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I might count. You got 12 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Six Mark 48 Mark 4 torpedoes.

One Mark 48 ADCAP torpedo in the racks.

Two in the tubes.

22 in all, Chief.

Negative, Petty Officer. It's 21.

I'm sure we brought 22 on board, sir.

19 in the racks and two in the tubes. That's 21.

Somebody must have hung the wrong tag, Chief.

That somebody's going to be a very unhappy sailor, Petty Officer.

Now the officer will open up tube number two and show me my fish. Aye, aye,

Chief.

Negative.

Chief, tube number two is empty.

Attention on deck.

Stand at ease, gentlemen.

What's the problem, Chief?

According to the ship's log, we took on 22 fish in an offensive area.

That's correct.

My count just came back 21, sir.

Serial number on the counter floor?

3 -0 -0 -5 -0 -1, sir.

Sir, what are we missing?

3 -0 -0 -5 -0 -1.

Carries a 10 kiloton nuclear warhead.

Excuse me, Commander.

Colonel McKenzie would like to see you ASAP, sir.

Good morning to you too, Petty Officer. Do you have time for coffee?

Better let me get it for you, sir.

How do you take it?

Regular.

Yes, sir. Understood.

Commander Turner just walked into my office.

Rather, your office, sir.

Will do, Admiral.

Goodbye.

Good morning, Colonel.

How's the Admiral feeling?

Oh, like he punched out of an F -14 by accident?

His back must be killing it.

Yeah, but he won't admit it. He keeps threatening to come in and to hell with

the doctors.

I'm sure he has every confidence in you as ROIC, Mac.

Excuse me, Colonel.

Here you go, sir.

Cream and sugar. Thank you.

Can I get you anything, ma 'am? No, thank you, Tyner. Close the door on your

out, please.

Aye, ma 'am.

Sergeants, what I'm about to tell you is...

I strictly need to know.

Have you ever heard the term empty quiver?

I believe it refers to the loss of a nuclear weapon.

A fast attack submarine, the USS Crawford, cannot account for one of its

ad -cap torpedoes with a 10 kiloton nuclear warhead.

Oh, my God.

Why is that a mess exactly?

Where is she?

Four hours out of Norfolk, the Crawford is underway to the Middle East. The USS

Connolly and the rest of the battle group is leaving tomorrow.

Your presence has been requested on board the submarine.

Admiral Chegwood has approved it.

May I ask why?

The weapons officer has requested you by name. Apparently you know him, a

Lieutenant Mitchell.

Stanley Mitchell?

I was XO on his first cruise.

Were you close?

He kept in touch with me. Last I heard, he was a promotion to Lieutenant

Commander.

Not anymore, if this nuke is really missing.

Your Honor, my client would have to be an incredibly stupid man. In order to

commit these crimes, he's been accused of larceny, fraud.

We're asked to believe he requisitioned items, opened Internet accounts using

his real name, the Navy's official credit card, and his own e -mail

Why wouldn't he try to conceal his identity?

Why? Because he didn't do it.

The Navy does not promote stupid people to highly responsible positions like

that of the dispersing officer aboard an aircraft carrier.

Lieutenant O'Dell says he was framed.

I believe him, Your Honor.

And I believe the hearing officer in this case should give him the benefit of

the doubt and recommend against court -martial until a thorough investigation

this matter be concluded.

Thank you, Commander.

Lieutenant.

Your Honor, Lieutenant O'Dell is not here today charged with stupidity, but

rather violating Articles 121, 132, 133 of the UCMJ.

There's clear evidence of larceny and fraud.

Commander Rabb asked this court grant the lieutenant the benefit of the doubt.

Where's the doubt, Your Honor?

I have a full docket today.

This hearing stands adjourned until 1500.

Commander Rabb, if you have exculpatory evidence to present, I suggest you be

prepared to do so at that time.

Adjourned.

There's no way, Harm.

You can't get to Norfolk, conduct an investigation, and be back here by 1500.

I think I can.

How? Are you going to fly?

Why this rush to court -martial, anyway?

I mean, Lieutenant O'Dell is under pre -trial confinement. He's given me some

leads. I'd like the opportunity to follow them up. I can't approve it.

You mind telling me why?

Yes, I do.

Now, if you'll excuse me, Admiral Chegwooden keeps calling every 15

the next time he does, I'd like to be able to tell him that something's

been accomplished.

So you're ordering me not to go?

Is that necessary?

Leaving, Commander?

Hey, nice working there today, bud.

