For me, looking at this episode 25 years on, this is quintessential JAG series one. Harm and Meg, working as a team, find a ridiculous set-up and make it look serious.
They play off each other (team-build), befriend the locals (community relations), dig around better than Mully and Sculder ever did (mystery and investigation). They then find the bad guys (resolution) and save the day (rah, rah, resolute, victorious heroic USN team watching Old Glory flying in breeze).
It was a pleasure to catch this episode again in July of 2021. Tracy Needham brought a lightness and intelligence which was, just slightly, lacking in Harm's team-mate over the next nine seasons - not that I would ever wish "JAG" to have been just a one-season wonder.
They play off each other (team-build), befriend the locals (community relations), dig around better than Mully and Sculder ever did (mystery and investigation). They then find the bad guys (resolution) and save the day (rah, rah, resolute, victorious heroic USN team watching Old Glory flying in breeze).
It was a pleasure to catch this episode again in July of 2021. Tracy Needham brought a lightness and intelligence which was, just slightly, lacking in Harm's team-mate over the next nine seasons - not that I would ever wish "JAG" to have been just a one-season wonder.