The episode starts with a short recap of where we left off last season: Bud & PO Coates walking along a dirt road enroute to attend the ground-breaking of the new school, when they spot a small boy playing in a field that had yet to be cleared of mines. As Coates runs for help, there is an explosion behind her. She turns in time to see Bud injured in the explosion and runs to his side. Coates insists that Bud must be transported on the helo that brought them in, that Bud won't be able to wait for the proper medevac chopper.

JAG Season 8 Episodes...

• s08e01 - Critical Condition (3)
• s08e02 - The Promised Land
• s08e03 - Family Business
• s08e04 - Dangerous Game
• s08e05 - In Thin Air
• s08e06 - Offensive Action
• s08e07 - Need to Know
• s08e08 - Ready or Not
• s08e09 - When the Bough Breaks
• s08e10 - The Killer
• s08e11 - All Ye Faithful
• s08e12 - Complications
• s08e13 - Standards of Conduct
• s08e14 - Each of Us Angels
• s08e15 - Friendly Fire
• s08e16 - Heart & Soul
• s08e17 - Empty Quiver
• s08e18 - Fortunate Son
• s08e19 - Second Acts
• s08e20 - Ice Queen (1)
• s08e21 - Meltdown (2)
• s08e22 - Lawyers, Guns & Money (1)
• s08e23 - Pas de Deux (2)
• s08e24 - A Tangled Webb (3)

JAG Show Summary

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.