Season Five of JAG premiered on CBS from September 21, 1999 – May 23, 2000.
Plot[]
Lieutenant Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr., now back as an F-14 Tomcat aviator aboard the USS Patrick Henry, finds himself forced to defend a fellow lieutenant who has mistakenly fired upon Russian armored vehicles, while his former partner and newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie continues to enforce, prosecute and defend the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) from within the Headquarters of the Judge Advocate General. This season, Mac also is pitted against Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby in court, Harm is forced to push a plane to safety using a tailhook before returning to JAG, Mac investigate psy-ops, Harm is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bud is kidnapped and on the orders of Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden, the team travel to Sydney, Australia. Meanwhile, Gunnery Sergeant Victor "Gunny" Galindez is accused of gay-bashing , Harm investigates a decade-old murder and Mic resigns his Australian commission.
Production[]
Prior to the start of JAG's fifth season, the series entered syndication. At the time season five was first aired in the United States, JAG was seen in over 90 countries worldwide.[1]
From 12 to 14 July 1999, the JAG production team including its three main actors were allowed by the US Navy to film scenes on location aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, while she sailed off the coast of California. It was the first time the JAG production team were on board an active aircraft carrier at sea and while it was conducting flight operations. The footage obtained from this visit were used for the first three episodes of the season.[2]
The 100th and 101st episodes of JAG were partially shot with the main cast on several locations in and around Sydney, Australia. Among the locations were Fleet Base East and Sydney Airport.[3] These were the only episodes of JAG filmed outside the United States.
Cast and characters[]
Main[]
- David James Elliott as Lieutenant Commander later Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr., USN, JAGC
- John M. Jackson as Rear Admiral A. J. Chegwidden, USN, JAGC
- Catherine Bell as Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, USMC, JAGC
- Patrick Labyorteaux as Lieutenant Bud Roberts, USN, JAGC
Recurring[]
- Karri Turner as Ensign, later Lieutenant Junior Grade Harriet Sims, USN
- Steven Culp as CIA officer Clayton Webb
- Chuck Carrington as Petty Officer Jason Tiner, USN, JAGC
- Harrison Page as Rear Admiral Stiles Morris, USN, JAGC
- Trevor Goddard as Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby, RAN
- Michael Bellisario as Fire Controlman Michael Roberts, USN
- Claudette Nevins as Porter Webb
- Anne-Marie Johnson as Congresswoman Roberta Latham
- Mae Whitman as Chloe Maddison
- Dana Sparks as Commander Carolyn Imes, USN, JAG
- Nanci Chambers as Lieutenant Loren Singer, USN, JAGC
- Corbin Bernsen as Captain Owen Sebring, USN, JAGC
- Sibel Galindez as Lieutenant Elizabeth "Skates" Hawkes, USN
- Randy Vasquez as Gunnery Sergeant Victor Galindez, USMC
Episodes[]
# | TITLE |
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1 | King of the Greenie Board |
Harm's back flying a Tomcat with Skates as his RIO, however, Lieutenant Buxton, a hot-shot pilot, is making things difficult for him. Meanwhile, Mac is promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Her case involving a Marine who drank too much before testing a new weapons system brings a new member to the office and one of her witness, counters her argument. t the end of the episode, Lt. Buxton fires on what he believes are Serbian armoured vehicles. Back on the carrier, Buxton is confronted by the skipper who tells him he in fact blew up a Russian armoured vehicle. | |
2 | Rules of Engagement |
Lieutenant Buxton forces Harm to defend him in the court martial for the Russian truck he destroyed in the previous episode. Mic joins Harm on the defense team, while Mac and Bud prosecute. | |
3 | True Callings |
Harm's career as a naval aviator is in jeopardy because of his long legal career, while a mission over Serbia turns into a crisis when his wingman's plane is crippled. Harm uses his F-14's windscreen and his wingman's tailhook to push him back to the USS Patrick Henry, saving his wingman's life. Harm also provides encouragement and support to his RIO, Elizabeth Hawkes, who is suffering from panic attacks from flying. He also defends a sailor who hide a woman under threat in a C-2. Back at the office, Bud, Tiner, and Gunny each seek to curry the Admiral's favor by procuring tickets to a Limp Bizkit concert. | |
