‘Five-0′ moves to Fridays

Michelle Borth, Peter Lenkov, Christine Lahti, Alex O’Loughlin, Daniel Dae Kim and Kahu Blaine Kama­lani Kia pose for a photo at the season three blessing. (Courtesy CBS)

BY JASON GENEGABUS / jason@staradvertiser.com

When “Hawaii Five-0″ returns to CBS for its fourth season this fall, it won’t be on Monday nights.

The network announced today the show will replace “CSI: NY” on Fridays, opening up a Monday time slot for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced “Hostages” starring Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott.

The move also includes a time change, with “Five-0″ airing at 8 p.m. in Hawaii between “Undercover Boss” and cop drama “Blue Bloods,” which stars former “Magnum P.I.” star Tom Selleck.

“Hawaii Five-0″ executive producer Peter Lenkov remained upbeat on Twitter, telling followers to “celebrate we got picked up” and “continue to show up and we’ll be around for a LONG time.”

The move to Fridays was also a “chance (for) more live eyes,” he said.

The complete CBS fall schedule:

Monday

“How I Met Your Mother,” 7 p.m.
“We Are Men,” 7:30 p.m. (NEW SHOW)
“2 Broke Girls,” 8 p.m.
“Mom,” 8:30 p.m. (NEW SHOW)
“Hostages,” 9 p.m. (NEW SHOW)

Tuesday

“NCIS,” 7 p.m.
“NCIS: Los Angeles,” 8 p.m.
“Person of Interest,” 9 p.m. (NEW TIME)

Wednesday

“Survivor,” 7 p.m.
“Criminal Minds,” 8 p.m.
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” 9 p.m.

Thursday

“Big Bang Theory,” 7 p.m.
“The Millers,” 7:30 p.m. (NEW SHOW)
“The Crazy Ones,” 8 p.m. (NEW SHOW)
“Two and a Half Men,” 8:30 p.m. (NEW TIME)
“Elementary,” 9 p.m.

Friday

“Undercover Boss,” 7 p.m.
“Hawaii Five-0,” 8 p.m. (NEW TIME)
“Blue Bloods,” 9 p.m.

Saturday

“Comedytime Saturday,” 7 p.m. (NEW SHOW)
“Comedytime Saturday,” 7:30 p.m. (NEW SHOW)
“Crimetime Saturday,” 8 p.m.
“48 Hours,” 9 p.m.

Sunday

“60 Minutes,” 6 p.m.
“The Amazing Race,” 7 p.m.
“The Good Wife,” 8 p.m.
“The Mentalist,” 9 p.m.

Five-0 Redux: All in the ‘ohana

Christine Lahti returns as McGarrett’s mother in this week’s episode. (Courtesy CBS)

BY WENDIE BURBRIDGE / Special to the Star-Advertiser

Can you imagine how much more bad-ass Steve McGarrett would be if he had actually grown up with Secret Agent Mom instead of the sweet Momma McG of his memory?

The momma who made fried baloney sandwiches, was on the PTA, and taught “little Stevie” magic tricks — not the woman McGarrett currently knows who is guilty for a myriad of questionable crimes—like hacking into the FBI database, letting Wo Fat escape, torturing and almost killing a man, and of course, never really telling her own son the straight skinny about well, anything.

In this week’s episode, “He welo ‘oihana” (“Family Business”), McGarrett learns more about his mother’s secrets and begins to reconcile the idea of the mother he lost, with the mother he found. In a parallel storyline that has been ratcheted up these last few weeks, Kono is thrust into more of Adam’s family business and it also looks like she’s going to be hung out to dry in the season finale.

(One good thing — they can’t shoot her again. Or can they?)

But if “Magic and secrets, they go together,” like Danno says to McGarrett after a night of Momma McG covert op shenanigans gone awry, then maybe some of the magic that we have missed in a few of this season’s episodes will return after some of the secrets are finally put to rest.

Do I sound frustrated? Perhaps because I’m a bit tired of the dragging on of this Champ Box/Shelburne/Momma McG storyline. I find it a bit too unrealistic that McGarrett’s thought-to-be-dead mother really was a covert assassin, and that she can do some of the same cool secret spy SEAL stuff her son can. I think Christine Lahti, who plays Doris McGarrett, is a great actress, but at times she gets glassy-eyed much too quickly and slips into Momma McG a bit too easily for someone who spent more years being a secret agent than Little Stevie’s mom to be realistic.

