[The JAG season finale and 'cliff-hanger - A very key episode especially considering that the creator, Donald Bellisario, appeared in a cameo (but pivotal) role: 'Hugh Blackadder,' Harm's stepfather's Russian friend]

JAG officer Harm’s (H) Russian nemesis, Parlovski, sent H a photo of his father in Russia with a note that said “this one’s for real.” Webb (W) told H the names of the person’s in the photo and revealed that Viktor Lushov, standing next to Rabb Sr., was a Russian pilot who had interrogated downed pilots in Vietnam, and was now working in San Diego. Harm flew there to inform his mother, Trish, and stepfather Frank Burnett about everything. Trish gave H an “if I don’t come back” tape of his father’s, that he’d never heard; and, Frank told him that “although you never thought of me as a father, you are the only son I’ve ever had” and offered help through Hugh Blackadder in Russia.
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Being dumped by JAG officer Mac (M) due to his dishonesty, Dalton Lowne began calling and following Mac to “get her back” not realizing that he (and she) were being stalked themselves. At the JAG offices, Harm (H) backed Lowne down and told him to “let her go, walk away.”
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Vice Admiral Bill Clancy, a post Vietnam mentor of the JAG, Chegwidden’s (C), from the USS Farragut, was shot while hunting and it was ruled a suicide. Chegwidden didn’t believe it for a minute and had Harm (H) and Mac (M) investigate the incident despite their obvious prejudice toward the suicide evidence. They talked to the hunting guide, Craig Allenby, and hunting partners Admiral Paul Whelan and Deputy Secretary of Defense Mitchell Schoenfield. Allenby said that Clancy had gone behind a tree to relieve himself when he heard a shot. The others said that Clancy was depressed and despondent over loosing funding for a pet project. Whelan was arrogant and rude about Clancy’s weakness and being “in over his head” and told C that he though C was “made from the same mold.”
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