Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 3, Episode 13 - The Payoff - full transcript
McGarrett receives a call from a Skid Row bum who says he has vital evidence in a mainland case. When McGarrett and Danno arrive at the man's fleabag apartment, he's disappeared, with a trail of blood indicating he was robbed and shot but managed to escape. In his mattress, the investigators find some silver certificates which they recognize were used as ransom money in a mainland kidnapping eight years ago where the victim was murdered and the kidnappers escaped. In the interval, silver certificates were removed from circulation and are therefore now "hot money." Five-O figures out that the man who called them was the bagman for the killers and took off with the loot, and they've finally tracked him down. When a woman spends two $20 certificates at a dry-cleaning establishment, Five-O realizes she's one of the killers, but can't find her yet. They do find the dying man, though, and he tells Five-O that a husband-and-wife duo shot him and took off with most of the certificates -- and that the duo's mainland accomplices, whom they also stiffed, are in Hawaii looking for them as well.
Hello, Jase.
Vince. Yeah, Vince.
How did you, uh...
How did I find you?
Luck. Pure luck.
It's been a bad
winter in Seattle.
I thought I'd split.
You know, just kind of find
a nice, warm part of the world.
You know, to thaw out.
I wasn't even thinking
how you used to live here.
Then yesterday I'm stopped
by a red light at Nuuana,
and I... look up...
and who should be
crossing the street,
right in front of the car?
My old friend, Jase.
Six years, I've been
looking for you everywhere.
Suddenly there you were.
Could I sit down?
Oh. Yeah, Vince.
You got to hear this.
It's a wild story.
I never got any of the dough.
Madge got it all.
Oh, you're right.
I was, uh... stupid.
I was wrong. Uh...
I shouldn't have
listened to Madge.
I know that.
OH, she... She
really had me going.
She told me she loved me.
She was just using me
to double-cross
you and the others.
You never were
very bright, Jase.
Yeah.
You, uh... You kill me,
you're gonna get nothing, Vince.
Madge got
everything. Every dime.
Madge.
She's the one you want.
Uh-uh.
Madge.
Bemis.
The phone. I gotta
use the phone. Oh.
What happened to
you...? Give me a dime.
What happened to you?
Give me a dime.
Wh... What happened to you?
You're the landlord.
You gotta have a dime.
Oh. All right. All right.
Operator.
Operator. Operator,
give me Hawaii Five-0, fast.
This is an emergency.
McGARRETT: Yes,
this is McGarrett. Hello?
Hello?
Operator.
Operator...
I want to make a
long-distance phone call to...
Is anything wrong, sir?
Hello? Sir?
Mr. McGarrett?
Yeah. That's right.
I'm Al Bemis, the landlord.
I... I'm the one
that called you.
Tell me what happened.
I told you on the phone.
Well, uh, tell me
again, Mr. Bemis.
Well, like I said...
this guy in number 25...
Doesn't he have a name?
Who knows?
Well, what name
did he register under?
Register?
A place like this? You
got to be kidding me.
It's a state law.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Well, like I told
you on the phone,
this guy in 25, he comes
stumbling up to me,
and he's got blood all
over the front of his shirt.
Hear any shots?
I don't hear
nothing in this place.
Then he hung up on you,
and he got the operator again,
and said he wanted
to call long distance.
Danno. To where?
Well, I didn't hear that,
'cause that's when I ducked
into my room to call you.
Where's his room?
I-I'll show you. Right...
Second room on the left.
Right over there.
What do you got, Steve?
So far, a nameless rummy
trying to make a phone call.
He might bleed to death.
H.P.D. has got a
half-a-dozen cars
cruising the neighborhood
looking for him.
Check the clothes.
Looks like he
lost a lot of blood.
Steve.
Could have gone
right through him.
Mark it for identification
and get it down to Ballistics.
And, Kono, better get
a lab crew over here.
Maybe we can raise
some fingerprints.
It'll tell us something.
Get an APB out on the guy.
That manager, or
landlord... Whatever he is
out there will give
you a description.
And alert all emergency
hospitals or, uh...
Steve.
Any place the guy can
get himself patched up.
Operator... long distance.
Seattle.
T-t-talk to... Toomey Walsh.
Toomey.
T-O-O-M-E-Y W-A-L-S-H.
No, I don't know the number.
Or the address.
Get it for me, will you?
Yeah, I'll hold on.
But hurry.
Hundreds, 50s, 20s, tens.
Four-thousand nine-hundred
and twenty bucks worth.
And he didn't have a dime
for a ph... For a phone call.
Look at these tens.
Silver certificate.
In fact, they all are.
Government withdrew
them from circulation.
Yeah, at least, uh,
four or five years ago.
Danno, check out this,
uh, currency with the FBI.
I have a hunch it's
running a temperature.
Yeah.
Yeah, operator, that's the guy.
Will you call it for me...
and ring me back?
Jase.
Hey. Hey, Jase?
Oh, my...
Oh. Let me see. No.
W-what happened? Never mind.
You need a doctor!
No. Oh.
No doctor.
Listen... I got...
Listen, I gotta... I gotta
talk to this guy... Mm-hm.
In Seattle.
No, please, just let
me get the doctor.
Shut up and listen.
After I talk to this
guy in Seattle...
I'm gonna leave you here.
And I want you to forget
everything you heard.
Understand?
Oh, please, let
me... Understand?
I don't want to make
any trouble for you, Lila.
Not you.
Hello.
Toomey? Toomey Walsh?
This is Jase.
Jase Gorman.
Jase? Yeah.
Toomey, you gotta listen to me.
I'm gonna tell you something...
and you gotta believe me.
McGARRETT: After the
guy left the rooming house,
within a half an hour, H.P.D.
had cruised every street
within a two-mile radius.
The guy lost a lot of
blood, so if he's on foot,
he's got to be someplace
within this area.
Oh, Steve... H.P.D.
had just come up
with a make on the
guy from fingerprints.
Hm. Jase Gorman.
