Ep. 421 - Makani ʻOlu a Holo Mālie - New

[Diana]

04.11.2014

McGARRETT AND CATHERINE TRAVEL TO AFGHANISTAN TO STOP THE TALIBAN FROM HARMING A YOUNG BOY WHOSE FAMILY SAVED CATHERINE'S LIFE YEARS AGO, ON “HAWAII FIVE-0,” FRIDAY, MAY 2






“*Makani ʻOlu a Holo Mālie” – McGarrett and Catherine travel to Afghanistan to stop the Taliban from harming a young boy whose family saved Catherine’s life years ago, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, May 2 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

(*“Makani ʻOlu a Holo Mālie” is Hawaiian for “Fair Winds and Following Seas”)

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SERIES REGULARS:

Alex O’Loughlin (Steve McGarrett)

Scott Caan (Danny “Danno” Williams)

Daniel Dae Kim (Chin Ho Kelly)

Grace Park (Kono Kalakaua)

Masi Oka (Dr. Max Bergman)

Michelle Borth (Catherine Rollins)

Chi McBride (Captain Lou Grover)

RECURRING CAST:

Taylor Wily (Kamekona)

Dennis Chun (Sgt. Duke Lukela)

Shawn Mokuahi Garnett (Flippa)

Larry Manetti (Nicky “The Kid” Demarco)

Al Harrington (Mamo Kahike)

Duane “Dog’ Chapman (Himself)

GUEST CAST:

William C. Mitchell (Joel Bratton)

Angelica Quinn (Alicia Helani)

Mido Hamada (Amir Khan)

Mallika Sherawat (Farah Khan)

David Landry (Leon Chase)

Farshad Farahat (Umar Hassan)

Michael Hollick (Naval Intel Officer Lt. Granger)

Josh Clark (Naval Captain Stan Norell)

Jordan Salud (Jamie Kamaka)

Maz Siam (Interrogator)

Gary Fritts (Seal)

Timothy Brennen (CIA Man)

John A. Weaver (Suit)

Kala Alexander (Kawika)

Christianno De Lugo (Najib Khan)

Ran Yatim (Leader)

Daniel Gilad (Taliban Fighter #3)

Mehdi Mdouari (Taliban Fighter #7)

STORY BY: Peter M. Lenkov, Ken Solarz and Eric Guggenheim

TELEPLAY BY: Eric Guggenheim

DIRECTED BY: Jeffrey Hunt

[Dannos Dani]

Just not my kind of episode. It was like watching one of my sons' Playstation Call of Duty games.

[davilarose]

So I take it by saying over the border, it means that Cath is going into Pakistan. By herself. OK.

I always thought that Steve had more standing in the military. I know he is now in the reserve. And he was in Afghanistan on an unsanctioned mission......but I thought the head guys came down on Steve a little harshly. But, I am not, nor have I ever been, in the military--so what do I know??

All I can say is we better get some answers next week. Like about Wo Fat's relationship to the McGarrett family or the Wo Fat/Doris connection. Those questions are still hanging from the season 3 finale.

[davilarose]

And they have left the door open for Cath to come back as she was not killed off. Just hope that Steve won't spend season 5 trying to find her---it is all angsty and hurting right now.....but, like I said in my previous post, I just want answers from last year---we don't need to keep piling on the sh*t.

[debraluv50]

That was an intense episode! The torture scenes were too much for me. Alex was amazing in his portrayal of a captured soldier. Just pure relief when the American soldiers killed the taliban and rescued Steve. Have you noticed that Danny is becoming braver than ever? I think this is his 3rd trip to Afghanistan. The CIA guys were so disrespectful toward Steve. That is no way to treat a SEAL... those 2 men are full of themselves. I am sad to see Catherine leave. I hope Peter Lenkov realizes that she needs to be a part 5-0. Steve needs her in his life and she will never find a better man than McGarrett. Maybe when Steve kills Wo-Fat and there aren't any more threats against McGarrett, then they will bring Catherine back. I will hope for this no matter what. My words to describe this episode ...intense, exciting, exhausting and heartbreaking.

