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- The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
- A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
- A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
- A retired chemical engineer, after fighting City Hall and the state government over the proposed demolition of his housing complex for the elderly, wears a bomb into a Jimmy Borges concert and demands that the Governor cut through the red tape -- but doesn't count on the psycho girlfriend of a mobster about to be shipped to the mainland crashing the party and taking HIM hostage. This episode features Richard Denning in a larger-than-usual role and is the only acting role for director Sutton Roley, who appears at the beginning as the judge signing the extradition order.
- An Australian scientist is killed on a Hawaiian sugar plantation after discovering an insect capable of wiping out the sugar cane there. The investigation leads McGarrett and Co. to a complicated plot hatched by crooked developer Sam Patton (portrayed by Richard Kiley) to buy the plantation for a greatly reduced price. Before Five-O can solve the case, the death toll will rise.
- A series of gold robberies has hit Oahu. The operation is being run out of a halfway home for boys and young men. McGarrett sends in an HPD undercover officer to the home to turn up some leads. The trail first seems to point to the home's administrator, an ex-con. He turns out to be innocent. But Five-O's investigation is pressuring the organizations of the robbery ring.
- Three college football players, one the son of a powerful senator, rape a waitress. The senator sends his "fixer," a lawyer working for him, to take care of the situation. The fixer finds a petty criminal willing to be a patsy in return for $5,000 and a guarantee that charges won't be pressed against him. Five-O tries to find out what really happened. Meanwhile, the victim moves to take matters into her own hands.
- Five-O begins an investigation after it's discovered a new trade center, destroyed in a massive fire, was constructed of sub-standard materials. The probe centers on Maynard, who works in the local agency that inspects building plans and construction sites. Maynard has framed, and then kills, one inspector. Five-O attempts a sting operation with the cooperation of one building but that plan goes awry when Maynard realizes he is being recorded while soliciting a bribe.
- The operator of a Honolulu museum devises a scheme: use the premier Hawaiian parade as the cover for the biggest bank robbery in Hawaiian history. First he kills a history expert who would know he was fudging the details of the recreation of the 1889 Wilcox rebellion. He also recruits criminals who can execute his plan. Once the caper occurs, can McGarrett & Co. rebound to bring the criminals to justice?
- A mainland mobster arrives in the Islands planning to buy a semi-pro football team and skim the profits. When his brother, who has lived in Hawaii for some years, warns him that "they do things differently here," the mobster sneers: "This place is just Cleveland with coconuts!" Big mistake. McGarrett puts surveillance people on the mobster's trail and tells them to make the surveillance so obvious that anyone the mobster tries to threaten can just point to the cops and laugh in the mobster's face (sometimes the trackers do it too). The mobster tries to bribe Chin Ho and winds up with a lovely thank-you letter from the charity Chin donated the check to. And on and on and on, until the mobster brings in a hired gun to go after McGarrett, then gets hold of a weapon and tries to finish the job himself. Finally the mobster, having lapsed into diabetic shock and been admitted to McGarrett's hospital, fakes a fire alarm to get into McGarrett's room and shoots his "body" on the bed -- only to have the lights come on and McGarrett (who was propped up in a closet) tell him that Five-O "made" him with one look at his MedicAlert bracelet.
- Deadly liquefied nerve gas is stolen. Five-O investigates the theft; the substance can kill a person if only a drop touches their skin and a small quantity can cause mass casualties. But the thief isn't a terrorist or master criminal, he's a young man seeking revenge against Dan Williams. Danno investigated the young man's father, a corrupt police officer. The young man concocts a frame for Williams that Five-O will find difficult to prove false.
- Officer Sandi Welles has a younger brother Mike, of whom she is VERY protective. This is with good reason, as Mike is a chronic gambler fighting a losing battle with addiction and heavily in debt. Mike sneaks into an illegal casino which is then raided by the police. As Mike flees on foot, he is stopped by a police sergeant. A mobster fleeing the scene in his car runs over the police sergeant, who is fatally injured. Mike runs away as McGarrett and his team arrive on the scene. Mike does not want to let Sandi know that he has relapsed into his old gambling habits, so he contacts the mobster and demands hush money to cover his debts. The mobster agrees, but then goes after Mike to silence him.
- Two mobsters wage war on each other, with Danny's photographer girlfriend -- who snapped a picture of one of the two sneaking back into the Islands -- caught in the middle.
- Glenn Cannon's final episode as Attorney General John Manicote gives him a major role as his daughter disappears into a rain forest on the windward side of Oahu, just as a maniacal serial killer breaks the prison van and heads into the same area with a shotgun.
