'Five-0' Scene Spotting: Able to plunge 10 stories in a single fall
Monday, March 21, 2011
McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) and CIA analyst Jenna Kaye (Larissa Oleynik) team up to track down Wo Fat. Will they take him down in Season 1? Photo: CBS.
Plot lines converge with the local yakuza, Wo Fat and "Super Dorks" — the writers' words, not mine, for fan boys — as we return from the desert of a 3-week series break. Let's fly:
We start with a smorgasbord of town locales: Diamond Head, Duke Kahanamoku's statue on Waikiki Beach, Aloha Tower and the Hilton Hawaiian Village's penguins and its Paradise Pool with the mega slide. I'm going to hit that one of these days.
And then we're poolside at the Aston Waikiki Beach, which rolled as another hotel altogether because it would soon become the scene of a grisly crime: a man in a superhero costume falls to his death, crushing a cabana. Five-0 is on it, and after a pow-wow at Aliiolani Hale and a quick shot of the Honolulu/Waikiki coastline, we're at the Hawaii Convention Center (left, Forest & Kim Starr/Creative Commons), with a comic-book convention underway (not unlike our own Kawaii Kon, coming up at the same place April 29-May 1).
After questioning "Psycho Kitty," a friend of our murder vic, they go after her hot-headed ex at Kailua Beach — McGarrett tackles him in the Kaelepulu Stream. But his alibi is rock solid.
Meanwhile, evidence uncovered from a hotel room one floor above our vic's indicates that's where the murder took place, and Chin Ho and Kono follow the room charge to a lawyer and his wife's home in the Diamond Head/Kahala neighborhood. (My, that's a mighty nice baseball bat you have in your high-priced memorabilia display.) Turns out they were robbed by a perp named Johnny D and didn't rent the room. Another dead end... or so it seems.
Pan to Chinatown's Nuuanu River where McGarrett meets an investigator helping him dig up dirt on CIA analyst Jenna Kaye, who officiously pushed him to turn over evidence in the Hiro Noshimuri/yakuza case relating to his parents' death. (Props to the writers for McGarrett's "Why don't you unclassify it and I won't even ask you for a raise" when Kaye said her evidence was above his pay grade.)
Quick shot of the Ala Wai, back to Aliiolani Hale, where Kono and Danno track Johnny D — to quote Kono, "to a place called Femme Nu." (Heads up, writers: Everybody who drives Kapiolani Boulevard and has lived here more than a year knows where that strip club is. Local cops especially would know.) They set up a sting and nab the poor bastard after he shreds his tires trying to escape.
After raiding Johnny D's garage full of stolen goods set to his melodious sarcasm, McDanno find a snowglobe with an SD card. On it is a video of a girl killed three years ago, having sex with the aforementioned Diamond Head lawyer. Dum Dum Dah! The old case file on the murdered girl is reopened — coroner Max Bergman (Masi Oka) traced wood embedded in her skull to a vintage baseball bat, and it turns out the jealous wife did it: killed the girl with the bat, paid her thug personal trainer to retrieve the stolen snowglobe with the evidence in it back from Johnny D, and said thug killed the guy in the superhero outfit when he drunkenly and accidentally stumbled into Johnny D's room when the thug was ransacking it. And scene... with a final flyover of Kapiolani Park and Waikiki at night.
Five-0 gets their man. And the jealous wife murderess. Photo: CBS.
But wait — there's one more scene. Looks like a noodle shop in Chinatown, but I don't have a clue which. Drop a line if you know! A tension filled meeting between McGarrett and Wo Fat. Mmmm, I can feel the drama coming, sometime during May sweeps.
And then we're poolside at the Aston Waikiki Beach, which rolled as another hotel altogether because it would soon become the scene of a grisly crime: a man in a superhero costume falls to his death, crushing a cabana. Five-0 is on it, and after a pow-wow at Aliiolani Hale and a quick shot of the Honolulu/Waikiki coastline, we're at the Hawaii Convention Center (left, Forest & Kim Starr/Creative Commons), with a comic-book convention underway (not unlike our own Kawaii Kon, coming up at the same place April 29-May 1).
