The episode was written by Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford and directed by Charles S. Dubin.
They desperately try to arrange for Marilyn to appear, with Hawkeye going so far as to try to contact her by phone pretending to be Ted Williams.
throws the soldier a rope to haul him up into the helicopter, but at that moment the chopper is besieged by enemy fire.
is disgusted with himself for putting his own welfare first and possibly leaving a wounded man to die; he also remarks that he can no longer consider himself morally superior to those he operated on: "The minute I cut that line they made me a soldier."
This episode has been held up as an example of the changing sociopolitical views embodied by its characters, in this instance from more to less anti-authoritarian.