I don't know whether to say thank you or I'm sorry, sir.

Where are you headed?

Norfolk. But I'll be back.

The torpedoes come from the depot on Flatbed for a fish to a load. Tom

different vehicles.

You know the drill commander, don't you? It's been a while. Sometimes things

change. Not in this man's navy, sir.

The boat's moored here.

We back the truck up to about here.

We use one of these cranes.

And very gently, we pick up the fish one by one. We put them over the loading

hatch of the submarine.

And other than making sure that the crane doesn't fall over, we've done our

Excuse me, sir.

The bubbleheads are responsible for the rest.

Have you left out one part of your job, Master Chief?

The documentation?

Yes, sir. The documentation.

The weapons office signs a torpedo record book for each fish. We then

numbers on the manifest, and we both sign off on it. How many copies of the

manifest? Eight pages, sir.

Please don't ask me where they all go. My clerk back at the depot handles that.

I'm sorry, sir, if I gave you the impression that paperwork was not

Now, Master Chief, let's hope this turns out to be only about paperwork.

Mace is going out of luck, Commander.

They lost this nuke?

It's got to be a mistake in the paperwork.

Unlikely. The torpedo record book for the missing fish is on board the sub.

So that's why Mac didn't want me here.

She didn't tell you what was happening?

No. I probably shouldn't be telling you either.

Why not? It's got nothing to do with me.

I'm only here for a few hours. I've got to be back in court at 1500.

How do you plan to do that?

I'm going to take the helo out.

Well, not that helo. That's my ride out to the Crawford.

Catch it when it comes back.

This base is going to lockdown.

Arm threat con delta.

That bird's the last one in.

As soon as I fly away, she's the last one out.

You're stuck here for the duration, buddy.

You went to Norfolk anyway?

You didn't order me not to go.

Why would I do that?

I bumped into Turner.

I was going to catch the helo back in time for the hearing, but he took my

Do you know why?

Yes.

Harm, you are in a ship's load of trouble now.

Well, you might have told me.

You need to know, Harm.

Well, I guess I needed to know, huh?

So now I'm stuck here in a lockdown.

I can't believe you would pull a stupid stunt like this.

I don't suppose you could see if Judge Helfman's in a forgiving mood.

After she finds out you've left your client in the lurch, dream on.

Unless you can pull off a miracle harm, your client's headed for a court

-martial.

Commander Turner?

We're approaching the drop site, sir.

Let's get you hooked up.

Copy that.

Ready for descent, Commander?

All set.

At ease, Lieutenant.

Glad to see you, sir.

Likewise. Thank you for coming.

Ordinarily, I'd think any opportunity to be on a submarine was a good one.

This, however, is an exception.

I'm sure we'll be able to clear up the mistake now that you're here, sir.

What mistake is that?

With the onshore paperwork, sir. It's got to be what it is.

You mean this paperwork?

Yes, sir. Obviously, it's wrong.

I'm not so sure it's obvious, Lieutenant.

This says 22 weapons left the depot, four of them Mark 48 ad caps, all of

you signed for when they came on board the ship.

Come on, sir, that's not possible.

There's your signature.

I know I signed it, but one of these fish never came on board this boat.

So why is the torpedo record book on board?

Because there was a mistake at the depot.

The manifest called for four adcaps, so four torpedo record books came out to

the pier.

Look, sir, this was a rush operation. We had less than 36 hours to get it

underway. One of those fish never left the depot in the first place.

If that were the case, wouldn't it still be at the depot? Yes, sir, it damn sure

should be.

It's not.

Then I can't explain this, sir, and neither can my crew.

So you signed the torpedo record book in error.

I guess so.

I'll take responsibility for that.

That's not going to be good enough.

What am I supposed to do, sir? Fall on my sword? My crew and I don't make

mistakes. Let's get something clear, Lieutenant.

This isn't about you. It's about what happened.

If that torpedo is not on board this ship, there is a 10 kiloton nuclear

out there somewhere.

Gentlemen, this is Commander Sturgis Turner.

Chief McDonald, Petty Officer Villegas, Petty Officer Hubble, Petty Officer

Spencer, Petty Officer Dodd, at ease.

Commander Turner wants to reconstruct everything down to the smallest detail.

I think it's a good idea, sir. I'll walk the commander through it. You correct

me, Chief, if I get anything wrong.

Actually, Lieutenant, I intend to go through it with Chief McDonald first,

with these Petty Officers, one -on -one.

