Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty-Four, Oia'i'o (Trust)
Original Air Date: May 16, 2011
Steve receives another envelope containing a brass key that belongs to a piece of antique furniture. Laura Hill is murdered by a car bomb and Five-O begins the investigation. However, as they proceed into the case, shocking details begin to emerge as to who was behind her murder and why. Meanwhile, Danny and Rachel make plans to leave Hawaii and go back to Jersey together.
Danny is in bed watching Blue Hawaii as Rachel sits down on the side of the bed and tells him Stan is coming home tomorrow night and they have to tell him. Chief Mahaka (Kelvin Han Yee) pushes a badge across his desk to Chin Ho telling him to take it. He compliments Chin Ho for how he handled the situation with his uncle and all the false accusations of his having stolen the money. It showed character and now that the the case is closed and his record is cleared the HPD would like to re-instate him as a Lieutenant, a bump in rank from his former position of detective. Chin appreciates the offer but they are doing great work at Five-O and that's his home now. As he's leaving HPD, he passes Sgt. Duke Lukela (Dennis Chun) and another officer. Both men are carrying bags. Chin asks what he has and Lukela explains a rancher found what looked like burnt money on his property. They are going to run the pieces that still have serial numbers and try to figure out where it came from. At Five-O, Chin talks with Steve about what he learned from Lukela. Steve tells him it's impossible as both he and Kono saw the money burn. There is also no hard evidence linking the money back to them and the exact amount was returned to the locker where it was taken from. They both look to the stairs where Governor Jameson (Jean Smart) and Laura Hills (Kelly Hu) are descending. The ladies stop and greet the two officers. When the ladies have gone, Steve asks Chin when he's going to ask Laura out but he laughs it off.
Steve and Chin arrive at Five-O headquarters and Jenna tells Steve he has another envelope delivery. He gets one every Wednesday like clockwork. Inside is a skeleton key. He explains that it drove him crazy as he tried it on every lock in his father's house and his father's old HPD desk and it worked on none of them. Jenna did a little research on the key and found it belongs to a piece of antique American furniture from the 1800's, something his father never owned and Steve suspects it might have belonged to the person his father was investigating.
Outside, Laura continues to update the Governor on crime statistics saying it looks like the Five-O task force is making an impact. The Governor warns they shouldn't sell HPD short as they are doing a great job as well. She takes the opportunity to tell Laura it's perfectly alright for the woman to make the first move and tells her to call Inspector Kelly today. Laura chuckles and goes to her car. When she starts the ignition, the vehicle blows up. Steve, Jenn and Chin Ho run out of the building, guns drawn.
Jenna and Danny survey the car and she believes some detonating cord was used meaning the initial blast came from the wheel itself. Danny hands Steve a small evidence bag with what Kono thinks looks like BB's in it. Steve identifies them as projectiles from a claymore mine. Jenna finds an electric blasting cap wire from a claymore attached to the ignition. She's seen a device like this one before and she knows who set the bomb: the person who killed her fiance and Steve's parents, Wo Fat.
In the office, she explains that the improvised explosive device is one of Wo Fat's preferred methods of execution especially when he's trying to send a message. Danny thinks the bomb seems sloppy but Jenna says it isn't, Wo Fat is just vindictive. When Steve took out Victor Hess and the Yakuza he made it personal. She brings up a visual on the screen and explains how the bomb works. When the ignition engages, approximately 700 steel balls about 1/8 of an inch shoot out at around 4,000 feet per second through the interior of the vehicle. The blast aims square at the drivers face making it a very personal targeted attack. Chin doesn't understand why Wo Fat targeted Laura Hill and not one of them. The first question is where he would have gotten his hands on a claymore mine. Danny asks if they wouldn't have heard about it had one been stolen from a military base but Steve points out that the police would be the last to know when something was stolen from a base. He tells Jenna to double check with all bases on the island to see if any claymores are missing. She also offers to check with contacts she has on the black and gray markets to see if they know anything. He sends Chin and Kono to search Laura's office while he and Danny check her house.
Danny and Steve arrive at Laura Hill's home to find the door open. They draw their weapons and enter the house. They look around and see the house has been tossed but find no one. In one of the pulled-out desk drawers Steve sees a stash of envelopes exactly like the ones he has been receiving the contents of his fathers toolbox in. He takes Laura's appointment book back to the lab for a writing sample.
Charlie Fong informs Steve and Kono it definitely was Laura Hill's writing on the envelopes Steve received. The only difference between the two samples are slant and pressure. She was under stress when she addressed the envelopes to Steve. She used heavy pressure indicating she was very serious about what she was doing and her letters were upright indicating she was trying to cover up her tracks. Kono tells Steve she and Chin searched her office from top to bottom and if she had any more of his father's things they were not there. He doesn't understand how Laura got her hands on the evidence as it was stolen by the Yakuza. Jenna calls Steve with the information that she pulled a serial number off a piece of the claymore and tracked it down. The mine was stolen four years ago from a shipment destined for Iraq and the military held their own investigation. CID investigated a defense contractor by the name of Dale O'Reilly (Val Lauren) but never convicted him or recovered any of the stolen shipment.
In Pearl City Steve and Danny go to a military surplus store where Danny tells Steve this is what it will look like when Steve dies; that will be his heaven. They see Dale and speak to him but the man says Dale isn't there. When Steve brings his photo up on his phone he apologizes saying you never know who will come looking for you. Steve comments like someone in the market for a claymore mine. Dale takes off running with Steve in pursuit. Dale pulls a machete but Steve has his gun drawn and threatens to shoot him in the face if he doesn't put the knife down. Danny says Dale's name from behind him and when he turns sprays him with pepper spray. Steve asks him who he sold the claymore to and Dale screams out the name "Steve McGarrett".
At headquarters, Danny tells Dale he is definitely going down for accessory to murder. He wants to know who told Dale to say the name "Steve McGarrett" but he's unresponsive. Danny shows him a picture of Wo Fat and asks if it was him but Dale doesn't even look at the picture. Danny informs him they tracked down the $50,000 Wo Fat paid him but he still says nothing. Danny proceeds to tell him Wo Fat used the claymore to kill a government official, someone he knew. Dale tells Danny he will not talk to him as Steve enters the room carrying a chair with a computer on it. He raises the screen and Dale's brother, Army Sgt. Gary O'Reilly (Shane Seggar) is on video wanting to speak with Dale. Gary asks Dale what's going on and when he doesn't answer, asks if he's still there. Dale begins crying and Steve closes lowers the computer screen. He tells him the next time he sees his brother in a federal courtroom when he's (Dale) charged with treason and crimes against his country. He will be branded a terrorist and his family will suffer as a consequence. Gary will be disgraced and forced to leave the service all because Dale won't talk.
Jenna congratulates Steve and Danny on their work with Dale saying between the claymore and O'Reilly's testimony they have Wo Fat cold. All they need to do is find him. Chin tells the three that he just got off the phone with the crime lab. They finished processing Laura Hill's house and found prints all over the place. The prints belonged to Steve McGarrett. Steve had never been to her house before that day. Chin tells his boss that someone wants HPD to think he's been there before as he's being set up.
At the Governor's Residence in Honolulu, Steve and Danny arrive as she's finishing a conversation with Laura's parents. She wants them to be able to tell her they have something and they do. Danny says they know who killed Laura and Steve hands her a folder telling her the man's name is Wo Fat and details his connections to the Yakuza. She leafs through the folder as he's talking and asks why they think he's responsible. Danny reveals they have a man in custody who sold Wo Fat the explosives used in the murder. Steve includes that as soon as the man sits with an attorney he will give them a full statement in exchange for leniency. HPD is taking him to jail right now. She congratulates them on their work and asks how close they are to finding Wo Fat. Steve says they aren't close enough and Danny adds they are piecing things together and would like to ask her some questions about Laura. As she's telling Danny Laura never mentioned Wo Fat's name to her, Steve glances to a corner of the room and sees an antique bureau with a locked top drawer. She asks why they think Laura was murdered and Steve says he isn't sure but they're working on it. Steve thanks her for her time and he and Danny get up to leave. She stops Steve telling him this is very personal to her and asks him to find Wo Fat by any means necessary.
Outside the governor's mansion, Danny asks Steve what is with him. Steve doesn't answer right away but turns to watch the guard enter the security code on the keypad. Once he has the code, Danny asks why Steve neglected to tell the Governor about the envelopes. Steve asks if Danny noticed the bureau in her office. Steve thinks the brass key Laura sent him fits that lock and he thinks the Governor is hiding something.
Steve and Danny arrive at Five-O headquarters arguing about Steve's plans to find out about the bureau in the Governor's office. She had a press conference in a couple of hours and he will make his move then. Danny tells the rest of the team Steve's plan to break into the Governor's mansion and everyone agrees with Danny that it is a bad plan. Steve tells the team about the bureau on the Governor's office and Kono asks if the key fits what he thinks he'll find. He tells her the rest of his father's stuff then answers his ringing phone. He hangs up and tells the team the transport taking O'Reilly to prison just got hit.
Steve and Danny arrive and find O'Reilly and both of the officers transporting him dead from a hail of gunfire. An angry Steve asks Danny how Wo Fat knew. Danny pulls him aside to tell him no one but them knew O'Reilly would testify against Wo Fat but Steve reminds him the Governor knew. He reminds him of her having lunch with the head of Yakuza and Steve feels she's in his pocket. Danny says she's the top elected official in the state but he doesn't care. If she caused the death of three people, she goes down. Steve agrees they need rock solid evidence and Danny tells him they have to use their heads. They'll look at all the evidence his father collected and see if it points to the governor. Danny's phone rings and it is Rachel wanting to see him in an hour at Sand Island. Danny goes back to Steve and tells him to go home and get some rest and in the morning they'll look at the evidence and come up with a game plan. Steve agrees but when Danny walks away he takes the key from his pocket and looks at it.
That night, Steve waits for the Governor to leave her residence then goes over the wall and breaks into the house. He goes to her office and tries the key in the lock of the bureau drawer. It opens and inside he finds photographs of Laura putting the envelopes beneath the windshield wipers of Steve's car.
Danny meets Rachel at Sand Island. She tells him she's pregnant and he's definitely the father. He hugs her and she asks how she tells Stan she's leaving him and is pregnant with Danny's child. He offers to go with her but she says it's something she needs to do by herself. Once it's done she wants to leave Hawaii as it's Stan's home, not hers. She checked with the airline and there is a red eye to Newark leaving tomorrow night. When he tells her he'll come with her she says he can't leave as he has a life there. He tells her she and Grace are his life. Where they are is where he wants to be and will be. She asks about his job and he tells her they'll go and get her settled in Jersey then he'll return to Hawaii, wrap up all his cases and that will be it.
Danny opens the door and enters the McGarrett home and seconds afterward, Steve grabs him with his gun raised. Danny asks what's wrong with him and Steve asks if it would kill him to knock on the door. Danny asks what is going on then begs Steve to tell him he didn't break into the governor's house. Steve tells him the key fit and shows him pictures he took on his phone of the photographs he found in the bureau. He tells Danny the Governor found out Laura was sending him pieces of evidence and he believes Laura was taking that evidence from the governor to return to Steve. Danny asks why she did it piece by piece and Steve theorizes she probably hoped the Governor wouldn't notice anything was missing. He shows Danny Laura's datebook and reminds him that every Wednesday he gets something from his father's toolbox. They go back a month and find that every single one of Laura's Tuesday lunches are open. The Governor has a standing lunch with the Chief of Police every Tuesday. Laura used that time to enter the Governor's office and steal a piece of evidence. Steve feels it's his fault Laura is dead because she was trying to help him.
Steve shows the team the pictures he found in the bureau and confirms that he feels the Governor had Laura murdered and Wo Fat made it happen. The team want to bring her in but Danny points out they have no evidence except the photos Steve illegally obtained by breaking into her house and she could claim he planted there. Steve says their focus now is to silently investigate the Governor like his father did. Once they find something, they bring her down and she leads them to Wo Fat. Chin's phone rings and when he answers it Duke asks if he's sure he doesn't want his old job back as it looks like his current one will not exist much longer as a warrant for murder has been issued for Steve McGarrett. Chin goes to Steve to tell him HPD is on it's way to arrest him for killing Laura Hill. They hear the sirens outside and Steve orders them to get everything off the screens and wipe the drives. Chin asks Steve what he's going to do and he replies he has no honest chance of beating it if the Governor is involved. Danny tells him to lay low and the team will get something on the Governor. Steve again tells them to clean house as he's running from the office. Kono works feverishly to remove all evidence as Steve runs from the building. He is stopped in the hall by an HPD officer who orders him to put down his weapon. He starts to get to his knees then stands and fights the officer to make his escape.
Steve drives up to Kamekona's house in a vintage black Mercury Marquis and tells his friend he needs a gun. Kamekona points out he's a parolee and possession of a firearm can send him back to jail and asks where his gun is as he's a cop. Steve tells him he's not a cop anymore and he needs his help. Kamekona takes him to an old truck that is packed with weapons. Steve chooses the weapons and ammunition he wants as Kamekona looks on.
HPD scours Five-O headquarters while the team waits in an office. Chin refuses to stand around and do nothing and leaves the office. Detective Ahuna tells Kono he has orders to bring her in as they have a witness that can place her at the scene of a break in at the HPD Asset Forfeiture Locker and she knows something about some money that went missing recently. Danny tells her to not say anything and he will take care of it and she leavs with Ahuna leaving just Danny and Jenna. He tells her to watch HPD while he find McGarrett before they do. As Danny is leaving headquarters, Kamekona calls him about Steve. He's worried about him as he paid him a visit and loaded up for bear.
Danny races to intercept Steve if he can trying to call him along the way but Steve doesn't answer his phone. Rachel calls Danny to let him know she and Grace are at the airport and asks if everything is fine or if he's having second thoughts. He tells her he loves her, everything is fine and he will meet her at the gate but he has something to take care of.
Steve arrives at the Governor's Mansion and one-by-one takes out the guards as the Governor sits inside working. He enters her office and she tells him she was hoping they were wrong about him. He tells her he didn't kill Laura, she did and if she moves he'll put a bullet in her. She asks what he wants and he takes his phone out, turns it on to record and throws it on her desk. He wants a confession. He wants the truth but she maintains she doesn't know what he's talking about. He tells her he knows everything and she asks why he doesn't just pull the trigger. He wants answers and she tells him to trust her, that isn't what he wants. Her phone rings and he warns her not to answer it. He tells her his father was investigating her and he knows all about her connections to the Yakuza and Wo Fat. He wants to know who gave the order. He knows who set the car bomb that killed his mother and he knows Victor Hess killed his father but he wants to know who gave the order--Wo Fat or her. She tells him he caught the man who killed his father and he took down the men who killed his mother. She gave him the ability to do that. She gave him the immunity and means and she protected him. He states she put the money in the Asset Forfeiture Locker and she admits she was trying to protect him as Five-O has done a lot for the people of Hawaii. He warns her to stop lying and says she created Five-O so she could keep an eye on him so he wouldn't pick up where his father left off. She tells him she's always been loyal to those who have been loyal to her. He asks if that's why she had Laura murdered because she was disloyal and the Governor answers 'yes'.
Wo Fat tasers Steve from behind while the Governor erases her confession from his phone. She asks what they will do as they have to get rid of him. Wo Fat assures her he has everything under control and shoots her with the gun Steve brought there that night then puts the gun in Steve's hand as the sounds of sirens grow closer. Chin arrives with HPD and orders them to set up road blocks and get EMS there and orders other officers to accompany him. Inside the Governor's office, Steve struggles to his feet as Chin and the officers enter the room. Chin orders Steve to put the gun down as Duke confirms the Governor is dead. Steve tells Chin it wasn't him, it was Wo Fat but Chin tells him they checked the house and no one was there. Chin cuffs and arrests Steve and takes him from the Governor's house.
Danny arrives as Steve is being led out of the Mansion and Chin tells him the Governor is dead. As he's being put in the car, Steve tells Danny it was Wo Fat. Danny wants Chin to let him go but Chin says he can't as Steve was the only one there and his gun was just discharged. Danny says they have jurisdiction as they are Five-O and Chin tells him there is no Five-O anymore. Danny asks Chin if he just went back to them after everything they did to him but Chin doesn't answer. Danny knocks on the window next to Steve and tells him he'll get him out of everything and to just hang in there.
Rachel and Grace wait at the airport until the final boarding call is issued. They get on the plane when it's obvious Danny isn't going to arrive.
At the precinct, an elderly woman positively identifies Kono as the woman she saw near the Asset Forfeiture Locker. Ahuna tells her she will have to turn in her gun and badge pending an investigation. Behind them, Steve's mug shot is being taken and he and Kono see one another.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
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Hawaii Five-O Official Site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
US Television: Hawaii Five-O, Episode 1.23 "Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau (Until the End is Near)"
Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty-Three, Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau (Until the End is Near)
Original Air Date: May 9, 2011
When a raid on Wo Fat's safe house turns up the wrong man inside the residence, a chase ensues leading Danny to a house three doors down. A man is dead inside the house and Danny is exposed to a deadly chemical agent. Sang Min returns with an ominous message for Steve McGarrett. Meanwhile, Internal Affairs makes it clear to Chin that they know he was taking the blame for his uncles crime.
In Kahala, O'Ahu, Five-O and the Honolulu Police move in on a home where Wo Fat is believed to be located as thermal imaging, which Kono is monitoring, shows one lone individual in the house. Steve McGarrett warns Five-O and the HPD that, even though he's alone, Wo Fat is still extremely dangerous. Jenna Kaye gears up to go in with the team but Steve handcuffs her to a police car pointing out she isn't a field agent. He refuses to let her get hurt on his watch. They move in on the house and HPD breaks the door open triggering a blast that blows the officers in front of the door back. As a firefight ensues, Jenna Kaye tries to free herself from the door handle of the police car and reaches inside for something to break the handle free. Kono keeps an eye on the lone occupant of the house via thermal imaging and yells to Steve that he's on the move. Steve enters the house ordering his team and HPD to surround the perimeter. Kono keeps Steve up to date on the movements of the occupant as Steve moves through the dwelling. She tells him the man is moving upstairs and Steve follows. He comes face to face with the lone occupant of the house, Sang Min (Will Yun Lee). Both men are surprised to see one another and do not fire upon each other. Sang Min dives out the window onto the grounds below and Steve follows. He tells the team he has eyes on the target but it isn't Wo Fat, it is Sang Min. As they are running around the house, Min turns and fires in Steve's direction causing Steve to duck behind the house and confirm the identity of the occupant to Kono.
