Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 2, Episode 5 - Savage Sunday - full transcript

Hey, Cooper. Danny.

What's the action?

Ah, quiet, even for a Sunday.

Don't knock it.

This is our first Sunday
off in a few weeks.

Hey, Danny, one
of those for Kono?

What do you expect? A raft?

He's a little sensitive.

Sure.

If you fall off, you
better not float, brother.

A plane might land on you.



If I fall off, you'll get
a tidal wave warning.

We'll see you.

Lose the canvas.

These are the guns we
need for the revolution.

Load them.

Now come on, move!

Inside! Stay inside!

Close it!

Okay. Open up.

Another blast, sir? MAN: No.

Colonel Sasaki?

There are 2,000
gas masks in there.

He's bound to find one.

What did you find out?



No way in through the armory.

Got a couple of
steel fireproof doors

that completely wall
off the other section.

He's got them locked
and bolted from his side.

For protection.
It's our arsenal.

He's sure not gonna
run out of ammo.

Is there any other way in?

None.

What about the roof?

Nothing but skylights up there.

They don't open. You'll
have to smash 'em to get in.

Minute he hears
the crash of glass

he'll start firing
at that skylight.

Yeah, but he won't
if he doesn't hear it.

Kono, get me a coil of rope,
a carbine and a gas mask.

Steve, I'll go with you. No.

No, Danno, I want you down here.

Colonel, how do we
get up on the roof?

Through the
armory, there's a door

that opens on to the roof.

Danno, as soon as
you see me up there,

I want every man
with a weapon firing.

Keep it up for at
least 30 seconds.

Elpidio.

Elpidio will come
back to us, Marla.

I have a bad feeling, Ramon.

Eh.

Tell me, how many
times has he been trapped

in the jungles of our country?

The army, the police, they...

They hunt him as
one hunts an animal.

A-always he has escaped.

Always.

This is a different
jungle, Ramon.

A strange one.

Not of swamp and forest,
but of stone and steel.

And my husband does not
know his way in this country.

He will find his way.

And he will lead us home
with the arms we have taken.

They will be given
to our people.

We will no longer fight
our enemies with machetes.

Marla.

Marla, you must be
as strong as Elpidio.

I heard shots when
we left the armory.

Tell me.

Tell me the truth.

I-i-it was nothing.

Elpidio stopped a police
car from following us.

I will stay in the truck
for a moment, Ramon.

I will pray for the safe
return of my husband.

Fire at will!

There's a watchman
inside. He's wounded.

Get him.

Nurse.

See if the watchman is in
any shape to be questioned.

Yeah.

Just one question.

You could have killed me before.

Why didn't you?

If I could have, I
would have killed you.

Why?

You always kill the enemy.

Just like that?

Is there another way?

Huh.

Maybe not for Elpidio Acuna.

I didn't give anyone my name.

Oh, you're famous.

Vallios,

the consul of your
country, told me.

Vallios, that pig.

Servant to the dictator,

who bleeds the people
of my country to death.

How did you get into Hawaii?

There are ways.

For a man who's been fighting

in the jungles of his
country for five years?

I entered your state illegally.

And that's all I'm
gonna tell you.

You've already told
me a lot more than that.

You came here to steal
arms and ammunition.

In my country,

there are men who hide in caves

and fight machine
guns with knives.

Now, that's hardly
an even fight.

Who was in on
that raid with you?

Where did you take the arms?

Feel pretty good for a man

under arrest and
wounded, don't you?

If you had faced
death every day,

every month, every
year, as I have,

every day you're alive
is a day to feel good.

Where did you get the trucks?

I have nothing to tell you.

Oh, I think you have.

I've been told that before.

Take a good look.

Whipped.

Burned.

Stabbed.

And shot.

Would you like to see my back?

I have nothing to
tell you, except this:

I am prepared to die

to get the guns and
munitions to my countrymen.

And...

are you prepared
to die to stop me?

You committed a crime, Acuna.

But I promise, you'll
never leave Hawaii

with the arms you stole.

I'm gonna close this
island tight as a rock,

and I'm gonna hunt the
people who came with you.

You can bet on it.

I hate myself...

for having missed you

when you were
helpless on the rope.

Next time I won't miss.

You blew it, brother.

No next time.

Steve, watchman just came to.

Anything? Yeah, spades.

Said there were four other
men in the gang besides Acuna.

Three of them young,

one of them older, white-haired.

What else?

Said there was a girl along too.

Said she was even pretty
with a carbine in her hands.

I wonder,

did they come with
him or were they here?

Lots of Acuna's countrymen
live here in Hawaii.