Danno, left, and Chin Ho question Kono’s boyfriend’s brother. (Courtesy CBS)

This week’s episode was another trip to Never Never Land for me, as it was complete with “Mission Impossible”-style wire action, a runaway elevator, and a helicopter as a getaway vehicle. I wondered why they didn’t have Kamekona flying the chopper, but I think writer Eric Guggenheim probably figured there was enough comedy in this week’s episode that they didn’t need to add helicopter humor to the mix.

I am a huge fan of all of the action that Five-0 infuses, and with a stunt coordinator like Jeff Cadiente, coupled with a great director like Larry Teng, the action was very well done. I know, who doesn’t like watching McG strap on some Kevlar, ride a freight elevator, and kickbox security guards with guns?

I just wish the stellar action scenes were supported by better storylines.

I know, you all are going to comment about how it’s a television show and can’t I suspend my disbelief for one hour a week? Why yes, I can, but I also know the action can be better supported by a stronger story. This is not always the case for “Hawaii Five-0″ — there are episodes where the action is fully engaged and works well within the story.

But with the Momma McG story, it just seemed so silly and over the top. Really? A covert op maneuver to get back the stolen microfiche from political bad guy Tyler Cain (Craig T. Nelson) that will keep the McGarrett’s safe from Doris’s past. And her current boyfriend Mick Logan (Treat Williams), and Joe White’s SEAL friend Wade Gutches (David Keith), along for the ride to help to orchestrate the “op.”

I really wanted them to stop calling it a “covert op” as it was just ridiculous. They were dressing up in black and stealing something. Yes, they were prepared and they had the technology and expertise to do it, but covert ops are for national security — not Mom’s who are have an empty nest and parenting issues.

Kono, left, and her boyfriend have a serious conversation in this week’s episode. (Courtesy CBS)

Yet even though I found the breaking-and-entering scene unbelievable, the humor throughout really helped, as it made me not take everything so seriously. And I did enjoy the incorporation of the magic trick — that worked. As slick looking as the action scenes were, the humor reminded me that “Five-0″ can make fun of itself. McG talking about the age of Doris, Mick, and Wade and what they should be really doing “at their age,” and Doris having McG do the magic “breath,” helped to lighten the mood. And so the over the top storyline almost reconciled itself as more comedic action than serious spy games.

This was of course helpful when coupled with the return of Adam (Ian Anthony Dale) and his all-bad baby brother, Michael Noshimuri (Daniel Henney), which I thought was a stronger storyline. Kono and Adam reuniting, Chin and Danno confronting a super cocky Michael in the gym, and Kono being shot all seemed well constructed around the opening procedural.

I did love how the episode became more about the team than the case, as Kono’s personal life now seems to be impacted by her lover, his brother, and their family business. I do look forward to seeing how this plays out. The ending with Max arriving to tell McG and Danno that Kono’s gun seems to have killed one of the victims she found in a Yakuza warehouse was not that surprising, as I’ve been waiting to see what happened to Kono’s gun. Now, I just want to know who will come to Kono’s rescue.

The episode’s theme was “family business,” with Doris and the business of her past affecting her family, just as Adam and Michael’s business with the Yakuza affected Kono and her Five-0 family. The theme was well supported throughout, and while I’d like more realistic storylines, as long as the ʻohana is infused into the episodes, I can hang on and get through until the end.

Redux Side Note:

Only one more episode of season three, so make sure you clear your calendar for next week’s season finale.

“Aloha. Mālama Pono” will bring back Christine Lahti, Ian Anthony Dale, Daniel Henney, Autumn Reeser (who plays Dr. Gabby Asano, and stood up an eager Danno at the airport this week), as well as Marc Dacascos as Wo Fat.

I am eager to find out who is bidding “Five-0″ good-bye this time. I’m sure we’ll have a bit of a cliffhanger as we have had in the last two season finales. I’m sure it will be a great episode to end the season.
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Wendie Burbridge is a published author, playwright and teacher who lives and works in Honolulu. Reach her via Facebook and follow her on Twitter.

Five-0 Redux: Ripped from the headlines

Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) helps in the search for a missing girl during this week’s episode. (Courtesy CBS)

BY WENDIE BURBRIDGE / Special to the Star-Advertiser

“Hawaii Five-0” has had an interesting third season; one week they are up, another week they are just so-so, and sometimes they are on fire.

