Right on time.
Now, has Mrs. Wakeman arrived?
- I'm here, professor. - Oh, good.
Well, I guess that completes our list.
May I have your attention, please?
I can well understand your excitement
at the prospect of our forthcoming little adventure.
It is exhilarating, to be sure.
But I must ask you to remember the rules of our club
in order to ensure a profitable journey.
Good behavior, sobriety
and above all, a single-minded adherence
to the deep purpose of our organization, the FDC.
It's all here, professor.
- Five hundred thousand? - Three quarters of a million.
We did our job, now you do yours.
With the greatest of pleasure, George.
Your attention, please.
Charter Flight 181 now boarding at Gate 6.
Ladies and gentlemen, that seems to be us.
Have your boarding passes ready. Good luck.
I'm sure we all will have a fine time in Honolulu.
Okay, keep him under surveillance for a couple of days.
Then we'll get a bench warrant and move.
Okay.
- What do you got? - Some flack from the mainland.
What is it?
A shootout in Chicago, a three-state gambling ring busted,
and an armored car heist outside of Denver.
- Outside of Denver? - Yeah, on the highway.
You ready for this, Steve? They used an Army bazooka.
Two drivers burned up like a couple of pieces of toast.
What was the haul?
Three quarter of a million in travelers checks.
- Travelers' checks? - Yeah.
There's the serial numbers.
Mobs must be slipping.
Fencing this stuff is like trying to sell hot badges at a policemen's picnic.
Jenny, get me Frank Okawa at World Wide Travelers Checks.
Good night, Nancy. Have a nice weekend.
Mr. Okawa's office.
One moment, please.
- Mr. Okawa. - Yeah?
It's Mr. Steve McGarrett for you.
I've been expecting that. I'll take it inside.
Hey, Steve.
Still trying to beat the low eighties?
And I will, too, as soon as I n get rid of that slice.
- Frank, have you heard from Denver? - Yeah.
Yeah, just came in. In fact, came in on the company teletype.
Serial numbers and all.
It's gone out to 300 cities about five minutes ago.
People don't miss a thing, do you?
- How do you figure a thing like this? - Who knows?
There's always somebody who thinks they can beat us.
Till they find out they're wrong.
I'll get these serial numbers out through our usual distribution.
And, Steve, how about some Sunday at the club?
Let's get up a foursome, okay?
Well, first I need a free Sunday. Aloha.
Okay, Steve. Aloha.
- Luana. - Yes, sir?
Get these numbers out through our regular channels.
Hotels, restaurants, gift shops. You know, the works.
Tonight?
I'm sorry, sweetie. Now is a lousy time for something like this to come in.
Odds are 300-to-one against these checks turning up in Hawaii.
I understand.
Luana.
Thanks.
Oh, would you leave the files open?
I've got some work to do in the morning.
Yes, sir.
You know, in the ancient days,
man used to measure time by the orbit of the Earth around the sun.
But that was highly inaccurate,
because the Earth does not move at a constant rate of speed.
You might say that man has improved on nature.
You sure got a lot of stuff inside your head, professor.
Thank you, George. I guess I do.
But then, we all have our own importance.
The brain, nerves--
Don't forget about the muscle, professor.
I never forget anything, George. Ever.
A fact that you will come to learn.
Is someone there?
Who is it?
Who--? Who is it?
Who is it?
Let me out of here! Let me out of here, please!
Let me out of here!
Please, let me out of here! Let me out!
Mr. Davis. What's the matter?
Let him sit here with us. He'll feel better.
Over there.
- What is it? - It's all right. He's just a little airsick.
He looks more than airsick to me, sir.
I assure you, there's nothing--
I'll have the captain radio ahead for an ambulance.
Well, there really is no reason to do that.
He has these spells quite often. We're very good friends.
Look, I'm sorry, sir, it's airline regulations.
It's all right, folks. He's gonna be fine.