- A gang of hijackers sign on as crew members of luxury yachts, then murder the owners and steal the boats to sell in South America. Danno and Sandi Welles go undercover to track them down, but Sandi is taken hostage on one of the boats. The title comes from the particularly sadistic gang leader flipping a coin to decide whether Sandi and the other hostages, whom he's going to throw overboard, will be given a life raft.
- Egotistical author Travis Marshall discovers the unmarked grave of heir Brian Henderson. Marshall is promoting his find to the media, much to the annoyance of McGarrett & Co., who have re-opened an investigation. Brian Marshall has been missing for seven years. Five-O has to reconstruct what happened to the heir, with no help from Marshall or Agatha Henderson, the wealthy grandmother of the dead man. The case turns out to be an elaborate jigsaw puzzle for McGarrett, which is further complicated when Marshall turns up dead.
- Morwood, a high school official, has organized a smuggling ring. His confederates are forced to toss a drug shipment overboard as the Coast Guard is ready to close in. Morwood's group knows the approximate position but can't make a move because Five-O and the authorities have the heat on. But when Morwood spots a mini-submarine he gets the idea the the vessel could snatch the drugs out from under the nose of the police.
- Alex Kelsey, a lawyer involved with mobster Din Lee, kills a dying Japanese man. The dead man had been a Japanese operative at the time of Pearl Harbor. Kelsey believes the dead man had a secret stash of gold. Kazuo Tahashi, the dead man's son, arrives from San Francisco. But Tahashi isn't all what he appears to be, either. Meanwhile, in the background is retired U.S. Navy Commander Reginald Blackwell, who had been an operative in Naval intelligence. McGarrett & Co. must try to put the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle together.
- A man named Jim Spier breaks out of prison, shortly after refusing to accept parole for the second time. Spier had been convicted of the murder of his wife, but had always claimed to be innocent of the crime. With assistance from a beautician friend of his, Spier changes his appearance and begins to investigate the case against himself anew. McGarrett and Five-O also look into the crime again, even as they search for Spier - and find that upon re-examination, at least some of the evidence against Spier doesn't appear to be that solid.
- Five-O is protecting Billy Madrid, lieutenant to a crime boss who will testify in an upcoming trial. McGarrett is wounded when a sniper shoots at Five-O officers escorting Madrid, an indication that the crime boss wants Madrid dead. But when the trial actually starts, Madrid tells a different story -- that McGarrett forced his testimony. Now, McGarrett & Co. must find a way to recoup or else the crime boss will go free.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated7.1 (77)TV EpisodeA rich developer's wife has been kidnapped and an ecology activist has been implicated. But the activist is innocent and has been framed. McGarrett & Co. try to solve the crime and find the kidnapped woman. As the title implies, the developer's neighbor holds the key to the mystery.
- McGarrett has been dating a fashion designer named Cathi Ryan. He receives an urgent telephone call from her one afternoon, and arrives at her house to find her apparently having just been killed. Then he is hit on the back of the head, and awakens to find neither the telephone nor his police radio working. He manages to report the crime, but then discovers that there are a number of clues suggesting either that he committed the crime -- or that he has been the victim of an elaborate plot to frame him for murder.
- A group of university students and their professor are examining a volcanic crater when they discover the bodies of five men in an inconspicuous location. Doc Bergman is initially unable to determine the cause of their deaths, so he enlists the aid of cantankerous physicist Grant Ormsbee, with whom McGarrett and Five-O are already familiar (from the previous season's "The Defector"). Five-O eventually learns that most of the dead men came from a variety of foreign countries, and that all of them died from exposure to radiation - creating an even bigger mystery for Five-O, because there is no lawful source of radioactive material, nor a facility working with it, in Hawaii that could have led to this exposure.
- Wo Fat, disguised as an academic from Hong Kong, organizes the theft of deadly toxins on loan to the University of Hawaii for medical experiments. McGarrett travels to Hong Kong in pursuit of Wo Fat but is captured.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated7.1 (85)TV EpisodeThe wages of sin are death for prostitutes who are being murdered by a pimp and his totally psycho helper in an effort to get the survivors to join his "stable." The women organize on their own and try to fight back, but are reluctant to go to the police because they could spend a long time in jail. But as the frequency and viciousness of the attacks increase, McGarrett establishes a tenuous pipeline to the women's leader to try to trap the enforcer.
- After an attempt to hijack an Army vehicle carrying M-16 vehicles goes awry, an arms dealer and his underlings recognize that the bases and transports with small arms will be more heavily guarded. But then one of his men gets an idea how to get onto an Army base using an unorthodox approach -- when two men slip into the penthouse of a hotel and make off with King Kamehameha's golden feathered cape -- using a hang-glider.
