As Hawkeye, BJ, Klinger, and Margaret are playing poker near the chopper pad, a chopper arrives with a wounded soldier with a lacerated aorta. Hawkeye borrows a pocketknife from the pilot and opens the soldier's chest further to create room to close the aorta by pressing it against his spinal column to prevent further bleeding. The clock then appears on the screen to time the 20 minutes as the nurses and medics arrive by jeep. They place the littered soldier, named George, onto the jeep with Hawkeye holding the wound. As they travel to the hospital, Hawkeye dispatches Margaret to fetch vascular clamps and Nurse Kellye to fetch arterial grafts from previous surgeries for replacement of the aorta. He also sends Klinger to get a canvas bathtub and as much ice as he can find, as immersing the soldier in ice will slow the flow of blood and maybe buy some time for surgery to repair the aorta before too much blood is lost.