Sang Min runs into the street to make his escape and is hit by Jenna Kaye who is now driving the police car she was handcuffed to. Danny comes around the corner just as Min is getting up to run and orders Kaye to get down as he and Min exchange fire. Min dives over the wall of a nearby house and Danny orders Kaye to stay where she is and then follows Min. He follows him to a lavish estate three doors down and communicates to the team that he has Min and gives the location. He enters the house and finds a man on the floor dead. There is spilled milk on the floor nearby with an overturned carton on the counter and the man's face reveals he obviously died of something serious. Danny kneels and feels for a pulse. Steve has arrived at the estate and as he's surveying the area, Min drives a car from the garage almost running Steve over. Steve fires but Min is able to make his escape. Chin and Kono arrive at the house and Steve gives Kono the description of the car Min is driving with orders to call it in to every agency. Jenna walks up to the house with the cuffs still on her arm (but no car) prompting Steve to question her about the car. Kono tells Steve the APB has been issued and Jenna asks who Sang Min is. Chin gives her the quick description of him including that he is an associate of Victor Hess and runs in the same circles as Wo Fat. Steve theorizes that Sang Min could have been targeting Wo Fat since the front door was rigged with an explosive charge. The charge could have been meant for Wo Fat. As they are talking about why Sang Min would want to kill Wo Fat, Danny stumbles out of the house toward them. They hear him coughing as he slumps down to the ground. They run to their friend who tells them he isn't hit but something isn't right as he can't breathe. As Kono is calling an ambulance, Danny tells Steve about finding the body. Jenna and Steve go inside and when she sees the body she stops Steve from getting any closer saying what killed him could have been biological. Kono calls to Steve and he runs to Danny who has started to convulse.
Danny is rushed into the Hawaii Medical Center in serious condition. Steve tells them he has been exposed to a toxin for about 20 or 30 minutes and his team is still working on identifying the toxin. A team of investigators in yellow suits comb the house looking for any clues to the identity of the mystery toxin and get a reading from the overturned container of milk. Jenna, dressed in a yellow suit, studies the body of the dead man as the milk container is packaged for testing. Once outside, Jenna tells Chin and Kono the victim inside died from a chemical nerve agent. She spent two years with the CIA's Biological Threat Assessment Team and one of the case studies she worked on was the 1995 subway attacks involving sarin gas. The victim has the same symptoms as those from the subway attacks. Since everything is localized around the man's head, she believes he ingested the sarin orally leading Kono to comment someone spiked the milk he was drinking. Jenna tells them sarin is also trans-dermal meaning Danny was exposed to it when he touched the victim to check for a pulse. She calls Steve to tell him of the sarin exposure and what treatment the doctors need to get Danny on ASAP.
Chin, Kono and Jenna arrive at Hawaii Medical Center asking about Danny. Steve informs them it's still early but he's responding to the drugs and the doctors think he will pull through, much to everyone's relief. He tells Jenna she was right about the sarin and if she hadn't found out he would have been dead. She asks if he has a family and he tells her about Rachel and Grace which prompts Chin to remind Steve that Danny was supposed to have Grace that weekend. Once he is a bit more stable he will be moved to a room where he can have visitors. In the meantime, they need to ID the victim and find out where the milk was bought so they can make sure there isn't any further risk. He sends Kono and Chin to find out where the milk distributor sells all their milk and pull it from the shelves even if it means taking resources away from finding Sang Min. He asks Jenna to coordinate with the CDC to make sure nothing else is contaminated. She offers to send a sample to a contact at Langley to see if they can pinpoint the source of the sarin. After Steve again thanks her, she begins rambling about her job and her quest to find out who killed her fiance. He interrupts her to thank her for helping Danny and saving his life. He tells her to call him if she gets something as he has something to take care of.
Grace is getting out of school at the Academy of the Sacred Hearts and Uncle Steve is there to meet her. As he's getting out of the car, his phone rings. It's Sang Min. Steve asks if the bomb on the door was meant for Wo Fat but Min tells him it doesn't matter as they both missed their shot but he might be able to give Steve a second chance and asks what it is worth if he helps him find Wo Fat. Steve makes it clear that it isn't worth much since Min burned them once. Min tells him the situation has changed. Steve says if he wants to 'make a deal, great, this is what I'm prepared to offer you' and hangs up as Grace spots Steve and runs to hug him. He tells her Danno isn't feeling his best and he's going to take her to the hospital to see him. She asks if he's going to be alright and Steve tells her he might not talk like it but her dad is one tough guy. He asks if she's going to be brave like Danno and she nods.
At Five-O Headquarters they know the dairy products sell at over 100 locations on the island. All milk cartons were pulled from the shelves and the CDC is doing random testing but none of the samples have turned up positive for sarin except for the carton the victim drank from. Kono says it's looking like an isolated incident and Jenna adds the question is was it random or was he targeted. When Kono comments sarin seems like an odd choice for a murder weapon Jenna tells her since 9/11 so many terror cells have been taken down that sarin brokers are looking for new customers. Anyone with cash and black market connections can obtain it. Chin enters with an ID on the victim: Amoka Mulitalo. He was arrested six months prior for misdemeanor trespassing, an interesting thing since the house where he died didn't belong to him. The house belongs to Jeff and Sheila Fallon (Stephen Landis & Eileen Fairbanks). They pay taxes in California but keep the Hawaii home as a vacation rental.
At Kewalo Basin Park in Honolulu, Chin speaks with Amoka Mulitalo's daughter, Olina (Yasmin Dar). She tells him her father wasn't the same after an auto accident. He suffered with impaired memory and he couldn't manage for himself leading her to have him move in with her. He would sometimes go for a walk and forget how to get home. When she couldn't find him, she'd file a missing persons report and the police would find him a few days later on the streets or in a shelter. Kono and Jenna do a video conference with the Fallon's who do not recognize Amoka Mulitalo. They tell the Fallon's they believe Amoka was squatting in their home and drank sarin-laced milk while staying there. The Fallon's exchange a look and tell them they were supposed to come to Hawaii last week and asked their caretaker Gabriel Delgado (Kelvin Yu) to stock the refrigerator. The trip was canceled and they last spoke to Gabriel a few days ago when they fired him for writing himself checks from a checkbook they had given him to do maintenance on the house. Jenna calls Steve with the news telling him Delgado does have a criminal record and served time for several home invasion robberies and he does have motive. She's still running background but Chin and Kono are on their way to apprehend Delgado. Steve hangs up to speak with the doctor. The doctor tells him Danny is ready for some visitors and Steve takes Gracie, who has been drawing Danno a picture, in to see her father.
Danny gives his daughter a big hug and she shows him the picture she made for him. He shows it to Steve after telling her it's a 'masterpiece'. Steve asks his friend how he is feeling and Danny replies he feels like everything is going to explode and like it's the worst hangover he's ever had. Grace asks what a hangover is and he tells her it's something she might find out about when she's 30 or 40 years old. He thanks Steve and the latter tells him since he's doing good he'll had back to the office. He'll swing by and pick up Gracie later and she can stay with him until Rachel gets back. He again asks Danny if he's alright and he tells him he's got everything he needs right there and puts his hand on his daughter's shoulder. As Steve is leaving, Danny hears Miley Cyrus singing from Grace's backpack and asks about it. She tells him Sam bought her a cell phone. She takes it out and answers it and it's her mother, who wants to talk to Danny after Grace tells her she's with daddy who is in the hospital.
Kono and Chin Ho find Delgado at a diner. He runs out the back when Chin says his name and Chin takes chase after him while Kono goes back out the front. Chin chases him out the back of the diner and as he's trying to make his escape, Kono holds out a garbage can lid and he runs squarely into it. At headquarters, he tells them his son is sick and, after being locked up for the first five years of his sons life, finds he cannot pay his hospital bills now that he's out. He admits he got another job and was going to replace the money he took from the Fallon's as soon as he got paid but they discovered the theft before he could. He's surprised when Chin suggests he tried to kill them so he wouldn't go back to prison. He admits he bought groceries for the Fallon's but doesn't even know what sarin is. Chin shows him pictures of Amoka's body and a shocked Delgado reveals he knows Amoka. He takes his son to Blessed People's Mission where they have a free clinic once a week. Amoka sometimes sleeps at their shelter and he found him to be a kind man. He knew Amoka was having a hard time at the shelter so he told him about the rock.
Kono checks out the Fallon home and finds a rock that contains a spare key. Chin brings Jenna and Steve up to date on Delgado and that he told Amoka about the spare key so he could stay at the Fallon's home when the shelter got too overcrowded. Chin checked the mission and everything checked out. Steve knows Delgado didn't plant the sarin as he wouldn't have allowed Amoka to stay at the house if he was trying to kill the Fallon's. Kono enters to tell them they might have found a new suspect as she was able to find a print off the spare key. The prints are those of Elliot Connor (James Remar). He is the brother of Sheila Fallon and the COO of Jeff Fallon's company which manufactures industrial equipment. There has also been news of friction between Jeff and Elliot. Steve tells them to talk to Jeff while he goes to see Elliot.
Chin's phone rings and he takes the call in his office. Chin tells the caller he already gave his statement and if he wants to bring him in again they know where to find him. Kono opens the door as Chin throws his phone down on his desk. He tells her he returned the money to IA to keep Uncle safe. She asks where he got it and he tells her he took a loan out on his house. She tells him IA will simply need to run the serial numbers on the bills and they will know they weren't part of the stolen money. He tells her that's impossible as the inventory logs of the Asset Forfeiture Locker went missing years ago and is well-known fact because it's the worst kept secret on the island. She tells him he's been carrying the secret for a long time and took the blame for a crime he didn't commit and even lost his job, friends and family. He has a chance to get out from under it and he's throwing it away, put himself in debt and go to prison.
Steve and Jenna arrive at Fallon Global and ask to speak to Elliot Connor but are told he's in a meeting. After Steve shows his badge they get to speak to him and he tells them rumors of a rift between he and Jeff are nonsense although he admits they did have disagreements. Jenna asks what they were about and he tells them Jeff relocated him to Hawaii to run the Pacific base of operations as the company is planning a big push into Asia. They had differences in opinion on marketing strategy. He maintains they can butt heads at the office but, at the end of the day, family comes first and work second. Steve asks if the Fallon's have him check on their property in Hawaii and he says they don't as they have a caretaker. Steve next asks why they found his prints on the spare key. He laughs and says he used the key to drop of papers. Jenna immediately knows he's lying based on his body language and calls him on it much to Steve's amusement. Steve asks if Jeff knows he's using his house to have an affair, something Connor takes offense to. Jenna again calls him on his response and Steve points out he has a tan line where his wedding ring should have been. Steve comes out and gives Connor two theories: he was using the house for his affair or he was there to try and kill Jeff. Connor admits he hasn't used the house in months since he was confronted by Jeff about it, which was the real reason things have been tense at work. Steve wants to speak with Chloe Ballantine (Bre Blair), the woman Connor is having the affair with and says she's right outside.
At the hospital, Kamekona arrives to see Danny carrying two buckets of Filipino fried chicken (no breasts as it was a long drive over). Danny asks Grace to put her headphones on so he can talk to Kamekona as chicken wasn't the reason he wanted to see him. Danny asks Kamekona about Sang Min. If he can make some calls to find him a second time since he found him before. After telling Danny that he doesn't bring his phone into hospitals because of how they interfere with pacemakers, Danny lets him use his phone, after he wipes the chicken grease from his fingers--on Danny's blankets, nonetheless.
Steve and Jenna return to headquarters as Kono received a call from Jenna's CIA contact. A match was made to the sarin and it was from the same strand as that used by a Chechen terror group in a botched Moscow attack five years previous. The supplier was identified as Mikhail Yursky. Yurksy arrived in Hawaii five days ago on a fake passport. The killer has been I.D.'d, he just needs to be found.
HPD and Five-O raid Mikhail Yursky's hotel room in Waikiki but he is nowhere to be found. Steve calls back to headquarters and asks Kono and Jenna what they have. Jenna informs him they found a credit card under Yursky's name and he purchased a flight to Borneo leaving that night. As they are talking, Kono gets a fresh hit on the credit card. He's using it at the moment at an ATM at Central Pacific Bank. Steve and Chin Ho move out while Kono tries to stall Yursky at the ATM. As he's trying to withdraw money from the ATM, Kono works from headquarters to slow the transaction. Yursky gets a "card error" message. He takes his card out to check the magnetic strip and starts to try again but hears McGarrett and Chin Ho approaching and flees. They pull in front of his car and he backs out hits another car in the process. Yursky takes off with McGarrett in pursuit as Chin calls the description of the vehicle in. HPD responds attempting to block the roads for Yursky. He maneuvers around them but the chase ends when his car strikes a van. He removes a gun from the glove compartment and gets out to flee on foot, firing at Steve and Chin. As Yurksy is trying to scale a fence he begins to experience problems and falls to the ground on the other side. He had a canister of sarin with him and was exposed to the gas. Chin calls in HPD and HAZMAT and an ambulance but Yursky dies. In the trunk of his car Steve finds even more biohazard canisters.
At the hospital, Danny and Grace are watching Spongebob Squarepants when Rachel arrives. Grace runs to her for a hug. Rachel turns to Danny, takes his hand and kisses him on the forehead, twice.
When Chin finishes a conversation with HAZMAT he tells Steve they finished checking the canisters from Yursky's trunk and found they were empty with no signs of toxins. They arrive at the office to find a serious look on Kono's face. When Steve asks her what's going on she nods toward the office. Waiting inside is David Akahoshi (Duane Char) from Internal Affairs. He tells them he came to return something to Chin Ho and opens a briefcase he is carrying. The serial numbers on the bills don't match the stolen money which tells him Chin is trying to cover for his uncle. Chin brings up the missing inventory logs and Akahoshi tells him IA faked the story of the lost inventory logs so if Chin had taken the money he would feel safer spending it. Since he never did, they know he didn't steal the money. Kono tells Chin things have gone too far. Chin tells Akahoshi he's gotten his money back and asks him to let it go. Akahoshi replies that he cannot. He knows Chin was trying to protect his family so he will not be charged with obstruction of justice. He won't even ask where Chin got the money he gave to IA. However, his uncle stole from the police department meaning he stole from the people of Hawaii and he will have to answer for that. Once he leaves, Steve tells Chin that he is going to ask and wants to know where he got the money. Chin admits he took out a loan on his house through Marcum. Steve tells him to return the money and get the deed to his house back. Jenna comes into the room telling them they need to see something.
She briefly explains the storage and chemistry of sarin and what the ideal storage container for the gas is. Because of how controlled and hard to obtain the canisters are, she finds it impressive they found 36 of them in Yurksy's trunk. The manufacturer of the canisters was Fallon Global. Jenna pulled Yursky's phone records and found he called Elliot Connor the day he landed in Hawaii. Steve and Chin return to Fallon Global to speak with Connor. He denies ever having seen Yursky. Chin tells him he called Connor three times but he maintains he didn't speak with him. He asks when the calls happened and when Chin gives him the date he tells them he was on the big island and didn't get back until Saturday. His hotel can confirm that. The only person who takes his calls is his secretary, Chloe. Chin goes out to speak with her but she is gone.
Chin calls down to have the building locked down so Chloe cannot escape as he and Steve go after her. As she is trying to drive out of the parking garage she nearly runs Steve over. He takes his gun out and shoots her tires causing her to run into a rubbish bin. At headquarters, she tells them she and Elliot were happy and wanted to be together. Chin points out Jeff and Sheila wanted him to end the affair and she couldn't accept that. When she is reluctant to answer questions, Steve forces her to look at the picture of Amoka. She eventually starts talking saying Yursky contacted the office looking to purchase a certain produce they make but after a background check they refused the purchase order. A couple of days later, he calls back and offers her $20,000 to fix invoices. Along with taking the money, she asked him to commit murder. Steve and Chin lay out how she used sarin because it was big and bold and would confuse the police making them think terrorist instead of murder. She could be free to continue her relationship with Elliot who would then have control of Fallon Global.
Steve pays a visit to Danny at the hospital and finds him resting comfortably with Rachel lying next to him, his arm around her with Grace asleep nearby. Danny smiles up at Steve who leaves a few seconds later with a smile on his face.
At headquarters, Steve has received another envelope. This one contains a medal, the Order of the Rising Sun. It was awarded to a Japanese pilot who bombed Pearl Harbor. Jenna asks how it got into his father's toolbox. Steve doesn't know but mentions his grandfather died at Pearl and perhaps the same person who mailed the postcards from Osaka mailed the medal to his father. She asks what Wo Fat's connection to the medal could be and he says he'll know when he finds him.
The next day, Rachel and Grace drop Danny off at Five-O headquarters and Grace asks if he'll go to the beach with them. He would love to but he has to get to work and gives her a kiss and thanks her for taking care of him in the hospital. Rachel tells Danny she is grateful his incident happened because she was looking for any excuse to come home. She doesn't think there's anything left of her marriage to save, which Danny remarks 'that's good'. She tells him they'll talk later and the two embrace. She gets in the car and drives away as Danny walks toward headquarters. He turns and watches Rachel drive away with a smile on his face.
Danny comes into the office and hugs his friends and thanks Jenna with a hug for saving his life. Steve asks for a sidebar with Danny and asks about he and Rachel. He asks how long it's been going on and Danny tells him a little while. He asks Danny if he was ever going to tell him to which Danny replies they've become very close. Steve muses that Danny had one near-death experience and now he's gone all warm and cuddly on him and asks if he wants to hug him now--which he does. Their hug is interrupted by Sang Min who has walked right into headquarters. They all draw their weapons on him and Chin forces him to the floor. Min begs for Steve's help saying he will plead to any charge and take the maximum sentence as long as he's placed under protective custody. Danny asks what happened and Min tells them Wo Fat, he tried to make things right with him but he told him he wouldn't rest until he was dead and when he is, he will come for McGarrett next.
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Season One, Episode Twenty-Three, Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau (Until the End is Near)
Original Air Date: May 9, 2011
When a raid on Wo Fat's safe house turns up the wrong man inside the residence, a chase ensues leading Danny to a house three doors down. A man is dead inside the house and Danny is exposed to a deadly chemical agent. Sang Min returns with an ominous message for Steve McGarrett. Meanwhile, Internal Affairs makes it clear to Chin that they know he was taking the blame for his uncles crime.
