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  1. Office Hours

    I'm not sure what Burns' long term future is, but I have a feeling he might get captured by some unsavory types in a later episode. (Think of this fic as a "two hour pilot" of sorts.)

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    1. Klingons? If they capture Burns, his psychotic break will come early. Copied from mash.wikia.com: Burns was given to emotionally unstable and childish outbursts, especially when he didn't get his own way … He was once described by Larry Linville, who played him on TV, as a man with "a mind that had stripped its gears."

      So Linville chose to portray him as a sick man. Fascinating! Another paragraph from the site:

      A commentator on Ken Levine's blog recalled how Linville once dealt with criticism that the Frank Burns character was too much of a caricature and unrealistic. Linville had said that whenever he met with groups of veterans who were fans of M*A*S*H, he would ask them which character they thought was the most realistic. Invariably, the veterans would choose Frank Burns, because they also had that "SOB" in their outfits.

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      1. Office Hours

        I agree. Frank is an interesting character...and yes, capture would break him, almost immediately...one wonders what they'd even get back.

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