JAG (1995–2005): Season 6, Episode 13 - Miracles - full transcript

( rapid gunfire,
soldiers yelling)

( gunfire ceases)

( man shouting in Vietnamese)

H-H-Help me...

( gunshot) Damn it!

Help me...

He-Help me...

( gunfire)

It's the Padre.

Give him cover!

( rapid gunfire)



Anoint him, may the Lord
in His mercy, in His mercy...

( groaning)

( gunfire continues)

help me.

( screaming)

( thunderclap)

( thunder rolling)

MAN: Help me!

( thunderclap)

( thunder rolling)

Help me, help me...

( short siren blast)

( brakes screeching)

Freeze!



Get your hands in the air!

She's my wife. Get an ambulance!

Get your hands in the air!

( thunder rumbling)

( siren wailing)

He says he's some kind of

Major Sergeant in the Marines.

That's Sergeant-Major,
Detective...

A senior enlisted man.

Oh, well, a radio car found him

at the crime scene,
kneeling over his wife;

the weapon six feet away.

What was the weapon?

A brick.

We sent it to Forensics.

How is she?

Doctors say she's
going to make it.

Subdural hematoma.

But they got to it
before she bled out.

Another few minutes, and
we'd have been charging him

with murder instead
of attempted murder.

Has she made a statement?

No, not yet. What about him?

He made a statement?

Yeah, said he didn't do it.

Just left the house
looking for his wife

when she was late getting
home and happened to find her

in an alley 80 miles
from their house.

I'm surprised he didn't tell
us he saw a one-armed man.

Look, Detective, we generally
like to prosecute our own.

Where do you want him shipped?

RABB: Sergeant-Major
Jarvis Krohn...

The Command
Sergeant-Major at Quantico.

Before that, he ran the
Scout Sniper School there.

And before that,
he was in charge

of the Marine security
detachment for the White House.

He's been awarded

two Silver Stars and
one Purple Heart.

A real poster-Marine...

Except when he's bashing
his wife's head in with a brick

if that's what he did.

ROBERTS: Yeah,
well, according to this

in 1995, PMO sent base security

to his quarters at Camp Lejeune

found his wife
with a bloody lip.

Sergeant-Major Krohn received

unofficial counseling.

Neighbors at Quantico say

they've heard his raised
voice from their house recently.

( computer beeping)

Tiner, what are you doing?

Installing your
screen saver, sir.

What screen saver?

The one from the
SETI program, sir.

You agreed to take part.

Oh, yeah, I remember.

Is his wife awake yet?

Yes, she regained
consciousness this morning, sir.

Well, what did she say?

She says they've had
their problems in the past,

but she can't believe
the Sergeant-Major

is capable of
anything like this.

What do you mean
she can't believe it?

Doesn't she know?

Well, sir, the last
thing she remembers

is having egg salad for
lunch yesterday, alone.

Traumatic memory loss, sir,

aggravated by the
blow to the head.

( computer beeping)

Tiner, what did
the literature say?

You volunteered to use
your computer's downtime, sir

to analyze chunks of raw data

picked up by the
Arecibo radio telescope.

Looking for signals

that might have come
from intelligent life...

sir.

From outer space?

ROBERTS: Well, it's a very

exciting program, sir.

Millions of people are using it.

I have it on both
of my computers.

You think you've got room

on your computer
for this case file?

Lieutenant, you'll prosecute.

Yes, sir.

Commander, you'll
defend. Aye, sir.

Here you go, sir.

You won't even notice.

It runs in the background.

KROHN: Do you believe
in God, Commander?

We have more productive
things to discuss, Sergeant-Major

than my religious preferences.

I'm innocent, sir.

Were you innocent of giving
your wife a bloody lip in 1995?

Because the prosecution
is going to bring that up.

I love my wife, Commander,
and she loves me.

And we both love God.

Then tell me what
happened yesterday.

I got home at 1800.

I was a little late because
I'd been going over

monthly unit reports
with the General.

Robin, my wife

was going to make
pork chops for dinner.

Mm-hmm.

So, she went to the
market in Dumfries.

She should have been
back in 20 minutes.

After a while, I
got to be worried.

I had a terrible feeling,

so I went out looking for her.

And I found her.

You found your wife in an alley
in Baltimore, Sergeant-Major.

She was supposed
to be at a market

in Dumfries.