I see, sir. So if the rest of you will excuse us.

That means you too, Lieutenant?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

Do you need any help, sir?

No, I'm fine.

I'm on my way to the legal office, and then I need to make my way to

That's my department.

Petty Officer Moran.

Follow me, sir, and I'll show you the way.

Is that a first time on a carrier, sir?

Not quite.

I see you're an aviator. Sorry I didn't notice.

You probably spend most of your time up in officer country.

Attention on deck.

As you were.

What can we do for you, Commander?

Master Chief, Commander Rabb with the Jack Horn TC.

I'm representing Lieutenant Stephen O'Dell.

Sir, I think we'd all agree there's anything we can do to help you or the

lieutenant.

Well, in fact, there is, since I'm going to be here a while.

I'd like to take a look at the lieutenant's office if I could.

Sure, that shouldn't be a problem.

Not going to find much, though.

NCIS cleared everything out of the office when the lieutenant was arrested.

The computer doesn't work.

They took the hard drive.

Well, when does the lieutenant's replacement arrive, Master Chief?

I'd say sometime before we get underway tomorrow.

I'm going to leave you to it, sir.

Anything you need.

Thank you. Close the hatch on the way out, Master Chief.

Aye, sir.

What's going on? You really want to know?

Harriet's got morning sickness.

Turner's on a submarine. Half the staff got the flu.

You're not here. And now the Admiral wants an update every hour on the hour.

How's your day?

Well, I'm sitting in Lieutenant Odell's office on the Connolly. The lieutenant

claims he was framed with a lot of trumped -up charges.

Says they can all be traced back to his office. He's asked me to access the

memory to the fax and copier machines and see if I can find a clue as to who

might have done it.

Um, I've informed Bud and Commander Healthman of your problem. Commander

Healthman is very much not pleased.

That's why I'm recommending the lieutenant waive my presence and allow

hearing to proceed to conclusion.

Do you say you want to do that? What if the recommendation's a court -martial,

Harm? Well, the convening authority's here in the base. If I find something,

I'll present it to him and hope that he doesn't follow the recommendation.

That's taking a big risk, Harm.

What else can I do?

Okay, Chief, according to the ship's log...

Loading commenced at 0900, and Lieutenant Mitchell signed off on the

from the weapons depot almost 19 hours later at 0345 the next morning. That

appears to mean that you and your men loaded 22 weapons in 19 straight hours

across three watches.

Yes, sir. It was a long day, sir.

Well, isn't it unusual to load all the ordnance into the torpedo room in one

long shift?

These aren't usual times, Commander.

Understood, but... Working a 19 -hour shift, is it possible a mistake could

been made?

I can't say that it would be impossible, sir.

Was a mistake made, Chief?

Not that I'm aware of, sir.

Chief, is it possible for a 10 -kiloton nuclear device to disappear?

No, sir, that's not possible.

We've got a long day ahead of us, Chief.

A .J., I got everything.

Let me help you put that up.

You will not.

You have better things to do than to supervise me in the kitchen. You don't

where it all goes.

I will as soon as I put it away.

For you know who.

Your girl?

You

really have

to give her a name.

Nothing's come to me yet.

You just don't like any of my suggestions, huh? There's nothing

about this dog.

Oh, really?

What about young Cassius, half a lean and hungry look?

Cassius is a boy's name.

All right.

Call him Portia.

Excuse me, sir.

The new disbursing officers just come on board.

I'd better get out of here then. All right. Thank you, Master Chief.

Attention on deck.

Good afternoon, people.

At ease.

Commander. As you were, Lieutenant, I was just leaving.

Ma 'am?

Not to rush you, ma 'am, but there's some paperwork here that needs your John

Hancock. Er, Jane Hancock.

Just give me a pen, Petty Officer.

Yes,

ma 'am. Ten million dollars, cash for the entire bottle.

Okay, let's do it.

Master Chief, may I have a word with you in private?

Yes, sir.

How's that?

Is this the first thing an officer got here in the nick of time?

I'd say so, sir.

I would guess that most of what happens in that office, Master Chief, is handled

by the staff. Is that right?

We know the procedures, sir.

What kind of an officer was Lieutenant O'Dell?

Was he real hands -on, or did he delegate authority?

Well, I'd say we had a good working relationship with Lieutenant O'Dell,

So he let you do your job?

Yes, sir.

Were you surprised when he was arrested?

Permission to speak freely, sir.

Absolutely.

I've been in this job for 25 years.

