Simon, an MI-6 agent, tells Mac that Webb is still alive. Sturgis is the acting JAG of the Navy, and he keeps everyone busy. Harm reveals the result of Mac's laparoscopy, and Mac and Simon find a murder victim. Mac visits both Kershaw and Clay's mother, then Harm, Mac, and Simon go to Manderley, where Harm finds Webb. Clay's mother follows them and finds a mess, but she sorts things out. Kershaw also follows to Manderley, then he talks with Webb. Mac breaks off with Webb due to her unwillingness to continue to deal with lies and deceptions. Harm repeatedly offers to listen to Mac and talk with her whenever she becomes ready to talk. Written by DocRushing

At night in Kirkuk, Iraq, a firefight breaks out with friendly forces on each side; one Marine dies; each side says that the other side fired first. Harm and Mac investigate; the widow approaches Mac with some background material. Attention turns onto a retired Marine sergeant major who now works for a private firm under contract to the DoD; the SecNav orders his recall to active duty and his trial at court-martial; Mac prosecutes, and Harm defends. Bad intel presents a problem. Harm calls the CEO of the civilian firm to the stand, and he exposes information extremely damaging to the firm. Mattie continues to improve her relationship with her father, but without ditching Harm. Written by DocRushing

In 1981 a sexual encounter goes wrong, and a transvestite sex worker dies; a seaman becomes convicted on circumstantial evidence; 22 years later Harm meets him; an old file leads to prosecutorial misbehavior (because the prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense). The prosecutor is now a member of the Congress. The PotUS grants a retrial; Sturgis prosecutes, and Harm defends; Harm presents evidence disproving that the defendant was guilty; the court releases the seaman and gives him a profound apology. Meanwhile Mac and Bud investigate a chief warrant officer with four wives and families; in a pretrial hearing Mac prosecutes, and Bud defends; the hearing officer refers the matter to a general court-martial. One of the four wives keeps her husband, and the other three divorce him; the government withdraws charges, but Mac promises the man an administrative discharge. Written by DocRushing

A Marine helo crashes in Iraq due to enemy fire; a colonel pulls a general out of the bird. A frigate, USS Hennessey, has become involved in an altercation with a Canadian fishing vessel (while intervening in a dispute between that boat and a US fishing boat); an ensign shot and injured a fisherman, who is a member of the First Nation and the son of the captain. The PotUS wishes for a particular Marine to be considered to serve as the next JAG of the Navy; that candidate is the colonel who pulled the general out of the helo; he undergoes extensive scrutiny. Harm figures out the truth about the incident with the fishermen. Mattie and Jennifer talk about girl stuff and family stuff. Written by DocRushing

MGen. Creswell has arrived and taken charge as the JAG of the Navy; Bud gets off to a bad start with him. A high official of the DoD and a Marine have died during a ride-along in Iraq; the commanding general has ordered a court-martial, charging a Marine staff sergeant with involuntary manslaughter by culpable negligence, for his having allowed a routine street patrol to degenerate into a firefight; Harm prosecutes, and Mac defends. A parade of officers, including senior ones, voluntarily step forward to testify and to publicly and officially accept a part of the responsibility for an unintended miscommunication in the chain of command. Coates and the general converse. Written by DocRushing

At the joint detention center at the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, three Army MPs follow orders to remove a detainee from his cell for questioning; the prisoner resists; while the MPs subdue the prisoner, he becomes comatose. The detainee is a member of the US Army -- disguised as a prisoner for a training exercise -- instructed to resist -- for training of the MPs in dealing with uncooperative prisoners. A court-martial results; Mac prosecutes, and Harm and an Army lawyer defend. Meanwhile Bud slugs a mouthy civilian who berates military people and activity, and who threatens Mike; the Commonwealth of Virginia prosecutes Bud, and Sturgis defends him. The general orders Bud to enroll in an anger-management class. Written by DocRushing

Two former friends from the previous life of Coates show up; trouble brews among the three of them, then one former friend dies. Two detectives of the Metro PD aggressively question both Coates and Harm; Coates on her own does some detective work which produces results which the cops have failed to produce. A wealthy civilian has bought an F-18 on the Internet, and her daughter, a young Naval aviator, has taught him how to fly it, but she gets into trouble for having done so; Bud investigates; he discovers mitigating factors which work to the advantage of the daughter. Bud also encounters frustration while trying to take an anger-management course. Written by DocRushing

