Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980): Season 7, Episode 14 - Bones of Contention - full transcript

This is Jack Lord, inviting
you to be with us next

for "Bones of Contention."

Oh, no.

You had an appointment
with this Southwood?

That's correct. What for?

For the purpose of his
turning over to me the skull,

the bones and the teeth
of Sinanthropus pekinensis.

Peking man?

I'm authorized,

by the government of the
People's Republic of China,

to agree to any terms in
order to recover the fossils.



( mysterious theme playing)

Open it.

Where? When?

The Westland
Society's Crematorium.

Crematorium?
Unless you're there,

those old bones are gonna
be cremated to a cinder.

MAN: The Peking man.

Then how come he's got
a bullet hole in his head?

Next: "Bones of
Contention." Be here. Aloha.

( upbeat surf theme playing)

( dramatic theme playing)

(phone rings)

Hello?

Yes, this is
Professor Dobs Burke.



Who?

Herbert Southwood, professor.

I think you've been
waiting to hear from me.

I've been waiting a
week to hear from you.

Just what exactly is the
delay, Mr. Southwood?

Have you... Have
you got the articles?

Have you got the money?

Yes, I've got the money.
What's taken you so long?

Those bones have been
around for a long time, professor.

What's a few more days?

I've only got a few days left.

You want them right now?

Of course, I want them ri...

Why do you think I came
all the way down here?

Well, come and get
them and bring the cash.

Where?

Got a pencil?

Okay.

Mr. Southwood? Mr. Southwood?

( line hangs up)

(sighs)

( mysterious theme playing)

( ominous theme playing)

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

No, no.

( dramatic theme playing)

Dobs Burke,

professor of anthropology,
Wessex College, Boston.

Why did you pick up the necktie?

Reflex action.

In a sense, we both deal
with related exhibits, sir.

We do?

Deceased beings.

Of course, there's a difference.

Yours are far more
recently deceased than mine.

Only if we're lucky.

Now, what about the necktie?

As I said, it was
purely instinctive.

I came into the room,

observed the anthropological
find on the floor,

and immediately began
to examine its clothing

in order to determine
its age. I'm sorry.

It's okay. What is its age?

Second half of the 20th century.

Just by looking at the tie, huh?

What are you doing
here, professor?

I had an appointment
with the deceased.

He was to deliver to
me the... FRANK: Dan.

His name is Southwood.

Herbert Southwood.
Here's his driver's license.

You say you had an
appointment with Southwood, huh?

That's correct.

What for?

For the purpose of his
turning over to me the skull,

the bones, and the teeth
of Sinanthropus pekinensis.

Of what?

Peking Man? BURKE: Exactly, sir.

Oh, you've heard of the
fossils I'm alluding to then?

An incredibly valuable find

from which it was possible to
commence a definitive study

of the origins of
Oriental civilization.

I remember reading
an article about them.

They, uh... They disappeared

shortly before the attack
on Pearl Harbor, didn't they?

Well, you're a well-informed
man, Mr. McGarrett.

I like to read, but
if I recall correctly,

they've never been recovered.

Well, now you're
less well-informed.

They have been recovered,

and I was to have
received them this afternoon.

From Southwood? Yes.

Well, where did he
get hold of them?

Heh. That I cannot tell you.

I attempted to elicit such
information from Mr. Southwood.

But his only response
was to assure me

that if I provided the money,
he would provide the fossils.

How much money?
Eighty thousand dollars.

Where were you able to
raise that amount, professor?

I'm authorized by the government

of the People's
Republic of China

to agree to any terms in
order to recover the fossils.

They consider them
their property, you know.

So you're...

You're acting on behalf
of communist China?

Mainland China?

With the approval of the
State Department, yes.

I see.

(door opens)

McGARRETT: Yeah,
Danno, what do you got?

Doc's report. Pretty routine.

Male, Caucasian,
approximately 27.

Of course, Professor
Burke determined all that

just by examining the
necktie he was strangled with.

(chuckles)

Incidentally, it was
his own necktie.

Steve, this part
could be interesting.

Oh, yeah.

"Pallor of unexposed
portion of skin

"together with
peculiar style of haircut

"suggest recent term
in penal institution

or other confinement."

Yes, that could
be very interesting.

Let's find out. Get
his name, description,

photograph, and prints on the
wire to the FBI in Washington.

It's in the works.

This Southwood
was only 26 or 27,

what could he know
about Peking Man?

Those bones disappeared in
1941, he wasn't even born yet.

KAYE: That's right,
Steve, Burke's authentic.