Nothing to worry about.
Two days. Two days.
Those checks-- Those checks...
Looks like we've got problems, professor.
Checks-- Travelers checks--
Checks-- Two days-- Two days...
The unpredictable can merely test a good formula, it can't destroy it.
Checks-- Travelers checks-- Two days-- Two days for the checks...
Even now in Honolulu, phase two is unfolding.
I assure you, George, the plan will go off just like clockwork.
--The checks...
Two days...
Checks...checks...
Just a few more steps. That's it. Take it easy.
Just put him down on the stretcher.
No, no, this man doesn't need hospitalization.
You a doctor, mister?
- Well, not a medical doctor, but-- - Then I'll make the decision, okay?
I got two days. I gotta get...
I got-- I got two days to--
Gotta get these checks in.
- Mister? - Got checks, two days.
- Mister. - Checks, two days...
This man's very sick. He's going to the hospital.
Two days till I...
He's obviously delirious. Why don't you give him a tranquilizer?
- We'll give him what he needs. - You bet your life.
A private room. Best of everything.
And don't worry about the money, our club guarantees the bill.
- All right. - Those checks, those checks...
That was very thoughtful of you, George.
Yeah.
Be careful of the IV. We had trouble finding the vein.
I'll be back in a minute.
Two-- Two days. I gotta have two days.
Two.
Two, two, two.
It's 8:00 sharp, professor. Here's Group A.
- Very well. - Come here.
Mr. Hambrock, number 23, 7500.
Receipts. Don't forget receipts.
Mr. Wilton, number six, 7500.
We'll be expecting a complete accounting
from each and every one of you.
Especially you, Will.
Mrs. Ashton, number 12, 7500.
These are all to be spent, baby. No free samples, you got it?
Mr. Beal, number 42, 7500.
- All right. - Bring in the next group, please.
Yeah. Let's go.
What have we got, Chin?
He caught two in the head from a piece with a silencer.
No witnesses, nobody heard. A professional job.
- What's his name? - Name Whitney Davis, a teacher.
He was here on some kind of a college tour.
Got sick on the plane coming over tonight.
They had an ambulance ready at the airport.
- What was wrong with him? - Severe Méniere's syndrome,
with a possible tumor of the middle ear.
Deafness, complete loss of balance.
We were gonna test for the tumor tomorrow.
- You his nurse? - Patricia Higgins.
I know I shouldn't have left the patient,
but there was a lab technician here and I-
- Lab technician? - From Serology.
What's his name?
I don't know. He was new.
Danno, I want every lab technician,
every intern assembled for identification.
- Anybody who wears a white coat. - Right.
- Is this all his stuff? - Yes.
And the clothes in the closet.
No.
There was something else, but I don't see it there.
What was it, Miss Higgins?
An envelope.
College professor gets sick on a plane,
gets hit less than an hour after he lands in Honolulu.
Why?
Miss Higgins, this so-called lab technician,
do you remember what he looked like?
I hardly noticed him.
I should never have left the patient.
That was an understandable error.
Chin, go through the mug books with Miss Higgins slowly and carefully.
Danno, I want a detailed check of the victim
through mainland police and all federal agencies.
Everything you n get on him. I want the works.
And make sure a set oi his prints go to C“ 'm Sacramento.
Right.
Oh, and if you want me, I'll be at the llikai.
Just ask for the Faculty Discount Travel Club.
- Yes? - Position number four.
The man just went to work at 9:29.
Everything on schedule.
- Phase four is now in progress. - Good.
Oh, George, has there been any word from the hospital about Mr. Davis?
No, not yet, professor.
- Perhaps we ought to contact him. - That's a good idea.
- Yes? - Professor Pierce?
Yes.
McGarrett, Hawaii Five-O State Police.
- May I come in? - Yes. Yes, of course.
We located you through the airline, professor.
We found that Mr. Whitney Davis was a member of your club.