This week I’d say they are on an upward slope, with a pretty solid episode melded with a thread of realism that would soften even the most strenuous Team Five-0 naysayer. Between the intense moments of a heart-wrenching case, and a deeper look into Danno’s Daddy psyche, we got to see the team really work a good procedural, as well as get some movement in the Kono-Adam storyline.

This week’s episode, “Hoʻopio” (“To Take Captive”), for the most part centered on the murder of Amanda Morris (Kanani Rogers), who had been kidnapped 10 years earlier and found dead in a shallow grave. Her murder leads the Five-0 team to uncover clues about a recent kidnapping of another little girl, Ella Bishop (Mykayla Sohn). Both Amanda and Ella seemed to have been kidnapped by the same person, and Danno and McGarrett use everything within their power to find little Ella — as well as Amanda’s murderer.

Tip Gilbert stars as himself in this week’s episode. (Courtesy CBS)

I think the best part of the episode, besides the really intense moments when Scott Caan really had a chance to shine as not only a sympathetic cop, but as an empathetic father, was the “ripped from the headlines” aspect of the case. The kidnapping of both Amber and Ella is a reminder of Maile Gilbert, who was kidnapped and murdered in Hawaiʻi in 1985.

Maile’s name was used to create Hawaiʻi’s MAILE AMBER Alert. MAILE stands for “Minor Abducted in Life-threatening Emergency” and has been referenced before on “Hawaii Five-0,” most notably in “Ua Lawe Wale” and when Danno’s own daughter Gracie (Teilor Grubbs) was kidnapped in “Mai ka wā kahiko.”

The moments when Danno recalls the inner panic he felt while they tried to find Gracie when she was kidnapped by his former partner, and when he shakes the hand of the Harley-riding, Good Samaritan father of Maile, Tip Gilbert, who plays himself in the episode, was Scott Caan at his best.

Danno (Scott Caan) is reminded of the pain he felt when his own daughter was kidnapped in this week’s episode. (Courtesy CBS)

I know some of you will take issue with the fact that he used his fists to get information out of sadistic scam artist Ray Beckett (played with creepy weirdness by former punk rocker and spoken word artist Henry Rollins), but as a mother, I understood his extreme action. I did appreciate how McGarrett instinctively knew that Danno needed to get that information, and that in order to protect his partner — he needed to take Danno’s badge and just walk away. Not because he was punishing Danno, but to protect him. They needed Beckett to tell them where Ella was hidden, and it looked like it couldn’t be Detective Williams who would get that information out of their suspect, but Danny Williams, father and concerned citizen, who would get him to talk, no matter what.

Often I wonder why “Hawaii Five-0” uses the “red herring” as much as they do — the one character who is a shoe-in for the suspect, but who is, of course, not the real killer/kidnapper/villain. But I guess it is so we can see a famous face for a few minutes, and this week was no exception.

Don Swayze (yes, brother to the late Patrick Swayze of “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” fame) played this week’s not-quite-our-guy, Lloyd Grimes. Grimes is a perfect suspect with a long rap sheet coupled with the team’s proof he was near the scene of the crime—but alas, he was just a thief not a kidnapper. He did look the part, and when McG plays chicken with Grimes’s van to catch him and then Danno breaks the hinges of the interrogation chair to make him talk, it was all good Five-0 action to keep us guessing.

Too bad Swayze didn’t have more lines and could have offered Danno some relaxing dance lessons to loosen up. That would have really been a way for Swayze to utilize his guest star moment to its fullest potential.

Henry Rollins guest stars in this week’s episode. (Courtesy CBS)

A good portion of the episode was used to further develop the side story of Kono and Adam. Kono and Catherine have a couple nice scenes where Kono asks Catherine to investigate Adam’s dealing with a man named Sato. It’s not really what we want to hear for our romantic couple. What happened to hot shower and bubble bath scenes? I guess when your boyfriend used to be in organized crime and you’re a cop, it can get tricky, but it doesn’t mean you should lie to your cousin and search your guy’s house. I know he’s not answering your calls, but that just means you have to stalk him through your BFF who can use her Navy intel connections to hook you up with good info.

At least now Kono knows where Adam is and who he’s been hanging out with — albeit it’s in Japan and he’s hanging with the Yakuza — but Chin did say to let Adam explain first before she decided if she could trust him. And it looks like Adam has a lot of explaining to do.

