Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 4, Episode 21 - Good Night, Baby - Time to Die! - full transcript
A convicted murderer escapes prison. He has been threatening a woman, spurring McGarrett to arrive at the woman's home with police officers. As the lawman arrives, the convict calls, telling the woman he will kill her by nightfall. While McGarrett guards the woman, he also probes to find out more about the circumstances that led to the man's conviction. It's clear that McGarrett believes there's more to the case than she has been telling.
( upbeat surf theme playing)
(knocking on door)
(knocking continues)
(knocking continues)
All right!
Who is it?
McGARRETT: McGarrett,
Five-0. State police.
Open up, please.
McGARRETT: Miss
Rhodes. Carol Rhodes?
Yes?
I have to talk to
you, miss. It's urgent.
Just a moment.
Chuck, take the door.
(clears throat)
What i...? What is it?
What are you doing?
L.B. Barker is out.
( ominous theme playing)
He's out?
How?
He escaped.
How? How?
He was in solitary.
Last night, in the
middle of the night,
he was in the hole.
He said he was sick.
Faking, of course, but...
it was good enough
to fool the doctor.
He was transferred
to the infirmary.
They thought he was passing out.
There was only one guard in
the infirmary with the doctor.
He took them both by surprise.
He had a gun. Fake,
maybe. Maybe not.
He took the keys.
He was well prepared,
he had a rope.
Before an alarm
could be sounded,
he was over the wall.
Scaled 'em. Beat it.
( ominous theme playing)
(objects clattering)
Hey.
That's exactly what
he's hoping you'll do.
Stay put. Don't run.
I'm certainly not waiting
for him to get here.
I'm taking the first
plane anywhere.
If you stay put,
we can protect you.
If you run, he'll kill you.
No.
(phone ringing)
Answer it.
Pick it up.
Hello?
BARKER: Morning, baby.
I'm out.
And I'm coming to get you.
You, baby... like
I said I would.
Beautiful and dead.
By sunset tonight.
Dead, baby.
That's what you think, Barker.
This is McGarrett,
Five-0. Give yourself up.
You haven't got a chance.
You'll never get near this lady.
( Barker hangs up)
( dramatic theme playing)
You still wanna
try for the airport?
( upbeat surf theme playing)
( dramatic theme playing)
(tires screech)
(people chattering)
DANNO: All right,
folks, keep moving.
We want the floor vacated
as soon as possible.
(elevator bell dings)
(phone ringing)
Car 7 has reached point B-1.
I asked for nine cars
and 11 patrolmen.
Eight and nine
are on their way in.
Good.
When the patrolmen
are positioned,
I want ten-minute check-ins
on the walkie-talkie.
Right.
(phone rings)
I want you to stay
in your apartment.
I'm sorry, I didn't
like being there alone.
You weren't alone. I
left an officer with you.
(sighs)
(phone rings)
Well, I just feel
safer with you.
OFFICER: Eight is in. G-4.
(sighs)
What is this?
This is where we are.
This is the Sheraton, Waikiki.
This blue line is our perimeter.
Perimeter?
It's an armed fence
we're setting up in this area
to protect you.
These, uh, black
marks are patrol cars,
these yellow are
patrolmen on foot.
And what is this?
That's L.B. Barker.
That's where he started
from. That's Oahu State Prison.
We're only guessing...
until we get a sighting on him,
but we're assuming that he's
moving steadily
toward us right here.
DANNO: Steve?
Most of the guests are
leaving the floor now.
It'll all be ours soon.
All there?
All there.
Take over, Danno.
We'll be across the hall.
( dramatic theme playing)
(phone rings)
I know it's early, but...
I'm sorry. Uh,
would you like...?
No, thanks.
The whole thing...
That empty corridor...
I know where I'll be.
I know he means it.
Maybe you better tell me
why L.B. has been
threatening you.
Why he wants you dead.
(sighs)
(angrily): Get away
from that window.
I told you that before.
Don't use that tone
of voice with me.
We don't know where he is.
We don't know if
he has a rifle or not.
I don't like your tone.
The criminal's out
there, he's not in here.
What's that?
Police files.
I was away when L.B. Barker
killed his partner, McCabe,
and was convicted.
What's in the second one?
Beckmann Museum
jewel robbery. Ring a bell?
That happened 30 days
before McCabe was killed.
And... the third one?
I don't think this
would interest you.
(sighs)
Ha-ha.
Here. Here.
It's yours.
Why were you away
when it all happened?
( slow, dramatic theme playing)
I was tired.
(scoffs) You were tired?
That's very funny.
I never thought about
policemen being tired.
Hawaii became a state in 1959.
That's when the governor
appointed me to Five-0.
By 1968, I was tired.
So I took a vacation,
got as far away as I could.
To snow in Switzerland.
All this happened
while I was away.
And, uh... these juvenile files,
I never have
occasion to read them.
Not until now.
Well, I see you
do your homework.
Always.
Tell me about you.
Tell you about me?
Well... I was what...
they call an abandoned child.
I didn't have to run
away from my parents,
they ran away from me.
And I lived in foster
homes, things like that.
Pineapples and men
away on conventions.
I was pretty much wiped
out by the time I was 17.
That's when I met...
L.B. and Wayne McCabe.
They had a beach shack.
L.B. fell in love
with me, I guess.
I think I need a refill.
Don't like your
girls drunk, do you?
DANNO (over
walkie-talkie): Steve?
Yes, Danno.
Somebody spotted him
heisting a car and phoned H.P.D.
By the time the
squad car got there,
he was gone.
McGARRETT: Yeah. Did you
get a good make on the car?
Yeah. We've already
put out a red alert.
McGARRETT: What
about...? Where's the location?
Where was the car taken?
DANNO: Wiliwili
Street near Waiola.
Okay, Danno. Thank you.
( ominous theme playing)
That's three miles
north of the perimeter.
Getting closer.
Why did you break with them?
What?
Why did you break
with L.B. and McCabe?
(sighs)
I'm sorry. I...
can't go back and forth
like that with him out there.
I was...
I was picked up for breaking
and entering with them.
I was so young, though,
they just gave me probation.
But I was... very
young and... stupid.
They were my family,
so I went out on
another job with them.
It went wrong, and I ran.
His car almost hit me.
Alfred Townsend.
He told me to get in and
catch my breath, and...
tell me all about
why I was running.
( tender theme playing)
And then he just told
me to sit there, and...
he went away someplace.
When he came
back, he said that...
there was nothing
to worry about.
That he'd be responsible.
He'd taken care of it.
I really loved him very much.
It wasn't sex.
He didn't use me
like everybody else.
It was just kindness.
Talking to me.
He left me all of his things.
You know, he was the curator
of the Beckmann Museum.
