Tuesday, May 03, 2011
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Five-0 investigates the scene of an exploded trailer — with a famous fashion photographer trapped inside. Photos: CBS.
McGarrett flashes his guns (the fleshy kind along with the killing kind), Kono is in a bikini and Rick Springfield takes a non-singing turn — so, something for everyone. Let's see where they filmed:
We start flying over popularly visited Kualoa Ranch as we head to the North Shore, but randomly footage of Kalaupapa and its offshore islands on Molokai are inserted — beautiful, but an odd juxtaposition. We end up at Three Tables, where fashion photographer Renny Sinclair (Springfield) is shooting a swimsuit edition. Hot babes, hot bikinis, then he dies — trapped in his trailer that is set on fire and explodes. Five-0 is on it.
But first, we fly to the Kamehame Trail above Hawaii Kai where McGarrett is getting his run on. He returns to his truck to find another manila envelope, the same in which clues to his parents' murder have been found. He finds a locker key inside, but there's no time to investigate it: The murder call comes in.
Just below the Kamehame Trail, we fly to Makapuu Beach where Kono is participating in a kids surf meet. She's called and the team reconvenes on the North Shore to sift through the rubble.
Kono is assigned to trace the gas used, so after an overhead shot of Diamond Head and Honolulu, it's off to the Board of Water Supply building (the stand-in for the Honolulu Police Crime Lab), where she teams with an investigator to collect gas samples from every Lex Brodie station on island. (I didn't know there were so many.) Meanwhile, Chin Ho heads to the Makai Research Pier next to Makapuu to meet with his uncle, who wants to come clean about money stolen from the HPD to save his wife's life, which Chin Ho took the fall for. Chin Ho is determined the secret remain undiscovered.
(Yes, that's three plot lines running simultaneously. Stay with us...)
Back to Aliiolani Hale (Five-0 HQ) where we learn more about our boy Renny (see video). McGarrett and Danno find Kamekona at Ala Moana Beach Park so they can wrangle an introduction to the loan shark who had Renny on the rails — and who was running his shop out of a lovely home in Kahala. (Pretty sure it's Kahala this time.)
Thanks to Kono's work, they discover the lighter used to start the fire was a pricey designer piece owned by Renny himself. McGarrett goes to Duke Kahanamoku Beach at the Hilton Hawaiian Village to talk to Renny's fiance about it. It was in his trailer, anyone could have stolen it. But put that together with charges made at Lex Brodie's, and they're starting to narrow it down.
Meanwhile, in Chin Ho's world...
Chin Ho must now come up with $200,000 to prove to Internal Affairs that his uncle didn't do it (even though he did).
Five-0 puts the pieces together to learn that the young camera assistant, Amy, is really Renny's long-lost daughter that he didn't want contact with. She's standing on Kalia Road at the Hilton about to jump into a taxi, but Five-0 gets there first.
We end with Chin Ho making a bad decision: Offering the mortgage on his house to the loan shark for $200,000. Oy, the things that guy does for his ohana. And what's with McGarrett's key? Guess we'll have to wait till next week. Until then...
The Quotable Danno