Besides the intense moments of the procedural and Kono trying to figure out what’s up with Adam, there were many sweet moments in this episode as well. The good-natured ribbing of McGarrett’s super short hair, which was a smart way to let actor Alex O’Loughlin ditch the horrible wig he had to wear in last week’s episode “ʻImi Loko Ka ʻUhane.” And Danno taking time to get a hug from daughter Gracie during her cheerleading practice, was a moment we needed after seeing two sets of demolished parents, as well as watching the difficult minute when Tip Gilbert offers his services to McG and Danno with a picture of his lost daughter Maile pinned to his leathers.

The ending voice over by Kanani Rogers reading Amanda Morris’s journals as her parents weep and Danno looks on was nicely done. Many times television shows go too far, and have characters use melodramatic screaming and sobbing to portray sadness and suffering. But I thought the tears and the pain was very realistic in this episode and evenly handled. Nice direction by “Hawaii Five-0” veteran Steve Boyum, based on a great story by Peter Lenkov and teleplay by Noah Nelson.

If the last two episodes are like this one, we could end season three with a bang.

Redux Side Note:

This week, several Hawaiʻi actors — as well as a Hawaiʻi Olympic athlete — were featured in the episode:

» Jodi Jarvis and Brent Scott Dupuis played Joyce and Don Bishop, the parents of the missing little girl, Ella Bishop.

Shawn Mokuahi Garrett. (Courtesy CBS)

» Kanani Rogers, who most recently was seen in Manoa Valley Theatre’s “Next to Normal,” played brave Amanda Morris, the girl who had been kidnapped and held captive for ten years.

» Former newscaster and current Star-Advertiser blogger Diane Ako was seen on Henry Rollins’s television reporting on the death of the alleged kidnapper Helen Cantera.

» U.S. Olympic wrestler Clarissa Chun, who is credited as “Petite Young Woman,” help separate Shawn Mokuahi Garnett, Kamekona’s cousin Flippa, from a shrimp dinner as well as his dignity.

» Dennis Chun shined yet again in a short scene with the team finding Amanda’s body and catching McG and Danno up on the chain of evidence.
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Wendie Burbridge is a published author, playwright and teacher who lives and works in Honolulu. Reach her via Facebook and follow her on Twitter.

Outtakes Online: Gilbert inspires ‘Five-0′ episode

BY MIKE GORDON / mgordon@staradvertiser.com

The memories are unavoidable for Tip Gilbert, even now, 27 years after the kidnap and murder of his daughter. Whenever he hears about a missing child, he thinks of Maile. She was only 6.

Maile Gilbert. (Courtesy photo)

But the experience will go a step further on tonight’s episode of “Hawaii Five-0,” in which he’ll play himself and discuss the case. Gilbert and his friends in the Pacific Knights motorcycle club will help Five-0 investigate a kidnapping and its connection to the discovery of the body of a girl who vanished a decade earlier.

“I’m playing me,” said Gilbert, a 58-year-old project manager for the commercial dive company Sea Engineering. “Everything I basically said I’ve said before in real life.”

“Five-0” has previously mentioned the state’s Maile Amber Alert program, which is named for Gilbert’s daughter and Amber Hagerman of Texas, who was also kidnapped and murdered. That led to a lunch meeting with Peter Lenkov, the show’s executive producer, and Gilbert told him his story.

Maile was abducted during a family party on Aug. 25, 1985. Her body was found the next day in a shallow grave near Kaena Point. Her killer is serving a life term in prison. Gilbert worked with law enforcement agencies, the Hawaii Attorney General’s Missing Child Center of Hawaii, state civil defense officials and the local broadcast community to create the alert program that began in 2002.

“Peter wrote a story inspired by Maile,” Tip Gilbert said. “I think she inspired his creativity on this episode.”

Lenkov wrote the story and the teleplay was written by Noah Nelson. The episode was directed by “Five-0″ regular Steve Boyum. It also features guest star Henry Rollins, punk rocker-turned-actor.

Gilbert spent three days on set last month. But even though he has been on camera before, explaining the story to journalists, it wasn’t any easier this time.

“When I was shooting ‘Five-0’ I actually in my mind, journeyed back to the day Maile was missing,” Gilbert said. “It was pretty intense for a while but the people at ‘Five-0’ were understanding and supportive. They treated me very well.”

