This is one of the most complicated episodes of "Hawaii Five-O" that I can recall. And, it is a twist on a VERY familiar theme--but this time the person they are trying to set up is NOT McGarrett but Danny! The show begins with an amazingly intricate robbery--which MUST have come from extensive inside knowledge. Unfortunately, this aspect was NEVER addressed in the show. How DID this crazy guy know exactly where to go and exactly how to steal nerve gas?! It isn't like they just publish the information in the newspaper! It turns out that the robbery is not the exact purpose of the robbery (a weird plot hole, I know). Instead, the robbery has planned a complicated scheme to get Danny convicted of a circumstantial murder. And, all this is because the thief is insane--and his dead father tells him to do this!!! Seriously. Now the fact that the guy comes up with such complex things AND is a paranoid schizophrenic makes for a difficult to believe plot, I know. Now it IS possible for a paranoid schizophrenic to hide this and even come up with complicated schemes--but the way the guy then unravels so quickly AND is quickly convinced by Danny (the object of his paranoid obsession) of the errors of his way make this a hole-ridden episode indeed. BUT, it is still a rather cool episode. So, despite all my training as a psychotherapist, I couldn't help but like the show and enjoy it--even if it really made little sense.
3 Reviews
Enjoyable but a bit silly and it has a few plot holes.
planktonrules15 January 2012
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Frame, frame, everywhere a frame!
VetteRanger9 June 2023
After the very last episode was an attempted frame of McGarrett, this one is an attempted frame of Danny Williams. The two shows before these were two consecutive shows involving rape.
You'd think the guy who ran the series who think ahead enough to provide some separation between like themed shows. However, it didn't seem to hurt the series, as it ran another four seasons after this one.
Here, a guy steals nerve gas through a complicated cat-burglar style sequence. You'd think the nerve gas would be a scary component, but it was only used as a Mcguffin. In the meantime, he ran Danny around and made him look guilty through what he thought was circumstantial evidence.
Not the best episode, but the kid who played the somewhat deranged criminal seeking revenge did a great job of acting and looking deranged. :-)
You'd think the guy who ran the series who think ahead enough to provide some separation between like themed shows. However, it didn't seem to hurt the series, as it ran another four seasons after this one.
Here, a guy steals nerve gas through a complicated cat-burglar style sequence. You'd think the nerve gas would be a scary component, but it was only used as a Mcguffin. In the meantime, he ran Danny around and made him look guilty through what he thought was circumstantial evidence.
Not the best episode, but the kid who played the somewhat deranged criminal seeking revenge did a great job of acting and looking deranged. :-)
Boring
zombiemockingbird19 March 2024
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We just had a frame of McGarrett in the last episode, now we have a frame of Danny. The writers need to come up with some new ideas. On top of that, the story just isn't interesting. It's another recycled, old, tired story; kid defending a parent they believe was wrongly accused. And of course he's crazy, and talks to his dead father. Overall the story is really boring; we spent forever watching this kid break into the lab, which was tiresome, and then watched him build his weapon, which was boring. Maybe I've just seen too many of these stories. I hope Kario Salem has a day job, because he'll never make it as an actor, he was terrible.
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