Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 3, Episode 14 - The Double Wall - full transcript

Where's the doc? He'll
be here any minute.

That's it, over here.

What's...? What's
going on down there?

Power play.

Somebody wanted to
knock over the yard bull.

They got Ritchie, then
all hell broke loose.

Can you do something
before the doc gets here?

He's bleeding pretty bad.

Knife wound?

It's, uh... It's pretty deep.

See if you can find the doc.



This is Bates.

Tell the warden we got
Ritchie in the hospital.

Now, just take it easy. The
doc will be here in a second.

You're gonna be okay.

You're Harry Kellem, aren't you?

Yeah.

That's funny.

It's really funny.

I'm here dying and

you're the guy that's
standing over me.

Well, it's not that bad.

You wanna bet?

Kellem.

Kellem, come here.



Come here.

I wanna tell you something.

T-Tom Chaney. What?

Tom Chaney.

Your partner.

You're in here for killing him.

Yeah.

But I didn't.

I know.

You didn't kill him.

I did.

You?

Well, why?

Why?

It was a hit.

A contract.

We better hurry, doc.

Hey, you gotta listen.

Ritchie, he told me...
It... It was a frame.

Come on, Kellem, not now.

But, doc, Ritchie will tell you.

He did it. He killed Tom Chaney.

He'll tell you, just
like he told me.

He's not gonna tell
anybody anything.

Ritchie's dead.

But he told me.

He admitted it.
Take it easy, Kellem.

No. He said it.

I mean, he...

He knew he was dying
and Ritchie confessed.

He murdered Tom Chaney, not me.

Did you hear anything, Bates?

Not a word.

You want me to call
the morgue? Yeah.

I'll make out the
death certificate.

You don't believe
me, do you? Doc.

Come on, doc, do you believe me?

Well, look, I wasn't here. Doc.

Come on, Kellem, knock it off.

Do you wanna go
back to your cell?

It's true. Ritchie said it.

I said...

Don't do it, Kellem.

Give me the gun.

No.

Now, somebody's
gotta believe me.

I'm gonna make them believe me.

Steve. Warden.

Glad you're here. This is Bates.

He was in the hospital
ward when it happened.

How did it start?

We had a lot of
trouble in the yard.

One of the men
was stabbed. Ritchie.

Ritchie. Ritchie.
The name is familiar.

Should be. You put him here.

Frank Ritchie, the hit man?

That's right.

We took him to the hospital.

By the time the doc
got there, he was dead.

And?

Kellem,

he started telling this
crazy story about a...

A deathbed confession.

It doesn't make sense.

Kellem give you any
trouble before this?

The usual kind.

Every man here
claims he's innocent,

but after a while, they
all make an adjustment.

But not Kellem?

I pulled his file for
you. Judge for yourself.

Murder one.

Life sentence. Two appeals.

Two appeals rejected.

But Kellem won't quit.
Still claims he's innocent.

It's all in there, Steve.

Kellem killed his partner,
a man named Tom Chaney.

How long ago?

Three years.

At first, Kellem
was so insistent,

but I checked it all out myself.

And you think he was guilty?

No question about it. Guilty.

Is he psycho?

Well, yesterday, I would
have said no, but now?

With him holding a riot
gun to Doc Berman's head.

What does he want?

You, Steve. He wants you.

We could use tear gas,

but he's warned us
he'll pull the trigger.

Same thing if we try
to rush the hospital.

Doc Berman is as
good as a dead man.

No way to get
Kellem out? No way.

Steve, he's got one hostage.
I hate to give him two.

McGARRETT: So would I.

Kellem, this is the warden.

Can you hear me?

I hear you, warden!

Where's McGarrett?

Kellem, put down that gun.

Do it now before it's too late.

It's too late now, warden!

Send McGarrett
in, or I'll kill the doc!

Take it.

Kellem, this is McGarrett.

I'm coming in.

Steve.

He's got a loaded shotgun.

Kellem?

In here.

Come on in.

And close the door.

That's not gonna get
you out of here, Kellem.

I know that.

But you are.

You're gonna get me out.

The guys in here say you're
the smartest cop on this rock.

