- It's a bitterly cold night, and Hawkeye and B.J. are stuck with the overnight shift and a roomful of unruly patients. In the meantime, Margaret tells Frank that she keeps all his love letters--so he ransacks her tent to get them back.
- It is a long night of nerve-wracking shelling and artillery. One of BJ's black patients is fading, which is not helping the 97.8% "health rate" enjoyed by the 4077. With B+ type blood, which, is neither rare nor common, BJ, Hawkeye and Margaret are all worried. Luckily, Klinger is B+ and his swarthy Lebanese carcass is conveniently located in the next bed. Radar is scared to death when he is asked to wake Colonel Potter, but the old guy jumps to attention. He calls strange officers as well as his own pals to get the shelling to stop. To take the sting out of working a night shift with Hawkeye, Hotlips writes a sweet love note to Frank: she watches in disbelief as he tears it up. Margaret always saves ALL of his notes... and this really gets Frank thinking. As Hawkeye, BJ and Margaret work into early morning, saving lives, a Ferret named Frank tears apart Hotlips' tent, trying to find his love letters to her. He hopes quick action now may save his future neck. His neck is not so lucky...but, he never had much of a chin, either.—LA-Lawyer
- On a particularly cold, windy, and artillery filled night, Frank leaves Hawkeye and Margaret to carry on a night shift in post-op, a phrase of course he instantly regrets bringing up. As Frank leaves post op duty, Margaret gives him one of her notes, which he tears up. When she inevitably asks why, he proceeds to tell her that hes torn up all her letters. When she tells him shes kept all of his, he goes to her tent to destroy any evidence that might get back to his wife. With the shelling going on, Radar wakes up Col Potter to see if they can get them to stop. He talks to a Major, very bluntly ordering him to can it, or move it before hanging up. Klinger, while training a new night guard sustains on injury to his shoulder, and of course plans to use it in his never ending scheme to get out of the army.
Before Col Potter even makes it back to bed, the shelling makes him attempt another call to end the shelling, this time talking to another Col. This time hes more respectful, but after Radars hanging up, he calls the Col a jackass. Meantime BJ cant sleep because of one of his patients Abbott (Christopher Allport) that's requiring more attention than he expected. Hawkeye suggests that maybe BJ left a hole unplugged in surgery, which is causing internal bleeding, which explains the low BP. Klinger, in his never ending quest to get out of the army, goes outside with nothing more than his shorts to try to get Pneumonia so he can get home. Since hes in post-op already, and BJ realizes when they're on the last unit of blood that patients type that he needs to go back in, Klinger offers his own blood, being the type they need.
Col Potter calls a general to try to get the shelling down. This time even makes some small talk, and offers some medical advice. The shelling STILL doesn't stop. One of the more particularly upset patients Jenkins (Darren O'Connor) freaks out about the shelling and tries to pull out his IVs and tubes, and while Hawkeye is trying to wrestle him down, Margaret has to pin a sedative to the right rump. After she gets him the shot, they realize the shelling has finally stopped, and the can of beans that is on one of the heaters in the post-op, just before it explodes on them. If its not shells outside, its beans huh? Bj finds the hole inside his patient and is able to plug it this time.
As they come out of post op duty, after successfully operating on the patient who needed blood, Hawk and BJ finally realize someone (Frank) didn't come home last night. Back to Margaret coming into her tent, discovers it in shambles, even pieces of her walls on the floor, and Frank asleep sitting up by her bed. He does his mumbling rambling attempt to explain as she rants about the state of the place as the closing music and credits start.
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