Line #9 Recap/JAGS01E07WarCries


1	'''"War Cries"''' is an episode of ''Series/{{JAG}}'' that first aired on November 11, 1995. Directed by Creator/DuwayneDunham. Written by Creator/RScottGemmill.
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3	A Marine sentry is standing guard at the US Embassy in Lima, UsefulNotes/{{Peru}} when he challenges someone climbing over the Embassy wall. Thinking he is being shot at, he returns fire and shoots the intruder, who turns out to be a young boy. Things are further complicated when the boy turns out to be the younger sibling of a local woman he has been seeing. Harm and Meg must get to the bottom of things before the local outcry escalates into something more violent.
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5	!! Tropes
6	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Unlike soldiers in the Army, Marines do not put rank insignias on camouflage covers (hats). Marine uniform covers are supposed to have the eagle, globe and anchor emblem on them, not a rank insignia.[[note]]Some Marine officer uniform covers do have rank insignias on them, but those are in addition to the eagle, globe and anchor emblem.[[/note]]
7	* AssInAmbassador: Ambassador Bartlett, though only when dealing with the other Americans at the Embassy. She is a model diplomat when dealing with the Peruvian authorities.
8	* BulletproofVest: The vest's lack of protection for the wearer's head is {{lampshaded}}.
9	-->'''Ambassador Bartlett:''' What if someone aims at my head?
10	-->'''Gunnery Sgt. Granger:''' [[CaptainObvious Duck,]] [[ServileSnarker ma'am.]]
11	* CigarChomper: Gunnery Sergeant Granger. After a hand-to-hand combat training session, Corporal Parr brings Granger a cigar that Granger had presumably started smoking prior to the conversation with Austin. Near the end of the episode, Granger is shooting a jeep-mounted machine gun with a cigar in his mouth.
12	* CunningLinguist: Meg Austin and one of the Marines are both fluent in Spanish, and serve as translators at various points in this episode.
13	* DeadpanSnarker: Gunnery Sergeant Granger.
14	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Gunnery Sergeant Granger]] dies during the street ambush.
15	* HumanShield: One of the Marines throws himself over the Ambassador in the car to shield her during the ambush while they make their escape. Also, earlier in the episode, after a conversation with Bartlett, Austin complains to Rabb that the ambassador plans to use them as human shields.
16	* JerkassHasAPoint: Gunnery Sergeant Granger makes a number of valid observations about the danger of their security situation when challenged on his unrelenting leadership and training style.
17	* LadyDrunk: Ambassador Bartlett can almost always be seen drinking scotch.
18	* LatinLand
19	* TheMole: [[spoiler: The boy, his sister who the Marine was dating, and their mom were all sleeper agents for the Shining Path, and weren't even related to each other.]]
20	* PermissionToSpeakFreely: Granger asks Austin for "permission to speak frankly."
21	--> '''Austin''': Put it on the table, Gunny.
22	--> '''Granger''': I know you don't like me or the way I operate. But it's my job to keep this Embassy secure and my boys alive. This is not a courtroom. It's a battle zone. I don't get to appeal when I lose."
23	* ProperlyParanoid: Gunny Granger, as the climax reveals.
24	* SemperFi: Marine embassy guards.
25	* SergeantRock: Gunny Granger, who oversees his Marines with a ruthlessly unrelenting leadership style.
26	* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: An old lady leaves a basket in front of the Embassy's front gate. A Marine sentry sees this and [[GenreSavvy immediately sounds the alarm]] just before the bomb explodes.
27	* TheSquadette: Austin as always, but in particular this episode has her climbing up and over the embassy walls in her Navy uniform while doing her investigation. She also chafes heavily when confronted by the Gunny over this later (he doesn't want her outside the embassy without a guard, and she doesn't appreciate what she sees as unwarranted coddling.)
28	* StockFootage:
29	** From ''Film/ClearAndPresentDanger'', editing in new footage of Harm in Navy whites to replace old footage of Jack Ryan in a suit.
30	** A short clip of President Clinton speaking on the phone is spliced in to give the impression he was giving the Ambassador instructions to open the hospital funded by the U.S.
31	* VeteranInstructor: Granger again, passing on his knowledge and experience to the Marines in a TrainingFromHell fashion not entirely unlike a DrillSergeantNasty. Austin considers him downright abusive.
32	* WeNeedADistraction: The Shining Path operatives have a pair of pretty girls wave at the Peruvian soldiers standing guard outside the embassy so an old lady can walk past them and leave a bomb.
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