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[lightning cracking]

-[gunfire]
-[grunting

[shouting]

[Vietnamese soldier shouting]

H-h-help me...

Damn it!

Help me...

Help me...

[gunfire]

It's the Padre.

Give him cover!

[gunfire]

[soldier performing last rites]

[gunfire continues]

-[performing rites]
-[shouting and grunting]

Help me...

Help me, help me...

[siren wailing]

Freeze!
Get your hands in the air!

She's my wife. Get an ambulance!

Get your hands in the air!

[theme music playing]

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.

-Has 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--

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?

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?

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 gave him the last rites.

Bullets hitting all around.

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.

[Renee]
Maybe you should
plead him insane.

He's not insane, Renee,
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 on door]

Hey, the comics are mine.

Mm-hmm.

[chatter on TV]

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
Renee 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.

If this new miracle
is verified

then Chaplain Walter Wiggins
could well be declared a saint.

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 Chaplain Wiggins
performed a miracle.

I'm trying to prove
that Jarvis 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]
Very sure.
-I don't see it here, sir.

-Keep looking, Tiner.
-Yes, sir.

[syncopated beeps]

Tiner?

Tiner!

[beeping snappy rhythm]

Oh, my God...

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.

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 Renee.

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

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

Renee 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.

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.

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?
-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?

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 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?

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.

-[funky dance music playing]
-[chattering and laughter]

-[waitress] Oh, sorry, madam.
-[MacKenzie] 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,
the Roches' train

has been delayed again.

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]
-[Mackenzie clears her 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.
-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.

Were 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.

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.

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'd 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?

No, sir.

Do you have,
or did you have

a grudge against
Chaplain Walter Wiggins?

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

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

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...

[scoffing]
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 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.

After you saw that,
what did you do?

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...
-[gavel banging]

That's enough.

Both of you.

[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.

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.

[Renee] Did they blink?
Smile? Laugh?

Not that I noticed.

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.

Renee, 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've got to go.

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.

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.

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