 After being told by Cmdr White that if he disapproved of her list of potential candidates for CO he should pick his own, Mike put Kate's name at the top of the list.Mike commented to Kate, about the original list, that “they couldn’t command a tug boat, let alone a war ship.” Unfortunately, Kate saw the list, and believed Mike was referring to her, so announced to him that she was requesting a transfer off Hammersley.Kate then dropped his calls all evening, including when Mike was walking into a bad situation, involving drug dealers, with Mike pretending to be the captain of a surveying vessel.