Mr. Davis. What about him?
- You haven't seen the paper? - No, not yet.
Well, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you, professor.
Mr. Davis was shot dead last night.
Oh, no. No.
But why?
Why would anybody want to do a thing like that?
That's what we wanna find out.
- In the hospital? - Yeah.
Somebody just walked in and killed him?
But nobody saw? Nobody heard?
How could that be?
I don't understand it. How could that be?
Would you tell us all you can about Mr. Davis, please?
Yes, of course.
I'm sorry. This is very upsetting. What is it you wanted to know?
Well, anything that might have a bearing on the case.
His friends, rivalries, enemies, women.
Was he a gambler? Did he use drugs?
Any information at all.
Well, I really don't know that much about him.
We're- We have a very large club, Mr. McGarrett.
College faculty members statewide.
Mr. Davis just joined us recently.
He was a bachelor. He traveled alone.
I see.
Were there any members of the club who knew him well?
- Yes, I suppose so. - Could I speak with them?
- That would be rather difficult. - Why is that, professor?
Well, they're all over the island, from Waikiki to Makaha.
Sightseeing, going on tours, probably buying everything in sight.
May I have a list of your club members
with the hotels they're staying in in Hawaii,
and also their permanent home addresses?
Yes, of course.
But I assure you, Mr. McGarrett,
that you'll find that none of our people were involved in this terrible thing.
I believe this will give you everything you need.
Thank you. Thank you.
- Oh, one more question. - Yes?
The stewardess on the plane said that you told her you knew Mr. Davis well,
that you knew his condition was not serious.
A little white lie, Mr. McGarrett.
I could see he was deathly ill.
I didn't want him to know it.
I see. Thank you.
You lied to me.
What's eating you?
As if killing those two men on the armored truck wasn't bad enough.
You wanted your checks, professor.
And now this.
There was to be no unnecessary violence. That was the agreement.
Why don't you sit down and we'll play some gin?
We'll talk about Davis.
The guy was out of his head, professor. You heard him.
He was mumbling about having two days left,
about having checks.
I had to protect us.
Why didn't you come to me, ask my opinion?
Because I make those decisions, professor.
I make them, they carry them out.
That's the way that it was, that's the way that it is.
There is nothing in the agreement about murder.
Professor, what, have you turned into a boy scout or something?
That don't cut it with me.
Don't forget, you came to us with this proposition in the first place.
Who are you, anyway?
A guy that can memorize three decks of cards?
Who developed a system, almost broke the bank in Vegas, all right.
We liked your brains, we liked your propositions, so we came in.
But when we come in, we protect our investment, professor.
And don't you forget it.
I suppose you killed the girl too.
Now, why would we do a thing like that?
You told us to take her out for a couple of days,
we took her out for a couple of days.
You gotta start learning to trust people, professor.
Just think how much we're trusting you.
- McGarrett. - Steve, Frank Okawa.
Yeah, Frank. What's new'?
Just got a telex on the stolen travelers checks.
Seems like $10,000 worth was found in a hotel room in Philadelphia.
Looks like the gang is headed east.
You got it yet'?
Coming in right now.
Not that I wish Pennsylvania bad luck-
- But let their mothers worry about it. - You got it.
And, Frank, watch it. You're swinging outside in.
I will, starting right now. Aloha.
Travelers checks in Philly.
Yeah, that and a rundown on the murder victim
from the California State Police.
- Let's have it. - 'Whitney Davis, age 40, unmarried.
Economics instructor, Pacific Western College.
Now away on summer vacation."
- It all checks out except for one thing. - What's that?
The real Whitney Davis just sent his brother a postcard from Paris.
Tell the chief that we'll need about 14 men for the airport detail.
When the vice president comes in, he'll go directly to the Kaili Hilton Hotel.
- That's the man. - Need extra men--
- Steve. - Yeah?
She made a positive identification.
