- A criminal syndicate has stolen 6,000 airline, cruise and attraction tickets and is now shoving them down the throats of travel agencies, forcing them to pay for them and then "eat" them to avoid taking the blame for stealing stolen merchandise. To make sure the travel agencies stay in line, one of them is bombed, killing three people. An undercover agent from the mainland helps Five-O infiltrate the gang. The only chance you will get to see similarly-named actors Jack Hogan (who gets top billing because he was a regular on "Sierra" at the time of filming; he plays the gang's main enforcer) and Jack Kosslyn (as the Federal agent) at the same time, and one of the few times Kwan Hi Lim (as the gang boss) get guest-star billing. Features an incredibly wild chase where McGarrett, in a car driving along the edge of a canal, ducks bullets from Hogan's character in a speedboat (and they drive to one end of the canal and back up the other).—Peter Harris
- Veteran Hawaiian actor Kwan He Lim portrays the head of a low-level criminal outfit whose signature operation is the theft of blank airline tickets. Their latest move is the brazen theft of 6,000 tickets from a travel agency employee and his guard, who are gunned down in broad daylight. The mobsters then run an extortion ring, forcing island travel agencies to buy the tickets - some of the agencies sell them to customers at a discount, while others simply destroy the tickets, swallowing the costs but avoiding trouble with the law. When one travel agent is pushed too hard, he tells his employee (Tommy Fujiwara) that he's had enough and is going to the police. But the ambitious employee, suddenly without a source of cash, seeks greener pastures with the outfit leader, who dupes him into revealing the name of the agency where he works. The agency is bombed soon after. McGarrett sets up a sting with the aid of an aviation bureaucrat (Jack Kosslyn), but the G-man is recognized and shot by the outfit enforcer. The episode ends with the 5-0 team chasing the bad guys, who attempt to escape via speedboats down a canal.
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