In Kahala, O'Ahu, Five-O and the Honolulu Police move in on a home where Wo Fat is believed to be located as thermal imaging, which Kono is monitoring, shows one lone individual in the house. Steve McGarrett warns Five-O and the HPD that, even though he's alone, Wo Fat is still extremely dangerous. Jenna Kaye gears up to go in with the team but Steve handcuffs her to a police car pointing out she isn't a field agent. He refuses to let her get hurt on his watch. They move in on the house and HPD breaks the door open triggering a blast that blows the officers in front of the door back. As a firefight ensues, Jenna Kaye tries to free herself from the door handle of the police car and reaches inside for something to break the handle free. Kono keeps an eye on the lone occupant of the house via thermal imaging and yells to Steve that he's on the move. Steve enters the house ordering his team and HPD to surround the perimeter. Kono keeps Steve up to date on the movements of the occupant as Steve moves through the dwelling. She tells him the man is moving upstairs and Steve follows. He comes face to face with the lone occupant of the house, Sang Min (Will Yun Lee). Both men are surprised to see one another and do not fire upon each other. Sang Min dives out the window onto the grounds below and Steve follows. He tells the team he has eyes on the target but it isn't Wo Fat, it is Sang Min. As they are running around the house, Min turns and fires in Steve's direction causing Steve to duck behind the house and confirm the identity of the occupant to Kono.
Sang Min runs into the street to make his escape and is hit by Jenna Kaye who is now driving the police car she was handcuffed to. Danny comes around the corner just as Min is getting up to run and orders Kaye to get down as he and Min exchange fire. Min dives over the wall of a nearby house and Danny orders Kaye to stay where she is and then follows Min. He follows him to a lavish estate three doors down and communicates to the team that he has Min and gives the location. He enters the house and finds a man on the floor dead. There is spilled milk on the floor nearby with an overturned carton on the counter and the man's face reveals he obviously died of something serious. Danny kneels and feels for a pulse. Steve has arrived at the estate and as he's surveying the area, Min drives a car from the garage almost running Steve over. Steve fires but Min is able to make his escape. Chin and Kono arrive at the house and Steve gives Kono the description of the car Min is driving with orders to call it in to every agency. Jenna walks up to the house with the cuffs still on her arm (but no car) prompting Steve to question her about the car. Kono tells Steve the APB has been issued and Jenna asks who Sang Min is. Chin gives her the quick description of him including that he is an associate of Victor Hess and runs in the same circles as Wo Fat. Steve theorizes that Sang Min could have been targeting Wo Fat since the front door was rigged with an explosive charge. The charge could have been meant for Wo Fat. As they are talking about why Sang Min would want to kill Wo Fat, Danny stumbles out of the house toward them. They hear him coughing as he slumps down to the ground. They run to their friend who tells them he isn't hit but something isn't right as he can't breathe. As Kono is calling an ambulance, Danny tells Steve about finding the body. Jenna and Steve go inside and when she sees the body she stops Steve from getting any closer saying what killed him could have been biological. Kono calls to Steve and he runs to Danny who has started to convulse.
Danny is rushed into the Hawaii Medical Center in serious condition. Steve tells them he has been exposed to a toxin for about 20 or 30 minutes and his team is still working on identifying the toxin. A team of investigators in yellow suits comb the house looking for any clues to the identity of the mystery toxin and get a reading from the overturned container of milk. Jenna, dressed in a yellow suit, studies the body of the dead man as the milk container is packaged for testing. Once outside, Jenna tells Chin and Kono the victim inside died from a chemical nerve agent. She spent two years with the CIA's Biological Threat Assessment Team and one of the case studies she worked on was the 1995 subway attacks involving sarin gas. The victim has the same symptoms as those from the subway attacks. Since everything is localized around the man's head, she believes he ingested the sarin orally leading Kono to comment someone spiked the milk he was drinking. Jenna tells them sarin is also trans-dermal meaning Danny was exposed to it when he touched the victim to check for a pulse. She calls Steve to tell him of the sarin exposure and what treatment the doctors need to get Danny on ASAP.
Chin, Kono and Jenna arrive at Hawaii Medical Center asking about Danny. Steve informs them it's still early but he's responding to the drugs and the doctors think he will pull through, much to everyone's relief. He tells Jenna she was right about the sarin and if she hadn't found out he would have been dead. She asks if he has a family and he tells her about Rachel and Grace which prompts Chin to remind Steve that Danny was supposed to have Grace that weekend. Once he is a bit more stable he will be moved to a room where he can have visitors. In the meantime, they need to ID the victim and find out where the milk was bought so they can make sure there isn't any further risk. He sends Kono and Chin to find out where the milk distributor sells all their milk and pull it from the shelves even if it means taking resources away from finding Sang Min. He asks Jenna to coordinate with the CDC to make sure nothing else is contaminated. She offers to send a sample to a contact at Langley to see if they can pinpoint the source of the sarin. After Steve again thanks her, she begins rambling about her job and her quest to find out who killed her fiance. He interrupts her to thank her for helping Danny and saving his life. He tells her to call him if she gets something as he has something to take care of.
Grace is getting out of school at the Academy of the Sacred Hearts and Uncle Steve is there to meet her. As he's getting out of the car, his phone rings. It's Sang Min. Steve asks if the bomb on the door was meant for Wo Fat but Min tells him it doesn't matter as they both missed their shot but he might be able to give Steve a second chance and asks what it is worth if he helps him find Wo Fat. Steve makes it clear that it isn't worth much since Min burned them once. Min tells him the situation has changed. Steve says if he wants to 'make a deal, great, this is what I'm prepared to offer you' and hangs up as Grace spots Steve and runs to hug him. He tells her Danno isn't feeling his best and he's going to take her to the hospital to see him. She asks if he's going to be alright and Steve tells her he might not talk like it but her dad is one tough guy. He asks if she's going to be brave like Danno and she nods.
At Five-O Headquarters they know the dairy products sell at over 100 locations on the island. All milk cartons were pulled from the shelves and the CDC is doing random testing but none of the samples have turned up positive for sarin except for the carton the victim drank from. Kono says it's looking like an isolated incident and Jenna adds the question is was it random or was he targeted. When Kono comments sarin seems like an odd choice for a murder weapon Jenna tells her since 9/11 so many terror cells have been taken down that sarin brokers are looking for new customers. Anyone with cash and black market connections can obtain it. Chin enters with an ID on the victim: Amoka Mulitalo. He was arrested six months prior for misdemeanor trespassing, an interesting thing since the house where he died didn't belong to him. The house belongs to Jeff and Sheila Fallon (Stephen Landis & Eileen Fairbanks). They pay taxes in California but keep the Hawaii home as a vacation rental.
At Kewalo Basin Park in Honolulu, Chin speaks with Amoka Mulitalo's daughter, Olina (Yasmin Dar). She tells him her father wasn't the same after an auto accident. He suffered with impaired memory and he couldn't manage for himself leading her to have him move in with her. He would sometimes go for a walk and forget how to get home. When she couldn't find him, she'd file a missing persons report and the police would find him a few days later on the streets or in a shelter. Kono and Jenna do a video conference with the Fallon's who do not recognize Amoka Mulitalo. They tell the Fallon's they believe Amoka was squatting in their home and drank sarin-laced milk while staying there. The Fallon's exchange a look and tell them they were supposed to come to Hawaii last week and asked their caretaker Gabriel Delgado (Kelvin Yu) to stock the refrigerator. The trip was canceled and they last spoke to Gabriel a few days ago when they fired him for writing himself checks from a checkbook they had given him to do maintenance on the house. Jenna calls Steve with the news telling him Delgado does have a criminal record and served time for several home invasion robberies and he does have motive. She's still running background but Chin and Kono are on their way to apprehend Delgado. Steve hangs up to speak with the doctor. The doctor tells him Danny is ready for some visitors and Steve takes Gracie, who has been drawing Danno a picture, in to see her father.
Danny gives his daughter a big hug and she shows him the picture she made for him. He shows it to Steve after telling her it's a 'masterpiece'. Steve asks his friend how he is feeling and Danny replies he feels like everything is going to explode and like it's the worst hangover he's ever had. Grace asks what a hangover is and he tells her it's something she might find out about when she's 30 or 40 years old. He thanks Steve and the latter tells him since he's doing good he'll had back to the office. He'll swing by and pick up Gracie later and she can stay with him until Rachel gets back. He again asks Danny if he's alright and he tells him he's got everything he needs right there and puts his hand on his daughter's shoulder. As Steve is leaving, Danny hears Miley Cyrus singing from Grace's backpack and asks about it. She tells him Sam bought her a cell phone. She takes it out and answers it and it's her mother, who wants to talk to Danny after Grace tells her she's with daddy who is in the hospital.
Kono and Chin Ho find Delgado at a diner. He runs out the back when Chin says his name and Chin takes chase after him while Kono goes back out the front. Chin chases him out the back of the diner and as he's trying to make his escape, Kono holds out a garbage can lid and he runs squarely into it. At headquarters, he tells them his son is sick and, after being locked up for the first five years of his sons life, finds he cannot pay his hospital bills now that he's out. He admits he got another job and was going to replace the money he took from the Fallon's as soon as he got paid but they discovered the theft before he could. He's surprised when Chin suggests he tried to kill them so he wouldn't go back to prison. He admits he bought groceries for the Fallon's but doesn't even know what sarin is. Chin shows him pictures of Amoka's body and a shocked Delgado reveals he knows Amoka. He takes his son to Blessed People's Mission where they have a free clinic once a week. Amoka sometimes sleeps at their shelter and he found him to be a kind man. He knew Amoka was having a hard time at the shelter so he told him about the rock.
Kono checks out the Fallon home and finds a rock that contains a spare key. Chin brings Jenna and Steve up to date on Delgado and that he told Amoka about the spare key so he could stay at the Fallon's home when the shelter got too overcrowded. Chin checked the mission and everything checked out. Steve knows Delgado didn't plant the sarin as he wouldn't have allowed Amoka to stay at the house if he was trying to kill the Fallon's. Kono enters to tell them they might have found a new suspect as she was able to find a print off the spare key. The prints are those of Elliot Connor (James Remar). He is the brother of Sheila Fallon and the COO of Jeff Fallon's company which manufactures industrial equipment. There has also been news of friction between Jeff and Elliot. Steve tells them to talk to Jeff while he goes to see Elliot.
Chin's phone rings and he takes the call in his office. Chin tells the caller he already gave his statement and if he wants to bring him in again they know where to find him. Kono opens the door as Chin throws his phone down on his desk. He tells her he returned the money to IA to keep Uncle safe. She asks where he got it and he tells her he took a loan out on his house. She tells him IA will simply need to run the serial numbers on the bills and they will know they weren't part of the stolen money. He tells her that's impossible as the inventory logs of the Asset Forfeiture Locker went missing years ago and is well-known fact because it's the worst kept secret on the island. She tells him he's been carrying the secret for a long time and took the blame for a crime he didn't commit and even lost his job, friends and family. He has a chance to get out from under it and he's throwing it away, put himself in debt and go to prison.
Steve and Jenna arrive at Fallon Global and ask to speak to Elliot Connor but are told he's in a meeting. After Steve shows his badge they get to speak to him and he tells them rumors of a rift between he and Jeff are nonsense although he admits they did have disagreements. Jenna asks what they were about and he tells them Jeff relocated him to Hawaii to run the Pacific base of operations as the company is planning a big push into Asia. They had differences in opinion on marketing strategy. He maintains they can butt heads at the office but, at the end of the day, family comes first and work second. Steve asks if the Fallon's have him check on their property in Hawaii and he says they don't as they have a caretaker. Steve next asks why they found his prints on the spare key. He laughs and says he used the key to drop of papers. Jenna immediately knows he's lying based on his body language and calls him on it much to Steve's amusement. Steve asks if Jeff knows he's using his house to have an affair, something Connor takes offense to. Jenna again calls him on his response and Steve points out he has a tan line where his wedding ring should have been. Steve comes out and gives Connor two theories: he was using the house for his affair or he was there to try and kill Jeff. Connor admits he hasn't used the house in months since he was confronted by Jeff about it, which was the real reason things have been tense at work. Steve wants to speak with Chloe Ballantine (Bre Blair), the woman Connor is having the affair with and says she's right outside.
At the hospital, Kamekona arrives to see Danny carrying two buckets of Filipino fried chicken (no breasts as it was a long drive over). Danny asks Grace to put her headphones on so he can talk to Kamekona as chicken wasn't the reason he wanted to see him. Danny asks Kamekona about Sang Min. If he can make some calls to find him a second time since he found him before. After telling Danny that he doesn't bring his phone into hospitals because of how they interfere with pacemakers, Danny lets him use his phone, after he wipes the chicken grease from his fingers--on Danny's blankets, nonetheless.
Steve and Jenna return to headquarters as Kono received a call from Jenna's CIA contact. A match was made to the sarin and it was from the same strand as that used by a Chechen terror group in a botched Moscow attack five years previous. The supplier was identified as Mikhail Yursky. Yurksy arrived in Hawaii five days ago on a fake passport. The killer has been I.D.'d, he just needs to be found.
HPD and Five-O raid Mikhail Yursky's hotel room in Waikiki but he is nowhere to be found. Steve calls back to headquarters and asks Kono and Jenna what they have. Jenna informs him they found a credit card under Yursky's name and he purchased a flight to Borneo leaving that night. As they are talking, Kono gets a fresh hit on the credit card. He's using it at the moment at an ATM at Central Pacific Bank. Steve and Chin Ho move out while Kono tries to stall Yursky at the ATM. As he's trying to withdraw money from the ATM, Kono works from headquarters to slow the transaction. Yursky gets a "card error" message. He takes his card out to check the magnetic strip and starts to try again but hears McGarrett and Chin Ho approaching and flees. They pull in front of his car and he backs out hits another car in the process. Yursky takes off with McGarrett in pursuit as Chin calls the description of the vehicle in. HPD responds attempting to block the roads for Yursky. He maneuvers around them but the chase ends when his car strikes a van. He removes a gun from the glove compartment and gets out to flee on foot, firing at Steve and Chin. As Yurksy is trying to scale a fence he begins to experience problems and falls to the ground on the other side. He had a canister of sarin with him and was exposed to the gas. Chin calls in HPD and HAZMAT and an ambulance but Yursky dies. In the trunk of his car Steve finds even more biohazard canisters.
At the hospital, Danny and Grace are watching Spongebob Squarepants when Rachel arrives. Grace runs to her for a hug. Rachel turns to Danny, takes his hand and kisses him on the forehead, twice.
When Chin finishes a conversation with HAZMAT he tells Steve they finished checking the canisters from Yursky's trunk and found they were empty with no signs of toxins. They arrive at the office to find a serious look on Kono's face. When Steve asks her what's going on she nods toward the office. Waiting inside is David Akahoshi (Duane Char) from Internal Affairs. He tells them he came to return something to Chin Ho and opens a briefcase he is carrying. The serial numbers on the bills don't match the stolen money which tells him Chin is trying to cover for his uncle. Chin brings up the missing inventory logs and Akahoshi tells him IA faked the story of the lost inventory logs so if Chin had taken the money he would feel safer spending it. Since he never did, they know he didn't steal the money. Kono tells Chin things have gone too far. Chin tells Akahoshi he's gotten his money back and asks him to let it go. Akahoshi replies that he cannot. He knows Chin was trying to protect his family so he will not be charged with obstruction of justice. He won't even ask where Chin got the money he gave to IA. However, his uncle stole from the police department meaning he stole from the people of Hawaii and he will have to answer for that. Once he leaves, Steve tells Chin that he is going to ask and wants to know where he got the money. Chin admits he took out a loan on his house through Marcum. Steve tells him to return the money and get the deed to his house back. Jenna comes into the room telling them they need to see something.
She briefly explains the storage and chemistry of sarin and what the ideal storage container for the gas is. Because of how controlled and hard to obtain the canisters are, she finds it impressive they found 36 of them in Yurksy's trunk. The manufacturer of the canisters was Fallon Global. Jenna pulled Yursky's phone records and found he called Elliot Connor the day he landed in Hawaii. Steve and Chin return to Fallon Global to speak with Connor. He denies ever having seen Yursky. Chin tells him he called Connor three times but he maintains he didn't speak with him. He asks when the calls happened and when Chin gives him the date he tells them he was on the big island and didn't get back until Saturday. His hotel can confirm that. The only person who takes his calls is his secretary, Chloe. Chin goes out to speak with her but she is gone.
Chin calls down to have the building locked down so Chloe cannot escape as he and Steve go after her. As she is trying to drive out of the parking garage she nearly runs Steve over. He takes his gun out and shoots her tires causing her to run into a rubbish bin. At headquarters, she tells them she and Elliot were happy and wanted to be together. Chin points out Jeff and Sheila wanted him to end the affair and she couldn't accept that. When she is reluctant to answer questions, Steve forces her to look at the picture of Amoka. She eventually starts talking saying Yursky contacted the office looking to purchase a certain produce they make but after a background check they refused the purchase order. A couple of days later, he calls back and offers her $20,000 to fix invoices. Along with taking the money, she asked him to commit murder. Steve and Chin lay out how she used sarin because it was big and bold and would confuse the police making them think terrorist instead of murder. She could be free to continue her relationship with Elliot who would then have control of Fallon Global.
Steve pays a visit to Danny at the hospital and finds him resting comfortably with Rachel lying next to him, his arm around her with Grace asleep nearby. Danny smiles up at Steve who leaves a few seconds later with a smile on his face.
At headquarters, Steve has received another envelope. This one contains a medal, the Order of the Rising Sun. It was awarded to a Japanese pilot who bombed Pearl Harbor. Jenna asks how it got into his father's toolbox. Steve doesn't know but mentions his grandfather died at Pearl and perhaps the same person who mailed the postcards from Osaka mailed the medal to his father. She asks what Wo Fat's connection to the medal could be and he says he'll know when he finds him.
The next day, Rachel and Grace drop Danny off at Five-O headquarters and Grace asks if he'll go to the beach with them. He would love to but he has to get to work and gives her a kiss and thanks her for taking care of him in the hospital. Rachel tells Danny she is grateful his incident happened because she was looking for any excuse to come home. She doesn't think there's anything left of her marriage to save, which Danny remarks 'that's good'. She tells him they'll talk later and the two embrace. She gets in the car and drives away as Danny walks toward headquarters. He turns and watches Rachel drive away with a smile on his face.
