[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
Two of your most trusted lieutenants were shot and killed this morning,
gangland style.
The tragic loss has deeply saddened me.
Oh, I don't buy that, not for a minute.
What do you want, Mr. Varna?
Half.
Two million dollars?
McGarrett.
I want members of the Wo Ching gang brought in for questioning.
Maybe we can get one of them to crack.
Welcome home, Mr. Vincent. How was the trip?
Very successful, Lou.
Three weeks on a freighter is not a very pleasant experience.
We better get going. He's waiting.
- Take a look inside. - No. We play this straight.
That way we get to keep the money.
- Who's gonna know? - I will.
Now, you all know what to do. Now, get moving.
Something bugging you?
No.
Be back as soon as I can.
My mistake was not supervising this operation myself.
- All precautions were taken. - Heh.
Obviously not all.
Look, you're being challenged. There's no doubt about that.
But you can rest assured I'll find out who was behind it.
Tell me, how am I going to rest assured,
when $4 million of my money has vanished into thin air?
- Father? - Lee Mei.
How many times must I tell you about knocking?
I'm sorry, father.
We did have a date to go shopping.
I will have to cancel it.
Something has come up which requires my personal attention.
- You promised. And what could be...? - Lee Mei.
I know.
"Lee Mei, when it comes to matters pertaining to business,
your questions will not be entertained."
Am I that bad, daughter?
Almost.
Tomorrow perhaps?
- We shall see. Now, run along, dear. - Okay.
The IDs been confirmed?
Yeah.
- Ray Vincent. - Ray Vincent?
Hold it.
Looks like Chang Liu's gonna have to find another financial whiz kid.
No, he won't be hurting for candidates.
Working for Chang Liu carries a lot of prestige.
Yeah. What about the other two?
Lou Benson. That's his car over there.
He must've been here waiting for the chopper.
[DANNY SCOFFS]
Lou Benson. Strictly muscle.
Also part of Chang Liu's rank-and-file.
The other one's the pilot.
Runs a chopper rental service.
His name is, um, C.J. Williams.
You know, I ran him through the computer.
There's not a sheet on him.
Poor guy. He might've just taken the wrong charter.
DUKE: Danny.
This is the young man who discovered the bodies. Bobby Kalani.
DANNY: Hi, Bobby. - Hi.
He didn't see what happened, but he did see a car
pull out just before he discovered the bodies.
Did you see the license number?
No, I didn't.
But I did get a look at the driver.
There was a bunch a guys with him, but I wouldn't know how many.
What kind of car was it?
'66, '67 white Ford sedan. Kind of beat up.
There's probably a thousand cars on the island matching that description.
Yeah, that's gonna make it rough.
Duke, take Bobby over to H.P.D.
See if he can identify the driver of the car from the mug books.
Right.
This was found in Vincent's pocket.
Hmm.
Last entry stamp, Netherlands. That was almost four weeks ago.
It appears Vincent took the long way home.
Meaning he was trying to avoid customs.
Yeah, and if so, he must've been carrying something very important.
Something three men paid for with their lives.
Danno, contact Interpol.
See if they can help us nail down
Vincent's movements while he was abroad.
Then check with your street contacts.
See if anyone's trying to put the squeeze on Mr. Chang.
Right.
You, uh, figuring to do a little squeezing yourself?
Mm-hm, just enough to see
how much the honorable Chang Liu's feeling the heat, Danno.
QUAN: Okay, that does it. Any questions?
MAN: That was cool, man. - Hey, wait a minute.
If we can't see or talk to each other for two weeks, I wanna know why.
MAN: Yeah, what kind of deal was that?
QUAN: Because that was the deal.
Now, if we want the rest of our money, we gotta play along.
Look, I never let you down before, did I?
Hmm?
Okay.
I'll see you in two weeks.
MAN: Okay.
Hey, Tony, how long you think you can keep conning them?
As long as I have to.
You could have told me where you stashed the money.
That way if something happens to you...
You keep the other guys in line, I'll take care of the rest. Okay?
Okay.
I hope you know what you're doing.
Sir.
Mr. McGarrett of Hawaii Five-0 is here to see you.
Tell him to wait.
McGarrett.
Is he something else you failed to anticipate?
I give you 24 hours to find the money,
and I will not tolerate any further incompetence.
I don't like waiting rooms. I have a busy schedule, Chang.
Now, would you like to talk here, or downtown?
Please sit down, Mr. McGarrett.
Mr. Varna was just leaving.
Now, what can I do for you?
Two of your most trusted lieutenants were shot and killed this morning,
gangland style.
