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Colonel Flagg is brought to the 4077 after sustaining injuries in a helicopter crash and reveals to Henry that he is on a mission from the CIA to investigate the reports of Communist sympathisers in the camp. Another intelligence agent and an old friend of Trapper's, Vinny Pratt, arrives from G2 to investigate those same reports for G2. The two start rivalling one another to solve the mystery first, something which Hawkeye finds disdain with as their antics may upset the running of the hospital and so he and Trapper set something up to teach them a lesson.
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Colonel Flagg is brought to the 4077 after sustaining injuries in a helicopter crash and reveals to Henry that he is on a mission from the CIA to investigate the reports of Communist sympathisers in the camp. Another intelligence agent agent, and an old friend of Trapper's, Vinny Pratt, arrives from G2 to investigate those same reports for G2. The two start rivalling competing with one another to solve the mystery first, something which Hawkeye finds has disdain with for as their antics may upset the running of the hospital and so he hospital. He and Trapper set something up to teach them a lesson.
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* SpyCam: Both Flagg and Pratt use Minox-type pocket cameras to photograph documents from Frank's personnel file.
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--> '''Henry''': Well, why do we have to be in the middle? Can't you [[Literature/BookOfExodus let my]] [[Film/TheTenCommandments people go?]]
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--> '''Henry''': Well, why do we have to be in the middle? Can't you [[Literature/BookOfExodus let my]] [[Film/TheTenCommandments my people go?]]
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* OnlyInItFortheMoney: The reason Pratt was sent to the camp by G2? They want to score an investigation win ahead of Flagg's CIA to get a bigger cut of the defense budget.
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* OnlyInItFortheMoney: OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason Pratt was sent to the camp by G2? They want to score an investigation win ahead of Flagg's CIA to get a bigger cut of the defense budget.
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** Henry is complaining about the two intelligence agents interfering with camp business:
--> '''Captain Stone''': Let me level with you, Colonel. My people wanna know what Flagg's people are up to.
--> '''Henry''': Well, why do we have to be in the middle? Can't you [[Literature/BookOfExodus let my]] [[Film/TheTenCommandments people go?]]
--> '''Captain Stone''': Let me level with you, Colonel. My people wanna know what Flagg's people are up to.
--> '''Henry''': Well, why do we have to be in the middle? Can't you [[Literature/BookOfExodus let my]] [[Film/TheTenCommandments people go?]]
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* OnlyInItFortheMoney: The reason Pratt was sent to the camp by G2? They want to score an investigation win ahead of Flagg's CIA to get a bigger cut of the defense budget.
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* EatTheEvidence: Played for laughs. Hawkeye warns Radar that if he's caught spying on Flagg, Radar will have to eat the binoculars he's using to watch Flagg.
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** Radar gives the all-clear to Pratt to enter Henry's office. Pratt isn't too sure that was the signal. Neither is Hawkeye which leads him to quip, "It's either that or Creator/MarleneDietrich's back in town."
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** Radar gives the all-clear to Pratt to enter Henry's office. Pratt isn't too sure that was the signal. Neither is Hawkeye which leads him to quip, "It's either that or Creator/MarleneDietrich's back in town.""
* WorkingTheSameCase: TheTag reveals that Flagg and Pratt, rather than being rivals, were working together the whole time.
* WorkingTheSameCase: TheTag reveals that Flagg and Pratt, rather than being rivals, were working together the whole time.
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( '''Hawkeye:''' (''sardonically'') Gee, it's a good thing you're a cop, otherwise that's illegal.
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( '''Hawkeye:''' (''sardonically'') Gee, it's a good thing you're a cop, otherwise that's illegal.
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--> '''Trapper:''' (''later as he and Hawkeye enterthe Swamp'') Can you believe that Frank?
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--> '''Trapper:''' (''later as he and Hawkeye enterthe enter the Swamp'') Can you believe that Frank?
