JAG s01e05 Episode Script

No! Gym! You look like you've seen a ghost, Lieutenant.
Or do you stare at all women like that? - No.
Actually, I - Good.
- Want a chocolate? - No, thank you.
I am addicted.
What are you doing back here? I was looking for my coat.
Trying to sneak out before the entertainment starts, huh? Well Me, too.
I just called a cab.
- I could give you a lift.
- Really? I'd like that.
There you are, sir.
Lieutenant Austin.
Pleasure.
And a pleasure to meet you, too, Lieutenant.
Sorry I broke up the party.
We were just talking.
Harm, you and I are just talking.
You and she were tangoing across the dance floor half-naked one foot in the nearest bedroom.
And you got all that from, "And a pleasure to meet you, too, Lieutenant.
" Amazing.
I saw the way you looked at her.
She reminded me of someone.
You mean the Thai Ambassador's wife? She's the Come on, you two.
The entertainment's about to start.
- I thought so.
It's so good to see you.
- Yes, sir.
Is your husband here with you? Right shoulder, hooah! Forward march.
Step.
Mortal wound to the chest.
Minor cuts on the hand and arms.
It wasn't a surprise attack.
Harbin even tried to fight back.
Looks like it, but he was overwhelmed.
Hey, just a minute.
What the hell do you think you're doing? I'm Lieutenant Rabb.
This is Lieutenant Austin from JAG, right? Yeah, well, I'm Detective Axelrad.
This is a civilian investigation, Lieutenants.
- Taking place in a military cemetery, sir.
- Oh, give me a break.
You know your jurisdiction is restricted to active installations.
The last time I looked, what do you know? Arlington's not.
It's my crime scene.
My evidence.
My dead guy.
Goodbye.
Three murdered Navy Lieutenants in and around the D.
C.
Area in the last 11 months.
All knife attacks, all at night.
We're working a possible fringe militia activity or a lone assassin with a grudge against the Navy, or a - Statistics.
- Statistics? D.
C.
Has got more murders than most cities and more Navy lieutenants.
Do the math, Lieutenant.
What do you get? More murdered Navy lieutenants.
- Detective? - All found within a five-mile radius.
D.
C.
's only got a five-mile radius.
- We're working on it.
- And have been for the past 11 months.
Read the paper.
We're undermanned.
We're overworked.
And we're willing to cooperate on a mutual basis, Detective.
But I'm not, Lieutenant.
Sir, the victim's car is parked by the west gate, 200 yards away.
Roommate said he saw the victim leaving the French embassy around 11:00 with an unidentified Asian woman.
Good.
Go get her identified.
- Now! - Yes, sir.
Hey, you two know something about this? Thanks for your help, sir.
All right.
We just withheld material facts in a murder investigation.
That's a felony.
I want to talk to Angelique before he does.
Then we'll subpoena his files on all three murders.
It could take weeks if he fights it.
- You have another suggestion? - Yes, sir.
Don't get into a turf war with him because he will win.
As opposed to, Lieutenant? We approach him on a human level.
Slowly work around to finding out what he knows.
- Be subtle, sir.
- Ready! Fire! Excuse me.
Were you working here last night? On Wednesdays, I do a 12:00 to 12:00.
I already told the police that I didn't see anything, sir.
HAL-4.
Navy SEALs.
Your unit took some hard hits in Nam.
I lost a lot of brothers.
Well, you just lost one more.
In case you remember something.
I'm Lieutenant Rabb.
- This is Lieutenant Austin.
- Colonel Patano.
The Ambassador's Chief of Security.
The Ambassador agreed to meet with you as a courtesy to the state department.
That's very gracious of the Ambassador, but what the state department should have communicated is that we actually need to speak with Mrs Sonsiri.
They did.
I have talked to my wife about last night.
Angelique and I attended the French Embassy party last night.
She grew tired early and asked the Lieutenant for a ride home instead of more appropriately asking Colonel Patano.
