Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 6, Episode 15 - The Flip Side Is Death - full transcript

Come on. Nerve
gas. Everybody run!

It's nerve gas!

Stay back! Stay back! Please!

Nerve gas. We've
got two men dead.

Clear out. We can handle
it until an EOD unit arrives.

Central dispatch,
this is car 28.

Code three in Kahuku.

Military nerve gas leakage.

Two men: Condition D.

Local area evacuated
by military personal.

Request road blocks
on Highway 83,



north and south of Kahuku.

Somebody laid a real
wild one on us, Steve.

Yeah, so I hear. How much?

Quarter of a million.

Tomorrow's payday for
pineapple and cane field workers.

They come here to cash their
checks as soon as they get them.

Major.

Steve.

This your rig?

Yeah, stolen from Fort
Ruger two days ago,

along with two jeeps,
four uniforms, gas masks,

and half a dozen of these.

HC smoke bomb, huh?

Pull the pin, makes a big cloud.



There were six of
them under the truck.

This the nerve gas?

Yeah.

What about these?

Dummies.

Well, we can't say the same

for the guys who
pulled this job, can we?

Ben, Chin, I want you
to question everybody

who saw this.

Danno, alert the Coast Guard.

I want choppers in the air.

Then check with Dillingham Field

for any planes that have
taken off for the last hour.

Right.

Che, what do you got?

Take a look.

Clean, huh? Any idea?

Not the usual cutting
tool, something new.

Maybe I can get more for
you when I get to the lab.

Good.

We made it!

Get out of here, man!
Make that rich, brother!

Hey, pop! Why don't you shut up?

You guys acting
like a couple of jerks.

What's the matter, man,
we made it! We got it.

Made it? The hell it matters.

Something like this
you ain't got it made.

And the sooner you
learn that, the better, huh?

Oh, come on, Green,
we made it, man.

You know, that's another thing.

You know me as Tally Corbin.

Not Green. Do you
understand? Corbin.

Yeah.

Hey, Joe, Louie, get
the golf bags, huh?

Yeah.

Come on, partner. Okay.

Tally. Tally, Tally,
take it easy, huh?

They were just
letting off steam.

Let them have some fun.

Yeah, this is your
first job, but not mine.

I know what can happen.

I know all the things
that can go wrong.

I'm not in this for laughs.

And I'm not either,
and you know that.

If somebody had told me

I was gonna have to
do something like this

to save the Walker
Music company,

I would have had them
measured for a net.

But after the bath I took
on my last three albums,

I got no choice. I'm tap city.

This is not fun and
games for me either.

Yeah, well, then you
tell that to the fellows.

If I have to, I will.

Found a few fingerprint smudges

on the dash and
steering wheel, Steve.

I'll do a blowup.

And we found evidence
of a plastic bomb

on the front tire, attached
to a hot wire under the cab.

So, the tire was
deliberately blown?

Right.

All right, let's get to work.

Okay.

Chin, what do you got?

Not a thing we don't
know about, Steve.

Everybody was too busy running

to know that they
were being taken.

Smooth operation, eh?

Yeah.

They couldn't have gotten far.

The roadblocks were set
up from Haleiwa to Laie.

Choppers in the air.

Coast Guard alerted.

All the inland roads dead
end in the mountains.

They haven't been
seen. Vanished.

No way. Nobody
vanishes on a rock this size.

No way.

They're right here.
Right on the North Shore.

Just throw it off.

All right, give us five
minutes and then leave.

All right.

Let's get out of here.

Hey, Joe. Yeah?

Green's really
uptight, ain't he?

Well, that's his problem, Louie.

And we'll let him
keep it, right?

Yeah.

I'll do it.

The Coast Guard reports
all clear on large vessels.

And no planes have taken off

from Dillingham
Field since the heist.

Well, where does that leave us?

McGARRETT: Okay, we've got
the main highway from Haleiwa,

all the way up here to Laie.

And the mountain
roads going down,

they're covered by
chopper and H.P.D.

Could be planning to
hole up somewhere.

Sit on the money
until the heat cools.

Well, if they do, they're
going to have a long wait.

Duke, I want all Fort Ruger

personal records. I
want the book on them.

