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Date Posted: 02:44:40 08/18/10 Wed
Author: .......
Subject: Inside for Season 4 episode summaries
In reply to: ........ 's message, "Episode Summaries" on 02:29:14 08/18/10 Wed

Gypsy Eyes

Admiral Chegwidden, refusing to believe the KGB accounts that say Harm and Mac died in an air accident, flies to Moscow to begin his own investigation. Harm and Mac survive being shot down and continue their search for Harm's MIA father. With the help of a gypsy brother and sister, they elude capture by KGB search parties and Harm finally learns what happened to his father.

Embassy

Harm and Mac use a party at the Sudanese Embassy as a cover for their investigation of a kidnapping, and they're literally caught by surprise when terrorists take the visiting dignitaries -- and Mac -- hostage. Harm learns that what looks like a terrorist takeover is a masquerade that has been engineered by the Sudanese Ambassador himself for political gain. Harriett learns she�s pregnant.

Innocence

Harm and Mac are sent to Japan as observers in the trial of an ensign accused of raping a young Japanese girl. Once the trial begins, the disparities between Japanese and American courtroom procedures put Harm at odds with the ensign's Japanese defense attorney, and the case is made more difficult by off-the-cuff comments to the press from the defendant�s commanding officer. The start of this episode features JAG staff in a softball game.

Going After Francesca

After AJ�s 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 Iran. All intelligence points to the fact that Francesca is caught in the middle of this business deal gone awry, and it's up to AJ and Harm to rescue her from the mob.

Martin Baker Fan Club

Harm volunteers to defend a psychotic Vietnam vet accused of aiding the suicide of a fellow veteran�s hospital patient. While Harm argues in court that Roscoe Martin withheld the victims medication as a way to free him from the trancelike state in which it left him, the prosecution claims that the lack of medication is exactly what caused the man�s death. Disappointed with the direction of the case, Roscoe feels that the cards are stacked against him and engineers an escape from the hospital facility with three other patients. Their escape takes them to Harm�s apartment, and a negotiable situation turns deadly when guns are drawn and a SWAT team swoops in. This episode features Harm in very tight jeans and sweater walking down the hospital corridor after Roscoe is shot.

Act of Terror

Millions of viewers are turned into witnesses when they see a Marine guard shoot an arrested terrorist on live television, and it�s Harm�s job to defend the guard. With Mac prosecuting, she and Harm are pitted against each other in what seems like an open and shut case of cold-blooded murder. But when Harm is replaced by a civilian attorney with a defense strategy that doesn�t add up and whose fees are being paid by a wealthy right wing industrialist, Percival Bertram, Harm decides to do some investigating of his own and discovers that murder did not occur.

Angels 30

When a fighter pilot claims he heard the voice of God telling him not to fire on an attacking Iraqi plane, Harm and Mac are sent to investigate his claim. Despite the pilot's assertions that he heard a divine being, Harm insists on finding a more military explanation. When Harm fails from the ground to discover the origination of the voice, he suggests that the pilot duplicate his earlier mission to see what they can learn about the incident in the sky. When the pilot and his RIO suffer oxygen deprivation and fall unconscious, Harm, flying alongside, must use an unorthodox maneuver to save the aviators.

Mr. Rabb Goes to Washington

A ZNN reporter airs an erroneous story about American soldiers using a deadly gas to kill three American engineers working for the Iraqis. Rep. Bobbi Latham holds hearings to determine the validity of the charge and drafts Harm to help. Mac is stunned by the appearance of her husband, Chris Ragle, from whom she is separated, but never divorced. This episode features the dinner scene in Harm's apartment with Bobbi and sparked a fan debate as to whether Harm and Bobbi had sex that night.

People v. Mac

Mac and her former CO and lover, John Farrow, are arrested for the murder of Mac�s husband Chris Ragle, who threatened to reveal their past to the Marine Corps and thus sink Mac's career. 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 and a loan shark, who was involved with Ragle, comes forward with key evidence that proves Chris�s death was accidental.

The Black Jet
Harm's former Naval Academy roommate, Jack Keeter, is held for trial by Iranians after his Navy Stealth plane is downed by mechanical failure. But when Harm and Mac arrive to defend him, Keeter slips Harm a message indicating that the $80 million plane didn't crash and is hidden intact in the desert. Now the assignment becomes more difficult � get themselves -- and the costly aircraft � out of the country before the Iranians find the plane.

Jaggle Bells

When Mac's "little sister" arrives at JAG headquarters, declaring she's run away from her abusive stepfather, Mac has her hands full trying to locate the absentee parent, as well as investigate the girl's charges of abuse. A comment by Chloe rings a bell with Bud, whose research results in tracking down her real father. Meanwhile, Harm interviews Lt. Commander Jordan Parker, a beautiful psychiatrist accused of driving under the influence of alcohol, and she in turn, astutely analyzes him. AJ tries to get a flight to Italy to spend Christmas with his daughter.

Dungaree Justice

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.

War Stories

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�s leader only to have Bud removed because of the defendant�s lack of confidence in his legal expertise. Meanwhile, AJ spends his vacation as technical advisor on a movie about the Navy and runs afoul of the Hollywood types who hired him.

Webb of Lies

When Harm and Mac set out to find C.I.A. Agent Clayton Webb's killer after his body is supposedly 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 Harm's former nemesis, 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.

Rivers Run

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 FBI. 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 kangaroo court.

Silent Service

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.

Nobody�s Child

When Harm views the body of the severely abused and abandoned young girl on a naval base, he becomes emotionally involved and decides to call in the help of forensic pathologist Lt. Commander Teresa Coulter to 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.

Shakedown

A civilian specialist aboard an aircraft carrier upgrading the ship's aging electric system comes under suspicion for sabotage when the ship loses power while in hostile waters with Tomcats waiting to land. As Harm and Mac try to figure out the saboteur's motive, Harm spends time with the fighter pilots and feels a desire to return to active flight status.

The Adversaries

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.

Second Sight

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.

Wilderness of Mirrors

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 Jordan, 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.

Soul Searching

Admiral Chegwidden and Clayton Webb 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�s classic Corvette is stolen.

Yeah Baby

Baby issues abound as Harriet's due dates draws near: Bud is in the middle of a case involving a pregnant Marine sergeant, and Mac feels her biological clock ticking when she says goodbye to Chloe, her "little sister." Bud is trapped in a stuck elevator as Harriet delivers their baby in AJ�s office. Meanwhile, Harm prevails upon the Admiral to intercede on his behalf to have his official designation changed from JAG attorney back to naval aviator. The ending scene is the unforgettable �baby deal� in which Harm and Mac make a promise to have a baby together in neither are in a relationship in five years.

Goodbyes

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. Harm decides to return to active fighter pilot status and says an emotional goodbye to Jag and Mac.

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