Hawaii Five-0 · Season 1
[telling Five-O about their suspect Mercer] He's a world-class house painter whose expertise is the "€œWhite Death",€ that is, making people disappear. [...] You just know he's been there because his victims are never seen or heard from again. On the street, they call him "€œValentine".
Oh, that's cute.
Why Valentine?
Because people who know him say he doesn't have a heart.
[Ron Mercer has been caught for shooting Steve Stegner, AKA Gordon Bristol. Five-0 asks why he killed him]
Sometimes things happen that change a person's perspective on life.
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.
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?
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.
So, what about all the people you're supposed to kill? What happened to them?
I found a safe place to hide them.
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.
Chin Ho Then how is it that you're still walking around?
I'm that good.
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?
I think you just told a really great campfire story. The only things missing are the marshmallows.
How can I help?
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?
We're talking no phone service, no nosey tourists, no contact with the outside world.
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.
[Danny's incensed that his brother Matt is dead and stored in an oil drum when he and Steve came all the way to Colombia to bring in Reyes' money in exchange. He and Steve take out the guards before facing Reyes again]
[Punches Reyes and shoves him back to a table] What'd I just tell you, huh? What'd I say? Huh? What'd I tell you? Huh? Huh? What'd I say? [points pistol at him] Okay. Look at me. You look at me, look at me, look at me. That's it. [fires]
[at his father's grave site] Hey, Dad. Spoke to Aunt Deb last week. Looks like she's gonna give chemo a shot. She, um she said to me, "The McGarretts are fighters." And Mary, Mary's good. You wouldn't believe it, Dad, but she has, uh she's become such a strong woman. And she's such a great mother to that little girl. She sends me videos, like, every other day. I'm getting to watch Joanie grow up. It's amazing. Kid's starting to take her first steps. I really wish you were here for all of this. I think you would have liked being a grandfather. [kisses a quarter and puts it on the plaque] I miss you, Dad.
You know what your problem is, brah? You're the hoarder.
Yeah, a hoarder of truth.
Jerry, compulsive hoarding is a symptom of OCD. Have you ever been diagnosed?
Oh, yeah, Dr. Shaw? Hanging out with dead people all day could be considered borderline necrophilia. Have you ever been diagnosed?
Denial is another symptom.
[in flashback, to a teenaged Ellie Clayton] I've, uh I've got a daughter about your age. When things get tough, I say to her you need to be strong. You need to be brave. And if you can do that, then you're gonna be okay.
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.
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 goes to his basement and is surprised to see Thomas Farrow, the bookshop owner-cum-counterfeiter he has been tracking]
Hello, Mr. Ortega.
What are you doing here?
Returning your book. Did you ever read it?
No.
There's a passage in here that warns of the perils of meddling in someone else's affairs. "He who does will face retribution."
[hands Chin and Lou coats as the victim is in a freezer] Gentlemen, the good news is our homicide victim is well-preserved. The bad news, it's below zero in there.
[scoffs] You know what we call below zero in Chicago? April.
Whatever happened to "immunity and means"? Since when does Five-O need a warrant?
Since you decided to conduct your own illegal surveillance operation, Jerry.
[about Thomas Farrow] My money's on him being an MI-6 bad-ass. That's British Secret Intelligence Service.
I know. I've seen James Bond.
Hey, can you guys manage here without me? [Steve glares at him]
[facetiously] No.
Well, you're gonna have to. I have a British source. He's kind of my one-stop-shop for all Brit-related intel. We also watch Doctor Who together.
You're a murderer. Five innocent Iraqis died as a direct result of your orders.
I'm a soldier.
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.
[to Sang Min about Lou] He's with us now, so he's got the right to slap you around, knock your teeth out if you get out of line.
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