4 | The Return |
Harm's return to JAG is rocky, as his first case is to defend the SECNAV's son for disobeying an order during a refuelling, and he deals with a sympathetic SECNAV and the unyielding ship captain who was being tough on his son. | |
5 | Front and Center |
When a Marine corporal goes AWOL rather than testify at an attempted rape trial, Harm and Mac must discover his secret while Harm is awarded his second Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in True Callings. | |
6 | Psychic Warrior |
While Harm and Mac investigate the death of a Navy officer involved in a remote viewing project known as Star Gaze, Mac must also deal with someone close to her going missing. | |
7 | Rogue |
Bud is assigned as an observer to accompany Raglan, a former Navy SEAL who is hired by the U.S. Department of Defense to test security at military bases. Raglan's next mission is to test the security around Naval Submarine Base New London. But when Raglan goes too far and hijacks an attack submarine with Bud on board as hostage and demands a $100 million ransom, or he'll take aim on a New York City target, Harm must play cat and mouse with the man to rescue Bud and thwart the attack. | |
8 | The Colonel's Wife |
Olivia Dunston, wife of Marine Colonel Dunston stationed in Panama, is accused of smuggling drugs, and her weak denials convince Mac that she is guilty. A fabulously wealthy college friend has Bud pondering his road not taken. | |
9 | Contemptuous Words |
Harm's career is on the line when he is accused of writing an editorial highly critical of the President. Mac deals with a squabble between a late Marine's girlfriend, who wants to use his sperm to have children, and the Marine's estranged wife, who is opposed to such usage. After Harm is cleared of any wrong doing he receives his promotion to commander from the SECNAV. | |
10 | Mishap |
Harm's former RIO, Lieutenant Elizabeth Hawkes, is charged with causing a mishap that crashed an F-14, and Harm defends her at court-martial while Mac and Mic prosecutes. | |
11 | Ghosts of Christmas Past |
During his annual visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harm meets Jenny Lake, a former singer in Bob Hope's USO band, who was there the Christmas his father (in 1969 a pilot on CVA-14 USS Ticonderoga) was shot down. | |
12 | Into the Breech |
While Harm and Mac are tutoring prep-school cadets at a Military high school for a 'mock trial' of a 10-year-old incident of an explosion in a battleship turret that killed 29 sailors. Harm and Mac discover real witnesses leading to evidence which contradicts the official Navy findings. | |
13 | Life or Death |
An outcast Marine killed three other Marines in the 1980's, and his capital case is now up for its final review before the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Mac doesn't want to defend him but ends up taking the case, while Harm takes on the prosecution and Admiral Chegwidden is reflective because the convicted killer was his client a decade ago. Harm has dinner with Renee, while the JAG office wishes Mic well as he heads to an Australian deployment in East Timor. | |
14 | Cabin Pressure |
As a ship collides with a reef, Harm is trapped below decks with two crew members, one a hotheaded murder suspect and the other the master-at-arms in a compartment that starts to fill with water. As the room they're in floods, Harm must find a way for them to escape. Admiral Chegwidden deals with the slow diminishment of his skills due to age. | |
15 | Boomerang: Part I |
At the request of Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby, Admiral Chegwidden sends Harm and Bud down to Sydney, Australia in order to represent a U.S. sailor, Kevin Lee, who has suddenly surfaced 28 years after being "murdered" by an Australian sailor outside Luna Park Sydney. Lee contends that he accidentally killed his Australian nemesis years ago and, in a panic, exchanged identity with the dead man. Now, charged with murder, Lee is to be tried first in a New South Wales court before Lee could be handed over to U.S. authorities for additional desertion charges, pitting Harm against Brumby. Harm and Brumby are also about to go head-to-head outside the courtroom when Mac appears in Sydney officially on a mission to bring back the remains of the other body and Brumby decides it's time to make her choose between him and Harm. | |
16 | Boomerang: Part II |
