Harm is hit by a car while jogging with MacKenzie. While recovering in the hospital, a Palestinian terrorist group takes over the building and barricades themselves in using explosives. They are there to stop a heart transplant procedure which is about to be performed on an Israeli Minister. Harm must try to stop the terrorists, save the Minister, and help the patients who are now blocked by the terrorists from their medical care, all while being barely able to walk.
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.