Rabb and Austin are sent to investigate the possible alien abduction of a little girl who was living with her uncle, a former Navy seal, now living a secluded life. The clues to the little girl's disappearance lead the two to a nearby abandoned military air base, where they too see strange alien like lights and painful sounds. Although the local officials discount their sightings, they return to further investigate the goings on at the old air base. What they soon discover is that a major drug running operation is headquartered at the air base. Although the team finds the little girl there, the drug runners capture Lt. Austin.
After being diagnosed with night blindness, Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, an F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot, is forced to change careers. Cmdr. Rabb chooses to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. There he both defends and sometimes prosecutes Navy and Marine Corps defendants. He is sometimes assisted by fellow lawyer, Lt. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, and his other fellow JAG staff.
Many of Rabb's cases require him to both keep up his F-14 qualifications and travel the world, in order to bring justice to the cases he is trying.
Rabb must also deal with the fact that his father, also a former Navy pilot, never returned home after being held prisoner after he was shot down in North Vietnam. Rabb believing his father is still alive continues the search he has pursued to find his father, since his teens.