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Fictional character in the television series JAG
After graduating from high school and then at some point earning a bachelor's degree, Sarah MacKenzie joined the Marine Corps and received her commission through Officer Candidate School. The first known assignment for Mac in the canon was at the grade of first lieutenant at the Headquarters and Service Battalion in Okinawa, Japan, as an administrative officer under John Farrow. While stationed in Okinawa, Mac engaged in an affair with her superior officer John Farrow. Unbeknownst to Mac, Christopher Ragle followed her to Okinawa and discovered the affair. She was stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina a year before the events in at the start of the second season, and given the time line, was likely part of or associated with the Implementation Force (IFOR), following the 1995 Dayton Agreement. As a major, she was subsequently assigned to JAG headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia when she was pulled off a double homicide investigation to work on a case involving her uncle Colonel Matthew O'Hara (Carmen Argenziano) who had the stolen Declaration of Independence. However, soon changing her mind after successfully defending Harm pro bono in a court martial, she asked Rear Admiral A. J. Chegwidden (John M. Jackson), Judge Advocate General of the Navy to take her back at JAG. Chegwidden gave her back her letter of resignation, claiming he had been "too busy to process it" (despite having had at least four weeks in which to do so). after Admiral Chegwidden's renewal of his recommendation for her accelerated promotion. Mac bears an uncanny resemblance to Lieutenant Diane Schonke, a United States Naval Academy classmate of Harm who he had been dating before she was murdered, which initially made Harm uneasy, though he soon got past it. However, Mac was unaware of the resemblance until the third season, when Harm had worked out who had really killed Schonke. Harm, Bud, and later, Sturgis Turner, who were aware of the resemblance, had never mentioned it to Mac, who only found out by finding a picture of Schonke in Harm's apartment, in an old shoebox; it was then that Harm told her everything. It was during that same episode that Mac kept Harm from throwing his career away, by inadvertently appearing as the long deceased Diane Schonke, showing up on the pier wearing one of Harriet's spare uniforms. and Iranian ancestry and is fluent in Persian, being capable of recognizing a native Persian speaker by the accent. Her grandmother was a Muslim born in Iran and taught her the basics of Islamic law,
although her grandmother was not religious to the degree of ever wearing the abaya, which Mac reluctantly had to wear when she and Harm went outside the perimeters of a U. S. Air Force base while they were on a case in Saudi Arabia. Mac can also speak Russian and German proficiently at near native levels and is able to read an Israeli intelligence report written in Hebrew. Sarah can also get along in Romani. She also always knows the time without ever having to look at a watch or clock She and Harm eventually (after years of denial) proclaimed their love to each other. The couple decides to get married in the last episode, further deciding to be fair about who would remain in service, and who would resign, or retire, by way of a coin flip. The outcome of the coin flip was not revealed until 2019.

Harm and Mac both appeared in the season 10 finale of NCIS: Los Angeles. It is revealed that Harm left the Navy and followed Mac to San Diego after losing the coin flip, but he ended up being drawn back into service sometime later, and they mutually ended their relationship. Mac ended up taking up an assignment as the Marine liaison to the secretary of state, and they had not seen each other for nine years until video conferencing in their new roles. In the season 11 premiere, Harm and Mac reunited in person, where they shared an embrace and later renewed discussion of their relationship, once again without reaching any conclusions. Later in the season 11 finale, Mac returns seeking the team's help with investigating a Navy SEAL accused of murder and war crimes. She is seen in uniform as a lieutenant colonel (O 5), her rank at the end of JAG, suggesting Mac may now be a member of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Marine Corps Reserve, as Mac would have either been promoted or forced out of the service had she remained on active duty during the intervening 15 years. Her lack of promotion is also inconsistent with the advancement of her former subordinate, Bud Roberts, who by 2016 had been promoted to captain (O 6) as depicted in season 14 of NCIS.

For its second season, JAG moved from NBC to CBS. Bellisario had previously received offers from CBS and ABC to pick up the series, which was reworked to be one of both "legal [drama] and action". The breakdown for Mac was that she would have to be "5′9″ or taller, brown hair, tough and feisty, martial arts experience a plus—that was me," Bell then wrote Bellisario a letter telling him how she "was perfect for Mac, and wouldn’t it be interesting if his new partner looks like the dead love of his life " "Six callbacks later, I got the role"
Mac was described by Bell in 1999 as "tough and feisty and a lawyer and an action hero all rolled in one". Bell continued to co star in JAG as Sarah MacKenzie until the cancellation of the show in April 2005. A possible spin off/reformat of an 11th season of JAG, centering on Mac's assignment in San Diego was pitched to CBS, but the network passed on the spin off idea. Former JAG screenwriter and current NCIS: Los Angeles showrunner R. Scott Gemmill said in a statement when it was revealed in April 2019 that the character of Mac would make guest appearance comeback on NCIS: Los Angeles: "Catherine’s Mac was a strong, smart woman who held her own, and then some, in a male dominated world. Her character paved the way for other strong female leads" and that "Not only is it great to be working together again as friends, but to be able to write for Catherine and have her same character interact with our NCIS: Los Angeles characters now, that’s wonderfully surreal. It feels like everything has come full circle."

The similarities in the relationship between Mac and Harm and that of Scully and Mulder on The X Files has been noted by many. Time in 2001 described the character of Mac as a "legal babe who didn't wear micro minis or have sex with random men in car washes a la Ally McBeal". Slate wrote that "Bell as Mac is fine. The character is cute and scrupulous, a recovering alcoholic; for a short time, she had a Southern accent" and as to the will thy won't they aspect it was asserted that episodes "pass with little in the script or the performances to suggest that Harm and Mac are flirting; then, all of a sudden, they're kissing, then promptly forgetting about it". In 2015, Jayne Reardon, executive director at Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, graded several fictional lawyers on scripted drama television as to their display of professional ethics and thus by extension the image of the legal profession in the eyes of the public. Sarah MacKenzie from JAG got the highest grade for "respect for the system and all in it, strictly adhering to military court rules" and that "she proves herself to be a civil and professional lawyer with a strong work ethic".