Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 3, Episode 15 - Hawaii Five-O - full transcript

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Hyah!

I saw it happen before, Frank.

Down in Texas, up in Wyoming.

Everywhere.

They just chewed
up the small ranchers.

One thing a cowpoke
couldn't ride out.

So they sold their
ponies, and give up.

Not you, Hody.

Look at you. You rode it out.

You came here.



So did they.

Hi, Frank.

Put them in the pen, Hody.

Don't you think I know

how you feel about this place?

Hey. Hey, I'm not
just a wheeler-dealer

from the mainland.

Frank, I've taken the trouble

to find out things
about your people.

Frank, I'm offering
you a fair deal, brudda.

Don't you brudda me.

Maybe you not remember, man,

I told you get off my land.

Frank!



I told you to pen the steers.

They'll hold.

Who's boss around here?

And I told you to get.

Frank.

Look, Frank.

Frank, I'm not trying
to embarrass you.

But you still owe wages

for last year's roundup
to the paniolas.

It's paniolo.

Maybe you'd better
stick to cowboy.

All right, all right, Frank,

but that doesn't
change the fact.

Maui's changed, man.

You're scrounging to pay taxes

for everybody else's property.

Sell now or this whole thing

will be taken away
from you later.

No haole gonna
take my land from me.

Nobody. Never.

There is a way.

About those IOU's.

I hear Harry Pawai
is holding the big one.

Harry know I'm
good for the money.

The note says, "To
the bearer on demand."

That means any bearer and $800.

That still don't
get you my land.

Yeah, it'll get me a
lien and a public auction

and a good chance, Frank,

that you'd get a
lot less out of it

than I've offered you.

Harry Pawai never sell you

or nobody my note.

He didn't want to

but Harry's got
his own problems.

Let me see that.

Harry Pawai sell my note.

Hody.

Tell him get in his car
and drive out of here

or I'll kill him.

You already did.

McGARRETT: All right.

Lay it out for me.

We set up a 24-hour stakeout

at the warehouse here

and six teams of H.P.D.'s finest

with warrants ready to hit them.

They move, we move.

Good. Looks like all the
bases have been touched.

All right, gentlemen, thank
you. Keep me informed.

Hey, what are you
doing up so early?

Going out.

Nice day.

I've got a feeling
you're gonna spoil it.

No, not too bad,
Danno. Not too bad.

Do you know him?

Yeah.

Uh, Lester, uh, Cronin.

Real estate. Land developer.

Been in the islands
about a year.

He's got no problems we know of.

We know of one now.

Last night, a secret New
York grand jury indicted Cronin

and three public officials.

Fraud, bribery, the works.

That will mean extradition.

I've touched base with the
attorney general on that one.

He's signing the papers now.

Pick him up, Danno.

Frank.

Frank, listen to me.

Go back to the
ranch after the airport.

If anybody asks, I
was away all day,

at my daughter, Dorothy's.

I'll be back from
Honolulu in the morning.

Don't do it this way.

Oh, we go to the Maui police.

We tell the story
straight to Chief Kubota.

Ben knows us.

It was an accident.

Chances are, you get short time.

I'm not taking any chances.

The only way I keep
my ranch is staying there.

But what happened to
Cronin was an accident.

So is this.

Flight 47 from Maui

now disembarking at Gate 12.

Five-0 calling Central Dispatch.

Central Dispatch.
Go ahead, Five-0.

This is Williams. Can you
patch me through to McGarrett?

Okay, Williams.

Yeah, Jenny? Line 1?

What do you got, Danno?

Not Lester Cronin.

His secretary said he
was scheduled to leave

on the 8:45 morning
flight and return on the 6.

When is the next
flight due in from Maui?

Nine thirty-five. Long wait.

Looks like Cronin
is still there.

Better get over to Maui, Danno.

Ask Chief Kubota to
have him picked up.

Right, Steve.

Where do you come from?

I was just in town
on some business.

Thought I'd drop by.

It's not too late?

Yes.

Come in.

What do you want?

Pa?

Caused you a lot of
pain to say that, huh?

On the ranch, you used
to call me makua kane.

Pa.

Don't have the same music in it,

like makua kane.

No respect either.

How's my moopuna?

All right.

Too late to see him?

Well, he's asleep.

No, I'm not.

Hey, baby, hey.

Hey, paniolo.

Hey, yeah, paniolo.

What's cooking
down on the ranch?

Sheep for luau?

Hey, you ain't no paniolo,

you're a sheep man.