Yeah. Born and raised here.
Convicted in Honolulu ten
years ago for manslaughter.
Served three years, Oahu State,
and was given a pardon
for saving the life of a guard
some other cons
cornered, were gonna kill.
He had left the islands as
soon as he made the street,
and took a job in Seattle.
That it? That's it.
Okay, you and Kono
see if you can turn up
any friends he might have had.
If he's still alive,
he must be holed up with
somebody he can trust.
Steve? Yeah?
Remember the, uh, Bannister case
in Seattle about six years ago?
Oh, yeah. Yeah,
Governor Bannister's son...
He was, uh, kidnapped
and murdered.
And nobody knew he was dead
until after the governor had
paid $500,000 for his release.
McGARRETT: Were these the serial
numbers of the Bannister ransom?
Right. Case was never closed,
kidnappers never found,
and none of the ransom
money ever recovered.
Until now.
What do you mean?
That dough we found
under the mattress
is part of it.
Wow.
Toomey... I want
you to hit him hard.
Hit him real good.
Be seeing you, Lila.
No. No.
Now, don't go getting
soft on me, Lila.
Look, I can't let you go
like this. I can't let you...
You heard what I told Toomey.
The cops find me here,
you'll be up to your
neck in real trouble.
I don't care about that.
Well, I care. Now,
get out of my way.
No, please.
Please. Lila.
Jase! Jase!
Lew? Toomey.
Guess who I just got
a telephone call from.
Jase.
Ha, you heard me. Jase Gorman.
Now, you pack a bag and
get here as quick as you can.
Now, we've got some unfinished
business to take care of...
in Hawaii.
What about reissuing
that list of serial numbers
to the banks? Maybe later.
Right now, let's see if we
can get some faster action.
Kono, Chin, get on the
phone to every bank in Oahu.
Tell 'em to be on the lookout
for any $10 silver certificates.
What about the
100s, 50s, and 20s?
Silver certificates only
came in 10, 5s, and 1s.
Were there any 5s and
1s in the Bannister ransom?
No.
Okay, gentlemen, get on it.
Danno, come with me.
You?
Yes.
You made a phone call.
And then you tried to
leave, and you caved in.
Yeah, I remember.
Now, listen...
you've gotta let
me get you a doctor.
Doctor means cops.
I ain't talking to cops
till Toomey and Lew take
care of Vince and Madge.
I know this guy who's a doctor.
I mean, h-h-he was a doctor.
A-and he would fix you
up, and he... He won't
ask any questions.
And what's his price
for not asking questions?
Oh, Jase.
Forget it.
I can get money from
somewhere to pay that man...
I said forget it.
It's not too late.
I could get him.
He could fix you up.
And then...
Well, we could go away
together somewhere.
Stop it.
Stop dreaming.
Get me a drink. I
don't have any...
That'll do it. Just get
me a drink, and I'll go.
I told you, I don't
have anything.
Then go get something.
Oh, Jase.
Please, Lila.
Please.
Boy... that Madge...
Whoever she is
she sure must have had
you drooling to talk you into...
Will you shut up...
and go get me a bottle?
Okay.
Yeah, okay, I'll go
get you something.
Lila...
Whatever happened?
How come...?
How come you and me, we...
We could never...
I don't know.
It was just one of...
One of those things, I guess.
I'm sorry.
Okay, so the rummy's
name was Gorman. So what?
I still don't know
any more about him
than what I already told you.
I never saw him with nobody.
Never said a word to
him before last night.
To me, he was just a... A tosspot
flopping in number 25. Period.
Any idea where
he did his drinking?
Oh, in his room probably.
That's where most of 'em do.
Hey.
I... I just remembered
something.
I saw the guy on
the street once,
maybe a week ago,
maybe longer. I don't know.
But anyway, he was coming out
of one of those dives
on the next block.
I don't remember the
name of it, but the...
The bartender's name is, uh...
Yeah, I'm Oliver.
McGarrett, Five-0.
This is Danny Williams.
Can I pour you fellows anything?
On the house. No, thanks.
Do you recognize this man?
What do you want him for?
Do you recognize
him, or don't you?
Comes in now and then.
Alone?
Yeah. Sits on that
corner table over there.
Doesn't talk to
anybody except...
Except who?
Look, fellas,
I don't want to make
any trouble for anybody.
Well, give me a for instance.
Lila.
Lila?
Lila Daniels. She
works here... nights.
She a B-girl?
B-girl?
Look, fellas... please.
I run a respectable joint.
Does she hustle drinks?
Well, um... but she
never hustled this guy.
She'd sit and talk
with him sometimes
when things were slow.
But she never drank with him.
I asked her about it once.
And?
She just said that she
knew him from way back.
That they were old friends.
Where do we find her?
She comes to work at 7.
Before 7...
where do we find
her, Mr. Oliver?
She lives on Bailey Street.
3334.
Mahalo.
You got to hand it to
Vince. You really do.
Sitting back for... six years.
Watching us sweat and scramble
hunting for Madge and Jase.
Hey, you remember... a time
when we were sure we had
Madge staked out in Denver?
And then, bang!
All of a sudden, she
wasn't there anymore.
Vince must've tipped her.
Sure, he did.
A lot of things add up now.
Things we were
too stupid to see.
Six years.
Man, oh, man, Vince
must have busted a gut
trying to keep from
laughing out loud.
Do you know where
he's staying in Honolulu?
Ah, you know Vince.
He always liked
to keep in touch.
Don't bury it. I'll
be using it tonight.
Who is it?
Valet.
Just a minute.
You have some cleaning, ma'am?
Yes. I'd like them back as
soon as possible, please.
Yes, ma'am. Thank you.
Mm-hm.
Vince?
Hi. Hey, baby.
Any news?
No.
Anything on the
radio or the tube?
No.
Fix me a drink, will you?
Mm-hm.
It's kind of like waiting
for the other shoe to drop,
isn't it?
Cockroach roost
he was living in,
it'll take 'em weeks
to find his body.
