Hawaii Five-0 (2010–…): Season 5, Episode 5 - Ho'oilina - full transcript

Hey, Dad.

Spoke to Aunt Deb last week.

Looks like she's gonna give
chemo a shot. She, uh...

She said to me,
"The McGarretts are fighters."

And Mary-- Mary's good.

You wouldn't believe it, Dad,
but she has...

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.

I miss you, Dad.

Hey, Mary. Yeah, it's me.

No, no, no, I'm here now.
I just-- I wanted to call you guys

and just check on you,
see how you're doing.

I know. Four years. No, it's crazy.

Yeah.

No, I'm right here.

Hey, Mary, listen,
let me call you back, okay?

Excuse me. Hi.

I'm sorry to bother you.
I saw you at John McGarrett's grave.

- Did you know him?
- You're his son, aren't you?

- Yeah.
- You have his eyes.



- Ellie Clayton.
- I'm Steve McGarrett.

- And I'm still at a loss. I'm sorry.
- I can see that.

Um, do you mind telling me
how you knew my dad?

How do you like your coffee?

When I was a kid,
my dad owned a bar.

One night, someone came in to rob it
and he was killed.

Your father investigated.

I'm sorry.

He never found who did it
but your dad, he stayed in my life.

Every few weeks, he'd check in,

and on the anniversary of my father's
death, he'd take me to lunch.

We'd get some shave ice
and walk along this beach.

It meant a lotto me.

It made a difficult day
a little bit easier.

I'll always be grateful for that.

So now, on the anniversary
of his death,

I come to pay my respects,
honor his memory.

When was the last time
you guys spoke?

It was shortly before he died,
actually.

He called me to tell me
he might have a new lead in the case.

- Did he say what it was?
- No.

He followed a lot of leads
over the years.

None of them ever came to much.

You know, no matter how many
setbacks, your dad, he never gave up.

Heh. Yeah.
He was stubborn like that.

Oh, I have to run. I'm sorry.

- I have to be in court in an hour.
- You're a lawyer?

How do you know
I'm not a defendant?

I've met a lot of defendants,
they don't look like you.

I'll take that as a compliment.

Deputy prosecutor.

Five-0 taskforce.

Good to know
we're on the same side.

I'm glad I had a chance to meet you.
Your dad talked a lot about you.

He was really proud.

Well, it was nice
to meet you too, Ellie.

Hey, Ellie.

Your dad's bar,
what was the name of it?

The Aces High.

- In Kapahulu.
- That's right.

- What?
- Nothing.

I remember it is all.

- Oh. Goodbye, Steve.
- Bye.

Hey. Whoa. What are you guys doing?

- What?
- We're packing boxes, like you asked.

With the newspapers? You crazy?
There's evidence in these pages.

Of what?

Several connected global conspiracies
I've yet to prove.

You got 18 boxes
worth of files labeled, like:

"Unexplained phenomena."
"Area 51

You hold on to old VHS tapes,
along with newspapers.

You know what your problem is, brah?
You're a hoarder.

Yeah, a hoarder of truth.

Jerry, compulsive hoarding
is a symptom of OCD.

- Have you ever been diagnosed?
- Oh, yeah, Dr. Shaw?

Hanging around dead people
all day

could be considered borderline
necrophilia.

- Have you ever been diagnosed?
- Denial is another symptom.

Mm-hm.

What did I say?

I'm gonna start packing up
the kitchen.

All right, buddy.

Follow my hip.

What the hell?
We're downstairs working,

and you're up here listening to--

Pictorial onlay. Fine-dust jacket...

- What are you listening to?
- Nothing. Book on tape.

You mean bookshop owner on tape.

Bookshop owner-slash-counterfeiter.

- I don't believe this. ls this live?
- No. It's from a few days ago.

I was just catching up
between packing boxes.

Jerry, are you aware that
in the state of Hawaii,

bugging someone is a felony,
and carries with it a $10,000 fine

and a five-year prison sentence?

Are you aware of the consequences
of flooding the market with counterfeit?

This guy Farrow could crash a small
economy if we don't stop him.

There is nothing to stop.

The Secret Service already
cleared Farrow.

Secret Service?
What do they know?

They still believe
that Oswald acted alone.

Jerry, enough.

I know for a fact that McGarrett
already asked you to back off twice.

And you didn't listen.

How are we supposed
to trust you now?

How'd you even manage
to bug this guy?

Pulled a Trojan Horse move.

Hid the bug in a rare book
and I sold it to him via a third party.

