Episode 5.05 ' Ho' Oilina

[webruce]

Nice to see Sargent John McGarrett from 19 years ago. Also nice to see 6 year old Steve and the Original 5-O Mercury Marquis. Manifold leak, probably a gasket problem. It was cute little Stevie giving his dad the wrench to work on the car.

So chin is that much older Even if he is 19-20 and a Rookie, would make him 12 years older then Steve? I guess Steve did break all of Chin's High School Football Records. Nice that Chin remembered the case and even the bum suspect, Ned Burrows. It was nice having Chin and Steve working together on the case. But with Danny home and probably a mess after loosing his brother Matt and having to shoot Marco Reyes, Chin should be the next choice. It was nice Steve was trying to get a hold of Danny to see how he was doing. When the dealer Jimmy Sykes was mentioned and then not checked into until later I figured he must have been the culprit. Either that or a throw away name, like the head of the underground game room,Paradise Den, Dominic Alonzo. He's been dead 8 years. I thought the resumed body of Paul Clayton after 19 years would be more bones then with the flesh? "Bones" works with a lot less from a more current burial. Granted Paul was in a casket and most of "Bones" bodies are in open, or other weird locations.

Nice for Steve to find out that John regretted sending away him and Mary. Also nice that Aunt Deb(Carrol Burnett)is getting chemo, and Mary and Joanie are doing well.

Steve looked good dressed up to see his Dad on the 4th Anniversary of his death. But he forgot to shave? Not sure what the quarter to dad meant? Did he give Steve a quarter he remembered? Did dad flip one like the old gangsters did, lol.
Elli Clayton seems quite nice. I'm surprised she has the accent. Seems by the story that she lived in Hawaii most all her life. Or did she just return to the Islands? Her dad's bar, Ace's High is still there, unused. Was that match book one that we saw back in the first season? Or when Jerry went through it and found the Shelburne misspelling on bottom?
Nice that they showed that the taking of the money box was just a front for a hit. I see so many times on these shows someone is whacked, and his wallet and credit cards were left behind. "Well Mr. Thompson wasn't robbed, he still had $150 and 2 credit cards on him"! Take the wallet and make it a little harder for our guys to solve it, ok? Even if you drop it in a trash can or flip it to a bum, lol. But I would hate to have mine taken too. But with Tony Malua and Jordan Lewis helping lead them to Jimmy Sykes, it made it a little more difficult to track it. It didn't make John Mc. look to dumb, and especially with the trail having to be even deader then it was back then. Granted the bullet fragments in the body helped.
Surprised that Jordan Lewis could help 5-0 bring down Sykes. But he did like Clayton. So Clayton was once a part of SVL and quit. He had gotten in Sykes's face. The "Howlie"(Tony Malua's words, not mine. No hate mail please!) messed with Sykes business. So Lewis(Sykes words) got Clayton killed. But he is sorry after both Lewis hits him and Steve shoots him. Nice that later Ellie went to see Lewis.

Nice that Ellie knew some stuff about cars. Does seem like maybe a romance is in the works? She is down to Earth. But I still miss Catherine in the right doses.

I think Flippa going in to get back Jerry's book really tipped off Farrow. He did know something was up, but not sure what in Jerry's case before. He might have thought Jerry a private dick, or he worked for a gang that was going to rob the place? Maybe Chin Ho shouldn't have told Jerry to back off like that. But at end we see Thomas Farrow book shop owner at Jerry's to probably kidnap him. Insert head in bag here. So the team may have to watch Jerry's tapes. They will figure out that the sporting talk was code. And maybe that Jerry was right about money laundering.

But I hope that the Matty/Marco Reyes story line isn't over. And don't have Jerry's story gone in one more episode.

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Sorry... Ellie not Allie. I watched this episode three times. It may be my favorite so far this season.

[Core 4]

Oct 26, 2014 17:58:43 GMT -5 webruce said:

So chin is that much older Even if he is 19-20 and a Rookie, would make him 12 years older then Steve? Records. 

From my calculations suggest that Chin is older than Steve about 6 years. Steve was born on 3/10/1977, so is now 37 years. Meanwhile, Chin graduated from high school in 1989, so he was 18 years old, so Chin is 43 years old. For episode 4x13 searched actress who plays the 16-year-old Kono, but as it turned out, however, she played Grace Park. So now Kono is 31 years old. Danny I do not know, but probably the same age as Steve.