He really knew everything.
And... he taught
me little by little.
I had a home for the
first time in my life.
And how did L.B. take it?
L.B.
L.B. went crazy,
that's how he took it.
He made threats against Alfred,
he made threats against me.
He called us day and night.
Crazy calls.
Dirty threats.
Oh, you just don't know L.B.
You have no idea.
This robbery took place
a month before
L.B. killed McCabe.
No clues, no traces.
Over a million in
gemstones taken.
Some of them
historically famous.
Perfect entry, perfect getaway.
Then...
three days after the robbery,
your friend Alfred
Townsend is found dead.
Two bullets in
him... car wrecked.
What were your
thoughts at the time?
L.B. had reason to, didn't he?
Who else? Who else had reason to
kill a respected man
like Alfred Townsend?
(thump)
Wait. Please, don't leave me.
Stay here.
It's all right, Steve.
It's only oxygen for the
one guest we couldn't move.
That delivery man check out?
Yeah.
And we have two of our
men with him all the time.
MAN 1: Car 21. Car
21 calling McGarrett.
Officer Luna calling McGarrett.
Yeah, this is McGarrett.
What do you got, Al?
Got a robbery, Steve.
Your man just knocked
over a gun shop.
On McCully Street.
Near King Street.
McGARRETT: How do
you know it was Barker?
LUNA: Because he left his
prison shirt and a fake pistol,
carved out of wood.
Must have been the one
he used in the breakout.
McGARRETT: What did he take?
LUNA: A .38 Special
and a box of bullets.
Then he clobbered
the shopkeeper,
took his clothes and left.
McGARRETT: In the car?
Yeah. Same sedan.
What about the clothes?
A dark brown polo
shirt and tan pants.
Okay, Al. Get that
description to Central.
Steve.
MAN 2: This is Car 43.
Have visual contact with
Barker and stolen car.
Heading Diamond
Head on Beretania.
We're in pursuit.
Car 43, I need
your exact location.
He just turned off
Beretania onto King,
and he's about a
block ahead of us.
We're gonna try to close in.
Central, did you read that?
MAN 3: Got it.
East on King Street.
Red alert, all
cars for intercept.
Check.
Come in, 43.
Car 43, come in, please.
Forty-three, come in.
MAN 2: Now he's
turning south on Kapahulu.
He's got it wide open.
We're hanging in.
( ominous theme playing)
Steve, Barker has
abandoned his car.
He's taking off on foot.
Which way? Which
way is he headed?
South. Headed south
toward the perimeter.
(clicks off)
( dramatic theme playing)
( ominous theme playing)
Danno, who are the best
marksmen we have here?
Uh, Evans, Tokagura, Kim Kaimu.
Okay.
I want Evans about here.
Tokagura, here.
And I need an
elevation for Kaimu.
Maybe the fourth floor
directly facing the roadblock.
Right.
Wait a minute, that's...
That's near the
Kamehameha statue.
Yeah. That's only...
About a mile and a half.
( dramatic theme playing)
CAROL: McGarrett?
McGarrett? Yeah.
Is everything all right?
Yeah. Just checking
out your service entrance.
Have a drink, would
you? No. No, thanks.
Be human. Come on.
Tsk. (sighs)
I just can't imagine a guy
with a name like McGarrett
not having one drink.
(sighs)
Mmm, McGarrett.
McGarrett.
You're so serious. Look at me.
(sighs)
I know I'm not
that hard to look at.
You're not hard to look
at at all, but right now,
I'm more interested
in L.B. Barker.
The more I know about
him, the safer you are.
Okay, you're right.
(sighs)
(humming)
Funny thing about
L.B. Barker's record.
Lots of robberies, bad checks,
stolen credit cards,
but no assault, no violence.
Not until he killed
his partner, McCabe.
L.B.'s an animal.
You just don't
know the half of it.
Why else do you think he's been
in solitary the past six months?
But McCabe was his best friend.
I don't understand it.
Hm.
What don't you understand?
At the trial...
the only defense L.B. claimed
was the fact that McCabe
owed him some money.
That he went to
McCabe's house to collect.
McCabe fired at him
twice, L.B. killed him.
Just doesn't wash.
It just doesn't wash?
Why doesn't it wash?
Because at the trial, it
was never brought out.
(giggles)
How much money was involved?
What kind of money?
It must have been big.
Very big to precipitate
a fight into killing,
don't you think?
What do you think?
I think you're not fooling
me one bit, McGarrett.
I haven't seen them in years,
since I met the only man
who ever turned me on.
And you keep
hinting, sneaking it in,
that I kept contact with them.
That I know
something. But I don't.
I think you have a cop's mind.
That's what I
think. That's right.
I have a cop's mind.
And that cop's mind
keeps telling me
something like this: (sighs)
Curator of the museum is
found with two bullets in him.
Three days before,
that same museum
was burglarized,
over a million dollars
in gemstones taken.
Thirty days later,
two known thieves
have a shootout
over something valuable.
Now, could it be...?
Could it be that...
all three were involved?
L.B., McCabe and
Alfred Townsend?
Oh. McGarrett.
Could it be that one of them
killed Alfred Townsend,
took the stolen jewels
from his person or his home?
Are you saying that Alfred
was mixed up in robbery
and beach trash, like
L.B. and Wayne McCabe?
Then who put the
two bullets in him?
You were living with
him, you loved him.
Certainly there was a motive.
Don't you have any
idea, any suspicion?
L.B. did it.
He said he would
do it, and he did it.
That's why he's out
there right now to finish it.
L.B. killed Alfred.
No, he didn't.
Not according to
this report, he didn't.
L.B. killed Alfred.
He didn't even have
no other enemies.
I don't know what you
say, but L.B. killed him.
He did not. It's impossible.
Not unless six
witnesses were lying,
and they were all members
of the police department.
The very day that Alfred
Townsend was killed,
L.B. Barker was in custody.
Police custody.
He was being held on
suspicion of the museum robbery.
Two teams, six men,
had been interrogating
him round the clock.
He couldn't have
killed Townsend,
even if he had wings.
Wayne.
Then it must have been Wayne.
I guess L.B. must
have put him up to it,
or else Wayne did it on his own.
Was Wayne McCabe
in love with you too?
No, I didn't say that.
Well, then why would he kill
the man you were living with?
Why are you doing this to me?
Isn't it enough that
a lunatic is out there,
trying to get at me,
trying to kill me?
Why are you doing it to me?!
Even...
gentle, educated men,
when they're in love...
when they need money
for the girls they love...
even they commit crimes.
They forge, they
embezzle, they steal.
Alfred Townsend was old...
he was in poor health, he
had only a modest retirement.
Stop it. I don't wanna
hear any more of this...
He wanted the best
for you, didn't he?
