Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 6, Episode 2 - Draw Me a Killer - full transcript

A psychotic young man is obsessed with the comic strip character "Judy Moon" and as a result of that obsession he murders three men who are dead ringers for villains that threaten "Judy" in...

( upbeat surf theme playing)

(sound of heartbeat)

Closing up.

I want to ask you
a question, Ling Po.

We're clo... Ling who?

You got yourself
the wrong place, boy.

Why are you being so
mean to Judy Moon?

Judy Moon? What
you talking about?

Why couldn't you
just leave her alone?

What did she ever
do to you, Ling Po?

Listen, kid, I never
heard of any Ling Po.



Now beat it before
I call the cops.

You thought Judy
didn't have anyone

to help her, didn't you?

(heartbeat quickens)

( suspenseful theme playing)

( action theme playing)

(door locks)

(keys chatter)

(drawer opens)

He wasn't after
bread. The wallet's full.

None of those cases
were busted into.

What do you think?

Steve will want
Doc to pull the slugs

for Che to analyze.



My guess is we've got ourselves

victim number three.

You sure are
beautiful, Judy Moon.

(sound of heartbeat)

Now you're safe.

(heartbeat continues)

You will never have to
worry about Ling Po again.

(heartbeat quickens)

McGARRETT: Ho Toy,
born Hilo 49 years ago.

Known associate of criminals.

Twelve arrests, nine
misdemeanors, three felonies,

one conviction for
receiving stolen goods.

He was shot to
death in his pawnshop

on Kalama Street
about 1800 hours

on October 2nd.

Four blocks from where the
body of William King Royce

was found on August the 19th.

And less than a quarter of
a mile from where the body

of the sailor off
the U.S.S. Moulton

was found on July 8.

You saying there's a connection
between these three men

because they were all killed
in the same general area?

That's what I'm saying, Danno.

It's a fact, and we
don't have so many facts

that we can afford
to ignore this one.

Okay, here are the three slugs:

Out of Ho Toy.

Out of William King Royce.

And from the sailor.

Each time, three
shots, point-blank range.

All nine slugs match,
all from the same gun.

And we know it's an automatic
from the left-hand grooves.

Okay, we have a
fence... (taps board)

a respected and law-abiding
bank vice president,

and a sailor seeing
Honolulu for the first time.

Where are the tie-ins?

Same gun each time,

same three shots,
same point-blank range.

DANNO: All killed in
the same general area.

Anything else?

Yeah. Whoever
it is, he's a weirdo.

That's what my gut
instinct says too, Danno.

(pointer clatters on desk)

Okay, Ben, first
order of business,

check all the
hospitals and H.P.D.

for recent parolees
and releases.

You know what we're looking for.

Steve, we're getting a lot
of static on young Buchanan.

Static is a way of
life around here, Dan.

DANNO: It's coming
from his family.

They're riding their
congressmen and he's on us.

Okay. You dig into
Ho Toy's background.

Turn it inside out. Somewhere
there must be a connection

between Ho Toy,
Royce, or the sailor.

And don't forget
him or his family.

His family? They're in Iowa.

Well, that's not on the moon.

We can't afford to
rule out anything.

We've got it, Steve. The tie-in?

Yeah, right here in
one of Ho Toy's ledgers.

July 18th, Mrs.
William King Royce.

One jade-and-diamond
brooch hocked for 400 bucks.

He's still on the books?

No, redeemed August 22nd.

Twenty-second,
19, that's three days

after her husband was killed.

Good work, Chin. Good
work. Keep digging.

Ben, forget about
the hospital now.

Let's go.

( upbeat theme playing)

(door opens and closes)

(doorbell rings)

McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0.

We'd like to see
Mrs. Royce, please.

Mrs. Royce?

Mr. McGarrett.

This is Ben Kokua.

Thank you for seeing
us on such short notice.

Did I have a choice?

Well, here or downtown.

This has nothing to
do with you, bunny.

Go back to improving your mind.

You said this had something
to do with my husband's death.

I said it could have.

Last night a man named
Ho Toy was murdered.

What's that got to do with me?

The name doesn't register?

No.

McGARRETT: He ran a
pawnshop on Kalama street.

We found your name
on his list of customers.

Oh, that pawnbroker.

I didn't connect the name.

In July you pawned a
jade-and-diamond brooch.

One of my maids pawned
a jade-and-diamond brooch

belonging to me, Mr. McGarrett.