But don't ask me who
because I'll never tell.

It was Kamekona.

I'll give you points for creativity.
But you gotta get the book back.

And you got to shut this thing down.

Crap, it's McGarrett.
Please don't say anything.

- You gonna get the book back?
- Fine.

All right.

Commander.
Dude, I thought you couldn't make it.

Sorry, I'm not here for the packing party.
I need a word with Chin. You got a sec?

Yeah.

- What's up?
- Hey, listen.

Did my dad ever talk about
a cold case back in '95?

It was a robbery-homicide.
Victim's last name was Clayton.

Yeah. Yeah, that case haunted him.

Found this in his toolbox.

I never understood why. Then this
morning, I met Clayton's daughter.

It started to make sense.
My dad kept in touch with her.

What happened?

Well, there had been a string
of robberies in the neighborhood.

And Clayton was closing up
this place

when the killer came in
and shot him in cold blood.

Grabbed the cash box and took off.

Meanwhile, the daughter was upstairs
in the apartment that they shared

when the whole thing happened.
Poor kid heard the shot.

What about suspects?
They ever have any suspects?

Yeah, for a minute. Homeless guy.
Uh, Ned Burrows.

H.P.D. found him
during the canvass.

Lab tested a sweatshirt
he was wearing

and it came back with traces
of GSR.

He claimed that he found
the sweatshirt in a dumpster

a couple blocks from the crime scene.
No one believed him at first.

But then he alibied out.
But after they let him go,

your dad became convinced that
Burrows knew more than he said.

So he went back into that
neighborhood every night for a month,

looking for the guy
but never found him.

Even over the years,
he kept up the search.

The guy was a ghost.

A couple of days
before my dad was killed,

he called Paul Clayton's daughter
and told her he might have a new lead.

- Maybe he finally tracked him down.
- Go to my house,

go through my dad's stuff.
Tapes, journals.

See if you can find anything
on Burrows.

In the meantime, I'm gonna call
the property clerk at H.P.D.,

- have them pull up the evidence.
- You want to reopen this case?

Obviously this meant a lot to my dad.

I owe it to him to try to solve it.

Would the Rhodes Scholar
like another Shirley Temple?

No, thanks.
It's only a report card, Dad.

Hey, don't be so modest.
You got straight A's.

Your mom would've been proud.

- You need to take a break.
- I'm good.

You work too hard.
You're gonna burn yourself out.

Come on. Get up.

I've got sunshine

On a cloudy day

When it's cold outside

I've got...

What can make me feel this way?

My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' bout

Hey. It's getting late.

- What do you say we call it a night?
- Okay.

All right, you head upstairs, get ready.
I'll finish up down here.

- I'll be up soon.
- Okay. Good night, Dad.

Ellie?

I didn't even think to call for help.

I just ran downstairs

but by the time I got there,
my father was barely breathing.

I just held his hand. I kept saying,
"Daddy, please don't leave me."

Ellie?

I'm, uh, Sergeant McGarrett.

You can call me John, if you like.
I need to ask you some questions

if that's okay.

Listen, you're gonna survive this,
you know?

It won't be easy. But you can do it.

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.

That lead your father mentioned?

Do you think you might know
what he was talking about?

I have a hunch, but even if I'm right--

I know.
It could end up being nothing.

It's one thing you discover early on
as a prosecutor,

is just how often even the most
promising leads fail to pan out.

But whatever happens, thank you.

You're welcome.

We looked at all the evidence
in the case.

It turns out there wasn't much.
There were no prints at the scene

and no usable DNA profiles
on the sweatshirt.

What about ballistics?

There was only one bullet fired,
no shell casing found,

so more than likely
the murder weapon was a revolver.

Now, CSU did recover
some bullet fragments.

But ballistics testing at the time
was inconclusive.

All right, have the lab test
those fragments again.

Technology's come a long way
in the last 20 years.

Maybe we'll get something this time.

Yeah, Chin? What do you got?

Looks like you were right about
that lead.

What? My dad was closing in
on Ned Burrows.

Yup. Turns out that shortly
before your father passed,

Hawaii launched a program
to issue state ID's to the homeless,

so they could apply for jobs
and services.

Your dad checked and found out
Burrows got one of those ID's,

which put him in the system,
and once that happened,

he started leaving a trail.

Right, but my father never got
the chance to follow it.

You're right. But now we can.

All right. Here's the deal. Uh...

That sweatshirt wasn't the only thing
I fished out of the Dumpster.

