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Flight Risk, October 24, 2000 As Reviewed by Michele Blackburn As Reviewed by Salvatore Saitta (in Italian) |
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Mac is now involved with a case with
Singer involving the Navy and
Humor lightened this droll episode of
JAG. It all started when Mac walked into the conference late, followed by
Mic. Harm and Bud exchanged quips as they bet on how long Mac would be
late. "Five minutes and twenty seconds. You owe me a buck." Harm told Bud.
Mac proceeded to make a fool of herself talking to Mic about lunch until
it was made clear to her that he would be the representative of a company
that was being sued for the downing of an F-14 and two deaths.
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In
this episode, Harms mom shows up at his apartment and when he comes in he
finds her and Renee talking. Mac and Mic have a fight because of a
case that JAG is investigating and he turns out to be the lawyer for the
company that JAG is investigating. She wants to know why he didn't
tell her and he comes up with a stupid remark that makes her even madder. 
Bobby
Latham shows up in this episode as she wants to cut government funding for
this project that involves F-14's. She is willing to give the
government liaison to the company that was making the F-14's immunity in
exchange for his testimony before a Congressional hearing. Harm
agrees to defend the government liaison.
Harm
as part of his investigation for the defense of the government liaison,
gets to take out one of the F-14's that have been crashing. He gets
the company's test pilot as his Rio. Harm does what happened in the
flight that crashed and he gets the test pilot to admit that the company
cuts corners in the building of the plane. He also gets him to
testify in court, where he can get records that he needs subpoenaed.
lobsters. Everyone in the office
starts handing out jokes to her about it. Tiner gives Harm a
newspaper about casualties in Chechnya but Harm didn't get to read it when
he gave it to him. Harm proves it was not pilot error which caused
the crashes but it was the company's fault who built the planes. He
and Mac at the end, go to a memorial service for the pilots who died in
the test flights.
When
the conference ended, Mac made if very clear to Mic that the reason why he
didn't tell her was because he wanted "pleasure before business." He
didn't deny it and I think that's what Mac even more angry. 
"Flyboy"
got to fly in this episode and it was great to see him in a cockpit again.
Jokes were filtered into the airline scenes like "What's the best type of
birth controls for pilots?" Harm answers "Their personality." "What's the
difference between a pilot and an engine?" The engineer answers, "The
engine stops whining after you turn it off." They were funny jokes. 
Lori
Singer was talked about in this episode, but not shown. Mac talked about
her when she was telling Harm about a case involving Navy officers and
lobsters. Lame jokes were thrown about when she was told to "butter up"
people. Even the Admiral got into with a stern warning about sexual
harrassment not being in this workplace and then telling Mac, he thought
"she had a harder shell." 
Christina
Pickles made her second appearance as Trish, Harm's mother in this
episode. Harm found Renée and his mother talking about him in his kitchen.
When he walked in, he made the comment. 
The
show ended on a sweet note though when Harm left his office and ran into
Mac. They talked about the case and then Harm mentioned that he was going
to the memorial service for one of the pilots.
Harm
e Bud vengono inviati a San Diego per investigare sul caso, insieme a Mic
Brumby (che ora lavora privatamente), rappresentante legale della Frohl
Tech: si propende per l’errore umano (era notte, pioveva molto forte e i
piloti erano stanchi). Dalle indagini risulta che l’azienda si era
incaricata di aggiornare 130 TomCat in 18 mesi; la revisione comprende il
potenziamento delle turbine, e migliorie varie; l’aereo in questione era
stato provato più volte, come consuetudine, dal collaudatore Wilson. Harm,
però, mentre si trova in un hangar, nota che ad un apparecchio manca il
CSD e così scopre che nell’aereo incriminato esso era stato sostituito
solo all’ultimo con un pezzo di un F-14 appena arrivato. Così Harm vuole
procedere alla corte marziale per il capitano Bob Holsworth, responsabile
della manutenzione, con l’accusa di negligenza od omicidio per negligenza.
Indagando
nuovamente nel cantiere, si sente dire da tutti che la responsabilità dei
cambi di pezzi usati è di Holsworth; solo il collaudatore sembra sapere
qualcosa che non vuole dire. Facendo un giro con lui su un TomCat e
fingendo un guasto, Harm riesce a fargli scappare una frase: "Quegli
idioti continuano a farlo!"; così viene a sapere dei problemi della Frohl
Tech, ma Wilson non vuole testimoniare e la sua richiesta di esaminare gli
incartamenti della società (sub-pena) per accusarla di negligenza viene
respinta dal giudice. In seguito Wilson si convince a testimoniare e
dichiara che dell’aereo incidentato non fu testato né il CSD, né il
generatore di emergenza proprio per il poco tempo a disposizione. A questo
punto Harm ottiene il permesso di esaminare i documenti riguardanti
manutenzione e bilancio della Frohl Tech. Sarà però Mic Brumby a portargli
un documento mancante, che, tra le altre cose dice più o meno: […] ci
costerà meno pagare per eventuali incidenti e la morte di qualcuno che per
comprare dei pezzi di ricambio […]. La Frohl Tech se la cava solo con una
multa di 10,000,000 $, mentre Harm e Mac si accordano sul capitano per la
condanna a 18 mesi per omicidio colposo. Harm e Mac vanno al funerale dei
due poveri piloti morti.