[davilarose]

May 2, 2014 21:24:51 GMT -5 debraluv50 said:

That was an intense episode! The torture scenes were too much for me. Alex was amazing in his portrayal of a captured soldier. Just pure relief when the American soldiers killed the taliban and rescued Steve. Have you noticed that Danny is becoming braver than ever? I think this is his 3rd trip to Afghanistan. The CIA guys were so disrespectful toward Steve. That is no way to treat a SEAL... those 2 men are full of themselves. I am sad to see Catherine leave. I hope Peter Lenkov realizes that she needs to be a part 5-0. Steve needs her in his life and she will never find a better man than McGarrett. Maybe when Steve kills Wo-Fat and there aren't any more threats against McGarrett, then they will bring Catherine back. I will hope for this no matter what. My words to describe this episode ...intense, exciting, exhausting and heartbreaking.

What other times has Danno been to Afghanistan? I am drawing a blank here......

[scooterca42]

I agree with the "Call of Duty" reference, but I guess there was as little of it as he needed to establish why Catherine is leaving. But this had more true 'bromance' in the last few moments than the whole of 19, for me.

[rita162]

I enjoyed this episode. Alex turned in a great performance. He needs to be recognised for this.

[Dannos Dani]

May 3, 2014 6:27:27 GMT -5 scooterca42 said:

I agree with the "Call of Duty" reference, but I guess there was as little of it as he needed to establish why Catherine is leaving. But this had more true 'bromance' in the last few moments than the whole of 19, for me.

Agree that the bromance at the end was good - as was Danno taking off when he heard Steve was in trouble (was half expecting Grover to be there instead, the way it's been going lately).
The ending with the 2 of them was the one good thing about the episode (that and Cath calling in the army to retrieve the soccer ball - ridiculous, but heartwarming). Loved how Danno stood up to the idiot solders and told them they can't order him around. I'm sure that's not true, though, but hell, I'll take it because it was nice to see him standing his ground (well, his chair, anyhow).

The whole episode just begged a little too much suspension of reality for me. Really, one sole woman against all of the taliban? Even with SuperSEAL by her side, there was zero chance Wonder Ex-Navy Woman could waltz into Afghanistan and find the kid (not that she did). And then, she takes off on her little motorcycle to take on the armies of whatever other country is involved. I think there was a Wonder Woman comic about her taking on Hitler's armies once. PL must have read it.

[davilarose]

Yeah--the whole woman alone against the Taliban just doesn't really do it for me.......and the way women are treated in that part of the world by groups like the Taliban is just scary. I am sure Steve finally got a taste of what his ohana/loved ones go through when he goes off on a mission that he may or may not come back from. And it was heartbreaking to see Steve sitting alone in his house at the end......although I did like the bromance. We haven't had this much bromance since the premiere of season 2.

[biochemgeek]

If Steve didn't have PTSD before, he surely does now. The torture and rescue scenes were pretty brutal.

[mandyblue]

I liked this review from TVFanatic



Titled "Makani 'Olu A Holo Malie," Hawaii Five-0 Season 4 Episode 21 was a tense, heart-wrenching hour.

It started with a routine traffic accident and possible mugging, which turned into an investigation of a stolen transplant organ and an attempted murder.

But then a call from an old friend in Afghanistan took Catherine and Steve rushing across the globe to save a young boy abducted by the Taliban.



Hawaii Five-0 likes to be a show that has a little fun on the side in the midst of some very heavy and tragic cases, but it feels just a bit more true to life when you see two of the Five-0 heroes swept up into fighting Taliban terrorists on their own turf - all the way from the beaches of Hawaii to the deserted rural outback of Afghanistan.

Could those worlds be further apart?

When a friend from Catherine's past called needing her help to rescue his son who had been kidnapped, she did not hesitate; nor did Steve who joined her on this off-the-books rescue mission to save a young boy.

As much as we applaud that noble and fearless gesture, it came with a steep price: Steve was captured and nearly killed. Worse yet, he was forced to return home without Catherine, leaving her alone to complete her mission to find the young boy in extremely hostile territory.

It is always fun watching the Five-0 unit quickly and efficiently solve their own crimes. The stolen transplant organ was quickly recovered and just in time to save the life of a plaintiff's attorney suing a major chemical manufacturer in a class action.

It was a nice win back at home.

But the real story was what was going on with Catherine and Steve and the missing boy. Catherine and Steve should never have gone on their own into Afghanistan, a hostile country where their were vastly outnumbered.

But Catherine and Steve thought they could make a quick, sneak attack and save the boy. It was a strong plan, just lacking in back-up when they were out-manned and out-gunned. Catherine did rescue over a dozen kidnapped children; just not the boy she was searching for -- the son of the man who saved her life two years earlier when she had been shot and separated from her unit.