The Lieutenant dropped her off at the front door.
She then immediately retired.
That's all.
Thank you very much, Ambassador.
May we ask Mrs Sonsiri a few questions, minor details, so we can close the investigation? The sooner this is over the better.
Mrs Sonsiri, when did you meet Lieutenant Harbin? Just last night at the party.
I met a lot of nice people there.
What route did you and the Lieutenant take when you left the party? I don't know.
I gave him the address and he took me home.
Straight here? We didn't stop anywhere, if that's what you mean.
Did you notice anything unusual when the Lieutenant dropped you off? Unusual? Was someone following you? Colonel Patano always follows me.
He was parked up the block.
Mrs Sonsiri is mistaken.
- No, I'm quite positive.
- Enough.
My wife is tired.
When would be a good time to continue this, sir? There won't be.
Good afternoon, Lieutenant.
- Oh, my God! - I'm sorry.
What do you think, Lieutenant? That we just played Clue and Colonel Mustard's the killer.
- Or the Ambassador.
- Or his wife.
Lieutenant Harbin was overwhelmed by his attacker.
He had 100 pounds and two feet on Angelique.
Size isn't everything.
Any chance you dropped those pictures by accident? About the same chance this guy's gonna be happy to see us.
Afternoon, Detective! Enter! Lieutenants Rabb and Austin reporting as ordered, sir! At ease, Lieutenants.
Congratulations on your new duties, Commander.
It's only temporary.
Temporary commands have a way of becoming permanent, sir.
Well, I just received this from state.
Ambassador Sonsiri claims that you called him a liar and offended his wife.
Sir, we attempted to interview Mrs Sonsiri about Lieutenant Harbin's murder.
That annoyed the Ambassador, sir.
- They're involved? - We believe so, sir.
We have to investigate, but if state says to lay off then we have to lay off.
Sir, Admiral Brovo wouldn't lay off.
- He wouldn't? - No, sir.
He would tell us to comply with state's request to give him the ability to disavow himself of the investigation, but he wouldn't order us to stop the investigation.
- I don't see the difference.
- Say we could find a smoking gun without directly questioning the Ambassador and his wife.
Then diplomatic immunity wouldn't be an issue, sir.
Lieutenants, I want you to comply with the state department's request.
Aye, aye, sir! Oh, Lieutenant Rabb? Yes, sir? Wasn't Lieutenant Harbin murdered with a knife? - Yes, sir.
- You said "smoking gun.
" You were speaking figuratively.
Yes, sir.
I knew that.
- Will that be all? - Yes.
- Sir.
- Yes? Did you finish it? Yes, I'll have Nancy get back to you tomorrow.
Okay.
- Politics.
- It's Washington.
What did you expect? I thought it would be different in the Navy, sir.
It is, until you get an office in the Pentagon.
I didn't want to press the Commander too far today, so requisition this equipment first thing in the morning.
We're gonna become peeping Toms? Isn't that politically incorrect, Lieutenant? Don't women have the right to peep, too? Not this one, sir.
And to what do I charge this requisition? - Deniability.
- Sir? Does this look familiar? This is a match for the knife that killed Lieutenant Harbin.
Where did you get it? From our kitchen.
This morning, I recognised the knife from your photos.
I bought service for 36 in that pattern last year.
When I counted this afternoon there was a knife missing.
Would the Colonel have killed Lieutenant Harbin just because he drove you home? My husband and the Colonel came up in the Thai army during the last coup.
They're used to doing whatever they want, without any consequences.
- For talking this morning.
- Has he done this before? Many times.
When you ask Navy Lieutenants like me to escort you home? None of them were like you.
So you did go home with Navy Lieutenants - from embassy parties? - Why are you asking me this? There have been other Navy Lieutenants murdered, Angelique.
And you think my husband or the Colonel have killed them? - Or you.
