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* ContinuityNod to [[Recap/JAGS04E04GoingAfterFrancesca "Going After Francesca"]], in which Chegwidden went to rescue his daughter in Italy. Rabb mentions this to convince the admiral to allow him to participate in Keeter's rescue in Iran.

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[[Recap/JAGS04E04GoingAfterFrancesca "Going After Francesca"]], in which Chegwidden went to rescue his daughter in Italy. Rabb mentions this to convince the admiral to allow him to participate in Keeter's rescue in Iran.Iran.
** To [[Recap/JAGS01E14Smoked "Smoked"]], the last time we saw Jack Keeter, who got himself into similar trouble on a CIA mission to Cuba for which - just like this one - Agent Webb was pulling the strings.

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Directed by Creator/JeannotSzwarc

Written by Creator/DavidZabel

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'''"The Black Jet"''' is an episode of ''Series/{{JAG}}'' that first aired on November 24, 1998. Directed by Creator/JeannotSzwarc

Creator/JeannotSzwarc. Written by Creator/DavidZabel
Creator/DavidZabel.



* ContinuityNod to [[Recap/JAGS04E04GoingAfterFrancesca "Going After Francesca"]], in which Chegwidden went to rescue his daughter in Italy. Rabb mentions this to convince the admiral to allow him to participate in Keeter's rescue in Iran.



* KangarooCourt: Of course Keeter won't get a fair shake in an Iranian court. The judges allow witnesses to change their testimony to be damning to Keeter and pretend that they have in fact not changed their testimony, without concern for perjury.

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* KangarooCourt: Of course Keeter won't get a fair shake in an Iranian court. The judges allow witnesses to change their testimony to be damning to Keeter and pretend that they have in fact not changed their testimony, without concern for perjury.perjury.
* RunningGag: Two Iranian men tell Mac her American accent when speaking Farsi is very slight.
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* BilingualBonus: Mac explains how she always knows the exact time without looking at a timepiece by saying something in what is presumably Farsi. Rabb asks her to repeat it in English, but she refuses, because "it would lose something in the translation."
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clarification, because you can correct your testimony on the stand


* KangarooCourt: Of course Keeter won't get a fair shake in an Iranian court. The judges allow witnesses to change their testimony to be damning to Keeter, without concern for perjury.

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* KangarooCourt: Of course Keeter won't get a fair shake in an Iranian court. The judges allow witnesses to change their testimony to be damning to Keeter, Keeter and pretend that they have in fact not changed their testimony, without concern for perjury.

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Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

Written by: David Zabel

Keeter goes down in an F-117 flying over UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, is charged with espionage by the Iranians. Keeter was an Academy buddy of Rabb's.

Rabb and Mac are sent to Iran to defend Keeter. Webb tasks Rabb with retrieving the F-117, and after Roberts convinces him, also with breaking Keeter out of jail. Rabb, Mac, Keeter arrive at the F-117 site, to find the plane has been claimed by the Bedouin.

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Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

by Creator/JeannotSzwarc

Written by: David Zabel

by Creator/DavidZabel

Lt. Commander Jack
Keeter (Creator/MichaelMcGrady), an old friend of Rabb's, goes down in an F-117 flying over UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, is charged with espionage by UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}. Of course the Iranians. Iranians charge Keeter was an Academy buddy of Rabb's.

with espionage.

Admiral Chegwidden initially plans to send Lt. Commander Brumby (Creator/TrevorGoddard) to Iran. But both Brumby and Lt. Commander Rabb try to convince the admiral to send Rabb instead. So the admiral sends
Rabb and Mac are sent Major [=MacKenzie=] to Iran to defend Keeter. Keeter.

Agent
Webb (Creator/StevenCulp) tasks Rabb with retrieving the F-117, and after Lt. Roberts convinces him, also with breaking Keeter out of jail. Rabb, Mac, Keeter arrive at the F-117 site, to find the plane has been claimed by the Bedouin.

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* ComingInHot: Harm apparently suffers flight control systems failures while flaring to land on the carrier. Then the scene cuts to Harm in a simulator. Harm had successfully landed the F-117 with no problems earlier, but was trying to see if he could still land the plane with failed avionics in a simulated environment. Harm finds out he can’t.

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* ComingInHot: Harm Rabb apparently suffers flight control systems failures while flaring to land on the carrier. Then the scene cuts to Harm Rabb in a simulator. Harm Rabb had successfully landed the F-117 with no problems earlier, but was trying to see if he could still land the plane with failed avionics in a simulated environment. Harm finds Turns out he can’t.can't.



* DoubleAgent: Sina Kazzari (Eddy Saad), an Iranian-born CIA agent with U. S. citizenship.

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* DoubleAgent: Sina Kazzari (Eddy Saad), (Creator/EddySaad), an Iranian-born CIA agent with U. S.U. S. citizenship.
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* ComingInHot: Harm apparently suffers flight control systems failures while flaring to land on the carrier. Then the scene cuts to Harm in a simulator. Harm had successfully landed the F-117 with no problems earlier, but was trying to see if he could still land the plane with failed avionics in a simulated environment. Harm finds out he can’t.
* CoolPlane: An F-117 stealth fighter that is capable of landing on a carrier.
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Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

Written by: David Zabel

Keeter goes down in an F-117 flying over UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, is charged with espionage by the Iranians. Keeter was an Academy buddy of Rabb's.

Rabb and Mac are sent to Iran to defend Keeter. Webb tasks Rabb with retrieving the F-117, and after Roberts convinces him, also with breaking Keeter out of jail. Rabb, Mac, Keeter arrive at the F-117 site, to find the plane has been claimed by the Bedouin.

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* BedouinRescueService: Mac convinces the Bedouin leader that she'll stay behind as collateral for Rabb to leave with the plane.
* DoubleAgent: Sina Kazzari (Eddy Saad), an Iranian-born CIA agent with U. S. citizenship.
* GreatEscape: Keeter, out of an Iranian prison.
* GunshipRescue: F-18s give Rabb cover as he takes off in the recovered F-117.
* KangarooCourt: Of course Keeter won't get a fair shake in an Iranian court. The judges allow witnesses to change their testimony to be damning to Keeter, without concern for perjury.

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