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Colonel Flagg is brought to the 4077 after sustaining injuries in a helicopter crash and reveals to Henry that he is on a mission from the CIA to investigate the reports of Communist sympathisers in the camp. Another intelligence agent and an old friend of Trapper's, Vinny Pratt, arrives from G2 to investigate those same reports for G2. The two start rivalling one another to solve the mystery first, something which Hawkeyes Hawkeye finds disdain with as their antics may upset the running of the hospital and so he and Trapper set something up to teach them a lesson.
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* AtrociousAlias: When Flagg asks for Hawkeye's name while having his arm treated and from Hawkeye's flippancy:
-->'''Hawkeye:''' Dr. Wasserman. I'm looking for a cure for VD and thought this would be a good place to start.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' Dr. Wasserman. I'm looking for a cure for VD and thought this would be a good place to start.
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--> '''Trapper:''' (''later as he and Hawkeye enterthe Swamp'') Can you believe that Frank?
--> '''Hawkeye:''' There's talk about making him the 49th state.
--> '''Hawkeye:''' There's talk about making him the 49th state.
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--> '''Flagg''': You'd never know what hit ya. Your toothbrush could go off in your mouth, you could find a tarantula in your shorts, we could booby trap a nurse.
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--> '''Flagg''': You'd never know what hit ya. Your toothbrush could go off in your mouth, face, you could find a tarantula in your shorts, we could booby trap a nurse.
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A reprisal is a retaliatory attack; this is now Role Reprise. It's also Trivia/, and an example of an actor playing the same role in multiple episodes of the same series is not an example.
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* RoleReprisal: Edward Winter as Colonel Flagg.
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** '''Flagg''' - Major Brooks, Lieutenant Carter, Ensign Troy and Captain Louise Klein. I wonder if there's a [[Recap/MashS2E13DealMeOut Captain Halloran]] in there somewhere.
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** '''Flagg''' - Major Brooks, Lieutenant Carter, Ensign Troy and Captain Louise Klein. I wonder if there's There may be a [[Recap/MashS2E13DealMeOut Captain Halloran]] in there somewhere.
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** Radar gives the all-clear to Pratt to enter Henry's office. Pratt isn't too sure that was the signal. Neither is Hawkeye which leads him to quip, "It's either that or [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene Dietrich's]] back in town."
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** Radar gives the all-clear to Pratt to enter Henry's office. Pratt isn't too sure that was the signal. Neither is Hawkeye which leads him to quip, "It's either that or [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene Dietrich's]] Creator/MarleneDietrich's back in town."
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* CodeName: When Flagg sends a SpySpeak telegram to his superiors, we learn that Pratt's CIA code name is Mary (as in "Mary had a little lamb"), while Flagg's is Queen Victoria.
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!!Attention, all hands! Intelligence has decreed that the following tropes can be trusted:
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!!Attention, all hands! personnel! Intelligence has decreed that the following tropes can be trusted:
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* FriendlyEnemy: Flagg and Pratt appear to be this at the end, when Pratt offers to buy him a cup of coffee and calls him by his first name. Then in TheTag we learn they were working together the whole time.
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* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: It is revealed to Henry that G2 has been spying on some of his trysts as far back as 1948.
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* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: It is revealed to Henry that G2 has been spying on some of his trysts as far back as 1948. Justified when you remember that in the book/movie, Henry had been in the reserves and had seen action in World War Two.
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* GenreSavvy: Trapper is aware that Radar often listens in on Henry Blake's meetings through applying a stethoscope to the wall.
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* OnePhoneCall: Parodied when Frank has been accused of being a Communist:
--> '''Hawkeye''': Frank, you're entitled to one phone call to the Kremlin.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Frank, you're entitled to one phone call to the Kremlin.
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* SequelHook: At the very end of the episode, when Colonel Flagg narrates his delivery of the surveillance report, he strongly suggests continued observation of the unit.
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* SequelHook: At the very end of the episode, when Colonel Flagg narrates his delivery of the surveillance report, he strongly suggests continued observation of the unit.
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* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: It is revealed to Henry that G2 has been spying on some of his trysts as far back as 1948.
* BrickJoke: Flagg and Pratt each ask if particular people can be trusted.