You're gonna help me, McGarrett.

Not while you hold a gun.

Yeah.

Yeah, I got the gun,

and I'm not afraid
to use it. I mean it.

Go slow. Go slow, Kellem.

The doc is the only thing

that's keeping
you alive right now.

Locked up in here,

I'm not alive, McGarrett.

But you're gonna get me out.

Look, you had a fair
trial, you were found guilty.

Now, the jury agreed that
you killed Tom Chaney.

Well, they were wrong.

I'm in here for
something I didn't do.

And you're gonna clear me.

And what if I can't?

Then, like you said, he's dead.

I got nothing to
lose, McGarrett.

You better understand that.

This is my last chance.

I prayed for
something to happen.

Now it did with
Ritchie's confession.

And I'm not gonna let
it go, not for anything.

All right.

Okay, I'll do what I
can. I give you my word.

But... first the gun. No.

This time, I gotta go all
the way. So you better hurry.

Look, it's been three years.
It takes time to reopen a case.

Well, I can't wait.

You do it now, McGarrett,
and you do it fast.

I worked a double shift
for the last two days.

So pretty soon, I'm...
I'm gonna get tired.

If I put down this gun
now, I am finished.

So that's your
deadline, McGarrett.

I don't know how
long I can hold up,

but that's how long you got.

You and the doc.

The prison is
still on full alert,

and still no word from inside,

where Steve McGarrett,
head of Hawaii Five-0,

continues to meet with armed,

convicted murderer,
Harry Kellem.

The former Honolulu
real-estate developer

was sentenced to
life imprisonment

for the murder of his
partner, Tom Chaney.

Now this desperate man
is holding prison doctor,

Sam Berman, hostage.

Every reporter
in town, the wire...

No way. They want a story.

What have we got, Danno?

Kellem and Chaney. Land
developers. Promoters, actually.

They started with a couple
of acres up by Kailua Bay,

parlayed it into business
with not much behind them.

Just enough for a down payment,

then sell for profit before
the next payment's due.

Yeah, nothing illegal.

They took chances,
they were lucky.

Even their long shots paid off.

Until luck ran out
for both of them.

Classic pattern. As
things started getting good,

the partners started to fight.

About money? CHIN
HO: Yeah, looks like it.

Tom Chaney was a gambler.

Horses, fan-tan, dice,
you name it. And a loser.

Evidence brought out at
the trial showed that Chaney

was using company
funds to pay off his losses.

And Harry Kellem found out
about it, so we have motive.

The, uh, murder took
place out by Makaha.

Right at the edge
of the golf course.

Kellem met Chaney out
there to look over land,

but only Kellem came back.

H.P.D. found three slugs
in the body, .38 caliber.

And Ballistic made a
matchup with the gun

Kellem and Chaney
kept in their office.

They found the gun
in the Ala Wai Canal.

How? Anonymous phone tip.

Oh, neat, neat, very neat.

And very damaging.

Open and shut, Steve.

Kellem's entire defense
consisted of saying,

"I didn't do it."
And no witnesses?

Yeah, there was
one, but after the fact.

A, uh, Ted Cowan. Salesman.

He was playing golf. He
heard the shots, found the body.

But all he saw was
a car driving off,

and it was too far away from
him to make a... A positive ID,

but the general
description fit Kellem's car.

Here's the file
on Frank Ritchie.

Anything tying him to
the Chaney murder?

Nothing. Not even a thread.

Ritchie had a partner,
another torpedo named Banyan.

Barney, I think.
Find him. Right.

Danno, Chaney and
Kellem were big business.

Find out what
happened to it all.

The company, the
assets, who gained?

Chin, you said that
Chaney was a gambler.

I wanna know more about it.

Find out everything
you can about him.

Try the boys on Maunakea Street.

Where are you
going? See a lawyer.

You were Harry Kellem's lawyer?

And his friend.

I was very close to Harry,
and Tom Chaney too.

You see, I represented
their company

from the very beginning and...

Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Wilkie,
I just don't have the time.

Harry Kellem says
that he's innocent.

He swears that a gunman
by the name of Ritchie

made a deathbed confession
of the murder today.

Well, uh, I-I always believed...