So, how did you find her?

I prayed, sir...

and my prayer was answered...

with a miracle.

Mac, hi. Hi.

Harm isn't here,
is he? I don't know.

I want to put this on
his desk; it's a surprise.

The Roches? Yeah. They're
doing a benefit next month.

I'm doing the video.

Didn't they sing that
song, "Oh, Mr. Sellack"?

♪ Oh, Mr. Sellack ♪

♪ Can I have my job back? ♪

I love them.

Well, you know,

they're warming
up at the Ten-Spot

in Georgetown next
Friday; I'm dragging Harm.

Why don't you and Mic... We'd...

You know what?

I have to be at Cherry Point

on the 18th for
three or four days.

Well, maybe next time.

Yeah.

Actually, you know, uh,

the 18th is the week after next.

Right. You said that they
were playing next Friday.

I think so.

You know, I could always,
you know, double-check.

Well, if they are...

Then it's a date.

Chaplain Wiggins
was a Catholic chaplain.

The Ninth Marines
in Vietnam... my unit.

Some of the chaplains
over there, sir, they, uh...

well, they kind of
missed the point.

But, uh, Chaplain Wiggins,
he'd have a beer with you, sir.

He'd come out into the field.

He carried the same
pack we carried.

You never heard of him?

I don't think so, no.

He got to be kind
of famous, sir...

For the way he died.

What does this have to
do with you and your wife?

I'm getting to that, sir.

Some of the guys
who were shot, sir

were out in the open, in
plain sight of the enemy.

One Marine, Rosebrock,
kept calling out, "Help me."

But we couldn't get to him.

We were pinned down.

But Chaplain Wiggins
went out anyway, sir.

He, um, checked on a couple
of the guys who were dead.

He got hit, but he kept going.

And the Marine who
was calling out "help me",

he, uh, gave him the last rites.

Bullets hitting all around.

( distant gunfire)

And he got killed.

Nobody gave him the last rites.

Well, he... sounds
like a very brave man.

He's got a reputation for...

holiness, sir.

A group has been
formed to honor him.

There's a newsletter, a website.

People pray to him, sir.

You... prayed to him when
your wife was missing?

Yes, sir.

And he interceded with
God to answer my prayer.

I saw a vision of the Padre

right in front of me, sir,

and I followed him.

I followed him out to my car.

I followed him all the
way into Baltimore,

and he led me to my wife...

just in time to save her life.

RENÉE: Maybe you
should plead him insane.

He's not insane,
Renée, he's religious.

Or delusional.

Or religious and delusional.

Or a liar and a murderer.

Or that.

You have "Travel"?

Yeah. You got "Sports".

( knock at door)

Hey, the comics are mine.

Mm-hmm.

Since when, if you don't
go to church on Sunday,

do they send a
priest to your house?

( knock at door)

Hello.

Mrs. Rabb?

Uh, no, that would
be his mother.

Come in.

I'm sorry to
interrupt your, uh...

your breakfast,

but I just got in from Rome,

and I thought
I'd get right to it.

I'm Harry O'Rourke.

Harmon Rabb.

This is Renée Peterson.

Hi. I'm going to go get
dressed. Excuse me.

Get right to what, Father?

The alleged miracle

granted through prayer
to Walter Wiggins.

You heard about it?

Well, his backers
made sure I did, yeah.

His backers?

You don't know
what's going on here?

Apparently not everything.

Well, the Vatican has
already recognized one miracle

performed as a result of prayer
to Chaplain Walter Wiggins.

A small child cured of
cancer in Toledo 11 years ago.

As a result, the Chaplain
has been beatified.

Beatified?

Proclaimed a Blessed
of the Church...

by the Pope.

Well, if this new
miracle is verified,

then Chaplain Walter Wiggins
could well be declared a saint.

ROBERTS: Your defense

is going to be that God
led him to the alley? Maybe.

And the Roman Catholic
Church is going to back this up?

Possibly.

We don't accept that
a miracle occurred

just because someone said so.

I'm here to investigate.

Investigate what? If there's any

other rational explanation
for what happened.

Well, how about this?

The Sergeant-Major
tosses his wife in the car

drives her to an alley,
and tries to kill her?

Well, that is one explanation.

Yeah, I'd say so.

I'm sure you will.

Commander. Father.

I gather you don't
have much of a case.

