- Instead of turning him in as a prisoner of war, Hawkeye and B.J. pull some strings to get a wounded North Korean surgeon a spot on the staff.
- A North Korean surgeon, Dr. Paik, (Soon-Tek Oh) who interned at Cook County in Chicago, is injured and brought to 4077. Paik is very worried one of his men will need his leg amputated; Paik is amazed when he awakens to learn about a new procedure where a graft of the saphenous vein is grafted onto the femoral artery, thus saving the leg. Dr. Paik says he wishes he could stay at 4077, learn and do surgery at the 4077; at POW camp, all of his skills will be wasted. Radar and Sparky arrange for a "transfer" and with a shave, haircut and eyeglasses, Dr. Paik becomes Capt. Cho Wunho, South Korean surgeon. He is an excellent surgeon and Cho (Paik) performs a procedure Col. Potter read about which Cho (Paik) learned in Chicago. Hotlips is very suspicious and Frank is very jealous. Two North Koreans, one played by Robert Ito, come to 4077 pretending to be allies needing supplies; Cho (Paik) recognizes who and what they are. He warns Klinger and Radar, who try to make it plain to very gullible Frank that he is about to ride away with the enemy. Will Dr. Cho be turned in as an enemy POW or will the Army allow the 4077 to trade up: Frank for Cho?—LA-Lawyer
- A North Korean surgeon, Dr. Paik, (Soon-Teck Oh) who interned at Cook County in Chicago, is injured and brought to 4077. Paik helps Frank and Hawkeye with triage. He helps identify the men who are the most wounded and should be the first on the surgery list. Frank is upset that Hawkeye would listen to a North Korean and not treat the American soldiers first. Frank consults Houlihan and says that he finds her fiance Donald, deceitful as he has never seen him ever once. He could be married and could be cheating on Houlihan. Paik requests Hawkeye to operate on him, as he sees Frank squabbling with Houlihan in the OR.
Paik is very worried one of his men will need his leg amputated; Paik is amazed when he awakens to learn about a new procedure where a graft of the Saphenous vein is grafted onto the femoral artery, thus saving the leg. Paik helps the other patients at night and even saves a US soldier, when Houlihan misses that he was choking away in his sleep. Houlihan thinks that Paik tried to kill the US soldier. Hawkeye sees the evidence himself and finds that Paik cleaned the chest tube as it was clogged with blood. Dr. Paik says he wishes he could stay at 4077, learn and do surgery at the 4077; at POW camp (where he is headed), all of his skills will be wasted. Houlihan and Frank complain to Potter that Paik is a spy. But Potter dismisses them.
Radar (who is bribed with an offer to assist the doctor's during the nurses annual physical) and Sparky (who is bribed with Paik's gold wrist watch) arrange for a "transfer" and with a shave, haircut and eyeglasses, Dr. Paik becomes Capt. Cho Wunho, South Korean surgeon. He is an excellent surgeon and Cho (Paik) performs a procedure Col. Potter read about which Cho (Paik) learned in Chicago. Hotlips is very suspicious That she has seen Cho before, and Frank is very jealous.
Two North Koreans, one played by Robert Ito, come to 4077 pretending to be allies needing supplies (Plasma, morphine etc etc); Cho (Paik) recognizes who and what they are. frank refuses to issue any supplies to the Koreans, but then changes his mind, when they butter him up. He warns Klinger and Radar, who try to make it plain to very gullible Frank that he is about to ride away with the enemy (he wants to give the entire Korean unit a chance to meet him). Frank ignores Radar and Klinger and rides away with North Koreans, thinking he is going to a South Korean hospital to deliver a lecture.
Meanwhile Potter checks with HQ and figures out that Cho is Dr Paik of the North Korean Army. Potter puts Dr Paik under arrest, even though he has sympathy for what BJ and Hawkeye were trying to do. Frank helps the North Koreans to get past an US Army checkpoint, after which they dump him, saying they don't need a hostage that badly and Frank on the US side is the best thing for North Korea.
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