- Hawkeye and Trapper desperately try to acquire an incubator for the camp. Captain Sloan, the Quartermaster, turns them down. A colonel with three incubators won't let them have one, and they cause an uproar at a general's press conference.—<Explorerds6789>
- Hawkeye and Trapper party all night and wake to a messed-up swamp and a heavy hangover. Frank comes in but says nothing about the state of their tent or the fact that the 2 partied all night like animals. Hawkeye and Trapper are denied their satisfaction of seeing Frank sore at them. In post op they have a patient, who came in a day earlier with multiple chest wounds. The patient has a high temperature. But Hawkeye and Trapper can't figure out if its a fragment that's causing it, or an infection in the chest.
Henry Blake has taken delivery of a new barbecue, and with Radar's help, is assembling it in preparation for barbecuing steaks. He likes his steaks rare and barbecues them with sugar and brandy, his own personal recipe. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and Trapper express concern that the cell culture from the patient will have to be sent to a laboratory in Tokyo, which will mean a 72-hour wait for the results. They look into requisitioning an incubator for the 4077th. A new incubator costs $600. Henry is not OK to order one just yet, sine the unit just got their barbecue. But Hawkeye and Trapper insist and eventually Henry agrees to raise it with the Quartermaster's office. Supply Officer Captain Sloan (Eldon Quick) tells them they cannot have one (despite admitting that it would make sense to have it in a MASH unit), according to the Basic Equipment List for a M*A*S*H unit (The list considers an incubator a luxury item), but they can have a pizza oven or other non-essential equipment (like a jukebox). Hawkeye is disgusted with the red tape and vows to an incubator for the unit.
Hawkeye and Trapper travel to Seoul in search for an incubator. Another supply officer Major Morris (ted Gehring) has hoarded three incubators but refuses to release any of them, and his superior Col. Lambert (Logan Ramsey) is selling military equipment (Incubators, sterilizers, ice cream makers, pontoon bridges, jeeps and B-52 on a week's notice. He is sitting on half a million rolls of toilet paper) for personal profit (Lambert offers an incubator for $1000 cash). Morris laments that he never made more than $10K in his entire life. Hawkeye and Trapper eventually take their frustrations to General Mitchell (Robert F. Simon) at a press conference (asking him repeatedly why field hospitals like the MASH are operating without incubators. They persist even with the general giving them vague, general answers), leading to chaos as the journalists begin questioning both the doctors and the General. They even allege that the Col. Lambert is shipping the entire war from Korea to his bank account in Switzerland, one dollar at a time. The duo are arrested by the military police.
Back at the camp, Hawkeye and Trapper have to explain their actions to Blake (They yelled, give me an incubator or give me death, and called a 1 star General a NINCOMPAC). As they leave his office, Radar reveals his latest acquisition-an incubator, for which he has traded away Henry's barbecue.
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