Danno, you take over here.

Chin, stay with him.
Ben, come with me.

I hope nobody comes snooping
around here and finds this.

Sheesh, Green really
gives you the sweats, huh?

Nah.

Then stop with all
the nervous junk.

Walker knows what he's doing.

There's no way he could
have checked in to the hotel

carrying 200 tape
cartridges, could he?

No, but... Oh, what?

Look, figuring out how
to get all this money

through the roadblocks

and off the rock of the mainland

took a lot of head work.

We stick with him,

and these are gonna
play some sweet music.

Some real sweet music.

Kuilima, aloha.

Reservations. May I help you?

See you later, Louie.

Air patrolling to Williams.

Military jeeps in quadrant two

between roadblocks one and four,

near Highway 83,
Fresh Air Camp road.

On the way.

A gigli surgical
bone wire saw, Steve,

used by orthopedic surgeons.

NASA also used them
in their Skylab missions

for emergency metal cutting.

Let me show you something.

Case-hardened steel, Steve.

Simple but impressive.

Yeah, very impressive.

The gang also used it
to break into Fort Ruger.

McGARRETT: Yeah.

Ben, check the
medical supply houses

and the hospital
supply departments.

Get the name of anybody

who bought one of these things
recently and check them out.

The gas masks,
uniforms, all here.

A lab crew's on the way.

Okay, I'll call Steve.

Come in, Central.
Hello, Central.

Central dispatch.

Cancel that, Central.

Ten-four.

Got something?

I don't know.

Recognize the logo?

Kuilima hotel symbol.

And that's right
between the roadblocks.

We'll see you later.

Quarter of a million
dollars in tape cartridges.

Walker, that's smart.

Well, I always knew
I was gonna make

a lot of money in
the music business.

One way or another.

Duke just called in.

No orthopedic surgery
done at Fort Ruger.

No need for the gigli bone saw.

All Ruger medical
personnel come up clean.

With solid alibis.

I see.

All right, I've drawn up a
list of all Fort Ruger personnel

working supply and motor pool,

and a list of all guardsmen

and reservists who meet there.

Have Duke run it down.

Tell him to dig for anybody

who had access to
trucks, jeeps, uniforms.

See if any of the
men were off duty

at the time of the robbery.
Check with their duty officers.

Oh, and, Ben, then
check the offices.

All right.

McGarrett.

Got something you
should see, Steve.

Yes, Che, I'll be right down.

I hope that buddy of yours
don't panic at the roadblock.

Don't worry about him.

Hey, I worry about everybody.

This is one of the smudges
we lifted from the truck.

We found the same
kind of smudges

at the Fort Ruger motor
pool, and on the jeep.

Glove smear?

That's what I thought at first,

but look at this.

One of my own prints,

has the normal valleys,
whorls, ridges and deltas.

But not this one.

You mean that's a fingerprint?

One that's been
subject to enzymes

over a long period of time.

Pineapple enzymes?

Oh, you know about them?

Sure, sure. They dissolve
the fingerprint ridges,

causing this sort
of bald effect.

Right. This man
works, or worked,

at a pineapple cannery.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He'd know the,
uh, payroll dates.

He knows his way
around the North Shore.

The condition's only temporary,

and there are a lot of
pineapple workers out there.

Yeah, but only one
robbed a bank, Che.

Ben, come up with
anything on that saw?

Blank so far.

All right, forget
about it for now.

Now, get back up
to the North Shore,

check out all the
pineapple workers

who were not on the job
at the time of the robbery,

or who recently quit.

Get all the help you
need from H.P.D.

Right.

Thank you, Che.

Central, patch me
through to Williams,

Control Center, Kuilima.

Okay, Steve, got it.

Steve says a local
man may be involved,

a pineapple worker.

We'll set up a command
post here at the Kuilima.

You got the names
of those people

that bought that particular
brand of golf ball?

Yeah, everybody
who had them charged

to their rooms or credit cards.

Okay, get the names
of all the hotel guests,

and then get both
lists over to Steve.

He wants you to work
with him on the computer.

I'll touch bases
with the manager.

Okay.

May I see your license?

May we search your van?

Sure, why not?

