Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)

Death Is a Company Policy (1972)

Jack Lord: Det. Steve McGarrett

Quotes 

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Commenting on Duke's suspension]  It's a frame... I'll stake my life on it.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [to his men]  I want the book on the Sand N' Surf Condominium Company... I wanna know who they are, what they are... I wanna know whose money is behind it. I wanna know their banks, their stockholders, investment syndicates now, you name it... If they're public, check them out with the SEC... Okay, split the work, get on it fast.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Steve figures out the plot, and shares it with John Manicote]  Okay, hypothesis... A long time ago, there's a meeting of the underworld... I'm talking top international level. Now, they're planning their strategy for decades to come... Planning it like a war, with deep planted spies inside the enemy camp... Now, how would you do that given all the time and money you need?... First, you pick your people. You pick them in high school, the way the big corporations do... Young people with brilliant minds and empty pockets. You take care of the family, you ease the financial strain... Then you invest a few thousand a year in the kid's tuition... Tuition in a top mainland school, plus clothes, a car, spending money... You do better than all the other scholarships that are available to a poor kid... Then you sit back and wait for your investment to pay off... The kid knows he owes you. He graduates with top honors and gets a degree... Then you help open the right doors. He gets the right job, *and you get his soul*.

• Manicote : [Manicote is stunned to find out that Chris Lahani is the leak]  Chris Lahani... I picked him myself.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : No discredit to you, John... He was the best there was. They saw to that.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [to Manicote]  I'll put Lahani to a test that's guaranteed to smoke him out... But I need full cooperation from your office, John... No road blocks, no making waves... Do I get it?

  Manicote : All right, Steve... Go.

• Danny Williams : [after the hit on Manoa and Lahani]  Bryce-Halsey?

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Who else?

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [On the radio]  Central, this is McGarrett... We're up on the Makapu'u Cliffs on the military road... Send a couple of ambulances, we've just had a massacre.

• Danny Williams : [Shaking his head]  Lahani and Manoa hit, and Bryce-Halsey goes on... I guess no one wins this one, Steve.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Not so, Danno... Duke wins.

  [Steve tosses Duke his badge, and Duke smiles as he clutches it] 

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [to the governor]  All evidence destroyed before we got there... A tape, a gun, a human being... The implications are not pleasant to contemplate, governor.

  Governor : Okay Steve... Let's have it.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Outside of the people in this room, nobody knew what we were going after... Nobody.

• Runny Grose : [Runny runs into McGarrett and Duke at the elevator]  Hi McGarrett, Duke... I'm just getting something notarized... I think I'll walk.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : [to Duke]  I wonder what that pigeon is really after?

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Giving rundown on computer information]  These releases give us permission to delve into every aspect of your lives... Nobody is bound to signing... But when you do, you will be giving up all rights to privacy... Nothing will be sacred to the computer, and I mean nothing... All of your records will be probed, school, military, employment, financial, in-depth interviews with friends and neighbors, all medical records including history of sexual behavior.

• Ben : [to Steve]  There's talk on the street that Runny Grose was hit.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : My favorite little stoolie... It'll be too bad if he was... I'll be sorry about that.

  Ben : So am I... He was valuable.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Well, if he was hit, you can be sure he was on to something big... Find out what it was.