Bang!

Oh! Good shot.

You got me, paniolo.

Where, Mr. Sheep Man?

Right in the hipa chops.

Hey.

Yeah.

When are we going riding again?

It's been so long.

I told you, Bud, your
grandfather hasn't time.

When, Grandpa?

Soon.

And we'll go riding
up into the hills?

Way, way up.

You say good night to
your grandfather, Bud.

Good night.

Aloha.

Grandpa, is it up there, really?

What?

Ka palekani wahi.

Ka palekani wahi.

You bet, brudda.

Why you keep him
away from the ranch?

Away from me?

Why you tell him lies?

Ka palekani wahi.

The safe place.

You talk about lies?

That is not a lie.

Worse. Because
you believe it yourself.

What do you believe?

I don't believe in fooling a kid

with old-time superstitions.

Or making promises
you can't keep.

I'll keep them.

The ranch is his
when he's old enough.

When he's old enough,

it won't be there anymore!

Pa,

while there's still a
chance to get something,

sell, get out.

What I'm gonna do, huh?

Where I'm gonna go?

Come to Honolulu.

Like you?

A lot of good it did you.

You marry a haole.

You think like him and
then he goes out on you.

It doesn't make
any difference now.

It's too late.

Not for me.

Pa, the handwriting
is on the wall.

How can you turn
your back on it?

How you can turn
your back on me?

Because I couldn't look
at the pain any longer.

Pain.

Who lives without pain?

I'm fighting for my land.

I was born there!

My father was.

His father was!

You were!

They're gonna have to kill me
to get my land away from me.

You know something?

I wished you loved me as much.

All right, Pa, what do you want?

I could use some money.

You still owe me.

I know.

You'll get it all
back, what I owe you,

and the 800 I need now.

Eight hundred?

Where would I get
that kind of money?

You can find a way.

For the ranch.

For the ranch.

After all we've just said.

A simple answer,
daughter, yes or no.

No.

If anybody asks,

tell them I was here
all day since morning.

Why?

Just say, "My father
was here all day."

Is that too much to ask?

All right.

Mahalo.

Steve, no sign of Cronin himself
but here's what checks out:

He landed yesterday
at the Kahului Airport

on the morning plane.

He was ticketed to leave on
the evening flight, as we had it.

And nothing in between?

He rented a car at the airport.

All right, Danno,
ask Chief Kubota

to put out an APB
on Cronin and the car.

Oh, we had a bit of luck there.

I don't know where he is now

but I do know that
yesterday morning,

he was up in a
town called Kaeleku

up in the ranch district.

Got a parking
violation at 11:04 a.m.

So someone got a parking ticket

outside my saloon.

His name is Lester Cronin.

Yeah, you said it.

I also said, he was
seen coming in here.

Well, lots of people come
into Harry Pawai's place.

Around 11:00 in the morning?

Look, you're from Five-0.

If I knew anything,
wouldn't I tell you?

I don't know.

Head towards the beach.

Williams to, uh, Maui Central.

Go ahead, Williams.

Patch me through
to the Chief Kubota.

Go ahead, Danno.

Ben, no sign of the
car yet or Cronin.

Right now, we're
over Keke Point.

Checked Kaanapali, Napili Bay,

Lahaina, Wailuku, nothing.

How's it look on the ground?

Nothing here yet.

I've had patrol cars out

on Highways 37, 8, 9, and 40.

Kahului Airport to
Makena, come up empty.

Getting late, Danno.

You'll be losing light soon.

Uh, looks like
we'll have to keep

the copter through tomorrow.

Our best bet for now, Danno.

See you soon.

That's all today.

Hey, Frank,

cleaned up everything
like you told me to.

Change, man.

You can't go in town
smelling like that,

not even to Harry's.

Harry?

Sure.

You know, Saturday, like always.

What are you gonna say to him?

I'm not gonna say nothing.

Let him do the talking.

Frank, you know
what you're doing?

Sure, man.

Sure, brudda.

Hey, brudda.

Hey.

How goes it?

Like the Texarkanans say,

"easy like a
rocking-chair horse."

Brudda.

Yeah, go on.

You started floating
pretty early today, huh?

Aloha, Harry.

What's new, Harry?

I don't get it, Frank.

What?

I expected you to
come busting in here

and break a chair
on top of my ka po'o.

What are you talking about?

Cronin was gonna
tell you yesterday.

Cronin?

I never seen Cronin.

Well, he headed for your ranch.