- Me? - Then why would I bring you the knife? - To throw suspicion onto them.
Is that what you really think? Come on in, Lieutenant.
- So you found the smoking gun.
- Not yet, sir.
Request for equipment from Lieutenant Rabb, sir.
At ease, Lieutenant.
"Navy SEAL EP, Tach seven nightscope, "laser audio surveillance field kit.
" This equipment's strictly limited to battlefield use, Lieutenant.
I believe Lieutenant Rabb is aware of that, sir.
What's he gonna do with this? I don't believe you wanna know that, sir.
Well, I have to know if you want me to sign for it.
If you say so, sir.
But then you won't have deniability.
Dismissed, Lieutenant.
- Thank you, sir.
- You're welcome.
I think.
The first Navy Lieutenant was killed about 11 months ago, so guess when Ambassador Sonsiri was posted to Washington.
Wouldn't happen to be about a year ago? You got it.
I'm on my way to meet Detective Axelrad.
Using your human approach? - That's right.
- Meaning you're wearing a dress.
Look, don't think you know me that well, because you don't.
I'll be so subtle, by the time I work my way around to asking for the file he'll barely notice.
- Is it a red dress? - No.
How's my car? Fine.
Better yet, no one at the embassy will recognise it.
Well, I just made my first payment - so don't - I'll be careful.
Good luck, Harm.
Aren't you the one who's getting lucky tonight? Over and out.
Detective? I don't have a lot of time.
How can I help you? Well, this morning wasn't exactly the high point of military-civilian communication.
We're all too busy for niceties.
Too many dead people.
- Navy Lieutenants and otherwise? - That's right.
Glass of chardonnay, please.
You and I have common ground, Detective.
Oh, yeah? We're both interested in finding the truth.
Oh.
Righting wrongs, right? Seeing justice prevail, protecting the all-American way? You make it sound trivial.
No.
- I'm just waiting.
- For? At first you're gonna talk about yourself.
Where you came from, who you are.
You know, draw me in.
In about a half an hour, two drinks later, we're leaning across the table and I'm noticing how incredibly attractive you are.
And I'm starting to think to myself, "You know, damn.
"It wouldn't be such a bad idea if I was to help you.
" And if I did give you the file on the case, you'd appreciate it.
We'd keep in touch.
And who knows what might happen down the line? Right, Lieutenant? So let's save some time.
I've already noticed how attractive you are.
In a uniform, in a dress.
In anything is my bet.
Here's the file on Lieutenant Harbin's murder.
Files on the other two are already archived.
I will try and get those to you.
And here is my number.
At home.
Now, if you're really interested, call me.
Oh, Lieutenant.
Drink's on me.
Will there be anything else, Mrs Sonsiri? No, thank you.
Good night, Beth.
Good night, madam.
Mr Ambassador, would you like something from the kitchen before turning in? Oh, I'd better not.
You know how my wife is - when she catches me snacking.
- Mrs Sonsiri has already gone to bed.
Maybe I'll have a little bite to eat in your room.
I was hoping you'd say that.
You're on Thai property, Lieutenant.
I could reach out, break your neck, and the police could do nothing.
You'd never get that close, Colonel.
Not in one piece.
Have you ever killed a man, Lieutenant? Looked in his eyes, watched the life go out of him? Is that what you did to Lieutenant Harbin? Or did you hold him and the Ambassador stick the knife in his chest? The Ambassador did not kill your Lieutenant, and neither did I.
Is he just jealous of Angelique, or would he kill over her maid, too? We do not kill over women.
That is a western weakness.
You just beat the women instead.
You've spoken to Angelique.
In embassy circles, clarity is often obscured by diplomacy, so let me be clear.
You come near the Sonsiris again and there will be another dead Navy Lieutenant.
I didn't know where else to go.
I thought about lying, saying that I saw the Colonel kill the lieutenants so they'd all be sent away.