Immigrants, refugees,

men who might
consider it an honor

to work with Acuna, huh?

I'll check alien
registration files

on naturalized citizens.

Yeah, then
cross-check with H.P.D.

We'll question anybody
from his country

with a record of criminal
activities. Anybody.

Elpidio has been wounded before.

Manuel, I am scared.

Don't worry, child.

I want to be with him.

And soon you will be.

Manuel.

All right, there
is a risk involved.

But can I be more
frightened than I am?

Manuel.

I am going to
have Elpidio's baby.

I-I want so much
for us to live now.

So much.

What do you think?

Needs another coat.

He's right. You better do it.

Have we got time?

Ship doesn't
sail till 11 tonight.

Now, let's get busy
with the weapons.

These are the crates.

Farm machinery and
machine tool parts.

They've already been
inspected, approved

and sealed by the
customs inspector.

We just take out the
machinery and tools,

put in the guns, and
they're on their way.

But then you must
break the seals.

No. The end is false.
Look, I show you.

Now, together, let's pull out.

When we load the
guns into the crates,

we push it in, nail it down,

and everything is in order.

Bill of lading, export licenses

and custom seals, okay?

Let's get going.

The officers in that
patrol car that was shot up

figure the truck
was a 4-ton job.

McGARRETT: Open or closed?

Closed. Olive drab.

Looked like a GI truck.

Well, was it a GI?

No way.

Army and National Guard
vehicles all accounted for.

No reports of stolen trucks.

Okay, check all
truck-rental outfits.

Right.

How'd the lab boys
do at the armory?

Smudged fingerprints,
shell casings.

You mean nothing?

Well, there's one
thing might pay off,

pictures of tire
tracks the truck left

as it peeled away
from the armory.

We're getting copies
out to tire wholesalers

for tread matches.

Small island, 26 miles
wide, 40 miles long.

They could have
hidden that truck

under vines anywhere.

The way things grow here,

it'll take us weeks to find it.

Yeah, but maybe, just maybe,

they didn't get out of the city.

How soon after the first report

from the armory was the APB out?

Six, maybe eight
minutes, outside.

Okay. Here's the armory.

Say the truck was going
40, maybe 50 miles an hour.

That would have
gotten them, uh...

five to seven miles away

before the APB was out, right?

But I haven't got
my abacus with me.

That puts the Army in
the center of a circle...

about 14, 15 miles in diameter.

We gonna search it?

With every available
man H.P.D. can spare.

Now check on
warehouses, garages,

any place they use trucks.

Big job, boss.

Well, those rifles, launchers,

grenades, ammo,

small arms, that's big
too, so run, brother.

We're just gonna
pick up the dirty linens,

leave the clean ones.

Sorry, no one can go in there

without an okay. Orders.

Now, what took you so long?

A-a policeman.

He... He give us
the wrong directions.

Quickly, Elpidio.

Now, look, there isn't very much

that I can do quickly.

We will help you. Jose.

Slow, now. Easy.

We had him.

We had him.

How's the officer?

Looks like he's
gonna be all right.

Slight concussion, but
he's still unconscious.

Well, he'd only tell us
what we already know.

Acuna's raiders
took him out of here.

Same m.o., same
hit-and-run tactic

they used when they
cracked the armory.

See this, Mr. McGarrett?

Blood?

Acuna's?

Bet on it.

The minute he left this bed,

he laid his life on the line.

You saying he's
not gonna make it?

Look, a bullet entered his body,

tore muscles,
ruptured his veins,

and in Acuna's
case, a small artery.

But you sutured it.

Even so.

He was brought into the
hospital about 10 this morning.

We finished suturing the
veins and arteries about noon.

He moves that leg,
he tears the suture.

You mean, uh, internal bleeding?

Gangrene, and the possibility

of general blood poisoning.

He could die.

How long has he got?

Assuming it happens the way

I've laid it out, 24 hours.

And if he bleeds
heavily, less than that.

Doc, will you tell the press
what you just told me?

That Acuna's dead in the ground

in a matter of hours
unless he gets help?

You set it up. I'll do it.

Elpidio Acuna has
lived in the shadow

of the noose for five years.

He's been hunted
by government troops

and everybody else
who wanted to collect

that price on his head.

You think something like
this is gonna panic him?

Not him, Danno. No chance.

But it might force
him to make a move,

change his plans,

make that one step
he doesn't wanna take.

What time is it?

Five o'clock.

We're gonna leave here...

in an hour.

Tell them to
prepare the big truck.

You have lost so much blood.

And I'll lose a little bit more

before we... return home.

Elpidio... Are you
trying to be a nurse?

