"JAG" Brig Break (TV Episode 1995) Poster

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(1995)

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9/10
Meg works hard as the damsel in distress
hindsonevansmike4 June 2019
One-third of the way through the production run of the first season of "JAG", Harm and Meg reunite with Kate Pike (who clearly still has some affinity to Harm - this will be finally enunciated around five years later in Kate Pike's last appearance on the show) who is working in Intelligence.

There are several red herrings and Meg takes a swim (fully clothed) before the action moves onto a "nuclear detonation countdown" story where our heroic threesome emerge triumphant.

The cast act their little hearts out and the stunt team did great work. The world is saved for another day. The goofs listed on IMDB do not detract from the entertainment value.
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8/10
"Brig Break"
allmoviesfan27 April 2023
By my count, Lieutenant Caitlin Pike (Andrea Parker) has appeared in as many JAG Season One episodes as President Clinton - two. Her second appearance and first since the pilot sees her teaming with Harm and Meg to foil a brig break at Seatac in the Pacific Northwest, where she is working as an intelligence officer. The three Navy officers work well together.

There is plenty of action in this one - as has been the case with all the episodes so far - with a heck of a lot on the line, and things aren't exactly as they seem. The writers do a good job keeping a few reveals up their collective sleeves.

I can't recall even a single scene where these Navy Lawyers, as they are disparagingly labelled by some of the military types they come into contact with, have been in a courtroom.
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6/10
Exciting
rms125a29 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I was not in the military (which I can assure anyone reading this was all to that august institution's advantage) so I cannot vouchsafe exactly how realistic the breakout was but it was exciting. It quickly becomes apparent that the seemingly ordinary sailor who stole two Stinger missiles from a base intended to be caught so as to be in the brig when the breakout occurred and Michael Jai White plays him quite effectively as scarily smart, violent, and no nonsense. And then he turns out to be something else, again. A vicious-looking shiv is used in the escape but the audience learns that, fortunately, it did not cause any fatalities.

Lee Tergesen plays a treacherous character, in this case an ostensibly trustworthy sergeant who seems initially stereotypically hardened, mulish and chauvinistic, but soon shows his far, far worse colors. All in all an exciting, if far-fetched, episode. But truth can be stranger than fiction.
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1/10
Preposterous! Skip this episode.
trajanrome5 August 2020
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The brig brake was a bit hard to swallow, but the nukes? Silly and cartoonish.
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