Episode:Brig Break

Episode

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Brig Break

Season

Episode

Season One

8

First aired

December 2, 1995

Written by

Reuben Leder (Teleplay) & Robert Cochran (Story/Teleplay)

Directed by

Jim Johnston

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Brig Break is the eighth episode of the first season of JAG which aired from NBC on December 2, 1995.

Synopsis

Meg is taken hostage during a "brig break", but Harm suspects that the target is much larger than just one prisoner.

Cast

• David James Elliott as Lt. Harmon Rabb Jr.
• Tracey Needham as Lieutenant J.G. Meg Austin

Co-starring

• Andrea Parker as Lt. Caitlin "Kate" Pike

Guest Starring

• David Gianopoulos as Major Aspinal
• Michael Jai White as Petty Officer First Class Peter Quinn/Lt. Martin Payne
• Lee Tergesen as Gunnery Sergeant Gentry
• Charles Cyphers as Jesse
• James Nardini as Petty Officer Toby Davis
• David Dean Bottrell as McKissick
• Wayne Duvall as Hobbs
• Chris Conrad as Sergeant Lowell
• Eric Bruskotter as Shore Patrolman Drum
• Charles Carpenter as Shore Patrolman Tinker

Major Events

• Harm, Meg and Kate Pike, while trying frantically to disarm a detonated nuclear bomb, trying every permutation they can think of, including the perp (Gentry)'s date of birth, which is given as 09-27-52, making the perp 43 years old, far older than Gentry would have been and more than a decade older than the actor playing him.

Trivia

• The time left when the nuclear device was disarmed, was the same amount of time in the James Bond movie Goldfinger when the nuclear device was disarmed. 007 seconds.