SPOILER ALERT!
This is awful. The early 70's craze about "multiple personalities", coupled with no epilogue or finality.
In 1973 the book titled "Sybil" came out; it started a phenomenon of people claiming to have multiple personalities. Then came the movie (14 months after this episode of H5-0), and the numbers of "victims" exploded (much to the delight of the Psychiatry Industry, who reaped enormous profits from their "patients").
Sybil was later proven to be a complete hoax; the three women behind it (the victim, the psychiatrist, and the book publisher) all confessed. Search the internet for the NPR year 2011 report that blows the whole story to the wind.
So in 1974, H5-0 writers come up with a story based upon this Psycho-Babble, and the public gobbled it up.
To make it worse, there is no epilogue. No, it did not get edited out for re-runs or DVD's, there never was an epilogue. This was common to Hawaii Five-0, see my review of the entire series here on IMDb. At the conclusion of this story, the cops stop the catastrophe from happening, and then the show just ends. What happened to the Senator? We will never know (and quite frankly, we will never care).
This show is also filled with many goofs (see the IMDb trivia page). The handwriting expert who can almost name the person that wrote the letter (yeah, sure). And the 1970's Lincoln magically turning into a late 1940's Chevrolet, then exploding because it hit a blade of grass.
And improbabilities? McGarrett somehow becomes an expert at rappelling, so that he can save the day. BTW, a very obvious stunt double. And what if the stuck elevator had cranked back up while McGarrett was sitting on top of it?
Not one of the better episodes of H5-0. Five stars for this BOMB!
Florida Fred .
This is awful. The early 70's craze about "multiple personalities", coupled with no epilogue or finality.
In 1973 the book titled "Sybil" came out; it started a phenomenon of people claiming to have multiple personalities. Then came the movie (14 months after this episode of H5-0), and the numbers of "victims" exploded (much to the delight of the Psychiatry Industry, who reaped enormous profits from their "patients").
Sybil was later proven to be a complete hoax; the three women behind it (the victim, the psychiatrist, and the book publisher) all confessed. Search the internet for the NPR year 2011 report that blows the whole story to the wind.
So in 1974, H5-0 writers come up with a story based upon this Psycho-Babble, and the public gobbled it up.
To make it worse, there is no epilogue. No, it did not get edited out for re-runs or DVD's, there never was an epilogue. This was common to Hawaii Five-0, see my review of the entire series here on IMDb. At the conclusion of this story, the cops stop the catastrophe from happening, and then the show just ends. What happened to the Senator? We will never know (and quite frankly, we will never care).
This show is also filled with many goofs (see the IMDb trivia page). The handwriting expert who can almost name the person that wrote the letter (yeah, sure). And the 1970's Lincoln magically turning into a late 1940's Chevrolet, then exploding because it hit a blade of grass.
And improbabilities? McGarrett somehow becomes an expert at rappelling, so that he can save the day. BTW, a very obvious stunt double. And what if the stuck elevator had cranked back up while McGarrett was sitting on top of it?
Not one of the better episodes of H5-0. Five stars for this BOMB!
Florida Fred .