Why?
I cannot answer that.
I can only say that the tragic loss has deeply saddened me.
Oh, I don't buy that, not for a minute.
I, too, am a busy man.
Would you get to the point?
What was Vincent doing in Europe?
Taking a much needed vacation.
Then why was he flown back into Hawaii by helicopter, huh?
Was it because he was bringing something into the islands
that you didn't want customs to see?
That is a mystery, isn't it?
Perhaps I should keep better tabs on my employees.
No one operates independently in your organization, Chang.
That's why I know you know exactly what Vincent was bringing in illegally.
If you are truly interested in bringing to justice whoever killed my associates,
I suggest your time would be better spent elsewhere.
Oh, I'm interested.
Truly interested.
My problem is finding out who is responsible before you do.
And if I offer you no competition in your search?
Well, the way I see it, you have no choice.
Because if I find Vincent's killers first,
you won't be able to recover whatever it was that was stolen from you.
And I have the happy feeling,
that just might spell instant disaster for you.
Excuse me.
Would you like some tea before I go out, father?
What's wrong?
Leave me alone now, please.
If you don't feel well, I don't have to go out.
I can stay here with you.
Run along, Lee Mei, please.
Yes, father.
Lee Mei. The keys to $4 million.
Oh! Jerry, oh, gosh, we did it. We really did it, Jerry.
QUAN: You should've seen the look on their faces.
Boy, were they surprised. Just like you said.
- The money? - Hidden where nobody's gonna find it.
- Except you and me. You keep this. - Ha, ha.
That way if something happens to me...
I would've given anything to see the look on my father's face.
[QUAN CHUCKLES]
The exact moment he found out.
Anything.
You're sure he doesn't suspect?
No way.
He's so wrapped up in his own self-importance,
he'll never suspect that a street gang ripped him off.
If he only knew.
Yeah, that would be great.
I wonder what my head would look like not attached to my body.
Oh, Jerry. Come on.
I told you, nobody's gonna get hurt, unless one of your...
Unless one of my gang blows it, right?
Well, they are the most vulnerable.
There's something you better not forget, baby.
They made it happen.
You never have understood.
The Wo Chings won't even walk down the street unless I tell them to.
I know, Jerry.
It's just that, well...
Look, we've come so far.
I should've told them.
They would've kept quiet. They took the oath.
The famous oath of the Wo Chings.
Tell me.
What value would your precious oath have
if my father finds out?
That's all you care about, isn't it?
Your father.
Not me, not the money.
It's how many points you can score against your old man.
Don't you ever say that to me.
Jerry.
Oh, Jerry, Jerry.
I'm sorry.
I know it seems like I'm hard on your friends sometimes but...
Honey, I don't mean it. Really I don't.
I love you, Jerry.
Steve, nothing on the car yet,
but Chin and Duke are still out beating the bushes.
What about the driver?
We've come up dry, so far.
Our witness, Bobby Kalani, was at H.P.D. Until midnight,
going through the mug books.
Finally sent him home for a breather.
This just came in from Interpol.
It seems that Vincent moved around quite a lot when he was in Europe.
He spent two days each in Basel, Hamburg, Rome, London and Zurich.
Last reported in Amsterdam.
All European financial centers.
Anything on what he was doing over there?
Interpol kept an eye on him.
He tried very hard to make it look like he was vacationing.
But all his social contacts were with officials of Anacott International.
Anacott.
Rumored to be the front
for Chang Liu's European money-laundering operation.
Yeah.
My guess was that Vincent was there to pick up Chang's laundry.
Chang Liu would never send his top financial aide abroad
unless there was a lot of money involved.
Exactly.
And as of now, we don't have a single lead
that might suggest who killed those men and got the money.
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
Yes, Malia?
All right, put him on. What do you got, Chin?
I'm sorry to hear that.
Yes, Chin.
Yeah, Danno's on his way.
Right.
That poor kid, Bobby Kalani?
He's in Honolulu General. He's been badly beaten.
It looks like Chang Liu is making his move.
Get over to the hospital, Danno.
I was just going inside my house,
and there were these two guys waiting for me inside.
What did they look like?
Local.
Big.
Real big.
I remember one guy had a scar on the left side on his face,
but that's about all I can remember.
How did they know where to find you?
Guess it's kind of dumb, but I spoke to some reporters
about finding those bodies, and seeing the car drive away.
My name and address was in the paper.
So they came to your house wanting to know about the car and the driver.
I had to tell them what he looked like.
If I hadn't said anything, they'd still be working me over.