Sergeant-Major
Krohn has no alibi.

I can find no witnesses
to substantiate his story.

He was found at the
scene of the crime

with no reasonable explanation
as to how he got there.

And you're not prepared

to entertain an
unreasonable one?

Father, how exactly are you
planning to investigate this?

Talk to the police,
the Sergeant-Major.

Follow the trial.

Let you do the work.

Well, I'm not trying to prove

that Walter Wiggins
performed a miracle.

I'm trying to prove
that Sergeant Krohn

did not attempt
to murder his wife.

Well, without anything else
to work with, Commander,

aren't those two the same thing?

Are you sure it's not
in your briefcase, sir?

CHEGWIDDEN (
on phone): Very sure.

I don't see it here, sir.

Keep looking, Tiner.

Yes, sir.

( syncopated beeps)

Tiner?

Tiner!

( beeping snappy rhythm)

Oh, my God...

RABB: Look, Gunny, I told the
Father that while he was here,

you might be able to help
him out with something.

I've been trying to
track down more people

who knew the Chaplain in Vietnam

to add to his positio,
his spiritual biography.

Firsthand witnesses
are very important.

GALINDEZ: Witnesses
to what, Father?

His virtues.

You know, faith,
hope, charity...

You want me to find Marines
who witnessed virtue in Vietnam?

Well, there was a little bit
of it going on there, Gunny.

Yes, sir.

BRUMBY: I've never been

to Colonial Williamsburg,

and since I'm marrying
a genuine American...

This weekend's no good, Mic.

You're not working.

No. I made us a date.

With Harm and Renée.

Oh. To see a singing
group, you know, the Roches

They sang "The Married
Men," "My Sick Mind"...

Renée and Harm, you and me?

And the Roches.

The four of us.

That's very couplish.

Exactly.

Couplish.

Thanks for lunch.

Hey, Mic.

How's the job hunting going?

Interesting.

I'll tell you all
about it Friday.

Friday? Yeah,

on our double date.

See you.

Double date?

TINER: And I looked over here

at the screen,
and all of a sudden,

I started noticing these
regular spikes emerging.

They'd never been there before.

Tiner...

Attention on deck!

Is the carnival in town?

It's your computer, sir.

Look.

( syncopated beeps)

Well, that's pretty.

At ease, Tiner.

Those are radio signals

picked up from outer space, sir,

in a regular pattern.

Do you know

what this means, Admiral?

Little green men are
communicating with my computer?

Most days, I can't
get email from Norfolk.

This is what the SETI
program is all about, sir.

Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

Where does it come from?

I don't know, sir.

Alpha Centauri?

The program.

The University
of California, sir.

I've been trying to reach them.

Keep trying.

Yes, sir.

Gunny.

Yes, sir?

Can I have my office back?

Aye, aye, sir.

Dismissed.

ROBERTS: Are you sure
you want to do this, sweetie?

We can't just leave it
in the closet forever.

It's been long enough, Bud.

Okay.

And what better place
for all this stuff to go

but the Children's Hospital?

You're right.

Brand-new.

Somebody can get
some use out of that.

I'm sure they will.

Oh, not that.

My mother sent that to me.

It was mine.

Well, then, uh, we
can send it back to her.

Or we could keep it.

Good.

Oh...

What?

It has her name. ( sighs)

Sweetie, I'm sure
there's a Sarah

at Children's Hospital.

Can you do this?

I'll take care of it.

Are you sure?

Yeah, I'm fine.

DETECTIVE: The patrol
officers at the scene

called an ambulance
for Mrs. Krohn,

and they placed her
husband under arrest.

And did the Sergeant-Major
offer any explanation

for what had happened
to his wife, Detective?

Yes.

He said he thought
she'd been carjacked.

Did the patrol officers
see a carjacker?

No. There was
nobody else in the alley.

But they did find... this brick.

Yes.

Our forensic laboratory

found bits of Mrs. Krohn's
scalp embedded in it.

It was a few feet
from the victim.

And a few feet
from the defendant?

That's correct.

There were also several

spots of her
blood on his jacket.

Thank you, Detective.

Did you find fingerprints
on the brick, Detective?

No. The defendant
was wearing gloves.

Were you wearing gloves when
you arrived at the crime scene?

Yes. It was cold.

So there's nothing
suspicious about

Sergeant-Major Krohn
wearing gloves that night?