But nobody heard the
confession except Kellem.

So it's worthless, unless
there's some other evidence.

Now, I'm looking for a
starting point. Anything.

Well, uh, what
can I tell you? Um...

Harry and Tom Chaney were a
fantastic business combination.

Together they were on their way

to building a
real-estate empire.

Now, I'm sorry, Mr. Wilkie.
Honestly, I'm sorry,

but I just don't have the time.

I need some answers
and I need them right now,

before Kellem
pulls that trigger.

Now, there was a witness, a
man by the name of Cowan.

Ted Cowan.

Oh, I talked to him
for a number of hours.

And he looked like
Harry's salvation for a while.

But at the trial, his
testimony was of no value.

You see, Cowan didn't
really see anything

until it was all over.

All right. All right,
thank you, Mr. Wilkie.

Uh, Mr. McGarrett,

that doctor at the prison.

Harry is no killer.

You put a gun in a man's hand,

and there's always a first time.

You better get over
here right away.

Yeah, trouble.

But, uh, it's nothing
we can't handle.

Why the roust, McGarrett?

Got bad news for you, Bunyan.

Your old pal Frank
Ritchie is dead.

I heard.

You don't seem very
broken up about it.

Oh, Frank was a good guy,
but he made one mistake.

He got caught. Right.

Now he made another
mistake: He got killed.

And that's the biggest
mistake of all, isn't it?

If you don't get
paid for killing,

it doesn't make
any sense, does it?

Oh, you know me, McGarrett.

Live and let live,
that's my motto.

Yeah, I know you.

Before Frank Ritchie died, he
made a deathbed confession.

He admitted killing Tom
Chaney three years ago.

A paid hit.

You and he were, uh, a
team at that time, weren't you?

I got a feeling you're
fishing, McGarrett.

If you wanna know
something, just ask me.

I'm not asking, I'm telling.

If Ritchie was in on that
hit, then so were you.

Anytime you can prove that
or anything else, McGarrett,

you know where to find me.

Until then, get off my back.

Banyan,

I almost got you
when I got Ritchie.

Now your turn is up.

I'm gonna get you, Barney.

Steve, you asked
me a simple question:

Who gained when
Chaney and Kellem lost?

But I can't give you
a simple answer.

The land-development
company went into receivership.

Remaining assets
and controlling interests

were acquired by a
Maryland corporation,

then resold to a
Delaware corporation.

It turns out the
Delaware corporation's

only a holding company, so...

So get on the phone, Danno,

and wake them up in
Delaware or wherever.

Because if somebody
profited from Chaney's murder,

I wanna know his name.

He's your boy.

I want him on a leash.

A very short leash.

Well, that's no problem.

Barney does what I tell
him and only when I tell him.

Be sure of that.

Because if he were to do
anything rash at this point...

Yeah, this Kellem
situation at the prison,

it doesn't look good.

It looks fine.

If we keep our heads.

Time is on our side, you know.

Kellem can't hold out at
that prison for very long.

And when he's finished,

the case is closed
again for good.

But you said
McGarrett's investigating.

And he's not going
to find anything,

any more than the
police did three years ago.

Well, I sure wish... What?

About this Cowan guy.

Maybe we should have
done something about him.

It always makes me
nervous, these loose ends.

Now, you leave
him alone, Bedford.

And you tell your boy
not to get any ideas either.

Cowan didn't talk before,

and it's perjury if he
changes his story now.

So let's just all relax.

Thanks for taking
time out, sarge.

Anytime, Danno.

The, uh, Kellem case. Yeah.

Out by Makaha?

That was my first homicide.

The one witness, Ted Cowan,
now, you took his statement.

Yeah, all of them.
What do you mean?

Well, he was pretty
shook up, you know.

The more he talked,
the less he remembered.

By the time he finished,
he hadn't seen anything.

You think he did see something?

At the time, yeah, I
kind of had that feeling.

But he said no, so that was it.

Thanks, sarge. Okay, Danno.

Say, what about the trial?

Didn't Kellem's attorney call
you to the stand as a witness?

Nobody called me.

Well, I said it all at
the trial, Mr. McGarrett.