But I'd have to go back with them, unless I could get asylum.
How will you live? Do you have someplace to go? No.
But I've got the rest of my life to figure it out.
When you look at me like that, what are you seeing? The summer I turned sixteen, I ran away from home.
I went to Vietnam to look for my father.
He was an MIA.
The woman who helped me look for him had a daughter.
Her name was Gym.
Were you in love? We were 16.
Romeo and Juliet? Sort of.
- Ever think of going back to her? - She was killed.
I'm sorry.
You remind me of someone, too.
Am I still a suspect? Yes.
You can stay here tonight.
I'll take the couch.
- That's not necessary.
- Yes, it is.
Left.
Hup.
- Is it like this every morning? - Better than an alarm clock.
You like it.
Never too far from where I've been.
Excuse me.
- Lieutenant Rabb.
- Chief Petty Officer Markwood, sir.
Navy HAL-4.
Yes, Chief? I wasn't always a drunk.
I'm listening, Chief.
I saw something that morning at the cemetery.
I was paid not to talk.
But I don't care.
Where are you? I'm at 12058th street.
Five minutes away.
I'm on my way, sir.
And hooah! Good news? - You still don't trust me.
- Angelique, please understand.
Yes, I understand.
In my head.
Not in my heart.
Last night.
Bingo! You got the detective to warm up? Why, I don't know if I'd go that far.
And I don't know how helpful the file is.
No tissue or fibre evidence that points to a killer.
Blood work? Harbin had been drinking, but wasn't drunk.
- Drugs? - Nope.
He had allergies.
Blood showed levels for benadroxine, which is a common antihistamine.
Where is she, Harm? - She's in the bedroom.
- This is insane! She's a suspect! If the Navy finds out, that will be the end of your career.
You're making assumptions.
Oh, you're saying you didn't sleep with her? You are way out of line, Lieutenant! - I'm sorry, sir.
I - Lieutenant Rabb? Are you ready to talk, Chief? Am I gonna be in bad shape for not telling the police everything up front? Not as bad as Lieutenant Harbin.
What did you see, Chief? Like I told you and the police, soon as I saw the body, I called it in.
Then I'm barely hanging up the phone when out of nowhere there's a man right behind me.
A big, bald Asian guy.
He laid some money on me.
And he asked me what I saw, which is nothing, and I told him.
And then he told me that I didn't see him either, and laid more money on me.
- Then he split.
- Did he go near the body? Not that I saw, ma'am.
Which is why I went along.
It didn't seem important.
But if it wasn't important, he wouldn't have paid me, would he? Can you pick this man out of a line-up? Yes, sir.
Yes, sir, I can.
Sniper! What? - Markwood? - It went in his shoulder.
He's in shock.
Call 911, and keep low! Where are you going? Meg? Yeah, the bleeding stopped.
The ambulance is on the way.
- Okay.
Can you draw fire safely? - I'll try.
Meg, call me back in 25 seconds.
Call you back? Harm? Mark time, now! Drop it.
Send another ambulance over here.
We have our smoking gun.
I've got it.
Thanks.
Both rounds hit him right in the chest, two inches apart.
This guy would be dead if it wasn't for this old war wound he has.
Hold on a sec.
Tell him I'll be there in a half an hour, okay? He shattered his sternum years ago.
So they put in a steel plate right here.
It stopped one of your bullets, Lieutenant, right in front of his heart.
- Is he talking? - Oh, yeah.
The Colonel confessed to killing all three lieutenants.
- He signed an affidavit.
Everything.
- On the Ambassador's orders? Oh, he says no.
I say probably, yeah.
There's no way we can prove it.
Well, I guess it's your collar, Lieutenant.
You wanna wrap this up or should I do it? I'll do it.
- Since you volunteered, Lieutenant.
- Go, sir.
Have a nice evening.
You, too.
Hey.
I have a report to do.
I figured you were gonna say something like that.
