Thu, Jan 18, 1979
The vault in a relatively new bank in a shopping center is broken into, yet there appears to be no way that the thieves could have gotten into and out of the vault - there are no signs of forced entry and the alarm was never triggered. But McGarrett slowly begins to suspect Matthew Meighan, the developer of the shopping center where the vault is located - especially when the Five-O team uncovers evidence that similar burglaries have occurred at three other banks on the mainland.
Thu, Jan 25, 1979
Author Millicent Shand, a friend of Gov. Jameson, is in Hawaii to promote her new novel based on her adventures. She approaches McGarrett and the governor again, this time about her niece, Carole, whose husband disappeared while scuba diving off Honolulu. Shand initially believes that Carole's husband is still alive and is conspiring with spiritualist Sebastian Rolande, whom Shand believes is a phony, to defraud her niece out of half a million dollars. Shand's initial attempts to debunk Rolande's talents as a psychic fail, but she remains determined to prove that he is a criminal.
Thu, Apr 5, 1979
An American drug smuggler, who faces death by hanging if arrested by Singapore authorities, escapes McGarrett's grip quite literally by sliding along a tram car cable, then fleeing to one of the tiny islands that surround the main island. A Malay drug lord, stiffed by the American, wants his scalp and kidnaps his wife to force him to come out into the open. The drug lord permits McGarrett to board his boat and to take the wife (who has been forced to ingest cocaine and will soon die if she doesn't get medical help) to a hospital in return for her husband facing death by a bullet. The American, now on the lam, agrees, but secretly instructs his goon squad to create a diversion while he pulls off the ultimate double-cross.
Thu, Oct 4, 1979
The Hawaiian kumu mob attempts to take over a resort-workers union, to the fury of native Hawaiians who vengefully infiltrate and smash underground activities in lawless fashion. Meanwhile, Boston ex-cop James Carew trails a mainland gangster - who is providing aid and comfort to the kumu - to Hawaii in order to get information on the murders of his wife and child.
Thu, Nov 1, 1979
In his last appearance, kumu mobster Tony Alika tries to divert Five-O's attention from his smuggling efforts -- including PCP and a hired killer who murdered Kimo's wife and son -- by sending phony tips to Five-O which make them look "like Keystone Kops" (quoted in a sign at one so-called crime scene) who should be disbanded. This was the only 12th-season episode to be repeated in prime time, as the final telecast on April 26, 1980.
Thu, Nov 8, 1979
Someone apparently is trying to convince Joan Carter (and everyone she knows) that she is mentally ill and only imagining the frightening attacks on her life, but one of those people -- Five-O boss Steve McGarrett -- isn't buying it. Apparently, Joan's antagonist -- if, indeed, that's what he is -- is a mysterious, very-much still alive man known as "Kwan", who, according to Joan, she once shot to death.
Thu, Nov 29, 1979
Various owners of a handgun of unusual design, which was used in a murder six months earlier and then dumped. Two punks use it in a robbery-shooting that leads to one of the thieves also being injured. When ballistics tests reveals the the same weapon was used in the still-unsolved murder of a state senator, the leader of the gang tries to sell it back to the killer. Several more people are shot as the gun makes its way through the Hawaiian underground, two of them fatally.
Tue, Dec 4, 1979
A group fanatics who were plotting to take over a radio station so that they could broadcast their message are pulled over by a police cruiser. They shoot one of the two cops, then decide to take the cruiser and the other cop hostage, and use the police radio as a link. When McGarrett hears of this, he sends Truck and another cop to try and take them but they kill the cop he's with and keep Truck. Steve has to find another way to get to them so he hopes that their associate who was wounded when they took the cruiser and left behind might be able to help them. Steve just has to find a way to convince him to.
Tue, Dec 11, 1979
A college student returns to Hawaii after a 20-year absence (his parents died when he was a little boy and he was adopted), haunted by a series of disturbing flashbacks which seem to make no sense. Things start to come together when a convict gets out of prison after serving 20 years for bank robbery, and some of the student's visions seem to match the robbery scene. The student and the convict confront each other, and before long the convict is dead, his head bashed in. Did the unstable student freak out and murder the convict, did he kill the enraged convict in self-defense, or did someone else commit the murder? And what ever happened to the convict's partner, who was wounded in a shootout while fleeing the crime? Most important of all, where is the money?
Tue, Dec 18, 1979
Kimo and Truck are sent to a remote location to help a scientist who is investigating several mysterious deaths by inhalation. Before long, Truck also shows signs of illness which he attributes to unknowingly violating a native curse (later revealed to be as a result of being exposed to plutonium on a previous assignment). The attractive doctor and Kimo hit it off, which makes both of them targets for the murderer, who is secretly harvesting coral from offshore and selling it.
Tue, Dec 25, 1979
A plastic surgeon's wife is kidnapped, and against his wishes Five-O is brought in to help find her. McGarrett and Kimo are puzzled by the doctor's apparent lack of concern for his wife, and Five-O's investigation of their relationship turns up some equally disturbing facts -- such as how her face was completely different when they lived on the mainland.