Plot: A wounded North Korean woman is brought to the 4077th, accompanied by an ROK officer anxious to question her. Hawkeye and B.J. see her only as a patient, and do not recognize that she is fully prepared to kill or be killed.

Plot B: Margaret's friend Scully is wounded and brought to the 4077th.

Hey, for once Pierce and co. messed up! Thank goodness no one was murdered because of the doctors' mistrust. I wish they'd also turned out to be wrong about the ROK officer torturing and killing prisoners, but that'll never happen.

Why, at the end, does Margaret get so upset when she's teased about Scully? Pierce wasn't implying anything that wasn't true.

Yes, but you know Margaret--she likes to think that no one knows. Look how long she and Frank tried to hide their relationship, when the entire camp (and probably the Army and North and South Korea) knew about it.

The North Korean who tries to kill an American soldier and basically spits in Pierce's and B.J.'s face calling them fools for helping her is recipient of their compassion. While the South Korean soldier who is trying to protect his country from the enemy recieve their hostility and is shown as the bad guy.

What exactly were Hawkeye and B.J. planning to do. Let the North Korean go so she could go kill more Americans.

No, they didn't believe she was a North Korean until she attacked them

They didn't believe she was North Korean spy until she attacked them. As far as they knew, she was only a civilian.

Your right. But even after finding that out they still seemed to think that she was not as bad as the South Korean soldier.

I think what they objected to was that the fact that she was due to be executed. I think it was a matter of "You mean we fixed her up, so you can kill her?!" Hawkeye had the same objection when Colonel Flagg wanted to do the same thing.

When B.J. watches Charles and Lt. Park play chess, he sits inbetween the two. However, when Charles begins humming and tapping the table, Hunnicut sits right next to Winchester.

Should Park be wearing a U.S. Army uniform? I ask that because he's said to be with the South Korean Army, but is wearing an American Lt. bar. I assume that each country uses a different insignia to distinguish the ranks, but I could be wrong.

I have to agree that Pierce and Hunnicut are horribly wrong in their assessment of the situation. As far as the North Korean guerilla is concerned they saw her only as they wanted to see her - as an innocent.

I think that Hawk and Pierce didn't care about innocence or guilt, but about the South Korean officer who wanted to torture her. Think about it: they, as US officers and representatives, working under UN mandate, have allied themselves with the south korean. So any instance the South koreans violate the human rights, it falls back on their allies, too. And Hawk and BJ realized or knew quite correctly that if you start using every means necessary - like torture - to win the war, you've already lost the war, since you have turned from a civilized, democratic nation into uncivilized barbarians. That was Hawks concern. I think he even said sth. how he didn't care if she was innocent or guilty, she was his patient.

"I think that Hawk and Pierce didn't care about innocence or guilt..."

Aren't they the same person?

My recollection of the ep is that Pierce and Hunnicutt did indeed feel she was innocent. They continuously did what they could to rationalize her actions.

I do wonder if they would have tried so hard to protect her if she had been a male spy? I really think that part of the problem was that they couldn't believe that a woman could be so savage.

So when Klinger finally tracks down Radar, we find that Corporal O'Riley is at Suzi's Pink Pagoda. Is this the same infamous Pink Pagoda mentioned in several previous eps? My, my, how our little Corporal has grown. (Doubtful, actually. This one turns out to be just a restaurant.)

And once again, just how much leave has Radar accumulated? This episode specifies that Radar's been gone a week. How'd he get that much time off? Again, most of the time, people get three day passes. Yet, Radar got a week. How? I don't think it's from previously unused leave time since we know Radar has gone on R&R before. So how'd he get so much time off?

When Max walks up to talk to the South Korean MPs, he enters from the background, where the motor pool is. That would be the outer perimeters of the camp. Why? Wouldn't it be more likely that Klinger would enter from within the camp instead of the outer edges of it?

The jeep with the guerilla is leaving the compound. Charles, B.J. and Lt. Park are in the Officers Club. As the sound of the jeep's motor is heard, Hunnicutt and Park race to the door of the O Club. In one shot, Charles has his arms folded over his chest. In the next shot, the hands are in front of him.

This is not one of Pierce's better planned schemes. Surely he knew the noise of the jeep would be heard by Park and his MPs. Couldn't he have found a way to get the prisoner further away from camp before loading her into the jeep?

One thing about this ep: I remember being really shocked when I first heard Hawkeye say, "You son of a b|tch!" Of course, that was in '79 and such language was completely unexpected in Prime Time TV. My, how times have changed.

"I'm so conservative, I make you look like a New Dealer."

The little cuts of Radar over several episodes, pretending on the phone that he's having a great time--and then drawing back the camera to show that he's not--were kind of cute, but they obviously forgot that Radar has been to Tokyo before, and he had absolutely no problem finding things to do--such as getting drunk and swimming laps in a bathhouse pool.

This episode is the first usage of "You SOAB" on the 3 major networks.

13 years between Shatner's "Let's get the hell out of here" (the first "Hell") on Star Trek and Hawk's "SOB"

Of course, Hawkeye would repeat the phrase to Sidney Freeman in the series finale.

And, as I've pointed out elsewhere, "City on the Edge of Forever" was not the first use of "hell" as an expletive on Network TV. See my postws on the discussion on "City on the Edge of Forever" on the Nitcentral TOS board for further details.