What do you mean?

There was a metal box.
Had about $350 cash in it

along with a pretty nice watch.

I figure whoever killed the bar guy
stashed the loot

and was gonna
come back for it later.

All right, when they picked you up,
you had the sweatshirt.

- What'd you do with everything else?
- I partied.

I spent most of the money on meth.

And then I put the rest back
with the watch

and I hid the box in this old building
behind Leonard's Bakery.

I figured I'd pawn the watch
down the road.

But after the cops let me go, I figured
it was safer to just forget about it.

See?

There it is.

- What is that?
- I'm not sure.

All right, we'll get it back to the lab,
see if we can pull some prints off of it.

- You guys can take him home now.
- I told you.

I didn't have nothing to do
with that murder.

This doesn't add up.
It doesn't add up.

The night of the murder,

that neighborhood was a ghost town,
all right?

The H.P.D. response time
was seven minutes.

Which means the killer had plenty
of time to take the loot and disappear

without anybody seeing him
and long before the cops show up.

So why stash it
and risk it being found?

I don't think it had anything
to do with the money.

I think the killer took this
to throw the H.P.D. off

and make them think it was robbery.

If you're right, then Paul Clayton's
murder was pre-meditated.

This was a hit.

Ellie, there's, uh, something
I wanna talk to you about.

We followed up on the lead
that my dad mentioned.

And based on what we found,

we no longer think that your dad's
murder was connected to the robbery.

We actually think he was targeted.

You're saying someone went there
intending to kill him?

Ellie, I need you to think back.

Did anything usual happen
in the days before the murder?

Did your dad do anything
out of character?

- Was there any strange behavior?
- There was this one incident.

It was maybe a week
before the murder.

I saw my dad arguing
with this boy. Jordan.

Jordan who?
You remember his last name?

Lewis, I think. He was a neighborhood
kid, he was 15, maybe 16.

They were arguing behind the bar
and it was intense.

I asked my dad what it was about.
But he wouldn't tell me.

He said it was just
a small misunderstanding.

But looking back
and knowing what I know now,

it could've been more than that.

- I need a lawyer here?
- No.

No. We're just having
a conversation.

Hmm. Had a cop say that to me once.
Same way too.

All casual.

Conversation ended with me
in handcuffs.

Paul Clayton.
You remember that name?

He owned a bar called Aces High
in your old neighborhood.

Yeah, I remember him.

- Got killed in a robbery.
- Well, that's the thing.

That was the theory back then,

but now we think
it might have been premeditated.

Yeah, see,
a week before the murder,

you had a big blow-out
with Paul Clayton.

Yeah, I see where this is going.

- But you're way off-base.
- All right, then, set us straight.

You tell us how you
selling meth outside of Aces High

didn't put you in conflict
with Paul Clayton.

It did.

But Mr. Clayton, man,
he was trying to help me get out.

He wanted me to quit dealing.

He said if I did,
he would hook me up with a job.

But I told him it wasn't so easy.

It's not like I was dealing
because I wanted to.

My mom was a junkie.

She was in debt to a local dealer
named Sykes.

I was working off what she owed.

But Mr. Clayton, man,
he didn't get it.

He thought there was another way.
He didn't get how things worked.

That's what we were
arguing about, okay?

Man was trying to save my life.

I didn't-- I didn't kill him.

And if you don't believe me,
check my medical records, right?

I got this surfing Yokes.

I was at Kuakini getting stitched up
the night he got murdered.

All right, we'll check it out.

I liked Mr. Clayton.

I hope you find the guy
that killed him.

Hey, Danny, it's me again.

Um, I'm just checking on you, man.
I just wanna see how you're doing,

and see how the family's holding up.

Look, give me a call
if you get a second, all right?

I'm thinking about you, buddy. Bye.

Just got off the phone with the lab.
No usable prints on the cash box.

They also ran ballistics again
but came back with the same result.

Said that if we had more fragments
to test, they might have better luck.

Your dad really went at this one hard,
didn't he?

- Definitely ran down every lead.
- Yeah.

He wanted to get justice for Ellie.

That's why he looked
after her the way he did,

because he never could.

Actually, Steve,
I think it was a little more than that.

You know, she's lucky to have you
looking out for her.

She's just a kid.

She needs people in her life,
people she can lean on.

You spoken to Steve lately?

Been a while.

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.

Hey, so get this. That card
that was in Paul Clayton's cash box.

The one with the weird symbol?

Well, I checked with the H.P.D. symbol
images database and I got a hit.