* CrazyPrepared: It was already hinted to Hawkeye that Colonel Flagg was this, but he gets to see it for himself when the man breaks his arm for the second time right in front of him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hawkeye loads the episode with this every time he hears the over-the-top lengths Colonel Flagg will go to to complete a mission.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Is this guy available for kids' parties?
* CrazyPrepared: It was already hinted to Hawkeye that Colonel Flagg was this, but he gets to see it for himself when the man breaks his arm for the second time right in front of him.
* DeadpanSnarker: Hawkeye loads the episode with this every time he hears the over-the-top lengths Colonel Flagg will go to to complete a mission.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Is this guy available for kids' parties?
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Played for laughs. Trapper translates Pratt's plan of breaking into Henry's office and obtaining Frank's file as just sneaking in. Pratt shrugs, calling it breaking and entering.
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--> '''Hawkeye''': [[DedpanSnarker Radar, we're running low.]] [[LampshadeHanging Get another order of Yankee Doodle.]]
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--> '''Hawkeye''': [[DedpanSnarker [[DeadpanSnarker Radar, we're running low.]] [[LampshadeHanging Get another order of Yankee Doodle.]]
** He tells Radar this again later at the Officers' Club in a far more threatening manner.
---> '''Flagg''': Do you like the jukebox, son?
---> '''Radar''': Oh, yes sir.
---> '''Flagg''': If you don't get lost, I'm gonna put your head through the glass and pull it out through the coin return.
---> '''Radar''': Anything else sir, [[BringMyBrownPants before I go to the latrine]].
---> '''Flagg''': Disappear.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Colonel Flagg uses these with a serious eerie sense of menace.
** When Flagg suspects Pratt, Frank calls him [[YoureInsane crazy]] for it as Stone (AKA Pratt) is an engineer. Flagg is none too pleased at being called that.
---> '''Flagg''': You call me that again, friend, I'll reach into your throat and pull your heart out.
** He does it to Radar when Frank and Margaret catch him eavesdropping.
--> '''Flagg''': How'd you like a nose full of nickels?
* MadeOfIron: Colonel Flagg, if the stories are true. He certainly can take a lot of pain anyway.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Narrowly averted by Radar when, while maintaining the façade that he's asleep, he forgets to take off his glasses after spying on Colonel Flagg rifling through the personnel files and has only a second to correct that before Flagg shines his flashlight on him to be sure he wasn't seeing things.
* OhNoNotAgain: Henry gets like this when Pratt walks into his office and announces he is another intelligence agent.
--> '''Pratt''': Colonel Blake.
--> '''Henry''': Captain Stone.
--> '''Pratt''': That's not my real name.
--> '''Henry''': Oooh boy.
--> '''Pratt''': Major Strauss. G2.
---> '''Flagg''': Do you like the jukebox, son?
---> '''Radar''': Oh, yes sir.
---> '''Flagg''': If you don't get lost, I'm gonna put your head through the glass and pull it out through the coin return.
---> '''Radar''': Anything else sir, [[BringMyBrownPants before I go to the latrine]].
---> '''Flagg''': Disappear.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Colonel Flagg uses these with a serious eerie sense of menace.
** When Flagg suspects Pratt, Frank calls him [[YoureInsane crazy]] for it as Stone (AKA Pratt) is an engineer. Flagg is none too pleased at being called that.
---> '''Flagg''': You call me that again, friend, I'll reach into your throat and pull your heart out.
** He does it to Radar when Frank and Margaret catch him eavesdropping.
--> '''Flagg''': How'd you like a nose full of nickels?
* MadeOfIron: Colonel Flagg, if the stories are true. He certainly can take a lot of pain anyway.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Narrowly averted by Radar when, while maintaining the façade that he's asleep, he forgets to take off his glasses after spying on Colonel Flagg rifling through the personnel files and has only a second to correct that before Flagg shines his flashlight on him to be sure he wasn't seeing things.
* OhNoNotAgain: Henry gets like this when Pratt walks into his office and announces he is another intelligence agent.
--> '''Pratt''': Colonel Blake.
--> '''Henry''': Captain Stone.
--> '''Pratt''': That's not my real name.
