User Reviews

Next to the Halloween episode, this was by far the worst of the shows so far.

In a bizarre bank robbery, a man, who is fatally ill, planned a robbery and then would rescue a hostage so that his young daughter, who he abandoned years before, would think that he is a hero. He planned this with a killer that he met through their chemotherapy sessions. By the show's end, the killer takes McGarrett into the forest and tells him to blow him away.

We see that Max has a love interest, the bank teller who is shot during the robbery.

Even the sidebar story is weak here. A model is being stalked and Danno eventually blows the stalker, a female, away with 2 bullets to the back as she is about to strike the model.

Why didn't I like all of this? People who are terminally ill shouldn't get such crazy ideas to come out as a hero to loved ones.

It is a dream job for him. As the model he is protecting is being stalked. As he must find the stalker before it is too little too late.

Steve is trying to find the robber who robbed a bank that Max is wanting to date a banker but she is injured and so is someone who was trying to come to her rescue.

Former child star C Thomas Howell is great as the villain as he is doing that but back in the younger days he was the hero. He can be very versatile.

Everybody likes to make a little extra money, so the people in charge must have made a lot from "Victoria's Secret." Oh, yes, I forgot, there was also this other plot about a bank robbery and tracking some guy down...

But we see the "Victoria's Secret" product placement everywhere, and we get to hear their stories, and see how great the guys in charge are, and how important all of this is. We even get a little excitement as there is some action and danger among the models, a cheesy threatening note, and a very, very, all-too-easy resolution to the commercial that took up over half of this episode.

Oh, and I loved the scene where the guy who is dying from cancer, suffering from chemo, is able to outrun Steve in a Parkour (free running) match. As someone who has gone through chemo, let me tell you that it did not turn me into Reggie Bush like it did this guy.

So, the good guys and Victoria's Secret all win, and that's no spoiler, because you know they always do. This was one of the worst episodes in an otherwise excellent series.

So why do I give it five stars? Because Max saves the day. His role in this is delightful, Max gets cooler with every episode, and it is worth slogging through the twenty minutes of Victoria's Secret ads and the other twenty minutes of traditional commercials and the fifteen minutes of chasing down some kind of bank robbers (oh, and a naked drug addict to boot), in order to catch the five minutes that has Max in it. Max is great. Watch it for Max. I would tell you more, but it would be a spoiler, and I wouldn't want to do that!