Charles opens the door to his grand mansion in Boston but somehow his humble clothes doesn't go with the richness of the mahongony walls, the grand paintings by artists, exquisite decorations and a woman dressed in a dark blue one of a kind dress suit comes to Charles with her arms wide open but only gives him a "air" kiss and she says,
"Charles! I am so glad you are home. Did you get that little license?"
Charles closes his eyes and takes a deep breath then opens them and says,
"Yes mother, I did, thank you for asking"
Charles picks up his mail off the round table in the hallway and begins to go though it when she flutters around and says,
"I'm just so glad you don't have to put on those tacky clothes and go off and do something menial as that"
He laughs and puts down his mail and says,
"Mother, it is not working, it is relaxing and fun"
She sticks her nose up a little then says,
"Well, it just seems to me if you want to fly, you can hire a pilot to do that"
He rolls his eyes and sighs then says,
"That defeats the purpose mother"
She then says,
"It's just that ever since you came back from that place, Korea, wasn't it?"
He shakes his head and she continues her little snobby rant,
"You just been going from one thing to the other, you didn't even stay married to Lisa for very long and you never did tell me why"
He straightens his back and he kindly says,
"And I never shall mother. It is my business and mine alone"
She gives a small 'Hmpf" and he starts to leave the room when the maid comes in and she says in a humble voice,
"Excuse me"
Charles's mother says,
"Yes, what is it Kristen?"
"There's a phone call from a Max Klinger, he's called several times today"
Before Charles can say anything, his mother says,
"Tell Mister Klinger that Charles cannot talk to him. Tell him to leave a message"
The maid , Kristen, starts to turn around and leave when Charles looks at his mother in shock then says,
"Just a minute! Kristen, you tell him no such thing, I will be there to talk to him shortly. How dare you mother! "
She just shrugs her shoulders and says,
"Well, I only meant...I thought you need to bathe and change before you are bothered by such a person"
He tries to keep steam from coming out of his ears but he still says in a gritty voice,
"That person was a part of my life and will continue to be so. Something must be wrong for him to call not once, but twice. Now, if you will excuse me, I will go see what he wants"
He quickly walks into the drawing room and picks up a fancy telephone and asks,
"Max? What's wrong?"
On the other end of the line, Max says,
"Charles? I'm sorry to call you in the middle of the day with your mother home butt this is a emergency!"
Charles waves his hand then says,
"Do not worry about my mother Max, just tell me what is the emegency"
Max looks around to make sure nobody is listening then he says,
"It's Margaret, she's in a hospital in California, she had developed a bad case of pneumonia"
Charles takes a second to understand the information then asks,
"Pneumonia? who's her doctor?"
Klinger gives a slight smile then says,
"The man who B.J. replaced, Trapper John McIntrye"
Charles shakes his head and says,
"Yes, he's from Boston also so I have kept up with him. Yes, he is one of the best in that area, what is the problem?"
Max takes a deep breath then says,
"It's not going good, Trapper says it's one of the worst cases he has seen in a woman her age so we're going...a little...out of the ways"
Suspicious, Charles asks,
"How far 'out of the way?"
Klinger again looks around and this time he puts his hand over the telephone and tells him and Charles carefully listens then asks,
"Do the others know you are calling me?"
Klinger shakes his head then says,
"No, this is just me. Did you get your license?"
Charles shakes his head in the affirmative then says,
"Yes, I did"
Klinger then asks,
"Are you in?"
Charles stands up and says,
"Like our beloved Col. Potter says, 'the calvary has arrived' "
Klinger smiles then says,
"Good" "It will take me several hours to get things together Max"
Klinger looks around then says,
"Tell you what, since I didn't know when I could get you, I got a flight lined up to Boston, I'll be there before you know it" "Good, call me on my private phone in the car, you have the number?"
Klinger says,
"Yes" "Good, let's go then, time is at hand"
They hang up and Klinger looks at the sad crowd around Margaret's hospital room and he quietly leaves. Back in Boston, Charles hangs up the phone and takes a deep breath then straightens his jacket then goes out, sees his mother then says,
"I have to go mother"
His mother turns and says,
"Oh Charles, do you have to, I have so much planned for us"
He asks her,
"Such as?"
She then tells him,
"I got us all tickets to go the the symphony tonight"
Charles tries to keep his temper in check then says,
"Mother, I told you , I do not care to go to them anymore. I haven't for awhile"
She scrunches her nose then says,
"And that I do not understand but no matter. You haven't even changed out of those filthy , tacky clothes! You look like a army man again!"
He then blows his stack and says,
"Mother! Do leave me alone! I have changed since I came home from Korea! Which was only 4 years ago not 'all those years ago' as you so put it. There are things much more important such as my friends who I am going to go help. I do not care to discuss any more with you, my life has changed. For the better I hope and you are not helping!"
He storms over to the door then he turns around and says in a rather loud voice,
"And as for my marriage to Lisa...it was dead from the start. I am a homosexual mother!"
He slams the door leaving his mother in a daze and in the background, Kristen is around the corner just cheering him on!