Steve McGarrett quotes from Hawaii Five-0

Steve McGarrett

I'm gonna come back, all right? I'm gonna come back. We can do this together. I'll help you find him.

Catherine Rollins

Steve, no.

Steve McGarrett

Catherine...

Catherine

No, listen to me. You've helped me enough, okay? It's better for me to do this alone. I can keep a low profile that way. It's just easier. You know I'm right. You understand why I need to do this, don't you?

Steve

[sniffles] Yeah, of course I do. You just promise me...

Catherine

I promise you I'll be careful. I'll be careful, okay?

Steve

I love you, you know.

Catherine

I love you, too.

Steve

Okay.

Catherine

All right.

Steve

Good luck, Cath.

McGarrett

How's forced retirement?

Lou

Well, the governor said that my actions were a gross abuse of power by a sworn officer of the law and my misuse of HPD resources was unprecedented.

McGarrett

So basically nothing I wouldn't have done under the same circumstances. [Lou chuckles]

Danny

So, uh, we have been together for 3 years.

Steve

4.

Danny

See, this is specifically what I'm talking about.

Steve

I was correcting you.

Danny

Okay, 4.

Steve

Three years, eleven months, three days. Exactly.

Danny

You're done? [Steve gives him a "duh" look.]

Detective Williams asked you a question.

Steve

What?

He asked if you were going to allow him to finish his thought.

Steve

Who's side are you on?

I don't take sides, Commander. I'm an objective observer. You know the Governor asked me to oversee the annual psychological audit of personnel and I was concerned by what Detective Williams had to say.

Steve

Okay, yeah, fine. So we don't agree on a few things but I don't see why that's such a big deal.

Danny

[interrupts] "A few things"? A few things?! We don't agree on anything.

Steve

You wanna know why you spend so much time in the passenger seat?

Danny

[sarcastically] This should be fantastic.

Steve

You wanna know?

Danny

Yeah.

Steve

I get carsick if I don't drive. [Danny scoffs and starts laughing] And he laughs.

So five people make up the Five-O Task Force.

Steve

Yeah, but we're more than a task force you see. We're ohana.

Why the look, Detective Williams?

Danny

Oh, no, no look. I guess I was just agreeing with him. For the first time. [smiles]

Steve

I think we're good. [smiles]

Now, you know I can't confirm whether Lieutenant Larkin's on a mission, Commander. What I can tell you is, there have been no security breaches on any of our current ops.

Steve

Okay, um, sir, Lieutenant Larkin's daughter was kidnapped just two hours ago, all right? We believe that the mission that he either is or is not on could be the key to getting her back.

That may be so, but I'm telling you, it's got nothing to do with our ops. You're just gonna have to take my word on that.

Steve

Yeah, with all due respect, sir, we've, uh we've been down this road before, you and I, and oh, you owe me.

[chuckles] Well, you did save my ass with that Chinese satellite. That much is true.

Steve

You're welcome.

But, unfortunately, I've said all I can on this matter.

Steve

What about his files? Can you give us access to his files?

I can do that.

Steve

Okay. If his daughter's kidnapping has anything to do with his service, there'll be a list of suspects there.

Danny

Uh, one more thing, I'm sorry-- um, Angela, his wife, uh, has been trying to get in touch with him. Is there any way we could make that happen? That would be nice.

I'm sensitive to the situation, Detective. Truly, I am. And I'm sure as soon as Lieutenant Larkin is available, he'll contact his wife.

Steve

Let's go. Thank you.

Steve

[sighs] We take an oath, Danny.

Danny

I understand that. But this is about the guy's family.

Steve

You don't think he's got a right to know? Of course he has a right to know, all right? But right now his team needs him focused and ready to lead. You tell him about his daughter, you could put all their lives in danger and compromise the entire mission.

Danny

Well, let me tell you something that you don't know, okay? As a parent, when your child is in trouble, you can sense it. You know about it. Like right now, Lieutenant Larkin, he knows that. He doesn't know why, but he knows it. Don't you think that puts him and his team in just as much danger?

Lou

Where's the brains?

Steve

What are you talking about?

Lou

Williams. He's the brains. You're the brawn.

Steve

Okay. What does that make you?

Lou

Me? Come on, man. I'm the pretty face.

