Angela returns from her first combat mission with fear in her eyes. Instead of resigning - which her roommate talked her out of - she finds herself in the hero-position: On the mission her commander shot down two enemy fighters but she gets the credit for this. Cassie herself is involved with a private who is the rival of Ripper, the LSO. A team of reporters is already on their way to interview Angela, but during the night Angela is killed.

When a civilian software developer aboard a Navy sub uses an experimental torpedo to blackmail the government for $40 million, Rabb and Austin are sent to negotiate with him and must figure out a way to trick him into deactivating it.

During a maneuver, transposed digits lead to a fatal bombing of our own men. This causes several seriously wounded and eventually one dead soldier. Lt. Rabb and Lt. Austin are assigned to investigate this case because the responsible man is no one else than Jay Williams, the son of Gen. Williams. But it seems the case is clear since Jay confesses that this mistake was his fault. Locations: MCB Twenty-Nine Palms maneuver

During a test flight, Lt. Pendry has a deadly crash with his Tomcat. Harm and Meg are ordered to probe this case and the facts point at a pilot error and not at a system malfunction. Though Pendry was a risky flying pilot, Harm knows him quite well from his flying days and doesn’t believe he would be reckless enough to cause a crash, particularly since he has a family. Locations: Miramar Naval Air Station; San Diego-area and off-coast.

Cpl. Parr shoots at an intruder, who he believes shot at him first, at the US-Embassy in Lima, Peru. The intruder, who turns out to be an unarmed 15 year old, is killed. But he wasn’t any boy - he was the brother of Cpl. Parr’s girlfriend who (according to her) is pregnant. Harm and Meg shall now find out if he was really unarmed or if this was an attempt to kill the ambassador. Locations: Lima, Peru

Rabb and Austin investigate the death of a female Marine recruit. Austin is sent undercover to try to find out if the death was systemic or just a one time occurrence and to hopefully also determine who the culpable person was. The answer puts Austina 's life in danger from an escaped federal prisoner who doesna 't plan to be taken alive.

While searching for a girl who disappeared near an abandoned Naval Air Station, Harm and Meg watch the same mysterious lights and hear the same painful sound which also took place during Kathy’s disappearance. Though it looks like alien movement, neither of them really believe in UFOs. Looking for her on the base they nearly get caught but thanks to Kathy they can escape at the last minute. But they are still trapped on the base. Finally thanks to a hint by Kathy’s uncle and a landing plane Harm knows what’s going on ... Locations: Del Rio, Texas

After a lightning strike, a damaged F-14 Tomcat is forced to ditch in Cuba. Harm and Meg, accompanied by Cdr. Krennick and Undersecretary of State Bair, are dispatched to negotiate the return of the pilot and aircraft. The Navy’s goal is to prevent the download of the Tomcat’s classified software by Iran, but the Undersecretary isn’t telling everything he knows. Locations: Washington,D.C.; Cuba

GSgt. Crockett, instructor for snipers at the Boot Camp in Quantico, is scheduled for transfer to Bosnia. But there’s a deal existing between him and his former commanding officers which says he won’t be used in combat missions any longer. After shooting at the colonel ’to get his attention’ he is arrested. Since Crockett once saved Adm. Chegwidden’s life, the Admiral orders an investigation to help him this time. But GSgt. Crockett escapes from the brig and hides in the mountains. Some Marines go out to find Crockett, who’s a well-trained and experienced sniper. Harm accompanies them. Locations: Quantico, Va.; Washington D.C.

Harm is called in to probe the death of Navy pilot Lt. Marion - son of US Senator Grace Marion - who was killed while training with the Navy SEALs. As he was there only for two days, it seems that the death happened due to gross negligence. With the reports given by his superior and comrades, combined with the results of how he died, the evidence suggests that the actual incident is being covered up. After the JAG officers analyze his equipment and learn that he was on a combat mission (and not a training mission as stated), they suspect murder. And the key to all this could be General Behnke. Locations: Washington D.C.; NAS Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico; Caribbean Sea; Colombia.

A killed Navy officer working at a destroyer’s new defensive system is investigated by Harm with help from Lt. Pike and Cdr. Brockman. Later on, during the testing of this system a malfunction occurs and the system takes over the ship. Without any chance to navigate it, the ship drifts directly to North Korea where the North Korean Navy is already awaiting them. Meg, who came in later, tries with other technicians to break the locking to regain control over the sabotaged system. Locations: Okinawa, Japan; Japanese Sea