- Radar reports on the comedies and tragedies of a typical 4077th week while Majors Houlihan and Burns try to get Cpl. Klinger transferred and Hawkeye falls hard for a nurse.
- Every week, one of Radar's duties is to prepare the 4077 Weekly Report. This week, Radar highlights the Chinese POW who went berserk in the O.R. and held everyone at scalpel point, nearly killing Trapper's patient. Lt. Erika Johnson, the new nurse, tried to stop the POW. Corp. Klinger, the one who actually brought down the POW (and lost his very best brassiere in the process) is the big hero. But, Maj. Burns and Maj. Houlihan complained about Klinger; forcing Henry to request a divisional psychiatrist to evaluate Klinger. Enter Major Milton "Sidney" Freedman, psychiatrist and compatriot. Trapper's patient dies, and even he goes a little berserk as he watches the Chinese POW healing nicely. Henry calls it a slow week. Will Klinger sign a document professing to be a homosexual transvestite just to get a Section 8?—LA-Lawyer
- When a wounded Red Chinese goes crazy in the operating room, he contaminates Trapper's patient. Meanwhile, Frank and Margaret insist on a psych evaluation for Klinger, in hopes that he'll get his Section 8 and go. Also, Hawkeye falls for a new nurse.—Kathy Hofmann
- October 17, 1951: This episode is told as a voice-over of Radar reading a weekly activity report & personnel record as he is typing it. Comically, it includes where he puts punctuation and how he spaces the report. In each scene of the episode, the viewer hears the actual scene as well as the report that Radar is making. There was an unusually heavy influx of wounded into the OR, which included one enemy prisoner, a Chinese infantry soldier. An enemy prisoner who is being treated in the OR grabs a scalpel and attacks a nurse, Lt. Erika Johnson (Joan Van Ark), and inadvertently splashes foreign matter into the wound of a patient of Trapper's before being subdued by Hawkeye. Father Mulcahy tries to calm the prisoner yelling Bungchow thinking it meant peace and happiness. It really meant your daughter's pregnancy brings much peace and joy to our village. Hawkeye defends the prisoner saying that he was terrified out of his skull and didn't do anything on purpose. When Trapper's patient subsequently dies (Trapper was about to operate on him again, after he developed a secondary infection and a high white blood count), Trapper is furious at the enemy soldier and stands over his bed (in the swamp, as per the established protocol with Frank, enemy patients occupied Hawkeye's bed only at 4077 MASH) menacingly, as if he is going to sabotage his care. However, Hawkeye talks him down from acting.
Hawkeye, meanwhile, has fallen head over heels in love with Erika. He spends an evening with her, making long term plans for his future and imagines having kids with her. Although he is temporarily deterred by seeing a wedding ring on her hand, he is happy to discover that the ring is merely a shield against unwanted advances. Hawkeye is prepared to propose to the nurse, but she is not interested in a long-term relationship and is shipped out to Tokyo. During the crucial conversation, in which she reveals to Hawkeye that they can't have the kind of relationship that he desires, the PA system plays "As Time Goes By", and Hawkeye says, "Not their song," thinking of the implicit parallel to Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca.
After Frank mistakes Klinger for Margaret, the two majors decide to get rid of Klinger. Houlihan calls him a serious distraction to the discipline and morale of the 4077 MASH. They convince Col. Blake to have Klinger undergo a psychiatric evaluation, when Houlihan threatens to take the matter directly to General Clayton for his intervention. Dr. Major Milton Freedman (Allan Arbus), an Army psychiatrist, interviews Klinger, and tells him that although he believes Klinger to be sane, he is willing to grant him a Section 8 discharge if he will sign a report confirming that he is a transvestite and a homosexual (a report which Freedman notes will follow him into civilian life). Insisting that he is neither ("I'm just crazy!"), Klinger refuses to sign, and Freedman files a report saying that Klinger is sane.
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