Scimitar - 10

Corporal John Edner was killed and Corporal David Anderson captured when they got lost just inside the Iraqi border. President Clinton was shown watching SadDAM announce he would return Edner's body and allow US legal team to defend Anderson for espionage. Harm underwent extraction combat training but Meg, who was not told, worked with Lindsey to prep legally. H told her that she was to be lead council to "throw them off guard." Someone named Scimitar, who's information had been correct, but no one knew, was to give H a satellite uplink and escape route. Anderson's pregnant wife gave them a letter to give to her husband and H was to give him a small transponder locater. Lindsay was shown appreciating all the dirty "lawyer tricks" that Hussein was pulling. Colonel Ahmad al-Barzan was director of security and ran the show. He was also the judge. A Lieutenant Dumai was given as their "chaperone." Meg tried to befriend her but she challenged her "disrespect for men." Mg said she "respected but not feared." Barzan began mentioning his "scimitar" collection to H and "nearly winking" so H thought he must be the contact.

Ibram Talfa, who led the capture of Anderson, lied in court. When Mg started to cross, Barzan refused to let a woman speak. H then tripped up Talfa's lies showing they had actually been across the Kuwait border and Barzan recessed. Someone had written Scimitar and directions to the N E corner of the grounds on Hs papers, he thought it was Barzan. Mg saw him sneak out at night to get the uplink and nearly get caught on the way back. She went into Hs room and let Barzan find her there so H could sneak into hers. Dumai was beaten for not knowing they had switched rooms. Mg tried to get her to call her Meg but she refused saying that "US is like a child who has lived nothing but thinks it knows everything." Basically she said: you come back after 1000 years as a country and we might listen to you. The next day Talfa recanted his testimony. Mg went to dinner w/ Barzan over Hs objections. While gone Dumai told H that she was Scimitar and that the security force were expecting an escape and knew the name scimitar. They went to get Mg who they found being intimidated by Barzan's swords. Dumai shot Barzan and they used his body to get them past the guards in the car and into the prison. They shot the guards and escaped into the desert but were shot at and followed. Dumai asked H to hit her on the head and leave her but he said no so Mg hit her. She finally said thanks calling her Meg. As the helicopter was shooting rockets at them a US Cobra came over the hill and when fired on, shot them down.

Brig Break - 6

Lt Martin Green, NCI, posed as PO1Peter Quinn & was arrested stealing a "stinger" missile from SEATAC naval ammunitions base. Harm & Meg investigate & meet Lt Caitlin Pike, Hs former partner. Mg & Pike argued that the brig release paperwork was on form 77501 (pike incorrectly saying 77401). While Mg was interviewing Green, "Davis and Jessie" staged a brig break along with the brig's Gunnery Sergeant Gentry. Green, who was a missile expert and black, handcuffed himself to Mg as a hostage in order to prevent her being killed. H noticed them escaping in a bus and ran to jump on board. After wrestling with the driver and KO'ing another he was kicked off the moving bus by Green (and shown getting up from the ground with a clean, pressed undamaged dress uniform.) Base CO Maj ASSpinal screwed up his face, put his nose in the air (and acted like the stereotypical know-it-all, screwed up marine) and refused to take help from any "lawyers" suggesting H start on his investigation. H grabbed his gun saying to Pike that he wasn't required to obey "suggestions." Two hunters claimed they were forced off the road by the bus who also stole their guns and food. They claimed to be hurt and ASSpinal sent them to the base infirmary and told H & Pike to go with them. The hunters refused and took off to the base on their own. ASSpinal argued some more with H refusing to believe that the escape was anything more than opportunistic. H finally shamed him into admitting that a break out involving the head of the brig wouldn't be anything but planned.

Gentry met up with some Aryan nation militia who were very upset that "black" Green was handcuffed to "white" Mg. A helicopter gunship took care of the militia but Gentry's group escaped in the bus. Without regard to any hostage ASSpinal had the bus shot up as well. In the turn-over Jessie was killed and Davis was trapped with a broken leg. Gentry executed Davis so he wouldn't talk then took Green, who was shot in the leg, and Mg with him in a Kodiak launch. ASSpinal ordered the helicopter after the Kodiak too so Gentry shot a stinger at it but it didn't detonate. He blamed Green for that and wondered why Mg was "protecting" him. Gentry shot Green point blank knocking him into the water and pulling Mg under with him. With his last effort Green gave Mg the handcuff keys and she was able to escape back to the surface, and Gentry. ASSpinal had pulled all his men from the base looking for the escapees.

The "hunters" left the infirmary and took over the control station where they could turn off the power to the perimeter fence and unlock the SADAM (Special Atomic Demolition AMmunition) devices and triggers vaults. They stole the SADAM devices and took them to the trigger vault where Gentry had handcuffed Mg to inside the vault. Gentry shot the hunters telling Mg that the Iraqi's paid more than the Aryan Nation. He armed a SADAM setting a 5 digit disarmament code and telling Mg she had 20 minutes to disarm it- "and the code has a seven in it." H & Pike intercepted Gentry escaping and killed him. H grabbed the SADAM to drive it as far from a populated area that 12 minutes would allow. Mg & Pike jumped in the car with him and used their "magic laptop" to find numbers that Gentry might have used. H suggested a number that he might have used every day - such as the brig release paperwork number and Mg & Pike had another argument over whether it was '-401 or -501." Mg disarmed it with 8 seconds left and when H asked which one had been right Mg said that the "person who was wrong wouldn’t want him to know."