JAG (TV Series) Scimitar (1995) User Reviews

Harm and Meg on team-building in the desert

[hindsonevansmike · 7/10 · 5 July 2021]

Harm and Meg switch lead roles to throw off the Iraqi stereotypes.

The episode provides reasonable desert fun (five years on from GW-One and seven years before Gulf War Round Two). References to John Wayne and "Stagecoach" are a nice homage towards the end.

The climax is, of course, predictable yet satisfying for those of us who support our heroes. Harm and Meg are, by now, established in their working relationships and Chegwidden is yet to arrive.

"Scimitar"

[allmoviesfan · 8/10 · 27 April 2023]

Finally, JAG lawyers Harmon Rabb and Meg Austin do some work in the courtroom. Just, an Iraqi courtroom where they must defend a USMC corporal who got lost, crossed the Iraq-Kuwait border and was captured. It's fair to say, they don't spend a whole lot of time lawyering.

Saddam Hussein, who appears in stock footage a few times (like President Clinton has previously and did again in this episode), has allowed the JAG duo to represent the corporal, though it is suspected that the trial will be anything but fair.

Meanwhile, Harm is in training with Navy SEALs to break the USMC corporal out of jail in the event that the trial goes bad. Harm must rely on the support of a US intelligence asset in Iraq, known only as Scimitar.