Kono

You're joking.

Lou

Hey, don't look at me-- this is McGarrett's idea.

Kono

[clears throat] Huh...I'm not wearing this.

Steve

These girls are surfers; we know where they hang out. The only way we're gonna find them is if they don't see us coming. What's the problem?

Kono

Okay, then it falls on me?

Lou

Well, you're the surfer, ain't ya?

Steve

Yeah. Plus, you're the only one who can walk down on that beach without broadcasting "cop". Hey, listen, we need eyes out there, okay? Somebody on that beach must know who these girls are, plus, the alternative is Grover in a Speedo.

Lou

Hey. Couple of years ago, I could've pulled it off, but...[looks down at his belly] Well, you know.

Kono

[sighs] Fine. But I pick the suit.

Sometimes things happen that change a person's perspective on life.

Steve

Well, that's that's some deep and soulful stuff for a man who's killed over a hundred people.

[laughs] Two years ago middle of a thunderstorm, I got into a head-on with a moving van with bad brakes. Doctors said I suffered a traumatic ventricular failure. That there was a 100% certainty I would die if I didn't get a new heart.

Steve

Okay, how'd you get to the top of the list?

You gentlemen forget who I work for. Men like Albert Bagosa doesn't get wait-listed. I needed a new heart. He got me one. Not that he had any great affection for me. He just needed me to get back to work. I was told that my heart belonged to a very special young man. He taught at about the worst school in the city. Served meals at the local soup kitchen. Built houses for the homeless during his summer break. Then one day, this solid citizen, this man who lived to make a difference, got hit by a drunk driver while crossing the street. And it was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. 'Cause I got a piece of him. After that, things changed. Went about my business the way I always done it, but when it came to the moment of truth, couldn't go through with it. Just couldn't pull the trigger. And it kept happening contract after contract. Something happened when I got that new heart. I began thinking of the people I was asked to kill. Their loved ones. Their families. What did they do to deserve me?

Steve

Okay. Well, if your story's true, that can't have made Mr. Bagosa happy.

I never told Bagosa. Every contract I got, I pretended to fill it.

Chin Ho Kelly

So, what about all the people you're supposed to kill? What happened to them?

I found a safe place to hide them.

Chin Ho

You created your own witness protection program.

That's right. An entire community made up of people that didn't deserve to die - but somehow Bagosa found out.

I'm that good.

Steve

That's why Bagosa sent Stegner to Hawaii, huh? To kill those people that you've been hiding?

Those people are innocent. I couldn't let Stegner end their lives. You think I'm lying?

Lou

I think you just told a really great campfire story. The only things missing are the marshmallows.

Jerry

How can I help?

Steve

So, listen, if somebody wanted to live off the grid, Jerry, and I'm talking like Big Brother-fearing, income tax-avoiding, way, way off the grid, where would they go?

Kono

We're talking no phone service, no nosey tourists, no contact with the outside world.

Lou

What they're trying to say is where do your like-minded friends all live? How many people we looking at? Maybe a dozen, possibly more.

Your dad had some regrets. But you know what I think his biggest one was? Sending you and Mary away when you thought your mother had been killed.

Steve

I mean he had to, he did that for our safety.

Yeah, he did. But I think he came to believe it would have been better for you if he hadn't. That he should have kept you close, been in your lives every day.

Jerry

Whatever happened to "immunity and means"? Since when does Five-O need a warrant?

Steve

Since you decided to conduct your own illegal surveillance operation, Jerry.

Steve

You're a murderer. Five innocent Iraqis died as a direct result of your orders.

I'm a soldier.

Steve

No, you're not. You gave up that privilege when you crossed the line.

What line? Warfare's messy. It lives in the gray. Always has.

Steve

What kind of cop are you?

Danny

The kind of cop that gets things done.

Wo Fat

You know nothing about the real Doris McGarrett.

Steve

Do you? I know that she was assigned to kill your father. But instead your mother died in that op.

Wo Fat

Yes. And she never forgave herself for murdering an innocent woman who had just become a new mother. That pain and anguish caused her to do something quite remarkable. She took in that child and raised it as her own for several years. Until her superiors discovered this and forced her–

Steve

They forced her to abandon that child. That was you.