Boot

A brief peek inside the training regime at the Parris Island "Boot Camp" training establishment for USMC new recruits.

Meg masquerades as a (younger) recruit to investigate a murder. The script-writers really do push several of the "Damsel-in-Distress" trope buttons on this one. The tension is racked up and the outcome - with a couple of "red herrings" is satisfyingly revealed.

I don't think that Meg will want to go the the beach for a while (although this was broadcast some 25 years before the date of this review)!

A more standard assignment for Harm and Meg in the tenth episode of JAG's first season.

After a female Marine Corps recruit appears to have committed suicide at the Parris Island Recruit Depot in South Carolina, Meg must go undercover as Private McIntyre to try and figure out whether it was suicide or perhaps murder. She deals with two hard-nosed and at-times-brutal drill instructors as well as a recruit who has taken a dislike to her. Tracy Needham absolutely nails her part.

Meanwhile, Harm is investigating in a more official sense and is being stonewalled along the way, lending more credence to the suggestion that the recruit was murdered.

A couple of good plot twists in the "who done it" mystery that Harm and Meg need to solve, a definite step backward from the high-octane missions of the previous nine episodes.