Season Nine of JAG premiered on CBS from September 26, 2003 – May 21, 2004
Plot[]
Commander Harmon "Harm" Rabb, Jr. and Lieutenant Colonel Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie are lawyers assigned to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. Mac, a seasoned Marine and JAG's Chief of Staff, is a lawyer-by-trade, while Harm, a former Tomcat pilot. Together, they investigate numerous cases, including espionage, a death in combat, the death of an Iraqi prisoner and a Quaker who feels the Navy contradicts his fundamental religious beliefs. Also this season, Harm temporarily departs JAG and is recruited by the CIA, Commander Carolyn Imes reveals she has faked her legal credentials, the Secretary of the Navy is held accountable for deaths of foreign soil, the team reflect on what could have been , Mac must track down seized heroin and Lieutenant Harriet Sims is given a commendation. Also, Lieutenant Bud Roberts is promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden retires and Harm and Mac consider their future.
Production[]
During season nine, actor John M. Jackson "decided to 'retire' from his long-running role on the series".[1] The character of Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden retired during the season finale,[2] and was replaced in Season Ten by David Andrews as Major General Gordon Cresswell, USMC JAGC.
Cast and characters[]
Main[]
- David James Elliott as 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
Recurring[]
- Karri Turner as Lieutenant Harriet Sims, USN
- Steven Culp as CIA officer Clayton Webb
- Chuck Carrington as Legalman Jason Tiner, USN, JAGC
- Harrison Page as Rear Admiral Stiles Morris, USN, JAGC
- Claudette Nevins as Porter Webb
- Michael Bellisario as Midshipman Michael Roberts, USN
- Scott Lawrence as Commander Sturgis Turner, USN, JAGC
- Zoe McLellan as Legalman Second Class Jennifer Coates, USN, JAGC
- Dana Sparks as Commander Carolyn Imes, USN, JAG
- Nanci Chambers as Lieutenant Loren Singer, USN, JAGC
- Randy Vasquez as Gunnery Sergeant Victor Galindez, USMC
- Isabella Hofmann as Professor Meredith Cavanaugh
- Dean Stockwell as Secretary of the Navy Edward Sheffield
- Jameson Parker as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Harrison Kershaw
- Laura Putney as CIA Attorney Catherine Gale
- Hallee Hirsh as Mattie Johnson
- Mary Page Keller as Beth O'Neil
Episodes[]
| # | TITLE |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Tangled Webb: Part 2 |
| In Paraguay, Harm and Mac must escape pursuers determined to kill them, while also sorting through their feelings. Gunny Galindez must get an injured Webb to a hospital before he dies. | |
| 2 | Shifting Sands |
| Harm returns to Washington and finds that the Admiral has indeed processed his resignation. He takes a job flying for the CIA. A Navy Petty Officer believed killed in the Gulf War turns up married to a local Bedouin sheik and is charged with desertion, aiding the enemy and treason for supplying Saddam's regime with intel against U.S. troop movements. | |
| 3 | Secret Agent Man |
| Harm, with a former client, flies for the CIA; they fix a problem in the Philippines, and they escape. Harriet has given birth to another son, and she and Bud hold a christening party. Midn. Mike Roberts helps a friend at the Naval Academy. | |
| 4 | The One That Got Away |
| While conducting a flight test in the experimental Aurora spy plane, Harm and his co-pilot must conduct a surprise mission over North Korea. Mac deals with a Marine who let a 10-year-old Iraqi boy leave a combat area unhindered, which led to the boy notifying Iraqi fighters of the Marines' position and then the deaths of two Marines. | |
| 5 | Touchdown |
| Mac is asked to defend a sailor accused of working with al-Qaeda after converting to Islam, leading to fraught interactions in court with Sturgis Turner when he doesn't have any issues with the sailor's guilt and life sentence being earned via a foreign government's torture of a suspect. Harm's mission to extract an agent from Libya goes awry when the man wants his family evacuated as well and he attempts the impossible by landing his C-130 Hercules on board the USS Seahawk. After successfully landing the C-130 on the deck of the Seahawk, Harm is inadvertently shown on ZNN, which puts his CIA career at risk. | |
| 6 | Back in the Saddle |
| Fired from the CIA, Harm takes a job as a crop-duster. He meets Mattie, a 14-year-old girl and owner of "Grace Aviation". Mac and Bud are surprised when a former colleague law credentials are fake. The Admiral asks the Secretary of the Navy to reinstate Harm's commission due to the massive backlog created from Commander Caroline Imes' failure to pass the bar exam. | |
| 7 | Close Quarters |
| Sturgis must determine the intent of ten North Korean sailors rescued by an American submarine when their Midget submarine sinks while dealing with an angry Korean-American intelligence officer and a possible SARS outbreak. Harm helps out Terrence Minnerly, a destitute African-American veteran who was once part of the Great Lakes Experience. | |
| 8 | Posse Comitatus |
| A Marine helo gunship intervenes during a standoff at a ranch; Mac prosecutes the pilot, and Harm defends. Bud investigates a Naval Reserve physician who, a conscientious objector, has received his medical education at Navy expense. | |
| 9 | The Boast |
| Mac investigates when a Marine is accused of boasting about killing an Iraqi prisoner. Harm and the Admiral witness a Navy pitcher hit a Marine batter during a friendly baseball game, leading to the pitcher being charged with assault. | |