- Are you certain, Miss Higgins? - I'm certain.
I didn't think I could remember his face,
but now I know I could never forget it.
"Terry Whitman Doran, a syndicate soldier.
Indicted for murder in 1969.
Indictment dismissed when the state's chief witness disappeared."
It's better if you know these things now, Miss Higgins.
If you make the identification, you have to go all the way.
As of now, you're in protective custody.
Okay.
All right, Chin, get out an APB, statewide.
Right. Would you come with me?
Steve.
The report just came in on the dead man's fingerprints.
Guess who became a schoolteacher.
"Real name, Floyd F.X. O'Neal.
Alias Foxy Neal, alias Francis Rogers, alias Harpy Wilton.
Hometown, Chicago. Five arrests, three convictions.
Embezzlement, bunco and fraud."
A Chicago hood comes over here with a teacher's group
and he gets hit by a syndicate torpedo
who also happens to be in Hawaii.
Now, why? Why?
All points out on Doran.
Turns out the Bureau wants him for questioning.
A bank job in Texas last summer.
The crooks burst into the vault with an Army bazooka in that one.
Bazooka? Isn't that what they used in Denver?
Right.
Well, it's a jigsaw puzzle, but I don't see the picture yet.
- McGanett. - Steve, this is Keno.
I'm in Missing Persons. A woman here named--
Kono, can you speak louder, please? I can't hear you.
That's Mrs. Mawalai.
She's got a daughter missing, age 23.
Works for World Wide Travelers Checks.
She never came home last night.
What do you think, Steve? Any connections?
Yeah, check it out. Get over to World Wide fight away.
See what you can find.
Club member number 27 checking in.
Four thousand two hundred dollars cash, $3975 net.
Splendid, number 27. Keep up the good work.
- Yes? - Club member number 82.
Four thousand five hundred dollars cashed, $4390 net.
Bravo, dear lady. Keep up the good work.
The receipts. Remind them not to forget the receipts.
Oh, yes. Don't forget to save the receipts.
You don't have much faith in your fellow man, George.
When are you gonna start trusting people?
- Yes? - Club member number 62.
Five thousand dollars shed, $4780 net.
H! finish my quota tomorrow.
Good work, 62. Keep it up.
That's $391,842.20.
In round numbers, of course.
And I'm supposed to take your word for that?
Why don't you write it down, professor'?
As you so aptly put it, George,
let me do the thinking, you take care of everything else.
Mr. McGarrett. How nice to see you again.
- Come in. - Thank you.
And what brings you here this evening?
Well, I just stopped in for a moment, professor.
Some information on the Davis killing.
Oh, yes, I saw it on the TV news. It's a terrible thing.
Yes. Yes, terrible. And very strange.
Strange? How?
Well, it turns out Mr. Davis wasn't Mr. Davis.
He was an ex-con from Chicago by the name of O'Neal.
A criminal? Here in my group? I don't understand.
How do you recruit members for your club, professor?
By word of mouth.
And then we advertise in selected publications, faculty magazines.
And anyone who answers the ads n join?
Any bona fide faculty member, yes.
How do you know if they're bona fide faculty members?
We give them a questionnaire to fill out, references to list.
Naturally, we can't check them all.
- But do you check any of them? - Oh, we certainly do.
That is, to the extent that's humanly possible.
But human shortcomings are great, are they not, professor?
I can't excuse myself for what's happened, Mr. McGarrett.
To think that this man,
this criminal could harbor himself here among our members.
Well, maybe he's not so much out of place.
What do you mean by that?
Well, I mean, if we found one, it is conceivable that there are others.
You mean that criminals may be seeking to infiltrate our club?
Well, it would make a beautiful cover, wouldn't it?
A way of moving from the mainland to Hawaii without being easily detected.
Why would a criminal want to do that?
Exactly, professor. Why?
Yes?
Yes, just a moment.
It's for you.
McGarrett.