It wasn't the gloves
that made us suspicious.

Was it the blood on the jacket?

Didn't he tell you
when he found his wife

he bent over to feel if
she was still breathing?

Couldn't he have gotten
blood on his jacket that way?

That's one way.

Detective, didn't he
tell the patrol officers

that he believed his wife

had been carjacked
from a market in Dumfries?

Yes.

Now, isn't it true that somebody
has been abducting women

from parking lots in the
Baltimore-Washington area

assaulting them and
dumping them out of their cars?

It's happened three times
in the last seven months.

Including this one?

No. Our carjacker
stabs his victims.

He doesn't hit them with bricks,

and he always dumps
them in rural areas.

After abducting them
and stealing their cars,

which is consistent
with this case.

Isn't it possible he just
changed some of the details?

Or somebody did a
bad job of imitating him

to throw us off the scent.

Your Honor, would you
please instruct the witness

to answer the
questions I've asked?

Detective, please answer
the questions you're asked.

I think we still managed to
get your drift, Commander.

Detective, does anybody know

the whereabouts
of Mrs. Krohn's car?

We're still looking for
it; we haven't found it.

Which is consistent
with a carjacker

having stolen it
and disposed of it?

Yes.

Detective, if the
patrol officers

had not called an ambulance

when they did, at the urging
of Sergeant-Major Krohn

would his wife be alive today?

The doctors say no.

Would the patrol officers

have seen her if
Sergeant-Major Krohn

had not been kneeling over
her in the headlights of his car?

Probably not.

So if Sergeant-Major Krohn
had not been there just then

and the patrol officers
had not come by just then

would she have died?

Yes.

Pretty good timing,
wouldn't you say?

Well, sometimes
we catch a break.

Well, sometimes
somebody gives us one.

Your Honor...

Withdrawn.

Nothing further.

ROBERTS: Redirect.

Has any major
crime suspect told you

that he was led to
the scene of a crime

by a miracle from God?

Objection. Relevance.

I'll allow it.

One guy who
killed his girlfriend

told me that Jesus
helped him do it

because she was a sinner.

Was that the truth?

Jesus wasn't the
one we convicted.

Detective, did you or any of
the other patrolmen see anything

unusual in the alley where
you found Mrs. Krohn?

Like what?

Well, celestial glowing?

Fluttering angels?

Images of a dead chaplain?

Objection!

Sustained.

Detective, what did
you see in the alley?

Dumpsters,

condoms, liquor bottles...

and him and his wife.

Pretty powerful stuff
in there, Lieutenant.

I didn't hit my
wife with a brick.

Your client did.

"Fluttering angels," huh?

Well, that is your defense,
isn't it, Commander?

Not exactly.
Well, then, tell me.

I'm interested, Father,
what is the theology here?

Well, the Church's position,

and I suppose now
Commander Rabb's,

is that it's not inconceivable
for a faithful servant of God

ascended to Heaven
at God's right hand

can intercede for a miracle
on behalf of a deserving soul.

Like a cure for a fatal illness?

It happens. Saving
a drowning man,

helping little babies?

Bud. What?

All Harriet and I needed to
do was pray to Walter Wiggins?

The Lieutenant and his wife
recently lost a baby, Father.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Sergeant-Major Krohn's
wife is worth saving and our...

our baby daughter isn't?

Nobody can explain
these things, Lieutenant.

Then why are you here, Father?

KROHN: I started praying
to Chaplain Wiggins

a couple of years ago, sir.

And what led you to do that?

I've had a friend with
a drinking problem,

and he prayed for the
strength to stop, and he got it.

Well, you don't always need

a miracle from
God to stop drinking.

My friend did, sir.

He was in pretty bad shape.

Now, you knew Chaplain
Wiggins personally, didn't you?

Yes, sir, in Vietnam.

That must seem odd
to pray to somebody

who you used to drink beer with,

who would stand
next to you in line

waiting for chow.

Well, there was always something

pretty special
about the Padre, sir.

You witnessed his last moments,
didn't you, Sergeant-Major?

Yes, sir.

Helping dying men, after
he was shot seven times.

Must have left

a pretty powerful
image in your mind.

Yes, sir.

The, uh... the night that
my wife was attacked,

that's the way he
appeared to me, sir...

His helmet, his pack...

the way he was when he died.