Oh, I wasn't at
the ranch all day.

I was in Honolulu.

I was at the ranch and
nobody showed there.

What was Cronin gonna tell me?

Frank...

It's about that IOU of yours.

I sold it to Cronin.

You what?

I-I couldn't help myself. I...

I needed the cash.

Why you didn't come tell me?

Well, I know how tough
it's been on you, and...

You my long-time friend.

Well, like I said, I...

I couldn't help myself.

I needed the cash.

And besides, where were
you going to get 800 bucks?

From my daughter.

That's why I went to Honolulu.

Oh.

Now I feel even more worse.

It was bad enough as it was.

I was so ashamed of myself.

I even... I even
lied to that haole

that came in
asking about Cronin.

What haole?

Name's Williams.

A cop from Five-0.

Nothing here either, Bill.

Let's try inland again.

Wait a minute.

There might be
something down there.

I haven't got the fancy
equipment they got

over in the medical
examiner's lab on Oahu.

But I manage.

Have a look, Mr. McGarrett.

You know, my father gave me that

my first year in medical school.

It still does the job.

Take a look, Danno.

It's tiny slivers,

part bark, part
wood, still green.

I found them in the head wound.

Still green?

That can't be part
of a late model auto

but it could be part of club.

My thinking too.

I'd say that Lester
Cronin was dead

before the car
went over the cliff.

How about another
talk with Harry Pawai?

Yeah. Yeah.

Thanks, uh, doctor,
and take good care

of your microscope.

Harry.

Yeah, but who's
that driving with him?

Mr. Kuakua, my
name is McGarrett.

I'm with Five-0.

Frank, I'm...
I'm... I'm sorry. I...

McGARRETT: Do you
know a man by the name of

Lester Cronin?

Yeah, I know him.

He was found dead
in his wrecked car.

We thought maybe you could help.

How?

Harry tells me he was
on his way here, Friday.

That's the day he died.

Frank, I-I wasn't trying

to make trouble, believe me.

Mr. McGarrett, I
never see Cronin.

I'm not at the
ranch all day Friday.

Hody.

Yeah, Frank?

Cronin here Friday?

No.

Harry also said that he was, uh,

trying to buy this ranch.

Oh, he not the only one.

I got plenty offers.

But I understand
he was pressing.

My land is not for sale.

I tell him so.

I tell everybody.

It's no sale!

Cronin had a way
of, uh, forcing sales.

Now, take that IOU of yours.

What are you getting at?

Why, I was just checking
information I've been given.

Hody tell you, he's
not here Friday.

Well, then you didn't see him?

Like I say, I'm not at
the ranch all day Friday.

Where on Maui were you?

No place on Maui.

I go Honolulu,
visit my daughter.

Anything you want to add?

No, sir.

Frank, no hard feelings.

Mr. Kuakua.

Yeah?

Cronin was found with his
personal belongings intact.

His wallet, watch and his ring.

The only thing missing
was a piece of paper

he started out with, your IOU.

McGARRETT: No, we're
just checking his whereabouts

last Friday, Mrs. Owens.

I told you, he was here.

In this house? All day.

We hadn't seen each
other in a long time.

We sat around, had beer.

Talked.

At night, we watched the TV.

I can tell you the
name of the movie.

Any of your neighbors drop in?

No. Why are you
giving me a hard time?

I don't mean to give you
a hard time, Mrs. Owens.

Well, you are.

I'm sorry.

You keep asking me

the same questions
about my father

but you won't tell me why.

Steve. Come in, Danno.

You say you work
at the, uh, coffee shop

at the Ilikai?

You also said Friday
was your day off.

Well, it... It's...

It's not my regular day off.

But when my father
came here early that day,

I... I phoned the
hotel and told them

I was staying out.

Like I told you, Mr. McGarrett,

I hadn't seen my
father in a long time.

According to our information
and your time card,

you checked in at 8:55 a.m.

and then out at
5:10 p.m. Friday.

Your father wasn't
here at all Friday,

was he, Mrs. Owens?

I'll radio Maui to pick him up.

Yeah, and tell Ben
we're on our way.

Why did you lie, Mrs. Owens?

I don't know.

He's my father.

I never did much for him. I...

I wanted to do that.

You promised tutu
kane. I heard you.

But you broke it.
You told on him.

But I couldn't help it,
Bud. You could. You could.

It's your fault.

Pa?

Makua kane.

Frank, will you listen to me?

Just once, will
you listen to me?

