I've been tracking Victor Hesse for five years. If he were bold enough to surface, I promise you he already has an exit strategy planned, and he knows I know it, which means I can barely afford the hour it's going to take to bury my father, let alone stand here talking to you. Excuse me.
GPGovernor Patricia Jameson
I can help you find this son of a bitch, with full immunity and means. Your task force will have blanket authority to go after guys like Hesse and get them the Hell off my island. Your rules, my backing, no red tape. I promise you, Commander. What you see is what you get.
Your captain said you transferred in from New Jersey six months ago, so your eye’s still fresh.
You know, I appreciate it, but my psych eval’s not for six weeks.
Fold-out bed, no ring on your finger—you obviously moved here to be close to your daughter. Which means in between visits, all you got is your job, and you take pride in it. That’s what I’m looking for.
Yeah, but you know what? It’s guys like you who think you know how to do everything better, and that only makes my job harder.
You got no choice, detective. The governor gave me jurisdiction; I’m making you my partner. We’re gonna get along great.
Look, I can't be a cop anymore.
Because I can't be! You understand? HPD accused me of taking payoffs, so I'm the last person the department wants to see wearing a badge. I've gotta go.
This is going really well.
[more directly] Did you take the money?
Then come with us. And we don't need to talk about this again. Ever. This is your ticket back into the game. Call it payback, call it whatever you want, I don't care, but I need you.
How do you know you can trust me?
[interrogating Sang Min]
You're going to jail. That part's not up for negotiation; your family is about to lose a husband and a father. In my eyes, now they're your victims, too. The trouble is, the law doesn't see it that way. Your wife, she's from Rwanda. She'll be sent back; they both will. If they're lucky, they'll make it to a refugee camp. And your son... seven is old enough to hold a gun for the Hutu militia. I can prevent all that, but I don't help people who don't help me.
[flustered] What kind of cops are you?
[recording] When he was 5 years old, I asked my son Steve what he wanted to be when he grew up. "I wanna be a cop, Dad, like you." I told him to be anything but that. The life of a cop is Is not easy. It's not that I'm not proud of the work that I did, but more than anything, I have, uh I have regrets. The toll that it took on my family, the way it hurt them. It's something I think about every day. Now, I'm I'm alone here. Losing my wife was almost unbearable. But giving up my kids, that just broke me. I'm proud of them, but they'd never know it. I've missed so much of their lives and watching them grow up and all. I guess that's the way it has to be. Till I figure this out.
[Kono meets up with Sid]
SSid
What do you need, cuz? You said it was urgent.
There's a rolling casino tonight. Can you get us in?
SSid
They said I was working security detail for something.
SSid
You're putting me in a tough spot, kid. If this thing goes south, I risk compromising my investigation.
I wouldn't be asking you to do this if I didn't think that we had a real shot at ending this gang war.
SSid
I'll help you, but I don't want anything to do with Chin Ho. [walks to surfboard]
That's cold, brah. That is still family.
SSid
[at Kono's remark] You think I wanna feel this way? We were boys, me and Chin. I thought I knew him.
SSid
I know that what he did set me back with HPD. If I'm not the one volunteering for the hardest jobs, the one that nobody will take, they're gonna think I'm dirty too. You think I like living in a tenement, away from my wife and baby almost a year? That's what being related to Chin Ho did for me.
Do you ever think for a second maybe he didn't do anything, that he was set up?
SSid
All that matters are what the bosses think. And they took his badge away. To think anything else is career suicide.
He protected you at the football field and this is how you pay him back?
SSid
No, he thought I was a gangbanger and he let me go. What kind of cop does that?
The kind who knows how to look after his family.
SSid
I worry about you, Kono. You know those HPD guys, the one that you depend on for backup? Think they don't know who your cousin is?
They're wrong about him and so are you. He's a good man.
SSid
Listen, kid, if you want my help, you got it. But not Chin. End of story.
He's not going undercover. Everyone knows him on the island. It's just me, McGarrett and Danny.
SSid
I can probably get you in if you don't mind serving drinks. I don't know about the two haoles.
They clean up nice. They can go as whales. Trust me.
[Danny is at Rachel's house to confront her over a petition to deny him visitation rights on Grace]
[to gate intercom] Rachel, just hear me out, okay? Before you sic your lawyers on me and try to take Grace away from me, I wanna remind you of something. I moved 5,000 miles so that I could see Grace twice a week. Twice a week, okay? [reads from paper] That is 48 hours, 52 times a year, for a grand total of 2,500 hours and when you factor in sleep and school, I can really only count on about 400 hours of real face time each year. And, you know, it's only gonna shrink when she starts making friends, and then she goes off to college. [feels despondent] So ultimately, that does not leave me with a lot of time to spend with my daughter. Not as much as I would want, but I never complained. I never complained because every single one of those minutes reminds me of what I am doing and why I am here. That little girl is my life. So I'm asking you, I am begging you, Rachel, to please, please just be kind and don't take her away from me. That's all.
HHousehelp
Uh, I will get Ms. Rachel for you, sir.
MMan
Detective Williams, this is Rachel's counsel.
Yeah, will you put Rachel on, please?
LLawyer
That won't be necessary.
Don't tell me what's necessary. Just do what I tell you to do.
LLawyer
Rachel's dropping the petition.
LLawyer
She's decided not to fight you for visitation. [gate opens to let Danny in]
[watching a video of one of McGarrett's high school football games]
Your dad couldn't stop screaming.
You were there with my dad?
CChin
Yeah. I was fresh out of the academy, he was my training officer. I'll tell you, any day that Steve McGarrett was starting at quarterback was an official day off.
[...]
I got one question. What’s a quarterback doing wearing the number fifty?
No, it’s not fifty, it’s five-0. It’s what my dad used to call our family, because we weren’t native Hawaiian. Five-0. I don’t know; it was his way of making us feel like we belonged somewhere I guess.
[Danny is getting his knee checked by the orthopedist]
DDoctor
Anything traumatic recently, with the knee?
Yeah, actually. I got a new partner.
DDoctor
[amused] I was thinking more about a physical injury.
No, no, this-this guy is like a physical injury, Doc. Ten minutes after meeting him, I get shot and blasted backwards through a window, okay? A few hours after that, he drives a car not joking onto the deck of a Chinese freighter ship. And, yes, I was in it. The car, not the ship.
DDoctor
He drove a car onto a boat?
Yeah. He's an animal. And I sorta get the feeling that he's just getting warmed up.