This isn't the first time a dispersing officer has gotten in trouble.

It's easy to be tempted, and you heard how much money comes onto this ship.

And I'm sure we've all thought about it one time or another.

So you think he's guilty?

I wouldn't have thought so, sir.

Is it sure the lieutenant's going to court -martial?

Not yet.

Master Chief.

Lieutenant O'Dell, do you understand the concept of fully informed consent?

By signing the waiver in front of you, you are giving your fully informed

consent for this hearing to proceed without the benefit of having your

present. I understand that, ma 'am.

I've spoken with Commander Rabb and he said it was okay.

Lieutenant Roberts, are you prepared to proceed?

Yes, Your Honor.

May I motion for a continuance?

Lieutenant, please don't try my patience by acting as both prosecution and

defense.

Sorry, Your Honor.

Lieutenant O'Dell, you may sign the waiver if you wish.

Yes, ma 'am.

Very well.

Lieutenant O'Dell, it is the recommendation of this hearing that all

specifications against you be referred to General Court Martial.

This hearing is adjourned.

Get the Admiral on the line for me, Tyner.

Good afternoon, Colonel.

Admiral, Lieutenant O'Dell's Article 32 hearing is concluded.

The recommendation is general court -martial.

I'll send my congratulations to Lieutenant Roberts.

Rab must be disappointed.

I'm sure he is, sir.

What did he have to say afterwards?

Nothing that I heard, sir.

Well, if he's there, let me speak to him.

You know, I don't think I can get him on the phone with you right now, Admiral.

Well, never mind.

What's the situation at Norfolk?

Still in lockdown.

Nothing's leaving the base. Vehicles and buildings are being checked as a

precaution, but there's no indication the missing weapon is there.

Commander Turner?

He's called in, sir. He's reconstructing what happened on the USS Crawford with

the torpedo room crew. He says it may take all night.

Oh, understood.

Let me know if anything happens.

Aye, aye, sir.

Come here, Portia.

Portia?

Okay, Petty Officer Villegas, walk me through it from the beginning.

It's 0900.

The torpedo room is empty. The first fish comes down.

Yes, sir. Down through the hatch.

We got it in and down, and then we secure it to one of the Senate kids.

Mark 48, Mach 4. We're good.

All clear, Keith.

Then we transfer it onto a port or starboard skid.

Then what do you do with it?

Ready, Chief.

We stow it in a torpedo tube, sir.

We stow the first four fish in the tube to free up the skid. Makes it easier for

us to arrange the weapons the way the skipper wants them.

At this point, the trailing guidance wire is not attached.

That's correct, sir. The fish is simply resting in the tube. Yes, sir.

And you hang a tag that says... War shot loaded, sir. So we'll know.

If the guidance wire is not attached, the weapon does not register on the fire

control system?

It does not, sir.

So as of that moment, the only men on this boat who know there's a torpedo in

the torpedo tube are the three of you who are here in the torpedo room.

That's affirmative, sir.

Petty Officer Marin, you shut down early today?

Yes, sir.

Cash for the battle groups coming aboard at 1800.

You mind if I ask you a couple questions about those procedures?

Ask away, sir.

I was in my office down the passageway, and I came across these.

Now, this is a fax to the Federal Reserve Bank in D .C. requesting

$10 million.

That's not all it takes to get that money. It's in a fax. No, sir.

That's just to get the process started.

Someone has to go in person to the bank.

And this is Lieutenant O'Dell's signature?

Yes, sir. He was still disbursing officer at the time.

But Lieutenant O'Dell couldn't go to the bank, so I went to requisition the

funds. And why you?

Us chief didn't want to go, sir.

Hmm.

Uh, this, this is a fax to the Yarmouth car company requesting delivery of those

funds. Is that, uh...

Is that all it takes to get that done, a fax?

What, to get the armored car?

Yes, sir. It takes a fax and a purchase order number.

But is there anything else, sir? Because I've got a lot to do to get ready.

This would have all been pretty routine for Lieutenant O'Dell, is that right?

Could have done in his sleep, sir, just like the rest of us.

All right.

Well, you can return to business.

I have one last question.

Say you're Lieutenant O'Dell.

You have a promising career in the Navy. You've been dealing with millions of

dollars routinely.

Would you throw it all away to embezzle a few thousand dollars?

I wouldn't know about that, sir.

Now, with your permission, I'd like to get back to work.

Sure.

Okay.

Wild turkey?

On the rock.