Now, you realize, Sergeant-Major

that some people are going to
find this story hard to believe?

It happened, sir.

I'd never even been

to that part of Baltimore.

If he hadn't led me, how
would I have found her?

The prosecution says
that you took her there

to kill her and to
dump her body.

I have no reason
to kill her, sir.

I love my wife.

That's why I prayed
for help to find her.

That's why it was granted.

Thank you, Sergeant-Major.

Nothing further.

How did Chaplain
Wiggins give you signals

to turn on the Beltway?

Was it with hand gestures?

Or did this vision of yours
have flashing turn indicators?

Objection. Argumentative.

Overruled.

He... just... led me, sir.

It's...

It's hard to explain.

Now, you say

that you'd never been
to that part of Baltimore,

but have you ever
been to Baltimore?

Yes, sir.

So, you could've gotten
to the city on your own.

Yes, sir.

Sergeant-Major, have you

read any articles
in the newspaper

about the carjacker that
we've heard testimony about?

Yes, sir.

That's why I was so worried

when my wife didn't come home.

And didn't those
articles give you the idea

to pretend your wife was
the victim of a carjacking?

No, sir.

So, you just went
out looking for her

when she was late coming
home from the market?

That's right, sir.

Well, then,

why doesn't
anybody at the market

remember seeing you?

Because I didn't
go to the market, sir.

The Padre...

What... I... saw...
led me to Baltimore.

Wait. Your wife is late

coming home from the market,

so you decide
to go look for her,

but you don't look
for her at the market?

That wasn't where I was led.

How stupid do you think
we are, Sergeant-Major?

Objection.

Sustained.

Dial it back, Lieutenant.

My religion means
something to me.

Didn't you make up this story?

If you don't have faith,
you can't understand.

Aren't you the one that
tried to kill your wife?

I got there just in
time to save her

before she bled to
death inside her brain.

That was a miracle.

Miracles happen.

They are a sign of the power
and the presence of God.

That's what we believe

and about a billion
other Roman Catholics

around the world as well.

Your Honor, I renew my
objection to this line of questioning.

We're trying to
consider the facts here,

and miracles, by definition,
transcend the factual.

Not when they occur

and whether one
has occurred here

is exactly what we're supposed
to be discussing, Your Honor.

I'll let you run
with it, Commander

as long as you
keep a few degrees

south of the supernatural.

Aye, sir.

Father O'Rourke, do you take

the existence of
miracles strictly on faith?

On faith? No, I don't.

My job as a postulator is to
investigate proposed saints.

And the miracles
attributed to them?

Aye, that's right.

So it does, scientifically.

Most common miracles are
unexpected medical recoveries.

When one allegedly occurs,

we get the patient's
complete medical records

interview doctors, collect
X rays, slides of biopsies,

test results, things
of that nature.

We have the whole
package reviewed

by a panel of physicians
who must find that

that recovery was not caused
by any medical treatment.

And that makes it a miracle?

Not necessarily. Lymphoma

and renal-cell cancer
cures, for example,

don't qualify, since
those diseases

have a high rate
of natural remission.

Father, have any miracles
accepted by the Vatican

been attributed through prayer
to Chaplain Walter Wiggins?

Yes.

Clay Norberg, age seven,

lay dying in a Toledo hospital

with a neuroblastoma that
had spread to his bones.

Drug and radiation
treatment had failed the boy

and he slipped into a coma.

Now, his father,

who had served with
Chaplain Wiggins,

prayed all night,
and in the morning,

Clay woke up, the
tumor was gone,

and there was no
further sign of the disease.

Clay is now a
freshman in Notre Dame;

plays trombone

in the school band.

Now, what about
non-medical miracles, Father,

like the one we're
discussing here?

In the eyes of the Church

can they occur?

They have.

In 1949, a cook in a
Spanish orphanage

didn't have enough rice to
feed everybody who was hungry.

She prayed to John Macias,

a monk who had
been born in the village

in the 16th century and
was much revered there

and a single pot of rice
overflowed for hours.

That miracle was
later verified in 1975,

and John Macias
was declared a saint.

So, what happened to
Sergeant-Major Krohn

could have been a miracle?

Aye. An unusual one,

but so it could.

( upbeat music playing,
lively chatter and laughter)

I'm sorry, honey.

No problem.

Can you believe this place?

