess, whose life has been threatened if her father petitions to join NATO. Meanwhile, Bud wrestles with starting a romance with Ens. Harriet Sims.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#3 - Someone to Watch over Annie
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1998
Annie Pendry, a widow, comes to Harm for help after her young son, Josh, witnessed a murder while on a class trip to Andrews Air Force Base. After Harm and Josh are the targets of a drive-by shooting, Harm moves Josh and Annie into his apartment -- and into his life. Harm discovers that the original crime and the drive-by shooting are tied to a ruthless international arms dealer, but not before Josh is kidnapped by the dealer in order to silence him as a witness.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#4 - Chains of Command
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1998
Harm, Mac, and Bud investigate claims of sexual harassment aboard an aircraft carrier. Mac's boyfriend, Dalton Lowne, is the defendant's attorney, and Mac is shocked when she discovers that he has been copying information from her files. In order to solve the case, and combat Lowne's dirty tricks, Harm enlists the aid of Congresswoman Bobbi Latham. Justice is served, though many people's lives are changes as the result of Lowne's tactics.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#5 - Clipped Wings
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/1998
Political pressures come into play after an F-14 pilot clips a ski helicopter during a NATO exercise over Italian airspace, killing six civilians. Harm and Mac are assigned to opposite sides in the case, but the Italian government wants to prosecute on its own.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#6 - Going After Francesca
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1998
After Admiral Chegwiddens daughter, Francesca, is kidnapped in Italy, Chegwidden meets with his ex-wife, Marcella, and her husband, a wealthy Italian businessman, to get more background on Francesca's friends -- and enemies. Chegwidden learns that Francesca was seriously involved with the heir to a Mafia family -- a man Harm and Mac believe is responsible for the theft of Navy missiles for sale to Afghanistan. All intelligence points to the fact that Francesca is caught in the middle of this business deal gone awry, and it's up to Chegwidden and Harm to rescue her from the mob.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#7 - Mr. Rabb Goes to Washington
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1998
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
6.0/101 votes#8 - Nobody's Child
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1999
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
6.0/101 votes#9 - Goodbyes
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/25/1999
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
6.0/101 votes#10 - A Separate Peace: Part I (1)
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2000
Adm. Boone (CAG aboard the USS Seahawk, ""A New Life"" & ""Chains of Command"")is nominated to become the Sixth Fleet Commander. An anonymous informant accuses Adm. Boone of massacrering civilians during the Vietnam War, and Harm and Mac are given only four days to investigate the claim, in part one of a two-part episode.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#11 - A Separate Peace: Part II (2)
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/2000
Harm & Mac defend Adm. Boone in court against the charges that he was responsible for massacrering civilians. Although he is eventually acquitted, he decides that it is probably best to retire from the service, despite Harm's objection that the Navy need men like him.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#12 - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/2001
Mac becomes ""Acting JAG"" as Admiral Chegwidden is selected to head the Promotions Board for Captain. Harm takes up the defense of a former Marine Drill Instructor who is facing life imprisonment under the 3 strikes law. Cmdr. Ted Lindsey (last seen in ""People vs. Mac"") tries to impress the Admiral & Mac in an attempt to earn promotion to Captain.
Director: Hugo Cortina
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#13 - Retreat, Hell
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/27/2001
When Gunny goes to New Mexico to bring back a Korean War hero accused of desertion, he is ambushed by people trying to kill the man.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#14 - Adrift: Part I (1)
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/2001
Mac becomes upset when Harm tells her at the last minute that he will not be attending her rehearsal duty in order to complete his 6-month required carrier landing qualifications. He assures her that he will be back in time for the wedding. At the church, Chloe is still wary of being friends of Mic. On board the USS Patrick Henry, Harm learns that the LSO who will be grading him thinks of him only as a "land-based Washington weenie." His fears that he won't be graded fairly are realized when he is ordered to land after his first attempt is waved off. After convincing the LSO that they were flying they way that the LSO taught them, he allows Harm to try again. After passing, he then completes his required night traps and requests to head back to Andrews AFB. With an approaching storm, all air operations are suspended, but is assured that he & Skates can be on the first Tomcat, once its forecasted to be safe. With a break in the storm, he & Skates are allowed to go.
Director: Scott Brazil
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#15 - Adrift: Part II (2)
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2001
Harm's chance of being rescued from the Atlantic Ocean hinges on Mac's psychic ability (first seen in Season Five's "Psychic Warrior"). However, Mac is trying to cope with her conflicting emotions for both Harm & Mic. On the edge of going unconscious from severe hypothermia, Harm's fires several warning shots which attracts the rescue helicopter. Back onboard the USS Patrick Henry, Harm's vital signs start to fade out, but Skates words help him pull through. Transferred to Bethesda Hospital, Renee learns that Harm has partial amnesia and doesn't remember them being a couple over the past year. Mac's indecision about the wedding drives Brumby back to Australia. When Harm tells Mac on the phone to come to his place so that she doesn't have to be alone, she arrives only to learn that Renee has beaten her to Harm's place with the news that her father has died. Mac ends up in the rain with no one around.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#16 - New Gun in Town
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2001
Unwilling to face her pain over Mic & Harm, Mac is granted temporary assignment on the carrier USS Guadalcanal (along with Gunny) when the staff JAG there disappears. Harm returns to active duty after returning from Renee's father funeral.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#17 - Lawyers, Guns and Money (1)
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/2003
A year ago, Sturgis was assigned to prosecute Bud against charges that Bud was derelict in his duties while representing his client in court. Now, Sturgis competency in handling a case is questioned and Sturgis must now rely on Bud to successfully defend him. When the CIA learns that a drug lord is attempting to sell missiles to terrorists, Clayton Webb (re-assigned to South America in "Need to Know") is assigned to prevent the deal from going through. To help with his cover, Mac is sent from Washington to masquerade as Webb's pregnant wife.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#18 - Pas de Deux (2)
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/2003
In Paraguay, Mac & Webb continue their mission to thwart the drug lords & terrorists. Harm continues to deal with his emotions where Mac is concerned. Worried about her, Harm turns to CIA Attorney Catherine Gale for help in determining Mac's location. However, Harm ends up helping Ms. Gale with a personal issue.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/101 votes#19 - A Tangled Webb: Part I (3)
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 5/20/2003
In the final episode of the series 8th year turns out to leave fans of the show with facing yet another long summer of anticipation & speculation. When word reaches Washington, DC that Webb & Mac are missing, Harm insists on leaving for S. America to search for them, even if it means resigning his commission.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Stephen Zito
6.0/102 votes#20 - Back in the Saddle
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2003
Harm is shocked to find that his life is making another unplanned turn, when he is notified that he is fired from the CIA for being inadvertantly shown on the cable news network ZNN carrying a young girl after landing on the USS Seahawk. Unemployed once again, Harm takes up crop-dusting to pay the bills. At JAG, Commander Carolyn Imes who once worked at HQ-JAG (when she was a Lt. Cmdr), is brought back to HQ from overseas duty to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Cmdr. Rabb. But its Bud & Mac who are shocked when they learn that their old colleague falsified documents and has been practicing law without passing the Bar Exam. And Catherine Gale "shocks" Harm with the news that she is pregnant.
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Writer: Stephen Zito
5.5/102 votes#21 - The Court-Martial of Sandra Gilbert
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1997
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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"Crossing the Line" is the best rated episode written by Stephen Zito. It scored 6/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Tony Wharmby. It aired on 1/31/1997 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Washington Holiday".