You were probably
the most exciting thing
that ever happened to him.
Now, isn't it possible
that he himself
arranged for those jewels
to be taken from the museum?
Please, don't you
see that he's dead?
Can't you leave him alone?
(sobbing)
( dramatic theme playing)
Now, isn't it possible,
having met L.B. and
McCabe through you,
that he arranged
it all with them
just for you, out
of his love for you?
(sobbing)
I didn't need
money... or jewels.
I just needed you.
I tried to stop him, but...
he wouldn't listen to me.
All right. (sighs)
Tell me what actually happened.
Well, Alfred...
I guess he planned it... (sighs)
because he was the curator,
and he knew the ins
and outs to the building
and to the display cases.
Tsk.
L.B.'s... ape.
He can get in anyplace.
And Wayne's...
Was in the Navy, electronics.
They did the actual job.
I warned him they
couldn't be trusted.
I warned him, he
wouldn't listen to me.
(sniffles)
And after the jewels were
stolen, what happened?
Well, they gave the
jewels to... Alfred.
He was to dispose of them.
(sniffles)
Second day, I could
see it on his face.
I made him tell me. He
even said, "You were right.
"If anything happens
to me, it's L.B. or Wayne,
because they want it all."
Then... the third day, he...
took the jewels to meet a man.
When they found his body...
the stones were gone.
And since L.B. was in
custody that whole day...
you now figure it was...?
It must have been Wayne.
And what do you think happened
after L.B. was
released from custody?
Well, I think L.B.
thought the same thing.
That it was Wayne.
And that he went there.
Wayne shot at him
twice, and L.B. killed him.
I guess sitting in
prison these three years,
he kept thinking over and over:
"It's her fault.
If I hadn't lost
her, it's her fault."
(phone ringing)
Stall. Stall.
Danno, phone.
DANNO: We're on it, Steve.
Chin is set up to trace.
( ominous theme playing)
(inaudible conversation)
Now, cry, plead, do anything.
But stall.
Okay, pick it up.
Hello?
Hello?
BARKER: Thought you'd lost me,
didn't you, baby?
No, I didn't, L.B.
I know you always
get what you go after.
BARKER: You bet
your sweet life, baby.
You know what time it is?
No. I don't have a watch.
It's six hours to sunset.
And after that, you
won't need a watch.
L.B... I was wondering
if we could talk.
I'll do whatever
you want me to, but
I'd like to live very much.
No more talk, baby.
I got a lot to do.
Well, listen, L.B...
L.B.?
L.B.? What?!
Uh... Uh, just... Just tell
me something, would you?
Tell you what?!
Tell him you'll
meet him anyplace.
"Tell me"? Tell you what?
Would you just
meet me someplace?
Anywhere that you say,
and I'll meet you there.
( Barker laughs)
Oh, that's cute.
That's real cute.
Who's coaching you, baby?
Somebody wants to play games?
I'm not playing games.
Sure you are, baby.
So I'll tell you what.
You wanna play a game?
I'll play one with you.
Go over to your window.
Go over to my window?
Go over to your window
and open the drapes.
Why?
Open the drapes, and
I'll be able to see you.
I'm that close, baby.
L.B.?
I think he hung up.
Barker?
This is McGarrett, Barker.
You haven't got a chance.
You can't get near this lady.
The place is swarming with cops.
Give yourself up.
Barker?
( ominous theme playing)
DANNO: Steve. Steve. Quick.
Yeah. What is it, Danno?
Ben Kurawa. He was stationed
at the delivery entrance.
He's been slugged.
I've just sent for a squad
car to take him to the hospital.
Barker's in the building.
Get 20 more men. I'm coming in.
Steve? You'll need this... Yeah.
Where did it happen?
Kurawa was stationed here.
The, uh, freight
elevator's out here.
Laundry room here.
Service elevator in here.
( ominous theme playing)
( dramatic theme playing)
McGARRETT: Seal off every
staircase, all the elevators,
and double the manpower
on this floor. (panting)
It's so ridiculous for you to
think you can keep him out!
Don't you know he
can get in anywhere?!
(sobbing)
Come with me. T... Ah!
(cries out)
You see that?
Two men at your door, right?
Station 2. (panting)
N... (sobs)
Station 3!
See that?
Now, beyond that,
there are two more exits,
and two men at
each of those exits.
So he can't get in.
It's impossible.
You understand?
Um... I'm sorry I
blew off at you before.
It was nothing personal, huh?
Well... let's talk.
Come on, don't you wanna talk?
Are...? Are you gonna punish
me now? Let's talk, huh?
What do you wanna talk about?
(scoffs)
About what? Oh,
well... that's funny.
That's just real funny.
MAN 1 (on tape):
Can't take it? Heh.
MAN 2: Take it
easy. Just take it easy.
This is the head of Five-0,
McGarrett. Right here.
MAN 1: You. Are you...?
McGARRETT: McGarrett.
You asked for me?
MAN 1: Oh, I'm wiped out.
You know that, don't you?
What's that?
This was recorded
less than 36 hours ago.
It has to do with the
death of Wayne McCabe.
Some new information.
I'm just studying it.
If it bothers you,
I won't play it.
Bother you?
MAN 1: You know what
Alexander the Great said?
"I'm dying, with the
help of many doctors."
(chuckles)
McGARRETT: You told
the man who found you
you were a friend
of Wayne McCabe's.
That you had
something to tell me.
MAN 1: N-navy together.
Oh, I'm a junkie.
I've been a junkie.
Maybe even born a junkie, but...
each time I hit the islands,
Wayne has let me flop.
Sleep my jags off.
Well, this night...
This night...
McGARRETT: You saw
something the night of the murder?
MAN 1: Well, I would...
He... He's got a little
attic. I kept my stash there.
I was sleeping.
Not sleeping. Nodding.
I heard voices, angry.
Uh, looked down, and I
saw Wayne and this L.B.
L.B., uh... McGARRETT: Barker.
MAN 1: Y-yeah, Barker.
Angry talk.
More, then Wayne fires, twice.
And then Barker. It's over.
And my... My friend
Wayne was splattered.
It's over and... Barker leaves.
( mysterious theme playing)
Then I start down,
shaky. But I... I stop.
Somebody rushes in, it's dark.
Somebody comes in fast
from the kitchen in the back.
Snap-on, snap-off
machines and people.
How to amuse a victim
being pursued by a maniac.
McGarrett, you're just...
Stop it. No! No!
Hey. Stop it.
(gasps)
Just making me crazy.
(panting)
With your questions
and your tapes.
I... I just... Mm.
It's just driven me
right over the edge.
Why? With him right here?
I'm doing this for a reason.
What reason?
With him just right
here somewhere.
I told you.