And what he's doing
has the full approval

of the State Department and
the Department of Defense.

He's one of the top dogs
in the old bones business.

The big boys in Peking
asked for him personally.

They want those fossils
back where they came from.

And we want them to have
whatever's rightfully theirs.

So get on top of it, Steve.
Give him any help he needs.

What would you like
me to do, Jonathan,

get my men out
there with shovels?

I'm trying to dig up a killer
not a bag of old bones.

This is not just a murder.

It could have political
consequences.

I don't read you, Jonathan.

Steve, Burke's acting for the
People's Republic of China.

He was making contact

with someone whom he believes

was about to
deliver those fossils.

Now, that man was murdered.

You know how sensitive
matters are right now.

And how easily they can
feel they've been insulted.

We've got to find
that killer, Steve, and...

McGARRETT: And?

Let us pray that he doesn't
turn out to be Chinese.

So long, Jonathan.

(hangs up)

Danno.

Doc was right.

Southwood was released from
San Quentin three weeks ago.

One to five for armed robbery.

I think I'm going to round out
my anthropological education.

( dramatic theme playing)

The major discovery of
the fossils was made in 1927

in Chou Kou Tien, about
30 miles south of Peking.

Now, the digging continued there

until the Japanese
invasion in the '40s.

Uh, cream, sugar?

Sugar, please.

Now, there was a
company of U.S. Marines

in the process of
leaving China at the time.

And the head of the Peking
Union Medical College

asked them if they would

take the fossils with
them for safe keeping.

So the bones were
carefully packed

and assigned to a squad
in the Marine company.

Did the bones ever leave China?

We don't know that.

The baggage train was captured,
and the Marines dispersed.

The crate disappeared.

After the war, of course,
the search commenced,

but until now, nothing.

Professor, the man who offered

to turn the bones
over to you for $80,000,

how do you know
he wasn't a fake?

He described the
crate and its contents.

Southwood described
it? Yes. You see,

The crate was specially
marked when it was turned over

to the Marines to make
sure it was quickly spotted

once it reached
the United States.

He knew that.

Couldn't he have read
about it somewhere?

Not unless he had
access to the diaries

of the director of the Peking
Union Medical College.

And the young man
was not articulate

in the Chinese language.

You tested him?

(scoffs)

Mr. McGarrett, you don't
agree to turn over $80,000

entrusted to you by the
Government of China

without a certain amount
of, uh, detective work.

Danno. DANNO: Yes, Steve.

I'd like a list of
Southwood's cellmates

when he was in San Quentin.

I'm on it, Steve.

Is Chin there? Yes, he is.

Put him on, and you stay on.

Chin, Steve.

Yeah, Steve.

Chin, see if you can get a list

of the Marines who
were in that squad

that carried the bones of
Peking Man out of China in 1941.

Now, one name on both
those lists should be the same.

I'll bet on it.

( suspenseful theme playing)

DANNO: Steve. Yeah.

On the nose.

Sergeant Raymond E. Parmel,
United States Marine Corps.

He was a member of the
detail transporting those bones,

and he was also in a cell

with Herbert Southwood
at San Quentin.

Had to be. Now, what
else about Parmel?

Let's see, discharged
from the service in '45,

he's 52 years old.

1948, he pulled seven
for armed robbery.

1952, he was involved in an
unsuccessful escape attempt,

ended up with 20 years more.

A year ago, he was
transferred to San Quentin.

And here's the kicker, Steve.

Yeah, tell me. He's dead?

Heh. No.

Ten days ago, he tried to
break out of prison again.

This time, he did it.

So he's on the loose, huh?

Probably on the loose
right out there in Honolulu.

( mysterious theme playing)

( suspenseful theme playing)

( suspenseful
exotic theme playing)

Come in, Mr. Parmel.

Are you acquainted
with my nephew?

Yeah, we were roommates
for a while on the mainland.

Under whose auspices?

Auspices?

The state of California. Hm.

Was the food good?

It was better in the Marines.

Sit down. Sit down,
please. Thank you.

Some tea, perhaps?

Yeah, thank you.

Was my nephew robust?

He wasn't hurting any.

Told me to get
in touch with you.

For what reason?

He said you're pretty
good at arranging things.

What matters you
need arranged, huh?

I need a young lady in her 20s.

Will she be haole?

Yeah, and American.

She has to have documents
to prove who she is

and what she wants.

If you can arrange that,
I'll fill you in on the details.

I can arrange it. What details?

San Quentin's
sending descriptions

and mug shots, Steve.

