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- The Vashons are planning to go after Steve for killing Chris Vashon. His grandfather wants to send Steve a message that he's going to die. Honore, Chris' father, objects, unsuccessfully. Steve gets the message and goes to see Honore Vashon, who denies having anything to do with it. Chris's grandfather then hires someone to kill Steve but the attempt fails. Steve then has Honore placed under surveillance which the latter discovers and becomes very careful. He stops using his phone. Eventually he arranges a secluded meeting with his father who tells Honore they need to find someone outside the islands to take care of Steve. Eventually Honore evades the surveillance long enough to meet with the assassin. Steve knows there's someone out there with orders to kill him so he needs to find the assassin first rather than vice versa.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated8.6 (190)TV EpisodeDominick Vashon, the patriarch of the crime family, seeks revenge on McGarrett for killing his grandson, Chris, and sending his son, Honore, to prison. With help from his incarcerated son, he finds a man who has a grudge against McGarrett and asks him to kill McGarrett. He agrees and tries but McGarrett kills him first. When McGarrett goes to the body the gun the man had with him is gone and there are no signs of any bullets. John Manicote charges McGarrett with murder in the second degree. McGarrett hopes Harvey Drew, a lawyer who was with him, will testify to the shots that were fired. But he testifies that what he heard might not have been gun shots so Steve is indicted. Steve sees Dominick Vashon in the gallery and goes to talk to him. Afterward, McGarrett deduces Vashon sent the man to kill him. He needs to prove how the gun disappeared and why Harvey Drew lied.
- Chris Vashon is male heir to the Vashon crime family, which now has considerable legitimate business holdings. The young Vashon, a rebellious sort, has been conducting robberies with friends. McGarrett sees the development as a way of striking back at the Vashons. However, Five-O discovers that's easier said than done, when Honare Vashon, Chris's father, bribes witnesses and Chris Vashon beats the rap in court. McGarrett doesn't give up and attempts to trap Chris Vashon again.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated7.6 (161)TV EpisodeA mentally disturbed former soldier buys a new rifle and ammunition after a sales clerk fails to check him out. The soldier even signs his name as "George C. Patton." He then holes up in a spot on Diamond Head and shoots out the tires of a motorist's car and proceeds to shoot two police officers, one fatally. McGarrett coordinates the police response. The more McGarrett finds out, the worse it gets. It turns out the sniper has a weird relationship with his mother. The mother, in turn, denies the former soldier is her son. Time is running out and Five-O must prepare to lead a police assault on the sniper.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated7.4 (251)TV EpisodeDanny Williams is indicted and jailed after an off-duty pursuit leads to a suspect's death.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated8.2 (164)TV EpisodeA cagey professor and the syndicate team up on a deadly caper. About $750,000 in traveler checks are stolen in Denver. A planeload of criminals posing as academics board a charter flight to Honolulu, with each given $7,500 in traveler checks to spend. A hit man ensures a woman employee of the Honolulu office of the traveler check company can't get the serial numbers of the hot checks circulated. McGarrett calls the caper a "jigsaw puzzle." The question is whether he can solve it in time.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated8.0 (129)TV EpisodeFive-O matches wits with a brilliant thief who's a master of disguise and able to manufacture his own pass keys to Honolulu hotels. The thief has information on guests with valuables and how they try to hide them in their rooms. He even calls the police while disguised as a priest claiming to be robbed himself. The question is whether McGarrett & Co. can catch up to the thief.
- Stuart Bailey, now operating a one-man detective agency, is summoned to New York by Vincent Marion. Marion wants Bailey to buy his late younger brother Andy's way to heaven -- by making amends to those who Andy has wronged during a wasted life. Bailey must contend with a hostile New York City police detective and various characters whose motives are unclear. Bailey has $9,000 that Andy Marion left. But Andy's debts likely far outweigh the money. One mystery is Carla Stevens, who is following the detective. As the first part ends, Bailey lies in the basement of an apartment building after having been attacked by a thug.
- Stuart Bailey recovers from a beating and presses forward with his case, tracking down people who knew the late Andy Marion and attempt to make right the pain Andy had caused. Bailey encounters a series of eccentric characters who hold pieces of the puzzle. He also tracks down Carla Stevens, Andy's former girlfriend. Meanwhile, Andy's wife of one week turns up dead and New York City Lt. Butter looks to Bailey as the prime suspect. Bailey turns up a photograph of a large key and has a duplicate made. As the episode ends, Bailey has been fired by Victor Marion, the dead man's brother.The detective knows he has seen the lock the key must open -- and figures he must find it fast.