Don't worry about it, Bobby.
It's just a good thing you had that bone to throw to them.
[DANNY SIGHS]
Hang in there.
That was the fifth call this morning, Mr. Varna.
The competition is sniffing around.
"How is everything going, Chang?"
"How are you feeling, Chang?"
Next thing they'll want is an hourly reading of my blood pressure.
You know, don't you, Mr. Varna, that having that money stolen from us
will show weakness in our organization.
We have allowed ourselves to appear vulnerable.
And if we don't recover that money and punish those responsible,
one of our competitors is going to pounce.
Perhaps all of them together.
I still say there had to be a leak, internally.
You are accusing one of our own people?
Only six people knew when and where that money was coming in.
Two of them are dead.
Mr. Varna, I suggest that you're looking for someone
to throw to the wolves, to cover up your own stupidity and incompetence.
I want to know exactly what you are doing to recover the money.
We are concentrating all our resources on tracking down the driver of that car.
It won't be long. I assure you.
Central, this is Williams. Patch me through to McGarrett.
- McGarrett. - Steve.
We found a car matching Bobby Kalani's description.
We found it in a vacant lot near Kohala Basin.
Huh, anything on it?
It's on H.P. D's hot sheet. Stolen two days ago.
Well, that's to be expected, Danno.
Get a lab team down there.
I want it gone over from hood to hubcaps.
DANNY: They're on their way already.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO]
[DOORBELL RINGS]
Mr. Varna. Uh, what is it?
I want to talk to you, Lee Mei.
Well, what about? I'm, um, getting ready to change.
About your boyfriend.
Jerry Quan.
So...
Now my father has you spying on me.
Your father had nothing whatsoever to do with my being here.
Oh?
Does that mean you have a personal interest in my love affairs?
Heh, I don't care about your love affairs.
I am somewhat interested in the, uh, $4 million, however.
I haven't the vaguest notion of what you're talking about.
Allow me to clarify.
[STEREO CLICKS OFF]
I've been watching you, Lee Mei. You've been very clever.
Very clever indeed.
Business meetings accidentally interrupted,
phone conversations overheard,
late-night visits to your father's office under the guise of straightening up.
And all done with that sweet innocence he so demands of you.
Exactly what are you accusing me of, Mr. Varna?
My father will hear of this, I assure you.
Oh, yes, he will.
And when he does, he'll be furious.
But I work for him, he knows me, he'll listen to me,
but when I tell him about the phone calls I've overheard...
Well, at first the messages were innocent enough.
But when that gang stole the money,
I realized that you'd been feeding your boyfriend
the exact information he needed to set it up.
What do you want, Mr. Varna?
Half.
Two million dollars?
And if I refuse, you go straight to my father. Correct?
Mm-hm.
It appears I have no choice.
Good. Well, that's settled, then.
Oh, uh, where's the money?
That will be my secret, Mr. Varna.
Until I'm sure you can be trusted.
Fair enough.
Uh, anyone else know where it is?
Just Jerry Quan. But he'll be no problem.
What do you mean?
Because in my mind, he's already dead.
Isn't he in yours?
QUAN [OVER PHONE]: Hello? - Jerry, hi.
Hi, what's up?
I want to talk to you as soon as possible.
Something the matter? You sound funny.
No. Everything's fine.
There's just a few things I want to go over with you.
Okay, meet you at the beach house.
Let's make it the warehouse.
I'll be there in an hour.
The warehouse, why?
Oh, Jerry, please. I've got to go.
- Love you. - Me too.
- Bye. - Bye.
He'll be there.
You're shocked, aren't you?
Don't be.
I'm Chang Liu's daughter, remember?
That's the guy.
He's the one that was driving the car.
The Kalani kid made a positive ID, Steve.
CHIN HO: Jerry Quan, leader of the Wo Chings.
One of the most powerful street gangs in Honolulu.
It just doesn't figure.
The Wo Chings are tough,
but they wouldn't tangle with Chang Liu.
He's way out of their league.
But what if they were recruited?
Possibly by someone with the kind of inside information
that would make the risk worthwhile?
But if the information was that good, why bother with the Wo Chings?
Using those kids from the street
has gotta buy more trouble than they're worth.
That would depend how desperate you are.
Okay, Chin.
Pick him up. Maybe he can fill in a few blanks for us.
- Hi, baby. - Hi.
Hey, what's going on?
You're good at putting things together.
You know, Jerry.
I had really grown rather fond of you.
Until Mr. Varna came along,
I didn't know exactly what I was going to do.
What's he got to do with it?
