- Frank applies for a transfer out of the 4077, and Hawkeye and Trapper can't resist broadcasting his goodbye to Margaret through the camp P.A. The prospect of gold in the region gives Frank second thoughts.
- The usual banter in the O.R. turns rancid when Frank makes Nurse Ginger Bayliss cry. Hawkeye and Trapper react just as expected: they comfort their friend and then they cause Frank to go wee-wee in his cot. But, when the duo goes on to encase Frank's right hand in a hook and then, humiliate Margaret publicly, the Majors both demand immediate transfers. This is very funny until Henry transfers all of their work load onto Trapper and Hawkeye. Frank might not do much but Margaret is a highly competent head nurse who runs half the camp. It is incumbent upon the drunken duo to pull a fast one... quickly. How does one tap into the three basic human emotions: greed, fear and greed?—LA-Lawyer
- After witnessing Frank's berating of nurse Ginger Bayliss (Odessa Cleveland) for no reason (Frank missed a fragment, and blamed Ginger for not giving him any suction, when he didn't even ask for any) (Frank tells Houlihan not to assign Ginger to his table again), Hawkeye and Trapper console Ginger and set Frank up for one of their "getting even" pranks. This latest scheme succeeds where no other one has (they plaster his hand and put a hook on it, put his other hand in a warm water bucket and make him pee, stack 5 cots over each other so he is sleeping 12 feet off the floor, stuff hamburgers in his ears so that he wakes up with a dog slobbering all over him), as Frank finally demands that he be transferred to another unit.
Radar tells Hawkeye and Trapper that Korea is the 5th largest gold producer in the world. He has purchased prospecting equipment to go into business for himself. But the duo inform him that he only found pyrite and not real Gold.
But when another prank embarrasses both Frank and Margaret over the P.A. system (Hawkeye and Trapper record the final conversation (when Frank goes to say goodbye to Houlihan) between Hot Lips and Frank and play it over the PA system) (it had stuff like Frank promising to write to Houlihan everyday, faithfully.. As he does to his wife.. Houlihan starts hitting Frank with stuff from inside her tent.. Then they make plans to take leaves at the same time and meet in Tokyo.. Then they proceed to have sex), she also demands a transfer (as she has been publicly humiliated). Henry is livid with Hawkeye and Trapper, and vows to do more than just fire them. They were directly responsible for the loss of a general surgeon and the head nurse of the 4077 MASH unit.
Hawkeye and Trapper are glad to be rid of the pair at first, but then learn that they will have to work double shifts until replacements arrive. This means that they are working almost non stop. Replacements in the army can take forever. They finally realize that they have gone too far. They need to figure out a way to make Frank stay. They know that Frank is greedy for money. He married for money and became a doctor for money. if he thought he could get rich staying at the 4077, he would never leave. They take the gold fillings from the dentist's office. To trick Frank into staying, the two surgeons lead him to believe that large deposits of gold can be found near the camp. They leave the small sample of the gold filling from the dentist office on their table at the swamp as proof. They do all this, while Frank was pretending to be asleep. Frank goes by the creek near the camp, and finds rocks painted with gold left by Hawkeye and Trapper.. But he believes he found real gold just lying around. Frank gets some tools and digs deeper and finds even more "gold"..
His greed gets the better of him and he withdraws his transfer request, after which Hawkeye and Trapper humiliate him again by driving past him in a jeep that they have painted gold
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