- As Stuart Bailey digs deeper into the life the late Andy Marion, he discovers the dead man was dealing in art treasurers stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Vincent Marion, the dead man's brother, agrees to provide additional funds for Bailey to follow a lead to Italy. But Bailey doesn't know that Vincent Marion, an art dealer, is playing a deadly double cross.
- Stuart Bailey crisscrosses Europe trying to solve the mystery of art objects stolen by the Nazis. The detective discovers the codename of Ajax. But other leads turn out to be literal dead ends. Bailey is also under observation by the U.S. Army unit charged with recovering priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Bailey gets a lead that calls for him to fly to Israel. But before he can make a flight to Israel, he's about to be attacked by thugs in Paris.
- Stuart Bailey fights off attackers in Paris then managers to check out of his hotel and catch a flight to Tel Aviv. Once there, he encounters a World War II veteran who provides valuable knowledge about how a half-billion dollars in artworks stolen by the Nazis were, in turn, stolen again. Vincent Marion, who originally hired Bailey, was behind the theft. He had his brother Andy killed after the younger Marion had tried to go into business for himself. After Marion commits suicide, Bailey moves to solve the marathon case.
- Stu Bailey is hired by one of the richest women in the world to investigate a series of attempts on the life of her brother. The highlights of Bailey's investigation include a quick trip to Las Vegas and discovering an intruder breaking into his office. The private investigator discovers the brother is hiding something -- something that could mean the end of Bailey.
- The daughter of a dictator is kidnapped from the University of Hawaii campus. The conspirators are young people committed to overthrowing the dictator, known as El Diablo. One of the conspirators is El Diablo's illegitimate daughter from an affair and resembles the daughter. After El Diablo is assassinated, the question is whether Five-O can save the daughter.
- A burglar steals notebooks from a psychiatrist but double crosses an accomplice and takes the notebooks for himself. One of the patients hires Mannix and Intertect after being blackmailed. Mannix's client is a movie studio art director who has a secret in his past. The trail turns deadly. The burglar and a companion turn up dead and Intertect boss Lew Wickersham is wounded.
- An author, preparing a book about a well-publicized murder case in a small California city, is killed when his yacht blows up. The author's publisher hires Mannix to find the book's last chapter, which is said to solve the murder case. Mannix encounters a hostile police chief who wants to chase him off and an oil-company executive wanting to buy him off. Mannix refuses the bribe and endures a beating by the corrupt police chief but remains committed to finding the missing chapter.
- An American agent in possession of advanced computer chip. has been captured behind the Iron Curtain. He's hidden the chip in a sugar cube; one of 7 soaked in LSD. The IMF must get the agent out, as well as the chip - which are both in a facility under strict observation.
- Russ Conley, a former instructor of Kelly's, shows up in Hong Kong. He delivers a message from "the department" to Kelly and Scott.
- Plans that are part of a top secret U.S. government project are stolen. An independent operator intends to sell them to an Eastern Bloc nation. But the two sides don't trust one another and each is out to gain any advantage it can. The FBI gets a break when a visiting Eastern bloc scientist - who wants to defect to the U.S. - informs the bureau he has been contacted to help verify the plans. But the scientist is injured in a lab accident before he can see the plans. Erskine takes his place and goes undercover. This time out, things will be even more dangerous for the FBI man. He'll have to fake being blind, like the defecting scientist. The scientist is also an accomplished chess player, something that could blow Erskine's cover.
- The IMF's target is an international chess grandmaster who also is planning to steal gold seized from the opposition movement of an unnamed Soviet Bloc country. Rollin poses as an amateur chess player, helped by a computer Barney is running that is unbeatable at chess. The plan, devised by Phelps, also calls for a devious way of snatching the gold from both the chess player and the authorities.
- A priceless diamond has been stolen from a retired millionaire in Oregon. When evidence emerges the thieves have fled to Northern California, the FBI enters the case. Erskine goes undercover as an associate of the retired millionaire. He is to negotiate for the return of the diamond for a ransom. But when other criminals begin to gather, the situation becomes more complicated, and dangerous, for the FBI man.
- 1952–195830mTV-G7.7 (163)TV EpisodeBrockhurst, a famous magician, has been dead for a number of years. Yet, he his ghost is supposed to be returning. Clark Kent, while in England on assignment for the Daily Planet with Jimmy Olsen, is a skeptic. However, Sir Arthur McCredy, an old friend of Perry White's, is involved and Clark and Jimmy are assigned to stay over and work up a story about Brockhurst's supposed return. As Superman, Clark narrowly saves Sir Arthur's life after he has fainted while driving. It turns out he has seen a giant image of Brockhurst's face in the sky. Now, Clark is determined to find out the truth.
