Steve McGarrett quotes from Hawaii Five-0

Lou

Oh, you buying?

Catherine

Yeah.

Steve

Who invited you?

Lou

This Grinch act of yours, just-just stop it. You know you like me. You just have difficulty expressing your feelings.

Danny

[to Lou] I don't know how he feels about you, but he definitely likes a free meal. That I know.

Steve

[turns to Danny] What's that supposed to mean??

Danny

[to Steve] Well, I don't want to put a fine point on it, but you are cheap.

Lou

[under his breath] Yeah. Oops.

Steve

[on the phone with Danny] How about you?

Danny

Me? I'm sick.

Steve

I mean, she's only gonna be gone for a couple of days, Danny, okay?

Danny

You're missing the point. She did the drop-and-run, Steve, okay? Not even barely a kiss on the cheek. All right? And this is not the first time. This is not the first time that I have looked in my girl's eyes and seen something different. I don't know what it is. It's like her innocence is, uh, floating off into space or something. I don't know what.

Steve

Ah, well, she's growing up, ok? What are you gonna do?

Danny

Build a time machine. I'm gonna go back in time when she was just a baby, before I met you, to a happy time in my life.

Steve

Ok. Good luck with that.

Danny

[unamused] You think this is funny, don't you?

Lou

Yeah, listen, it gets worse. Oh, yeah. Yeah, wait till she asks you to take her bra shopping, huh. Or when the first boyfriend shows up. You're gonna love that. You ain't seen nothing yet, pal, so put on your big-boy pants because Father Time is not your friend.

Danny

Will you put Steve back on, please? [Lou passes the phone back to Steve]

Steve

Yeah.

Danny

Do not, under any circumstances, ever do that to me again.

Lou

[shouts into phone] Truth hurts, don't it?

Danny

Okay, put him back on.

Steve

Okay. [passes phone to Lou]

Lou

I'll tell you something else... [Danny hangs up on them]

Steve

I can slow down if you, uh, if you can't keep up.

Lou

You know, my old man once told me never mistake somebody who's moving fast with somebody who knows where they're going.

Steve

Yeah, all due respect, your old man didn't know me. I move fast and I know where I'm going.

Lou

[sarcastically] Boy, I wish I was half as good as you think you are. [swats an insect near his ear] Ouch!

Steve

[takes a drink from his water bottle] Long way from Chicago, huh?

Steve

I know you're not gonna go home, sit in your rocking chair and wait on a call from me, okay? You're gonna be out here making a mess of things, you know? Get in my way, so I figured I'd do myself a favor, right? Save myself the trouble. But you're only half right. Catherine Rollins is on reserve duty. I got Danno on the North Shore, I'm short-handed so I thought about it and figured you were competent enough to tag along.

Lou

Competent enough? Well, you ain't exactly Mount Rushmore material yourself, you know.

Danny

[sees Lou at the dinner table] What's, uh what's going on here?

Steve

What are you talking about?

Danny

Well, you know, first you invite him over for Thanksgiving. Then you guys, uh you guys partner up. Now he's in the kitchen cooking chili, watching the game. People are gonna think you two like each other or something.

Steve

I don't know. H-He's not that bad.

Danny

No?

Steve

No, he's not that bad. I mean, he's, uh he's a bit he's a bit thick-headed, but he makes a great chili.

Danny

Oh, that's good. So he's like you, but he can cook.

Steve

I've been thinking a lot about our last conversation. How you wanted to know what brought me back to Hawaii. Well, a month ago, I would've told you it was to find the man who killed my father. I realized it was about more than that. I lost somebody. Somebody really close to me. He, um he gave his life to save mine.

Lou Grover

What was his name?

Steve

His name was Freddie Hart. He was a team guy. We went through BUD/S together. We always had each other's back. He was my brother. More than anything else in this world, Freddie wanted to be a father. That was it. He would've been a great father, too. Anyway, after he died, um the Navy didn't feel the same. When the governor offered me Five-O I jumped at it.

Lou

You ran away.

Steve

Yeah.

Danny

Just stop for one second, okay? All I am saying is that a heads-up would've been nice. Okay? That's all.

Steve

You're so worked up about this.

Danny

Oh, oh, okay, listen, um, I know this may seem like a foreign concept to you, but the idea of my mother being in harm's way-- it does not sit well with me.

Steve

You got to give her more credit, Danny. I mean, she survived you.

Danny

[deadpan] Ah. You're not a good friend. In fact, you're no longer my friend.

Lou

I figure we ought to get you guys a Five-O Grover signal. That way, you can just throw it up in the sky when you need me.

Steve

Trust me, nobody wants to see your name in lights.

Danny

Yeah, and nobody on the planet wants to see you in tights.

[looks at map] It's a grave.

Steve

It's a grave. Okay. Whose grave? Who's buried here?

I'm done talking. I've already said enough.

Steve

[stops him] Listen to me. What you say here stays here. It stays between us. I'm not going to do anything to jeopardize your career.

[shrugs off Steve] It's not my career that I'm worried about. [leaves]

Danny

Yeah, I'll probably screw it up like I do everything else. Right? Not in my DNA to be happy.

Steve

I didn't mean that. That's not what I meant.

Danny

No, I'm officially agreeing with you. There is something wrong with the way that I am built. I-I can't, uh I can't just enjoy happiness like regular people, you know?

Steve

You don't think you're being a little hard on yourself?

Danny

No, I don't. When I was a kid, my parents would go out to eat dinner. If they were late coming home, I used to imagine that they died in a car wreck, just 'cause they were 15 minutes late and I used to talk to God and beg him. I said, "Please just take my dad, not my mom." 'Cause I couldn't live without my mom. mean, every time something good happens in my life, I-I just I think of when it's gonna end. That's all I can think about.

