- Hawkeye receives a letter from Colonel Potters wife where she informs that she has paid the last mortgage on their home and asks Hawkeye and friends to throw a small surprise party for Potter to celebrate.
- Hawkeye receives a letter from Colonel Potter's wife where she informs that she has paid the last mortgage on their home and asks Hawkeye and friends to throw a small surprise mortgage burning party for Potter to celebrate. Potter knows that Mildred has sent a letter to Hawkeye, as he saw it in Klinger's bag. Klinger refuses to share the letter with Potter since the letter is addressed to Hawkeye. But Hawkeye wont tell him what its about as he doesn't want to ruin the surprise. Potter thinks something is wrong and is angry that his wife wont confide in him and would take the help of Hawkeye. The planning committee (Mulcahy collects $27 in donations for the party) has a meeting and decides to have BJ and Winchester decorate Potter's tent (the agreed theme is "Home away from Home" and they chose a picket fence as the main decoration) and Margaret and Klinger to keep him distract till such is done. Plan is to reconvene at 1800 hrs.
Potter meanwhile is going nuts (he was found looking into Hawkeye's locker for Mildred's letter) and Hawkeye tells him that Mildred wants to surprise her and adds that this has something to do about where Potter will live out his retirement years. Potter gets agitated thinking that Mildred had gone ahead and bought a houseboat, an idea he absolutely hates. He does not want to move to Florida and he hates the sunshine in that place. Hawkeye tries to assure Potter that the surprise is not a houseboat. He sends a telegram to his bank, which telegrams back that Mildred withdrew 800 dollars last month. Potter is sure she bought the boat, when she actually withdrew the money to repay the mortgage. Meanwhile Klinger and Margaret keep Potter in his office to discuss nurses rotation schedules (she gets Potter to weigh in on the suggestion that no nurse should spend more than 2 consecutive days on OR or on Lab duty and should be shuffled frequently to maintain personnel interest). and then Klinger pretends to get a call through to Mildred to keep him busy a little longer
Lt Pavelich (Jeff East) and Sgt Lally (Guy Boyd) meet Potter and tell him about infiltrators in the area. Pavelich is young and left a desk job in Paris to be in Korea. Lally and the troops know that Pavelich takes good of them and they like him back. Soon, Pavelich is hurt in sniper fire and tells BJ that he cant feel his legs. BJ attends to Pavelich and the party in Potter's tent cant start without him. BJ decides to operate on Pavelich to relieve pressure on his spine. Lally captures the sniper and vows to kill him if anything happens to Pavelich. when BJ comes out, he cant say if Pavelich will walk again, so Lally wants to shoot the sniper, but just then Pavelich wakes up and begs Lally to stand down.
They all reach back to Potter's tent in time before he comes barging in.. he is surprised to see the mortgage fully paid and celebrates with his friends by burning the mortgage document.
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