A Navy commander -- a second-generation expert in biological warfare -- disappears, leaving his car on a bridge near Hagerstown, Maryland; Harm and Mac investigate, as does the FBI. The circumstances suggest suicide; then attention turns to a former CIA agent, who appears to have murdered the father of the present victim; finally attention turns to the victim's supervisor and his wife. The last two suspects have curious backgrounds, but not everything is as it appears. Harm solves both the new case and an old one. Meanwhile a woman Marine sergeant, who has filed a petition to allow women to compete with men in boxing, wants to take part in an inter-service tournament; Bud investigates, and the general fights with her in a ring; the general changes his mind. Written by DocRushing

After sunset on Christmas Eve, Mac has a car wreck, which renders her unconscious and sends her to a hospital; she dreams flashbacks about a recent conversation with her therapist and about certain significant events in her life, especially ones involving Webb and Harm. While unconscious Mac repeatedly speaks Harm's name, so an EMT finds Harm's cellphone number in Mac's PDA, then the EMT calls Harm. Harm promptly goes to Mac's hospital room, and he soon says that he'll stay there with her that night. Harm and Mac start a process of reaching out to and communicating with each other. Written by DocRushing

An F-14 Tomcat crashes nearby while students watch from a school playground in California. While Harm investigates, he smells a cover-up; he eventually discovers both a second F-14 (previously undisclosed) and a civilian death on the ground (previously unknown); he finally gets some answers about the strange crash and the strange program. Harm negotiates a good settlement for the daughter of the civilian victim; he impresses both a blonde (his assistant in California) and a redhead (the daughter of the victim). Bud's anger-management course degenerates into a fight. Mac beats the general during an annual requal on a pistol range. Written by DocRushing

A murder takes place in Key West, Florida; the local authorities refer the matter to the Navy because the prime suspect is a petty officer assigned to the Naval Air Station. Mac prosecutes, Harm defends, and PO Coates helps Mac. However, because of the small size of the NAS, after a number of challenges during the examination voir dire, the court empanels five members of the jury, but it runs out of potential jurors for the sixth person. The judge proposes to use PO Coates, the counsel accept her, and the court empanels her too; the trial proceeds. Meanwhile the general hands Bud a stack of case files for review for appeal, and Harm seeks and gets help from Bud with a code used in a piece of documentary evidence. Harm then figures out who committed the murder, and why he did so. The trial ends in an unorthodox and atypical way. Written by DocRushing

A Marine captain has deserted and has become a freelance warlord in Afghanistan, seeking Osama bin Laden; he stands accused of leading a ragtag band of local soldiers on a raid which caused five deaths in a native village. He has asked to defend himself against those charges in a US court-martial, but only after first consulting US military legal counsel. Harm and Mac go to Afghanistan, and they eventually meet him in the hills. The Afghan government seizes him and places him on trial; Harm and Mac defend him; the court finds him guilty and turns him over to the people for Islamic retribution. Meanwhile the Navy recalls Bud's father to active duty but later turns him loose again, yet he volunteers anyway. Written by DocRushing

In a firefight Taliban insurgents kill a Marine private first-class who has spent the three previous days with a Navy psychiatrist; the company commander of the victim accuses the shrink of medical malpractice by sending the Marine back into battle too soon; Harm and Mac investigate; the matter goes to a court-martial; Mac prosecutes, and Harm defends; the trial raises questions about official procedures. Bud defends a commander who has refused to surrender his position as the commanding officer of a frigate after BuPers ordered his relief for cause due to a collision with a pier; this trial raises questions about official policies and the inflexibility of the application of them. Written by DocRushing

A civilian boat violates an exclusion zone while directly approaching an Iraqi offshore oil terminal; it disobeys an order to stop; a US helo fires across the bow, then it disables the rudder; the Iraqi government protests; Harm investigates. While in the Persian Gulf, Harm also does his carrier quals in the F-18 Hornet; while doing so he intercepts a small civilian aircraft on a collision course with an oil rig, and he destroys the bird; unpleasant consequences follow, but it all works out. A Marine gunnery sergeant has commandeered an Iraqi civilian SUV at gunpoint; the owner of the SUV is the son of an Iraqi official who is a friend of the general; that too works out. A new JAG officer joins the gang, Mac quickly forms a dislike toward him, and the dislike increases. Written by DocRushing