- A man who's an expert in both geology and explosives, owes loan sharks more than $72,000. He has planted explosives that, if set off, will cause volcanic eruptions and is demanding $500,000 from the state of Hawaii. He has killed accomplices and is prepared to go through with his threats. But he doesn't know his fed-up wife is preparing to double cross him.
- 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.
- French McCoy, thug for a Miami mobster, turns up dead (stabbed in the chest) and mutilated (one of his pinkie fingers cut off). The mobster, known as "Big Uncle," was looking to move into Hawaii. One of four Hawaiian mobsters is responsible. McGarrett must figure out which one before a gangland war erupts.
- Erskine and Daniels investigate a St. Louis trucking company. The Organization uses trucks from the company to hijack shipments from other trucking firms. The Organization also takes a cut of the profits of the St. Louis company, which gains more and more business as its competitors are driven out of business. The owner of the St. Louis company begins to crack under the pressure and seeks a meeting with Erskine -- a meeting the Organization will seek to stop.
- A woman enters an apartment, is attacked and then thrown over a balcony to her death. The police conclude it is suicide, thanks in part to a phony suicide note. Friends of the woman's family hire Mannix to prove it's really a murder case so the woman can be buried in accordance with her faith. Despite his own doubts, Mannix becomes convinced it is a murder case. Yet the woman's father doesn't want the detective to pursue the case and then his clients abruptly terminate his services. Mannix, however, is determined to pursue the case.
- Lt. Frank Harris, a tough plainclothes police officer, questions Joseph Spooner, a junkie informant, to try to break a case. After Harris drops Spooner off, he is beaten and killed by two hoods. Harris was the last person to see Spooner alive and the junkie's death sets off protests about police brutality. Erskine and Rhodes are called in to investigate before a volatile situation turns explosive.
- When a visiting King is accosted by the Riddler, the Dynamic Duo pursues his subsequent complex trail of riddles to try to stop him.
- In Portland, a city commissioner who was actively involved in the fight against organized crime nearly dies in a murder attempt. The hitman is also injured and flees to California. Crossing a state line brings the FBI into the case and the bureau's investigation is supervised by Erskine and Colby. The hitman ends up in San Francisco, where he and a young pregnant woman fall in love. The FBI foils a second murder attempt on the commissioner. Now, the first hitman is marked for murder for failing to kill the commissioner. and his girlfriend is also endangered.
- 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.
- An Eastern Bloc nation seeks to prevent the defection of Gerald Salzman, one of its key officials, to the U.S. Salzman's wife has already flown to the U.S. with forged papers. Sylvia Prince, who acts as a messenger and coordinator of espionage operations, has activated a sleeper agent who supposedly defected to the U.S. six years earlier. The plot of the conspirators is to kidnap Mrs. Salzman to force him to go back to his homeland. The FBI is on the case after a U.S. State Department official, who knows Salzman, is murdered. Erskine and Colby race to rescue Mrs. Salzman to ensure Salzman's defection takes place.
- 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.
- Two deaths, 3,000 miles apart, put Erskine and Colby on the trail of Cosa Nostra boss John Duquesne. The first fatality occurred a decade earlier and the body was discovered during a routine military exercise near San Jose. The other is the killing a retired hitman on the other side of the U.S. The Cosa Nostra decides that Duquesne needs to get rid of his ex-wife, who could implicate him in the earlier killing. The FBI tries to connect the two murders and prevent a third.
- Miklos Klaar runs a movie studio in the Communist Bloc. He is preparing a film, combining documentary footage with scenes he has shot on a sound stage, to make it appear U.S. troops have committed an atrocity. The Impossible Missions Force -- minus Dan Briggs, who is absent this episode -- runs a typically complicated operation. First, the IMF will ruin Klaar's existing film and negative, forcing him to do a re-shoot. Next, the IMF's plan calls for publicly ruining Klaar just as he's at his moment of triumph.
- Whilst in Hong Kong, and not currently on assignment, Kelly narrowly escapes a sniper's bullet while playing a tennis. He and Alexander Scott, are actually a pair of U.S. agents, Shortly thereafter, they're told to find a freight train which disappeared between China and Hong Kong. The train was supposedly only carrying building materials. It turns out, but, there was a passenger who's of great interest to China.
