Aside from the wonderful episode starring Hume Cronyn ("Over Fifty? Steal"), this is probably the best show of the third season. And, while it isn't perfect, it did have a unique plot that kept my attention.
When the show begins, a woman is picking up her husband from the airport in Maui. However, some thug is watching them--who he is and why, you don't know--but it isn't good! Later, when the family is about to have dinner, the man sees this thug outside the window. He gives chase and a moment later there is a gunshot--the thug is dead. However, instead of calling the police, the couple vanish--and when Five-O responds later, they find that the place has been wiped clean. Who these two were is a mystery, though what isn't a mystery is that the dead man was a hired killer working for a mobster named Quon.
The couple now have relocated to a new apartment and slowly who they are becomes apparent. The husband actually Quon's second in command--and he killed his co-worker because his wife is actually a woman he supposedly killed two years earlier! Apparently this woman witnessed Quon killing someone and her death was ordered. But the hired gun had fallen in love with her and killed a similar looking woman--and got everyone to think it was her.
As for Five-O, they did their work in this episode but without any of the unnecessary heroics or posturing that harmed a few episodes (such as one a few episodes earlier when McGarrett, on his own, took on the kidnappers). It's typified by good police work.
The crooks, however, did behave a little bit unrealistically stupid near the end. When they discover that their man did NOT kill the lady, you'd think they'd just shoot him and then find her. However, they order HIM to kill her--but why should they trust him--didn't he betray his boss two years earlier?! Still, despite this little mistake, it did make for an exciting episode--well worth seeing and quite original.
By the way, occasionally on this show the casting was funny. Because the pool of actors was rather limited on the islands, sometimes villains later went on to be good guys in later shows and vice-versa. Kwan Hi Lim (who was a real life attorney) plays a coroner here, but most of the time he was cast as a mobster. Also, Al Harrington who replaced Zulu as one of McGarrett's men (as "Ben") here plays an assassin and thug!!
When the show begins, a woman is picking up her husband from the airport in Maui. However, some thug is watching them--who he is and why, you don't know--but it isn't good! Later, when the family is about to have dinner, the man sees this thug outside the window. He gives chase and a moment later there is a gunshot--the thug is dead. However, instead of calling the police, the couple vanish--and when Five-O responds later, they find that the place has been wiped clean. Who these two were is a mystery, though what isn't a mystery is that the dead man was a hired killer working for a mobster named Quon.
The couple now have relocated to a new apartment and slowly who they are becomes apparent. The husband actually Quon's second in command--and he killed his co-worker because his wife is actually a woman he supposedly killed two years earlier! Apparently this woman witnessed Quon killing someone and her death was ordered. But the hired gun had fallen in love with her and killed a similar looking woman--and got everyone to think it was her.
As for Five-O, they did their work in this episode but without any of the unnecessary heroics or posturing that harmed a few episodes (such as one a few episodes earlier when McGarrett, on his own, took on the kidnappers). It's typified by good police work.
The crooks, however, did behave a little bit unrealistically stupid near the end. When they discover that their man did NOT kill the lady, you'd think they'd just shoot him and then find her. However, they order HIM to kill her--but why should they trust him--didn't he betray his boss two years earlier?! Still, despite this little mistake, it did make for an exciting episode--well worth seeing and quite original.
By the way, occasionally on this show the casting was funny. Because the pool of actors was rather limited on the islands, sometimes villains later went on to be good guys in later shows and vice-versa. Kwan Hi Lim (who was a real life attorney) plays a coroner here, but most of the time he was cast as a mobster. Also, Al Harrington who replaced Zulu as one of McGarrett's men (as "Ben") here plays an assassin and thug!!