Some things are plain to see.

You are too weak to travel.

But I'll be resting.

Besides...

it's too risky

to stay in one place too long.

Now do what I tell you.

Marla.

I love you.

I only say it because...

it's your love that...
keeps me going.

How is he?

Elpidio is no stranger to pain.

Oh, his leg is so swollen.

Even so, we cannot delay.

The first part of the
plan has worked well.

We have the guns.

Now we must get
them off the island.

We must also think of Elpidio.

Old man,

we are the only
hope for our brothers

who wait in the caves
and jungles of our land,

defenseless.

We must not betray them.

Ramon, you would
kill your own father

for the success of the raid.

Manuel, I would kill
my own mother too.

You know, I think you would.

Now, why isn't that truck ready?

You should not be on your feet.

And I'm not supposed
to be alive, but I am.

Now, we go to the docks.

Carry him quickly.
He's bleeding.

Have you told him you
are carrying his child?

No.

If he knew, he
would only make me

stay behind in safety,
but, uh, it would...

It would not stop him
from leaving with the arms.

I want to be with him, Manuel.

Oh, you're both mad.

Okay, what have we got?

Aliens registration files

have turned up a
handful of suspects

that, uh, could have
collaborated with Acuna.

They're being questioned now.

So far?

Nothing.

Kono?

Been keeping both
ears to the ground, boss.

Nothing.

Anytime you can put
both ears to the ground,

pal, it's something.

Okay, let's not get personal.

I covered this
island like a blanket.

Well, that should be
easy for you, Kono.

Okay, Chin. What have you got?

We got a lab report
on the tire tracks

we pick up at the armory.

The tread on right rear
show it's almost new.

Grade A, iron tread, expensive.

Who handles them on the islands?

Seven retailers.

Take Kono and check 'em.

Get a list of buyers.

I want any names of
Acuna's countrymen.

If any.

I-it's Sunday.

Slow going.

Not for Acuna it's not.

He's got enough rifles and ammo

to keep his revolution
going for five years.

Now hit the street.

It's almost 6:00.

Wanna hear the doctor's
news conference?

He really tolls the
bells for Acuna.

I want Acuna to hear it.

I want him to know
what shape he's in

and what he's up against.

Steve...

we'll run him down anyway.

Where can he go?

We've got the island bottled up

end to end, side to side.

He'll never get off.

I didn't think he could
get on, but he did.

He crossed 3,500 miles of ocean,

he cracked this rock,
and he raided an armory.

He's not an ordinary man, Danno.

I wouldn't give
him half an inch.

Hiya, Manny.

What's going on, Harry?

We went out on strike
a couple of hours ago.

Look like a long strike?

Nothing too serious.

I think tomorrow
will be the latest.

What are you shipping, Manny?

Oh, it can wait till tomorrow.

Nothing perishable.

Well, they're trying
to settle it right now.

You want me to give you a call?

You do that, Harry. For sure.

Anything for my friend Morales.

Oh, new helpers. Just
picked them up for the day.

I'll see you, Harry, okay? Okay.

We must unload.

How?

You know him. Fix it.

He knows I would not
go through a picket line.

It would be foolish
to make him wonder.

Manuel, I tell you to unload.

And I tell you no.

Elpidio will have your head.

Elpidio will rest tonight.

Gain strength for the trip home.

Manuel is right.

Let's get out of here, quickly.

Yeah, that's right.
Double every stakeout.

Any place Acuna might try
to reach under cover of night.

Airfields, marinas,
docks, anything.

Steve, Mr. Vallios.

The consul from Acuna's country.

Hold it, Danno.

The governor said
he was on the way.

Okay, send him in.

Thank you. Thank
you. Mr. Vallios.

Mr. McGarrett.

Sit down, please, sir.

Do I pronounce
your name correctly?

Quite correctly.

My government would like to know

how your investigation
is progressing.

Well, we haven't found
Acuna or the arms yet.

I'm not surprised.

Elpidio Acuna is very clever.

You should know.

I beg your pardon?

You've been hunting him
for five years, haven't you?

That's what you
told me on the phone.

And now, I think we
have him, Mr. McGarrett.

We?

I heard the news
broadcast that said

Acuna might be dead by tomorrow.

That's a possibility.

Well, then... we
simply leave him to die.

Do I understand
you correctly, sir?

I'll see that you do.

Five-0 has this
island bottled up

at every point of exit.

All we have to do
to get Acuna is...

Is not press the search?

Precisely.

We just leave him to die.

You understand now?

You want me to drag my feet

to help your government
get rid of Acuna?

Unofficially.