Yeah, full house.

I think we had more elbow
room on that submarine.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, 15
days under the polar ice.

Very close quarters.

So, how's the case going, Harm?

Oh, piece of cake.

All I have to do to win
is prove there is a God,

and a dead Navy Chaplain
named Walter Wiggins

is sitting by his side

in heaven. Piece of cake.

(applause)

Ladies and gentlemen... please.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the Roches' train

has been delayed
again. ( audience groans)

So... I know.

We expect them within an hour.

So... thank you.

( clears throat)

Ah... well, this is a
natural case for Harm.

He's always
believed in miracles.

He has?

Yeah, he believed his
father might be alive

when no one else did.

He saw his father at least once

after his father died.

You never told me that.

Harm, open up...

That would be a miracle.

Yeah, I'll pray
to Saint Wiggins.

While you're talking
to him, you might

ask him to send Mac...

Wedgwood China.

We're starting to get
our wish list together.

Oh, did you guys set a date?

Uh, Mic wants a formal wedding.

Sarah wants to get
married on a hillside

with a minister and
two goats as witnesses.

He wants to invite half
the population of Sydney.

You're the one who
says you miss Australia.

( whispering)

Mic...

( giggling)

( Brumby chuckling)

( clears throat)

I love the Roches.

Did they sing their a
capella "Hallelujah Chorus"?

I used to sneak women
up to my dorm room

to listen to that one.

Father.

I wasn't born a priest.

GUNNY: Commander, Father,

this is Mr. Hamill.

He drove down from Wilmington.

You're the one talking about

making Chaplain Wiggins a saint?

God makes the
saints, Mr. Hamill.

The Church merely
identifies them.

Well, I've got to
tell you, Father,

the Church is barking up
the wrong tree on this one.

ROBERTS: Father O'Rourke,
is the defendant's wife

in the courtroom today?

I don't believe so.

She hasn't been here
during this trial, has she?

No. She's in a
rehabilitation center

recovering from her injury.

Well, if God granted
a miracle to save her

why does she
need rehabilitation?

Her doctors expect her
to make a full recovery.

With the help of her doctors.

Yes.

Father, on direct examination,

you stated that
every medical miracle

is documented by
expert physicians.

That's right.

Well, interesting.

How many people is
Saint Louis of Anjou

credited with raising
from the dead?

I don't know.

Twelve.

It's in the Catholic
Encyclopedia.

Are these miracles documented

by expert physicians?

That was the 13th century. The
Church had different procedures then.

ROBERTS: But Saint
Louis of Anjou is still credited

with the 12 miracles.

Once a saint's been canonized,

it's not revocable.

And you're sure that someday

Saint Walter Wiggins will
be in that holy company?

No.

No?

Why not?

Well, I've received new evidence

that puts Chaplain
Wiggins' cause in doubt.

What evidence?

Objection.

Counsel is asking the witness

to repeat what
someone has told him.

RABB: It's hearsay.

This is your witness, Commander.

And I've given you a great
deal of leeway. Overruled.

ROBERTS: What evidence, Father?

A new witness to the battle
where Chaplain Wiggins died.

( whispering): What's
he talking about?

We'll discuss it later.

O'ROURKE: He said that Chaplain
Wiggins was panicked, that he was crying

and that he lost his faith.

ROBERTS: So,
what about ministering

to the dead and wounded?

This is just one witness.

Others contradict him.

Tell us what the one
witness said, Father.

That Chaplain Wiggins
threw down his gear

and tried to run back
to the surviving Marines;

that he stopped by the
dead and the dying...

to use them for cover.

But if that's true, Father

then Walter Wiggins
can't be a saint, can he?

No. And if he isn't a saint,

could he have performed
the alleged miracle?

No, he could not have been
responsible for any miracle.

Which makes Sergeant-Major
Krohn a liar and a would-be murderer.

Objection. Calls
for a conclusion.

ROBERTS: Withdrawn.

RABB: I'm finished.

It can't be true, sir.

It was a battlefield,
Sergeant-Major.

It was dark, people
see different things.

I saw what the Padre did, sir,
and he was not running scared.

This hurt our case.

If there's anything else, any
other way you want to go...

I did not try to kill my wife.

Who did the priest
hear this from, anyway?

His name is Hamill,
Randy Hamill.

He was in your platoon.

Hamill?

Was he there?