The more I know, the
better chance we have.
And I've already learned
some things from you.
What things?
That L.B. loved you.
That Alfred Townsend
arranged that jewelry robbery.
That L.B. felt
cheated on his share.
That you too believed
L.B.'s story about self-defense
when he killed Wayne McCabe.
No. L.B. belongs
in jail for life.
I didn't say nothing like that.
What do you mean you
didn't say anything like that?
Lying on your own
bed, you said it.
I can quote it.
"L.B. went there,
and Wayne fired twice,
and L.B. killed him."
You've said that.
And that's what L.B.
claimed at his trial.
And if he could have proven it,
he could have gotten away,
maybe with self-defense.
But nobody ever
found Wayne's gun.
Nobody ever found
the spent casings.
Nobody could prove
that the gun was fired,
or if there ever was a gun.
I... I didn't never say that.
L.B.'s guilty for life. Uh...
Didn't you say that?
I... Maybe I read
that in the testimony.
MAN 1: From the
kitchen in the back.
Someone comes in
and grabs Wayne's gun,
and runs... out the back.
I saw it. He's gone.
(snaps off)
Okay.
What if that junkie
is telling the truth?
What if L.B. fired
in self-defense,
and that he is innocent
of first-degree murder?
Wouldn't that be helpful for
me to know when we corner him?
Now, that cassette was recorded
less than 36 hours ago.
That man backs up
L.B.'s whole
version of the case.
He also gives us a
theory about something
that might have happened.
Somebody.
Somebody knew that L.B. was
going to visit Wayne McCabe.
They waited until
after the shootout,
and that somebody
took McCabe's gun.
Took the evidence.
What kind of cop
are you? (sighs)
If you're the best we
have, we're in such trouble.
How could Wayne
have killed first?
If he did, where
was th... The shells,
and where were the
bullet holes in the wall,
at the ceiling above L.B.?
Huh?
Blanks?
Blanks in the revolver?
Revolvers don't eject shells.
Supposing somebody knew
that L.B. was going
to visit McCabe.
They put blanks
in McCabe's gun...
and they knew that L.B.
could and would kill him
and be sent away for life.
So that everybody connected
with that museum robbery
was either dead or put away.
Give that some thought.
What kind of
cockamamie theory is...?
Everybody dead or put away.
I don't trust you
one bit, McGarrett.
Not one bit.
You're after something.
Yeah.
I'm after the truth.
Well, I told you the truth.
All of it.
( dramatic theme playing)
(people chattering)
Danno?
DANNO: Yes, Steve?
Anything?
DANNO: All quiet. Why?
Well, he bragged about
sundown being his target time.
We're ready for him.
We better be.
( dramatic theme playing)
(soft thud)
What is it?
I thought I heard something.
I didn't.
I could have sworn
I heard something.
( ominous theme playing)
(grunts)
Good night, baby.
( dramatic theme playing)
What are you gonna do, L.B.?
Uh, you know you need me, baby.
Now, don't waste me.
You're gonna be all alone.
What you gonna do?
I don't know.
I could throw you
off the terrace.
That wouldn't be too
smart, would it, L.B.?
Oh, no?
I'm a lifer, baby.
They don't have capital
punishment in Hawaii.
One more don't
make no difference.
I kill you, it's a
freebie. (chuckles)
You animal. I missed you.
Really?
I... I know I'm going to die.
You always do what you
say you're going to do.
I know that.
There's no percentage
in lying. I set you up. Heh.
I put the blanks in Wayne's
gun before you got there,
and after you left, I took
the shells and the gun.
You see? I'm
telling you the truth.
But I did it because I thought
one of you killed Alfred.
And I thought I
loved him, but I didn't.
Shut up.
All them goodies.
I thought I couldn't
do without 'em.
(cocks gun)
Goodbye, baby... Oh, now...
No, no. J-j-j-just a minute.
I'm still lying, L.B.
You bet you are.
You thought one of us
knocked that old man off?
You know, that's the
way I want you to go.
With a big fat lie
still in your mouth...
No, no. No. I did it.
You know it. I'm
dumb to lie to you.
I killed Alfred.
But I did it for us.
After we pulled the job,
I told him we
could live like kings.
And that stupid...
gets in his car
to go to the cops to turn us in,
for his reputation. Ha.
After we pull the most
beautiful job in the world,
I'm gonna let him squeal
and louse up everything?
You bet I killed him.
I killed him for us.
How about the deal with
the insurance company, huh?
Was that for us too, was it? Hm?
When I read about it in
the paper six months ago,
I saw red. Blood red.
I wanted to get to you so bad.
Baby, don't you think I know how
they put you in solitary
over and over, L.B.?
Then why didn't you
try and reach me?
Send me a message?
I couldn't.
Dealing with insurance people,
that much money, a go-between.
They watch. I couldn't
give myself away for us.
How much?
I got it, baby.
I got it in cash.
They got the stones,
we got the cash.
Half million. Half
a million dollars.
That was my plan, you and me.
Half a million dollars
in a box at the bank.
(uncocks gun)
What about him?
CAROL: He's gotta go.
Why? He's out cold.
Time. He's the only
one seen you come in.
If they don't know
who they're looking for,
that'd give us more time.
You wanna knock him
off for your own reasons.
That's it, isn't it?
For us, I wanna knock him off.
Here, I'll knock him off
myself with his own gun.
Oh, no. Can't have no noise.
(knife clatters on floor)
I know why you wanna kill him.
He's onto you, isn't he?
He's been onto you,
hasn't he...? Onto me?
Nobody's been onto me,
baby. Not even you, right?
So some dumb cop
is gonna be onto me?
Huh?
Turn around and look... baby.
( slow, dramatic theme playing)
That's right. All arranged.
With the cooperation of
the DA and a court order,
we got L.B. out of
prison this morning,
brought him here
under armed guard.
He's been sitting in the
manager's office all day.
That's where he called you from.
All staged. For your benefit.
(inaudible dialogue)
(chuckles incredulously)
I got half a million dollars.
That'll buy a lot of lawyers.
And the only two
people who heard me...
was a murderer...
and a self-serving
cop who sprang him.
(chuckles)
Don't blow it.
Don't blow it, L.B.!
You're off the hook.
(giggles)
Don't blow it.
Danno?
Danno, Duke, get in here.
Of course, no jury will believe
two people like us, would they?
(tape rewinding)
BARKER (on tape): Just a lie.
You thought one of us
knocked that old man off?
(laughs)
That's the way I want you to go.
With a big fat lie
still in your mouth.
CAROL: I... I did it.
I-I did it. You know that.
I'm dumb to lie to you. I...
I killed Alfred. But for us.
After we pulled the job,
I told him we
could live like kings.
(stops tape)
McGARRETT: Every word.