Yes. Yes, I've been expecting your ll.
Come up, please, to Suite 234.
I've asked someone to meet me here, professor.
- I hope you don't mind. - Oh, that's perfectly all right.
You see, it occurred to me that, if my theory is right,
who knows how far the deception might go?
Maybe to the highest ranks of your organization.
You might be surrounded by crooks and not know it.
Barring your personal friends, of course.
- Your theory is highly unlikely. - But possible, you will admit, huh?
So you see, professor, I've worked out a plan to help you.
Right here in Honolulu, we have a man who's lectured in colleges,
universities all over United States.
In your own field, as a matter of fact.
He says that he knows you very well.
That must be your colleague now.
- Steve. - Professor Jordan, come in, come in.
I got here as fast as I could. That traffic was really murder.
Ambrose?
Elias.
By George, it's been a long time.
- The seminar at Caltech. - Summer of '64.
You read a paper on ferroelectric field effect studies at low temperature.
- Yeah, I read your rebuttal in '65. - With an open mind, I hope.
- Who did you want me to meet? - You've just met him.
You're kidding me.
Have a nice evening, gentlemen.
Come on down to the bar and we'll have a drink.
I'd love to, but let's have one here first and we can talk.
I wanna tell you what we've been doing here in Hawaii.
We've opened up a whole new field of ferroelectrics.
I'd love to hear about it.
Home address...
Car 25, come in, please. Car 25, come in.
Car 25, 25, proceed to Honolulu Shopping Center.
There's no missing person in this building.
Did you check all the washrooms, utility rooms, janitor's closets again?
Yup, but I still wanna double-check the elevator shafts, and that's it.
- Finished, Danno? - Just about. So far, nothing.
- No sign of the gin? - Only the janitor's personal statement
that he saw her working late Friday night.
The checkout book shows that she never signed out of the building.
Yeah, but was he on the door all the time?
That's just it, he wasn't. She could've slipped out here without being seen.
Not everybody signs that book.
Anything else look funny?
Any safes tampered with? Any checks stolen?
Not a thing. Clean as a whistle.
The elevator checks out.
So we call off the search?
So we start checking the neighborhood.
Position number four.
All hell's breaking loose at the World Wide building.
Enough squad cars there for a policeman's funeral.
I see. Get out of the area as quickly as you can.
What's up?
Police at the World Wide building on a Sunday morning.
I don't like it, George. Not a bit.
How much have we got so far?
Five hundred seventeen thousand, four hundred twenty-eight dollars net.
I suggest we cease operations and gather our people together.
No, no good.
We can set another takeoff time for the charter flight back to the mainland.
It's too soon, professor.
Five hundred thousand is enough.
A few cops running around an office building don't mean a thing.
Cops like to do a lot of looking.
But you try to clear a new takeoff time now
and you're gonna have federal people asking a lot of questions.
Pretty soon, they're gonna put one and one together.
I think one and one are together right now.
And that's not simple addition.
I think they are progressing at an accelerated speed,
because of the trail of violence you left.
That was your doing, George.
And I'm not gonna risk my life because of it.
I'm calling the operation off.
Professor.
You're too smart a guy to make a big mistake now.
And I'm too nice a guy to let you.
They're having a wonderful time out there, our boys and girls.
Let's not stop their fun, all right?
Oh, she's a groovy chick, all right, but she got all these hairy hang-ups.
I mean, she laid that new one on me just yesterday.
"No beach time," she says.
Until she n fit into a size 16 bathing suit.
Nine seventy-five.
That's 10, 30 and 50. Thank you.
"Don't tell me you wanna lose weight," I said.
You wanna, you can lose, right?
High protein, 900 calories a day.
I know it.
Mr. Chang, take a look at these checks.
- What about them? - Don't you see something funny?
They look perfectly good to me.
The serial numbers.
One says 500046 and the other, 500047.
One number apart, and from two different customers.