- Because the country of Japan has very strong restrictions on handguns, smugglers can turn huge profits by buying or stealing them in Hawaii and seeking them on the Tokyo black market. A Tokyo police officer, who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on the Tokyo street and picked up the assailant's weapon, traces it to Honolulu. He arrives there and tells McGarrett of his find, and the two of them form a task force to find the leaders of a Hawaiian smuggling ring.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated6.0 (68)TV EpisodeWith Five-O on the verge of a major crackdown on illegal gambling, McGarrett is approached by Susie Wainane, an old friend now in college in California. She has returned to Hawaii over concerns that her brother, Billy, who worked as a rider in a Hawaiian rodeo, seems to have disappeared. McGarrett agrees to assist her in investigating Billy's disappearance - and finds that everyone he questions at the rodeo seems oddly reluctant to discuss the Billy's whereabouts.
- Sunny Mandell, a teenage runaway, holes up in Honolulu with a man who helped her back in Los Angeles. But the helpful man is a gangster with a grudge against Sunny's father, a Los Angeles cop who sent him to a California prison. The gangster takes Sunny to a hotel where he murders an associate and forces Sunny to take hold of the murder weapon, leaving her fingerprints on it. Sunny's father has meanwhile arrived in Honolulu and consulted with McGarrett about the connection. With the unlikely help of a Peeping Tom who witnessed the murder with his telescope, they clear Sunny of the murder but can't find her - she ditched the killer and went panhandling on the streets, where the leader of a weird cult found her and offered her refuge in the cult's group home while indoctrinating her. It becomes a race against time and a battle of wills as McGarrett, the cult leader and the murderer all compete to get Sunny under his control.
- A sniper targets police officers.
- After a young woman has died from a drug overdose, Johnny Kling moves to avenge the death by killing those who sold and distributed the drugs. Kling performs the killings in such a way to evoke scenes from old movies. For his final target, he intends to copy the explosive ending from "White Heat."
- Two idealists plan to kidnap the son of a Japanese industrialist as a way to generate $1.5 million toward their dream of researching ways for man to live under the sea. They don't realize their confederate is really part of a Japanese terrorist group. She has no intention of letting the boy live. Five-O has to race against time. The kidnapped child is in an airtight capsule underneath the ocean and he has only a limited air supply.
- A spy ring targets a U.S. missile project headed by Dr. Grant Ormsbee, a headstrong scientist. The bait is an agent posing as an Asian scientist Orsmbee had met 12 years previously and who had maintained correspondence with Ormsbee. McGarrett clashes with Ormsbee initially when the scientist refuses to cooperate with Five-O's investigation of the death of a member of the spy ring, who has been sacrificed as part of the group's complicated plot. Ormsbee eventually agrees to play Judas Goat himself as Five-O and Naval Intelligence attempt to smash the spy ring.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated8.3 (99)TV EpisodeSomeone breaks into Five-O's temporary offices at the Territorial Building and, for the most part, manages to avoid the burglar alarms. When the alarm is triggered, the guard who responds is decoyed by a small music-playing souvenir doll long enough for the burglar to escape. The next day, however, Five-O's staff can find nothing missing, even though there is evidence that the lock to one of the cabinets was picked. What was taken they only learn later -- a single sheet official requisition form that is used to steal about $14,000 in state money -- the first step in an elaborate scheme by a check forger whom McGarrett once helped put in jail.
- Two inept criminals trying to make some quick money kidnap a famous singer and spirit her off in a boat - but the boat is caught in a violent storm. It wrecks on the north coast of Kauai. The coastline there is known as the Na Pali Cliff region; it is very rugged country with no roads and only a few trails. The kidnappers survive the wreck, they learn that the boat has been reported missing and is presumed destroyed. To avoid losing out on the half-million-dollar ransom, the kidnappers engage the help of a local nature lover. He directs them to a general store where they can make a telephone call to the singer's manager, to demand the ransom payment. Danno is familiar with the area, he has surfed there. He goes to the cliffs area to find out where the kidnappers are hiding. After trekking through the rough terrain, Danno, McGarrett, and Chen confront the kidnappers.
- A year after a Soviet submarine was sunk near Hawaii, pieces of what appear to be key components of the sub's computer begin washing ashore. McGarrett suspects that devices have been planted to sabotage other parts of the sub's computer that were already in the hands of the U.S. government - but cantankerous scientist Grant Ormsbee insists upon going ahead with testing of the components despite McGarett's concerns.