--> '''Henry''': Oooh boy.
--> '''Pratt''': Major Strauss. G2.
* RedHerring: Flagg and Pratt are presented as rivals racing against one another to solve the case first. That's just their cover story. They're actually working together to observe the 4077 as part of a joint surveillance operation conceived between the CIA and G2.
* RedScare: Colonel Flagg believes that even going to see a performance of the Russian Ballet can mark you as a Communist sympathiser. For all we know, this may be TruthInTelevision.
* RedScare: Colonel Flagg believes that even going to see a performance of the Russian Ballet can mark you as a Communist sympathiser. For all we know, this may be TruthInTelevision.
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** Flagg '''Flagg''' - Major Brooks, Lieutenant Carter, Ensign Troy and Captain Louise Klein. In I wonder if there's a [[Recap/MashS2E13DealMeOut Captain Halloran]] in there somewhere.somewhere.
** '''Pratt''' - Captain Perkins (priest), Captain Stone (Engineers), Major Strauss and Martinez.
* SelfDeprecation: Frank Burns, when accused of being a Communist and a Fascist, firmly states he's neither, he's nothing.
--> '''Trapper''': We'll vouch for that.
** '''Pratt''' - Captain Perkins (priest), Captain Stone (Engineers), Major Strauss and Martinez.
* SelfDeprecation: Frank Burns, when accused of being a Communist and a Fascist, firmly states he's neither, he's nothing.
--> '''Trapper''': We'll vouch for that.
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--> '''Hawkeye''': Clean socks.
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--> '''Hawkeye''': Clean socks.socks.
* SequelHook: At the very end of the episode, when Colonel Flagg narrates his delivery of the surveillance report, he strongly suggests continued observation of the unit.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Mary Had A Little Lamb'' is used as a coded phrase by Colonel Flagg.
** Radar gives the all-clear to Pratt to enter Henry's office. Pratt isn't too sure that was the signal. Neither is Hawkeye which leads him to quip, "It's either that or [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene Dietrich's]] back in town."
* SequelHook: At the very end of the episode, when Colonel Flagg narrates his delivery of the surveillance report, he strongly suggests continued observation of the unit.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Mary Had A Little Lamb'' is used as a coded phrase by Colonel Flagg.
** Radar gives the all-clear to Pratt to enter Henry's office. Pratt isn't too sure that was the signal. Neither is Hawkeye which leads him to quip, "It's either that or [[Creator/MarleneDietrich Marlene Dietrich's]] back in town."
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* DoubleTake: Henry is a bit nonplussed about Colonel Flagg having a female alias.
* {{Eagleland}}: Frank brings up the bad side of this trope again, and of course Margaret agrees with him.
--> '''Trapper''': Those guys are pretty doped up most of the time, you know.
--> '''Frank''': Doped up on patriotism, fella. Something we're in pretty short supply of around here.
--> '''Margaret''': Amen.
--> '''Hawkeye''': [[DedpanSnarker Radar, we're running low.]] [[LampshadeHanging Get another order of Yankee Doodle.]]
* ExactEavesdropping: Radar O'Reilly
* FlatWhat: Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank and Margaret all clearly react as this when Radar wrongly informs them that Colonel Flagg is from the CPA.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Why does Radar need to use a stethoscope against the wall as a listening device when he can just read Henry Blake's mind?
* GenreSavvy: Trapper is aware that Radar often listens in on Henry Blake's meetings through applying a stethoscope to the wall.
* GetOut: Flagg wants to talk to Henry in private, so he tells Radar to dothis. this.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Flagg apparently is allowed to kill people without ever having to run it by his superiors. Yes, [[Film/JamesBond a licence to kill]].
--> '''Flagg''': Colonel, I'm authorised to kill without requesting permission from my superiors.
--> '''Henry''': [[OhCrap Oh...]] I imagine that cuts down on the old paperwork.
--> '''Flagg''': You'd never know what hit ya. Your toothbrush could go off in your mouth, you could find a tarantula in your shorts, we could booby trap a nurse.
