A wounded soldier is brought into the hospital, but Frank Burns refuses to operate on him as he is an intelligence officer; protocol dictates that a second such officer must be present before he can be anesthetized. Hawkeye and Trapper decide to operate immediately due to the serious nature of the man's injuries. CID officer Captain Halloran (Edward Winter) eventually arrives from headquarters, some time after surgery is over, and joins the game once Hawkeye assures him that the patient did not give away any classified information.