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* Where is McGarrett's house suppose to be? it's located in Bayer Estates which is half way between Diamond Head and Hanauma Bay which is in Honolulu. at the beginning of the show he was seen driving through a countryside before he reached Honolulu but whatever. McGarrett goes to pay his father respect a the Punchbowl graveyard. As he heads back to the car, Ellie Clayton came out of no where to pay her respect to John McGarrett. at the car, he calls Mary and spots Ellie at the gravesite so he catches up with her and asks her how she knew his father, Ellie recognize him as John's son and invites him over for coffee. At the park we learned that 19 years ago, someone came in her father's bar Ace High, shot him and took the metal box. McGarrett's father investigated but never caught who was responsible. We also learned that Ellie is now a deputy prosecutor in Honolulu. McGarrett goes home to his champ box and took out the Ace High match holder. It was not there before but again whatever.
* Meanwhile we pan to Jerry's house where he is in the progress of moving out with the help of Chin, Kamekona, his cousin, Bergman and Mindy Shaw. After a brief talk with Mindy, Jerry goes upstairs, claiming he's going to clean out the kitchen but Chin went upstairs and caught Jerry listening to the counterfeiters. Chin gives him a serious rundown about the illegal bugging and just as McGarrett arrives Jerry promise to get the book back. outside McGarrett and Chin have a conversation about the cold case. We learned that Nick Burrows was first subjected because he was wearing a sweatshirt that came from the murderer but he came clean and was let go. Later John tried to search for him but failed.
* We were treated with a flashback of 19 years ago, Young Ellie who looks Asian was sent to bed by her father after dancing with him, A killer came in and shot him and took his metal box and dump it in the dumpster and his sweatshirt too. Why he have to do that (taking off his sweatshirt) is unknown but who cares. Ellie heard the shot and saw the killer fleeing from her window. Later the grieving Ellie is comforted by John, promise her he will catch the killer.
* Thanks to a new law that ID homeless people, Chin and McGarrett manage to track down Nick to his makeshift house, Nick tells them that he found the sweatshirt and the metal box in the dumpster, he took the money, hid the box in the building behind Leonard's bakery (no, it's not a tribute to Leonard Freeman but a real Honolulu landmark, may be a coincidence) which is amazingly still there. In the metal box they found a card, Kono reference it to HPD symbol image database (really?) and finds out it belongs to the underground gaming room called Paradise Den which Paul Clayton was involved in. He pissed off some guys including the member of the SVL, a Samoan street gang. You see, a week before his murder, Paul argues with Jordan Lewis who was selling meth, he decided to gamble to get him to quit. Alex did a Jack Lord-brainstorming, and figured it was not a robbery but a hit made to look like robbery.
* Steve wanted to exhume Paul's body to search for bullet fragments, with the permission of Ellie did so. Whoever embalmed him did a good job. they manage to find the rest of the bullet fragments and matches it to a gun to Skyes' man but the man points out that Skyes did it himself.
* At one point Steve tries to call Danno to see how he is holding up from the traumatic event of the last episode. Danno not being in the episode excites those who did not like him but sad for those who likes him
* To catch Skyes, they need evidence so Steve got an idea, they decided to get Jordan to help so they wired him up and went to Skyes place, amusingly no one patted him down so Jordan and Skyes has a short talk, he manage to get him to confess murdering Paul and then starts to insult him which got Jordan to fly off the handle and attack him, the wounded Skyes shoots him. Fortunately, the Five-O were nearby in the Takahamo cleaning and restoration van came out and presumably killed Skyes from killing Jordan (or wounding him farther, we never saw him again.)
* In his garage, Steve has a flashback of kid Steve handing the wretch to his dad who is fixing the car, this scene is clichéd
* Ellie goes over to McGarrett who is fixing the Grand Marquis that Jack Lord drove in 1974 (nice to see it). Ellie gave thanks to McGarrett. It does not looks like it will be the last of her. Fun Fact, the actress Mirrah Foulkas came from Australia. Coincidence? She might be a recurring character
* Jerry went to his basement and is captured by Thomas Farrow, looks like he was right but I still don't care where this going. Also how Thomas knew the book is bugged has yet to be explained
*In the 15 years old flashback, John was seen giving something to the now White Ellie, with Chin waiting in the police car. After he return, John made a regret sending Mary and Steve away.
* The music was finally good. What took them so long?
* Oh and Alex did a good job acting.

Finally a good episode, however this week is Halloween week, the episodes of Halloween is usually not good, hope this is good. And keep watching

[Core 4]

Could someone give me the names of the songs from this episode? Because I liked them, but I do not know them.