The murder trial of Kevin Lee takes an unexpected twist after his wife changes her testimony under cross-examination. Previously, Harm and Mic come to blows over Mac, with Bud being caught in the crossfire and his jaw is broken in the process. Admiral Chegwidden is eventually forced to fly to Australia to berate Harm for his involvement. Although Bud is kind enough to let the two men off the hook, Chegwidden is not and prepares to deliver his own brand of punishment against Harm and Mic. | |
17 | People vs. Gunny |
Gunnery Sergeant Galindez is accused of "gay-bashing" after an altercation outside a gay bar, and one of the key witnesses is Petty Officer Tiner. After Galindez is exonerated, as far as the military justice system is concerned, after a hearing: the State of Maryland then charges him for the same offence and Admiral Chegwidden acts as his defense attorney in the civilian court. Galindez tries to keep another key witness, Manny, a personal friend from his past out of this, but Manny wants to frame Tiner as a homosexual. | |
18 | The Bridge at Kang So Ri |
Harm and Mac have to deal with South Korean radicals who hijack an Oceanic Airlines passenger plane carrying a U.S. Army General whom they accuse of ordering a cover-up of a mass murder at a chaotic bridge crossing during the Korean War. | |
19 | Promises |
A Navy sailor is charged with desertion, but she claims that her recruiter lied to her about what the service was about. Admiral Chegwidden helps a Naval Aviator friend of his who is facing being grounded for life after he took Viagra before flying. | |
20 | Drop Zone |
When a file implicating a Navy SEAL in the drowning death of a trainee ends up in the hands of Mac, as the prosecutor for the case, she is accused of prosecutorial misconduct by Lieutenant Loren Singer, who is part of the defense. Admiral Chegwidden tries to decide where to take Dr. Walden for a romantic weekend. | |
21 | The Witches of Gulfport |
Mac goes undercover as an NCO in a construction battalion to assist in the investigation of a Chief Petty Officer and local Wiccan leader accused of sexual misconduct. Mic has his own undercover operation in Australia, but this leads to long-distance romance between him and Mac. | |
22 | Overdue & Presumed Lost |
Admiral Chegwidden tries to prevent a salvage hunter from recovering a submarine that disappeared just before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in federal court, and after that effort fails he begrudgingly accompanies the salvage hunter who retrieves the intact log book from a safe aboard the sub. The log indicates a message was sent that they had encountered the Japanese fleet. The Admiral seeks to find out if the missing message may have been hidden due to a long-forgotten conspiracy. Bud defends an overweight sailor who is a computer genius and wants to stay in the Navy. | |
23 | Real Deal Seal |
Lieutenant Curtis Rivers is in trouble again, this time for punching a Congressional candidate wearing a SEAL Trident and accusing him of being an impostor. Rivers complicates things by using his defense counsel, Harm, as bait in a lethal trap to lure out another phony SEAL. A U.S. Senator wants to recommend Admiral Chegwidden for a nomination as a Federal District Judge, but will the Admiral substitute his integrity for political expediency? | |
24 | Body Talk |
Harm reopens a ten-year-old murder case and unexpectedly incurs the wrath of the victim's daughter, his friend Lieutenant Commander Teresa Coulter. Harm suspects that the original trial attorney did not dig deep enough into the case and as he pursues the investigation a new picture begins to develop. | |
25 | Surface Warfare |
Bud's brother Mikey Roberts nearly shoots a Marine craft during a landing exercise near Key West, Florida, but establishing his innocence proves to be a difficult task, thanks to the age-old rivalry between the Navy and the Marines. Mic Brumby returns from Australia, saying he resigned his Royal Australian Navy commission to come back to live with Mac in Washington, D.C. |
References[]
- ↑ JAG - About the show.. Official Paramount Pictures site from January 2000, retrieved through archive.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-09.
- ↑ CBS Hit Series JAG visits the USS JOHN C. STENNIS.. Official US Department of the Navy USS John C. Stennis "Statesman News" news article from 1999, retrieved through archive.org. Retrieved on 2018-07-21.
- ↑ FBE set for JAG.. Royal Australian Navy news site from February 2000, retrieved through archive.org. Retrieved on 2018-07-21.
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