He's helping me protect our investment.
I'm sorry, Jerry.
I really am.
[GUNSHOT]
Duke, take the back.
- Duke, you okay? - I think so.
DANNY: What happened?
All I saw was a car that almost took part of me with it.
- You see the driver? - No.
Too busy trying to get out of the way.
What about Quan, you see him?
He's dead. Come on.
McGarrett.
Yeah, Danno.
So we're back to square one, huh?
Okay, get yourself some warrants,
I want every member of the Wo Ching gang picked up
and brought in for questioning.
Maybe we can get one of them to crack.
[GANG CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO]
Tony.
Hold it, Tony.
[GUNSHOT]
Read him his rights and take him in.
DANNY: Ever see this? - No.
That's funny, because it was found in your van.
What is this? A setup?
Somebody could have planted that there.
Maybe you, fuzz.
Tony, let's talk about Thursday afternoon.
You and your buddies picked up on a set of wheels
that belonged to somebody else.
- You're crazy. - Wrong.
H.P.D. Has your prints on file.
They were all over that car.
Yours and the rest of the Wo Chings.
Where'd you and your pals go in the car?
- Driving, we went out driving. DUKE: Where?
Out near the old Kapunapu Mill Road?
Kapunapu? What's that?
A bird call?
Say that again. I kind of like that sound.
That was funny.
After yesterday, I wouldn't think you'd wanna hear that sound again.
Or maybe you don't care that your leader, Jerry Quan,
was knocked off.
- I care. DANNY: You do, huh?
Then why don't you start cooperating?
Tell us who set it up.
Where'd you hide the money? Did you bury it someplace?
Whatever action you guys are talking about,
I sure wish I had some of it.
Ballistic report.
This wires it, Tony. We got a ballistics match.
The.38 found in your van
is the same gun that killed Ray Vincent.
Now I remember.
I found that gun at the bottom of a trash can down at the beach.
No fooling.
Cross my heart, officer.
Okay, if you decide you wanna talk to us, we'll be around.
Don't wait up.
- No sweat, brothers. GANG: Hey, Tony.
CHIN HO: Okay. Okay.
Knock it off. Knock it off.
All right, now come on, which one of you is Keoki?
Come on. Which one?
Hey, you.
Let's go.
What are you doing?
Like to let you know
how much I appreciate your leaving me behind back there.
You always did have a knack for survival.
[VARNA CHUCKLES]
You'd like to see me get caught.
That way you'd get to keep the money all for yourself.
Well, it's not gonna happen.
Am I interrupting something?
No, father.
Uh, no, sir, it's just a slight misunderstanding, that's all.
I see.
I would like to see you in my office.
Yes, sir.
CHANG: You're telling me a bunch of kids stole my money?
I find that difficult to believe.
VARNA: I know, but it appears to be true.
CHANG: Why haven't you forced them to talk? They know where the money is.
VARNA: I can't do anything. McGarrett got to them first.
McGarrett. What of the money?
McGarrett have that too?
I don't think so, but I can't be certain.
CHANG: I suggest you find out.
If you don't recover the money, I may be finished in these islands.
CHANG: Well, Mr. McGarrett, you are most certainly to be congratulated.
For a man who must be the laughing stock of the underworld,
you're taking things very well, Chang.
Could it be because you, uh, feel that the race is not yet over?
You have a strange way of responding to a compliment.
I believe that compliments are sometimes designed
to throw the pursuer off the trail.
Off what trail?
The one leading to the millions of laundered dollars
that Ray Vincent was bringing back from Europe for you.
We know all about the money, Chang,
but, like you, we don't know what happened to it yet.
Now, the gang might be able to help us,
but we would prefer to deal directly
with the person who set up the job in the first place.
If you are implying that someone in my organization would betray me,
you are quite mistaken.
Now, if you don't mind, I have heard enough.
Be patient.
I'm almost through.
Now, I don't know for sure who is responsible
for killing those three men and for the robbery.
But I do know one thing, you won't rest until you find your money.
And I won't rest until I have you and the murderers behind bars.
Bet on it.
- Mr. McGarrett? - Yes?
I'm Lee Mei, Chang's daughter.
Can we take a little drive? I want to talk to you.
About what?
My father.
All right, Miss Liu.
Lee Mei.
I think I should warn you
that anything you tell me may be held against you.
So I've been led to understand.
Have you found my father's money yet?
No.
No, not yet, but I will.
Perhaps not, Mr. McGarrett.
Well, that statement will require some explanation.
Have you considered the possibility
that my father may be putting on an act for you?
