General Hutch Hutchinson, Ethan's CO in Afghanistan, drops by to offer him a promotion back to the front, but has a tranquilizer problem and collapses from a serious condition. Sign language interpreter Daniel Portman and his workaholic employer, business merger consultant Kathy Byrne, are brought in after a car roll-over, but he has an inoperable tumor and desperate heartache. Dr. Rollie Guthrie's Parkinsons is duly exposed, but colleagues in the know feel guilty that despite his resignation that also incurs the suspension of Malaya who stepped forward first in the patients' interest.
—KGF Vissers