We'll get an APB out on
Parmel as soon as they get here.

Thanks, Chin.

All right, gentlemen,

what are the assumptions
up to this point?

The bones are in Honolulu
and Parmel knows where.

He's been waiting 34
years to come and get them.

But why escape?

He only had two more years to go

before he was
eligible for parole.

And where does Southwood fit in?

DANNO: Maybe getting ahold of
the fossils is a two-man operation.

He thought he could
trust Southwood,

but Southwood
decided not to wait,

tried to make a
deal ahead of time.

Parmel found out. It
was in the newspapers.

Yeah, realized that he had been
double-crossed and busted out.

Yeah, and he came here to kill
Southwood. That makes sense.

So Parmel is here,
Professor Burke is here,

Peking Man is here.
And it won't be long

before somebody tries to get
all three of them together, huh?

Okay, I've asked Professor
Burke to come see me about it,

but in the meantime, let
me ask you something.

Are we missing a bet, gentlemen?

What bet, Steve?

Just suppose

that Parmel is not the only
man in that Marine squad

who knows where those bones are.

He was a member of the
squad, the detail, certainly,

but other men might know
what they were guarding

or where they were stored.

Let's see, let's see where
those other men are,

the ones that survived the war.

Find out if they know anything.

Computer time, huh? Right.

Steve, Professor Burke is here.

Oh, show him in, please.

Professor. Mr. McGarrett.

Sit down, won't you,
please. Thank you.

Has anyone else
made contact with you?

No, sir, not yet.

I'd like your assurance

that you will notify us
immediately if anyone does.

Do you expect someone
to approach me?

I'm absolutely
convinced of it. Who?

Man named Parmel.

Raymond Parmel.

With knowledge of the
whereabouts of the Peking Man?

That's my guess.

Professor, I realize the
temptation will be great

to make an kind of
deal he might suggest

in order to gain
possession of those fossils.

I would like to
impress on you, though,

that this man is a
suspect in a murder.

And a recent escapee
from San Quentin prison.

Now, whatever your
inclinations might be,

it is absolutely imperative

that you call me the moment
he makes contact with you.

Is that understood?

Thoroughly, sir.

Professor, I won't keep you
any longer. Here's my card.

I'll expect to hear from you
as soon as you're contacted.

You will, sir. Bye. Bye.

Danvers, Joseph F.,

sergeant major, United
States Marine Corps,

stationed at Parris
Island. Who's he?

He was in Parmel's
squad in 1941.

Hm.

That makes six accounted for.

Two of them are
still in the service,

three have been discharged,
one was killed in action.

That leaves six unaccounted for.

Maybe Danvers can
remember some names

or some things that happened.

Pack your bags, Danno.

You're going to Parris
Island, South Carolina.

Right.

(ringing)

Hello.

Yes, this is Professor
Dobs Burke. Who's this?

My name's not important.

Just think about me
as being Peking Man.

What do you know of Peking Man?

The one thing you want to know.

You know where the fossils are?

More than that. I can
deliver them to you.

You want to talk? Yes.

Good.

You meet me at the
base of the Aloha Tower,

2:30 this afternoon.

And you bring $25,000.
It's a down payment.

How do I know that
this is authentic?

If it isn't, you don't pay.

Aloha Tower, 2:30.

Professor? Yes?

If you really want
to see those bones,

don't talk to any cops.

Don't even go near any cops.

Any cops, or I'll know about it.

You'll never see Peking Man.

You got that?

Yes. Yes, I've got it.

( suspenseful theme playing)

(hangs up)

( mysterious theme playing)

You better not have yelled cop.

Who are you?

You keep asking me that.

I'm the guy who telephoned you.

No, I haven't
notified the police.

I'm glad to hear that.

Did you bring the down payment?

How do I know you're able

to, uh, turn over the fossils?

What's this? Read it.

Pretty good description
of the shipment?

The crate, the markings,

distribution of the skulls
and bones in the crate.

It's perfect. Where are they?

Where's the money?

Aren't you going to count it?

You're not going to cheat
me. It's not your money.

Besides, you're so
hot for those bones,

you're not going to do
anything to screw it up.

What do I do now?

Go back to your hotel.

When you hear that
telephone go "bing,"

I'll give you the word.

( suspenseful theme playing)

DANNO: Williams, Hawaii Five-0.

Cops, huh? Looking
for someone I know?

Maybe.

Who?

Peking Man.

What man?

Peking. What outfit was he in?

Company B,

First Battalion, Fourth Marine,
Sergeant Parmel's squad.