I wouldn't worry about it.
I'm not worried about it.
Not worried about it at all.
I just wish it were all over.
Just a little patience.
Do me a favor.
Just one little favor.
Yeah?
Don't ever say
that to me again...
because I've been patient
for almost six years now.
I have been very
patient and very scared.
Madge, come on,
take it easy, will you?
I know how it's been.
No, you don't.
You don't know
how it's been at all.
You haven't been
hiding out for six years.
You haven't gone to bed at night
dreaming about the
money you couldn't spend.
And you haven't
wakened in the morning,
and wondering if
today was the day
that Lew and Toomey would
find you and maybe kill you.
Come here, will you?
Not now.
All right, look, I know
it hasn't been easy.
But we're walking away
with the whole bundle
instead of splitting it
with Toomey, Lew or Jase.
That's worth it, isn't it?
Ask me when I've
spent some of it.
Madge! You just wait a minute.
Now, we both agreed
we're gonna give this dough
some time to
cool off, didn't we?
Yes.
All right, I... I told you
it would take five or
six years, didn't I? Huh?
Yes.
Look, we're here for
some fun, remember?
Ha, ha, ha.
You need a drink.
Oh, I'm sorry, Vince.
It's just...
running into Jase
like that. It was scary.
That was beautiful.
It was like an
answer to a prayer.
They're gonna find his body,
they're gonna discover
the money in the room,
and they're gonna think
that that's all that's left
of the Bannister dough.
You hope.
No, I know.
I know. You give
a cop... any cop
half a reason to...
close a sticky file,
and they'll slam
that file shut so fast
it'll wake half the
people in the next county.
I'll drink to that.
There's still Lew and Toomey.
Toomey and Lew stopped
looking for you and Jase long ago.
When they read the
paper, they're gonna come
to the same
conclusion the cops did.
Come on, give me a
little smile, will you?
Check the back, Danno.
Steve.
It's Gorman.
Yeah.
There's a pulse.
Get an ambulance.
Gorman.
Gorman.
Gorman?
Who are you?
McGarrett, Five-0.
Who shot you, Gorman?
Lila get back with that bottle?
Gorman, who shot you?
Nobody you'd know.
Why did you hang up
on me this morning?
I had a better idea
how to take care of...
Vince and Madge.
Vince and Madge? Who
are Vince and Madge?
McGarrett... Lila...
She didn't know
anything about this.
Who are Vince and Madge?
Vince is smart.
Real smart.
He might even beat that
rap on the Bannister kid.
Him and Madge won't get
away from Toomey and Lew.
Dead?
Yeah.
Did you get anything out of him?
Not much.
But I have a feeling
that unless we move fast,
we're going to have a couple
more murders on our hands.
Problem is...
I don't know who's
gonna kill who...
or why.
Yeah, and I want you to
request the medical examiner
and H.P.D. Homicide to list,
uh, Gorman as a John Doe.
Right.
No address, no cause of death.
I want an airtight lid on this.
And no mention of the rooming
house he stayed in either.
If the guy who shot Gorman...
finds out he lived long enough
to get out of there and talk,
he won't be around long.
Kono there?
Yeah, Steve.
I requested an
APB on Lila Daniels.
Get down to that gin
mill where she works
and stake it out, in
case she turns up there.
Maybe she can tell us
who, uh, Vince and Madge,
and Toomey and Lew are.
On my way, Steve.
Danno... you wait
here for the lab crew.
Yeah?
Oliver?
Who's this?
I-it's Lila.
Oh, hi.
Hey, look, Oliver, I-I... I've
got to see you right away.
See me?
Yeah, yeah, talk to you.
But... But I can't
come to your place.
Why not?
The police might be watching.
Police?
Are you in some sort of trouble?
Real. What?
Look... not on the phone, huh?
Where are you?
Will you come?
Hey, look, Oliver. Oliver,
I've gotta talk to somebody.
You're the only
person that I can trust.
Oliver?
Okay, Lila.
All right. Now, look, will
you please be very careful,
make sure you're
not being followed?
Sure.
Okay, look, I'm at the
Ruga Market parking lot,
at Alahala and 12th Street.
Will you please hurry?
Look, I didn't do anything!
Let me go!
Lila Daniels?
Oliver told you where
to find me, didn't he?
"Well, if you ever need
a favor, just look me up."
That's what he
told me. Lousy pig.
Okay, Kono.
Sit down. We'll talk about it.
Hold it right there, Lila.
After Jase Gorman picked
up the, uh, ransom money,
he turned it over to
this Madge woman?
Yes.
And he never
mentioned her last name
on the phone to Toomey Walsh?
No.
How about Vince's?
And he never mentioned
their last names to you
at any other time?
Never.
You sure, Lila?
Well, yes.
Then, so far as you know...
the five people involved
in the kidnapping
and murder of that boy
were Jase Gorman, Toomey
Walsh, someone named Kelso,
and Vince and Madge,
whose last names you don't know?
That's right.
All right.
All right.
Uh... go ahead.
Well, Jase, uh, thought
that he and Madge
were double-crossing
the rest of the gang.
But what he didn't know
is that Vince and Madge
were playing him for a patsy.
They kept the money.
And he told this to Toomey
Walsh on the phone?
Poor, stupid jerk.
Jenny, would you have Kono
and Chin come in, please?
Listen, I want to
tell you something.
Jase was a good man.
I mean, I know that
sounds ridiculous
after what I just
told you, but...
Well, he... He wasn't bad.
I-i-it was just that he was...
He was a sucker
for anything in a skirt.
Except you.
Except me.
And you knew nothing about
this kidnapping and murder,
or this double
cross, until last night?
No.
Well, I-I mean... I
knew that there was
something wrong with Jase
when I saw him again
after all those years.
I mean... you
could just tell. He...
He had a look
in his eyes like...
Like he was scared.
And well, I mean, I guess I
knew that he was on the lam, but...
he never said anything.
And you never asked?
