- Hawkeye performs a shocking and sinister stunt to keep a war-obsessed colonel from sending more young victims to a possible early grave, while Klinger tries to use voodoo on Potter to get a discharge.
- BJ is appalled when his patient has entry wounds entering his body from 3 different directions. Col. Potter reminds him of Lt. Col. Lacy, 163rd Combat Infantry, the CO with the highest casualty rate of any single battalion in the sector. Apparently, Lacy refused to obey an order to retreat and subjected his men to hell. Poor Klinger: he has tried chicanery, malingering and endless flim-flammery, but now, Klinger is pulling out the heavy artillery, voodoo, to get his Section 8. Lacy visits the Post Op and one of his own men, Corporal North, turns away. Margaret is intrigued with the virile Lacy until she lunches with him and Lacy tells Margaret of his latest plan to take Hill 403. His plan is based on a plan used in the WWII Battle of Monte Casino...and it has a 20-30% casualty rate. Margaret understands this translates to 100 men and she leaves the table, sick. BJ and Hawkeye despise Lacy and his hypocracy; he thrives on his war games. Potter writes an unprecedented letter to I Corp asking them to move Lacy to a non-combat role. This shocks Radar, who thought Lacy was an "okay" guy. Col. Potter tells his young clerk, "Sometimes when a man's anxious to stick out a glad hand, it's because he's got something up his sleeve." When Pvt. McAvoy, one of Lacy's men, almost dies, Lacy is too anxious to speak to General Higgins about Hill 403 to care. Hawkeye puts out the "glad hand," invites Lacy for a drink at The Swamp; Lacy ends up with "appendicitis." BJ is appalled at the idea of any doctor cutting into a healthy body. But his entreaties do not shake Hawkeye. In a war-torn country, is the maxim "do no harm" open to more than one moral, legal and/or ethical translation?—LA-Lawyer
- BJ is appalled when his patient has entry wounds entering his body from 3 different directions. Col. Potter says that the men belong to Lt. Col. Lacy's (James Wainwright) unit, 163rd Combat Infantry, the CO with the highest casualty rate of any single battalion in the sector. Apparently, Lacy refused to obey an order to retreat and subjected his men to hell. He became the chief supplied to the 4077th Poor Klinger: he has tried chicanery, malingering and endless film-flammery, but now, Klinger is pulling out the heavy artillery, voodoo, to get his Section 8. Klinger has a doll of Potter and promises to stick needles into it, which he reckons will subject Potter to endless pain, unless he grants Klinger his discharge. Hawkeye's patients are afraid to go back to Lacy's unit after being treated. They say they will kill him, if they are forced to return.
Lacy visits the Post Op and one of his own men, Corporal North, turns away. Potter asks Hawkeye and BJ to lay off Lacy till he is at the 4077th. In Post Op Lacy announces a plan to launch a counter offensive to take hill 403. Margaret is intrigued with the virile Lacy until she lunches with him and Lacy tells Margaret of his latest plan to take Hill 403. His plan is based on a plan used in the WWII Battle of Monte Casino...and it has a 20-30% casualty rate. Margaret understands this translates to 100 men and she leaves the table, sick. BJ and Hawkeye despise Lacy and his hypocrisy; he thrives on his war games. Potter writes an unprecedented letter to I Corp asking them to move Lacy to a non-combat role. This shocks Radar, who thought Lacy was an "okay" guy (Lacy spoke to Radar real nicely when he first came into the 4077 and calls him the real man in charge of the unit).
Col. Potter tells his young clerk, "Sometimes when a man's anxious to stick out a glad hand, it's because he's got something up his sleeve." Lacy's men refuse to accept their purple hearts from him. When Pvt. McAvoy, one of Lacy's men, almost dies (Hawkeye has to an emergency resuscitation procedure to bring him back to life in Post Op), Lacy is too anxious to speak to General Higgins about Hill 403 to care. Higgins orders Lacy not to attack Hill 403, but Lacy decides to send out a Patrol (which he knows will come under fire) and then he will have the excuse to launch an offensive.
Hawkeye puts out the "glad hand," invites Lacy for a drink at The Swamp; Lacy ends up with "appendicitis." BJ is appalled at the idea of any doctor cutting into a healthy body (he calls it mutilation, and warns Hawkeye that the guy who replaces Lacy could be as bad or worse). But his entreaties do not shake Hawkeye. In a war-torn country, is the maxim "do no harm" open to more than one moral, legal and/or ethical translation? Hawkeye removes the appendix anyways, and shortly thereafter Radar announces a fresh batch of wounded. Hawkeye treated a symptom, while the disease goes on.. Klinger is convinced that his voodoo doll brought Lacy down and hands over his "weapons" to Mulcahy for disposal.
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