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* CrypticBackgroundReference: A couple of ongoing cases are mentioned that have never been mentioned before and will never be mentioned again.
--> '''Chegwidden''': Well, what do you have on your plate, commander?
--> '''Rabb''': Well, sir, there's the four sailors charged with trespassing for staging a sit-down protest in Captain Tony's bar.
--> '''Chegwidden''': Is this the bar in San Diego that the bank's repossessing?
--> '''Rabb''': Yes, sir, and the Alvarez deposition.
--> '''Chegwidden''': Alvarez...
--> '''Rabb''': Gunner's mate in Mayport, sir, told his C.O. [commanding officer] he was moonlighting as a bouncer in a dance club. Turns out he was working in a strip joint.
--> '''Chegwidden''': As the bouncer?
--> '''Rabb''': Well, not exactly, sir.
--> '''Mac''': He billed himself as the Mighty Maverick. Apparently, he has a rather large... following.
* GoodCopBadCop: Hawkins wonders if Rabb is the bad cop and Mac the good cop.
--> '''Hawkins''': Who's she?
--> '''Rabb''': Major [=MacKenzie=].
--> '''Hawkins''': Why bring her in?
--> '''Mac''': This may come as a surprise, Mr. Hawkins. He really doesn't like you. So far, I don't have an opinion.
--> '''Hawkins''': You the good cop?
--> '''Mac''': I'm a Marine lawyer.

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This episode, titled '''"Nobody's Child"''', starts when a little black girl (Creator/AysiaPolk) is found dead at the Potomac Naval Complex. She died clutching a Navy insignia. Lt. Commander Rabb is sent to make sure the investigation is thorough. He is distressed to find local law enforcement officers are too cynical and jaded to invest in the case and are just going through the motions.

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'''"Nobody's Child"''', starts when a Child"''' is an episode of ''Series/{{JAG}}'' that first aired on March 2, 1999. Directed by Creator/TonyWharmby. Written by Creator/StephenZito.

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little black girl (Creator/AysiaPolk) is found dead at the Potomac Naval Complex. She died clutching a Navy insignia. Lt. Commander Rabb is sent to make sure the investigation is thorough. He is distressed to find local law enforcement officers are too cynical and jaded to invest in the case and are just going through the motions.
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* AdultFear: Lt. Sims, who is pregnant, accidentally sees crime scene photos of the corpse of a brutally murdered girl and freaks out. A few episodes later in [[Recap/JAGS04E19TheAdversaries "The Adversaries"]] she sees the dead girl's identical twin sister and gets flashbacks of the photos.

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* ContinuityNod: There are fleeting references to several prior episodes.
** Mac mentions Lt. Coulter on the Navajo reservation, referring to the events of [[Recap/JAGS03E21TheReturnOfJimmyBlackhorse "The Return Of Jimmy Blackhorse"]].
** Mac characterizes Rabb's search for his father (an arc from Season 1 only recently resolved) and the Roscoe Martin case (from [[Recap/JAGS03E05KingOfTheFleas "King of the Fleas"]] and [[Recap/JAGS04E05TheMartinBakerFanClub "The Martin Baker Fan Club"]]) as obsessions that Rabb jumps to and from.




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* TitleDrop: Talking about the case with Coulter, and looking at a drawing of the little girl, Rabb says "Nobody's child."
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* AdultFear: Pregnant Harriet Sims accidentally gets to see crime scene photos of the corpse of a brutally murdered girl and freaks out. A few episodes later in "The Adversaries" she sees the dead girls identical twin sister and gets flashbacks of the photos.
* BilingualBackfire: In "Nobody's Child", Harm and Mac questions a convicted child molester who had violated the terms of his parole and watched school children from his car and said he listened to "Als ich bei meinen Schaffen wacht" in his car, which Mac correctly translates from German to "As I watch over my sheep" and by doing so really gets his attention.

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* AdultFear: Pregnant Harriet Sims Lt. Sims, who is pregnant, accidentally gets to see sees crime scene photos of the corpse of a brutally murdered girl and freaks out. A few episodes later in [[Recap/JAGS04E19TheAdversaries "The Adversaries" Adversaries"]] she sees the dead girls girl's identical twin sister and gets flashbacks of the photos.
* BilingualBackfire: In "Nobody's Child", Harm Rabb and Mac questions question Hawkins, a convicted child molester molester, who had violated the terms of his parole and watched school children from his car and said he listened to "Als ich bei meinen Schaffen wacht" in his car, which car. Mac correctly translates the title of that Bach chorale from German to "As I watch over my sheep" sheep." Instead of being impressed by Hawkins's taste in music, Rabb and by doing so really gets his attention.Mac become further convinced that he's an irredeemable pervert.



* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When questioning a convicted child molester Harm gets dangerously close to this.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she audibly shrieks in horror. Then, she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, knocking him off his feet, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for looking at something so morbid, especially when there's an expectant mother in the building. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].
* PaedoHunt: There are initially few clues as to who the killer of an unidentified African-American girl on a naval facility is. Harm's initial hunch is to look after convicted pedophiles. [[spoiler: It turns out that the killer wasn't a pedophile: but a pedophile was able to give valuable information that solved the identity puzzle because he had violated terms of his parole by watching children]].

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When questioning a convicted child molester Harm Rabb gets dangerously close to this.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet Sims is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she audibly shrieks in horror. Then, she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm Rabb for looking at them, knocking him off his feet, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for looking at something so morbid, especially when there's an expectant mother in the building. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].
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* PaedoHunt: There are initially few clues as to who the killer of an unidentified African-American girl on a naval facility is. Harm's Rabb's initial hunch is to look after convicted pedophiles. [[spoiler: It turns out that the killer wasn't a pedophile: but a pedophile was able to give valuable information that solved the identity puzzle because he had violated terms of his parole by watching children]].
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This episode, titled '''"Nobody's Child"''', starts when a little black girl is found dead at the Potomac Naval Complex.

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This episode, titled '''"Nobody's Child"''', starts when a little black girl (Creator/AysiaPolk) is found dead at the Potomac Naval Complex.
Complex. She died clutching a Navy insignia. Lt. Commander Rabb is sent to make sure the investigation is thorough. He is distressed to find local law enforcement officers are too cynical and jaded to invest in the case and are just going through the motions.

Rabb asks Admiral Chegwidden to redistribute his case load so he can devote himself to identifying the victim and bringing her killer to justice. Chegwidden agrees, and Rabb flies in Lieutenant Coulter (Music/TrishaYearwood) to do a more thorough autopsy of the little girl.

Lt. Sims (Creator/KarriTurner) accidentally drops a folder with gruesome photos of the dead child. This upsets her so much that she chastises Rabb and even "strikes" him. Sims gives Chegwidden a letter of resignation, but the admiral tears it up and gets her to understand that although she has seen something that is very upsetting, she has overreacted to it.

Rabb brings William Randolph Hawkins (Creator/VytoRuginis), a registered sex offender, in for questioning, but Major [=MacKenzie=] is convinced that the convicted pedophile is not the killer.

Rabb and Coulter follow the clues to Virginia, where they discover the identity of the little girl, and learn something of the pitiful circumstances she lived in. They find her sister (also played by Aysia Polk) alive but hardly well. Rabb starts doing all he can to make sure she is taken care of, and visits her sister's grave, which now bears a name: Annie Lewis. November 5, 1993 -- February 24, 1999.

This episode marks the first of four appearances of ''JAG'' producer Chas. Floyd Johnson as toxicology expert Dr. Bruce Gasden.
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* TheCameo: Country singer Tricia Yearwood appears as coroner Lieutenant Commander Teresa Coulter.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she audibly shrieks in horror. Then, she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, knocking him off his feet, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for it. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she audibly shrieks in horror. Then, she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, knocking him off his feet, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for it.looking at something so morbid, especially when there's an expectant mother in the building. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, knocking him off his feet, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for it. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she audibly shrieks in horror. Then, she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, knocking him off his feet, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for it. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for it. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, knocking him off his feet, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for it. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harriet is so disturbed by the sight of Annie's crime scene photos that she hauls off and ''punches'' Harm for looking at them, and gives him [[WhatTheHellHero a chewing out]] for it. Later, she realizes she got carried away with her anger and goes as far as to ask for a resignation as penance, but she's [[EasilyForgiven forgiven because she meant no true harm]] [[RhymesOnADime to Harm]].
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* AdultFear: Pregnant Harriet Sims accidentally gets to see crime scene photos of the corpse of a brutally murdered girl and freaks out. A few episodes later in "The Adversaries" she sees the dead girls identical twin sister and gets flashbacks of the photos.
* BilingualBackfire: In "Nobody's Child", Harm and Mac questions a convicted child molester who had violated the terms of his parole and watched school children from his car and said he listened to "Als ich bei meinen Schaffen wacht" in his car, which Mac correctly translates from German to "As I watch over my sheep" and by doing so really gets his attention.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When questioning a convicted child molester Harm gets dangerously close to this.
* PaedoHunt: There are initially few clues as to who the killer of an unidentified African-American girl on a naval facility is. Harm's initial hunch is to look after convicted pedophiles. [[spoiler: It turns out that the killer wasn't a pedophile: but a pedophile was able to give valuable information that solved the identity puzzle because he had violated terms of his parole by watching children]].

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