Why would he put on an act for me?
Ask yourself his objective in bringing the money into Hawaii the way he did.
To avoid customs, and the IRS, I would assume.
Precisely.
But if he already had recovered the money,
he wouldn't want you to know about it, would he?
You're suggesting that he'd continue to play the part
of the outraged man who's lost a fortune?
There, you see?
There's one thing I don't see.
Why are you telling me all this?
Why do you think?
Well, the most obvious reason is that you don't like your father too much.
You know we were taught from childhood
to love and honor our parents, Mr. McGarrett.
Strange way to love and honor.
Or perhaps, you weren't a very good student.
On the contrary, I've always been very quick to learn.
You can drop me off on the next corner.
- How's this? - Fine.
Thank you.
I'd sure like to take another crack at the Wo Chings.
I don't think it would do any good.
The Wo Chings take an oath. They won't talk.
They also know that talking won't buy them enough
to make it worthwhile.
You know, we've been taking the wrong approach with those guys.
I know a way to shake them up.
Come on.
Well, if it isn't the super heat.
Big and bad, and twice as sad.
Must be desperation time, huh?
Maybe for you, not for us.
Care to translate that, Curly?
He's telling you that you're a free man.
- Huh? DUKE: That's right, Tony.
No strings attached.
We're giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe you really did find that gun in a trash can.
And if you did, I'm just using the taxpayers' money to protect you.
And I really can't justify that.
Protect me from what?
DUKE: You know who.
Chang Liu.
DANNY: That's right. He knows you were in on the rip-off.
Maybe he'll have better luck getting a confession out of you.
I'm not going no place.
Yeah, you are. You're going back to the streets.
And if you're lucky, you'll find a hole and crawl into it.
But when you come out, Chang's men will be waiting.
Hey, man. I know my rights.
DANNY: Take him to processing.
- I want the prisoner released. - Wait.
Okay, okay. I'll tell you what you wanna know.
Planning on leaving?
Let go of me.
I'll let you go, as soon as you tell me where the money is.
- I'll take you there in the morning. - You take me there now.
Look, we can't make it by dark, and the money's hidden.
I've arranged to stay with a friend.
Someone we can trust.
We can both stay there together tonight,
then leave in the morning.
Now, uh, let go of me, please?
Okay, let's get out of here.
Take the back.
Five-0. Open up.
Nothing. Her father could have beat us here.
Look at this.
Part of a map.
Better alert Che right away.
Got it, Steve.
It looks like the area around the old Kapunapu Mill.
Here.
Yeah, this X must mark the location where the money is hidden.
It appears to be some kind of cylindrical structure.
It sure does.
Okay, gentlemen, I'm betting that the $4 million is right here.
But to make our case,
we've still got to nail Chang or his people with possession.
Nice piece of work, Che.
Get some rest.
Get me the watch commander at H.P.D., right away. Top priority.
Williams to McGarrett. Williams to McGarrett.
McGarrett. Go ahead, Danno.
Suspect's car just passed our checkpoint.
Very well, maintain at interval.
Don't move until I give the word.
Ten-four.
Let's go.
Let's nail them.
[GRUNTS]
[WHISPERS] Chin, you guys.
Duke.
You know, Mr. Varna,
my one regret is that my father will go down to his grave
without ever knowing what happened to his precious money.
What a pity.
No, Lee Mei, no.
The pity is, I do know.
- You betrayed me. - Mm-hm.
Yes, daughter.
In so doing, Mr. Varna reaffirmed his loyalty to me.
But the money. He wanted the money.
That was a ruse, my daughter.
Mr. Varna knew you would never reveal the hiding place voluntarily,
so he waited, incurring my wrath,
but knowing full well he'd be amply rewarded later.
It saddens me deeply.
But you know what I must do.
You won't understand this, father,
but more than anything, I wanted to show you what I could do.
What I could be,
without you hovering over me, pulling all the strings.
I've treated you fairly, my love.
Oh, yes, but everything was always by your rules.
I got sick of playing your little games.
Sick of being treated like some sort of ornament.
I will allow you to live, but first, you must beg my forgiveness.
Never, father.
Do you hear me?
Never.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING NEARBY]
Everyone, stay where you are.
Throw down your guns. You're under arrest.
[GUNFIRE]
Hold it.
CHIN HO: Drop it.
Halt.
You wouldn't shoot.
Four people are dead because of you.
[GUN COCKS]
Try me.
He's at ten o'clock, Chin.
About a hundred yards.
That's it, brother. Hold it.
Let's go.