Some friends were enjoying a basketball game when a stray bullet coming from the next hotel room crashed the TV set. Their neighbor was shot dead. Thanks to computer in which he surfed the net the night before, detectives figured out the victim spent time with a hooker (Natalie Gold) before being killed, but she left him safe and sound before the accident. The victim was a former US Navy discharged some years before to work for a private security company (in few words, a supervisor mercenary). There, he had hard feelings with several soldiers for something happened in Iraq where he was deployed: a guy was beheaded during an ambush and fellow soldiers blamed him for the accident. This case is well beyond NY jurisdiction for what a person related to the case confessed on the stand. Anyway his reasons were more personal than patriotic....
Did regular US soldiers as just as important as private soldiers for the Jury? I don't think so. I remember the movie "Dogs of War" that talks about these private soldiers. I liked very much this episode, surely the better in the 15th season.