Don't lose my number.
You know, Lieutenant, you guys were pretty damn lucky.
The Colonel, he started off as a sniper in the Thai army.
Ciao! I just learned that you were an army sniper, Colonel.
If you were trying to kill us today, we'd be dead.
I think you were trying to commit suicide.
Lieutenant Rabb saw you reload, but your clip was empty.
You pointed an unloaded weapon at him to sacrifice yourself.
If you think you've saved the Ambassador, you haven't.
He's being recalled to Thailand.
Or was that the idea? Having him recalled so the murders would end.
I gave my confession.
Harbin was found where he was killed.
But the other Navy Lieutenants' bodies were moved.
Is that what would have happened if the gardener hadn't been there? You would have cleaned up to cover the Ambassador's tracks? Fine.
Go back to Thailand and face the death penalty.
Can't say anyone here will be sorry to see you go.
Not the Navy.
Not the D.
C.
Police.
I'm only just sorry you're all not going.
What do you mean? Oh, didn't you know? Angelique's staying here.
- She She can't.
- Why not? Why not? Because if she doesn't, the murders won't stop? It's not the Ambassador you're falling on your sword for, is it? It's her.
Let me take that for you, sir.
I hope you don't mind.
I ordered some champagne.
Whatever you want, Gym.
I'm sorry.
It just came out.
It's okay, I understand.
- To Gym.
- To Why don't you tell me about her? I met Gym when I hooked up with a former Marine Colonel in Bangkok named Striker.
Back then, a lot of people believed that our MIAs were being held in Laos.
He was one of them.
He lived up a khlong with Gym's mother.
The two of them would sneak into Laos to check on reported MIA sightings.
When I joined them to look for my dad Gym insisted on coming.
She was the same age as me and said that if I could go, so could she.
That's why it's my fault.
I was scouting ahead with Colonel Striker.
Gym and her mother were spotted by a Laotian helicopter on a border patrol.
No! Gym! No! No! No! Somehow Colonel Striker got me out.
When we went back for them, the Laotians had taken their bodies.
- You left them behind? - They were dead.
You ran away.
You abandoned them.
- No, it wasn't like that.
They were dead.
- What if they weren't? I'm sorry.
I could use some air.
I need to see the Ambassador.
- He cannot be disturbed.
- No.
Ambassador Sonsiri! - What's going on? - I need to speak to your wife.
My wife is gone.
Good night, Lieutenant.
No, no.
She's gonna kill again! In here.
- Explain yourself.
- It's quite simple, sir.
Your wife's gonna kill another Navy Lieutenant.
Colonel Patano confessed.
He did not kill those lieutenants.
She did and you know it.
Strange as it may seem, Lieutenant, I do not.
Colonel Patano is in love with Angelique.
Has been for years.
But I knew he would never violate our friendship.
When he confessed to the murders, I assumed he did them out of jealousy.
- Something I personally have never felt.
- She was your wife, sir.
Angelique is a beautiful woman.
A gracious hostess.
Perfect for someone of my position.
Or what my position used to be.
With all due respect, Mr Ambassador, I find your way of thinking disgusting.
In light of what has happened, so do I.
But obviously for different reasons.
Why would my wife murder those Lieutenants? I don't know, but I know she did, and I know she's gonna kill Harm.
Harm? The Lieutenant who questioned us with you? Yes, sir.
- Fascinating.
- No, sir, it is not fascinating.
It is not interesting, it's not amusing.
Where is she, sir? I don't know.
Angelique is not returning to Thailand with me.
I know she arranged for asylum.
She didn't have to.
She's an American citizen.
- She is? - Angelique is not Thai.
She is a child of war.
Her mother's Vietnamese.
Her father is an American officer.
Navy Lieutenant? Yes.
A Lieutenant Parker, I believe.
Lieutenant Lawton Parker.
- Commander Lindsey.