Oh, no.
Why is that, Lila?
Well, if... If I'd asked
him something like that...
I never would have
seen him again.
And you didn't
want that, I suppose?
Because you were
in love with him?
Everybody's got
something wrong with them.
Yeah. Come in.
Would you wait
outside for us, please?
Anything?
Yeah.
Couple of guys named,
uh, Toomey Walsh and Kelso
are on their way in from Seattle
to kill a Vince and a Madge.
No last names.
That's all I've got.
So get on the phone,
call the airlines.
Ask 'em to check
their passenger list
on any
Seattle-to-Honolulu flight
they've had since
early this morning.
It's about time. Come
on, let's get going.
Okay. Just give me about, oh,
five minutes to comb my hair
and straighten
up a little, okay?
Snap it up, will you?
All right.
Madge!
What?
Come in here.
What?
Where'd you get this?
In the jacket I sent
to the cleaners.
It was in the pocket,
and I took it. Why?
You spend any of it?
And what if I did?
This is part of the stuff
I left in Jase's room.
Well, how was I
supposed to know?
Why don't you ask?
Because I'm sick
and tired of asking you
for every nickel I spend.
Look, how much did you spend?
Twenty-five dollars, for these.
Where'd you buy...? Oh,
for crying out loud, Vince.
The money's cold.
It's been over six years.
You told me that yourself.
Now, stop worrying.
Okay.
All right. Look, uh...
if you're gonna have
a nervous breakdown
every time we spend
some of this money,
let's just forget it.
I'll tell you what, we'll
just paste it end-to-end
and use it in the bathroom.
All right, all right,
well, forget it.
There's no harm done.
From now on, we
keep that money on ice
till we get out of the country.
You understand?
Yes, I understand.
You're sure?
Okay. Thanks.
No Walsh, no Kelso
on any Seattle-Honolulu
flight so far.
All right.
All right.
Who haven't we
heard from so far?
All but one. Pacific Airways.
It's just possible
they may be traveling
under aliases.
So far as we know, Danno.
There's no warrant out
on either one of them.
They're both clean.
But... if you're right,
and they are
traveling under aliases,
we're really in trouble.
Yeah, Jenny?
Yeah, good. Good.
Pacific Airways.
Yeah, hello.
Yes?
They are?
A.T. Walsh and L. Kelso
are on the
passenger list of 502?
What?
Are you sure?
All right.
Yeah, thanks very much.
What's wrong?
Flight 502 arrived
on time, 2:30.
That was 10 minutes ago.
Look, I know
you're flying blind.
If I had a description,
I'd give it to you.
If you find one of the
stewardesses from the flight,
let me know, will you, please?
Okay. Thank you.
Anything?
Kono and Chin had no luck
with the cab and
rental companies.
Same thing with
airport security.
It's like looking for a
needle in a haystack.
Two guys, and the only
thing we know about them
is that their names
are Walsh and Kelso.
What time do you have, Danno?
Two fifty-five.
Well, that means the plane
has been on the
ground for 25 minutes.
If they had only hand luggage,
they could be long gone.
Get it.
Yeah, Jenny?
Thank you.
Yes, Mr. Nolan?
Uh, could you hang
on a minute, please?
Manager of the Waikiki
branch, First Hawaiian Bank.
About a deposit he just got.
Four $10 silver certificates.
No, no. Put him on speaker.
Mr. Nolan, this is McGarrett.
Could you give us
the details, please?
That's all the luggage we have.
If you gentlemen
are checking in,
just leave your
car keys with me.
The desk will inform
me of your room number.
You check us in.
Mr. Vincent Ryan's room, please.
It was a woman who
made the purchase.
Just today, in fact.
Probably a hotel guest.
The money was deposited by
the man who runs the gift shop
in the Hawaiian Village Hotel.
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Nolan.
It's a slim one,
but let's try it.
Anything?
Walsh rented a car
from the Airlines U-Drive.
I got the license number.
You want an APB put out?
We may not need it. Let's go.
Mr. Morgan and Mr. Hollister?
That's right.
Welcome to the
Hawaiian Village Hotel.
Room 319, please.
There's a Mr. And
Mrs. Vincent Ryan
registered here, but
there was no answer.
Check on that rented car
with the parking lot attendant.
Put 'em on the bed.
Thank you.
I'm gonna try them again.
Vince or Madge?
Yeah. That's right.
Is that all? No last name?
No. No last names.
Will you hurry,
please? It's urgent.
Yes, sir.
Hello?
Hey, Vince.
Who's this?
Toomey.
I bet you're surprised, huh?
Yeah.
Where are you calling from?
Right here.
In Honolulu?
In the hotel.
I got to thinking after
I got your postcard,
I'd better get over
there, get some sun...
Vince, you want a drink?
Before old Vince
soaks it all up.
Who is it?
Toomey. Toomey Walsh.
Hey, Vince?
Yeah. Sure.
How about getting
together for a drink?
Great.
Now, what's your room number?
Ten thirty-one.:
Why did you tell him?
Be right up.
Uh, Toomey, wait
a minute, will you?
I just got in.
Give me a few minutes
to clean up, will you?
Sure, Vince. No hurry.
Oh, by the way...
Lew sends his regards.
If you think Toomey
Walsh is here for a vacation,
you've got rocks in your head.
I tell you, he knows something.
And I'll tell you
something else,
five will get you ten
Lew Kelso's in town.
All right, all right.
Let's say Toomey's
not here for a tan.
Lew's with him.
In that case, we better deal
with 'em right here and now.
Or for the rest of our lives,
we'll be running and hiding.
Here, you take this.
You wait for 'em in the bedroom.
There's a Vincent Ryan, Seattle.
Could be it.
Yeah.
Anything?
Yeah. The car is here.
Kelso and Walsh are in room 319.
Okay. Check them out.
We've got a Vincent
Ryan in 1031.
Hold that elevator.
Come on, children.
Hurry up. Come on.
I really don't know why
we had to change rooms.