A maid who disappeared

the day I discovered
the brooch was missing.

She was a shiftless thing,
always whining about money.

So it was reasonable
to assume she'd stolen

the brooch to pawn it.

I hired a private
detective to run it to earth.

And when he found it,

I drove down and redeemed it.

Cost me $400.

I refused to pay interest.

You didn't report the
theft, Mrs. Royce. Why?

Why should I?

It was worth the
$400 to get rid of her.

Was there anything else?

You redeemed the brooch

just three days after
your husband was killed.

Really? I didn't keep track.

Life goes on, Mr. McGarrett.

Was there anything else?

Yeah. The name of the
private detective you hired.

Donovan. Somewhere
on King Street.

I, uh... I don't
remember the address,

but you can check it out.

Oh, I'll check it out.

And thank you for your courtesy.

(door opens)

BEN: Bunny. Must be a
friend of the family, huh?

There's still another
possibility, Steve,

the murders aren't connected,

except the same
kook did them all.

Three murders
without any motive?

Could be.

No, I don't buy it, Ben.

They're connected. We
just haven't found the link.

(car engine starts)

( dramatic theme playing)

You're late.

I had to run out and get
some ant food for my farm.

Well, after this, do
it on your own time.

(dog barks)

Damn.

Hold still. I can't
cut your claws

if you don't settle down, dummy.

Verna? Is that the morning
paper you're sitting on?

VERNA: No, it's the
throne of England.

You get to work on that mutt.

She's got to be delivered
back by noon, hear?

Can I see the paper first?

(mockingly): “Can I
see the paper first?”

What you mean is,
can you see the comics?

Well, you're not looking at it.

VERNA: If you ever once
bought a newspaper on your own,

I think I'd drop dead.

It's not as if you even
read the front page,

or the news, or anything.

All you ever read is
that dumb Judy Moon.

She's not dumb.

Well, I don't care if
she's a female Einstein.

Get to work on that mutt first,

and then you can read that crap.

And don't take all day, either.

Come on, dummy. There.

Thanks.

(dog barks)

“Just think, boss,

“my elderly third cousin George

“has left me
$10,000 in his will.

How about that?”

You know, there's so
many bad people around,

always trying to take
advantage of Judy.

Arthur? I knew I'd catch you.

I told you to start
working on that mutt.

All right, Verna.

Good morning, doggy.
How are you, huh?

Oh, man, you really got
yourself in a tangle, huh?

Heh. Just the way
Judy Moon always does.

Come here, sit.

Sit, doggy. There.

( dramatic theme playing)

(whistling)

(dog whines)

Just going to go get
a bite to eat, okay?

Be right back.

(whistling)

( ominous theme playing)

Hi. Uh, two burgers and a fries.

(sound of heartbeat)

Everything okay, Mary?

Just fine, thank you.

(cash register dings)

( suspenseful theme playing)

(door opens)

(door closes)

( ominous theme playing)

BEN: Checked that sailor
as thoroughly as possible.

Gone as far back
as his grandparents.

He's the first
member of his family

to leave Iowa in 30 years.

Same big fat zero on Royce.

No link between
him and the sailor.

DANNO: Ho Toy's father opened
a Chinese grocery back in the '20s,

but there's no tie-in
between them and the sailor

or the Royces. Can't
even invent one.

What do we hear from H.P.D.
about the murder area, Chin?

Quite a bit.

All adding to
another big fat zero.

No witnesses, no
leads, no nothing.

The place where they
found the banker, Royce,

that's a half block from the
Manufacturers Loan Building.

We already know there was
a board meeting that night.

And the sailor.

H.P.D. couldn't dig
up anything new.

He's been drinking beer in
Long John's Bar and Grill.

Grill? The only thing that's
ever been cooked in that place

is a toasted cheese-sandwich,
dating back to Pearl Harbor.

What were you doing
in that place, Ben?

I was testing the grill.

(laughing): Yeah.

Yeah, I bet.

So we have no suspects, huh?

After all this time.

And she saw me too.

She looked right at me.

DANNO: I have a
crazy thought, Steve.

What if the killer
wants us to think

there's a tie-in between
the three dead men.

But, in fact, he only
wanted one of them dead,

killed the other two
to hide his real motive?

Won't wash, Danno.

Let's say this sailor
was a red herring,

and either Royce or Ho
Toy were the real targets.