State officials estimate that more than 3,000 children are reported missing in Hawaii every year but authorities are able to locate the majority of them. But time is always crucial. Nationwide, most children kidnapped by non-family members are killed within a few hours of an abduction. An alert system improves the chances of survival for abducted children.
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Mike Gordon covers film and television in Hawaii for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Email him at mgordon@staradvertiser.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his weekly “Outtakes” column Sundays in the Star-Advertiser.

Outtakes Online: Welcome to the jungle

Alex O’Loughlin as Steve McGarrett, taking aim at Wo Fat’s helicopter. (Star-Advertiser photo by Craig T. Kojima)

BY MIKE GORDON / mgordon@staradvertiser.com

Even in the world of television, which operates at a much faster pace than in feature films, it can take half a day to shoot a scene that’s over after just a few minutes.

The climactic jungle shoot-out between the crime-fighters of “Hawaii Five-0” and ruthless terrorist Wo Fat in this week’s episode was shot in early March at Kualoa Ranch and took repeated takes to get right.

Daniel Dae Kim (as Chin Ho Kelly) rides an ATV during filming. (Star-Advertiser photo by Craig T. Kojima)

The scene — shot in Hakipuu Valley between passing ranch tour vehicles filled with wide-eyed, photo-snapping visitors — often filled the air with the sound of machine guns. The show uses scaled down rounds that create noisy, blast-spewing weaponry without the bullets.

Nearly everyone on set wears ear plugs, even the actors.

The final scene, as “Five-0” exchanges gunfire with Wo Fat, was shot around a real helicopter wreck. Burning pressed logs and gas-fed tubes were used to create smoke and fire. Before each take, a production assistant would walk through the set with a smoke machine, but the smoke kept drifting away.

Mark Dacascos as the severely burned Wo Fat. (Star-Advertiser photo by Craig T. Kojima)

The make-up that was used to turn actor Mark Dacascos into the severely burned Wo Fat was better looking on the set than on TV. The small screen didn’t do it justice.

He really looked bad, his head and upper torso painted red and half of his hair missing. It will be interesting to see how disfigured he becomes in future episodes.
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Mike Gordon covers film and television in Hawaii for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Email him at mgordon@staradvertiser.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his weekly “Outtakes” column Sundays in the Star-Advertiser.

Five-0 Redux: Seeking reality

BY WENDIE BURBRIDGE / Special to the Star-Advertiser

Let’s pretend we live in an alternate universe, where Hawaiʻi’s governor gives free reign to a high profile daytime television talk show host and allows them to follow around his elite crime fighting task force.

Five-0 allows a talk show host and her crew to follow them for the day, but the investigation turns dangerous when they have a run in with Wo Fat. Pictured at right is guest star Aisha Tyler. (Courtesy CBS)

The host — just for fun, think Oprah meets Kelly Ripa — not only has full access, but also is allowed to ride along with the team and film their every move while they investigate a horrific murder. When it becomes obvious an international terrorist, as well as the U.S. Secret Service and the Russian mob, seem to be involved in the team’s case, she and her crew are allowed to continue filming and are often caught in the line of fire.

And all of this is done without the guidance of a public relations or media aide from the Governor’s office or HPD.

That’s really the part where I wasn’t buying it. No PR rep? No way. Would never happen.

This is the set up for this week’s episode of “Hawaii Five-0,” entitled “ʻImi Loko Ka ʻUhane” (“Seek Within One’s Soul”). The Five-0 task force has to endure the intrusive and unnecessary cameras of “The Savannah Walker Show” and guest star Aisha Tyler, who plays Savannah. While she may be great on her real life daytime show, “The Talk,” her portrayal of a supposed “investigative reporter” was not on the same level of the aforementioned Oprah or Kelly Ripa. It was more like watching Tyra Banks after a really strong round of Botox.

I know there will be many out there who will have a lot to say about “Hawaii Five-0” and their fictional foray into reality television, but I will try and salvage the hour of my life I will never get back and focus on all that was good about this week’s episode.

Bromance and Backstory

TV Guide just awarded “Hawaii Five-0” its 2013 Fan Favorite Award for Best Bromance, so I suppose I was not surprised by the funny cargument Steve and Danny have with Savannah in their backseat. I know she didn’t really need to point out how McG drives Danno’s car and that they really do love each other, but it was a cool reminder we fans who voted in the TV Guide poll were on the money.