Danny comes into the office and hugs his friends and thanks Jenna with a hug for saving his life. Steve asks for a sidebar with Danny and asks about he and Rachel. He asks how long it's been going on and Danny tells him a little while. He asks Danny if he was ever going to tell him to which Danny replies they've become very close. Steve muses that Danny had one near-death experience and now he's gone all warm and cuddly on him and asks if he wants to hug him now--which he does. Their hug is interrupted by Sang Min who has walked right into headquarters. They all draw their weapons on him and Chin forces him to the floor. Min begs for Steve's help saying he will plead to any charge and take the maximum sentence as long as he's placed under protective custody. Danny asks what happened and Min tells them Wo Fat, he tried to make things right with him but he told him he wouldn't rest until he was dead and when he is, he will come for McGarrett next.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
For more information:
Hawaii Five-O Official Site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Hawaii_Five-O
Thursday, May 5, 2011
US Television: Hawaii Five-O, Episode 1.22 "Ho'ohuli Na'au (Close to Heart)"
Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty-Two, Ho'ohuli Na'au (Close to Heart)
Original Air Date: May 2, 2011
When a famous photographer, Renny Sinclair, is murdered during a Hawaiian photo shoot Five-O is called out on the case. The prime suspect, one of Renny's old girlfriends turns out to have an alibi so the team must dig deeper into his life to find out who might have wanted him dead. Could the answers they find be even more sinister than a lover scorned or even the bookie Renny is deeply in debt to? Meanwhile, Chin Ho's uncle has gone to Internal Affairs and confessed that he stole the money Chin Ho was blamed for stealing. Chin makes a decision regarding the investigation that could end up sending him to prison. Kono crosses paths with a very old acquaintance during the course of the Sinclair investigation.
At Puaena Point, North Shore, O'Ahu, famed photographer Renny Sinclair (Rick Springfield) is doing a swimsuit photo shoot. He comments to one of the models "you're beautiful, Alana" bringing a smile from her. When he's finished taking pictures, he guarantees the cover is in the last sequence he shot. He throws his camera to his assistant Amy (Andrea Bowen) as Alana (Serinda Swan) walks to him and takes his hand. The two put their arms around one another and walk away as Amy gives the crew their instructions. Once away from everyone, Renny and Alana kiss and he asks if she's not getting too tired as the setups are taking way too long. She assures him she's fine and is way more than OK as she's on a beach in Hawaii with the man she loves. He tells her they should stay there a couple more days, fly her family in and get married right there. Under the watchful eyes of another of the models, Jordan, he tells her to get changed. They kiss once more and she leaves him to change clothes. Amy walks up next to Jordan and asks if she's alright. Renny goes to his trailer and goes inside. As he's going through the pockets of a pair of jeans he hears a sound at the door. He tries to open the door to see who is outside but cannot. From the window he sees a fire begin to rage beneath the trailer and tries harder to open the door. He beats on the windows for someone to help him when another blaze flares up in the back of the trailer. The models and crew leave their tents at the commotion and see Renny's trailer engulfed in flames. As they run toward it the trailer explodes.
When Steve McGarrett finishes a run at Kamehame Ridge, Windward, he finds an envelope beneath the wiper blade of his truck. He looks around but sees no one he could suspect of having left it there. He opens the envelope, that has his name written on it, and removes a key bearing the number "103".
At the Lower Makapu'u beach in Windward, Kono and a little girl, Susie come out of the water. Susie asks Kono if she was bummed when she was beaten in the finals for junior nationals. Kono admits she was and Susie says she (Kono) came back and beat the girl who took her at the finals in the U.S. Open. Kono tells her that was fun. Susie gives Kono and Kawika (Kala Alexander) a hug then runs to her parents. Kawika tells Kono the little girl was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was six months old. The environment in Hawaii has been good for Susie and thanks Kono for helping him with his charity. She is glad he invited her as she can't think of a better way to spend her day off. Her phone rings calling her into work.
Danny and McGarrett arrive at the Sinclair scene and Kono brings them up to speed. She shows them the shackle lock that was on the door. They had to cut the door handle off to get it open. Renny didn't stand a chance of getting the door open. Chin Ho steps out of the trailer to show them the magazine cover showing Renny surrounded by flames with the caption "Worship Me" saying it might have inspired the killer. Steve knows the killing was personal. He tells Kono to stick with the crime techs to finish processing the scene while he, Chin and Danny go to talk to witnesses starting with Renny's closest associates. As Five-O are chatting about Danny needing to stick to the case since the women are "insanely hot and make millions of dollars" a fight breaks out between Alana and Jordan. Steve and Danny rush over to break it up. Alana screams that Jordan killed Renny as he didn't love her anymore. Alana takes an ultrasound picture from her pocket. She wants the woman to see that she not only took Renny away from her but she took him from his unborn child. Steve takes Alana aside while Danny escorts Jordan away.
Steve asks Alana why she thinks Jordan killed Renny and she tells him she was jealous of she and Renny's relationship. Danny asks Jordan if she still loves Renny and she asks what that has to do with anything. They dated six months ago. Danny points out the baby and Alana and Renny getting married killed any chance of Jordan and Renny getting back together. She insists she was over him. Alana tells Steve Jordan wasn't over him. She lost it after he broke up with her and she doesn't feel she really recovered. Jordan tells a different story to Danny saying she wished Renny well and never looked back and wasn't going to stand in the way of him being with Alana. Alana says Jordan couldn't stand seeing the two of them together and happy. Jordan questions why she would have taken the job if she wasn't over him. If she were to turn down every job because of past relationships with photographers she wouldn't have a career. Alana tells Stevie Renny was everything to him and she doesn't know where she will go from there.
Chin speaks with Amy who tells him everyone knew Jordan still had a thing for Renny. He asks where Jordan was when the fire started and Amy tells him she should have been in the changing tent but she was running around getting things ready for the next set up so she couldn't say for sure. He asks about the other models and she says from what she could tell, everyone loved Renny. The next day would have been one week that Amy was working on the shoot as she was a local hire and doesn't even know the names of most the people there. He next asks if there was anyone on set that didn't work there, visitors or people around the trailer that shouldn't have been there. She mentions a guy that drove a silver Porsche who Renny told her to allow in. She didn't get the plate number and didn't even see what the driver looked like.
At the HPD Crime Lab, Kono meets Charlie Fong (Brian Yang) who knows who she is before she even introduces herself and asks how she is, catching her by surprise. She cannot place where they know one another from and he comments he knew she wouldn't remember then says they should get started. He shows her a reenactment he put together from the Sinclair crime scene data. Of the two gas cans collected at the scene, one was placed under the exterior of the trailer and the other inside under the bathroom sink. Kono asks if they ever worked a case together, which they didn't. Fong continues that once the exterior flames caught, they ignited the second can inside. She asks if he was able to analyze the gasoline sample. He's running it now and if it is viable, they should know what station the gas was purchased at. He found something inside the melted gas can but can't see what it is from the x-ray. The plastic will have to be carefully melted away to extract the object. She asks if he graduated from her school but he didn't. She smiles and comments he's not going to make her realizing where they know each other from easy.
At Five-O headquarters Steve arrives as Chin is finishing a phone call with IA. He is to meet with them that afternoon at three. Chin's uncle talked with them and admitted he was the one who stole the money and why. IA has officially reopened the case. Steve points out it will clear Chin's name but that doesn't make things easier for Chin. His uncle was a good cop who did good work and if he's found guilty it will bring his 25-year arrest record into review. Steve offers to call the governor but Chin refuses saying it is his problem and he will handle it then walks away. Danny arrives asking what is wrong with Chin. Steve tells him his uncle is about to be arrested. Chin has held the secret for so long he'd rather live with it than see his uncle go to jail. Danny questioned all the models that morning and it turned out that Jordan and Alana were both in the changing tent at the time of the fire. He had HPD run Renny's financials and phone records and found dozens of text messages, but no calls. When Steve wants to send the texts to an analyst to break what appears to be a code, Danny takes the paper and points out the texts aren't code but instead bets on sports teams. Renny had open credit markers all over Las Vegas. All the money he made went right back out in bets. They settle upon Renny's bookie as a new suspect.
Chin goes to see his uncle who is fishing at Makai Pier in Windward. His uncle tells him he shouldn't have come since IA opened the case he's in violation of a department mandate if they have contact with one another. Chin tells his uncle about being called by IA and having to appear before the review board. Uncle wants him to tell the truth when he appears. Chin insists it doesn't matter anymore and what does is keeping him out of jail. Uncle insists Chin owes him nothing and needn't be silent any longer. Chin wants his uncle to go back to IA and tell them he hasn't been thinking clearly since his wife died and didn't know what he was saying and that Chin took the money. Uncle refuses saying it could put Chin in jail and he's not lying anymore.
Charlie Fong tells Kono the findings are back on the gas used to start the fire. The additives in the fuel are a match to a local chain, Lex Brody, of which there are 12 stations on the island. They need to match the fingerprint to a specific Lex Brody station and they will know where the gas was bought. Kono and Charlie go out to collect a gas sample from each station.
At Five-O headquarters, Chin feels he found the mystery man who visited Renny at the shoot that morning. He shows Steve a picture of a silver Porsche from a traffic camera near the crime scene. The plates go back to a shell corporation linked to Derek Marcum (Andy Trask), a major-league bookie who runs most of the action on the island. From what Chin hears, finding Marcum is by referral only. Danny enters Steve's office with a client list he put together from numbers texting Marcum's pre-paid cell. He knows of the perfect guy to give Marcum up.
Kamekona is trying to get someone he's hired to be his shaved ice mascot to be a bit more energetic and passionate about being shaved ice. Steve and Danny pay him a visit and ask him to help them find Marcum. Kamekona claims he doesn't gamble for money but they know differently and that he hasn't won a bet in six months and owes money to Marcum. They want him to call Marcum and say he will not pay him a cent of what he owes him and if he has a problem with it they know where he works. Kamekona refuses but Steve and Danny are able to change his mind and he makes the call. As Kono and Charlie are leaving the last station, Steve calls and tells her they think they might have a suspect but they will need evidence and to call him when they get it. She starts the car and Charlie suggests some music and mentions her liking Boys II Men and even her favorite song of theirs. She thinks she's figured out where they know each other from (camp) but she's wrong. As expected, two of Marcum's men arrive to see Kamekona. As they are hassling him, Steve and Danny come out and want to talk but the men bolt and, after a short chase, catch them.
The men take Steve and Danny to Marcum's home in Kahala. They move all the men working the phones into the office where Marcum is and Steve orders him to keep his hands where he can see them. They ask about Renny and Danny tells him they have him on camera leaving the photo shoot right after Renny was killed. Marcum is surprised to learn Renny is dead. He tells them Renny was a friend, not a word he uses lightly and he wouldn't kill a client if he were, hypothetically speaking, involved in illegal book making. Renny didn't owe him a debt. He was at the photo shoot because Renny asked to borrow $291,570 and he gave it to him. Danny asks what the money was for since it was a very specific amount but Marcum insists that while banks ask those questions, he doesn't. He shows them how Renny had planned to repay the money: a book and a contract. He had signed over the first $400,000 of profits from a book of photographs he was going to publish to Marcum. Steve says if the contract is legit is backs up Marcum's claims, if not, it gives him motive. In the meantime, they take him into custody so they'll have him while they're checking the contract.
In the lab, Kono and Charlie are working on the gas samples. She continues trying to place where she knows him (it isn't from surfing). Charlie is able to pinpoint the exact station where the gas was purchased. If the killer used a credit card they can pull the receipts and cross reference with suspects.
At Marcum's house, Steve tells Danny to run the contract through handwriting analysis to make sure the signature is actually Renny's and it wasn't signed under duress. Danny points out the very specific amount of money had to be for something very specific. Steve will have HPD forensic accountants dig deeper into Renny's financials for that exact amount. Steve calls Chin as he's heading for the IA meeting. Chin answers saying he's going to tell IA he took the money and he shouldn't try to talk him out of it. Steve says he's just calling to wish him good luck. At the IA meeting, Chin is told the board will listen to his statement. Chin tells them his uncle was devastated by the death of his aunt and wasn't thinking clearly and tried to implicate himself in a misguided attempt to help his nephew salvage his reputation with HPD. He tells them he did take the money. Chairman Akahoshi (Duane Char) asks if after all these years of vehemently denying the theft and fighting against it even with a resignation he's now admitting to the theft after his uncle came forward. Chin insists his uncle is lying to protect him. Akahoshi asks how they can know the situation isn't reversed and how he can explain the fact none of the money has turned up after all the years of financial surveillance they have had on Chin. Chin tells them he never spent the money.
Kono pulls her car up next to Chin's and finds him sitting there in thought. She gets in the car with him. He tells her he told IA he took the money. She asks if they believed him and he says they didn't right away and tells her about the spending habits and how he explained that. IA ordered him to produce all the money by the end of the next day. Charlie is calling from the HPD Lab but Kono ignores the call. She tells Chin no one in the family has that kind of money and he can't go to the bank. She wants him to go back to IA and tell them he lied to end things but he says he's not going back. Her phone rings again and he tells her to answer it.
At headquarters, Steve tells Danny the handwriting analyst confirmed Renny signed the contract with no markers to indicate signing under duress. Danny spoke with Renny's attorney in New York and his will supersedes any other arrangements he might have made. Most of Renny's assets are to be put into a trust for a woman named Pauline Lucero. Danny's running background to find out who she is. Kono and Chin enter the office and she tells them the lab managed to get the item that was melted into the gas can out. She brings it up on the screen--it is a lighter that sells for thousands of dollars. Danny shows them a picture of Alana from Renny's book where she is holding the lighter.
Steve finds Alana sitting on Waikiki Beach and sits down next to her. He shows her the picture of her with the lighter wanting to know more about it. It was shot in L.A. and Renny insisted the cake in it be purple. He tells her the lighter she's holding was used to start the fire. She explains it was Renny's lighter as the client gave it to him as a gift at the end of the shoot. She last saw it yesterday in his trailer. She didn't think he would have loaned it to anyone as it was worth a lot of money and he cherished it. Anyone could have stolen it as there were a lot of people on the beach. He asks her about Pauline Lucero and, while she doesn't know the name, she does remember a woman named Shannon Lucero. She was one of Alana's role models as a little girl. Shannon and Renny dated in the early 90's. Renny had told Alana his relationship with Shannon ended badly as she wanted to get married and have children and he was just starting his career and wasn't ready. Steve's phone rings and it is Chin calling to say that HPD's forensic accountants showed the amount of money Renny borrowed from Marcum is the exact amount the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it costs to raise a child to the age of 18. Steve tells him he thinks Renny and Shannon had a daughter named Pauline. He wants him and Kono to run Shannon through Interpol and the Italian embassy and to cross-reference the name Lucero against receipts from the gas station where the gas was purchased.
Chin runs the Lucero names and finds that Shannon Lucero is deceased. He finds information on her daughter, Pauline and learns that he's already spoken with her: Renny's assistant Amy. Kono confirms that Pauline Lucero purchased the gas the day Renny was murdered.
Five-O arrive to take Pauline into custody and she tires to run but is easy caught on the beach by Steve and Danny. They cuff her and before they put her in the HPD car Steve asks how she could kill her father. She tells them Renny wasn't her father as he left when her mother was pregnant and never even knew her. When her mother got sick, he turned his back on her. She tried to contact him but he wouldn't take her calls. She tells them he wanted to be worshiped, so now he can be. Danny tells her of what they found regarding the money Renny had borrowed and set up in a trust for her in his will.
At the beach, Kono comes out of the water and meets a friend who brought her cousin, Charlie Fong. Charlie and Kono played spin the bottle and kissed at her friends 10th birthday party. Kono was the first girl Charlie kissed.
Kawika brings Susie to see Steve and Danny. She asks Danny if he's a surfer. He admits he isn't and tells her he's a cop. She comments his hair looks like a surfer's haircut. He assures her it isn't. When Kawika and Susie go back out to the water, Danny asks where Chin is and Steve tells him he doesn't know but he said he had to do something before he came.
At Marcum's house, Chin enters the office and Marcum tells him he's answered all the questions and paid his bail and is done talking about Renny. Chin tells him he's not there about Renny. Marcum tells him he's listening and Chin hands him the deed to his house. When Marcum asks what he'd want that for Chin tells him he needs $200,000 and he needs it now.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
For more information:
Hawaii Five-O Official Site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Hawaii_Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty-Two, Ho'ohuli Na'au (Close to Heart)
Original Air Date: May 2, 2011
When a famous photographer, Renny Sinclair, is murdered during a Hawaiian photo shoot Five-O is called out on the case. The prime suspect, one of Renny's old girlfriends turns out to have an alibi so the team must dig deeper into his life to find out who might have wanted him dead. Could the answers they find be even more sinister than a lover scorned or even the bookie Renny is deeply in debt to? Meanwhile, Chin Ho's uncle has gone to Internal Affairs and confessed that he stole the money Chin Ho was blamed for stealing. Chin makes a decision regarding the investigation that could end up sending him to prison. Kono crosses paths with a very old acquaintance during the course of the Sinclair investigation.
At Puaena Point, North Shore, O'Ahu, famed photographer Renny Sinclair (Rick Springfield) is doing a swimsuit photo shoot. He comments to one of the models "you're beautiful, Alana" bringing a smile from her. When he's finished taking pictures, he guarantees the cover is in the last sequence he shot. He throws his camera to his assistant Amy (Andrea Bowen) as Alana (Serinda Swan) walks to him and takes his hand. The two put their arms around one another and walk away as Amy gives the crew their instructions. Once away from everyone, Renny and Alana kiss and he asks if she's not getting too tired as the setups are taking way too long. She assures him she's fine and is way more than OK as she's on a beach in Hawaii with the man she loves. He tells her they should stay there a couple more days, fly her family in and get married right there. Under the watchful eyes of another of the models, Jordan, he tells her to get changed. They kiss once more and she leaves him to change clothes. Amy walks up next to Jordan and asks if she's alright. Renny goes to his trailer and goes inside. As he's going through the pockets of a pair of jeans he hears a sound at the door. He tries to open the door to see who is outside but cannot. From the window he sees a fire begin to rage beneath the trailer and tries harder to open the door. He beats on the windows for someone to help him when another blaze flares up in the back of the trailer. The models and crew leave their tents at the commotion and see Renny's trailer engulfed in flames. As they run toward it the trailer explodes.
When Steve McGarrett finishes a run at Kamehame Ridge, Windward, he finds an envelope beneath the wiper blade of his truck. He looks around but sees no one he could suspect of having left it there. He opens the envelope, that has his name written on it, and removes a key bearing the number "103".
At the Lower Makapu'u beach in Windward, Kono and a little girl, Susie come out of the water. Susie asks Kono if she was bummed when she was beaten in the finals for junior nationals. Kono admits she was and Susie says she (Kono) came back and beat the girl who took her at the finals in the U.S. Open. Kono tells her that was fun. Susie gives Kono and Kawika (Kala Alexander) a hug then runs to her parents. Kawika tells Kono the little girl was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was six months old. The environment in Hawaii has been good for Susie and thanks Kono for helping him with his charity. She is glad he invited her as she can't think of a better way to spend her day off. Her phone rings calling her into work.
