Above and Beyond

what happens

When Harm, Mac and Bud are ordered to run a routine background check on a Navy SEAL who is a candidate for the Medal of Honor, they uncover unsavory information that may make him unworthy. Lt. Rivers is up for a medal after he single-handedly rescues the undersecretary of state from fundamentalist terrorists. Harm and Mac, in their investigation, find Rivers, an African-American, to be a very tough, complex and uncommunicative individual who is totally devoted to his country and his duty. But his men paint a different picture of him as a gung-ho loner who doesn't care about the safety of his team and, in fact, botched the mission by leaving one of his men behind. Rivers finally agrees to open up to Harm -- but only if Harm can withstand arduous SEAL training for one day -- including the brutal manhandling required of the ""hostage interrogation.""

who made it

directed

Tony Wharmby

written

Paul J. Levine

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• MMonique Mannen as Sandra Wilkins
• MMike Jolly as Ray McNeely
• Gregory Itzin as Lawrence Culbertson
• Guy Garner as Jeb Stuart Wilkins
• John Prosky as Jon Barrow
• Tico Wells as Elwood Douglas
• CChristopher Burgard as Barry Hannah
• NNick Meaney as Leonard Kress