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By Michele Blackburn Baseball, the million dollar question,
and Batman & Robin make for this episode of JAG titled The Boast. previous episode review//next episode review
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The Boast, November 21, 2003 |
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By Michele Blackburn Baseball, the million dollar question,
and Batman & Robin make for this episode of JAG titled The Boast. previous episode review//next episode review
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After POW, Omar Billah, is shot in the head at a POW camp in Iraq, Lance
Corporal Pete Kelly is tried for the man's murder. The Admiral tells the
SecNav that he will put Mac and Bud on the case because he and Harm are
going to LA to a conference. The SecNav knows better and tells him they're
really going to see the Marine/Navy game. The Admiral doesn't contradict
what the SecNav says, after all everyone (including the viewers) know how
much he loves baseball. Every time they show his office, the baseball on
his desk is seen.
While Harm and AJ are at the game, the Navy pitcher, PO Crawford (played
by MLB's Oakland Athletics starting pitcher, Barry Zito, the 2002 American
League Cy Young Award). 
PO Crawford throws a pitch that hits the Marine batter, Phelps, and gives
him a concussion. The Admiral can't believe it when Harm tells him that a
law suit is being filed against PO Crawford. Because of the type of the
case, the Admiral defends the pitcher. He puts Mac in charge of finding a
prosecutor. Harm steps up to the plate (no pun intended) and takes the
job. Mac tells him it's because he wants to pay the Admiral back for
leaving him out of JAG for months. 
While Harm and the Admiral battle out the baseball case upstairs, Mac and
Bud fight out the Kelly case downstairs in the courtroom. What got LC
Kelly in trouble in the first place was when he told a woman he was trying
to impress (Dahlia Salem, AW) that he shot a POW. Unknown to him, the
woman was a reporter. Because of the story she did on Kelly, she received
a job at Time magazine. 
For Mac's case, Coates does some research on a story Kelly told about a
POW shooting up a transport truck and killing two officers. Jen tells Mac
that the prisoner, Khaled Fadani was in the POW prison at the same time as
Omar Billah. Jen also tells Mac that every time she tried to do research
on Billah she came up empty. 
Mac needed help so she went to the SecNav and offered him a closed
courtroom for information to help with Kelly's case. In the closed
courtroom, Mac and Bud found out that the Omar Billah was really a CIA
informant. The members of the jury found Kelly innocent of the murder
charges when Mac brought reasonable doubt into the court room. 
As Mac and Bud leave the courtroom, Bud asks her what she would say if she
was asked the million dollar question (Have you killed anyone?). Mac told
him she would never tell the truth. 
Mac runs into the Admiral at the coffee machine and tells him that Bud is
a much better lawyer than he used to be and that he's beating her. The
Admiral tells her he understands. 
Now, we go upstairs to the baseball case where the Admiral and Harm
question witnesses. After an impassioned closing argument about baseball
and how lawsuits can affect the game, the case was closed and PO Crawford
was found innocent. 
While both cases were going on, we saw the second of eight scenes with
Mattie Grace (Hallee Hirsch, ER). Harm brought her three different kinds
of pizzas
because he didn't know what she liked and he also brought her
papers on their juvenile court appearance. He explained to her using
Batman & Robin as an example of what a ward and a guardian are. I thought
it was so sweet when Harm told Mattie that the only thing he wanted out of
the proceedings was her.