Danny and McGarrett arrive at the Sinclair scene and Kono brings them up to speed. She shows them the shackle lock that was on the door. They had to cut the door handle off to get it open. Renny didn't stand a chance of getting the door open. Chin Ho steps out of the trailer to show them the magazine cover showing Renny surrounded by flames with the caption "Worship Me" saying it might have inspired the killer. Steve knows the killing was personal. He tells Kono to stick with the crime techs to finish processing the scene while he, Chin and Danny go to talk to witnesses starting with Renny's closest associates. As Five-O are chatting about Danny needing to stick to the case since the women are "insanely hot and make millions of dollars" a fight breaks out between Alana and Jordan. Steve and Danny rush over to break it up. Alana screams that Jordan killed Renny as he didn't love her anymore. Alana takes an ultrasound picture from her pocket. She wants the woman to see that she not only took Renny away from her but she took him from his unborn child. Steve takes Alana aside while Danny escorts Jordan away.
Steve asks Alana why she thinks Jordan killed Renny and she tells him she was jealous of she and Renny's relationship. Danny asks Jordan if she still loves Renny and she asks what that has to do with anything. They dated six months ago. Danny points out the baby and Alana and Renny getting married killed any chance of Jordan and Renny getting back together. She insists she was over him. Alana tells Steve Jordan wasn't over him. She lost it after he broke up with her and she doesn't feel she really recovered. Jordan tells a different story to Danny saying she wished Renny well and never looked back and wasn't going to stand in the way of him being with Alana. Alana says Jordan couldn't stand seeing the two of them together and happy. Jordan questions why she would have taken the job if she wasn't over him. If she were to turn down every job because of past relationships with photographers she wouldn't have a career. Alana tells Stevie Renny was everything to him and she doesn't know where she will go from there.
Chin speaks with Amy who tells him everyone knew Jordan still had a thing for Renny. He asks where Jordan was when the fire started and Amy tells him she should have been in the changing tent but she was running around getting things ready for the next set up so she couldn't say for sure. He asks about the other models and she says from what she could tell, everyone loved Renny. The next day would have been one week that Amy was working on the shoot as she was a local hire and doesn't even know the names of most the people there. He next asks if there was anyone on set that didn't work there, visitors or people around the trailer that shouldn't have been there. She mentions a guy that drove a silver Porsche who Renny told her to allow in. She didn't get the plate number and didn't even see what the driver looked like.
At the HPD Crime Lab, Kono meets Charlie Fong (Brian Yang) who knows who she is before she even introduces herself and asks how she is, catching her by surprise. She cannot place where they know one another from and he comments he knew she wouldn't remember then says they should get started. He shows her a reenactment he put together from the Sinclair crime scene data. Of the two gas cans collected at the scene, one was placed under the exterior of the trailer and the other inside under the bathroom sink. Kono asks if they ever worked a case together, which they didn't. Fong continues that once the exterior flames caught, they ignited the second can inside. She asks if he was able to analyze the gasoline sample. He's running it now and if it is viable, they should know what station the gas was purchased at. He found something inside the melted gas can but can't see what it is from the x-ray. The plastic will have to be carefully melted away to extract the object. She asks if he graduated from her school but he didn't. She smiles and comments he's not going to make her realizing where they know each other from easy.
At Five-O headquarters Steve arrives as Chin is finishing a phone call with IA. He is to meet with them that afternoon at three. Chin's uncle talked with them and admitted he was the one who stole the money and why. IA has officially reopened the case. Steve points out it will clear Chin's name but that doesn't make things easier for Chin. His uncle was a good cop who did good work and if he's found guilty it will bring his 25-year arrest record into review. Steve offers to call the governor but Chin refuses saying it is his problem and he will handle it then walks away. Danny arrives asking what is wrong with Chin. Steve tells him his uncle is about to be arrested. Chin has held the secret for so long he'd rather live with it than see his uncle go to jail. Danny questioned all the models that morning and it turned out that Jordan and Alana were both in the changing tent at the time of the fire. He had HPD run Renny's financials and phone records and found dozens of text messages, but no calls. When Steve wants to send the texts to an analyst to break what appears to be a code, Danny takes the paper and points out the texts aren't code but instead bets on sports teams. Renny had open credit markers all over Las Vegas. All the money he made went right back out in bets. They settle upon Renny's bookie as a new suspect.
Chin goes to see his uncle who is fishing at Makai Pier in Windward. His uncle tells him he shouldn't have come since IA opened the case he's in violation of a department mandate if they have contact with one another. Chin tells his uncle about being called by IA and having to appear before the review board. Uncle wants him to tell the truth when he appears. Chin insists it doesn't matter anymore and what does is keeping him out of jail. Uncle insists Chin owes him nothing and needn't be silent any longer. Chin wants his uncle to go back to IA and tell them he hasn't been thinking clearly since his wife died and didn't know what he was saying and that Chin took the money. Uncle refuses saying it could put Chin in jail and he's not lying anymore.
Charlie Fong tells Kono the findings are back on the gas used to start the fire. The additives in the fuel are a match to a local chain, Lex Brody, of which there are 12 stations on the island. They need to match the fingerprint to a specific Lex Brody station and they will know where the gas was bought. Kono and Charlie go out to collect a gas sample from each station.
At Five-O headquarters, Chin feels he found the mystery man who visited Renny at the shoot that morning. He shows Steve a picture of a silver Porsche from a traffic camera near the crime scene. The plates go back to a shell corporation linked to Derek Marcum (Andy Trask), a major-league bookie who runs most of the action on the island. From what Chin hears, finding Marcum is by referral only. Danny enters Steve's office with a client list he put together from numbers texting Marcum's pre-paid cell. He knows of the perfect guy to give Marcum up.
Kamekona is trying to get someone he's hired to be his shaved ice mascot to be a bit more energetic and passionate about being shaved ice. Steve and Danny pay him a visit and ask him to help them find Marcum. Kamekona claims he doesn't gamble for money but they know differently and that he hasn't won a bet in six months and owes money to Marcum. They want him to call Marcum and say he will not pay him a cent of what he owes him and if he has a problem with it they know where he works. Kamekona refuses but Steve and Danny are able to change his mind and he makes the call. As Kono and Charlie are leaving the last station, Steve calls and tells her they think they might have a suspect but they will need evidence and to call him when they get it. She starts the car and Charlie suggests some music and mentions her liking Boys II Men and even her favorite song of theirs. She thinks she's figured out where they know each other from (camp) but she's wrong. As expected, two of Marcum's men arrive to see Kamekona. As they are hassling him, Steve and Danny come out and want to talk but the men bolt and, after a short chase, catch them.
The men take Steve and Danny to Marcum's home in Kahala. They move all the men working the phones into the office where Marcum is and Steve orders him to keep his hands where he can see them. They ask about Renny and Danny tells him they have him on camera leaving the photo shoot right after Renny was killed. Marcum is surprised to learn Renny is dead. He tells them Renny was a friend, not a word he uses lightly and he wouldn't kill a client if he were, hypothetically speaking, involved in illegal book making. Renny didn't owe him a debt. He was at the photo shoot because Renny asked to borrow $291,570 and he gave it to him. Danny asks what the money was for since it was a very specific amount but Marcum insists that while banks ask those questions, he doesn't. He shows them how Renny had planned to repay the money: a book and a contract. He had signed over the first $400,000 of profits from a book of photographs he was going to publish to Marcum. Steve says if the contract is legit is backs up Marcum's claims, if not, it gives him motive. In the meantime, they take him into custody so they'll have him while they're checking the contract.
In the lab, Kono and Charlie are working on the gas samples. She continues trying to place where she knows him (it isn't from surfing). Charlie is able to pinpoint the exact station where the gas was purchased. If the killer used a credit card they can pull the receipts and cross reference with suspects.
At Marcum's house, Steve tells Danny to run the contract through handwriting analysis to make sure the signature is actually Renny's and it wasn't signed under duress. Danny points out the very specific amount of money had to be for something very specific. Steve will have HPD forensic accountants dig deeper into Renny's financials for that exact amount. Steve calls Chin as he's heading for the IA meeting. Chin answers saying he's going to tell IA he took the money and he shouldn't try to talk him out of it. Steve says he's just calling to wish him good luck. At the IA meeting, Chin is told the board will listen to his statement. Chin tells them his uncle was devastated by the death of his aunt and wasn't thinking clearly and tried to implicate himself in a misguided attempt to help his nephew salvage his reputation with HPD. He tells them he did take the money. Chairman Akahoshi (Duane Char) asks if after all these years of vehemently denying the theft and fighting against it even with a resignation he's now admitting to the theft after his uncle came forward. Chin insists his uncle is lying to protect him. Akahoshi asks how they can know the situation isn't reversed and how he can explain the fact none of the money has turned up after all the years of financial surveillance they have had on Chin. Chin tells them he never spent the money.
Kono pulls her car up next to Chin's and finds him sitting there in thought. She gets in the car with him. He tells her he told IA he took the money. She asks if they believed him and he says they didn't right away and tells her about the spending habits and how he explained that. IA ordered him to produce all the money by the end of the next day. Charlie is calling from the HPD Lab but Kono ignores the call. She tells Chin no one in the family has that kind of money and he can't go to the bank. She wants him to go back to IA and tell them he lied to end things but he says he's not going back. Her phone rings again and he tells her to answer it.
At headquarters, Steve tells Danny the handwriting analyst confirmed Renny signed the contract with no markers to indicate signing under duress. Danny spoke with Renny's attorney in New York and his will supersedes any other arrangements he might have made. Most of Renny's assets are to be put into a trust for a woman named Pauline Lucero. Danny's running background to find out who she is. Kono and Chin enter the office and she tells them the lab managed to get the item that was melted into the gas can out. She brings it up on the screen--it is a lighter that sells for thousands of dollars. Danny shows them a picture of Alana from Renny's book where she is holding the lighter.
Steve finds Alana sitting on Waikiki Beach and sits down next to her. He shows her the picture of her with the lighter wanting to know more about it. It was shot in L.A. and Renny insisted the cake in it be purple. He tells her the lighter she's holding was used to start the fire. She explains it was Renny's lighter as the client gave it to him as a gift at the end of the shoot. She last saw it yesterday in his trailer. She didn't think he would have loaned it to anyone as it was worth a lot of money and he cherished it. Anyone could have stolen it as there were a lot of people on the beach. He asks her about Pauline Lucero and, while she doesn't know the name, she does remember a woman named Shannon Lucero. She was one of Alana's role models as a little girl. Shannon and Renny dated in the early 90's. Renny had told Alana his relationship with Shannon ended badly as she wanted to get married and have children and he was just starting his career and wasn't ready. Steve's phone rings and it is Chin calling to say that HPD's forensic accountants showed the amount of money Renny borrowed from Marcum is the exact amount the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it costs to raise a child to the age of 18. Steve tells him he thinks Renny and Shannon had a daughter named Pauline. He wants him and Kono to run Shannon through Interpol and the Italian embassy and to cross-reference the name Lucero against receipts from the gas station where the gas was purchased.
Chin runs the Lucero names and finds that Shannon Lucero is deceased. He finds information on her daughter, Pauline and learns that he's already spoken with her: Renny's assistant Amy. Kono confirms that Pauline Lucero purchased the gas the day Renny was murdered.
Five-O arrive to take Pauline into custody and she tires to run but is easy caught on the beach by Steve and Danny. They cuff her and before they put her in the HPD car Steve asks how she could kill her father. She tells them Renny wasn't her father as he left when her mother was pregnant and never even knew her. When her mother got sick, he turned his back on her. She tried to contact him but he wouldn't take her calls. She tells them he wanted to be worshiped, so now he can be. Danny tells her of what they found regarding the money Renny had borrowed and set up in a trust for her in his will.
At the beach, Kono comes out of the water and meets a friend who brought her cousin, Charlie Fong. Charlie and Kono played spin the bottle and kissed at her friends 10th birthday party. Kono was the first girl Charlie kissed.
Kawika brings Susie to see Steve and Danny. She asks Danny if he's a surfer. He admits he isn't and tells her he's a cop. She comments his hair looks like a surfer's haircut. He assures her it isn't. When Kawika and Susie go back out to the water, Danny asks where Chin is and Steve tells him he doesn't know but he said he had to do something before he came.
At Marcum's house, Chin enters the office and Marcum tells him he's answered all the questions and paid his bail and is done talking about Renny. Chin tells him he's not there about Renny. Marcum tells him he's listening and Chin hands him the deed to his house. When Marcum asks what he'd want that for Chin tells him he needs $200,000 and he needs it now.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
US Television: Hawaii Five-O, Episode 1.21 "Ho'opa'i (Close to Heart)"
Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty-One, Ho'opa'i (Close to Heart)
Original Air Date: April 18, 2011
The wife of an undercover policeman, Reggie Cole is murdered in her home along with an FBI agent. A powerful New York crime boss is the prime suspect for the killing. McGarrett and Five-O must find the killers and who was responsible for hiring the hit before Reggie can exact his own revenge for the death of his wife and to keep he and his son safe.
Lisa Cole (Selita Ebanks) and her young son, Kevin (Kewsi Boakye) are walking along the beach when a man holding a football, Reggie Cole (Sean Combs) comes into view. Kevin asks who he is and she tells him it's his father. Reggie gives his wife flowers and a kiss then tells his son he's gotten so big and gives him the football. Lisa notices two other men standing behind her husband and he tells her they are a precaution. Reggie speaks with his son again and Kevin tells him they saw a dolphin. Reggie tells him they might go swim with the dolphin later. Reggie embraces his family.
Later that night, he and his wife talk about the time he's spent undercover--almost two years. Lisa is upset their son didn't even recognize his father. Reggie tells her no one has ever been as close as he is to getting the guy he's been working undercover with. He wants his family back but needs a little more time to close the case then he promises he'll be home for good. Reggie takes a walk on the beach and sits down to think. As he's there, he hears a popping sound behind him--gunfire. He runs to the house and finds one of the agents protecting him dead. The second, Art Newman (Nicholas B. Gianforti) has been shot in the collarbone. Newman tells him there are two shooters and points out the direction they went. Reggie takes Newman's gun and moves through he house. He finds his wife dead on the floor. His son runs into the room and one of the shooters enters and begins shooting. Reggie returns fire and is hit. Reggie tells Kevin to go to his room and hide until his daddy comes to get him. Reggie pursues the men outside and to their vehicle where he manages to shoot one of them before the drive away and he crumples to the ground.
Steve McGarrett returns home from a morning swim to find Kamekona in the house. When he asks why he's there, Kamekona tells him it's too cook him breakfast. Steve and Kamekona had bet on a basketball game and Steve won so Kamekona, being one who never welches on a bet, must serve as Steve's personal chef the entire week. The first meal he cooked: SPAM, potato frittatas and SPAM fried rice. Everything he's going to cook for Steve that week will have SPAM in it as it's the Hawaiian steak, the nectar of the islands. Steve notices an envelope on the floor at the front door. It wasn't there when Kamekona arrived and he thinks someone must have slipped it under the door while he was in the kitchen. Inside the envelope are the photographs of Steve's mother's burned-out car that were stolen from his father's toolbox. Steve receives a call about the Cole incident and gives the orders to not approach the house as Five-O are on the way.
Five-O and the HPD arrive in full force at the Cole home and find Reggie on the ground. He awakens and grabs Steve's arm repeating his son's name again and again. Steve asks who Kevin is and Reggie tells him it's his son. Steve assures him they'll find Kevin then motions for Chin to enter the house as one of the officers stays with Reggie. Chin Ho and Kono enter the house and find Agent Newman while Danny and Steve go in and find the slain agent and Lisa. Steve and Danny enter Kevin's room and find him huddling in his closet, crying. Steve introduces himself to Kevin and promises him no one will hurt him and carries him from the house. Outside, he puts him down and promises he'll get him some answers about his mom and dad but he needs him to go with another officer who will take good care of him but that he will be back for him.
Chin Ho shows McGarrett the FBI credentials of the wounded agent Newman and the credentials of the slain agent, Martin Stallworth. Both agents are based out of the New York Organized Crime Unit. They have Reggie's name but the only identification he had on him was a New York driver's license. A dark vehicle arrives and a women gets out and walks to McGarrett. She introduces herself as Agent Allison Marsh (Cara Buono). She asks about Reggie and Steve informs her he survived along with his young son. Danny asks if she knows who the shooters might be and she tells them Reggie has been working undercover for the FBI in Jimmy Cannon's (Keith David) New York crime family. She tells them the FBI has no idea how things happened but that Cannon must have somehow found out about Reggie's ID and sent his men to wipe him and his family out. McGarrett isn't familiar with Cannon but Danny knows of him from his days in Jersey. Marsh tells them Cannon was coming to Oahu to visit his son, Richard Cannon (Hurshae Summons), a civilian with no connection to his fathers business. Reggie came in a day ahead of Cannon to set up a security detail but wanted to get away to see his wife and son. No one was supposed to know. Marsh informs them it's an FBI matter and the Bureau will be taking over the case. After Steve tells her a little boy will grow up without a mother because of a leak in her agency she warns him he can't go after Jimmy Cannon. He simply replies "watch me" and walks away.
Steve and Danny pay a visit to Reggie Cole at King's Medical Center. He assures Reggie is safe as they have HPD people with him protecting him. Reggie tells them there were two shooters but he didn't see their faces as it was dark. After he found Lisa, he fired, then they fired. He hit one of them and they drove off. Steve asks how many people knew he was going to be in the house and he tells them his supervising agent and the three agents on detail. Very few people in the FBI know he exists. Reggie is certain Jimmy Cannon had something to do with the hit and he wants him to pay for killing his wife and warns them that they don't know who they are dealing with and that Cannon will put walls up wherever they go. Steve says they'll go where the case takes them and guys like them will go right through those walls.
At the house, Kono takes photographs of bloody footprints on the floor. She has found evidence of two shooters confirming what Reggie told Steve and Danny at the hospital. Danny isn't impressed with that. She smiles and asks what if she told him she had a witness. That would blow his mind. She takes him outside and shows him a motion-sensing camera enclosed in a plastic box hanging high in a tree. There are two dozen of them around the preserve to stop illegal spearfishing. That one camera in particular is facing the crime scene. He starts to call the Parks Department to get someone there to open the camera enclosure but that isn't necessary. Kono grabs a rock and quickly climbs the tree, hammers the box open with the rock and retrieves the camera.
The HPD officer looking after Kevin brings him into Reggie's hospital room for a visit. Reggie tells his son how much he loves him. When Kevin asks if he's going to catch the men who hurt his mother, Reggie promises him that he will.