I didn't see anything.

Well, you identified the car

that drove away
from the murder site.

Just a general description.

It was too far away
for me to see much.

Maybe it was just a coincidence.

I mean, I never said it
was Harry Kellem's car,

just a dark sedan that...

All right, all right,
Mr. Cowan. Take it easy.

Sergeant Spivack,

the police officer who
first questioned you,

he had a feeling that
you, uh, saw quite a bit.

Look, finding a dead man...

I mean, you read about things
happening... Terrible things.

But you never think
it'll happen to you.

That you'll be the one
who'll get involved?

Violence is
frightening, Mr. Cowan.

It frightens all of us even
if we deal with it every day.

But it's nothing to be
ashamed of if you feel fear.

Well, I've told you all I can.

There's a man in prison who
says he doesn't belong there.

That he was framed.

That's got nothing
to do with me.

If an innocent man is
imprisoned, Mr. Cowan,

it has something
to do with all of us,

particularly if we can help.

That's a question, Mr. Cowan.

If you know anything
about the Chaney case

that you haven't told
already for whatever reason,

now is the time to speak up.

Have you ever
seen these two men?

No, I never saw them before.

And I suppose you haven't seen

today's paper,

or watched the
news on television?

No, I...

Time, Mr. Cowan. I
don't have much time.

Neither do those
two men at the prison.

I don't have
anything to tell you.

I told it all before.

Well, just think about Kellem.

If he is innocent, just think
what he's been through already.

Well, I can't help that.

I'm sorry,
Mr. McGarrett, but I've...

Look, for God's
sake, don't be sorry.

You can't appease
violence and brutality.

Either you take a stand
against it and fight it,

or it'll kill you.

Now, think about it.

Think about it while
there's still time.

Four hours have elapsed
since convict Harry Kellem

took Dr. Sam Berman
hostage in the prison hospital.

Dr. Samuel T. Berman,
a dedicated physician,

whose life is now in the
hands of a desperate man,

already convicted of one murder.

Standby to cue
Beldock and the warden.

Michael Beldock
is in the prison now

with the warden for an
up-to-the-moment briefing

on the situation. Take cue.

Have there been any changes
in the situation, warden?

None.

Kellem is still in
there with Doc Berman

and we're still waiting.

Why did he ask to
see Steve McGarrett?

I'm sorry, Mr. Beldock, I can't
comment on that right now.

Well, could you
tell us this then, sir:

What happens if Harry Kellem
tries to make a break for it,

and is using
Dr. Berman as a shield?

My guards have their orders.

Those orders are? Shoot to kill.

What are you looking at?

Just making sure.

McGarrett gave you his word.
Nobody will try to get in here.

Yeah?

Well, let me tell
you something, doc.

People only do what
you make them do.

That's one of the
rules I learned in here.

Well, if you're innocent,
McGarrett will prove it.

Yeah, right. He'll prove it.

Because he's got to.

Listen, I lived by
the book all my life.

And I believed it.

You know, things like

"innocent men don't go to jail."

Yeah, well, I'm here
to tell you different.

And I'm supposed to
stay here the rest of my life

for something I didn't do.

System's not perfect, Harry.

Every once in a while,
something goes wrong.

Well, that's easy
for you to say,

and you go home every night.

Now, Harry, neither
of us is going anywhere

till McGarrett gets back.

So why don't you
take off the tape?

No.

I hope McGarrett's
doing real good out there,

because I got a feeling he
doesn't have much longer.

None of us do.

He wants money.

Tell him that the penalty
for illegal gambling

is one to three years.

Cooperating with you
gentlemen of Five-0

will be payment
enough, I assure you.

Sit down, Mr. McGarrett.

You knew Tom Chaney?

Perhaps.

Perhaps?

All right. Let us say, uh,

isn't it possible that
you and Tom Chaney

shared equal fascination
with the, uh, laws of chance?

Many things are possible.

They say that sitting opposite
a man at a gambling table

reveals many facets
of his character.

I have heard it said.

And they also say that while
Tom Chaney gambled heavily,

he also gambled badly.

The numbers says

you are a lucky
man, Mr. McGarrett.

And they said the
same of Tom Chaney.