Steve

You for real?

Danny

Yeah.

Steve

That's not normal.

Danny

I know it's not normal. Listen to this. On my wedding day, I'm looking at Rachel, just about to say "I do," and all I can see is the day she's gonna serve me with divorce papers. No joke. And I-I don't know, man. The only sustained happiness I ever felt in my life so far is Grace. And, you know, it's just a matter of time before she turns 18, and then she's out the door and she marries some schmuck. I don't know.

Steve

You got to change, man. You can't live like that.

Danny

Well, I'd like very much to change. It's just not so simple, you know?

Steve

Take Amber, all right? Start small. Instead of pushing her away, like you always do, fixate on how she's gonna break your heart, she's gonna destroy your life bring her in, bring her closer.

Danny

All right, I'll give it a shot.

Steve

What?

Danny

I said I'll give it a shot. I make it out of here alive, I'll give it a shot.

Looks like you had a bad day, Commander.

Steve

Not as bad as you would've liked. I know you set me up to keep me quiet about Cambodia, but I'm still here.

Question is: have you gotten the message?

Steve

No. That's pretty clever. They would've pulled three bodies out of that rubble, assumed that Dekker's brother was killed for payback and Five-O got caught in the middle. No one ever would've suspected that this was all about keeping me from asking questions you didn't want answered.

You should've listened to Sam, left this alone.

Steve

An innocent man died today. For no reason. And dozens, dozens of innocent lives were put in danger, all to clean up a mess that you made 40 years ago. Now, what happened in Cambodia? Who was buried in that grave?

Consider your next move very carefully.

Steve

You consider yours. I still got DNA from that grave, and I'm gonna run it, so you might as well tell me who it belongs to.

Lei Kuan Fat. Wo Fat's mother.

Steve

Why would you cover that up?

Because it wasn't supposed to be her in that grave. Our target was Wo Fat's father, but the op went bad. My agent on the ground disappeared, leaving me to clean up her mess.

Steve

That agent was my mother, but she went on to work for the agency, while you were forced out. She didn't botch the job. You ordered an unsanctioned hit that went bad. Wo Fat's father is still alive, isn't he? Do you have any idea the fallout if that ever came to light? Where is he?

Sit down. I'll tell you. [tries to pull out pistol but gets killed by Steve]

Steve

Physical therapy appointment huh?

Danny

Yeah, yeah, my mandatory hour of joy with Nurse Ratchet, thanks to you.

Steve

Thanks to me?

Danny

Uh-huh.

Steve

What, you're gonna blame that building collapsing on us on me?

Danny

I am.

Steve

And how exactly am I responsible?

Danny

Well, about four years ago, you can knocking on my door and told me that I had no choice but to work with you, so I figured everything that's terrible that happened to me since was your fault. You're like a cloud, a dark cloud, that never goes away.

Steve

Do me a favor, when you see Nurse Ratchet, have her, uh, check your head while she works the rest of you over, 'cause you got some damage up there, too.

Lou Grover

Well, excuse me, Jacques Cousteau. You know, jealousy is an ugly cloak, my friend. You do not wear it well.

Steve

"Jealousy"? No, no, no. Look, that fish was probably old, depressed, you know, maybe a little, uh, senile, you know, swimming around looking for a tiger shark to end his days, and then bumped into you.

Lou

A senile, depressed fish?

Steve

[deadpan] That's right.

Lou

[smirks] You are some piece of work, McGarrett, you know that?

Steve

[removes a bullet from Lou's bullet-proof vest] Look at that. Lucky twice in one day.

Lou

Only you can see getting shot as being lucky.

Steve McGarrett

There was enough hardware in that house to make three bombs, Dawn. Why don't you tell me your plan? Maybe detonate an IED on the road leading into the Air Force base? Wipe out some innocent soldiers, then what, a couple of secondary devices to shred up the first responders? That sound about right?

"Innocent" soldiers? They drop bombs thousands of feet in the air, killing innocent women and children like cowards!

Steve

Cowards? You want to talk about cowards? You should have said so. Okay, let's talk about cowards. Why don't we start with your boy Nazaria, your mentor? Let's start with him. Where is he? He's hiding in a cave in the mountains of Yemen. You think that traitor cares about you? You think that piece of garbage gives a damn that your friends are dead and that you're gonna spend the rest of your God-forsaken life rotting in some federal prison?

Muhammed Nazaria is a warrior; he's a soldier of God, pursuer of the truth and the light, okay? He is the leader!

Steve

Leaders lead from the front. And I don't see him, do you? Where is he? Don't you get it, Dawn? They found you, okay? Because they look for people like you. They look for people who are vulnerable, people who are emotionally fragile, who have a big wound on the inside, who are trying to get back at somebody for something. And they make you feel like you're an important part of something, a cause a cause bigger than you. So big, in fact, that it's worth giving your life for.

I am a soldier of Allah, and we must fight you as you fight us. Those of us that believe must fight in the cause of God!

Steve

What are you talking about? These words that are coming out of your mouth, they're not even your words! They're phrases that have been cherry-picked from a holy book and tailored to fit the lies they've told you. Listen to me, all right? I get that it was rough growing up, your mom was alcoholic, your old man, he was never around, I get it. How old were you when he died? You were, like, eight or nine, right? I lost my old man, too. I know what it's like to lose a parent.

I didn't lose him. He died, okay? He died fighting your imperialistic war against the peaceful children of Allah!

Steve

You're wrong. Your dad was a hero, okay? He was a patriot, a soldier fighting for his country, Dawn. You gotta remember him. What would he make of all this? You gotta know, somewhere inside you, that this is wrong. Some shred of regret.

My only regret is that you stopped me.