At Five-O headquarters, Kono shows Steve the video footage from the camera. It shows a Ford Explorer pulling into the house just before dawn with the lights off. Two men go into the house then come out two minutes later. The camera shows one of the men having been shot, just as Reggie said had happened, then the Explorer drives away. Steve has her rewind the tape. He wants the crime lab to go back to the scene to look for evidence where the Explorer sat and the man was shot and hospitals checked for reports of gunshot wounds. Kono is going to try cleaning up the faces in the grainy video. Steve asks her to run whatever she gets against all known members of Cannon's organization in the database. He asks about the bootprint at the crime scene. The tread is common and sold worldwide and they will need a suspect to match it to or it's worthless. Chin Ho arrives to tell them he spoke with the M.E. and the slugs retrieved from the victims were made of Tungsten steel--the same kind of bullets used in a handful of New York murders the feds believe, but can't prove, Jimmy Cannon ordered.
Steve and Danny go to the Cannon Compound in Kahala to see Jimmy Cannon. At the gate, they are told by Cannon's guards that he isn't seeing anyone today and to go get some lunch and one of the guards puts money in Steve's shirt pocket. Steve puts both hands on the wheel, which Danny knows means to buckle up, and drives the car through the gates. They walk in on Jimmy Cannon and his son during lunch. Jimmy tells his son to go inside but Steve says he should stay if he wants to find out who his father really is, a statement Richard finds offensive. Danny asks Jimmy if he thought he'd get away with killing Cole's wife and attempting to kill him, something Jimmy claims to know nothing about. Steve makes the situation a bit clearer to Jimmy but he again denies having anything to do with the crime. Steve shows him a photograph of Jimmy's signature bullet that was found at the crime scene but it doesn't bother him any. Steve gets up to leave but asks Jimmy and his son for their shoes.
Back at headquarters, Steve arrives with a bag containing the Cannon mens shoes and the shoes of his bodyguards. Kono has cleaned up the video a bit and has a better picture of one of the shooters. She contacted the FBI Organized Crime task force for mug shots of every known Cannon associate. The enhanced image matched none of them. Steve hopes Reggie can identify the man. He and Danny go to the hospital to see Reggie and find his police guard gagged and handcuffed to his bed and Reggie gone. The doctors lounge was broken into and some clothes are missing. A Jeep Cherokee is also missing from the parking lot. McGarrett orders an APB issued on Reggie and the stolen vehicle. Steve knows Reggie wants to protect his son and avenge his wife but the question is where he starts. Danny, knowing Reggie is a cop, suggests he'll start at the crime scene.
Steve, Chin Ho and Danny return to the Cole house and find the HPD officers there tied up in the living room. One of the officers tell them Reggie just left, took their car and something from the wall. Danny checks the wall and finds the stolen clothes and a bag. The bag is a crash kit, something heavy undercovers use to stash things away in case their cover is blown and they have to break out quick--cash, credit cards, clean ID's and clean weapons. Chin learns that HPD tried to activate the vehicle locator on the stolen squad car but it isn't working.
At Five-O headquarters, Kono asks Kevin for help. She wants to know if he saw any of the men she has photos of at the house. Once he knows Kono is a special police just like his father, he looks through the photographs and doesn't remember any of them. When she removes the picture from the video camera from an envelope, he becomes upset. He saw that man at the house.
Steve and Danny know they must find Reggie before he can exact any revenge on Jimmy Cannon or his men. Kono calls to let them know Kevin recognized the man from the video but couldn't I.D. any of the known Cannon associates. Danny rules out the possibility that the shooters are new hires as Cannon would be more careful than that. None of the shoes matched the prints from the crime scene. Chin Ho enters the conversation to tell them he thinks he knows how Reggie's cover was blown. Of the three agents assigned to Reggie's detail, only Newman and Stallworth were at the house. Agent Marsh was absent during the shooting due to a family emergency. Marsh was supposed to log in changes to Reggie's protection detail, something she didn't do.
Steve brings Marsh in for questioning and she maintains her daughter was sick. He asks how much Cannon was paying her because she needed the money. She tells him she lost her house because her ex-husband stopped paying alimony. When he tells her she needed money desperately, she demands to talk to his boss. He tells her he answers to God and the Governor, neither of which will help her out right now. She admits she lied. She wasn't at the safe house because she is in a bad custody battle and is worried her ex would take her daughter out of the country. She pulled some strings to have him detained by the local police because she felt it was the only way to keep him in the country so he couldn't take her daughter away. She didn't have anyone cover her because all she needed was a couple of hours and Agent Newman said he and Stallworth could handle things while she was gone. She tells him if she had known they were compromised she never would have left. Kono knocks on the door to tell Stevie HPD found the squad car Reggie stole.
In Pearl City, Danny and Steve go over the abandoned squad car. The vehicle locator was disabled and Reggie had been using the computer in the car twenty minutes earlier to run a 1996 white Ford Explorer. Seventy-one potential candidates were returned in the search along with license photos. Chin calls to say the lab came back with a match to the blood sample found from the man Reggie shot. It was a local man, Aidan Pouchai. Danny runs the name and finds an address. They go to the Waipahu address and find Aidan in his truck, dead. Steve's phone rings and it is Reggie. He tells Steve he didn't kill Aidan, that someone else got to him before he could question the man. Steve wants Reggie to come in so they can work to clear him but he refuses. Steve again asks Reggie to trust them and let them help him but he says whoever got his wife killed was someone he trusted so trust isn't his thing anymore. He tells them to stay out of his way and hangs up. Danny and Steve figure out Reggie is listening to police chatter on a portable radio he took from the squad car. Danny is preparing to call in and order radio silence when Steve suggests a better idea: give Reggie something to hear.
They call in an armed suspect in the case at Ala Moana Beach park. As Reggie is watching Steve and Danny lead HPD in the arrest from a distance, Kono and Chin Ho close in on him and order him to raise his hands and walk backwards. He complies and they take him into custody. Danny and Steve arrive and Kono shows Steve a .38 caliber handgun she found on Reggie. The M.E. pulled two .38 slugs out of Aiden. As Kono and Chin lead him away, Reggie protests loudly claiming he didn't kill Aiden. In the trunk of Reggie's car, Danny finds another gun and magazines loaded with Tungsten steel bullets. Reggie tells them he got the gun out of Aiden's car and took it for evidence. Again, he states he didn't kill anyone and tells them Cannon didn't either. Steve asks what he's talking about and Reggie tells him Jimmy Cannon didn't kill his wife.
At Five-O, he again tells them Jimmy Cannon didn't kill Lisa despite everything pointing to him. He knows that Jimmy wouldn't trust some local low-level for a major hit as he has too much access to major talent. Jimmy was set up and whoever did that killed Aiden. Chin enters the interrogation room to tell Steve the ballistics report came back and the .38 found on Reggie doesn't match the slugs found in Aiden. Reggie tells McGarrett that he thinks he knows how to find who is responsible for the murders. Reggie shows Steve and Chin Ho the Tungsten bullets he found in Aiden's car. He takes one apart to show it has a full load. He takes another apart and it has only a half load. A bullet rigged to only have half the force would be used not to kill someone but to not kill them and still give them an airtight alibi.
Steve accompanies Reggie and Agent Marsh to the hospital to see Agent Newman. Steve tells him they know he made the Tungsten bullets half load so they would wound but not kill. They pulled his prints off them and then found $500,000 in a Cayman Islands account. Marsh asks Newman who paid him to give away the location of the safe house. Reluctantly, Newman tells them he never met the person who paid him and only talked with them over the phone. He gives them the name of the second shooter: Nelson Lee (Zero Kazama).
Enroute to Nelson Lee, Steve tells Reggie they need to take Lee alive as he has to be able to I.D. who hired him to kill him and his family. They arrive at Lee's and find him outside. He runs when he sees them drive up. Reggie chases him through neighboring houses while Steve drives through the neighborhood to cut Lee off. Steve ends up getting to Lee first and knocks down an awning, catching Lee under it. Lee gets up and stands before Steve and Reggie, who is holding two guns on Lee. Steve, who also has his gun out, yells to Reggie to not shoot. When Steve sees Lee go for his own weapon, he gives the OK for Reggie to take a shot. Both men fire taking Lee down. Before Lee can die, Reggie questions him as to who sent him to kill him and his family. Lee tells him that Jimmy Cannon's son, Richard is the one who hired him.
Five-O and Reggie descend on the Cannon compound to arrest Richard. Jimmy tells Reggie he betrayed him and that he didn't kill his wife. Reggie admits he knows that, then turns his weapon toward Richard stating he did it. Steve begins reading Richard Cannon his rights while his father tells his son to admit he had nothing to do with the hit. Steve advises Richard to remain silent because the pre-meditated murder of a federal agent and a police officers wife in front of their minor child is special circumstances, meaning the death penalty under Federal law. HPD takes Richard away and Steve and Reggie tell Jimmy how Richard was protecting his inheritance. He thought his father would lose his businesses so he sent men to kill Reggie and his family and planted evidence to convict his own father before the case could be closed against him. He then started to kill the men he hired. Once his father was in prison for murder, Richard would take over the empire. Jimmy was betrayed by his own son. Reggie promises Jimmy that he will hunt him down like a dog.
Reggie and his son are going to Washington as he plans to keep his promise to Lisa. He accepted a desk job at FBI headquarters in the Organized Crime division. He'll help build a new case against Cannon and be able to come home at night to his son. Steve tells him if he decides he wants to raise his son out there to let him know. He can use a man with his skill set. Reggie tells him he's going to bring down Cannon first but he might come back and take him up on that offer. He thanks McGarret and the team then looks at clouds with his son. Kevin asks if he thinks his mother sees the same cloud they are looking at. Reggie tells him he knows she does.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
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Season One, Episode Twenty-One, Ho'opa'i (Close to Heart)
Original Air Date: April 18, 2011
The wife of an undercover policeman, Reggie Cole is murdered in her home along with an FBI agent. A powerful New York crime boss is the prime suspect for the killing. McGarrett and Five-O must find the killers and who was responsible for hiring the hit before Reggie can exact his own revenge for the death of his wife and to keep he and his son safe.
Lisa Cole (Selita Ebanks) and her young son, Kevin (Kewsi Boakye) are walking along the beach when a man holding a football, Reggie Cole (Sean Combs) comes into view. Kevin asks who he is and she tells him it's his father. Reggie gives his wife flowers and a kiss then tells his son he's gotten so big and gives him the football. Lisa notices two other men standing behind her husband and he tells her they are a precaution. Reggie speaks with his son again and Kevin tells him they saw a dolphin. Reggie tells him they might go swim with the dolphin later. Reggie embraces his family.
Later that night, he and his wife talk about the time he's spent undercover--almost two years. Lisa is upset their son didn't even recognize his father. Reggie tells her no one has ever been as close as he is to getting the guy he's been working undercover with. He wants his family back but needs a little more time to close the case then he promises he'll be home for good. Reggie takes a walk on the beach and sits down to think. As he's there, he hears a popping sound behind him--gunfire. He runs to the house and finds one of the agents protecting him dead. The second, Art Newman (Nicholas B. Gianforti) has been shot in the collarbone. Newman tells him there are two shooters and points out the direction they went. Reggie takes Newman's gun and moves through he house. He finds his wife dead on the floor. His son runs into the room and one of the shooters enters and begins shooting. Reggie returns fire and is hit. Reggie tells Kevin to go to his room and hide until his daddy comes to get him. Reggie pursues the men outside and to their vehicle where he manages to shoot one of them before the drive away and he crumples to the ground.
Steve McGarrett returns home from a morning swim to find Kamekona in the house. When he asks why he's there, Kamekona tells him it's too cook him breakfast. Steve and Kamekona had bet on a basketball game and Steve won so Kamekona, being one who never welches on a bet, must serve as Steve's personal chef the entire week. The first meal he cooked: SPAM, potato frittatas and SPAM fried rice. Everything he's going to cook for Steve that week will have SPAM in it as it's the Hawaiian steak, the nectar of the islands. Steve notices an envelope on the floor at the front door. It wasn't there when Kamekona arrived and he thinks someone must have slipped it under the door while he was in the kitchen. Inside the envelope are the photographs of Steve's mother's burned-out car that were stolen from his father's toolbox. Steve receives a call about the Cole incident and gives the orders to not approach the house as Five-O are on the way.
Five-O and the HPD arrive in full force at the Cole home and find Reggie on the ground. He awakens and grabs Steve's arm repeating his son's name again and again. Steve asks who Kevin is and Reggie tells him it's his son. Steve assures him they'll find Kevin then motions for Chin to enter the house as one of the officers stays with Reggie. Chin Ho and Kono enter the house and find Agent Newman while Danny and Steve go in and find the slain agent and Lisa. Steve and Danny enter Kevin's room and find him huddling in his closet, crying. Steve introduces himself to Kevin and promises him no one will hurt him and carries him from the house. Outside, he puts him down and promises he'll get him some answers about his mom and dad but he needs him to go with another officer who will take good care of him but that he will be back for him.
Chin Ho shows McGarrett the FBI credentials of the wounded agent Newman and the credentials of the slain agent, Martin Stallworth. Both agents are based out of the New York Organized Crime Unit. They have Reggie's name but the only identification he had on him was a New York driver's license. A dark vehicle arrives and a women gets out and walks to McGarrett. She introduces herself as Agent Allison Marsh (Cara Buono). She asks about Reggie and Steve informs her he survived along with his young son. Danny asks if she knows who the shooters might be and she tells them Reggie has been working undercover for the FBI in Jimmy Cannon's (Keith David) New York crime family. She tells them the FBI has no idea how things happened but that Cannon must have somehow found out about Reggie's ID and sent his men to wipe him and his family out. McGarrett isn't familiar with Cannon but Danny knows of him from his days in Jersey. Marsh tells them Cannon was coming to Oahu to visit his son, Richard Cannon (Hurshae Summons), a civilian with no connection to his fathers business. Reggie came in a day ahead of Cannon to set up a security detail but wanted to get away to see his wife and son. No one was supposed to know. Marsh informs them it's an FBI matter and the Bureau will be taking over the case. After Steve tells her a little boy will grow up without a mother because of a leak in her agency she warns him he can't go after Jimmy Cannon. He simply replies "watch me" and walks away.
Steve and Danny pay a visit to Reggie Cole at King's Medical Center. He assures Reggie is safe as they have HPD people with him protecting him. Reggie tells them there were two shooters but he didn't see their faces as it was dark. After he found Lisa, he fired, then they fired. He hit one of them and they drove off. Steve asks how many people knew he was going to be in the house and he tells them his supervising agent and the three agents on detail. Very few people in the FBI know he exists. Reggie is certain Jimmy Cannon had something to do with the hit and he wants him to pay for killing his wife and warns them that they don't know who they are dealing with and that Cannon will put walls up wherever they go. Steve says they'll go where the case takes them and guys like them will go right through those walls.
At the house, Kono takes photographs of bloody footprints on the floor. She has found evidence of two shooters confirming what Reggie told Steve and Danny at the hospital. Danny isn't impressed with that. She smiles and asks what if she told him she had a witness. That would blow his mind. She takes him outside and shows him a motion-sensing camera enclosed in a plastic box hanging high in a tree. There are two dozen of them around the preserve to stop illegal spearfishing. That one camera in particular is facing the crime scene. He starts to call the Parks Department to get someone there to open the camera enclosure but that isn't necessary. Kono grabs a rock and quickly climbs the tree, hammers the box open with the rock and retrieves the camera.
The HPD officer looking after Kevin brings him into Reggie's hospital room for a visit. Reggie tells his son how much he loves him. When Kevin asks if he's going to catch the men who hurt his mother, Reggie promises him that he will.
At Five-O headquarters, Kono shows Steve the video footage from the camera. It shows a Ford Explorer pulling into the house just before dawn with the lights off. Two men go into the house then come out two minutes later. The camera shows one of the men having been shot, just as Reggie said had happened, then the Explorer drives away. Steve has her rewind the tape. He wants the crime lab to go back to the scene to look for evidence where the Explorer sat and the man was shot and hospitals checked for reports of gunshot wounds. Kono is going to try cleaning up the faces in the grainy video. Steve asks her to run whatever she gets against all known members of Cannon's organization in the database. He asks about the bootprint at the crime scene. The tread is common and sold worldwide and they will need a suspect to match it to or it's worthless. Chin Ho arrives to tell them he spoke with the M.E. and the slugs retrieved from the victims were made of Tungsten steel--the same kind of bullets used in a handful of New York murders the feds believe, but can't prove, Jimmy Cannon ordered.
Steve and Danny go to the Cannon Compound in Kahala to see Jimmy Cannon. At the gate, they are told by Cannon's guards that he isn't seeing anyone today and to go get some lunch and one of the guards puts money in Steve's shirt pocket. Steve puts both hands on the wheel, which Danny knows means to buckle up, and drives the car through the gates. They walk in on Jimmy Cannon and his son during lunch. Jimmy tells his son to go inside but Steve says he should stay if he wants to find out who his father really is, a statement Richard finds offensive. Danny asks Jimmy if he thought he'd get away with killing Cole's wife and attempting to kill him, something Jimmy claims to know nothing about. Steve makes the situation a bit clearer to Jimmy but he again denies having anything to do with the crime. Steve shows him a photograph of Jimmy's signature bullet that was found at the crime scene but it doesn't bother him any. Steve gets up to leave but asks Jimmy and his son for their shoes.
Back at headquarters, Steve arrives with a bag containing the Cannon mens shoes and the shoes of his bodyguards. Kono has cleaned up the video a bit and has a better picture of one of the shooters. She contacted the FBI Organized Crime task force for mug shots of every known Cannon associate. The enhanced image matched none of them. Steve hopes Reggie can identify the man. He and Danny go to the hospital to see Reggie and find his police guard gagged and handcuffed to his bed and Reggie gone. The doctors lounge was broken into and some clothes are missing. A Jeep Cherokee is also missing from the parking lot. McGarrett orders an APB issued on Reggie and the stolen vehicle. Steve knows Reggie wants to protect his son and avenge his wife but the question is where he starts. Danny, knowing Reggie is a cop, suggests he'll start at the crime scene.
Steve, Chin Ho and Danny return to the Cole house and find the HPD officers there tied up in the living room. One of the officers tell them Reggie just left, took their car and something from the wall. Danny checks the wall and finds the stolen clothes and a bag. The bag is a crash kit, something heavy undercovers use to stash things away in case their cover is blown and they have to break out quick--cash, credit cards, clean ID's and clean weapons. Chin learns that HPD tried to activate the vehicle locator on the stolen squad car but it isn't working.
At Five-O headquarters, Kono asks Kevin for help. She wants to know if he saw any of the men she has photos of at the house. Once he knows Kono is a special police just like his father, he looks through the photographs and doesn't remember any of them. When she removes the picture from the video camera from an envelope, he becomes upset. He saw that man at the house.