You haven't even got a chance.

Nobody cares.

Those hills belong
to Lio Kane and me.

This horse is over 17 years old.

Goodbye, old friend.

Frank, there ain't no
place to go no more.

Not even up there.

They'll hunt you down.

What you got with
you, two days' food

and an old cutting horse?

You crazy old coot.

Frank.

Hey, Frank!

Frank.

I'm sorry.

You are, huh?

Kind of reminds me
of a story Frank tells.

The one about the
missionary and the Hawaiian.

The missionary says

to the Hawaiian,
he says... He said,

"Kneel, pray, and keep
your eye on heaven."

And by the time the
Hawaiian looks down,

his land is gone.

Do you suppose that that
missionary was sorry too?

Where have you been, Hody?

Oh, I've just been around, Ben,

until I phoned you.

Harry, here, he...

Didn't even charge
me for the phone call.

For old time's sake, eh, brudda?

Where's Frank?

Hody, we checked the ranch.

His horse is gone,

a rifle's missing
from the gun rack.

You said you had
something to tell me.

Yeah.

Okay.

Mr. McGarrett too.

I would have told Harry
while we was waiting

but who knows

what Harry believes
in these days.

Frank didn't kill Cronin.

Didn't even hit him.

Frank, he...

Grabbed the IOU
and shoved Cronin.

Cronin fell and bashed his head

on a tree stump.

Accident.

Why didn't you two
come to me, Hody?

I could have helped you.

Well, I figured, Ben.

But you know, Frank, he...

His mind set like a mule.

And I... I don't
have to tell you

how he felt about the ranch.

He didn't want to
take any chances

so I just went along.

You know that makes
you an accessory, Hody.

I can't help that.

You can't turn your
back on a friend.

Let's go, Ben.

Have to wait till
morning, Steve.

Okay. Start out first thing.

It's rough up there. Even
jeeps couldn't make it.

I want to take him alive.

Can you get me a
few good horsemen?

Sure.

I need a tracker.

I'll get you the
best, Charlie Latea.

You're sure going
to a lot of trouble

to find out where Frank is.

All you have to
do is ask me. I...

I know where he's headed.

Where, Hody? Where is he?

Ka palekani wahi.

He rode up in there.

All right, gentlemen,

I want something
clearly understood.

Frank Kuakua is not a killer.

I want him alive.

He's got a rifle
with him, right?

What if he starts shooting?

What are we supposed to do?

McGARRETT: We'll cross
that bridge when we come to it.

Okay, Charlie.

Tracks stop here.

Yeah.

Looks like he took to the shelf.

Yeah, that old man sure
knows what he's doing.

Danno? Danno, can you read me?

McGARRETT: We lost him for
the time being so keep searching.

Will do.

A little treat for
you, kane, huh?

As a true friend,

I take joy in your pleasure.

Down there, Bill.

Danno, you read me?

Yeah. I spotted Frank Kuakua

but by the time we got down,

I lost him in Kemo Gorge.

McGARRETT: Well, you pinpointed
the area anyway. Thanks, Danno.

Charlie, the shortest
way to Kemo Gorge.

Not short enough.

By the time we get there,

pick up his tracks,

it'll be dark.

Don't strain your eyes
looking for a campfire.

That old man knows
what he's doing.

Yeah.

He camped there last.

Looks like his horse
has gone lame.

He can't get far now.

Mahalo.

Aloha.

McGARRETT: Joe, stick with the
horses. We'll go on foot from here.

McGARRETT: Frank!

Hold your fire.

McGARRETT: Danno, move
out. I could nail him from here.

No, Danno. I said, move out.

We'll handle this without you.

Moving out.

Let's go.

Frank, listen to me, please.

I'm not speaking
to you as a cop.

I'm not just looking
to take you in.

I understand how it is with you.

I understand how it
is with your people.

Now, I know it's your land.

I feel ashamed of
what's being done here

in the name of progress

but we can't turn
back the clock.

Frank, I can't promise you

that you can keep your ranch

or any part of it.

But I can promise
you a fair trial and a...

A recommendation
for... For leniency.

You have a daughter

and a grandson who love you.

You have so much to live for.

But what you're looking
for up here, Frank, it's gone.

It's pau.

Frank, will you
come down with me?

Put your rifle down.

Please, come down.

Do you hear me?

I hear you.

McGARRETT: Are you coming?

I'm coming.

McGARRETT: Hold your fire!

You all right?

He finally made it.

Ka palekani wahi.