They'll believe you
now, won't they?
(light knock on door)
(sighs)
( melancholy theme playing)
Blanks.
Book her.
See you in court, L.B.
(screams)
( dramatic theme playing)
( upbeat surf theme playing)
(knocking on door)
(knocking continues)
(knocking continues)
All right!
Who is it?
McGARRETT: McGarrett,
Five-0. State police.
Open up, please.
McGARRETT: Miss
Rhodes. Carol Rhodes?
Yes?
I have to talk to
you, miss. It's urgent.
Just a moment.
Chuck, take the door.
(clears throat)
What i...? What is it?
What are you doing?
L.B. Barker is out.
( ominous theme playing)
He's out?
How?
He escaped.
How? How?
He was in solitary.
Last night, in the
middle of the night,
he was in the hole.
He said he was sick.
Faking, of course, but...
it was good enough
to fool the doctor.
He was transferred
to the infirmary.
They thought he was passing out.
There was only one guard in
the infirmary with the doctor.
He took them both by surprise.
He had a gun. Fake,
maybe. Maybe not.
He took the keys.
He was well prepared,
he had a rope.
Before an alarm
could be sounded,
he was over the wall.
Scaled 'em. Beat it.
( ominous theme playing)
(objects clattering)
Hey.
That's exactly what
he's hoping you'll do.
Stay put. Don't run.
I'm certainly not waiting
for him to get here.
I'm taking the first
plane anywhere.
If you stay put,
we can protect you.
If you run, he'll kill you.
No.
(phone ringing)
Answer it.
Pick it up.
Hello?
BARKER: Morning, baby.
I'm out.
And I'm coming to get you.
You, baby... like
I said I would.
Beautiful and dead.
By sunset tonight.
Dead, baby.
That's what you think, Barker.
This is McGarrett,
Five-0. Give yourself up.
You haven't got a chance.
You'll never get near this lady.
( Barker hangs up)
( dramatic theme playing)
You still wanna
try for the airport?
( upbeat surf theme playing)
( dramatic theme playing)
(tires screech)
(people chattering)
DANNO: All right,
folks, keep moving.
We want the floor vacated
as soon as possible.
(elevator bell dings)
(phone ringing)
Car 7 has reached point B-1.
I asked for nine cars
and 11 patrolmen.
Eight and nine
are on their way in.
Good.
When the patrolmen
are positioned,
I want ten-minute check-ins
on the walkie-talkie.
Right.
(phone rings)
I want you to stay
in your apartment.
I'm sorry, I didn't
like being there alone.
You weren't alone. I
left an officer with you.
(sighs)
(phone rings)
Well, I just feel
safer with you.
OFFICER: Eight is in. G-4.
(sighs)
What is this?
This is where we are.
This is the Sheraton, Waikiki.
This blue line is our perimeter.
Perimeter?
It's an armed fence
we're setting up in this area
to protect you.
These, uh, black
marks are patrol cars,
these yellow are
patrolmen on foot.
And what is this?
That's L.B. Barker.
That's where he started
from. That's Oahu State Prison.
We're only guessing...
until we get a sighting on him,
but we're assuming that he's
moving steadily
toward us right here.
DANNO: Steve?
Most of the guests are
leaving the floor now.
It'll all be ours soon.
All there?
All there.
Take over, Danno.
We'll be across the hall.
( dramatic theme playing)
(phone rings)
I know it's early, but...
I'm sorry. Uh,
would you like...?
No, thanks.
The whole thing...
That empty corridor...
I know where I'll be.
I know he means it.
Maybe you better tell me
why L.B. has been
threatening you.
Why he wants you dead.
(sighs)
(angrily): Get away
from that window.
I told you that before.
Don't use that tone
of voice with me.
We don't know where he is.
We don't know if
he has a rifle or not.
I don't like your tone.
The criminal's out
there, he's not in here.
What's that?
Police files.
I was away when L.B. Barker
killed his partner, McCabe,
and was convicted.
What's in the second one?
Beckmann Museum
jewel robbery. Ring a bell?
That happened 30 days
before McCabe was killed.
And... the third one?
I don't think this
would interest you.
(sighs)
Ha-ha.
Here. Here.
It's yours.
Why were you away
when it all happened?
( slow, dramatic theme playing)
I was tired.
(scoffs) You were tired?
That's very funny.
I never thought about
policemen being tired.
Hawaii became a state in 1959.
That's when the governor
appointed me to Five-0.
By 1968, I was tired.
So I took a vacation,
got as far away as I could.
To snow in Switzerland.
All this happened
while I was away.
And, uh... these juvenile files,
I never have
occasion to read them.
Not until now.
Well, I see you
do your homework.
Always.
Tell me about you.
Tell you about me?
Well... I was what...
they call an abandoned child.
I didn't have to run
away from my parents,
they ran away from me.
And I lived in foster
homes, things like that.
Pineapples and men
away on conventions.
I was pretty much wiped
out by the time I was 17.
That's when I met...
L.B. and Wayne McCabe.
They had a beach shack.
L.B. fell in love
with me, I guess.
I think I need a refill.
Don't like your
girls drunk, do you?
DANNO (over
walkie-talkie): Steve?
Yes, Danno.
Somebody spotted him
heisting a car and phoned H.P.D.
By the time the
squad car got there,
he was gone.
McGARRETT: Yeah. Did you
get a good make on the car?
Yeah. We've already
put out a red alert.
McGARRETT: What
about...? Where's the location?
Where was the car taken?
DANNO: Wiliwili
Street near Waiola.
Okay, Danno. Thank you.
( ominous theme playing)
That's three miles
north of the perimeter.
Getting closer.
Why did you break with them?
What?
Why did you break
with L.B. and McCabe?
(sighs)
I'm sorry. I...
can't go back and forth
like that with him out there.
I was...
I was picked up for breaking
and entering with them.
I was so young, though,
they just gave me probation.
But I was... very
young and... stupid.
They were my family,
so I went out on
another job with them.
It went wrong, and I ran.
His car almost hit me.
Alfred Townsend.
He told me to get in and
catch my breath, and...
tell me all about
why I was running.
( tender theme playing)
And then he just told
me to sit there, and...
he went away someplace.
When he came
back, he said that...
there was nothing
to worry about.
That he'd be responsible.
He'd taken care of it.
I really loved him very much.
It wasn't sex.
He didn't use me
like everybody else.
It was just kindness.
Talking to me.
He left me all of his things.
You know, he was the curator
of the Beckmann Museum.
He really knew everything.
And... he taught
me little by little.
I had a home for the
first time in my life.
And how did L.B. take it?
L.B.
L.B. went crazy,
that's how he took it.
He made threats against Alfred,
he made threats against me.
He called us day and night.
