soon emerges from the Mess Tent alone and decked out entirely in red, including his hair and mustache. When Hawkeye finally returns, the camp appears abandoned, but B.J. cautions him that the camp may not be the same again, to which Potter replies, "I'm counting on it." asks Potter's permission to throw a wild welcome-home bash for Hawkeye, which is quickly granted. and Charles are in the OR doing a follow-up on one of Hawkeye's patients, Mulcahy informs them that the whole camp has crowded into Radar's office awaiting news, and then Potter comes in and announces that Hawkeye has said his piece at the talks and is on his way back to camp. After checking on the General and then drawing stares from all the diplomats, he makes his point: "People are dying out there, you gotta stop it! You can't wait anymore - you can't!" He's then escorted out of the tent by the MPs.īack at the 4077th, morale skyrockets when word spreads of Hawkeye's trip to Panmunjom. When one of the MPs guesses he is there to see General Tomlin who always complains of gastritis, Hawkeye latches on to it and lets himself into the tent. He bluffs his way through the post, and finally to the tents where the talks are being held. Hawkeye makes it past the guard post claiming that there is a very sick man at the Peace Talks and that he was was ordered to proceed immediately to the Peace Talks. Radar finally gets the guard shack at Panmunjom on the phone, only to find out that Hawkeye has already been there- and has gotten through! In disbelief, Potter muses, "Thirty-five years in the Army, I thought I'd seen it all!" Potter tells her to go with her gut feeling when he asks her what her gut tells her to do she says "Divorce him!", so Potter tells her "Then, do it!" Margaret goes to visit Potter for advice on what to do about Donald. Having had enough, Hawkeye climbs into a jeep and takes off for the Peace Talks in Panmunjom "to stop the war". Hawkeye pities Margaret and asks what she's going to do she responds with angry tears that she's going to divorce Donald. He then crosses paths with Margaret, who is furious for her own reason: she tells Hawkeye that she just found out that her husband Donald permanently transferred himself stateside, effectively ending any further attempts to reconcile their marriage. Outside, Hawkeye explodes, screaming to the heavens while throwing a jeep bench. again!"), and Hawkeye wordlessly storms out of the Swamp. is despondent, Charles protestingly barks out that they've been had (". Potter comes into the Swamp with even more bad news: with the war trudging on, and with their difficulty replacing surgeons, the Army has increased the rotation points a surgeon now needs 45 points instead of 36 to be rotated home. He then looks down his nose at "this bilious schmatte", his olive drab shirt, and wishes that just for once he could see some other color besides green, randomly choosing red, a "rosy and cheery" color, just to break things up. accuses them both of having no taste, but Hawkeye, feigning offense, proclaims himself to be the best dresser in camp. When Charles remarks that "Nurse Carvelli has a better looking mustache", B.J. has cleaned up and shaved his grizzled beard down to just a mustache (which Hawkeye and Potter both call "cheezy"). Potter orders a stop to the bickering, and after surgery orders the three frustrated surgeons to start smiling more, and to shave and put on a fresh uniform in the hope that they might feel a little better. Hawkeye has the shortest fuse, but Charles reminds him that he has the most rotation points, and therefore will be the first to be sent home. In the wake of a lull-inspired three-day party, Potter has bad news to deliver the camp at morning muster: the current round of peace talks have collapsed, leaving them "back at square one", which agitates everyone, especially the surgeons, who are now verbally at one another's throats through breakfast and later through surgery. With no end to the war in sight, the Army changing the rules again, and Margaret tearfully revealing that her marriage is over, Hawkeye blows a fuse and drives to the Peace Talks in Panmunjom to try and stop the war.