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7/10
We find out what happened to Beth O'Neill; Harm flies again
hindsonevansmike8 October 2018
Harm's first CIA flight after completion of his training. Beth O'Neill (whom he defended in "Offensive Action" in season eight) has now left the US Navy and is flying for the Company. She has settled her lifestyle and is able to live openly, whilst also flying and serving her country,

Lots of "spy vs spy" type capers around the Philippines, plenty of baddies who cannot shoot straight and a safe return to the skies for our hero and heroine.

Not one of JAG's best episodes, but it does at least introduce us to the new (although ultimately soon-to-be-cut-short) flying career of Mr Civilian Rabb.
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2/10
What do these writers take us for?
tatefegley7 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
There is just too much of the plot of this episode that doesn't make sense. Let me list them.

  • The CIA director says that the Philippines are extremely politically important to the US, and there needs to be a US friendly puppet in charge. And yet there are no CIA assets on the ground, like a safehouse or something, such that you have to send in pilots to be spooks? - Wouldn't it be far easier to bug a car than replace it with a bugged car that looks exactly the same? I'm pretty sure if you have the ability and time to get into the said car, remove items and then place them in the bugged car, then return to the said car and move it, it's probably the case that you could have just planted bugs in the original car. No sense whatsoever.


  • O'Neill was being an idiot when she seduced the driver of the vehicle to create a distraction. I suppose I can accept that she decided to kiss him with the car (being replaced by Rabb at the time) was in plain sight behind him, because he didn't want to leave the car. But it seems absolutely dumb that she had to keep her eyes on Rabb the whole time; there is no way she could have done this without the driver noticing her actions. But somehow she manages to do so. But then, after all this, decides that she's just going to leave and knees the man below the belt when he isn't finished and runs, subsequently getting arrested. Why would she be this dense? If you don't want to perform some sexual act, there are other ways of getting out of this; you're in a relatively public area in the middle of the day. You have some options: take off your top and run around like a crazy person, soil yourself, faint, etc. These are all things she could have done that would have gotten her off the hook, and yet she screwed it up.


  • Rabb and O'Neill are put in a situation where they have to disarm a bomb. But they knew about it beforehand because of the bugged car. Why not call in a bomb threat to evacuate the building and get professionals to disarm the bomb? It's not like you're blowing your cover or revealing the fact that you bugged their car, not any more so than disarming the bomb yourself would. But, of course, they do this to try and create a false tension (really, did anyone expect them to make a mistake with this bomb?) and a totally unnecessary chase scene at the end. However, chase scenes that make you roll your eyes because they are totally unnecessary and only happen because of the stupidity of the main characters do not create tension.


This is an episode worth skipping.
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