Was he in a position
to see the Chaplain?

Better than any of us, sir.

He was with us for a month.

He was being transferred
out because he was a coward.

Maybe I can use that.

The prosecution...

But not that day, sir.

That day, he saved our lives.

ROBERTS: Mr. Hamill, do you have a
grudge against Sergeant-Major Krohn?

HAMILL: No, sir.

Do you have, or did you have

a grudge against
Chaplain Walter Wiggins?

No, sir. I... always
liked the Padre.

ROBERTS: So, then, why did
you decide to come forward now?

HAMILL: Well, it was disgraceful
what he did that night, sir.

And then when I saw in
the papers about this trial,

and the idea of
making him a saint...

( sneering)

Well, I'm Catholic, sir.

No way he's a saint.

And you're sure of
what you saw that night?

Yes, sir.

When we got to the village,

and the shooting started, I...

I jumped into an empty
hooch with the Padre.

The gooks never saw us.

So there was no reason for
either one of you to leave there?

I didn't think so.

But the enemy was hiding

right behind the
hooch, right next to us.

I mean, we could hear
them firing, reloading

and talking.

The Padre just
panicked and ran out.

To save the wounded and dying?

No, sir. He was not
performing his duties as chaplain

or even as a Christian.

He was just running away.

ROBERTS: After you
saw that, what did you do?

HAMILL: Well, one of the
men that was killed, Malkovich,

he was carrying an M-79.

I ran out, picked it up and
fired a couple of grenades

at the spot where
we'd heard the gooks.

Which cleared the way for
you and your squad to escape?

That's right, sir.

And for that action, you
were awarded the Silver Star,

weren't you?

Yes, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Hamill.

Mr. Hamill, by your testimony,

Chaplain Wiggins
left a place of safety,

ran across exposed ground
during a fierce firefight.

Is this the act of a coward?

Well, I guess he figured, sir,

that it was just
a matter of time

before the enemy figured
out we were in that hooch.

Then we were dead.

You stayed.

For a while.

I took off my pack and pulled
out some extra ammunition

while I was trying to
figure out what to do.

You took off your pack?

Yes, sir.

I didn't see any need
to be slowed down

by C-rations and a shelter half.

Now, you told Father O'Rourke

that Chaplain Wiggins
took off his pack, too.

Yeah, that's right, sir.

But Sergeant-Major
Krohn testified

that Chaplain Wiggins
was wearing his pack.

Well, that's not
what I saw, sir.

Huh.

Mr. Hamill, you were
in a unique position

to help your squad
that night, weren't you?

What do you mean, sir?

Well, you were near the
fallen man with the M-79,

you heard the enemy,
you knew where they were...

yet you did nothing.

Well, not at first, no, sir.

Now, isn't it a
fact, Mr. Hamill,

that until that night,
you were considered

by your fellow Marines
to be a coward?

Yes, sir.

It seemed I wasn't
cut out to be a Marine.

And when your
squad was ambushed,

you stayed hidden in the hooch

while your fellow
Marines were being killed,

and you had the means
to protect them, didn't you?

I didn't have the 79.

It was out in the open.

It was a miracle I wasn't
killed trying to get it.

You saw the
Chaplain flee in fear

at a time when you
were feeling fear.

Isn't that right?

I suppose.

But seeing him act like
that, I got so disgusted,

I stopped being afraid
and just did what I did.

After you saw what he did.

Yeah.

You saw your cowardice

acted out in the Chaplain,

and it motivated
you to overcome it.

Objection, Your Honor.

Is Commander Rabb now

testifying as an
expert psychiatrist?

I'm only suggesting he
didn't really see the Chaplain.

What, he saw himself...
I mean, why stop there?

Maybe he saw the Easter bunny.

Lieutenant, you're out of line.

I apologize, Your Honor,

but this is stretching
things to the absurd

if Commander Rabb is
suggesting that Chaplain Wiggins

miraculously gave Mr. Hamill

some kind of
battlefield vision...

It may just have been
psychological projection,

but if the prosecution wants
to call it a second miracle...

Who said there
was a first miracle?

Just you... your own witness
backtracked on the stand

when he said that...

That's enough.

Both of you.

( syncopated beeps)

( knock at door)

Enter. Excuse me, Admiral.

They called back
from Berkeley, sir.

They said it's nothing special.

