JAG (TV Series)

Need to Know (2002)

David James Elliott: Harmon Rabb, Jr.

Quotes 

• Catherine Gale : Clear?

  Harm : Oh, yeah. I think I get it. We can't tell the court why it needs to be declassified because the reason it's classified is classified.

  Catherine Gale : You've got it.

• Harm : Thought you had orders to stay away from me.

  Special Agent Clayton Webb : Well, that was before you went into open court to get that subpoena. Now my boss is afraid you'll go running to the press.

  Harm : Not a bad idea. Might get the attention of the President. He may wonder why the CIA has nothing better to do than to keep a secret that's 34 years old.

  Special Agent Clayton Webb : Don't do it, Rabb. Either way it turns out, you lose.

  Harm : This isn't about me, Clay. And it's not about need to know, either. It's about real people with a hole in their lives that can't be filled with anything other than the truth. They need to know, because if they don't, it'll keep eating away at them. They need to know that they're not going to wake up in the middle of the night, every night, for the rest of their lives, wondering what happened to the people they loved.

  Special Agent Clayton Webb : Some people give up that right to know. Maybe not voluntarily, maybe it's taken away from them, but it's gone, nonetheless. That's the way it is for the families of the stars on this wall.

  Harm : Yeah. Well, at least they have a star. Where are the stars for the crew of the Angel Shark?