- Father Mulcahy and Klinger retrieve some stolen penicillin after a soldier's confession, B.J. deals with a patient's morphine addiction, and British Major Ross demands that Hawkeye release his still-injured soldiers.
- Gloucester Regiment, part of the BCFK (British Commonwealth Forces Korea) arrive at the 4077; Colonel Potter calls them nutcakes who never wear helmets. BJ is recognized by a GI, Sgt. Johnson, upon whom BJ operated 8 months earlier; he is wounded and seems to be in severe pain. Klinger has to break it to Col. Potter: their penicillin store has been stolen again. Father Mulcahy tries to be useful, but "no one seems to need Last Rites." Hawkeye rails against the British tradition of giving wounded soldiers tea. For soldiers with abdominal injury, tea may mean peritonitis. Major Derek Ross, (Bernard Fox) the CO of the Gloucester Regiment, annoys the surgeons with his brusque attitude toward his men. A sergeant confesses to Father Mulcahy information about Black Market medicine; Father grabs Klinger and a jeep and Father's info rings a bell. Hawkeye is shocked when he next runs into Maj. Ross in post-op. Hawkeye learns there may be different methods for different COs when it comes to showing his men how he values them. The American Plan may not be so very different from the British Plan... give or take a cup of tea.—LA-Lawyer
- Gloucester Regiment, part of the BCFK (British Commonwealth Forces Korea) arrive at the 4077; Colonel Potter calls them nut-cakes who never wear helmets. Houlihan is back to fawning over Winchester's surgical finesse. He is still very slow and others do 3 operations, while he is still doing his first. Winchester says he was not trained on an assembly line. Houlihan is happy to spend her evenings with Winchester, but panics every time he even tries to come close to her. She doesn't want the camp to start making stories about them.
BJ is recognized by a GI, Sgt. Johnson (Neil Thompson), upon whom BJ operated 8 months earlier; he is wounded and seems to be in severe pain. BJ quickly figures out Johnson is hooked on morphine and is an addict. He refuses to fuel his addiction. He works with Johnson to wean off his addiction. Johnson goes through the painful withdrawal symptoms.
Klinger has to break it to Col. Potter: their penicillin store has been stolen again. Father Mulcahy tries to be useful, but "no one seems to need Last Rites."
Hawkeye rails against the British tradition of giving wounded soldiers tea. For soldiers with abdominal injury, the tea leaks into the abdominal cavity, and this may mean peritonitis. One of Hawkeye's patients develops Peritonitis and has a high fever. He wont survive the night without penicillin. A sergeant confesses to Father Mulcahy information about Black Market medicine (he was getting paid $1000/month to participate in the heists); Father grabs Klinger and a jeep and Father's info rings a bell. The sergeant was shipping out of Korea and told Mulcahy about the location where the stolen penicillin was kept (under the bell of the burnt down schoolhouse near the village temple). Mulcahy and Klinger find the location, and get the stuff (the stuff belonged to the 4077th to begin with), but are shot at by other black marketeers Hawkeye's patient also gets the penicillin and survives.
Major Derek Ross, (Bernard Fox) the CO of the Gloucester Regiment, annoys the surgeons with his brusque attitude toward his men. Major Ross basically tells a room full of his injured men that they are ready to go to front right now and even questions Hawkeye for wanting to keep them at MASH for more than 2 weeks. Ross calls this mollycoddling. EVen Winchester fails to convince Ross that the men need rest & time to heal properly. Hawkeye is shocked when he next runs into Maj. Ross in post-op, where ROss is cracking jokes and reading letters from home. Hawkeye learns there may be different methods for different COs when it comes to showing his men how he values them. The American Plan may not be so very different from the British Plan... give or take a cup of tea.
Maj Ross explains to Hawkeye that his men got courage from the fact that Ross was yelling at them, as that meant that Ross expected them to get better. and since Ross believed it, the men also believed it. Hawkeye explains the effects of giving tea to a wounded soldier and Ross agrees.
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