* {{Eagleland}}: Frank brings up the bad side of this trope again, and of course Margaret agrees with him.
--> '''Trapper''': Those guys are pretty doped up most of the time, you know.
--> '''Frank''': Doped up on patriotism, fella. Something we're in pretty short supply of around here.
--> '''Margaret''': Amen.
--> '''Hawkeye''': [[DedpanSnarker Radar, we're running low.]] [[LampshadeHanging Get another order of Yankee Doodle.]]
* ExactEavesdropping: Radar O'Reilly
* FlatWhat: Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank and Margaret all clearly react as this when Radar wrongly informs them that Colonel Flagg is from the CPA.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Why does Radar need to use a stethoscope against the wall as a listening device when he can just read Henry Blake's mind?
* GenreSavvy: Trapper is aware that Radar often listens in on Henry Blake's meetings through applying a stethoscope to the wall.
* GetOut: Flagg wants to talk to Henry in private, so he tells Radar to do
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: Flagg apparently is allowed to kill people without ever having to run it by his superiors. Yes, [[Film/JamesBond a licence to kill]].
--> '''Flagg''': Colonel, I'm authorised to kill without requesting permission from my superiors.
--> '''Henry''': [[OhCrap Oh...]] I imagine that cuts down on the old paperwork.
--> '''Flagg''': You'd never know what hit ya. Your toothbrush could go off in your mouth, you could find a tarantula in your shorts, we could booby trap a nurse.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Colonel Flagg needs to vomit up a capsule that contains an important phone number for him to call. Henry takes his leave upon being told of this.
* SecretIdentity: Flagg and Pratt have a whole slew of them.
** Flagg - Major Brooks, Lieutenant Carter, Ensign Troy and Captain Louise Klein. In wonder if there's a [[Recap/MashS2E13DealMeOut Captain Halloran]] in there somewhere.
* SecretIdentity: Flagg and Pratt have a whole slew of them.
** Flagg - Major Brooks, Lieutenant Carter, Ensign Troy and Captain Louise Klein. In wonder if there's a [[Recap/MashS2E13DealMeOut Captain Halloran]] in there somewhere.
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Colonel Flagg is brought to the 4077 after sustaining injuries in a helicopter crash and reveals to Henry that he is on a mission from the CIA to investigate the reports of Communist sympathisers in the camp. Another intelligence agent and an old friend of Trapper's, Vinny Pratt, arrives from G2 to investigate those same reports for G2. The two start rivalling one another to solve the mystery first, something which Hawkeyes finds disdain with as their antics may upset the running of the hospital and so he and Trapper set something up to teach them a lesson.
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* BlatantLies: Margaret pretends not to be romantically interested in Colonel Flagg.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In an early scene, Flagg wants to speak to Henry Blake and only Henry Blake, heavily implying he wants Radar to leave.
--> '''Flagg''': Colonel, I want to talk to you in private without the corporal.
* GetOut: Flagg wants to talk to Henry in private, so he tells Radar to do this.
* RoleReprisal: Edward Winter as Colonel Flagg.
* ShipTease: Hawkeye and Margaret, right at the episode's start.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Uh, how come you're not responding to me?
--> '''Margaret''': Pardon?
--> '''Hawkeye''': I put on something I thought would drive you wild?
--> '''Margaret''': What?
--> '''Hawkeye''': Clean socks.
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!!A smattering of tropes:
* BlatantLies: Margaret pretends not to be romantically interested in Colonel Flagg.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In an early scene, Flagg wants to speak to Henry Blake and only Henry Blake, heavily implying he wants Radar to leave.
--> '''Flagg''': Colonel, I want to talk to you in private without the corporal.
* GetOut: Flagg wants to talk to Henry in private, so he tells Radar to do this.
* RoleReprisal: Edward Winter as Colonel Flagg.
* ShipTease: Hawkeye and Margaret, right at the episode's start.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Uh, how come you're not responding to me?
--> '''Margaret''': Pardon?
--> '''Hawkeye''': I put on something I thought would drive you wild?
--> '''Margaret''': What?
--> '''Hawkeye''': Clean socks.