Now, Ho Toy's
enemies, if he had any,

wouldn't bother with
that kind of coverup.

They'd just hit and run.
So that leaves Royce.

Can you think of anyone
who'd kill two other people

just to get at him?

Mrs. Royce. If
she's in mourning,

that beach coat she was
wearing should've been black.

I don't get good vibes
from that lady, either, Ben,

but why would she
kill her husband?

Money.

McGARRETT: She could
get plenty divorcing him.

Besides, Chin checked
her story, and it stands up.

All the way. She was 10 miles
from the scene of the crime,

with witnesses, and
the private detective

backs up the
story of the brooch.

She could have hired the killer.

Yeah. And hired him
to kill the other two,

each six weeks apart? No.

Forty-two days between
the sailor's murder

and the banker's.

Forty-two days between
the banker's and Ho Toy's.

We've been through...
CHIN HO: Forty-three days.

August the 19th
to October the 2nd.

(snapping)

No clue, Danno,
but maybe a pattern.

Today is October the 30th.

That's 28 days
since Ho Toy's killing.

If this pattern holds up,

we'll have a fourth
dead body on our hands

in two weeks.

ARTHUR (as Judy): “I'm
glad you were recommended

to be my lawyer
in this case, sir.

(in masculine voice): “I'll guard
your interests as if they were my own.

(in deep voice): “Stupid girl.

“It'll be child's play
to cheat Judy Moon

out of her $10,000.”

(sound of heartbeat)

(in normal voice):
Oh, Tinker Bell,

I can't let that lawyer

cheat Judy Moon
out of her money.

I just can't!

I just can't.

( suspenseful theme playing)

(van engine starts)

(lawyer speaks indistinctly)

my client,

totally innocent
of any wrongdoing,

and indeed, miles away
from the alleged scene,

from the alleged theft,
is in this courtroom at all.

(sound of heartbeat)

Relying on Your Honor's

well-known sense of
justice and fair play,

I insisted on a non-jury trial.

(whispering): Judy, I found him.

(sound of heartbeat continues)

( ominous theme playing)

(car door closes)

(van engine starts)

(sound of heartbeat)

(clicks)

You won't have to worry again.

That lawyer won't
cheat you anymore.

Not after tonight.

( ominous theme playing)

(dispatcher speaking on radio)

Took three in the chest.

(sighs)

John Gerald Lott,
attorney at law.

Office right here in the
Financial Plaza Building.

Yeah, I've heard of
him. Good reputation.

Yesterday, uh... day before
yesterday's paper, Steve.

Yeah.

Two-day-old paper
under the body?

Strange.

Let's get a blood analysis.

Kioni, rope off
this entire area.

Don't let anyone in here

until Che has a
chance to go over it.

So it starts all over again.

And right on schedule.

But why every six weeks?

Blood belongs to
the dead man, Steve,

but the prints, too
blurred to do us any good.

McGARRETT: One
thing about this case, Che,

it's consistent,
same gun each time,

same three shots, and no clues.

CHE: One clue, six weeks
between each murder.

Except I haven't been able

to figure out how that helps us.

Want the paper saved, Steve?

McGARRETT: Why not? You
can always use it in that book

you're going to write on famous
cases Five-0 never solved.

Jenny says you're
going to be late

for your barbershop appointment.

Thanks, Chin.

(cash dings)

Ernie, how come
for once I'm on time,

and you're not ready for me?

Because for once you're on time.

How's things, Mr. McGarrett?

Just great, Ernie.

McGarrett? Are you
the Five-0 McGarrett?

Yeah.

That shooting last night,

the papers say it's connected
with those other three.

Is that right?

If that's what the papers say.

ERNIE: Okay, Mr. McGarrett.

Ready, Mr. McGarrett.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Eddie Sherman, please. Thanks.

Eddie? McGarrett.
Yeah, I'm fine, Eddie.

Do me a favor, will you, please?

Go down to your newspaper morgue

and pull the last,
oh, uh, 24, 25 weeks

of your comic strip page.

Yeah, that's what I said.

Yeah, I'll explain later, Eddie.

And, uh, get them over to
Five-0 as quickly as possible.

I'll pay for the cab.
Thanks, Eddie.

(phone bangs)

What about the haircut?

McGARRETT: Chin, you
start with the May 26th issue

and take it through July 8.

Ben, you start with July 9

and work through August 19.

I'll take from August
20th to October 2nd.