Crazy calls.
Dirty threats.
Oh, you just don't know L.B.
You have no idea.
This robbery took place
a month before
L.B. killed McCabe.
No clues, no traces.
Over a million in
gemstones taken.
Some of them
historically famous.
Perfect entry, perfect getaway.
Then...
three days after the robbery,
your friend Alfred
Townsend is found dead.
Two bullets in
him... car wrecked.
What were your
thoughts at the time?
L.B. had reason to, didn't he?
Who else? Who else had reason to
kill a respected man
like Alfred Townsend?
(thump)
Wait. Please, don't leave me.
Stay here.
It's all right, Steve.
It's only oxygen for the
one guest we couldn't move.
That delivery man check out?
Yeah.
And we have two of our
men with him all the time.
MAN 1: Car 21. Car
21 calling McGarrett.
Officer Luna calling McGarrett.
Yeah, this is McGarrett.
What do you got, Al?
Got a robbery, Steve.
Your man just knocked
over a gun shop.
On McCully Street.
Near King Street.
McGARRETT: How do
you know it was Barker?
LUNA: Because he left his
prison shirt and a fake pistol,
carved out of wood.
Must have been the one
he used in the breakout.
McGARRETT: What did he take?
LUNA: A .38 Special
and a box of bullets.
Then he clobbered
the shopkeeper,
took his clothes and left.
McGARRETT: In the car?
Yeah. Same sedan.
What about the clothes?
A dark brown polo
shirt and tan pants.
Okay, Al. Get that
description to Central.
Steve.
MAN 2: This is Car 43.
Have visual contact with
Barker and stolen car.
Heading Diamond
Head on Beretania.
We're in pursuit.
Car 43, I need
your exact location.
He just turned off
Beretania onto King,
and he's about a
block ahead of us.
We're gonna try to close in.
Central, did you read that?
MAN 3: Got it.
East on King Street.
Red alert, all
cars for intercept.
Check.
Come in, 43.
Car 43, come in, please.
Forty-three, come in.
MAN 2: Now he's
turning south on Kapahulu.
He's got it wide open.
We're hanging in.
( ominous theme playing)
Steve, Barker has
abandoned his car.
He's taking off on foot.
Which way? Which
way is he headed?
South. Headed south
toward the perimeter.
(clicks off)
( dramatic theme playing)
( ominous theme playing)
Danno, who are the best
marksmen we have here?
Uh, Evans, Tokagura, Kim Kaimu.
Okay.
I want Evans about here.
Tokagura, here.
And I need an
elevation for Kaimu.
Maybe the fourth floor
directly facing the roadblock.
Right.
Wait a minute, that's...
That's near the
Kamehameha statue.
Yeah. That's only...
About a mile and a half.
( dramatic theme playing)
CAROL: McGarrett?
McGarrett? Yeah.
Is everything all right?
Yeah. Just checking
out your service entrance.
Have a drink, would
you? No. No, thanks.
Be human. Come on.
Tsk. (sighs)
I just can't imagine a guy
with a name like McGarrett
not having one drink.
(sighs)
Mmm, McGarrett.
McGarrett.
You're so serious. Look at me.
(sighs)
I know I'm not
that hard to look at.
You're not hard to look
at at all, but right now,
I'm more interested
in L.B. Barker.
The more I know about
him, the safer you are.
Okay, you're right.
(sighs)
(humming)
Funny thing about
L.B. Barker's record.
Lots of robberies, bad checks,
stolen credit cards,
but no assault, no violence.
Not until he killed
his partner, McCabe.
L.B.'s an animal.
You just don't
know the half of it.
Why else do you think he's been
in solitary the past six months?
But McCabe was his best friend.
I don't understand it.
Hm.
What don't you understand?
At the trial...
the only defense L.B. claimed
was the fact that McCabe
owed him some money.
That he went to
McCabe's house to collect.
McCabe fired at him
twice, L.B. killed him.
Just doesn't wash.
It just doesn't wash?
Why doesn't it wash?
Because at the trial, it
was never brought out.
(giggles)
How much money was involved?
What kind of money?
It must have been big.
Very big to precipitate
a fight into killing,
don't you think?
What do you think?
I think you're not fooling
me one bit, McGarrett.
I haven't seen them in years,
since I met the only man
who ever turned me on.
And you keep
hinting, sneaking it in,
that I kept contact with them.
That I know
something. But I don't.
I think you have a cop's mind.
That's what I
think. That's right.
I have a cop's mind.
And that cop's mind
keeps telling me
something like this: (sighs)
Curator of the museum is
found with two bullets in him.
Three days before,
that same museum
was burglarized,
over a million dollars
in gemstones taken.
Thirty days later,
two known thieves
have a shootout
over something valuable.
Now, could it be...?
Could it be that...
all three were involved?
L.B., McCabe and
Alfred Townsend?
Oh. McGarrett.
Could it be that one of them
killed Alfred Townsend,
took the stolen jewels
from his person or his home?
Are you saying that Alfred
was mixed up in robbery
and beach trash, like
L.B. and Wayne McCabe?
Then who put the
two bullets in him?
You were living with
him, you loved him.
Certainly there was a motive.
Don't you have any
idea, any suspicion?
L.B. did it.
He said he would
do it, and he did it.
That's why he's out
there right now to finish it.
L.B. killed Alfred.
No, he didn't.
Not according to
this report, he didn't.
L.B. killed Alfred.
He didn't even have
no other enemies.
I don't know what you
say, but L.B. killed him.
He did not. It's impossible.
Not unless six
witnesses were lying,
and they were all members
of the police department.
The very day that Alfred
Townsend was killed,
L.B. Barker was in custody.
Police custody.
He was being held on
suspicion of the museum robbery.
Two teams, six men,
had been interrogating
him round the clock.
He couldn't have
killed Townsend,
even if he had wings.
Wayne.
Then it must have been Wayne.
I guess L.B. must
have put him up to it,
or else Wayne did it on his own.
Was Wayne McCabe
in love with you too?
No, I didn't say that.
Well, then why would he kill
the man you were living with?
Why are you doing this to me?
Isn't it enough that
a lunatic is out there,
trying to get at me,
trying to kill me?
Why are you doing it to me?!
Even...
gentle, educated men,
when they're in love...
when they need money
for the girls they love...
even they commit crimes.
They forge, they
embezzle, they steal.
Alfred Townsend was old...
he was in poor health, he
had only a modest retirement.
Stop it. I don't wanna
hear any more of this...
He wanted the best
for you, didn't he?
You were probably
the most exciting thing
that ever happened to him.
Now, isn't it possible
that he himself
arranged for those jewels
to be taken from the museum?
Please, don't you
see that he's dead?
Can't you leave him alone?