Turns out it was a membership card
to an underground card parlor

called the Paradise Den.

Our vic was into gambling,
maybe he got in too deep.

I remember hearing about this place.
Had a reputation.

No mercy when it came to people
who couldn't pay up.

- We know who ran the operation?
- Guy by the name of Dominic Alonzo.

You won't be talking to him.
He's been dead eight years.

That's helpful.

Let's find somebody
who worked for Dominic,

see if they can remember anything
about Paul Clayton

owing money to the house.

- Hey.
- I went past your office,

they, uh, told me you left early.
I figured you might come down here.

Can never bring myself
to sell this place.

Even when I was trying
to find money for law school.

- How's the investigation coming?
- I wanna show you something. Okay?

- Do you know what that is?
- No.

We found that card in the cash box
that we recovered.

That gave your father access
to an underground game room.

Ellie, we think it's possible
that your father's murder

could have been related
to illegal gambling.

- No, there's no way.
- I know it's hard to hear.

We all wanna think the best
of our fathers.

No, it's not that.
Look, my dad used to gamble. A lot.

When he was in his 20s,
he was a rounder.

That's how he scraped together cash
to buy this place.

But I know for a fact that
he quit playing before I was born.

He might have had that card
but I don't believe he ever used it.

Maybe business was slow.
You know, maybe he needed cash.

Listen, we're still looking into it,
okay? But in the meantime,

there's something else I wanna try.
All right? With your permission,

I'd like to exhume your father's body

and have our ME
perform a second autopsy.

- Why?
- The bullet that killed your dad,

it was shattered, okay?

They only recovered
some of the fragments.

Which means pieces
were either mishandled,

or they were still in your dad's body
and they simply missed them

during that first autopsy.

Now, if we can get those
other pieces,

our lab is gonna have a much better
chance at matching ballistics.

Look, I can't imagine
how hard this is for you,

asking you to relive everything,
having to grieve all over again.

And, Ellie, if you wanna say no,
say no.

No, it's okay. As painful as this is,

I wanna catch the man
that took my father away from me.

Do what you have to do.

Okay, let's go over the plan
one more time.

No need, brah. I know the plan.
Don't get caught wearing a wire.

Don't worry. I got this.

Aloha.

Can I help you with anything?

Yeah, my cousin was in here recently.
Uh, big guy, looks like me.

Only not as handsome.

He sold you a copy
of Lecanto's Doctrina de Homine.

Oh, yes. Of course.
Wonderful copy, splendid condition.

- Yeah, I need it back.
- Pardon?

That book has been in our family
for generations.

My cousin had no right to sell it.
He only did it to support his drug habit.

- Oh, I see.
- Give you $500 for it.

I'm awfully sorry, sir. But you see,
that book was sold yesterday.

You crime fighters are in luck.

I put a picture of your vic
in front of some card dealers

who worked the Paradise Den
back in '95.

Turns out one of them actually
remembered the brother.

So Paul Clayton,
was he a regular there?

No, he just stopped in once.

- Your friend remembers him?
- It was a memorable visit.

According to my friend,
there was an incident.

He was hazy with the details

but apparently your vic got into it
with some card players one night.

And these guys
were some serious trouble.

My friend don't remember names
but at least two of them was SVL.

- SVL? What's that?
- It's a Samoan street gang.

They had a big presence on the island
till the mid-'90s. Pretty vicious.

And definitely not the kind of folks
you wanna antagonize.

Thanks, buddy. Okay, so we know
Paul Clayton was a card shark.

Maybe he was hustling some of these
SVL guys and they got wise.

So the bullet that killed Paul Clayton
was matched to a gun that was used

in an attempted homicide
months before Paul's murder.

There were no arrests made

but the primary suspect in the case
was one Tony Malua.

- What do we know about him?
- Today he's a legit businessman

who builds and sells koa furniture.
But in a previous life,

he was a known SVL member who
served time for aggravated assault.

Mama's name came up
in some old H.P.D. vice reports

as someone who frequented many
of Oahu's illegal gaming rooms,

including Paradise Den.

- I think we may have found our killer.
- Let's go.

- Hey! What the hell's this all about?
- Why don't you take a look?

- Who's that?
- Oh, you don't recognize him, huh?

Sit down.

Kapahulu. Nineteen years ago.

You turned this man's daughter
into an orphan.

I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know that haole.

You and that haole got into it at
the Paradise Den. Jog your memory?

- And now it all comes back.
- Okay, look.