Ten-four, Central.

Good group.

You can go.

All units in Quadrant
Two, report in.

Groundkeeper number
one, everything okay.

Air patrolling, all quiet.

Roadblock Three, all clear.

Kokua to Williams.

Come in, Ben.

Finished checking the
absentee pineapple workers.

And?

We can forget them.

Okay, Ben, come on in.

Let's try Kenneth Knox.

Dr. Vaughn Tokeshi.

Chin.

Golf ball list comes
up negative, Steve.

Registration give us anything?

Not a nibble out of
Washington or H.P.D.

McGarrett.

Steve, we may have a live one.

Duke reports that a Fort
Ruger national guardsman

works here at the Kuilima hotel.

How do you want us to handle it?

Hit him straight on, Danno.

If he's a live one,
rattle his cage.

If those bank robbers
are still at the hotel,

maybe we can shake them loose.

Right.

Williams, Five-0.

I'd like to ask you
a few questions.

Where in Honolulu?

Lots of places.

A movie, a bar, some
shops in Ala Moana.

What about the night
the truck and jeeps

were stolen from Fort Ruger?

What about it?

You were on duty.

So what? So were a
hundred other guys.

You could have let
anybody in through that gate.

Pahia, let's have the truth.

I told you, you have it.

Then maybe you've
just forgotten something.

No.

Then you won't mind going
over your story again, will you?

Look, you, I told you...

Once more, from the
top, Pahia. Once more.

It's crawling with cops out
there and you know that.

We both know it
would be, didn't we?

It's like being back
behind the walls.

Nice walls.

Yeah, you've never been inside.

It's nothing to laugh about.

I'm not laughing, Tally.

It was rough on
you, I know that.

That's over now, man.

Yeah, you better believe it.

And those Hawaiians
better believe it too.

Where is Pahia, anyway?

Probably tied up in the kitchen.

He'll show.

Tally, don't worry so much.

The fellows are
gonna be all right.

I've known Joe
Keao for a long time.

I shared a foxhole with
his brother in Korea.

Oh, yeah, did you
share a foxhole

with Pahia's brother too?

Now, Pahia got us into
Fort Ruger, didn't he?

Hey, these local dudes are close

and once their
committed, it's cement.

What do you think, Ben?

I don't know.

His story is so full of holes,

it just might be the truth.

Okay, Pahia, take off.

Watch him?

Yeah, we'll give him some rope.

He might hang somebody for us.

Kuilima, aloha. Let
me transfer you...

Thank you for calling
the Kuilima, aloha.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Where have you been?

The cops have been grilling me.

Oh.

They're here in the hotel.

How did they pick up on you?

I don't know. It must
be my guard record.

Walker, you said you
had everything covered.

You just never run out
of sweat, do you, Tally?

So they picked up
his guard record.

Well, that was bound
to happen, man.

And they found out that
he lived on the North Shore

and he works at this hotel.

Well, so what?

Unless we panic,
they haven't got a thing,

except an interesting
coincidence.

And that won't lead
them anywhere.

Lead them anywhere?

Did you hear what he
said? They're in the hotel!

They're gonna be
right in this room,

if you don't stop
climbing the walls.

If they're building a
fire to smoke us out,

you're striking the matches.

Sure they're in the hotel.

They've got this end
of the island bottled up.

Guys that ripped off the bank
have got to be somewhere.

Hotel is only two
miles from the bank.

It would be a little strange

if they weren't
here in the hotel.

Now, that's when
I'd get worried.

Easy, Tally. Hang loose, huh?

Louie, you go back to
your normal hotel job.

Don't come up to
the room anymore.

The cops will be watching you.

We'll, uh, let Joe know
about the change of plans.

Okay.

One more round with the cops,

and that Hawaiian
is gonna bust a gut.

He's gonna start talking,

and he's never gonna to shut up.

Forget about the kid.

He's not gonna talk.

Sit down. Take a
load off your feet, Tally.

Art Walker.

Tally Corbin.

David Hensley.

If there's anybody at
that hotel with a record,

they've got the
iron brain stumped.

Fiftieth wedding anniversary?
Hey, that's something.

Your reservations are
confirmed for your stay...