Steve and Danny know they must find Reggie before he can exact any revenge on Jimmy Cannon or his men. Kono calls to let them know Kevin recognized the man from the video but couldn't I.D. any of the known Cannon associates. Danny rules out the possibility that the shooters are new hires as Cannon would be more careful than that. None of the shoes matched the prints from the crime scene. Chin Ho enters the conversation to tell them he thinks he knows how Reggie's cover was blown. Of the three agents assigned to Reggie's detail, only Newman and Stallworth were at the house. Agent Marsh was absent during the shooting due to a family emergency. Marsh was supposed to log in changes to Reggie's protection detail, something she didn't do.
Steve brings Marsh in for questioning and she maintains her daughter was sick. He asks how much Cannon was paying her because she needed the money. She tells him she lost her house because her ex-husband stopped paying alimony. When he tells her she needed money desperately, she demands to talk to his boss. He tells her he answers to God and the Governor, neither of which will help her out right now. She admits she lied. She wasn't at the safe house because she is in a bad custody battle and is worried her ex would take her daughter out of the country. She pulled some strings to have him detained by the local police because she felt it was the only way to keep him in the country so he couldn't take her daughter away. She didn't have anyone cover her because all she needed was a couple of hours and Agent Newman said he and Stallworth could handle things while she was gone. She tells him if she had known they were compromised she never would have left. Kono knocks on the door to tell Stevie HPD found the squad car Reggie stole.
In Pearl City, Danny and Steve go over the abandoned squad car. The vehicle locator was disabled and Reggie had been using the computer in the car twenty minutes earlier to run a 1996 white Ford Explorer. Seventy-one potential candidates were returned in the search along with license photos. Chin calls to say the lab came back with a match to the blood sample found from the man Reggie shot. It was a local man, Aidan Pouchai. Danny runs the name and finds an address. They go to the Waipahu address and find Aidan in his truck, dead. Steve's phone rings and it is Reggie. He tells Steve he didn't kill Aidan, that someone else got to him before he could question the man. Steve wants Reggie to come in so they can work to clear him but he refuses. Steve again asks Reggie to trust them and let them help him but he says whoever got his wife killed was someone he trusted so trust isn't his thing anymore. He tells them to stay out of his way and hangs up. Danny and Steve figure out Reggie is listening to police chatter on a portable radio he took from the squad car. Danny is preparing to call in and order radio silence when Steve suggests a better idea: give Reggie something to hear.
They call in an armed suspect in the case at Ala Moana Beach park. As Reggie is watching Steve and Danny lead HPD in the arrest from a distance, Kono and Chin Ho close in on him and order him to raise his hands and walk backwards. He complies and they take him into custody. Danny and Steve arrive and Kono shows Steve a .38 caliber handgun she found on Reggie. The M.E. pulled two .38 slugs out of Aiden. As Kono and Chin lead him away, Reggie protests loudly claiming he didn't kill Aiden. In the trunk of Reggie's car, Danny finds another gun and magazines loaded with Tungsten steel bullets. Reggie tells them he got the gun out of Aiden's car and took it for evidence. Again, he states he didn't kill anyone and tells them Cannon didn't either. Steve asks what he's talking about and Reggie tells him Jimmy Cannon didn't kill his wife.
At Five-O, he again tells them Jimmy Cannon didn't kill Lisa despite everything pointing to him. He knows that Jimmy wouldn't trust some local low-level for a major hit as he has too much access to major talent. Jimmy was set up and whoever did that killed Aiden. Chin enters the interrogation room to tell Steve the ballistics report came back and the .38 found on Reggie doesn't match the slugs found in Aiden. Reggie tells McGarrett that he thinks he knows how to find who is responsible for the murders. Reggie shows Steve and Chin Ho the Tungsten bullets he found in Aiden's car. He takes one apart to show it has a full load. He takes another apart and it has only a half load. A bullet rigged to only have half the force would be used not to kill someone but to not kill them and still give them an airtight alibi.
Steve accompanies Reggie and Agent Marsh to the hospital to see Agent Newman. Steve tells him they know he made the Tungsten bullets half load so they would wound but not kill. They pulled his prints off them and then found $500,000 in a Cayman Islands account. Marsh asks Newman who paid him to give away the location of the safe house. Reluctantly, Newman tells them he never met the person who paid him and only talked with them over the phone. He gives them the name of the second shooter: Nelson Lee (Zero Kazama).
Enroute to Nelson Lee, Steve tells Reggie they need to take Lee alive as he has to be able to I.D. who hired him to kill him and his family. They arrive at Lee's and find him outside. He runs when he sees them drive up. Reggie chases him through neighboring houses while Steve drives through the neighborhood to cut Lee off. Steve ends up getting to Lee first and knocks down an awning, catching Lee under it. Lee gets up and stands before Steve and Reggie, who is holding two guns on Lee. Steve, who also has his gun out, yells to Reggie to not shoot. When Steve sees Lee go for his own weapon, he gives the OK for Reggie to take a shot. Both men fire taking Lee down. Before Lee can die, Reggie questions him as to who sent him to kill him and his family. Lee tells him that Jimmy Cannon's son, Richard is the one who hired him.
Five-O and Reggie descend on the Cannon compound to arrest Richard. Jimmy tells Reggie he betrayed him and that he didn't kill his wife. Reggie admits he knows that, then turns his weapon toward Richard stating he did it. Steve begins reading Richard Cannon his rights while his father tells his son to admit he had nothing to do with the hit. Steve advises Richard to remain silent because the pre-meditated murder of a federal agent and a police officers wife in front of their minor child is special circumstances, meaning the death penalty under Federal law. HPD takes Richard away and Steve and Reggie tell Jimmy how Richard was protecting his inheritance. He thought his father would lose his businesses so he sent men to kill Reggie and his family and planted evidence to convict his own father before the case could be closed against him. He then started to kill the men he hired. Once his father was in prison for murder, Richard would take over the empire. Jimmy was betrayed by his own son. Reggie promises Jimmy that he will hunt him down like a dog.
Reggie and his son are going to Washington as he plans to keep his promise to Lisa. He accepted a desk job at FBI headquarters in the Organized Crime division. He'll help build a new case against Cannon and be able to come home at night to his son. Steve tells him if he decides he wants to raise his son out there to let him know. He can use a man with his skill set. Reggie tells him he's going to bring down Cannon first but he might come back and take him up on that offer. He thanks McGarret and the team then looks at clouds with his son. Kevin asks if he thinks his mother sees the same cloud they are looking at. Reggie tells him he knows she does.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
For more information:
Hawaii Five-O Official Site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Hawaii_Five-O
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
US Television: Hawaii Five-O, Episode 1.20 "Ma Ke Kahakai (Shore)"
Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty, Ma Ke Kahakai (Shore)
Original Air Date: April 11, 2011
McGarrett and Danny go hiking in the mountains but get more than they bargain for when they find a dead boy. The investigation takes Five-O into a possible connection to drug running via fishing boats. Things become complicated when the evidence leads them to a runaway suspect in the murder of a college girl. Meanwhile, Kono and Chin Ho must deal with the impending death of their Auntie Mele. For Chin, the situation is even more tense because of his past troubles with the police department.
Danny and McGarrett are hiking in the Ko'Olau Mountain Range in O'ahu, a place McGarrett's father brought him every year as a child. They're there to see the petroglyphs which Danny says is a fancy name for graffiti etched in rocks. McGarrett gets Danny to stop talking for a bit so they can enjoy the breathtaking view around them. He tells Danny he found another envelope on his doorstep yesterday morning containing an old matchbook that used to be in his father's toolbox. Danny asks if he thinks Wo Fat sent it but McGarrett isn't sure. Steve insists he's going to find out what the final case his father was working on was. Danny doesn't think that explains why someone keeps sending the case evidence back to McGarrett. Steve thinks someone might be trying to lead him back to Wo Fat. Or, as Danny suggests, Wo Fat is trying to lure Steve McGarrett. They continue walking until they reach the petroglyphs and McGarrett explains them to Danny. McGarrett becomes interested in something over Danny's shoulder and goes to the edge of the rocks. Someone is at the bottom. Steve takes off his pack and calls to the person. When there is no answer, he takes a rope from his pack and repels down to find the man is dead.
Upon closer examination, McGarrett finds the man has a gunshot wound with very little blood. Danny looks around and finds no action or sign of struggle and suggests someone dumped him which McGarrett thinks was from a plane or helicopter. Steve moves out of the way so Danny can take a picture of the man then tells Steve to come back up so they can call the crime scene unit. Steve needs Danny to take up the slack in the rope as he climbs up. As Steve is making his way back up to Danny, a large rock breaks free and hits him in the face knocking him to the rocks below with the dead man. Danny calls to his friend who is on his stomach looking over the rock cliffs. Danny tells him not to move but Steve insists he's good and manages to sit up, although he thinks his arm is broken. He asks Danny to send the rope down but it is snagged on a branch. There isn't any cell service where they are and Steve tells Danny he has to reach the summit before he can call a Medivac team. Before leaving, Danny throws Steve's pack down and tells him not to move. Steve gives his friend one last warning to be careful as the mountain is really steep.
When Danny leaves, Steve takes a knife from his pack and cuts his shirt sleeve back to get a better look at his arm which is indeed broken. He grabs a nearby stick and breaks it off then tapes it to his arm for a splint. Danny runs up the mountain a way then stops to check for service, which he doesn't have then continues on up. Steve takes his cell phone from his pack and turns the recorder on and begins making notes about the dead man in front of him. He has a small caliber gunshot, through and through. He sees something unusual around the exit wound and, upon further investigation, finds they are fish scales.
At Five-O Headquarters, Kono is talking on the phone, visibly upset. After she hangs up, she goes to Chin Ho's office to tell him their Auntie Mele (Elizabeth Sung) is in hospice as her kidney's are shutting down. Chin Ho doesn't know if it's a good idea for him to go by and she tells him if he's worried about what their Uncle Keako (Sab Shimono) will think, don't. He called and made her promise to bring Chin Ho by the house that night. A call from Danny comes in and Chin Ho answers. Danny tells them about Steve's injury. Chin Ho triangulates their coordinates off the cell phone signal and tells Danny he will contact Army EVAC. Kono gets their location and Danny adds they need a crime scene unit as soon as possible as well because they found a body. He sends her the picture he took of the body and she tells him she'll run the picture through the system for a possible I.D. Chin Ho returns to tell Danny the EVAC chopper is on its way and Danny tells them he's heading back.
Steve looks upward as the sound of thunder erupts. When Danny returns he tells Steve Army EVAC is on its way. Steve is worried that if it starts raining the mountain will turn into a big mudslide. Danny is going to go down and untangle the rope and bring it to Steve. Slowly, he makes his way down and manages to get the rope untangled. Steve grabs hold of the rope and secures it to his climbing gear. Using his one good arm to help him, he climbs the rocks as Danny pulls on the rope from above. As Steve makes it to the top with Danny, the Army EVAC chopper, with Chin Ho on board, comes into view. A man comes down and prepares McGarrett to go back to the chopper then the two go up as Steve thanks Danny. Danny returns the thanks by pointing to himself, drawing a heart in the air then pointing to Steve.
Chin Ho and Danny return to Five-O headquarters where Chin Ho tells Kono Steve shattered his forearm and got some nasty gashes from the fall. Kono has gotten an I.D. on the body, Jack Leung (Joji Yoshida), who was 53-year-old and worked a fishing boat with his son, Sean (James Kyson Lee). Danny has an evidence bag of fish scales that were found around the gunshot wound and says the fishing boat would explain those. Chin Ho speculates since they were found around the wound they might have been transferred pre-body dump. Danny theorizes if they could identify the scales they might get close to their primary crime scene. Chin Ho as a friend who is an ichthyologist at the University and might be able to help. Jack Leung was a law-abiding citizen until three days prior when he was arrested on charges of assaulting another fishboat captain, Sal Groves (Evan Jones) at the docks. Sal Groves is also a licensed helicopter pilot.
Danny, Chin Ho and Kono go to Pier 36 in Honolulu Harbor. Danny asks Kono to speak with Leung's son, Sean, while he and Chin Ho speak with Groves. When Kono finds Sean Leung, he is teaching a young boy how to tie a knot. Kono identifies herself as and officer and Sean sends the boy elsewhere to work on the knot. She tells him his father was found that morning. He tells her the last time he saw his father was yesterday when the older Leung took the boat out for a short run and got in some nice fish Sean was able to take to market. When she asks if he saw anything unusual he mentions finding his laptop on. His father rarely used cell phones or computers. She asks about Jack's altercation with Groves and Sean admits his father wouldn't say anything to him as he didn't want his son to get involved as he said he was taking care of it.
Danny and Chin Ho find Sal Groves on his boat. When Chin Ho raises his badge and identifies them as Five-O and orders him to cut his engines he revs them up to make a run for it. Danny and Chin Ho take off running and jump onto the boat as it comes near the docks. They draw their weapons and order Groves to put his hands up, which he does. Danny tells Groves to sit with him while Chin Ho searches the boat to which Groves says he can't search without a warrant. Chin Ho enters the boat with Groves yelling to him. Danny shows Groves a picture of Jack Leung and tells him they found him dead that morning. Groves tells Danny Leung attacked him. Chin Ho remarks he's got something and returns carrying a gun and a large bag containing crystal meth, both of which Groves maintains do not belong to him. Chin Ho tells him if he talks with them and cooperates, they might be able to take down the big fish in the drug bust before they can find him (Groves) and kill him. Reluctantly, Groves agrees. He tells them Leung wouldn't go along with the drug business that was going on. The fishing boats pick up drugs from container ships. The men they were dealing with didn't like that Leung wouldn't cooperate and told Groves he had to get Leung in or they would take the business elsewhere. While he admits he might have hit him a couple of times with a baseball bat, he insists he didn't kill Leung. Chin Ho states that Leung found out about the drugs and threatened to call police. Groves says "no, he just didn't want his kid involved". Chin Ho tells him they will run the gun to see if it matches the one that killed Leung, then takes Groves in.
At headquarters, Danny is uncertain if Groves is the killer or not as his GPS put him 50 miles out to see at the time and the bank owns the helicopter Groves used to have. From Leung's computer, Kono was able to find browsing history on the Jordan Rutherford case. Two months prior, Jordan Rutherford was accused of strangling Vicki Hailama during spring break but disappeared the day he became a suspect. She brings up a news story regarding the Hailama family press conference. Chin Ho arrives with an identification on the fish scales: etelis carbunculus or uhu as the locals know it. The fish are rare and only one load of them were sold that day and they came from Leung's boat. Danny says Leung was killed on his own boat while Groves was off catching tuna. Chin was able to track the fish to a new restaurant. He was thinking the killer may have left some evidence on the fish. Kono's phone rings. When she finishes the conversation, she goes back to Chin to tell him Auntie Mele will not make it through the night. Danny tells them to go as Steve is on his way back and they will go see about the fish.
In Kaneohe Bay in Windward, Oahu, Kono and Chin arrive at the home of their aunt and uncle. Everyone stops talking and looks at Chin when he walks through the door. Their uncle comes downstairs and looks at Chin then embraces Kono. He turns to Chin and extends his hand and the two men shake hands. He tells them Auntie Mele is in the bedroom and heavily sedated but she will be happy to see them. They go in to see her and when Chin sits down on her beside, she looks to him and tells him she's so glad he came. She asks Chin to promise her he will look after Uncle when she's gone, which he does. Uncle comes in and tells Chin he needs to talk to him. Chin tells his aunt he will be back, kisses her cheek then leaves with his uncle. When the men have gone, Mele tells Kono is it up to her to make the thing between Uncle and Chin Ho right. Kono looks up to see the men talking across the hall and tells her aunt Chin won't talk to her about it. Mele tells her everything was fine between them until she got sick and then Chin was dismissed from the force. Kono asks if she thinks those two things are related and her aunt admits she's afraid to ask. Kono can hear the men talking in the other room and looks up again.
Kamekona picks Steve up from King's Medical Center but had to stop to pick up ice first as there was a "big sale" on it.
As Kono and Chin are driving back from seeing their aunt, she tells him their aunt knows the thing between he and Uncle has something to do with him being kicked off the force and that she heard them arguing about money. He tells her she heard wrong. She thinks it was Uncle who took the money from the locker and Chin Ho took the fall but she hasn't figured out why yet. He tells her to drop it and she pulls the car over. He implores him not to lie to her now and asks if she's right or not. After a moment, he tells her that Auntie got sick and needed a kidney but it is hard to get on the transplant list there in the islands. Kono mentions she did get a kidney, though. He tells her she didn't get it how Uncle said she did. Uncle knew people in China who were able to get Auntie a kidney on the black market but no one in the family had that kind of money. Chin didn't know Uncle was going to take the money but he did what he had to do. She asks why he took the fall. He questions what he was supposed to do; watch Uncle go to jail. Crying, she tells him he's a cop and is supposed to tell the truth. He says sometimes things aren't so simple. He promised Uncle that Auntie would be shielded from everything and he kept his promise. Kono tells him when Auntie passes he will tell the truth and asks if that is what Uncle wants. He admits it is but wonders what good it will do. He's finally found a home with Five-O and whatever happened, happened.
At Morimoto's restaurant, Steve and Danny arrive to speak with Chef Morimoto (Masaharu Morimoto), who is singing karaoke. They introduce themselves and ask to see the fish they purchased that morning. Morimoto takes them to the kitchen and opens the container of fish. Steve volunteers Danny to look through them as he can't get his cast wet. Danny puts on a pair of gloves as Steve tells him to be thorough and check every fish in the box. Danny takes the fish out of the box one by one and eventually comes to one with a bullet hole in it. Steve digs the bullet out of the fish so Danny can get it to the lab.
McGarrett arrives back at headquarters and tells her he and Danny recovered a fired round from a .38, the same caliber as Groves gun, and ballistics is running it through as they speak. She shows him evidence the lab found traces of jet fuel on Leung's shoes, clothing and skin. The skin absorption rate indicates he came into contact with it hours before his death. It is a new bio fuel and only one airstrip on the island uses it. The lab traced it back High Blue Jet Charters. Their web site says they "fly everywhere" including, as Steve points out, remote locations where you can dump a body.
At High Blue Jet Charters in Waialua, North Shore, Danny and Steve show the owner a picture of Leung. He recognizes him and says he worked there on the graveyard shift doing refueling and maintenance. He said he wanted to earn extra money and was always talking about his son and their fishing boat. He worked last night. Steve asks if anything out of the ordinary happened last night and he said Leung wanted to use the computer in the office regarding a flight manifest. He says the ground crew sometimes gets interested in the people using the planes but they didn't have any VIP's come through last night. When they look in Leung's locker, Danny finds a flight manifest. The manifest is for a jet owned by the Lotus Leaf Holding Company doing a one-way charter to Hong Kong for one passenger of which there is no name.