But he had huge losses.

Did he?

Well, there were
witnesses at his trial

who said that he had paid
markers in the thousands

from Vegas to Macao.

In gambling, Mr. McGarrett,

it is a question of balance.

A loss against a gain.

Are you saying that Tom
Chaney was a winner?

All gamblers lose sometimes.

The successful gambler

wins far more than he loses.

Tom Chaney was very successful.

The records on such matters

only show what was lost.

No markers are needed
when a gambler wins.

In any case, such
matters are usually

conducted in private.

Do I read you right?

Tom Chaney won big?

But somebody tried to
create the impression

that he was a loser.

The world is
filled with illusions,

Mr. McGarrett.

Created for many reasons.

Four hours and 45 minutes,

and still we wait here
at Oahu State Prison.

Harry.

Harry, please.

The tape.

No.

Where the hell is McGarrett?

He'll be back.

Talk to me, doc.

Keep talking. I... I
gotta stay awake.

Well, why don't you tell
me what happened, Harry?

Three years ago.

Tell me about Tom Chaney.

Oh, we were friends.

We were friends.

I bet you couldn't find two guys

less alike.

Maybe that's why we
became partners. He was...

It was good balance.

Tom always wanted to plunge.

I was the one who
held back, it's...

That's why the deals
we made were always...

good ones.

My legs.

My legs are...

They feel funny, doc.

It's fatigue, Harry.

You haven't had any
sleep for over 50 hours.

Harry.

Why don't you take off the tape?

I promise you, I
won't try anything.

Okay.

Okay, doc.

Just the tape.

This doesn't change anything.

Here, Harry.

Now, remember,

this doesn't change
anything, doc.

I still may have to kill you.

Harry.

Keep talking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, doc, I
never had any trouble.

In my whole life, I...

I never had a speeding ticket.

Then something like
this happens and...

Tom, dead.

But I wasn't s-scared.

I-I thought:

"Tell the truth.

It'll be okay."

It will be.

It will be okay.

I don't know, doc.

I don't know.

This is my last chance.

My last chance.

I didn't do it, but...

I'm never gonna get out of here.

Not ever.

McGarrett will find the answers.

You think he believes me, doc?

Because somebody's gotta

or I'm lost.

McGarrett believes you, Harry.

Come on. Don't
stop. Keep talking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's the way the...

That's the only way.

In all my years as a CPA,

working on my
own and for the city,

I've never seen
anything quite like this.

I mean, by now, I've
gone through all the books

of the Kellem-Chaney
land-development company,

but let me tell you,

this is an absolute work of art.

Falsified?

Completely. But
not to cover up fraud.

Somebody has juggled these books

to make it look like a massive
embezzlement had taken place.

Wait a minute.

You mean that
there's nothing wrong

with the company financially?

That's precisely what I mean.

That's very interesting.

Thank you very
much, Mr. Rycourt.

Yes. Come on. I appreciate it.

Steve, I got something. What?

The, uh, Kellem-Chaney
Corporation,

somebody really tried
to cover his tracks.

Maryland corporation,
the Delaware corporation,

plus a half a
dozen other fronts.

They all seem to lead back here.

Danno, have you
got a name for me?

Not yet, but we're
getting close.

Okay, stay with it.

Five hours and ten minutes.

Will convicted murderer
Harry Kellem kill again?

Don't say it, Freda.
Don't say a word.

We've been through
this a thousand times.

Ted, if he kills that doctor...

Then he's a murderer.

But he shouldn't even be there.

He shouldn't even be in prison.

There's your innocent man,
with a gun to the doctor's head.

Isn't that what I
always told you?

What would happen to
anyone who got involved?

If I hadn't seen it...

But you did, Ted.

And nothing's been the
same since these three years.

I know, in a way,
maybe I made you do it,

because I was frightened.

We were both frightened.

But maybe we were wrong.

Living with this thing,

what kind of a life have we had?

Hello? This is Ted Cowan.

Yes, Mr. Cowan, I
understand completely.

But, of course, you realize
there may be problems,

legal problems of a
severe nature for you.

Of course.

I, uh,

I think you're a very
brave man, Mr. Cowan.