That was stupid,
man. Really stupid.

We had it made.
Finished. Ready to split.

No, no, no. No,
you're so psyched out

about going back
behind the walls

you had to kill him
right here, in the hotel.

Hey, shut up.

Now, you listen to me for once.

I know poison when I
see it. Pahia, that's poison.

Now, you wanna take chances,

you just be my guest.

Don't fool around with me.

I got a lot more
to lose than you.

That's all you can
think about, isn't it?

What you've got to lose.

You forgot what you had to gain.

When you got out of
prison, man, I gave you a job,

I put clothes on your back
and money in your pocket.

You owe me.

No, not with my life.

When you start fooling
around with that, I pass.

You can take that
big fat brain of yours

and flush it down the can.

From now on we'll start
doing things my way.

We'll do what?

You heard me.

Hey, maybe that brain of yours

needs a little rest.

Yeah.

Where you going?

I'm going to see Keao.

Keao?

Yeah, they were buddies, right?

Longtime buddies.
Like cement, remember?

You think Keao's gonna sit by

after what I did to Pahia?

Well, if you do,

then that brain of
yours does need a rest.

Louis Pahia, Steve.
Fort Ruger guardsman.

Caught a shiv in the back.

There are three more
heist men out there, Danno.

Maybe they're guests,

maybe they work at the hotel.

I know that you can't shut
the Kuilima down completely,

but put that lid on
as tightly as possible.

I'll get back to you

after I get the autopsy
report on Pahia.

Hey.

What?

I've been looking for you.

There's been a little
change in the plans.

You bet your
sweet life there has.

Hey, put away the knife, man.

I'm gonna let some light
through your ugly gut, Green.

Pahia was talking to the cops.

You lying...

Get him to the
morgue. Top priority.

Joe Keao, pineapple
delivery man, Steve.

Looks like he was murdered
with the gigli wire saw.

McGARRETT: What
about his fingerprints?

Smooth as silk.

Lab crew find anything?

Just more bald prints.

Walker?

Walker?

Chin, do you remember
the name Walker

on any of those lists?

Yeah, I think it
was on one of them.

Ben?

Yeah.

Have you got a copy
of the Kuilima guest list

we sent to Steve?

Yeah, I got it right here.

Here.

Arthur walker.

Suite 630.

A music company.

Why not?

Hmm.

Enough empties like this
would hold a lot of money.

Yeah.

And be taken through a roadblock

without anybody
giving it second glance.

Let's go.

Hey, where you going?

The mill. We left
some tapes there.

Forget them. They're worthless.

Let's get back on the highway.

If you're gonna do the
thinking for us, Tally,

you better think
of all the details.

What details?

Those tapes have serial numbers.

They can be traced to
my company or to us.

You and me.

Roadblock Two, negative here.

Okay, Central, stand by.

They haven't run any roadblocks.

They've had
plenty of time to try.

No way over the
mountains without wings.

Williams.

Any trace of Walker, Danno?

Not yet, Steve.

But he's still on
the North Shore.

Well, I have something for you.

Doc said that
post-mortem lividity

indicates that Keao's body
was moved after he was killed.

And Che found
evidences of brick dust

and sugar cane ash
on Keao's clothing.

Sugar?

Sugar.

A couple of, uh, mills

up in that area, aren't there?

One in Haleiwa.

That's in full operation, Steve.

But what about
the one at Kahuku?

Been shut down for years.
Nobody goes out there.

A good place to hide a truck
and two jeeps, wouldn't it?

And music cartridges.

Exactly.

Delivered to the Kuilima
suite in small quantities.

Disassembled and
stuffed with money,

then smuggled through roadblocks
by a guy in a pineapple truck.

We're on our way.

Hey, I thought,
uh, I thought you...

First Pahia, then Joe Keao.

Once you start
down that road, Tally,

you just can't stop.

Sooner or later
you'd have to decide

that I was too
dangerous to you too.

You just couldn't leave well
enough alone, could you, Tally?

You dirty...

Hold it!

Freeze.

You can stop looking, gentlemen.

And drop your guns.

Walker.

Put the gun down.

I'll take one of them with me.

For the last time
put the gun down.