Pirates have seized a Burmese civilian freighter in Indonesian territorial waters; USS Condon (ARS-54), a salvage vessel, has responded to a prior Mayday call from that ship; the general sends Mac and Greg, the new lawyer, to negotiate. Greg arranges for the pirates to send the ship's crew to the Naval ship; when those crewmembers arrive, they suddenly reveal that they are the pirates, and that they have killed the crew of the freighter; the pirates draw their own weapons, take hostages, and begin to try to seize the US ship; the US crew quickly regains control. However, two ships of the Indonesian Navy arrive and try to detain the US ship and obtain the leader of the pirates; then high-level bargaining takes place. The problem reignites aboard the freighter, but Mac and Greg take care of it. Meanwhile Bud and Harriet host a party to celebrate the birth of their twins; there Mike meets the general's daughter, who is a plebe at Annapolis and is a handful. Written by DocRushing

While a Marine unit delivers relief supplies to a Nicaraguan beach (by using a Navy air-cushion landing craft), a mob becomes unruly; while a corporal takes part in crowd control, he hits a local man with his M-16; the Marine faces a court-martial for involuntary homicide; Mac prosecutes, and Greg and Tali defend; the trial ends on a surprise note. The general decides to conduct the annual JAG conference in San Diego; he leaves Harm in charge. Harm receives word that Mattie has become involved in an aircraft collision on the ground in bad weather; he goes to her in a hospital; she remains in a coma; the outlook is uncertain and discouraging; her father goes off the wagon. Written by DocRushing

A Marine in Iraq stands accused of unpremeditated murder by shooting an allegedly unarmed civilian who supposedly had sought refuge in a mosque; Vic, the new man, goes to Iraq and defends him against an aggressive prosecutor; Vic discovers the object for which the victim had tried to reach. After the trial the general arranges some continuing education for Vic by sending him to the front with a combat unit; he sees action and takes part in it. The general asks Mac for a personal favor; she talks with both his daughter and the general himself. While Tom stays on a binge, Harm continues his vigil with Mattie, who remains in a coma. Written by DocRushing

A smuggled IED in Iraq explodes inside a work tent and kills 17 Marines in a reserve unit from a small town in Oklahoma; one man survives; Harm and Bud go to the hometown and provide legal help to the families; the survivor returns home. The local Marine Corps Reserve Center burns due to arson; the sheriff suspects the returned hero; Harm and Bud investigate, then the hero-suspect goes on trial in his hometown; Harm and Bud prosecute, and they discover the truth. Meanwhile, Mac goes to Iraq and investigates the explosion; among the locals she learns the real story; she and the senior Marine officer watch a new democracy at work. Written by DocRushing

A Navy physician in Iraq has administered to a local child a drug which was in short supply in a field hospital; she now faces a pretrial hearing for having disobeyed an order and having endangered US military members; Harm prosecutes, and Mac and Bud defend; Bud presents evidence that the shortage had resulted from a mistake by the senior surgeon. The general's brother, William, served as a SEAL in SE Asia; a helo pilot died, but he saved William and his team. Unidentified remains have recently become discovered near the site in question; William strongly suspects that the body is that of the pilot; Vic and Catherine set out to find a relative and to get a sample of DNA; after a zigzag journey they find his brother in Memphis. Written by DocRushing

Two petty officers engage in a fistfight aboard an aircraft carrier at sea, and one of them dies; Bud prosecutes, and Vic and Harm defend; soon friction develops between Harm and Vic; later they work together; however, Bud discovers the explanation for the death. A seaman apprentice has released two dolphins from their pen, and the dolphins returned, but the seaman now faces a pretrial hearing; Sturgis prosecutes, and Mac defends; mitigating factors come up, and justice prevails. Meanwhile Mattie regains consciousness and starts to converse. Finally the general announces not only a reorganization but also transfer orders for both Harm and Mac and a promotion for Harm. Written by DocRushing

In a meeting of the officers the general announces the establishment of a new office in San Diego, two sets of transfer orders, and a promotion; Mac will take over the new unit in San Diego, and Harm will transfer to London and get a promotion to the rank of captain; the general gives his consent for Harm and Mac to select their own staffs to go with them, so they start. Vic goes to Parris Island and investigates the case of a Marine recruit, his bizarre behavior, and his fraudulent enlistment; Vic creates an inventive and constructive resolution. Harm and Mac review their respective memories with each other, then they talk with each other, then they propose to each other. They agree that one of them should retire, but they can't decide which one, so the gang gathers at a pub, then Bud flips a coin, which Mac calls. Written by DocRushing