Not even sitting together.
Don't you think that's a funny coincidence?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right. What are they?
What's your name and address?
No, just keep them there. We'll get back to you.
- Boss, bad news. - What is it?
Two travelers checks just cashed in a restaurant on Kaiolu Street.
They're on the hot list from the Denver heist.
If they're on the hot list, how come they were cashed?
That's the bad news. The restaurant doesn't have the list.
What do you mean they don't have the list?
No list, no numbers.
I thought they went out to all shops and restaurants on Friday.
Yeah, they were supposed to.
Get Frank Okawa. Call him at home.
No, wait a minute. Make that the Ala Wai Golf Course.
No, don't call him. Send a car on a Code Red.
I want him here in this office fight away.
Hey, Steve, what's happening?
You put out an APB on me?
Frank, the serial numbers from the Denver heist,
what did you do with them?
- I put out a bulletin, same as always. - Put them out how?
Well, we mimeo the numbers and send out copies to our list of shops.
Who? Who sends them out?
My secretary, Miss Mawalai.
Luana Mawalai's been missing since Friday night.
No, I was in the office Saturday morning.
She left me a note.
Well, someone did.
Have you got the note?
No, I threw it away on my way out.
Frank, two checks on the hot list were cashed right here in town.
At least two that we know about.
Now, the shopkeepers did not have the lists.
McGarrett. Yeah, Danna.
Yeah.
You sure, Danno? Positive ID?
All right. Come on back.
Miss Mawalai is no longer missing.
I'm sorry, Frank.
Oh, my God.
Of course, this was inevitable.
Just like every other part of this crazy jigsaw puzzle's inevitable.
What a scheme.
What a fantastic, warped genius scheme.
First the heist in Denver, three-quarters of a million dollars in travelers checks.
Then they peel off 10,000 and plant them in Philly
to make it look like the gang headed east.
But really, the mob comes to Honolulu,
on a weekend, when all the banks are closed.
A hundred and fifty crooks with phony teachers' ID cards.
I assume they're all phony.
Except the professor's, which means it's probably his plan,
with a backing of the mob.
A perfect plan, but then--
- Guy gets sick. - Yeah.
He's taken to a hospital babbling.
Mob is afraid he'll give them away.
So they hit him quick.
That stops the babbling.
Puzzle complete.
All right, Chin, get on the horn to every radio and television station.
I want those check numbers broadcast all over these islands.
You want the club members picked up?
No, it's too late. It's too late.
If my theory is right, they've already checked out of their hotels.
In fact, they've got everything made, except for one thing.
They've gotta get off this island tonight.
- Hundred nine. - Move along, move along, folks.
- One-ten, 111 . - Hurry, please.
Hundred and twelve, 113.
Keep it moving, please.
Hundred and fourteen.
- Keep moving. - One-fifteen.
Hundred and sixteen, 117.
- Move along, folks. - One-eighteen.
- Hundred and nineteen. - Thanks.
All right, professor, that's it.
Did you send in all the postcards?
Beautiful on this island.
All right, we have wonderful chances.
Send any of the postcards?
How was your trip?
May I check that for you, sir?
Oh, no. No, thank you. I'll keep it here.
Okay.
Well, professor.
Are you glad now that you stuck out the hand?
The fact that we won
does not necessarily mean we've played the right cards.
On the contrary, George,
it would seem that the perfection of the plan triumphed
even ever your needless excursions into violence.
Have it your way, professor.
But thanks to me, this partnership worked.
The price was too steep, George. Much too steep.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.
We have just been given clearance for takeoff.
Departure time is 7:14.
We hope you have a pleasant journey.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not your captain.
There will be no departure time
and your trip will average 15 to 20 years.
And if you're tempted to try anything foolish,
just look through the windows, both sides of the plane.
George.
One last partnership decision.
Yeah?
Do you mind if I check this now?
Aloha.
Aloha, suckers.