- That wasn't me.
- Stop. We got the bullet, all right?

- And it came from your gun.
- All right, fine.

I don't deny it,
but I didn't pull that trigger.

- Really? We must've made a mistake.
- I swear. On my life.

It was my man Sykes who shot
that guy. I just gave him the piece.

- Hang on. Sykes?
- Yeah.

It was him who got into it
with the haole, not me.

They was arguing
over some corner boy.

Start at the beginning.

The haole came into the Paradise
with five large.

Told Sykes he'd play heads-up poker
with him for the kid's freedom,

so they did.
And then the guy took Sykes down.

Humiliated him in front of everybody.
Sykes got pissed.

Right as it was about to get physical,

the pit boss threw the haole out
for his own safety.

But Sykes, he just got angrier.

Couldn't let it go.

All right, so here's what I have
on Sykes, first name Jimmy.

He's a former ice pusher,
he owns a club in Chinatown.

Okay, well,
given what Jordan told us,

We all believe
Malua's telling the truth, right?

I think we got a problem.
All we got is Malua's word.

Short of finding the murder weapon
with Sykes's prints on it,

- how do we prove this guy's our killer?
- I got an idea.

What do you guys want now?

You said you hoped
we'd catch Paul Clayton's killer.

How'd you like to help us do it?

- Doors open at 9:00, bro.
- I came here to see Jimmy.

He expecting you?

Just tell him, uh,
Jordan Lewis came to say hello.

I don't care. All right? You tell him
whatever you're gonna tell him.

I don't care. All right?
Just don't bother me anymore.

- Wow. This I had to see.
- What's up, J?

Look at you. You were a scrawny
little kid last time I saw you.

Now you're all shredded.

But I guess there ain't much to do
inside but hit the iron.

Yeah, man, it's all there is.

Go. So when'd you get out?

- Couple days ago.
- So, what brings you here?

I was looking for work. You know,
thought maybe you could, uh...

- Hook you up with a job.
- Yeah.

- And why would I do that?
- Because you know me, man.

You can trust me. You know that.

I could trust you
when you were a little kid.

Because I owned your morn.
But that was then.

Look, I'll take anything, man.
Right? I'll do whatever you want.

Yeah, but what can you do?
You spent half your adult life inside.

What skills have you got
that have any value in the real world?

- Why would I help you?
- Because you owe me.

- I owe you? For what?
- Keeping my mouth shut.

Slow down, kid.
You're gonna spook him.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Talking about Paul Clayton.
Remember him?

Guy you killed for no reason?
You think I didn't know about that?

No, I knew that was you all along,
yet said nothing.

"No reason"?
Guy was messing with my business.

I did what had to be done.

In fact, if you think about it,
you're the reason that he's dead.

You got him killed.

So, what, now you think that
your silence is worth something?

Like a job? I don't know.
Maybe you could sweep up the place--

Let's go. Go, go, go.

That man was the only person
that ever gave a damn about me.

- You son of a bitch.
- He saw something good in me.

Thought I could do better.
He had a little girl!

- Sit down. Sit.
- I got him. Get down on the ground.

- Get down.
- On the floor. On the floor.

Got it!

Somebody get me a paramedic.

I'm sorry.

I couldn't help myself.

Hey, Steve...

You hand me that wrench?

Thanks, buddy.

All right.

Okay. Heh. Hey, I'm gonna hold
that one...

See that?

All right. Nice work.

You need a hand?

- Hey.
- Hey.

I was just on my way
to the hospital to see Jordan,

but I wanted to stop by first
and say thank you. In person.

You're welcome.

You, uh, having some trouble
with your differential?

Yes, I am, actually.
I just put new gaskets and seals in

but she's still running rough.

Try new bearings and thrust washers,
that should fix it.

- You know something about cars?
- Not really.

I know a few things
about this car, though.

Actually, I rode in it
a couple of times.

- Your dad loved to talk about this car.
- Yeah, he certainly did.

- He did. Hey, I appreciate the tip.
- Oh, happy to help.

Let me ask you a question,

do you know how to fix
the intake manifold leak?

Because that one has been
stumping me for years.

- Sorry. I wish I did.
- Okay. That's okay.

I'll figure it out one of these days.

- I should really get going.
- Yeah, yeah, sure. Of course.

Yeah.

Um, am I gonna see you at
the National Memorial next year?

- Yeah. I'll be there.
- All right.

Hope it won't be that long before
we see each other again, though.

Me too.

- 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."