Just the standard emission
from the Binion-Pratt pulsar,

a binary source in the
Sculptor group of galaxies.

Which means the
signals left there...?

Five million years ago, sir.

Thanks, Tiner.

I was really hoping, sir.

Thanks, Tiner.

Aye, sir.

CHOIR: ♪ Hallelujah,
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪

♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah... ♪

Did we have one miracle here?

Or did we have
two miracles here?

Or did we have no miracles here?

First, we should
consider the evidence.

A man who has
fought with his wife.

A man who has a
history of striking his wife.

A man who has the
means and opportunity

to attempt to kill his wife.

A man whose story as
to how he happened to be

at the scene of the crime
makes absolutely no sense,

unless you
subscribe to his story

of a supernatural power at work.

Many of us are religious people.

Many of us believe
in a powerful God.

But we're being asked to
believe in a convenient God

who acts not so much
to save a stricken woman

but to give her
husband an alibi,

making God the
metaphysical equivalent

of the dog who ate the homework.

And you're sworn to
consider the evidence

presented in the light of
your own common sense.

Well, common sense
only offers one conclusion.

Sergeant-Major Jarvis
Krohn is guilty as charged.

Moses parts the Red Sea.

The Son of God
turns water into wine.

Are they fairy tales?

Have the billions who
believe them been deluded?

There's no hard evidence

that makes
Sergeant-Major Krohn a liar.

There is no eyewitness
to the attack on his wife.

No fingerprints,
no trail of blood.

There is a vicious
carjacker on the loose.

The victim's car
has not been located

despite the best efforts of
law enforcement to find it.

And it is uncontested that

because Sergeant-Major
Krohn appeared on the scene

at that particular moment,

his wife's life was saved.

Is it a miracle?

In our line of work, we
see miracles all the time.

Bullets that
should miss that hit.

Bullets that
should hit that miss.

Ordinary human beings
transformed into heroes,

making unimaginable sacrifices

for their country
and their fellow man.

The world is a mysterious place.

And we would make
it a poorer place

if we dismissed everything
about it we didn't understand.

You don't have to
believe to a certainty

in what Sergeant-Major
Krohn is saying.

You just have to believe
that it might be true.

RENÉE: Did they blink?

Smile? Laugh?

Not that I noticed. Sir.

And you kept a straight face?

I take it you find
this humorous.

You told them the
miracle really happened?

I said it might have happened.

I think you either

believe in these
things or you don't.

Hmm, and you don't?

I don't know.

Renée, you just...

Harm, this one
is weird, admit it.

Okay, how about a
nice, everyday miracle?

Child is cured of...

Mac and Brumby.

Excuse me?

Two people, Harm.

From opposite ends
of the earth, literally.

Both independent, all
grown up, set in their ways...

and they find each other.

And now they're
going to become one.

I tell you where the miracle is.

That anybody would want
to spend time with Brumby.

Yes, it is.

Why do I get the feeling we've
suddenly changed the subject?

Two strangers... one couple.

Do you think it
could happen again?

I don't know.

( cell phone ringing)

Rabb.

I'll be right there.

Jury's in.

I gotta go.

( sighs)

I wonder who he
prayed to for that.

JUDGE: The accused
and counsel will rise.

Announce your findings.

Sergeant-Major Jarvis Krohn,
United States Marine Corps

this court-martial finds you

on the charge and
specification of attempted murder

guilty.

JUDGE: I thank the
members for their service.

We'll reconvene for
sentencing tomorrow at 0900.

I'm so sorry.

I don't understand.

You explained to
them about Hamill.

You made it clear what happened.

I guess it was a lot
for them to accept.

What about you, Father?

You see it, don't you?

I was considering whether or not

to recommend closing out
Chaplain Wiggins' cause.

I'm not; it's going forward.

Well, sir, you won the
more important one.

Sergeant-Major,
you understand...

Don't worry about me, sir.

The Padre saved my wife's life.

Now all I need is somebody to
find the man who attacked her.

Her car will show
up, or her credit cards.

Something.

It will happen.

Won't even take a miracle.

No, sir.

But if it does...

You didn't just say that to
cheer him up, did you, Father?

No, Commander.

You may have failed
to convince that jury,

but you convinced this one.

You're going to make
Chaplain Wiggins a saint?

Well, call me in
a hundred years.

That's about how long it takes.