JAG 8x21 Meltdown (2)

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First Aired: Apr. 29, 2003 on CBS

Summary: NCIS Agent Gibbs continues his investigation on the terrorist, Amad Bin Atwa to avert another attack on a Navy ship. Harm is court-martialed for the murder of Lt. Singer.

Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb	played by David James Elliott
Jr.	played by David James Elliott
Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie	played by Catherine Bell
Lt. Bud Roberts	played by Patrick Labyorteaux
Jr.	played by Patrick Labyorteaux
Adm. Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden	played by John M. Jackson
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs	played by Mark Harmon
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo	played by Michael Weatherly

Episode Quotes

Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You're going back to the FBI.
Special Agent Vivian Blackadder: What?
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: To get whatever they have on bin Atwa.
Special Agent Vivian Blackadder: Right.
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: Also want transcripts of all previous Al-Jihad interrogations mentioning his name or Mohommed's.
Special Agent Vivian Blackadder: That'll take weeks!
Special Agent Jethro Gibbs: You got two days. If you can't get it done by then, don't bother coming back.

Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Do you know why I always catch the doctors and lawyers?

Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: They over-think.

Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: You probably know your Article 31 rights, but I kind of like reading them.

Trivia

Agent Gibbs of the NCIS goes to the fictional USS Chattanooga in the Mediterranean Sea. There is no such ship in the US Navy. However, there have been two vessels by that name: a steam sloop, in service 1866-71, and C-16, a protected cruiser of the Denver class, in service 1904-21. There have been two proposals (in 1944 and -45) to give that name to two other ships, but each one was canceled before commissioning. The establishing shot for that scene shows USS Thomas Gates (CG-51), a guided-missile cruiser of the Ticonderoga class, in service 1987-2005, named for a secretary of defense under President Eisenhower.
The two-part episode sequence "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown", aired in the spring of 2003, was the pilot for "NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" (2003).