- A plane arrives in Hawaii with 300 passengers aboard, including a tour group of 40. After everyone has left the plane, however, a stewardess discovers that one remaining passenger is dead, the victim of a stabbing with a thin instrument of some kind. Then a woman is discovered dead in a tropical park with a similar wound. Because the victim on the plane turns out to have been a CIA agent, McGarrett contacts Jonathan Kaye in Washington, and learns that the killer may be a mysterious hit man known only as "Raymond." With little information about either the killer or his intended victim, McGarrett assigns officer Sandi Welles (seen in the previous season's "Loose Ends Get Hit") to go undercover as a guide with the tour group from the plane, hoping that she can discover something.
- While flying her brother's hang glider over Makapuu, Molly Taggart witnesses a friend's murder by a pair of local low life thugs. Realizing that their crime was seen from the air, the thugs set out to kill the glider's pilot.
- August March, a seemingly respectable businessman who is also an art collector, has been running a smuggling ring of Asian art. When he discovers McGarrett is also a collector of small Asian sculptures, March arranges for a stolen piece of art from Japan to be substituted for McGarrett's collection, which is about to go on display in a Honolulu museum. March sees this an opportunity to frame the lawman who could smash his operation. But McGarrett, despite all odds, moves to trap his opponent.
- The top financial aide to Chang Liu, the head of one of the islands' crime syndicates, is ambushed and killed when he tries to return to Hawaii surreptitiously via helicopter. The killers are all members of a street gang that normally wouldn't take on a criminal organization like Chang Liu's, but the gang members have inside information given by someone close to Chang Liu - his daughter. Then Chang Liu and Five-O each try to find the $4 million in laundered money that Chang Liu's aide was bringing with him when he was ambushed.
- James Borden, a hunter captures, Logan, Jessica, Rem and Francis, after Francis captures the three runners. Where Borden decides to free Logan and Francis and he decides to hunt them like animals, where Logan and Francis decides to join forces and set out to rescue Jessica and Rem from Borden. Can Logan and Francis save Jesscia and Rem?
- Logan is shot with a dart containing a serum which erases his memory, Francis takes Logan back to the domed city, where Logan is to be terminated on Carousel for his actions. Where Jessica and Rem returns to the Domed city to rescue Logan, who cannot remember Jessica and Rem and has loss of memory of the previous year. Can Jessica and Rem save Logan from being terminated on Carousel? and will Logan's memories be revived?
- The runners are captured by a pair of scientists who plan to use them in their experiments to remove all human emotion and create a docile human race.
- Logan and Jessica are kidnapped by a woman named Ariana who uses a dream analyzer of them. Logan dreams he is back in the domed city and he is being interrogated by the Sandmen about how he found Sanctuary and Jessica dreams she is being forced to take part on Carousel by a sinister man who forces her to wear a mask. Unaware, Francis and a Sandman have arrived to apprehend Logan and Jesscia and Arianna isn't what she seems.
- The trio encounter a society where all who live there must be 'processed;' where by use of a transporter-like device, have negative human traits mentally and physically removed, creating a physical duplicate, a 'negative,' who is then cast out of their society, while the 'positives' live in relative luxury. Logan and REM have to deal with the 'positive' Jessica, who is clearly not the same person as before, and must attempt to reintegrate her and prevent themselves from being processed. Meanwhile, it turns out that unknown to the leader of the society, his own wife is a 'negative,' throwing into doubt the effectiveness of the procedure.
- In 2319, survivors of a nuclear war live within a domed city, sealed off from the outside world, where citizens are allowed to live only until thirty years old. Logan, a Sandman, an elite policeman whose job is to terminate all "runners" who seek escape from the extermination ceremony "Carousel," begins to question the system. Logan and his companion Jessica leave the city in search of a mysterious place called "Sanctuary," where successful runners are said to have found refuge. Logan and Jessica stumble upon a mountain city where they meet Rem, an android who decides to join them in their search.
- David Eakins, a scientist time travels 200 years into the future, where he encounters Logan, Jessica and Rem, where he plans to change history and prevent the nuclear war. Can Logan, Jessica and Rem stop David from changing history?
- The runners stop at a house haunted by devil-worshiping ghosts. Jessica is captured so one of the phantoms can use her as the receptacle for his dead wife's spirit.
- Logan, Jessica, and Rem meet some people who are actually aliens who have assumed human form by taking the body of people they encountered. Logan and Jessica are held captive. The aliens take an interest in Rem because they need his parts to repair a device that they use to transport to and from their home world. A man who's among the ones they tried to capture and take over helps Logan and Jessica and they try to save Rem.
- Logan and Jessica are abducted by John the Protector and Joanna, aliens from another planet where like other Runners they've abducted, are manipulating their minds, making them believe that they have found Sanctuary. Will Logan and Jessica escape and free the captive Runners?