Episode 153: First Casualty

Aired March 26, 2002

By Rising Sun

 

I am a TV addict have been since I first saw a box.  In my adult years the shows that have interested me have deliberately run for seven years.  I bitched about that but watching JAG in year eight I begin to understand the logic of the seven-year itch.

 

So here we are:  Harm and Mac are to investigate SEAL operation in Afghanistan that went south to put it mildly.  The television news reporter accompanying the SEALs Stewart Dunstan finds himself charged for disobeying orders for it seems when at war civilians accompanying a Unit are subject to the chain of command and the UCMJ.  So folks we are heading for a court martial.  Hey if Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson could consider it then so can GW Bush!

 

Imagine Dunstan’s horror:

 

Stewart Dunstan (on being charged): You’re kidding.

Harm: You’re in the NAVY now

 

In the meantime TBTP are sowing trouble for the Roberts’, Bud has received his orders and ships out for a six-month deployment aboard a ship he knows the USS Seahawk. What is the FIRST thing he does? Not tell Harriett that a woman is his assistant and two that it is PO Coates. You don’t have to be Miss Cleo to spot that storm approaching!

 

Ambition is a hell of a monkey to have riding you and Singer is on a roll.  The kid glove approach of the Admiral is not working…

 

AJ: Bucking for a trip to Italy Lieutenant?

Singer: I have been studying Italian Sir.

Tiner: Commander Rabb and colonel Mackenzie are waiting for you in your office sir.

AJ (softly); Thank you Tiner

Tiner: Anytime sir.

 

Neither is the hard comments of others like Harriett or even the teasing of some.

 

Singer: I should get a dog.

Mac and Harm (together): Pit bull

 

Despite my opening comments on the seven year itch, I’m glad to see that Mac back in stride.  She cracked this case with her knowledge of Farsi. I suppose having been told that she speaks it with an American accent (The Black Jet) she’s not aware of who does and doesn’t speak like a native.

 

And yep she gets the last word in …

 

Mac (to Harm and Sturgis): Don’t look at me I wasn’t wrong about anything.

 

All in all another three smile episode.

 

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