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- Maj. Gen. Gordon 'Biff' Cresswell: I'd like to table our regular order of business. There's been a new development. With the, uh, CNO and commandant's blessing, SECNAV is standing up a prototype Joint Legal Service Center. Navy and Marine lawyers in the field under one command. Colonel MacKenzie... you've been selected for command of that unit. Your orders.
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: Sir, I... I don't know what to say.
- Maj. Gen. Gordon 'Biff' Cresswell: It's Joint Legal Service Center Southwest. You'll be stationed in San Diego.
- Maj. Gen. Gordon 'Biff' Cresswell: San Diego, sir?
- Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.: Well, it's, uh, only five hours away.
- Maj. Gen. Gordon 'Biff' Cresswell: Wouldn't make my vacation plans just yet, Commander. Hope you like Yorkshire pudding.
- Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.: Force Judge Advocate, Naval Forces Europe?
- Maj. Gen. Gordon 'Biff' Cresswell: You'll be stationed in London. You have two days' travel, four days' proceed. By the way, it's a captain's billet. The 0-6 board just reported out. Frocking's been authorized. Congratulations, Captain Rabb.
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: So, the dolphin did come back?
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: Apparently.
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: What's going to be the charge?
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: Sturgis hasn't decided yet.
- Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.: Hasn't decided what?
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: Oh, sir. You've got to hear this. It's ridiculous.
- [off Mac's look]
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: In a serious sort of way, sir.
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: I'm representing Seaman Apprentice Charles Bander. He released two Navy dolphins from a marine mammal deployment center.
- Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.: Why?
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: They think he did it on porpoise, sir.
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: He felt he owed them a debt.
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: You know, kind of a squid pro quo, sir.
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: He was caught by one of the trainers in the dolphins' pen with a bucket of fish.
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: Red herring, probably. You know, trying to avoid pursuit.
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: One more fish joke, and I'll have you filleted.
- Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.: What happened to the dolphins?
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: Well, they, uh, came back on their own.
- Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts, Jr.: What would you charge him with, sir?
- Cmdr. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.: Well, there's, uh, Article 96: Releasing a prisoner without authorization.
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: You enjoying yourselves?
- Lt. Gregory Vukovic: [entering] Room for one more?
- Lt. Col. Sarah 'Mac' MacKenzie: Yeah, if you promise no fish jokes.
- Lt. Gregory Vukovic: Oh, not even one, just for the halibut?