Joan baby-sits for a 6-year-old boy who is obsessed with death; officers assault a black man at a gas station.

Ed and Al finally arrive in Central City. Needing a place to stay, Mustang places the boys under the supervision of 'Sewing-Life Alchemist' Shou Tucker. Awed by Tucker's mansion and vast library of Alchemy books, the brothers spend some happy days of study and good fun. All their work leads up to one event -- the Alchemy Exam.

Due to overloaded JAG caseload which was made worse by the review of all of Cmdr. Imes cases, the Admiral has the SecNav re-instate Harm's Naval Commission, clearing the way for Harm to return to JAG.

Could a small town have built a working cannon out of a tree? Can a pierced tongue withstand the electric force of a bolt of lightning? The team takes a mold of Adam's head and pierced the heck out of it to see if they could get a lighting strike from an electric rod. Are there ways of beating a Breathalyzer? The team tries many myths to see if they could drink and make it not show up on a Breathalyzer.

Mike enters a bat cave in Texas in search of guano (bat excrement) to collect with a bat biologist.



Later he helps to rehabilitate bats at a "bat hospital."



Mike then goes in search of mud used to give grip to baseballs in the major leagues.



Finally, Mike tries his hand at filleting fish and takes part in the many stages of seafood production.

Harry's day doesn't go well when he hits a cyclist as Roxanne's pregnancy is revealed to Tess.