A reporter for ZNN, a fictional cable news network, accompanies a SEAL team on a mission against an enemy target in Afghanistan. The SEALs walk into an ambush, during which four civilians die, and three SEALs sustain injuries. Harm and Mac investigate, and they discover that, 51 minutes before the firefight, the reporter had made a satellite phone call which may have allowed the enemy to discover the location of the team. The President of the US issues an order to prosecute the reporter in a court-martial. Harm and Mac do so, and Sturgis defends. Mac, by her knowledge of the Farsi language and the Persian culture, discovers what happened. Meanwhile Bud receives and carries out his transfer orders to serve as the Legal Officer aboard USS Seahawk (CVN-65), where he finds an acquaintance as his legalman.
—DocRushing