- When Col. Henry Blake is transferred to Tokyo and Frank starts imposing military discipline on the camp, the surgeons will do anything to get Henry back.
- The original Swamp Rats (Spearchucker, Trapper and Hawkeye) are happy for their CO when Radar reads the telegram from Gen. Hammond. The 4077 has the best and highest efficiency rating of all the M*A*S*H units in Korea and Henry is receiving a citation. But the citation comes with a promotion in Tokyo, leaving Frank in charge. Like the other Huns, Frank has no consideration for the officers, NCOs or enlisted men. He expects Radar to work past 2 a.m., and then he orders reveille at dawn, calisthenics and snap inspections. Then Ferret Face really joins the Weasel family: he confiscates the still. Desperate times scream incessantly for desperate measures. Thank the one above (not MacArthur) that doctors are trained to measure...—LA-Lawyer
- The 4077th is commended for achieving a 90% success rate. General Hammond reassigns Henry to an outpost in Tokyo leaving the second in-command, Major Frank Burns, in charge of camp. Right away Frank turns gung-ho, making everybody follow his rules, and he even takes away the still. Hawkeye, Trapper, Spearchucker and Radar plot together on how to bring back Henry and get rid of Frank. But will Henry leave his cushy new job with cushy new geishas?—<Explorerds6789>
- Henry receives a citation for the camp achieving the best efficiency rating of any M*A*S*H unit (the best of any unit operating in Korea), and then Brigadier General Hammond awards him the Citation of Merit, 4th Class (In his acceptance speech, Blake says that Radar is really in charge of the unit and just uses him as a front) and reassigns him to Tokyo. After a tearful goodbye, Henry moves to Tokyo Medical HQ for administrative and training duties..
Frank is second in command and thus moves in Henry's tent and takes charge of the 4077 MASH. He makes Radar work to the bone, to put the camp ship shape. Radar is not allowed to go to bed even at 2 am in the morning. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, introduces daily exercise, 6 am bugles, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. Frank also puts them on report for being unshaven, out of uniform, beds unmade, and personal effects in unmilitary condition. The guys think about ways of getting rid of Frank, including killing him. Radar points out that there is no guarantee that things would improve with Frank out of the way. Frank's replacement might not even be a surgeon and could be even more classic military than him. The only answer really is to bring Henry back from Tokyo. Henry understood them and they understood Henry. They had a mature, grown-up relationship.
They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back. They say Frank is running the unit into the ground. Morale is down to zero and everybody hates each other. Leslie the nurse (whom Henry had a relationship with), also misses him and has gone off the rocker since he left. Henry has 3 classes a week in Tokyo and the rest of time is spent getting massages and spas and evenings spent in the company of lovely Korean ladies with sake. He loves his life and has no interest in going back to the 4077. Hawkeye and Trapper end up saying that Radar is sick.. He is having some weird symptoms (Abdominal cramps, chills and high fever for over a week) and they cant figure out what is wrong with him. They want Henry to write the letter to his family in case things go bad and he dies. Henry is concerned when he hears that Radar is sick. He loves the boy as his own dear son. He reserves a chopper under his own name, priority one, and flies directly to the 4077th.. Henry says he was the best diagnostician in Bloomington Illinois.
Their ruse is revealed when Radar panics as Henry wants to operate on him since it could be a perforated ulcer. Frank decides to be boss Henry around (he wants Henry to sign a Transient Medic form and a Visiting Physician in a combat zone) (Frank also wont allow Henry to operate on Radar without his go ahead), but Henry decides to stop Frank by assuming command then and there. He is back.
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