May I suggest, uh,

that you come over to
my office immediately?

Oh, yes. Yes, we'll go to
the authorities together.

Could you be here in...?

Good.

Good, I'll expect you then.

Barney?

Professional job?

Definitely.

Whoever is covering up
the Tom Chaney killing

is running scared.

It's all starting to add up.

But maybe not quick
enough for Harry Kellem.

He was a good
person, Mr. McGarrett.

Just terribly frightened.

These past three years,

you can't imagine
what it's been like.

He changed.

Ever since that terrible day.

Mrs. Cowan,

what did your husband see
that day three years ago?

He saw them kill that man.

Tom Chaney.

Ted was at the golf course.

He saw it all.

But it wasn't Harry Kellem? No.

Oh, Mr. McGarrett,
that was the worst part.

Watching that poor man, Kellem,

sent away for life.

Ted wanted to speak out

but he was afraid
to get involved.

Well, do you know, then,
who did kill Tom Chaney?

Two men, Ted said.

One of them was that
man that died in prison.

Yeah, and the other one?

I don't know.

Ted knew what he looked like.

I suppose he's the man

who killed my husband.

But at least now
that I've told you,

at least now, Harry
Kellem will be all right.

No.

No. So far as we're concerned,

Kellem is right back
where he started from.

But I told you what Ted saw.

Hearsay evidence.
In a courtroom,

they call it hearsay evidence.

You cannot testify to
anything unless you saw it,

or heard it personally.

Won't stand up.

Then it's not over yet.

When Harry Kellem was
first arrested for murder,

Ted was going
to tell everything.

And what happened?

He was questioned
by Kellem's lawyer.

Craig Wilkie? That's right.

He was going to tell Wilkie.

Well, why didn't he?

I don't know.

I know it sounds
crazy, but Ted said that

Mr. Wilkie kept
impressing upon him

that he had to tell the truth,

no matter what might
happen to him afterward.

Wait a minute.

Are you saying that Wilkie

frightened him
out of testifying?

I don't know.

But that doesn't make sense.

Craig Wilkie was
Kellem's lawyer.

But your husband
was going to see Wilkie

when he was killed.

That's right, Wilkie.

You're sure. Positive.

Oh, he covered
his trail beautifully.

Used every legal
trick in the book:

interlocking corporations,
withholding companies,

the whole bag. But the one
who picked up all the marbles

when Kellem and Chaney went
out of business was Craig Wilkie.

Let's go.

Oh, Mrs. Cowan, I...

I-I realize what a terrible
tragedy you've just suffered.

I... Believe me, I'm truly
sorry about your husband.

I assure you, I had
nothing to do with it.

You did too.

Ted was afraid and
you made him afraid,

and then you had him killed.

No, that's... That
simply isn't true.

Anything about
it, I... I-I don't...

I don't know what...

I don't know anything
about it. Believe me, I...

It looks like... Let
me have it, honey.

Let me have it or
I'll break your fingers.

You're the ones, aren't you?

He paid you to do it
and you had him killed.

Been shooting your
mouth off, Wilkie?

No, no, she's just
guessing. I didn't say a word.

Looks like the job's
not finished after all.

Just one more loose end.

Now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.

Shut her up, will you?

All right. All right, what
are you gonna do with her?

No extra charge, Wilkie.

Knocking off Tom
Chaney and her husband,

that cost you,
so this one's free.

But not here. You
can't do it here.

We've got a place in
mind. Don't worry, Wilkie.

Okay, come on now, fast.

All right, everybody, freeze.

That's it, McGarrett.
Drop the gun.

I had to.

He might have killed her or you.

Or he might have talked.

I saved your life, McGarrett.

No deals, Wilkie. No deals.

You wanted everything.

Everything that Tom Chaney
and Harry Kellem worked for,

and you knew how to get it.

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

I do.

You said I could only testify

to what I myself
heard personally?

Well, I just heard it all.

How can you listen to her? The
word of an hysterical woman?

Oh, I'll listen to her and
so will the judge and jury.

You're under arrest.

Book him, Danno. Murder one.

It's all right, Kellem.

It's all over now.

All over.