CBS ended its third season of "Hawaii Five-0" Monday night with a cliffhanger for its lead character Steve McGarrett and its largest audience since February, according to Nielsen ratings released by the network.

The show drew 9 million viewers to win the hour over ABC’s new crime series "Motive," which drew 6.55 million viewers and NBC’s "Revolution," which drew 5.64 million viewers.

"Five-0" hasn’t topped the 9-million-viewer mark since Feb. 18 for an episode that featured former "Magnum, P.I." star Larry Manetti. That episode drew 9.11 million viewers.

Among adults 18-49, a coveted audience, "Five-0" drew 2 percent of the total viewing audience Monday and 6 percent of those watching TV at the time, CBS said. Those were the second-highest demo­graph­ics since the March 25 episode.

"Five-0" is now done with Monday nights. CBS announced last week that it will be moving the show to Friday nights and also to a time slot that’s one hour earlier. In Hawaii it will air at 8 p.m. between "Undercover Boss" and the cop drama "Blue Bloods," which stars former "Magnum, P.I." star Tom Selleck.

Loyal fans will no doubt remember previous "Five-0" season finales: The first season saw McGarrett — who is played by Alex O’Loughlin — carted off to prison on murder charges, and last year he discovered in the closing seconds that his long-dead mother, Doris … was alive.

On Monday he was paired with arch nemesis Wo Fat — played with polished evil by Hawaii native Mark Dacascos — as an unknown number of machine gun-wielding bad guys with a torch were forcing their way into Wo Fat’s fortified cell.