A mousy scientist wants his Filipino fiancée, whom he met through a marriage broker, to remain in the U.S. for treatment of a parasitic infection she thinks voids their nuptial plans. Trapper and Gonzo are confronted by two — or is she really one? — women, both rather cool, classy, and sensuous. And both are wives of patients about to undergo surgery.

A doctor preparing to use an experimental procedure on a cancer patient dies in the operating room. Meanwhile, J.T. (Timothy Busfield) is having ghostly visions.

Gloria (Christopher Norris) is shocked to learn that drugs figure into her difficulties with Andrea (Tanya Fenmore). Meanwhile, J.T. (Timothy Busfield) brings in a bag lady (Geraldine Fitzgerald) who smuggles out a load of hospital property.

An aging flower child (Ronee Blakley) delivers a stillborn baby; the Riversides' son is kidnapped from his stroller.

A 6-year-old orphan confined to a sterile plastic bubble desperately needs a bone-marrow transplant.

Trapper and Gonzo are nose to nose and eyeball to eyeball over the matter of the heart of a hospitalized professional hockey player, in the sixth-season premiere of "Trapper John, M.D."