Do

you

think it's awkward when two people are in a room together and no one says

anything?

No. Hmm.

I guess I do.

Sometimes I think I talk too much.

I don't like it when you talk too much.

No.

Hutton.

What?

A name for the dog.

Hutton, I looked it up today on the Internet, and it means from the house on

jutting ledge.

Appropriate. Mm -hmm.

Come here, Hutton.

Okay, maybe not.

You know, A .J., I was thinking that maybe I could sleep over tonight.

Sounds a little bit like conduct unbecoming.

Oh, honey, I think you need to retire.

Petty Officer Spencer,

there's an entry by you in the log at 1900, ten hours after loading started.

Yes, sir. Petty Officer Dodd and I relieved Petty Officer's viegas novel.

The loading continued.

Yes, sir.

We loaded for over 19 hours without a pause, sir.

All right.

You're out of here, man.

All right, then. Our turn in the barrel.

Later.

Hey, go ahead, sir.

And did you get that right time, Petty Officer?

Tried to, sir.

But it's hard to sleep when you know you're about to get underway and all the

work hasn't been done.

So you didn't sleep?

No, sir.

Were you tired?

I wasn't doing any of the heavy lifting, sir.

Answer my question, please, Chief.

I was tired, but I wasn't sleepy, sir.

Was there any time you weren't physically present in this room during

I stepped out to the head a couple of times and we staggered our brakes for

chow, sir.

Any other time?

When we went offshore power, sir.

What time was that? Is it in the log?

Yes, sir. Zero one hundred, sir.

While Petty Officer Spencer and Dodd were on watch?

Yes, sir.

Mr. Chief.

Commander. You're still with us.

Yeah, do me a favor. Remind me to get off before you sail, huh?

Yes, sir.

Is, uh, is any Officer Marin here?

Uh, no. I secured him, sir.

Something I can help you with.

Yeah, maybe there is.

Take a look at these.

D, D, here.

Two letters.

To the armored car company. Same date.

Requesting delivery.

This one at 1800.

This at 1700.

1800 it is, sir.

This is wrong.

Well, that's the funny thing, Vic.

This came from the fax machine.

This came from the copier.

I don't understand, sir.

How did you get these?

I printed them from the memory of the machines from Lieutenant O'Dell's

But these aren't the only ones.

Several nearly identical letters.

All from the copier and the fax machine in that office.

Sir, what do these have to do with defending Lieutenant O'Dell against the

charges? These have nothing to do with Lieutenant O'Dell. They were printed and

sent after the lieutenant was arrested, though his signature is the bottom of

both of these.

Different dates, names, signatures on the same documents.

Something is seriously wrong here, Commander.

Who'd be in a position to do something like this, Master Chief?

Petty Officer Moran, that's about it, but why?

Now, having seen this, would you say it's possible Lieutenant Odell's being

framed? Oh, there's no question about it. It's very possible.

Well, then we'd better find Petty Officer Moran ASAP.

Here you are.

All right.

Modification of orders.

Okay.

Where do you want the armored truck to go, Lieutenant Odell?

Right over there where I'm parked.

You got it.

Okay, pull it right side of the barricade. We're in lockdown.

I'm late.

I got paperwork here that says this money's supposed to go right to the

Now, you've got paperwork that says different. The base is in lockdown.

Once you go in, you don't go out again. Oh, hell, that's no good.

I got three more drops to make. That's what I figured.

Put the money in my van, I'll take you to the ship, and you're free to go.

Much obliged, Lieutenant.

I appreciate the courtesy.

Thank you.

We're going to unload here into the van. You got it.

Reloading here.

Okay.

There you go.

This is the last of it.

I don't know what you want me to do with this information about Petty Officer

Marin, Commander. I just got here today.

It's your department now, Lieutenant.

I suggest you inform your division officer there are serious discrepancies

breaches of procedure.

That's a good suggestion, sir. I'll do that.

I'd do it sooner than later.

You don't mean now, do you? I have a cash delivery of $10 million coming on

pier in less than 15 minutes.

It's up to you, Lieutenant.

Master Chief.

Sir. The Marine is nowhere on board the colony. He's not aboard ship or you

can't find him? I don't know, sir.

Excuse me, Lieutenant. We have clearance at the point gate.

Armor car through the gate and clear security, Master Chief.

We're here for a pickup.

Pickup? Where's the money?

It's empty, Master Chief.

I can see that, ma 'am.

This order's for a pickup.

Who authorized this?

You did, ma 'am.

