- Hawkeye and Trapper are Tokyo-bound, Frank is jealous; but Trapper wants 3 days without amputating something. Father and Henry bring shopping lists but Radar brings news of more casualties. Thirty-six hours and 473 cases later (an all time record) Henry tells the officers about an unusual radio call Radar took from the Chinese. The Chinese have 9 shot-up GIs they are willing to free...but only if unarmed doctors, a corpsman and a driver travel 50 miles into Chinese territory in one vehicle to retrieve the GIs. All must be totally without weaponry. Margaret and Frank do not trust the offer, but Hawkeye believes it. He knows the Chinese realize the 4077 treats their wounded Chinese well and believes the Chinese are trying to give their GIs a break. Radar is to drive the bus with doctors, Hawkeye and Trapper, and a volunteer corpsman, Klinger. Smelling a commendation, Hotlips urges Frank to volunteer and arms him with all kinds of courage. So, five Americans meet a group of Chinese... but they are armed to the teeth with Russian weaponry. Is this an elaborate hoax or a fool's errand? Or is a group of men doing something decent in the middle of a giant indecency?—LA-Lawyer
- Hawkeye and Trapper are planning to leave for Tokyo when an unusual offer comes in to swap P.O.W. patients between the Chinese and the 4077th. After much debate, Henry agrees to send Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank, Radar, and Klinger into enemy territory.—Anonymous
- Hawkeye, Trapper and Frank volunteer to venture into enemy territory when a Chinese unit surprisingly offers to return American GIs who are too wounded for the Chinese doctors to care for. Will they bring everyone back alive or will Frank jeopardize the mission by bringing along an unauthorized weapon?—shepherd1138
- Hawkeye and Trapper are Tokyo-bound (Hawkeye looks forward to spending an entire evening with a Japanese hostess for just $30), Frank is jealous; but Trapper wants 3 days without amputating something. Father and Henry bring shopping lists (Cameras, lenses, watches, a training bra.. Henry wants them to visit the Yamashida street, and go to a specific bookstore which has a package for Henry, under the name Orville Carver.. It is the porn films he ordered) but Radar brings news of more casualties. Frank is triaging and Hawkeye is pissed that he is sending in cases with minor injuries in the operating room. Hawkeye over-rules Frank to admit a Chinese soldier who has chest wounds in front of all US soldiers with minor injuries. Frank calls it a mutiny.
Thirty-six hours and 473 cases later (an all time record. 18 laporotomies, 21 busted femurs, 16 bowel resections) Henry tells the officers about an unusual radio call Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff) took from the Chinese. The Chinese have 9 shot-up GIs they are willing to free (the GI's are shot up more than the Chinese can handle themselves)...but only if unarmed doctors, a corpsman and a driver travel 50 miles into Chinese territory to Rainbow Bridge, in one vehicle to retrieve the GIs. All must be totally without weaponry. Rainbow Bridge is 50 miles inside enemy territory.
Margaret and Frank do not trust the offer and think it is a trap. Houlihan says that Chinese are know to betray, brainwash, torture and even rape their prisoners. Hawkeye believes it. He knows the Chinese realize the 4077 treats their wounded Chinese well and believes the Chinese are trying to give their GIs a break. Plus, the Chinese have no anti-biotics and no surgical setup. The decision belongs to Henry at the end, and he decides to go and bring back their men. Radar is to drive the bus with doctors, Hawkeye and Trapper, and a volunteer corpsman, Klinger (Jamie Farr). Smelling a commendation, Hotlips urges Frank to volunteer and arms him with all kinds of courage, including a small pistol for his personal safety (Frank says he is a married man), even though all weapons were prohibited by the Chinese for the meeting. Houlihan gives Frank her own small pistol, which she got from her mother (Her dad gave it to her mother on their wedding night).
So, five Americans meet a group of Chinese... but they are armed to the teeth with Russian weaponry that fires 30 rounds a minute at rapid fire.. At the exchange the Chinese doctor Dr Lin Tam (Mako) is a man who went to Uni of Illinois and speaks good English. But he begins to back off when he realizes that Frank brought a gun. Hawkeye and Trapper tell Frank to surrender the gun and plead to Lin tam to do the decent thing in the middle of this disgusting war. the Chinese laugh when they see its a tiny pistol. Hawkeye and Trapper return and perform 16 more hrs of surgery and fall to sleep exhausted.
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