Season 11 was originally intended as the final season for "Hawaii Five-O". After all, it was, by that time, the longest running police show on TV. And, by then, the plots were starting to become a bit more uneven and even occasionally shoddy. This premier episode, "The Sleeper", is ample proof that things were starting to slip.
The show is about a possible sleeper agent on a top secret government project. The authorities already suspected this and the agent sent to investigate has been murdered. So far, this has the makings of a good episode. While having the state police investigating such matters never made any sense, most of these sort of shows were very exciting and worth seeing. However, there ended the interesting portion of the show. What followed was simply shoddy. First, it turned out that the crimes were committed as a result of hypnosis--a thoroughly stupid plot twist. Hypnosis cannot make you kill people or do evil--it it could, I sure would have tried this when I got my training in clinical hypnosis!! Second, and more serious, the crime was solved magically--with McGarrett and one of the suspects both independently coming up with the solution with no real evidence!! How they simply knew what was going on seemed to come from out of no where...which it did! Overall, a very sub-par episode--one that had too many plot holes to take very seriously.
The show is about a possible sleeper agent on a top secret government project. The authorities already suspected this and the agent sent to investigate has been murdered. So far, this has the makings of a good episode. While having the state police investigating such matters never made any sense, most of these sort of shows were very exciting and worth seeing. However, there ended the interesting portion of the show. What followed was simply shoddy. First, it turned out that the crimes were committed as a result of hypnosis--a thoroughly stupid plot twist. Hypnosis cannot make you kill people or do evil--it it could, I sure would have tried this when I got my training in clinical hypnosis!! Second, and more serious, the crime was solved magically--with McGarrett and one of the suspects both independently coming up with the solution with no real evidence!! How they simply knew what was going on seemed to come from out of no where...which it did! Overall, a very sub-par episode--one that had too many plot holes to take very seriously.