Right. Here we are.

It's a wild idea, Steve.

Probably the wildest
one I ever had, Danno.

Let's get at it.

McGARRETT: Oh, doctor.
Thank you for coming.

Gentlemen, you
all know Dr. Bishop.

Dr. Bishop. How are you?
Good to see you all again.

Sit down, please.

DR. BISHOP: Thanks, Steven.

The doctor's going
to try to give us

a profile of the killer.

Okay, Walt.

(projector hums)

(clicks)

This is Loris Buchanan,

the sailor who was
shot July the 8th.

Next to him is Donnie,
a character, a sailor,

from the comic strip Judy Moon.

A narcotics dealer, tried
to get Judy into trouble.

That sequence ran
May 30th to July 8.

Next.

(clicks)

William King Royce, banker,

shot and killed August the 19th.

Seth Hopkins, banker in
the Judy Moon comic strip.

Embezzled bank funds,
tried to implicate Judy.

Sequence ran July
9 to August 21st.

Next, please.

(projector clicks)

Ho Toy, moneylender,
shot October the 2nd.

And the character of Ling Po,

loan shark in the
Judy Moon comic strip.

Extorting money from
Judy's grandmother.

It ran August 22nd
to September 30th.

Next.

(projector clicks)

John Gerald Lott,
criminal lawyer.

Shot last night.

(projector clicks)

Next to him is the comic strip
character called Van Raennseler

from the Judy Moon comic strip.

Tried to cheat Judy out
of a $10,000 inheritance.

His adventure ended
day before yesterday.

CHE: To think I've been staring
at the evidence every morning

and never saw it.

I didn't know that you followed

the Judy Moon comic strip, Che.

(chuckles)

Okay, doctor.

For openers,
paranoid-schizophrenic.

Fantasizing life,

living his out in
the comic strip.

Retreated from the real world

because he felt it
was against him.

And he's using the
comic strip to strike back?

Well, in a way.

You see, he's never been able
to make it with a real, live girl,

but he feels safe
with Judy Moon,

you know, a big strong,

like, um... a
powerful father figure

who takes care of her
by killing her enemies.

We find that schizos
have been neglected

or ignored as children.

They've learned very early
not to trust their parents,

and as they grow
up, they trust no one.

They... McGARRETT: Doctor.

Please, this isn't
freshman psychiatry.

Give me a description.

I can only give you a guess.

Give me a guess.

Well, he's probably
young, slovenly,

physically unimpressive,
maybe even ugly.

Definitely no friends.

And when you do find him,

it'll be in the poorer section
of town in some menial job.

How's that?

Better. Anything else?
DR. BISHOP: One thing.

Unless you stop him,
he'll probably kill again.

We're banking on that.

(telephone rings)

Excuse me.

(rings)

McGarrett. Yes, Jenny?

What flight?

Very well. Thank you.

Well, Palmer's on his way.
Flight 11 from Chicago at 4:40.

Danno, you and Chin meet him.

Palmer's the man who draws
the Judy Moon comic strip.

He's coming here? What for?

The only way we're
going to find this murderer

is to make him come to us.

And the only way
we're going to do that

is to pick his next
victim for him.

(airplane noises)

DANNO: Chin Ho
Kelly, Lowell Palmer.

Hi. Aloha.

DANNO: Do you have to
make it look that much like me?

It's like wearing a
sign on your back

that says, shoot me.

That's the point,
isn't it, Danno?

We don't have much
time in this business

for the amenities, Mr. Palmer,

but I want you to know
how much we appreciate

your dropping
everything to fly over here.

You kidding? Anytime I can get
a fully-paid Hawaiian vacation,

just call me collect.

What kind of adventure
are you going to make it?

I have a good one.

How about this cop
who steals apples

from an all-night market

and mails the
cores to Judy Moon?

(chuckling)

I got one if you like it.

Danny's a crooked cop
with gang connections.

He's the gang's pipeline
into police headquarters.

Judy finds out about it,

so she's got to be
permanently shut up.

McGARRETT: Okay,
fine. We'll go with that.

How long does it take you
to complete one episode?

Mm, they generally
run about six weeks.

Can you cut this one
down to say... three?

That's rushing it a little.

I know, but this is a very
special case, Mr. Palmer.

You're drawing us a killing.

Three weeks.

Good.

( suspenseful theme playing)

ARTHUR (as Danny): “Now,
what dummy would park here?

