Ed Flanders was an excellent underrated actor. Anytime he acted on any television show he was terrific! Ed Flanders appeared several times on Hawaii Five - O. In this episode he has created some type of biological mutation that can spread all over the Island, Steve's Rock. Once released there will be no stopping it. The government is involved and Ed Flanders is not really trying to get money he wants the world to be a better place. So he has a huge conflict inside himself as he is the good guy but also the bad guy. He accidentally meets a telephone operator lady played by Loretta Swit. She is also a nice guy but she happens to be female, so she is a nice lady. After talking with Ed Flanders she is instantly in love with him. Television needs this as time does not allow a lot of time for love to develop logically but whom is too say that love is really logical anyway? Well after Steve the head of Hawaii Five - 0 elite state police unit does Sherlock Holmes type of investigating they find out who this Angel/ Devil is and track him down. He is starting to get sick and phones a friend and cannot connect with his friend and an operator attempts to help him. With all the operators on that Island, fate would have it; Loretta Swit is the operator on the other side of the line. She recognizes Ed Flander's voice and she attempts to help him. He gives her the phone number that he is unsuccessfully trying to connect with. Now she has this phone number and will use it to track him down and find her prince. Her prince is the prince formally known as the bad guy but will soon be the prince known as the good guy. This is episode one and has winded down as we need to have a part two. I enjoyed this as I real like Ed Flanders acting ability.
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Inferno?
pensman29 April 2014
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I happened to catch this episode on COZI TV and while I'm watching I'm thinking, I know this story but from where. Scientist (Ed Flanders) decides humanity is out of control as leaders pursue germ warfare. To teach a lesson, the scientist plans on unleashing a virus/bacteria that will kill everyone on Hawaii. But at the last second because of a love interest (Loretta Swit), the scientist relents and all but a few are saved. If I were a relative of Leonard Freeman who is credited as the author of the screenplay, I would have my lawyers reading Dan Brown's Inferno and asking does this seem familiar. Cut out all of the references to The Inferno and the similarities seem to be there. But then there are only so many plots so some repetition has to be expected.
A bit preachy and a bit silly.
planktonrules3 January 2010
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This episode begins with a farmer contacting the police after he found three of his cows dead. While not normally a case for Five-O, the condition of the cows did—they were covered with lesions and were petrified like rocks!! McGarrett assumes that this is the result of some military testing, but the local military leaders assure him it is not. Only later does he learn from Washington that the dead cows may be the result of Dr. Klein—a researcher who has recently had mental problems and might be in Hawaii. This doctor apparently was emotionally unstable and had created a "doomsday germ" that could destroy all life. Why anyone, including the government, would want to work with this is beyond comprehension. What Steve does know is that someone must find this rogue scientist soon—before the bacteria is unleashed on a large scale.
As for the doctor, he is living in Hawaii with an assumed identity. Along the way, he meets a nice but extremely needy lady (Loretta Switt) and they form a relationship—and she knows nothing about his past or the bacteria. As for Klein, you can tell he's mentally ill because he always walks around --sweating, intense and brooding! How Switt finds this attractive is beyond me. And, how she keeps him hidden from the police is beyond me! Overall, this is a rather thin and unbelievable plot. How they stretched this all out to two episodes is beyond me—as a single show, it would have been hard to swallow, but as two, it really was too much.
As for the doctor, he is living in Hawaii with an assumed identity. Along the way, he meets a nice but extremely needy lady (Loretta Switt) and they form a relationship—and she knows nothing about his past or the bacteria. As for Klein, you can tell he's mentally ill because he always walks around --sweating, intense and brooding! How Switt finds this attractive is beyond me. And, how she keeps him hidden from the police is beyond me! Overall, this is a rather thin and unbelievable plot. How they stretched this all out to two episodes is beyond me—as a single show, it would have been hard to swallow, but as two, it really was too much.
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