None of this makes any sense.

Maybe it does.

Petty Officer Marin is missing.

We know there's paperwork requesting two armored cars. One for $1 ,700, one for

$1 ,800. Now, we thought one was a correction.

What if it wasn't?

What if two were ordered?

A 1700 delivery and an 1800 pickup?

Check with the gate, Lieutenant.

If Petty Officer Marin intercepted the 1700 delivery, he bought himself an hour

to make off with $10 million.

I'll check with the gate, sir.

I'll get my hands on that son of a bitch.

He must have been putting this plan together for some time.

We got rid of Lieutenant O'Dell.

to take advantage of a new dispersing officer.

Yeah, but he couldn't have factored in the lockdown into his escape, sir.

So how does he get off the base?

Water.

in the air.

Don't move!

Gentlemen, we're going to go through it again by the numbers.

At 0 -345, load -in is completed.

At 0 -420, according to this log, water slugs are fired through all four tubes

to clear them. Now, what happened between 0 -345 and 0 -420?

We waited for Lieutenant Mitchell to come down from topside, sir. And during

that time...

He loaded the fish out of the tubes and onto the skids. So who was in the

torpedo room when you fired the water slugs?

Lieutenant, myself, Viegas, and Hubble.

Fire number one.

Fire number one, aye.

And when all four water slugs had been fired, you then stowed two Mark 48 ad

caps into tubes number three and four.

Yes, sir.

That doesn't make any sense. You had to move all four torpedoes out of the tubes

to fire the water slugs.

Not four, sir, three.

I beg your pardon?

There were only three war shots in the tubes at that point, sir. Tube number

four was empty.

You said that you stowed the first four fish that came on board in the tubes.

Yes, sir. So what made you think tube number four was empty after loading?

The tag said it was, sir. Did you or Petty Officer Hubble take the torpedo

of tube number four? No, sir. We just assumed... Petty Officer Spencer, did

or Petty Officer Dodd unstow the torpedo from tube number four?

No, sir.

I just remembered something, sir.

When we went off shore power, the boat was blacked out for a few seconds.

And I noticed the tag had come off tube number four, so I put it back.

Come on, man. Let's go.

I must have put it back wrong.

You were out of the room at that time, right, Chief?

Yes, sir.

You didn't notice the mistake?

No, sir.

It must have been in the tube when we fired the water slug, sir.

Fire number four. Firing four, aye.

If 300501 was in the tube when you fired the slug, Chief, where is it now?

I'd say it's about five fathoms below the pier at Norfolk, sir.

Chief, maybe you and your crew could give us a minute of privacy.

All right, sir.

How

many hours

did you go without sleep during this, Lieutenant?

36?

48?

Something like that.

We're all human.

How'd it feel, sir?

Knowing that you'd never serve on a submarine again.

And that's all it was. The torpedo got shoved out in the water.

Well, they haven't found it yet, sir, but that seems to be the explanation.

Nobody checked the tube before they fired the water slugs.

Charges? I don't think it can be avoided, sir.

Weapons TPO bears direct responsibility.

Next is the weapons officer, and the skipper's career may not survive either.

Good men, very bad mistake.

Nice job, Commander.

Thank you, sir.

Get out of my chair, damn it!

Come here, damn it.

I knew it'd come to me.

You know what's funny about all

this?

No, but I bet you're about to enlighten me.

Well, it was a fortunate mishap.

If the nuke hadn't gone missing, the base wouldn't have been in lockdown.

The Navy would be out $10 million right now.

Interesting hypothesis.

But I'm not sure the Navy would agree.

Lieutenant O'Dell, the charges against you have been dropped, thanks to the

efforts of Commander Rapp.

Thank you, ma 'am.

Thank you, sir.

I knew I could trust you.

I just got lucky, I guess.

You know, if you hurry, you can get back to Norfolk before the colony gets

underway. It seems your replacement has a replacement.

You.

Dismissed. Aye, aye, ma 'am.

Sir.

Lucky, huh?

You just saved the taxpayers $10 million.

Well, somebody had to do it.

Good morning, Admiral.

As you were, Tyner.

Keep your state colonel morning, Commander.

Sir.

I was just finicking tidying up your desk, sir.

No, no, no. This is just a visit. You're still in charge.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir.

Excuse me, Admiral.

There's a dog in the office.

No, no. She's mine. Come here, dammit.

Sit down, dammit.

You named the dog dammit, sir?

Well, the name kind of found itself.

Dammit?

Good morning.