| 10 | Pulse Rate |
| When a sailor is killed while repairing a radar dish, Harm and Mac must determine if his death was an accident. | |
| 11 | A Merry Little Christmas |
| Harm's attempts to become Mattie's legal guardian are complicated due to his single status and bachelor lifestyle. Sturgis Turner finds a new girlfriend in the form of a USO vocalist. Harriet Sims manages to complete her OIG liaison assignment. The Admiral has difficulties in giving a present to his girlfriend in time for Christmas, but Petty Officer Jennifer Coates manages to help out. After a Christmas sermon from Chaplain Turner, Mac brings Mattie to Harm at the Vietnam Wall after convincing Mattie's father to allow Harm to be her guardian. | |
| 12 | A Girl's Best Friend |
| The admiral's investigation into Meredith's diamond engagement ring leads to an international smuggling operation involving blood diamonds, while Harm adjusts to having Mattie around full-time and rents a neighboring apartment for Mattie and Coates. The admiral's investigation leads him to the Naval Research Laboratory and a lieutenant smuggling lab-made diamonds on the black market. Meredith cheats on the admiral with a fellow professor from Italy. | |
| 13 | Good Intentions |
| Mac must defend a petty officer accused of murdering a female officer, but the man has no memory of the night in question, while a Navy SEAL who purchased nerve gas needs Bud's help to avoid prison. | |
| 14 | People vs. SecNav |
| When Iraqi civilians are killed in a bombing raid conducted by Navy fighters, Secretary of the Navy Edward Sheffield agrees, in a calculated political move, to stand before the International Criminal Court in The Hague and he wants the best litigators defending him on foreign soil. A babysitting incident with Little A.J. creates a rift between Bud and his brother Mikey. | |
| 15 | Crash |
| A crash aboard an aircraft carrier appears to be a case of the pilot committing suicide, and Harm and Mac face off when Mac wants to hold the pilot's CO responsible. | |
| 16 | Persian Gulf |
| The terrorist who held Mac and Webb prisoner in Paraguay returns, and Mac must determine what he wants with her. Harm suffers temporary deafness when his car battery explodes in his face, courtesy of Sadik Fahd. After a bit of hand-to-hand combat, Mac shoots and kills Sadik before he can destroy an American nightclub. | |
| 17 | Take It Like a Man |
| A former marine is accused of stolen valor after claiming an unearned Silver Star from Panama, 1989. The fallout from Mac's killing Sadik Fahd (from "Persian Gulf") affects her ability to work on the stolen valor case. Mattie continues to work through her feelings about her father. | |
| 18 | What If |
| As the JAG team celebrates Coates's promotion to Petty Officer First Class, a glance at an alternate reality finds Harm and Mac as a bitter divorced couple regularly berating each other, the admiral a civilian prosecutor, Bud a hot-tub salesman, Sturgis as the manager for his fiancée, Varese, Coates back to her old habits as a master thief, and Harriet a well-to-do but lonely socialite. | |
| 19 | Hard Time |
| Mac gets a handful of trouble when she is assigned to guard a female Marine prisoner after being critical of the Marines originally assigned to the task. A Navy senior chief who contracted HIV after supposedly getting a blood transfusion in Africa seeks help after being exposed by his commanding officer. The admiral ends his engagement to Meredith. | |
| 20 | Fighting Words |
| Harm and Mac square off over a Marine general who spoke about the War on Terror and equated the God of Islam with Satan. Sturgis must deal with the complaint of anti-Korean bias against him from "Close Quarters". Bud successfully gets the complaint against Sturgis dropped and regains the level of friendship and professional trust lost in the earlier case. | |
| 21 | Coming Home |
| Harm helps a woman whose son was killed in action in Iraq, while Mac and Bud investigate why the armor given to the troops fails to protect them. | |
| 22 | Trojan Horse |
| When a kilo of heroin seized during a SEAL operation goes missing, Harm and Mac must determine where it went. The intrigue is compounded by the presence of a British MI6 agent, Simon Tanveer. Bud defends a Marine who won an American Idol-type competition, only to have the record company object when he is deployed. | |
| 23 | Hail and Farewell: Part 1 |
| Harriet is given a commendation for her work with the USO tour and announces her pregnancy with twins and resignation from JAG for the IRR. Sturgis Turner goes to sea to investigate the deaths of 6 people; one of whom is Webb. The Admiral announces his retirement as Judge Advocate General of the Navy. Mac undergoes an exploratory laparoscopy, and the news is not good. Harm discovers that Mattie's father was not drunk when her mother died and must let her go back to live with him. Harm and Mac attend Admiral Chegwidden's dining out and once again discuss their relationship and how the 5-year pact they made has come due. The Admiral's final official act on active duty is to swear-in Bud to the grade of lieutenant commander. | |
References[]
- ↑ - What happened to John M. Jackson's character, Admiral.... tribunedigital-chicagotribune (November 7, 2004).
- ↑ USATODAY.com - 'JAG' stars ready for another TV tour of duty.
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