(as Judy): “Oops.
Sorry, officer.

“I'll move right out.

(in normal voice):
And Officer Danny

is Judy Moon struck.”

“How about another
game tomorrow, Judy?

“Gee, this club is
so expensive, Danny.

“Can you afford it?

“Oh, don't worry about that.

I've got plenty of money, and
more where that came from.”

(in deep voice): “The big
heist is tonight, Officer Danny.”

“Click.

“I think I heard a
third party on that call.

Go tell that cop I
wanna see him. Now!”

(as Danny): “You
got trouble, big fats.

“Judy Moon found out
I'm working for your gang.

(in deep voice): “You gotta
shut her mouth, copper,

and for good. Get it?”

( suspenseful theme playing)

The pants look too small to me.

The pants are just right.

Try on this shirt.

DANNO: Leave Freddy alone.
He knows what he's doing.

(sound of heartbeat)

You looking for someone?

(mouths): No.

It fits. It fits.

Thanks, Freddie.

FREDDIE: Not
everything is rush-rush.

Watch the cuff
stitching. I only basted it.

(sound of heartbeat)

(heartbeat quickens)

Oh, Judy. You don't
have to worry anymore.

I did what I promised.

Please get away. I'm
late. Now let me go.

No. You can take
things easy now.

That's all I wanted to tell you.

( ominous theme playing)

Judy, don't you trust me?

Look, I don't know
who you think I am,

but would you please
leave me alone?

I can't let you go in there.

He'll find out you're on to him.

No, let me handle this, please.

Get away from me!

(screaming): Help!

Help! Help!

(screaming)

( action theme playing)

(tires screech)

WOMAN: That's supposed to be me?

McGARRETT: As far as he's
concerned, it is you, Miss Farmer.

It doesn't even make sense.

It does to him.

Are you ready to look
at some mug shots now?

Sure. Please.

Chin.

Go through the mug
shots with Miss Farmer,

the ones we've screened.

And take your time.

Please.

( suspenseful theme playing)

McGARRETT: No luck?

Not even close.

Jenny, send, uh,
Joe Donner in, please.

Miss Farmer,

this is Joe Donner,
our police artist.

Hi. McGARRETT: Sit down, Joe.

See if you can help
him reconstruct that face.

Well, his face
was kind of broad.

( suspenseful theme playing)

No, I think the eyes were...

Oh, he wore glasses.
I forgot about them.

The lips were a little thicker.

Yeah, more like that.

Yes. That's very
good. That's him.

McGARRETT: Good. Good, Joe.

Ben, I want 1,000 of these

in circulation within the hour.

Got your radio mike, Danno?

You better get
going, we'll be along.

Chin, ask H.P.D. for
round-the-clock surveillance

for Miss Farmer
until further notice.

You mean, until you
catch the killer, don't you?

Yes, yes. Until
we catch the killer.

( suspenseful theme playing)

DANNO (on microphone):
Steve. Read me, Steve?

(metal screeches)

McGARRETT (on
radio): You got him, Ben?

Ben, he's coming up on
you, have you got him?

Got him? BEN: Got him.

Keep him in sight, Duke.

I got him in the
sideview mirror.

OLD MAN (on microphone):
Hey, Mr. Williams.

I know where the
cockfight is today.

It's worth a ten spot, isn't it?

DANNO: Not today, Cozy.

( ominous theme playing)

ARTHUR: Mister policeman.

I want to talk to
you, Mr. Policeman.

Why don't you come
out where I can see you?

ARTHUR: No. No tricks.

You come down here.

Okay.

Let's go.

(brakes screech)

Cover the entrance to the alley.

(tires screech)

ARTHUR: Okay, hold
it... Hold it right there.

I want to ask you a question.

Why are you being so
mean to Judy Moon?

Why do you want to hurt her?

You're wrong. I don't
want to hurt Judy.

You're lying.

No, I'm not. I'm not lying.

You know what they
wanted me to do.

Well, I decided I
wouldn't do that.

(sound of heartbeat)

You're lying.

You may fool Judy,
but you can't fool me.

I'm her guardian angel.

Danno, we go on two.

One... Two.

(gunshots)

(groaning)

Chin, get an ambulance.

(sighs)

ARTHUR: Look what you've done.

Who'll take care of Judy now?

(Arthur sobbing)

( dramatic theme playing)

( upbeat surf theme playing)