I also loved the little video packages “The Savannah Walker Show” prepped for McGarrett and Kono, and the interviews she conducted with Chin and Catherine. Danno was portrayed the most realistically — shunning the cameras, all while saying “please.” In McGarrett’s package, we saw a few pictures of McG as a baby, a young boy, a high school football star, and then as a Navy commander.

Chin’s confession that he would be a jazz trumpeter was even more telling of his story. We all know he comes from a long line of cops and that it was natural that he would become one, but did we know that he loved jazz?

Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park) and Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) in action during this week’s episode. (Courtesy CBS)

At first I thought he was being sarcastic, but it was a good piece of Chin’s backstory, and one that perhaps would never have come up in a different episode. His one-on-one with Savannah was strange, as I couldn’t see Chin being that “raw” on camera. But I think Kono’s explanation of how she uses technology to help solve cases, and her knowledge of how it all works, made up for Chin’s awkward moment. (Thank you, X-Box for giving Kono her tech savvy skills.)

I found it a bit awkward that Max was willing to reveal the entire case to Savannah, but he was very cute playing the fan boy. I’m pretty sure he would have been removed from the case or reprimanded in some way for not following McG’s orders, however. But if nothing else, the backstory presented was accurate and along the lines of what we know and love about our team.

Action and Attitude

Action is never a problem in “Hawaii Five-0.” A car chase, a bloody crime scene, a gunfight with Wo Fat, McG breaking down doors, and jumping out of a window into a pool to catch a bad guy—was pretty much a typical day with the Five-0 team. We also got to see them all on ATVs and shoot down a helicopter, and watched Chin get shot right in his bulletproof vest.

Seeing a very badly burned and bloodied Wo Fat was pretty shocking, and I can only begin to wonder how he is going to get out from McG’s thumb this time. I’m sure there will be more to come in the next three episodes.

The best parts of the episode were when the team dished out attitude. Danno’s “Welcome to my world,” after McG jumped into the pool after a perp, was priceless. And the team trying to convince Savannah and her cameraman to get “full coverage” from their insurance company, was actually good advice, ironic or not.

Kamekona’s product placement moment with his cousin Flippa was Kamekona at his opportunistic best. Even Catherine’s “It’s none of America’s business” about her relationship with McG was a cool retort that worked.

Of course, they would all act this way reality show cameras in their faces. Danno kicking them out, not moving so they can see over his shoulder, and McG demanding “My crime scene, my rules” discipline was not just because he’s a control freak, but because that is McGarrett.

Aisha Tyler, third from left, poses for a photo with the CBS cast during a break in filming at Kualoa Ranch. (Star-Advertiser File)

The Reality Show Set-up

While I wasn’t a fan of the overall storyline involving Savannah Walker, I suppose if “Hawaii Five-0” were really trying to poke fun at themselves on an ironic level, they succeeded.

I know the writers and producers understand they are making a television show, not curing cancer or ending world hunger, so the tongue-in-cheek attitude used in the episode — real or imagined — worked in order to perhaps catch viewers up. Savannah explaining how the team works gave the show an opportunity to review some backstory newer viewers may not know, or to explain in a compact way how the team got to this point in season three.

Yet the episode title means “to seek within one’s soul,” and while I think they did reveal things about the team that perhaps some are not aware of, I hardly think it was anything like seeking into anyone’s soul.

Maybe at the end when we saw McGarrett standing at Wo Fat’s bed — perhaps that was a bit of soul searching on why he didn’t kill Wo Fat when he had a chance. His second chance. Or was it his third? I’ve lost count.

No matter, I know the chance will come again, and even though McG’s life would probably be easier with a Dead Fat, we know that if he seeks within his soul he wouldn’t kill anyone in cold blood. I am hoping if anything good can come from this episode, it is that soon McGarrett can stop seeking the reality of Wo Fat and finally know the truth.

Redux Side Note:

While we didn’t get a chance to see much of Dennis Chun and Shawn Mokuahi Garnett in this week’s episode, fans did get a chance to meet them both, as well as Vince Shin, who was in “ʻŌlelo Paʻa,” at last week’s “H50 Fan Wrap Party.” Fans from Germany, Australia, and the mainland joined us for food, fun and to watch the repeat of “Mōhai.”
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Wendie Burbridge is a published author, playwright and teacher who lives and works in Honolulu. Reach her via Facebook and follow her on Twitter.

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Fans and select local cast members of the CBS television series “Hawaii Five-0″ gathered at Big City Diner Pearlridge on Monday, April 22.