It was to repay Catherine for an act of kindness she had made years before in preventing his son from running into a minefield after a soccer ball -- a soccer ball which she got a U.S. military tank to retrieve from the minefield.

For that one simple act of kindness was a debt the father repaid by saving her life when she was injured. So when the father called begging for Catherine's help when his son was taken, she did not hesitate and was on the first flight out.

But Afghanistan is not a country for one person or even two people to try to plan a rescue mission on their own. Catherine did save a dozen children, but Steve was caught and nearly executed.

Fortunately, Catherine finally did something really smart. She called Danny, who very quickly got the military involved and an immediate rescue mission was made getting to Steve just in the nick of time was he was about to lose his head (literally) while being videotaped for the whole world to see.

But not before sustaining a vicious beating, which was distinctly unpleasant to watch. Torture scenes are always unpleasant, and seeing it reenacted even on a TV screen just turns one's stomach.

So it was hard to feel like cheering when the military came in and rescued Steve, killing all the terrorists holding him. It was not really a cheering moment. Steve had been brutally and savagely beaten. In fact, he was taken away in a stretcher barely conscious. Seeing his rescue was simply a time to quietly let the air out of our lungs and breathe again.

Even Danny, once he saw how badly Steve was injured and brutalized, looked shaken and yet grateful that they had reached Steve just in time.

That moment was a strong reminder that it takes a team to hunt down criminals, and that that team will care deeply if one of its members is hurt or killed.

Catherine on H50
Perhaps that bond of friendship and near familial love is taken for granted back at home. But on the battlefield, risking one's life takes on a more immediate meaning. The stakes feel somehow higher.

Which is exactly why Steve was so distraught and terrified to hear that Catherine was still out there on her own. Under military guard, he and Danny were not able to stay behind or even to slip away to search for her.

It was then a great relief when she finally came out of hiding to call Steve and let him know she was okay.

But the pained expression on both Steve and Catherine's faces was a stark reminder that she was still in great jeopardy -- and Steve would have done anything to be with her in that moment so that she was not alone.

Alone behind enemy lines and searching for a stolen boy, who may have been taken over the border into even more hostile territory. So when Steve tells her: "I love you, you know" and she replies: "I love you too," it is a piercing reminder that she is a world away -- a million miles away. He cannot just go rushing to her aid again, as much as he wants to.

Those tears in both their eyes were the tears were felt in our eyes watching them. Their declarations of love were just as much a goodbye as they were going to get. Catherine alone, across the border, attempting to rescue a boy stolen by terrorists.

It's a suicide mission at best -- and they both knew it.

Perhaps fate will deal them a kinder hand and miraculously Catherine will make it back safely. But this is the real world (for them anyway) and the odds are against it. It is a cruel nod to how this episode opened, the entire Five-0 team at the poker tables, throwing their money in the pot with such ease and carefree laughter.

But you cannot gamble in the real world and expect to win. If fate is kind one day, it may not be the next -- and they had already tested fate by rescuing the boys and the miraculous rescue of Steve from the Taliban compound.

It will be a roll of the dice to see if Catherine can rescue Amir's son and get out with her life, and those odds are not good betting odds.

So our hearts were torn at the end of this episode. Children had been saved. Steve had been rescued. A transplant patient received his stolen liver. But Catherine was still far from home and searching for a stolen boy.

This round at the poker tables had been favorable for some, but not all. In this next gaming round, Catherine's hand may not be so favorable and we just hope and pray that she is dealt a winning hand again.


Read more: www.tvfanatic.com/2014/05/hawaii-five-0-review-a-heros-mission/#ixzz30gKJjmZR

[cookiejar]

I thought it was a good episode. We found out a little bit more about Cath but that isn't much of a big deal considering she is no longer with 5-0. The torture scene was well, torture to watch but it is what it is. We finally get an "I love you" from both Cath and Steve as if there were little doubt that they really loved each other. I don't know how the writers expect Steve just to go about his business with Cath still out there. But in true H50 fashion they will probably never mention it again. Don't you think it will be hard for Steve to just forget about it? Thought the military guys were pretty rough on Steve afterall he alerted them to that bad guy still being alive.
In reference to that tvfanatic review, he seems to indicate Cath may never come back. That would be a stupid move. How would Steve really feel about her dying? Not a very happy note to leave the series finale on when the series finally ends. Cath has to come back at some point.
Like the other story that was going on in the episode as well.