I was happy with the other one.
I don't care if your
mother did stay here.
Oh, Jen, where's
your little case?
Oh, you're impossible.
Just a minute.
Come on.
If Toomey's telling
the truth, no sweat.
If he's looking for trouble...
let's see that he finds it.
Right with you, Toomey.
Hey. Hey!
Hey, what is this?!
Who are you guys?
Spread 'em. Spread 'em!
Hold it! Take them, Kono, Chin.
McGARRETT: Open up!
Hold it!
Vince. Yeah, Vince.
How did you, uh...
How did I find you?
Luck. Pure luck.
It's been a bad
winter in Seattle.
I thought I'd split.
You know, just kind of find
a nice, warm part of the world.
You know, to thaw out.
I wasn't even thinking
how you used to live here.
Then yesterday I'm stopped
by a red light at Nuuana,
and I... look up...
and who should be
crossing the street,
right in front of the car?
My old friend, Jase.
Six years, I've been
looking for you everywhere.
Suddenly there you were.
Could I sit down?
Oh. Yeah, Vince.
You got to hear this.
It's a wild story.
I never got any of the dough.
Madge got it all.
Oh, you're right.
I was, uh... stupid.
I was wrong. Uh...
I shouldn't have
listened to Madge.
I know that.
OH, she... She
really had me going.
She told me she loved me.
She was just using me
to double-cross
you and the others.
You never were
very bright, Jase.
Yeah.
You, uh... You kill me,
you're gonna get nothing, Vince.
Madge got
everything. Every dime.
Madge.
She's the one you want.
Uh-uh.
Madge.
Bemis.
The phone. I gotta
use the phone. Oh.
What happened to
you...? Give me a dime.
What happened to you?
Give me a dime.
Wh... What happened to you?
You're the landlord.
You gotta have a dime.
Oh. All right. All right.
Operator.
Operator. Operator,
give me Hawaii Five-0, fast.
This is an emergency.
McGARRETT: Yes,
this is McGarrett. Hello?
Hello?
Operator.
Operator...
I want to make a
long-distance phone call to...
Is anything wrong, sir?
Hello? Sir?
Mr. McGarrett?
Yeah. That's right.
I'm Al Bemis, the landlord.
I... I'm the one
that called you.
Tell me what happened.
I told you on the phone.
Well, uh, tell me
again, Mr. Bemis.
Well, like I said...
this guy in number 25...
Doesn't he have a name?
Who knows?
Well, what name
did he register under?
Register?
A place like this? You
got to be kidding me.
It's a state law.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Well, like I told
you on the phone,
this guy in 25, he comes
stumbling up to me,
and he's got blood all
over the front of his shirt.
Hear any shots?
I don't hear
nothing in this place.
Then he hung up on you,
and he got the operator again,
and said he wanted
to call long distance.
Danno. To where?
Well, I didn't hear that,
'cause that's when I ducked
into my room to call you.
Where's his room?
I-I'll show you. Right...
Second room on the left.
Right over there.
What do you got, Steve?
So far, a nameless rummy
trying to make a phone call.
He might bleed to death.
H.P.D. has got a
half-a-dozen cars
cruising the neighborhood
looking for him.
Check the clothes.
Looks like he
lost a lot of blood.
Steve.
Could have gone
right through him.
Mark it for identification
and get it down to Ballistics.
And, Kono, better get
a lab crew over here.
Maybe we can raise
some fingerprints.
It'll tell us something.
Get an APB out on the guy.
That manager, or
landlord... Whatever he is
out there will give
you a description.
And alert all emergency
hospitals or, uh...
Steve.
Any place the guy can
get himself patched up.
Operator... long distance.
Seattle.
T-t-talk to... Toomey Walsh.
Toomey.
T-O-O-M-E-Y W-A-L-S-H.
No, I don't know the number.
Or the address.
Get it for me, will you?
Yeah, I'll hold on.
But hurry.
Hundreds, 50s, 20s, tens.
Four-thousand nine-hundred
and twenty bucks worth.
And he didn't have a dime
for a ph... For a phone call.
Look at these tens.
Silver certificate.
In fact, they all are.
Government withdrew
them from circulation.
Yeah, at least, uh,
four or five years ago.
Danno, check out this,
uh, currency with the FBI.
I have a hunch it's
running a temperature.
Yeah.
Yeah, operator, that's the guy.
Will you call it for me...
and ring me back?
Jase.
Hey. Hey, Jase?
Oh, my...
Oh. Let me see. No.
W-what happened? Never mind.
You need a doctor!
No. Oh.
No doctor.
Listen... I got...
Listen, I gotta... I gotta
talk to this guy... Mm-hm.
In Seattle.
No, please, just let
me get the doctor.
Shut up and listen.
After I talk to this
guy in Seattle...
I'm gonna leave you here.
And I want you to forget
everything you heard.
Understand?
Oh, please, let
me... Understand?
I don't want to make
any trouble for you, Lila.
Not you.
Hello.
Toomey? Toomey Walsh?
This is Jase.
Jase Gorman.
Jase? Yeah.
Toomey, you gotta listen to me.
I'm gonna tell you something...
and you gotta believe me.
McGARRETT: After the
guy left the rooming house,
within a half an hour, H.P.D.
had cruised every street
within a two-mile radius.
The guy lost a lot of
blood, so if he's on foot,
he's got to be someplace
within this area.
Oh, Steve... H.P.D.
had just come up
with a make on the
guy from fingerprints.
Hm. Jase Gorman.
Yeah. Born and raised here.
Convicted in Honolulu ten
years ago for manslaughter.
Served three years, Oahu State,
and was given a pardon
for saving the life of a guard
some other cons
cornered, were gonna kill.
He had left the islands as
soon as he made the street,
and took a job in Seattle.
That it? That's it.
Okay, you and Kono
see if you can turn up
any friends he might have had.
If he's still alive,
he must be holed up with
somebody he can trust.
Steve? Yeah?