At headquarters, Chin finds information on Lotus Leaf Holding Company. It is several companies folded into one. It looks like an import outfit with real estate holdings as well. The primary on the corporation papers is Donald Rutherford (Wayne Duvall), the father of Jordan Rutherford. Kono arrives with the ballistics report on the .38 from the fish. It wasn't from Groves' gun. It came from a gun sold at Ace Gun & Rifle, the owner is an ex-cop who registers the ballistics profile of every gun he sells. The buyer was Donald Rutherford. Steve tells them about the manifest he and Danny found and that he believes it was Jordan Rutherford on the plane. Donald Rutherford followed Leung back to his boat and killed him to keep his son's secret safe.
Steve and Danny arrive at the Rutherford House on Diamond Head. They ring the bell and Steve informs Rutherford they are from Five-O and would like a word. He tells them he'll be right down but after they wait for a few seconds, Danny asks if Steve thinks he's running. He does and kicks the front door in. They enter the house, guns drawn and Steve calls out to Rutherford. Their search doesn't turn him up but doors and windows are locked and shut so he must still be in the house. Steve goes to the truck and gets a heat-sensing device and they search the house again. They find he is in an underground room beneath the basement. Danny opens the door while Steve stands, gun-ready for whatever they find. They see stairs and Steve walks down them into an underground room where Donald Rutherford is waiting with his gun raised. Steve orders him to put the gun down and turns the lights on. Rutherford refuses to comply and tells them they have no idea how hard it is to see their sons name dragged through the papers and have him hunted. Steve puts his gun away and he and Danny tell Rutherford about Leung and how he took on a second job to take care of his son. Rutherford admits that after weeks of hiding his son and trying to get him out he wasn't going to let Leung mess things up. They tell him what his son did, which Rutherford thinks of as only a stupid mistake, and he tells them his son is safe now. As Danny reaches for a picture of Jordan, Donald Rutherford focuses his attention solely on Danny giving Steve the chance to move in and overpower him.
Kono tells Sean Leung and his family that his father was working at the airstrip to help pay for the boat. She explains why his father died and tells him that because of what Jack Leung did, Jordan Rutherford was picked up by Hong Kong police and is being extradited to stand trial for murder. He thanks her for the work she did. Before she leaves, his son gives her the knot he was learning to tie from his father, the same knot Sean's father taught him. She tells the boy his grandfather was a hero and he should always remember that. Kono gets in the car with Chin and the two watch the Leung's boat go out to where Leung's ashes will be spread.
Danny and McGarrett are waiting for the plane bringing Jordan Rutherford from Hong Kong. He's taken into custody as Vicki Hailama's parents look on. At the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Five-O and Kamekona are having a celebratory dinner. After Sandrine (Renee Nobriga) asks if she can sign Steve's cast, Danny and Steve are both telling her how Steve was injured (Danny saved Steve's life which is or isn't basically not true according to which story you believe). Kamekona, wanting some of the pretty waitress's attention, improvises a cast of his own from a tablecloth. As the group watches the fireworks, Chin Ho receives a call and gets up from the table. Kono gets up to go to him and he tells her Auntie passed.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
For more information:
Hawaii Five-O Official Site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Hawaii_Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty, Ma Ke Kahakai (Shore)
Original Air Date: April 11, 2011
McGarrett and Danny go hiking in the mountains but get more than they bargain for when they find a dead boy. The investigation takes Five-O into a possible connection to drug running via fishing boats. Things become complicated when the evidence leads them to a runaway suspect in the murder of a college girl. Meanwhile, Kono and Chin Ho must deal with the impending death of their Auntie Mele. For Chin, the situation is even more tense because of his past troubles with the police department.
Danny and McGarrett are hiking in the Ko'Olau Mountain Range in O'ahu, a place McGarrett's father brought him every year as a child. They're there to see the petroglyphs which Danny says is a fancy name for graffiti etched in rocks. McGarrett gets Danny to stop talking for a bit so they can enjoy the breathtaking view around them. He tells Danny he found another envelope on his doorstep yesterday morning containing an old matchbook that used to be in his father's toolbox. Danny asks if he thinks Wo Fat sent it but McGarrett isn't sure. Steve insists he's going to find out what the final case his father was working on was. Danny doesn't think that explains why someone keeps sending the case evidence back to McGarrett. Steve thinks someone might be trying to lead him back to Wo Fat. Or, as Danny suggests, Wo Fat is trying to lure Steve McGarrett. They continue walking until they reach the petroglyphs and McGarrett explains them to Danny. McGarrett becomes interested in something over Danny's shoulder and goes to the edge of the rocks. Someone is at the bottom. Steve takes off his pack and calls to the person. When there is no answer, he takes a rope from his pack and repels down to find the man is dead.
Upon closer examination, McGarrett finds the man has a gunshot wound with very little blood. Danny looks around and finds no action or sign of struggle and suggests someone dumped him which McGarrett thinks was from a plane or helicopter. Steve moves out of the way so Danny can take a picture of the man then tells Steve to come back up so they can call the crime scene unit. Steve needs Danny to take up the slack in the rope as he climbs up. As Steve is making his way back up to Danny, a large rock breaks free and hits him in the face knocking him to the rocks below with the dead man. Danny calls to his friend who is on his stomach looking over the rock cliffs. Danny tells him not to move but Steve insists he's good and manages to sit up, although he thinks his arm is broken. He asks Danny to send the rope down but it is snagged on a branch. There isn't any cell service where they are and Steve tells Danny he has to reach the summit before he can call a Medivac team. Before leaving, Danny throws Steve's pack down and tells him not to move. Steve gives his friend one last warning to be careful as the mountain is really steep.
When Danny leaves, Steve takes a knife from his pack and cuts his shirt sleeve back to get a better look at his arm which is indeed broken. He grabs a nearby stick and breaks it off then tapes it to his arm for a splint. Danny runs up the mountain a way then stops to check for service, which he doesn't have then continues on up. Steve takes his cell phone from his pack and turns the recorder on and begins making notes about the dead man in front of him. He has a small caliber gunshot, through and through. He sees something unusual around the exit wound and, upon further investigation, finds they are fish scales.
At Five-O Headquarters, Kono is talking on the phone, visibly upset. After she hangs up, she goes to Chin Ho's office to tell him their Auntie Mele (Elizabeth Sung) is in hospice as her kidney's are shutting down. Chin Ho doesn't know if it's a good idea for him to go by and she tells him if he's worried about what their Uncle Keako (Sab Shimono) will think, don't. He called and made her promise to bring Chin Ho by the house that night. A call from Danny comes in and Chin Ho answers. Danny tells them about Steve's injury. Chin Ho triangulates their coordinates off the cell phone signal and tells Danny he will contact Army EVAC. Kono gets their location and Danny adds they need a crime scene unit as soon as possible as well because they found a body. He sends her the picture he took of the body and she tells him she'll run the picture through the system for a possible I.D. Chin Ho returns to tell Danny the EVAC chopper is on its way and Danny tells them he's heading back.
Steve looks upward as the sound of thunder erupts. When Danny returns he tells Steve Army EVAC is on its way. Steve is worried that if it starts raining the mountain will turn into a big mudslide. Danny is going to go down and untangle the rope and bring it to Steve. Slowly, he makes his way down and manages to get the rope untangled. Steve grabs hold of the rope and secures it to his climbing gear. Using his one good arm to help him, he climbs the rocks as Danny pulls on the rope from above. As Steve makes it to the top with Danny, the Army EVAC chopper, with Chin Ho on board, comes into view. A man comes down and prepares McGarrett to go back to the chopper then the two go up as Steve thanks Danny. Danny returns the thanks by pointing to himself, drawing a heart in the air then pointing to Steve.
Chin Ho and Danny return to Five-O headquarters where Chin Ho tells Kono Steve shattered his forearm and got some nasty gashes from the fall. Kono has gotten an I.D. on the body, Jack Leung (Joji Yoshida), who was 53-year-old and worked a fishing boat with his son, Sean (James Kyson Lee). Danny has an evidence bag of fish scales that were found around the gunshot wound and says the fishing boat would explain those. Chin Ho speculates since they were found around the wound they might have been transferred pre-body dump. Danny theorizes if they could identify the scales they might get close to their primary crime scene. Chin Ho as a friend who is an ichthyologist at the University and might be able to help. Jack Leung was a law-abiding citizen until three days prior when he was arrested on charges of assaulting another fishboat captain, Sal Groves (Evan Jones) at the docks. Sal Groves is also a licensed helicopter pilot.
Danny, Chin Ho and Kono go to Pier 36 in Honolulu Harbor. Danny asks Kono to speak with Leung's son, Sean, while he and Chin Ho speak with Groves. When Kono finds Sean Leung, he is teaching a young boy how to tie a knot. Kono identifies herself as and officer and Sean sends the boy elsewhere to work on the knot. She tells him his father was found that morning. He tells her the last time he saw his father was yesterday when the older Leung took the boat out for a short run and got in some nice fish Sean was able to take to market. When she asks if he saw anything unusual he mentions finding his laptop on. His father rarely used cell phones or computers. She asks about Jack's altercation with Groves and Sean admits his father wouldn't say anything to him as he didn't want his son to get involved as he said he was taking care of it.
Danny and Chin Ho find Sal Groves on his boat. When Chin Ho raises his badge and identifies them as Five-O and orders him to cut his engines he revs them up to make a run for it. Danny and Chin Ho take off running and jump onto the boat as it comes near the docks. They draw their weapons and order Groves to put his hands up, which he does. Danny tells Groves to sit with him while Chin Ho searches the boat to which Groves says he can't search without a warrant. Chin Ho enters the boat with Groves yelling to him. Danny shows Groves a picture of Jack Leung and tells him they found him dead that morning. Groves tells Danny Leung attacked him. Chin Ho remarks he's got something and returns carrying a gun and a large bag containing crystal meth, both of which Groves maintains do not belong to him. Chin Ho tells him if he talks with them and cooperates, they might be able to take down the big fish in the drug bust before they can find him (Groves) and kill him. Reluctantly, Groves agrees. He tells them Leung wouldn't go along with the drug business that was going on. The fishing boats pick up drugs from container ships. The men they were dealing with didn't like that Leung wouldn't cooperate and told Groves he had to get Leung in or they would take the business elsewhere. While he admits he might have hit him a couple of times with a baseball bat, he insists he didn't kill Leung. Chin Ho states that Leung found out about the drugs and threatened to call police. Groves says "no, he just didn't want his kid involved". Chin Ho tells him they will run the gun to see if it matches the one that killed Leung, then takes Groves in.
At headquarters, Danny is uncertain if Groves is the killer or not as his GPS put him 50 miles out to see at the time and the bank owns the helicopter Groves used to have. From Leung's computer, Kono was able to find browsing history on the Jordan Rutherford case. Two months prior, Jordan Rutherford was accused of strangling Vicki Hailama during spring break but disappeared the day he became a suspect. She brings up a news story regarding the Hailama family press conference. Chin Ho arrives with an identification on the fish scales: etelis carbunculus or uhu as the locals know it. The fish are rare and only one load of them were sold that day and they came from Leung's boat. Danny says Leung was killed on his own boat while Groves was off catching tuna. Chin was able to track the fish to a new restaurant. He was thinking the killer may have left some evidence on the fish. Kono's phone rings. When she finishes the conversation, she goes back to Chin to tell him Auntie Mele will not make it through the night. Danny tells them to go as Steve is on his way back and they will go see about the fish.
In Kaneohe Bay in Windward, Oahu, Kono and Chin arrive at the home of their aunt and uncle. Everyone stops talking and looks at Chin when he walks through the door. Their uncle comes downstairs and looks at Chin then embraces Kono. He turns to Chin and extends his hand and the two men shake hands. He tells them Auntie Mele is in the bedroom and heavily sedated but she will be happy to see them. They go in to see her and when Chin sits down on her beside, she looks to him and tells him she's so glad he came. She asks Chin to promise her he will look after Uncle when she's gone, which he does. Uncle comes in and tells Chin he needs to talk to him. Chin tells his aunt he will be back, kisses her cheek then leaves with his uncle. When the men have gone, Mele tells Kono is it up to her to make the thing between Uncle and Chin Ho right. Kono looks up to see the men talking across the hall and tells her aunt Chin won't talk to her about it. Mele tells her everything was fine between them until she got sick and then Chin was dismissed from the force. Kono asks if she thinks those two things are related and her aunt admits she's afraid to ask. Kono can hear the men talking in the other room and looks up again.
Kamekona picks Steve up from King's Medical Center but had to stop to pick up ice first as there was a "big sale" on it.
As Kono and Chin are driving back from seeing their aunt, she tells him their aunt knows the thing between he and Uncle has something to do with him being kicked off the force and that she heard them arguing about money. He tells her she heard wrong. She thinks it was Uncle who took the money from the locker and Chin Ho took the fall but she hasn't figured out why yet. He tells her to drop it and she pulls the car over. He implores him not to lie to her now and asks if she's right or not. After a moment, he tells her that Auntie got sick and needed a kidney but it is hard to get on the transplant list there in the islands. Kono mentions she did get a kidney, though. He tells her she didn't get it how Uncle said she did. Uncle knew people in China who were able to get Auntie a kidney on the black market but no one in the family had that kind of money. Chin didn't know Uncle was going to take the money but he did what he had to do. She asks why he took the fall. He questions what he was supposed to do; watch Uncle go to jail. Crying, she tells him he's a cop and is supposed to tell the truth. He says sometimes things aren't so simple. He promised Uncle that Auntie would be shielded from everything and he kept his promise. Kono tells him when Auntie passes he will tell the truth and asks if that is what Uncle wants. He admits it is but wonders what good it will do. He's finally found a home with Five-O and whatever happened, happened.
At Morimoto's restaurant, Steve and Danny arrive to speak with Chef Morimoto (Masaharu Morimoto), who is singing karaoke. They introduce themselves and ask to see the fish they purchased that morning. Morimoto takes them to the kitchen and opens the container of fish. Steve volunteers Danny to look through them as he can't get his cast wet. Danny puts on a pair of gloves as Steve tells him to be thorough and check every fish in the box. Danny takes the fish out of the box one by one and eventually comes to one with a bullet hole in it. Steve digs the bullet out of the fish so Danny can get it to the lab.
McGarrett arrives back at headquarters and tells her he and Danny recovered a fired round from a .38, the same caliber as Groves gun, and ballistics is running it through as they speak. She shows him evidence the lab found traces of jet fuel on Leung's shoes, clothing and skin. The skin absorption rate indicates he came into contact with it hours before his death. It is a new bio fuel and only one airstrip on the island uses it. The lab traced it back High Blue Jet Charters. Their web site says they "fly everywhere" including, as Steve points out, remote locations where you can dump a body.
At High Blue Jet Charters in Waialua, North Shore, Danny and Steve show the owner a picture of Leung. He recognizes him and says he worked there on the graveyard shift doing refueling and maintenance. He said he wanted to earn extra money and was always talking about his son and their fishing boat. He worked last night. Steve asks if anything out of the ordinary happened last night and he said Leung wanted to use the computer in the office regarding a flight manifest. He says the ground crew sometimes gets interested in the people using the planes but they didn't have any VIP's come through last night. When they look in Leung's locker, Danny finds a flight manifest. The manifest is for a jet owned by the Lotus Leaf Holding Company doing a one-way charter to Hong Kong for one passenger of which there is no name.
At headquarters, Chin finds information on Lotus Leaf Holding Company. It is several companies folded into one. It looks like an import outfit with real estate holdings as well. The primary on the corporation papers is Donald Rutherford (Wayne Duvall), the father of Jordan Rutherford. Kono arrives with the ballistics report on the .38 from the fish. It wasn't from Groves' gun. It came from a gun sold at Ace Gun & Rifle, the owner is an ex-cop who registers the ballistics profile of every gun he sells. The buyer was Donald Rutherford. Steve tells them about the manifest he and Danny found and that he believes it was Jordan Rutherford on the plane. Donald Rutherford followed Leung back to his boat and killed him to keep his son's secret safe.
Steve and Danny arrive at the Rutherford House on Diamond Head. They ring the bell and Steve informs Rutherford they are from Five-O and would like a word. He tells them he'll be right down but after they wait for a few seconds, Danny asks if Steve thinks he's running. He does and kicks the front door in. They enter the house, guns drawn and Steve calls out to Rutherford. Their search doesn't turn him up but doors and windows are locked and shut so he must still be in the house. Steve goes to the truck and gets a heat-sensing device and they search the house again. They find he is in an underground room beneath the basement. Danny opens the door while Steve stands, gun-ready for whatever they find. They see stairs and Steve walks down them into an underground room where Donald Rutherford is waiting with his gun raised. Steve orders him to put the gun down and turns the lights on. Rutherford refuses to comply and tells them they have no idea how hard it is to see their sons name dragged through the papers and have him hunted. Steve puts his gun away and he and Danny tell Rutherford about Leung and how he took on a second job to take care of his son. Rutherford admits that after weeks of hiding his son and trying to get him out he wasn't going to let Leung mess things up. They tell him what his son did, which Rutherford thinks of as only a stupid mistake, and he tells them his son is safe now. As Danny reaches for a picture of Jordan, Donald Rutherford focuses his attention solely on Danny giving Steve the chance to move in and overpower him.
Kono tells Sean Leung and his family that his father was working at the airstrip to help pay for the boat. She explains why his father died and tells him that because of what Jack Leung did, Jordan Rutherford was picked up by Hong Kong police and is being extradited to stand trial for murder. He thanks her for the work she did. Before she leaves, his son gives her the knot he was learning to tie from his father, the same knot Sean's father taught him. She tells the boy his grandfather was a hero and he should always remember that. Kono gets in the car with Chin and the two watch the Leung's boat go out to where Leung's ashes will be spread.
Danny and McGarrett are waiting for the plane bringing Jordan Rutherford from Hong Kong. He's taken into custody as Vicki Hailama's parents look on. At the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Five-O and Kamekona are having a celebratory dinner. After Sandrine (Renee Nobriga) asks if she can sign Steve's cast, Danny and Steve are both telling her how Steve was injured (Danny saved Steve's life which is or isn't basically not true according to which story you believe). Kamekona, wanting some of the pretty waitress's attention, improvises a cast of his own from a tablecloth. As the group watches the fireworks, Chin Ho receives a call and gets up from the table. Kono gets up to go to him and he tells her Auntie passed.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
For more information:
Hawaii Five-O Official Site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Hawaii_Five-O
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