Cassie DePeckel

Dorothy is about to ask how they're going to manage all the patients with one fewer doctor when Cobb continues.

But this might not be goodbye to Dr. Leach.

I have an idea.

I think we should volunteer to go with him.

Conditions at Los Baños could be worse.

There could be less food, and they don't know what kind of infrastructure the new camp will have.

But the advantages of moving are real.

They can keep working with Dr. Leach.

There will be fewer patients.

And even if Los Banos isn't paradise, it is in the countryside.

It'll be far cooler this coming summer than hot, humid Manila.

Best of all, transferring to Los Banos will put them beyond the reach of Commandant Kanishi, whose behavior has grown even more cruel.

He now forces sick patients to join work groups and haul 50-pound bags of food and cement around, even on broken legs.

Cobb ends with an appeal.

Given that we're in a civilian camp, military protocol no longer holds, so each woman here can decide for herself if she wants to transfer.

I'll go around the room.

She begins with Mary Rose Harrington, who says yes immediately.

So does Edwina Todd.

As Cobb proceeds, and one by one the nurses answer yes, Dorothy doesn't know what to choose.

Cobb is right.