Remember the, uh, Bannister case
in Seattle about six years ago?
Oh, yeah. Yeah,
Governor Bannister's son...
He was, uh, kidnapped
and murdered.
And nobody knew he was dead
until after the governor had
paid $500,000 for his release.
McGARRETT: Were these the serial
numbers of the Bannister ransom?
Right. Case was never closed,
kidnappers never found,
and none of the ransom
money ever recovered.
Until now.
What do you mean?
That dough we found
under the mattress
is part of it.
Wow.
Toomey... I want
you to hit him hard.
Hit him real good.
Be seeing you, Lila.
No. No.
Now, don't go getting
soft on me, Lila.
Look, I can't let you go
like this. I can't let you...
You heard what I told Toomey.
The cops find me here,
you'll be up to your
neck in real trouble.
I don't care about that.
Well, I care. Now,
get out of my way.
No, please.
Please. Lila.
Jase! Jase!
Lew? Toomey.
Guess who I just got
a telephone call from.
Jase.
Ha, you heard me. Jase Gorman.
Now, you pack a bag and
get here as quick as you can.
Now, we've got some unfinished
business to take care of...
in Hawaii.
What about reissuing
that list of serial numbers
to the banks? Maybe later.
Right now, let's see if we
can get some faster action.
Kono, Chin, get on the
phone to every bank in Oahu.
Tell 'em to be on the lookout
for any $10 silver certificates.
What about the
100s, 50s, and 20s?
Silver certificates only
came in 10, 5s, and 1s.
Were there any 5s and
1s in the Bannister ransom?
No.
Okay, gentlemen, get on it.
Danno, come with me.
You?
Yes.
You made a phone call.
And then you tried to
leave, and you caved in.
Yeah, I remember.
Now, listen...
you've gotta let
me get you a doctor.
Doctor means cops.
I ain't talking to cops
till Toomey and Lew take
care of Vince and Madge.
I know this guy who's a doctor.
I mean, h-h-he was a doctor.
A-and he would fix you
up, and he... He won't
ask any questions.
And what's his price
for not asking questions?
Oh, Jase.
Forget it.
I can get money from
somewhere to pay that man...
I said forget it.
It's not too late.
I could get him.
He could fix you up.
And then...
Well, we could go away
together somewhere.
Stop it.
Stop dreaming.
Get me a drink. I
don't have any...
That'll do it. Just get
me a drink, and I'll go.
I told you, I don't
have anything.
Then go get something.
Oh, Jase.
Please, Lila.
Please.
Boy... that Madge...
Whoever she is
she sure must have had
you drooling to talk you into...
Will you shut up...
and go get me a bottle?
Okay.
Yeah, okay, I'll go
get you something.
Lila...
Whatever happened?
How come...?
How come you and me, we...
We could never...
I don't know.
It was just one of...
One of those things, I guess.
I'm sorry.
Okay, so the rummy's
name was Gorman. So what?
I still don't know
any more about him
than what I already told you.
I never saw him with nobody.
Never said a word to
him before last night.
To me, he was just a... A tosspot
flopping in number 25. Period.
Any idea where
he did his drinking?
Oh, in his room probably.
That's where most of 'em do.
Hey.
I... I just remembered
something.
I saw the guy on
the street once,
maybe a week ago,
maybe longer. I don't know.
But anyway, he was coming out
of one of those dives
on the next block.
I don't remember the
name of it, but the...
The bartender's name is, uh...
Yeah, I'm Oliver.
McGarrett, Five-0.
This is Danny Williams.
Can I pour you fellows anything?
On the house. No, thanks.
Do you recognize this man?
What do you want him for?
Do you recognize
him, or don't you?
Comes in now and then.
Alone?
Yeah. Sits on that
corner table over there.
Doesn't talk to
anybody except...
Except who?
Look, fellas,
I don't want to make
any trouble for anybody.
Well, give me a for instance.
Lila.
Lila?
Lila Daniels. She
works here... nights.
She a B-girl?
B-girl?
Look, fellas... please.
I run a respectable joint.
Does she hustle drinks?
Well, um... but she
never hustled this guy.
She'd sit and talk
with him sometimes
when things were slow.
But she never drank with him.
I asked her about it once.
And?
She just said that she
knew him from way back.
That they were old friends.
Where do we find her?
She comes to work at 7.
Before 7...
where do we find
her, Mr. Oliver?
She lives on Bailey Street.
3334.
Mahalo.
You got to hand it to
Vince. You really do.
Sitting back for... six years.
Watching us sweat and scramble
hunting for Madge and Jase.
Hey, you remember... a time
when we were sure we had
Madge staked out in Denver?
And then, bang!
All of a sudden, she
wasn't there anymore.
Vince must've tipped her.
Sure, he did.
A lot of things add up now.
Things we were
too stupid to see.
Six years.
Man, oh, man, Vince
must have busted a gut
trying to keep from
laughing out loud.
Do you know where
he's staying in Honolulu?
Ah, you know Vince.
He always liked
to keep in touch.
Don't bury it. I'll
be using it tonight.
Who is it?
Valet.
Just a minute.
You have some cleaning, ma'am?
Yes. I'd like them back as
soon as possible, please.
Yes, ma'am. Thank you.
Mm-hm.
Vince?
Hi. Hey, baby.
Any news?
No.
Anything on the
radio or the tube?
No.
Fix me a drink, will you?
Mm-hm.
It's kind of like waiting
for the other shoe to drop,
isn't it?
Cockroach roost
he was living in,
it'll take 'em weeks
to find his body.
I wouldn't worry about it.
I'm not worried about it.
Not worried about it at all.
I just wish it were all over.
Just a little patience.
Do me a favor.
Just one little favor.
Yeah?
Don't ever say
that to me again...
because I've been patient
for almost six years now.
I have been very
patient and very scared.
Madge, come on,
take it easy, will you?
I know how it's been.
No, you don't.
You don't know
how it's been at all.
You haven't been
hiding out for six years.