- 1964–19681hTV-G7.3 (117)TV EpisodeA mysterious U.S. industrialist, Mr. Alexander, steals a new type of nerve gas from the U.S. Army. He leaves behind a small tablet with the number eight on it. Solo and Kuryakin investigate, with the help of Alexander's ex-wife Tracey, who seeks Alexander to sign her final divorce papers. The trio finds Alexander's parents working like slaves at a Greece rock quarry with the number five painted all around. After freeing the parents (and avoiding Alexander's thugs), they travel to a temple where they are captured by Alexander. It turns out Alexander plans to take over an Asian nation, breaking each of the Ten Commandments along the way.
- 1964–19681hTV-G7.2 (111)TV EpisodeSolo, Kuryakin and Tracey escape Alexander's death trap. The scene shifts to Washington and Virginia. Alexander breaks commandment No. 7 by seducing a prince's wife. He is planning on breaking No. 6 (Thou Shall Not Kill) and when that is done, his plot will be complete. Solo is menaced by a muscular thug while Kuryakin is endangered by employees of Alexander's farm in Virginia.
- A state investigation centers on Mike Finney, a former racketeer who hasn't violated the law since moving to Hawaii nine years earlier. But Charles Irwin, an ambitious counsel for a state legislative committee, sees the probe as a way to further his political ambitions. For Five-O, the case begins when there is an apparent attempt on Irwin's life. McGarrett, who knows Finney, is also a target of Irwin. Meanwhile, the "syndicate" on the mainland, nervous that Finney is being investigated, sends a hitman to Hawaii to kill Finney.
- In California, a gang has stolen weapons from the U.S. military. Erskine and Rhodes are assigned to capture the gang.
- Joey Kalama, son of police detective Phil Kalama, nearly goes down in a boxing match then comes back to win the fight. Later, he is beaten by two thugs and dies. McGarrett & Co. investigate the death while trying to rein in Phil, who is also probing the case. The heat is turned up on Five-O after Joey's manager falls to his death accidentally while Phil was trying to question him.
- A young man drives to FBI headquarters from Virginia. He is carrying a large amount of cash and has been shot. He also can't remember his own identity. Is he a criminal or an innocent. The title stems from the story of blind men trying to establish what an elephant looks like by feeling different parts of the animal. That story summarizes the challenge facing Erskine and Rhodes as they try to reconstruct what happened. On top of that, a pair of hit men are stalking the boy.
- 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.
- A prisoner at a federal prison in Colorado is killed. Dying, he tells the warden that a break-out is about to be attempted. Because the prison houses some of the worst criminals in U.S. custody, the FBI is called into the case. Erskine goes undercover as a prisoner and is the new cell mate of Fritz Moline, a cunning criminal suspected of organizing the escape. But Moline, after planning the escape for five years, may kill Erskine first.
- Down on his luck Bernie Farmer is married to Rose, who's the sister of a mobster. When the criminal is about to be paroled, Bernie decides to open a box the mobster had entrusted to him. But the box is empty. Mannix and Intertect boss Wickersham, against their better judgment, opt to help Bernie find what was in the box. Mannix sets himself up as a target, letting people think he has the box and its contents. The detective will endure multiple beatings as he tries to solve the case.
- Erskine and Colby seek to apprehend Arthur Majors, a fugitive who is now part of a Los Angeles-based drug ring. Majors and three others shot two and seriously wounded U.S. border patrol officers in Arizona while transporting drugs. Now, Majors has gone into business for himself. The FBI is in competition with syndicate hitmen to get to Majors first. The life of a young woman, who is fascinated by Majors, is now at risk as the hitmen close in on Majors.
- 1952–195830mTV-G8.0 (202)TV EpisodeA blind girl enters a Daily Planet contest in which the winner will go around the world with Superman. But she has entered the contest using her mother's name, intending that she win. The mother, meantime, wants nothing to do with all of this and being secretive. Clark works to figure out the puzzle and, using his super vision, determines the girl's sight can be restored.
- James and Patricia Laner are in serious trouble. He is an unsuccessful architect who is addicted to heroin. She works at a Chicago brokerage house who has resorted to stealing stock so the couple doesn't drown in their financial troubles. A theft goes awry when a member of the operation is arrested in Cleveland. Because stolen property was transported across state lines, the FBI is now involved. Erskine goes undercover in the Chicago brokerage house. Now, James Laner is being cut off from his heroin supply to force his wife to steal again.
- 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?
- Batman, thanks to superior breath control, is able to escape the plaster of Paris in which he was encased. Despite this, the Mad Hatter is still at large. Eventually, Batman and Robin again face off against the Mad Hatter at his criminal lair. Things look bad, but the Dyamic Duo manage to triumph.