(sobbing)
( dramatic theme playing)
Now, isn't it possible,
having met L.B. and
McCabe through you,
that he arranged
it all with them
just for you, out
of his love for you?
(sobbing)
I didn't need
money... or jewels.
I just needed you.
I tried to stop him, but...
he wouldn't listen to me.
All right. (sighs)
Tell me what actually happened.
Well, Alfred...
I guess he planned it... (sighs)
because he was the curator,
and he knew the ins
and outs to the building
and to the display cases.
Tsk.
L.B.'s... ape.
He can get in anyplace.
And Wayne's...
Was in the Navy, electronics.
They did the actual job.
I warned him they
couldn't be trusted.
I warned him, he
wouldn't listen to me.
(sniffles)
And after the jewels were
stolen, what happened?
Well, they gave the
jewels to... Alfred.
He was to dispose of them.
(sniffles)
Second day, I could
see it on his face.
I made him tell me. He
even said, "You were right.
"If anything happens
to me, it's L.B. or Wayne,
because they want it all."
Then... the third day, he...
took the jewels to meet a man.
When they found his body...
the stones were gone.
And since L.B. was in
custody that whole day...
you now figure it was...?
It must have been Wayne.
And what do you think happened
after L.B. was
released from custody?
Well, I think L.B.
thought the same thing.
That it was Wayne.
And that he went there.
Wayne shot at him
twice, and L.B. killed him.
I guess sitting in
prison these three years,
he kept thinking over and over:
"It's her fault.
If I hadn't lost
her, it's her fault."
(phone ringing)
Stall. Stall.
Danno, phone.
DANNO: We're on it, Steve.
Chin is set up to trace.
( ominous theme playing)
(inaudible conversation)
Now, cry, plead, do anything.
But stall.
Okay, pick it up.
Hello?
Hello?
BARKER: Thought you'd lost me,
didn't you, baby?
No, I didn't, L.B.
I know you always
get what you go after.
BARKER: You bet
your sweet life, baby.
You know what time it is?
No. I don't have a watch.
It's six hours to sunset.
And after that, you
won't need a watch.
L.B... I was wondering
if we could talk.
I'll do whatever
you want me to, but
I'd like to live very much.
No more talk, baby.
I got a lot to do.
Well, listen, L.B...
L.B.?
L.B.? What?!
Uh... Uh, just... Just tell
me something, would you?
Tell you what?!
Tell him you'll
meet him anyplace.
"Tell me"? Tell you what?
Would you just
meet me someplace?
Anywhere that you say,
and I'll meet you there.
( Barker laughs)
Oh, that's cute.
That's real cute.
Who's coaching you, baby?
Somebody wants to play games?
I'm not playing games.
Sure you are, baby.
So I'll tell you what.
You wanna play a game?
I'll play one with you.
Go over to your window.
Go over to my window?
Go over to your window
and open the drapes.
Why?
Open the drapes, and
I'll be able to see you.
I'm that close, baby.
L.B.?
I think he hung up.
Barker?
This is McGarrett, Barker.
You haven't got a chance.
You can't get near this lady.
The place is swarming with cops.
Give yourself up.
Barker?
( ominous theme playing)
DANNO: Steve. Steve. Quick.
Yeah. What is it, Danno?
Ben Kurawa. He was stationed
at the delivery entrance.
He's been slugged.
I've just sent for a squad
car to take him to the hospital.
Barker's in the building.
Get 20 more men. I'm coming in.
Steve? You'll need this... Yeah.
Where did it happen?
Kurawa was stationed here.
The, uh, freight
elevator's out here.
Laundry room here.
Service elevator in here.
( ominous theme playing)
( dramatic theme playing)
McGARRETT: Seal off every
staircase, all the elevators,
and double the manpower
on this floor. (panting)
It's so ridiculous for you to
think you can keep him out!
Don't you know he
can get in anywhere?!
(sobbing)
Come with me. T... Ah!
(cries out)
You see that?
Two men at your door, right?
Station 2. (panting)
N... (sobs)
Station 3!
See that?
Now, beyond that,
there are two more exits,
and two men at
each of those exits.
So he can't get in.
It's impossible.
You understand?
Um... I'm sorry I
blew off at you before.
It was nothing personal, huh?
Well... let's talk.
Come on, don't you wanna talk?
Are...? Are you gonna punish
me now? Let's talk, huh?
What do you wanna talk about?
(scoffs)
About what? Oh,
well... that's funny.
That's just real funny.
MAN 1 (on tape):
Can't take it? Heh.
MAN 2: Take it
easy. Just take it easy.
This is the head of Five-0,
McGarrett. Right here.
MAN 1: You. Are you...?
McGARRETT: McGarrett.
You asked for me?
MAN 1: Oh, I'm wiped out.
You know that, don't you?
What's that?
This was recorded
less than 36 hours ago.
It has to do with the
death of Wayne McCabe.
Some new information.
I'm just studying it.
If it bothers you,
I won't play it.
Bother you?
MAN 1: You know what
Alexander the Great said?
"I'm dying, with the
help of many doctors."
(chuckles)
McGARRETT: You told
the man who found you
you were a friend
of Wayne McCabe's.
That you had
something to tell me.
MAN 1: N-navy together.
Oh, I'm a junkie.
I've been a junkie.
Maybe even born a junkie, but...
each time I hit the islands,
Wayne has let me flop.
Sleep my jags off.
Well, this night...
This night...
McGARRETT: You saw
something the night of the murder?
MAN 1: Well, I would...
He... He's got a little
attic. I kept my stash there.
I was sleeping.
Not sleeping. Nodding.
I heard voices, angry.
Uh, looked down, and I
saw Wayne and this L.B.
L.B., uh... McGARRETT: Barker.
MAN 1: Y-yeah, Barker.
Angry talk.
More, then Wayne fires, twice.
And then Barker. It's over.
And my... My friend
Wayne was splattered.
It's over and... Barker leaves.
( mysterious theme playing)
Then I start down,
shaky. But I... I stop.
Somebody rushes in, it's dark.
Somebody comes in fast
from the kitchen in the back.
Snap-on, snap-off
machines and people.
How to amuse a victim
being pursued by a maniac.
McGarrett, you're just...
Stop it. No! No!
Hey. Stop it.
(gasps)
Just making me crazy.
(panting)
With your questions
and your tapes.
I... I just... Mm.
It's just driven me
right over the edge.
Why? With him right here?
I'm doing this for a reason.
What reason?
With him just right
here somewhere.
I told you.
The more I know, the
better chance we have.
And I've already learned
some things from you.
What things?
That L.B. loved you.
That Alfred Townsend
arranged that jewelry robbery.
That L.B. felt
cheated on his share.
That you too believed
L.B.'s story about self-defense
when he killed Wayne McCabe.