You haven't gone to bed at night
dreaming about the
money you couldn't spend.
And you haven't
wakened in the morning,
and wondering if
today was the day
that Lew and Toomey would
find you and maybe kill you.
Come here, will you?
Not now.
All right, look, I know
it hasn't been easy.
But we're walking away
with the whole bundle
instead of splitting it
with Toomey, Lew or Jase.
That's worth it, isn't it?
Ask me when I've
spent some of it.
Madge! You just wait a minute.
Now, we both agreed
we're gonna give this dough
some time to
cool off, didn't we?
Yes.
All right, I... I told you
it would take five or
six years, didn't I? Huh?
Yes.
Look, we're here for
some fun, remember?
Ha, ha, ha.
You need a drink.
Oh, I'm sorry, Vince.
It's just...
running into Jase
like that. It was scary.
That was beautiful.
It was like an
answer to a prayer.
They're gonna find his body,
they're gonna discover
the money in the room,
and they're gonna think
that that's all that's left
of the Bannister dough.
You hope.
No, I know.
I know. You give
a cop... any cop
half a reason to...
close a sticky file,
and they'll slam
that file shut so fast
it'll wake half the
people in the next county.
I'll drink to that.
There's still Lew and Toomey.
Toomey and Lew stopped
looking for you and Jase long ago.
When they read the
paper, they're gonna come
to the same
conclusion the cops did.
Come on, give me a
little smile, will you?
Check the back, Danno.
Steve.
It's Gorman.
Yeah.
There's a pulse.
Get an ambulance.
Gorman.
Gorman.
Gorman?
Who are you?
McGarrett, Five-0.
Who shot you, Gorman?
Lila get back with that bottle?
Gorman, who shot you?
Nobody you'd know.
Why did you hang up
on me this morning?
I had a better idea
how to take care of...
Vince and Madge.
Vince and Madge? Who
are Vince and Madge?
McGarrett... Lila...
She didn't know
anything about this.
Who are Vince and Madge?
Vince is smart.
Real smart.
He might even beat that
rap on the Bannister kid.
Him and Madge won't get
away from Toomey and Lew.
Dead?
Yeah.
Did you get anything out of him?
Not much.
But I have a feeling
that unless we move fast,
we're going to have a couple
more murders on our hands.
Problem is...
I don't know who's
gonna kill who...
or why.
Yeah, and I want you to
request the medical examiner
and H.P.D. Homicide to list,
uh, Gorman as a John Doe.
Right.
No address, no cause of death.
I want an airtight lid on this.
And no mention of the rooming
house he stayed in either.
If the guy who shot Gorman...
finds out he lived long enough
to get out of there and talk,
he won't be around long.
Kono there?
Yeah, Steve.
I requested an
APB on Lila Daniels.
Get down to that gin
mill where she works
and stake it out, in
case she turns up there.
Maybe she can tell us
who, uh, Vince and Madge,
and Toomey and Lew are.
On my way, Steve.
Danno... you wait
here for the lab crew.
Yeah?
Oliver?
Who's this?
I-it's Lila.
Oh, hi.
Hey, look, Oliver, I-I... I've
got to see you right away.
See me?
Yeah, yeah, talk to you.
But... But I can't
come to your place.
Why not?
The police might be watching.
Police?
Are you in some sort of trouble?
Real. What?
Look... not on the phone, huh?
Where are you?
Will you come?
Hey, look, Oliver. Oliver,
I've gotta talk to somebody.
You're the only
person that I can trust.
Oliver?
Okay, Lila.
All right. Now, look, will
you please be very careful,
make sure you're
not being followed?
Sure.
Okay, look, I'm at the
Ruga Market parking lot,
at Alahala and 12th Street.
Will you please hurry?
Look, I didn't do anything!
Let me go!
Lila Daniels?
Oliver told you where
to find me, didn't he?
"Well, if you ever need
a favor, just look me up."
That's what he
told me. Lousy pig.
Okay, Kono.
Sit down. We'll talk about it.
Hold it right there, Lila.
After Jase Gorman picked
up the, uh, ransom money,
he turned it over to
this Madge woman?
Yes.
And he never
mentioned her last name
on the phone to Toomey Walsh?
No.
How about Vince's?
And he never mentioned
their last names to you
at any other time?
Never.
You sure, Lila?
Well, yes.
Then, so far as you know...
the five people involved
in the kidnapping
and murder of that boy
were Jase Gorman, Toomey
Walsh, someone named Kelso,
and Vince and Madge,
whose last names you don't know?
That's right.
All right.
All right.
Uh... go ahead.
Well, Jase, uh, thought
that he and Madge
were double-crossing
the rest of the gang.
But what he didn't know
is that Vince and Madge
were playing him for a patsy.
They kept the money.
And he told this to Toomey
Walsh on the phone?
Poor, stupid jerk.
Jenny, would you have Kono
and Chin come in, please?
Listen, I want to
tell you something.
Jase was a good man.
I mean, I know that
sounds ridiculous
after what I just
told you, but...
Well, he... He wasn't bad.
I-i-it was just that he was...
He was a sucker
for anything in a skirt.
Except you.
Except me.
And you knew nothing about
this kidnapping and murder,
or this double
cross, until last night?
No.
Well, I-I mean... I
knew that there was
something wrong with Jase
when I saw him again
after all those years.
I mean... you
could just tell. He...
He had a look
in his eyes like...
Like he was scared.
And well, I mean, I guess I
knew that he was on the lam, but...
he never said anything.
And you never asked?
Oh, no.
Why is that, Lila?
Well, if... If I'd asked
him something like that...
I never would have
seen him again.
And you didn't
want that, I suppose?
Because you were
in love with him?
Everybody's got
something wrong with them.
Yeah. Come in.
Would you wait
outside for us, please?
Anything?
Yeah.
Couple of guys named,
uh, Toomey Walsh and Kelso
are on their way in from Seattle
to kill a Vince and a Madge.
No last names.
That's all I've got.
