Secrets - 28

[A very complicated plot, but gives background for Webb and the CIA connections which will be used in upcomming episodes] Mac (M) was in her new office at JAG and shown helping Bud (B) study for a law exam. Corporal Jason Magida, who had been in the brig for eight of his twenty year sentence for espionage, poisoned the water supply to overwhelm the brig's infirmary and escape during the confusion. He made a beeline for the man who had put him there, Admiral Chegwidden (V) , and took him hostage- "to clear his name." Chegwidden, who had wanted to see Harm (H) on the Russell file, told him he wanted the Clawson file (which was a code for someone who had taken their CO hostage). H picked up on the reference, with B's help, and cleared the building. C played the tough guy, trying to catch Magida off guard, and refused to cooperate. Magida had H bring his court-martial records to the office but H found they were classified "Top Secret." He called Webb (W) , who was dancing with his mother, for a favor and got the records. W accidentally let slip that he had to give the security codes to obtain the information so H realized that W was really a CIA agent instead of with 'state'. Magida took M & B hostage to hold another trial for him. M assigned to prosecute, B to judge and C to defend. W refused to aid H any more and was leaving until he saw Gayle Osborne come as the leader of the "special response team." W told H that, the sunflower chewing, arrogant, Osborne was CIA and was probably there to "neutralize" Magida. Osborne used a fiber optic scope to "target" Magida from under the door but H took him down and C stepped on the scope when he heard that Osborne had been sent. C said that "if Osborne is involved you probably were set up and so was I." C told Osborne to stand down but he wouldn't, giving him only an hour. C asked H to try and get Malka Dayan, the Moussad Israeli agent who was supposed to have received documents from Magida. H asked W to go get her but he angrily refused, only to go get her eventually.

H found that Osborne was lying, and not up on the roof like he claimed, just as W drove up with Dayan. Osborne's men wouldn't let H in with Dayan so H took one man down and W slugged the other. Dayan said that the CIA had blackmailed her into lying and promised her that 'nothing would happen to Magida.' H realized that she had been a double agent. CIA was afraid that she was about to be discovered as a double, so they exposed her as a Moussad agent to avoid embarrassment of being caught spying on an ally. C said that he would present the case to the SECNAV and that it would be dropped. Just as Magida was giving H his gun, H saw sunflower seeds coming from the air conditioning vent and pushed him out of the way of Osborne's shots. H yanked Osborne down out of the vent and they had a stand off, pointing their guns at each other. C told Osborne that, "he will do it." Osborne said "you've never lied to me, AJ. I think he will," and stood down. Magida then told H that he was glad that he didn't fire the gun because it had no bullets! C was shown defending Magida where the espionage charges were dropped, but he was found guilty on hostage taking etc., and sentenced to the eight years he had already served.