But he's a mad dog, McGarrett,

if you find him,
you have to try him.

It's expensive
and, uh, a bother.

Huh.

Let me tell you
something, Mr. Vallios.

I want Acuna as badly as you do.

More.

I want him for entering
Hawaii illegally.

I want him for a
raid on the armory

and for theft.

I want him for armed assault

against the watchman
and an H.P.D. officer.

But I want him alive.

But why?

Why?!

Because we have laws
here, sir, not dictators.

Law!

That word,

the difference between
your police and ours,

the difference between
your government and mine.

It boils down to
this, Mr. Consul.

In this country, Acuna
is entitled to a trial.

And he's gonna get it

unless he dies
before I get to him.

And if he does die,

it won't be because I
stopped looking for him.

Good day, sir.

Just look at yourselves.

You've all got the
faces of mourners.

Elpidio lives, and he will live.

But this doctor says...

What McGarrett wants him to say.

He's a clever man.

I knew it when I met
him, and I'm sure of it now.

What you're reading
are his words.

And we're not
gonna be frightened

into doing something stupid.

I have only to
look at you to know

that what the newspaper
says is the truth.

I think you know
it too, Elpidio.

You just say that
to give us courage.

Let me get a doctor.

You old fool. He
would recognize me.

No one must come here.

I will bring you one.

It's not so simple.

With this?

No.

We will not change our plans.

We will not make the moves
that he wants us to make.

We're gonna stay here, hidden,

until we can return home.

I've risked my life for
your protection, Elpidio.

And it's not just because
I love this country less...

That's enough!

Now, you listen to me, Elpidio.

Your father died in my
arms in the last revolution.

And he died saving my life.

And I'm not going
to let his son die also.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to save your life.

There will be
other opportunities

to arm the revolution.

Ramon.

Get away from that phone.

No.

You have to kill me first.

Shoot him.

Manuel,

pick it up.

But be careful what you say.

Morales speaking.

Good.

Thank you for calling, Harry.

The dock strike is over.

Now we move. Fast.

Help him.

How many bought
that brand of tire?

Twenty-six in the last month.

Four could have come
from Acuna's country.

Who are they?

"Managos Produce Company.
Huerta Meat and Poultry.

Morales Delivery Service.
Siempras Express Delivery."

And you sure the
tire tread matches

the one found at the armory?

Positive.

And all of those
outfit operates a truck

the same size spotted
by H.P.D. at the armory.

Okay. It's worth a shot.

Give the names to H.P.D.

Any one of those
four outfits roll a truck,

stop and search.

It's Sunday night, if
Acuna rolls a truck,

it'll be like walking an
elephant down the main drag.

A dying man, Danno.
He's gotta take chances.

Beside, the night works for him.

Chin,

you and Kono take
the first two names.

You find the arms and
ammo, let me know.

You find the truck
missing, let me know.

Danno, we'll take
the others. Let's go.

Uh, about another
quarter mile to Morales.

Central dispatch.
Come in, Five-0.

McGarrett. Go ahead central.

Unit 16, 1-6,
reports 4-ton van...

Repeat, 4-ton.

Owned by Morales'
Moving and Storage,

sighted at Alumonia and
Board moving west on Alumonia.

Stay with it. We're on the way.

You better get an ambulance
and some fire equipment.

He's walked right into our bag.

We got roadblocks
all near those docks.

We gotta head him off, Danno.

Acuna's committed
now. He can't turn back.

He reaches the docks,

he'll either kill or be killed.

Elpidio,

you can walk out of a prison,
you can't walk from the grave.

I think that... Yeah,
that looks like him.

All right, let's go.

Book 'em.

Acuna,

this is McGarrett,
you're surrounded.

Drop that tailgate, Danno.

Acuna.

I order you to come
out with your hands up.

He sure don't wanna
make it easy, boss.

Hold your fire. Hold your fire.

Acuna...

I order you to surrender.

Get down.

The first time I
heard that, I was 17.

My answer then

is my answer now.

We don't wanna hurt
your wife. Think of her.

We'll die together.

I-I want to live, Elpidio.

You were never
frightened before.

I'm going to have
a baby, your baby.

If he cannot have a father,

in the name of God
let him have a mother!

McGARRETT: Acuna?

A son?

Oh, oh, l... Let him
know life, Elpidio.

Let him know life
in his innocence.

Cover me.

Open it. Now.

Long live the revolution...

and long live my son.

Chin.

Thank you for not killing him.

The decision was easy.

We don't like to kill.

Would you like to
ride in the ambulance?

Guns and ammo,
it's all here, boss.

Good.

Steve, they, uh... They
think he's got a chance.