So get on the phone,
call the airlines.
Ask 'em to check
their passenger list
on any
Seattle-to-Honolulu flight
they've had since
early this morning.
It's about time. Come
on, let's get going.
Okay. Just give me about, oh,
five minutes to comb my hair
and straighten
up a little, okay?
Snap it up, will you?
All right.
Madge!
What?
Come in here.
What?
Where'd you get this?
In the jacket I sent
to the cleaners.
It was in the pocket,
and I took it. Why?
You spend any of it?
And what if I did?
This is part of the stuff
I left in Jase's room.
Well, how was I
supposed to know?
Why don't you ask?
Because I'm sick
and tired of asking you
for every nickel I spend.
Look, how much did you spend?
Twenty-five dollars, for these.
Where'd you buy...? Oh,
for crying out loud, Vince.
The money's cold.
It's been over six years.
You told me that yourself.
Now, stop worrying.
Okay.
All right. Look, uh...
if you're gonna have
a nervous breakdown
every time we spend
some of this money,
let's just forget it.
I'll tell you what, we'll
just paste it end-to-end
and use it in the bathroom.
All right, all right,
well, forget it.
There's no harm done.
From now on, we
keep that money on ice
till we get out of the country.
You understand?
Yes, I understand.
You're sure?
Okay. Thanks.
No Walsh, no Kelso
on any Seattle-Honolulu
flight so far.
All right.
All right.
Who haven't we
heard from so far?
All but one. Pacific Airways.
It's just possible
they may be traveling
under aliases.
So far as we know, Danno.
There's no warrant out
on either one of them.
They're both clean.
But... if you're right,
and they are
traveling under aliases,
we're really in trouble.
Yeah, Jenny?
Yeah, good. Good.
Pacific Airways.
Yeah, hello.
Yes?
They are?
A.T. Walsh and L. Kelso
are on the
passenger list of 502?
What?
Are you sure?
All right.
Yeah, thanks very much.
What's wrong?
Flight 502 arrived
on time, 2:30.
That was 10 minutes ago.
Look, I know
you're flying blind.
If I had a description,
I'd give it to you.
If you find one of the
stewardesses from the flight,
let me know, will you, please?
Okay. Thank you.
Anything?
Kono and Chin had no luck
with the cab and
rental companies.
Same thing with
airport security.
It's like looking for a
needle in a haystack.
Two guys, and the only
thing we know about them
is that their names
are Walsh and Kelso.
What time do you have, Danno?
Two fifty-five.
Well, that means the plane
has been on the
ground for 25 minutes.
If they had only hand luggage,
they could be long gone.
Get it.
Yeah, Jenny?
Thank you.
Yes, Mr. Nolan?
Uh, could you hang
on a minute, please?
Manager of the Waikiki
branch, First Hawaiian Bank.
About a deposit he just got.
Four $10 silver certificates.
No, no. Put him on speaker.
Mr. Nolan, this is McGarrett.
Could you give us
the details, please?
That's all the luggage we have.
If you gentlemen
are checking in,
just leave your
car keys with me.
The desk will inform
me of your room number.
You check us in.
Mr. Vincent Ryan's room, please.
It was a woman who
made the purchase.
Just today, in fact.
Probably a hotel guest.
The money was deposited by
the man who runs the gift shop
in the Hawaiian Village Hotel.
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Nolan.
It's a slim one,
but let's try it.
Anything?
Walsh rented a car
from the Airlines U-Drive.
I got the license number.
You want an APB put out?
We may not need it. Let's go.
Mr. Morgan and Mr. Hollister?
That's right.
Welcome to the
Hawaiian Village Hotel.
Room 319, please.
There's a Mr. And
Mrs. Vincent Ryan
registered here, but
there was no answer.
Check on that rented car
with the parking lot attendant.
Put 'em on the bed.
Thank you.
I'm gonna try them again.
Vince or Madge?
Yeah. That's right.
Is that all? No last name?
No. No last names.
Will you hurry,
please? It's urgent.
Yes, sir.
Hello?
Hey, Vince.
Who's this?
Toomey.
I bet you're surprised, huh?
Yeah.
Where are you calling from?
Right here.
In Honolulu?
In the hotel.
I got to thinking after
I got your postcard,
I'd better get over
there, get some sun...
Vince, you want a drink?
Before old Vince
soaks it all up.
Who is it?
Toomey. Toomey Walsh.
Hey, Vince?
Yeah. Sure.
How about getting
together for a drink?
Great.
Now, what's your room number?
Ten thirty-one.:
Why did you tell him?
Be right up.
Uh, Toomey, wait
a minute, will you?
I just got in.
Give me a few minutes
to clean up, will you?
Sure, Vince. No hurry.
Oh, by the way...
Lew sends his regards.
If you think Toomey
Walsh is here for a vacation,
you've got rocks in your head.
I tell you, he knows something.
And I'll tell you
something else,
five will get you ten
Lew Kelso's in town.
All right, all right.
Let's say Toomey's
not here for a tan.
Lew's with him.
In that case, we better deal
with 'em right here and now.
Or for the rest of our lives,
we'll be running and hiding.
Here, you take this.
You wait for 'em in the bedroom.
There's a Vincent Ryan, Seattle.
Could be it.
Yeah.
Anything?
Yeah. The car is here.
Kelso and Walsh are in room 319.
Okay. Check them out.
We've got a Vincent
Ryan in 1031.
Hold that elevator.
Come on, children.
Hurry up. Come on.
I really don't know why
we had to change rooms.
I was happy with the other one.
I don't care if your
mother did stay here.
Oh, Jen, where's
your little case?
Oh, you're impossible.
Just a minute.
Come on.
If Toomey's telling
the truth, no sweat.
If he's looking for trouble...
let's see that he finds it.
Right with you, Toomey.
Hey. Hey!
Hey, what is this?!
Who are you guys?
Spread 'em. Spread 'em!
Hold it! Take them, Kono, Chin.
McGARRETT: Open up!
Hold it!