No. L.B. belongs
in jail for life.
I didn't say nothing like that.
What do you mean you
didn't say anything like that?
Lying on your own
bed, you said it.
I can quote it.
"L.B. went there,
and Wayne fired twice,
and L.B. killed him."
You've said that.
And that's what L.B.
claimed at his trial.
And if he could have proven it,
he could have gotten away,
maybe with self-defense.
But nobody ever
found Wayne's gun.
Nobody ever found
the spent casings.
Nobody could prove
that the gun was fired,
or if there ever was a gun.
I... I didn't never say that.
L.B.'s guilty for life. Uh...
Didn't you say that?
I... Maybe I read
that in the testimony.
MAN 1: From the
kitchen in the back.
Someone comes in
and grabs Wayne's gun,
and runs... out the back.
I saw it. He's gone.
(snaps off)
Okay.
What if that junkie
is telling the truth?
What if L.B. fired
in self-defense,
and that he is innocent
of first-degree murder?
Wouldn't that be helpful for
me to know when we corner him?
Now, that cassette was recorded
less than 36 hours ago.
That man backs up
L.B.'s whole
version of the case.
He also gives us a
theory about something
that might have happened.
Somebody.
Somebody knew that L.B. was
going to visit Wayne McCabe.
They waited until
after the shootout,
and that somebody
took McCabe's gun.
Took the evidence.
What kind of cop
are you? (sighs)
If you're the best we
have, we're in such trouble.
How could Wayne
have killed first?
If he did, where
was th... The shells,
and where were the
bullet holes in the wall,
at the ceiling above L.B.?
Huh?
Blanks?
Blanks in the revolver?
Revolvers don't eject shells.
Supposing somebody knew
that L.B. was going
to visit McCabe.
They put blanks
in McCabe's gun...
and they knew that L.B.
could and would kill him
and be sent away for life.
So that everybody connected
with that museum robbery
was either dead or put away.
Give that some thought.
What kind of
cockamamie theory is...?
Everybody dead or put away.
I don't trust you
one bit, McGarrett.
Not one bit.
You're after something.
Yeah.
I'm after the truth.
Well, I told you the truth.
All of it.
( dramatic theme playing)
(people chattering)
Danno?
DANNO: Yes, Steve?
Anything?
DANNO: All quiet. Why?
Well, he bragged about
sundown being his target time.
We're ready for him.
We better be.
( dramatic theme playing)
(soft thud)
What is it?
I thought I heard something.
I didn't.
I could have sworn
I heard something.
( ominous theme playing)
(grunts)
Good night, baby.
( dramatic theme playing)
What are you gonna do, L.B.?
Uh, you know you need me, baby.
Now, don't waste me.
You're gonna be all alone.
What you gonna do?
I don't know.
I could throw you
off the terrace.
That wouldn't be too
smart, would it, L.B.?
Oh, no?
I'm a lifer, baby.
They don't have capital
punishment in Hawaii.
One more don't
make no difference.
I kill you, it's a
freebie. (chuckles)
You animal. I missed you.
Really?
I... I know I'm going to die.
You always do what you
say you're going to do.
I know that.
There's no percentage
in lying. I set you up. Heh.
I put the blanks in Wayne's
gun before you got there,
and after you left, I took
the shells and the gun.
You see? I'm
telling you the truth.
But I did it because I thought
one of you killed Alfred.
And I thought I
loved him, but I didn't.
Shut up.
All them goodies.
I thought I couldn't
do without 'em.
(cocks gun)
Goodbye, baby... Oh, now...
No, no. J-j-j-just a minute.
I'm still lying, L.B.
You bet you are.
You thought one of us
knocked that old man off?
You know, that's the
way I want you to go.
With a big fat lie
still in your mouth...
No, no. No. I did it.
You know it. I'm
dumb to lie to you.
I killed Alfred.
But I did it for us.
After we pulled the job,
I told him we
could live like kings.
And that stupid...
gets in his car
to go to the cops to turn us in,
for his reputation. Ha.
After we pull the most
beautiful job in the world,
I'm gonna let him squeal
and louse up everything?
You bet I killed him.
I killed him for us.
How about the deal with
the insurance company, huh?
Was that for us too, was it? Hm?
When I read about it in
the paper six months ago,
I saw red. Blood red.
I wanted to get to you so bad.
Baby, don't you think I know how
they put you in solitary
over and over, L.B.?
Then why didn't you
try and reach me?
Send me a message?
I couldn't.
Dealing with insurance people,
that much money, a go-between.
They watch. I couldn't
give myself away for us.
How much?
I got it, baby.
I got it in cash.
They got the stones,
we got the cash.
Half million. Half
a million dollars.
That was my plan, you and me.
Half a million dollars
in a box at the bank.
(uncocks gun)
What about him?
CAROL: He's gotta go.
Why? He's out cold.
Time. He's the only
one seen you come in.
If they don't know
who they're looking for,
that'd give us more time.
You wanna knock him
off for your own reasons.
That's it, isn't it?
For us, I wanna knock him off.
Here, I'll knock him off
myself with his own gun.
Oh, no. Can't have no noise.
(knife clatters on floor)
I know why you wanna kill him.
He's onto you, isn't he?
He's been onto you,
hasn't he...? Onto me?
Nobody's been onto me,
baby. Not even you, right?
So some dumb cop
is gonna be onto me?
Huh?
Turn around and look... baby.
( slow, dramatic theme playing)
That's right. All arranged.
With the cooperation of
the DA and a court order,
we got L.B. out of
prison this morning,
brought him here
under armed guard.
He's been sitting in the
manager's office all day.
That's where he called you from.
All staged. For your benefit.
(inaudible dialogue)
(chuckles incredulously)
I got half a million dollars.
That'll buy a lot of lawyers.
And the only two
people who heard me...
was a murderer...
and a self-serving
cop who sprang him.
(chuckles)
Don't blow it.
Don't blow it, L.B.!
You're off the hook.
(giggles)
Don't blow it.
Danno?
Danno, Duke, get in here.
Of course, no jury will believe
two people like us, would they?
(tape rewinding)
BARKER (on tape): Just a lie.
You thought one of us
knocked that old man off?
(laughs)
That's the way I want you to go.
With a big fat lie
still in your mouth.
CAROL: I... I did it.
I-I did it. You know that.
I'm dumb to lie to you. I...
I killed Alfred. But for us.
After we pulled the job,
I told him we
could live like kings.
(stops tape)
McGARRETT: Every word.
They'll believe you
now, won't they?
(light knock on door)
(sighs)
( melancholy theme playing)
Blanks.
Book her.
See you in court, L.B.
(screams)
( dramatic theme playing)
( upbeat surf theme playing)