El 4077 está designado como el escenario para la realización de una película del ejército en las unidades de Mobile Surgical Hospital Hospital. Hawkeye es elegida como la estrella, mientras que Margaret y Frank componen un guión. The Eye Of The Hawk se opone a la pieza de propaganda que el cineasta Lt. Bricker está produciendo y, después de haber expuesto la película original, vuelve a filmar una nueva a su manera, interpretándose a sí mismo como Groucho Marx-ish Yankee Doodle Doctor y burlándose de glorificar a los médicos. mientras concluye con un discurso bastante serio sobre el infierno de la guerra.

Hawkeye crea un médico falso, el capitán Jonathan S. Tuttle, para dar suministros a los huérfanos locales. Henry quiere que Tuttle sea el oficial del día, por lo que Hawkeye crea un archivo de personal falso, y todo su pago atrasado se le da al orfanato. ¡Cuando el general Clayton quiere recompensar su generosidad, Hawkeye se ve obligado a inventar una historia sobre Tuttle saltando de un helicóptero sin su paracaídas! ¡Por supuesto, el nuevo amigo de Trapper, el Capitán Murdoch, obtuvo las placas de identificación falsas y el paracaídas ...!

El general Clayton llama para decir que se debe declarar un alto el fuego. El campamento celebra, Klinger regala sus vestidos y los lugareños comienzan a tomar piezas del campamento. Pero Trapper no lo cree. Hawkeye afirma que está casado para evitar las promesas que hizo a varias enfermeras. La fiesta para celebrar el alto el fuego, que nunca tuvo lugar, se ve interrumpida por las heridas entrantes.

Brought on by Frank and Margaret's negative reports, General Clayton assigns a psychiatrist, Captain Hildebrand, to examine the 4077th M*A*S*H unit, to see if it should be disbanded. Henry tells them to be on their best behavior, or else they will be split up. But the 4077th soon begins to act in their traditional, insane ways: the shrink experiences Max Klinger, watches the hijinks of Hawkeye and Trapper John, and witnesses the trysts of Frank and Hot Lips. While Hildebrand confronts the unit on its behaviour, choppers bearing wounded begin to arrive and everyone heads for the OR. The onslaught of casualties shows the 4077th's true side.

An inept North Korean pilot, known as "5 O'Clock Charlie", makes his daily attempt to bomb the ammo dump. Frank puts in a request for an anti-aircraft gun, which is granted when Charlie hits General Clayton's jeep. Frank takes charge of the gun, while Hawkeye and Trapper are determined to prevent him using it, by getting rid of the ammo dump. Frank misses Charlie and destroys the dump.

Hawkeye and Trapper want the army to admit responsibility for the accidental bombing of a local village. They fill out a report and Major Stoner arrives to investigate, and leaves with all the evidence. When the story is released it claims that the enemy bombed the village, and the army tries to gag the doctors. But, thinking there could be a medal in it for him, Frank has also put a report together, with copies of all the evidence, including shell fragments, so the army comes clean.

Hawkeye has been in non-stop surgery for 3 straight days without sleep, and the wounded keep coming. He decides to find out who started the war, and sends a telegram to Harry S Truman. After listening to some of Frank's rubbish about the North Koreans wanting better plumbing, he tries to send the officers' latrine to the North Koreans with an offer of peace. Trapper finally manages to sedate him. Trapper (about Hawkeye): "I guess he's just unstable. You see, he took this weird oath as a young man, never to just stand by and watch people die."