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Cabin Pressure, February 1, 2000 As Reviewed by Michele Blackburn |
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By Rosepetal
The Admiral goes to a retirement party for one of his old friends from his seal days. Because his friend is retiring the Admiral starts thinking about how old he is and that he can't do the things he used to. While onboard his friends ship for the retirement party, they get the call that the ship that Harm and Mac are on need help. The Admiral heads out with the team to help. When they start pulling the Suribachi off the reef they are on, it makes a shelf with air tanks on it fall on top of DeMara, trapping him. Water starts pouring into the Brig as well.
The people working on the hatch get it open and the Chief who is the guard in the Brig goes up and tells everyone that Demara and Harm are dead, they drowned. The Admiral doesn't believe Harm is dead and goes down himself to save him. He suceeds in the nick of time.
Someone comes and tells the Admiral that he must have read the air tank wrong because he thought he had 15 minutes on the air tank he used but really he only had 15 seconds. Everyone laughs except the Admiral and Mac. This was not one of my favorite episodes. Harm and Mac board the U.S.S. Suribachi
to investigate the murder of Officer Chinik. Marco Sanchez plays Petty
Officer De Mara, the accused. While Harm and Chief Sturevant were down in
the brig, the ship hit an uncharted reef causing debris to fall on the
hatch making it impossible for them to get out. Harm alerts Mac and the
Captain. When he gets off the phone, Sturevant offers him a cup of coffee.
Thankful, Harm takes the cup of coffee, lifts it to his lips and then
looks over at Sturevant. previous episode review//next episode review
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This episode deals
with Harm and Mac going aboard the USS Suribachi to investigate the death
of Officer Chinik. While Harm is in the brig talking with the
accused Petty Officer DeMara, the ship hits a reef. Harm, the Guard
on duty and the prisoner are all trapped inside the brig when the hatch
won't open. 
The Admiral and Mac are talking about
how he feels like he is getting old. He wonders if he is slowing
down. Mac says as we grow older we all slow down but our hearts grow
stronger. The Admiral tells her that if she ever speaks about this
conversation with anyone, he will personally be on her six fast. She
says yes sir.
Harm goes to find and arrest the Chief
who is the real murderer. He set DeMara up and then left Harm and
him for dead in an ever sinking brig.
The Admiral and the rest are having
coffee after the arrest and everyone is talking and laughing how they knew
Harm was alive and that he is really tough to get rid of.
De
Mara freaks out in the brig banging chairs against the cell door, tearing
up his matress and threatening Harm and Sturevant. As an actor Marco
Sanchez did a beautiful job as a stressed out Navy Officer being blamed
for murder. Harm finally gets to the point where he can't take it anymore
and tells De Mara if he wants something just to ask. Just then the lights
went out. 
"Faith."
De Mara says. Just then the hatch opens and a hand reaches out with two
oxygen masks. The Admiral's face appears through the gas and Harm and De
Mara are staring at him with amazed looks on their faces. 
The
next thing you see is Sturevant reading a magazine. Everyone hears squeaky
shoes and then the camera moves from Harm's soggy shoes to his wet face.
"Instead
of fifteen minutes of air, sir, you had fifteen seconds. You must have
read the gauge wrong."