- Oh, thank God you're still there, sir! It's become a 24-hour job, Lieutenant Austin.
Sir, I need to locate a former Navy Lieutenant, probably retired, named Lawton Parker.
He served in Vietnam.
I'll put the request through in the morning.
No, sir.
Tomorrow's too late, sir.
- Have you been drinking, Lieutenant? - No, sir.
But I'm worried that Lieutenant Rabb has.
Excuse me? I've been reading the police reports, sir.
And all three dead Lieutenants show blood levels of benadroxine which, in high enough doses, acts like a sedative.
That's how she overwhelms them.
She puts a big dose of antihistamine in their drinks.
- Who does? - Angelique Sonsiri.
She's the killer.
You already have a confession from that Colonel Pati-something-or-other.
No, he was in love with Angelique.
He was protecting her.
He was in love with the Ambassador's wife? Sir, save the moral indignation, please get me Lieutenant Parker's address, sir.
It's a long shot, but it's the only shot that I have.
What's your car phone number? Pull over here.
Here's your reward.
You really are addicted.
I'm just making up for lost time.
We were poor.
There were times my mother had to beg for rice.
Did you stop here with Lieutenant Harbin? I already told you we didn't stop anywhere.
- What are you asking? - Arlington cemetery is right there.
It is? May I see your purse, please? - Why? - Just let me see your purse.
You know, I don't like you when you're like this.
And I didn't like the look in your eye when you accused me of leaving Gym behind.
Now let me see your purse.
- What do you expect to find? - I'm hoping nothing.
But I'm afraid it's gonna be a knife.
Even if there was a knife, I'm sure you can take it away from me.
Not if I was drugged.
Is that what you're waiting for? Some untraceable drug to take effect? I didn't drink the champagne, Angelique.
Lieutenant, I had to wake up an admiral to get this, and he wasn't very happy about it.
- I hope you appreciate that.
- Did you find him, sir? Yes.
In Virginia.
- Where in Virginia, sir? - Arlington cemetery.
He died two years after returning from Nam in a traffic accident.
She must have murdered them all there.
Do you have a plot number, sir? Plot number? Never mind.
I know where it is.
Why, Angelique? Why? You left us behind.
- What are you talking about? - You left us behind! And NVA came! Remember how beautiful my mother was? When they found out she had an American lover they used her! There were so many of them, I lost count.
You saw? They made me watch.
It was not in the champagne.
- I'm not your father, Angelique! - I remember my father! White uniforms, gold stripes.
You can't fool me! - You shouldn't have left us! - I'm not your father, Angelique! You left us! No! Harm? You look familiar, sort of.
Although the earthquake registered 4.
5 on the Richter scale, there was no significant damage in Los Angeles.
A tremor of another kind went through Washington yesterday when the state department announced the expulsion of the Thai ambassador and another member of the delegation without specifying a reason.
And a report this morning that the Ambassador's wife is being held in a murder investigation only deepens the mystery.
The state department has promised a full explanation at a 10:00 news conference, which we will carry live.
Elsewhere in Washington, attorney It's open.
- How many fingers? - Two.
Right.
You're fit for duty, sir.
Is this test approved by the surgeon general? Nope.
Me.
It's how I checked if my Aunt Ellie's hangover was over.
I take it your Aunt Ellie imbibed.
If you call tossing down bourbon with beer chasers imbibing.
In Texas we just call it doing shooters.
Help yourself.
- Question.
- As long as it's not personal.
Wouldn't do that, sir.
Did you always think she might be the killer or did you start to trust her? The only reason I'm not flying jets is because of my eyes.
They test fine, but under certain conditions like landing on a carrier at night, - forget it.
- Night blindness? There's a lot of things you're blind to.
But you don't realise it until it's too late.
I gotta run.
Commander Lindsey wants me at the press conference at 10:00.
Let him take the credit.
Will do, sir.
Meg.
I didn't sleep with her.
I knew that.