You came a long
way for nothing, buddy.

There wasn't anybody by
that name in Parmel's squad.

What do you remember
about the trip out of China

in November, 1941?

B Company was
located in Tongzhou.

About 6:00 that morning,

we got orders to
move south to Tientsin,

where a couple
transports were waiting.

The Japanese
attacked the supply train

around 2:00 the next morning.

Lieutenant Groves
came out yelling

for Parmel to get those crates

and move them down to
the transports on the double.

What crates?

The ones that were consigned
to us for a special shipment.

How many were there?

Three, I think.

Okay, go on. What happened then?

Then, we did it.

You did what?

Got the crates on the transport

and moved them all
the way to Honolulu.

When was that? Do you
remember the exact date?

Well, let's see.

Two days before Pearl
Harbor, 5 December.

Okay. And what happened
to the crates then?

Well, once we dropped hook,
Parmel and Crowe, Ed Crowe,

another member of the
squad and a buddy of Parmel,

told us to send the
crates to Pearl Harbor.

And that's the
last I seen of them.

Two days later,
the stuff hit the fan,

most of us were shipped out.

So that's, uh, all
you can tell me?

That's all I know.

Okay, Sergeant Major, thank you.

You've been a big help.

Hey, wait one. What?

Peking who?

Man.

There was a Sydney
Man in the second squad.

No, wrong Man. Thanks anyway.

Sunyako, you are an artist.

No, no, I am an entrepreneur.

I employ artists.

You are very
punctual, young lady.

May I introduce
Miss Summerville?

Hi.

Yeah.

Yeah, she'll do just fine.

Oh, no, sir. No, Mr. McGarrett.

No one's tried to
contact me. No one at all.

It's, uh, rather disappointing.

As a matter of fact,
I'm planning to...

What's that you say?

There is every reason to believe

that those bones
are in Honolulu.

Perhaps somewhere
at Pearl Harbor.

I'm going to conduct a
search. I'd like you with me.

Mr. McGarrett, I'm...

I appreciate your
interest in my problem,

but I'm packing
my bags right now.

As a matter of fact,

I plan to catch the first
available flight home.

I could use your
help, professor.

Mr. McGarrett, forgive me,

but I just don't have the heart
for another wild goose chase.

I see.

Very well, professor. Thank you.

( dial tone buzzing)

Chin.

Yes, Steve. Check the airlines.

See if Professor Burke has a
reservation for the mainland.

Right. I think his name is Dobs.

Steve.

You're sure of that, lieutenant?

Okay. Thank you. No good, Steve.

There've been three searches
of old barracks at Pearl Harbor

in the last five years. No
bones, no trace of them.

But they were sent there.

We have Sergeant Major
Danvers' word for that.

There must be some record,
some trace, somewhere.

That was the time of
the Pearl Harbor attack.

A lot of tings got
lost or destroyed.

I don't care how many
searches were made of Pearl,

we're going to make one
more. Come on, let's go. Frank.

( dramatic theme playing)

CHIN HO (over radio
): Steve, this is Chin.

Yeah, go ahead, Chin.

I checked the major airlines.

No reservations in the
name of Professor D. Burke.

Put a tail on him
right away, Chin.

Right.

Well, that clinches it.

Burke is lying. Parmel
has contacted him.

Peking Man is about
to change hands.

(band playing marching music)

No, nothing so far, Danny.

MAN: Is this something, sir?
B Company, Third Battalion.

Let's see.

It sure is. Thank you.

MAN: Come in.

Steve. McGARRETT:
What do you got?

Listed articles of government
and personal equipment.

Clothing and supplies
assigned to Supply Shed D

pending disposition
to appropriate persons

and destinations, by order
of Sergeant R.E. Parmel

for Lieutenant G.G. Groves.

Parmel.

Description of
articles: miscellaneous.

What does that mean, colonel?

By then B Company was
spread out over the Pacific.

So it must have been equipment
that never caught up with them.

Where is Supply Shed D?

Just where you'd expect
in the corps, right after H.

(chuckles)

Let's go.

COLONEL: Corporal
Scott. Open up.

OFFICER: Sergeant
major, start the search.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Steve.

I found Parmel's footlocker,
and, uh, Jones, and Grady.

We've got reports on them.
They were killed in action.

Colonel, have you got
something to cut this lock with?

Sergeant major,
bolt-cutters, please.

Parmel, Jones, and Grady.

Oh, thank you. Danno.

Go ahead.

( mysterious theme playing)

The Peking Man.

Think so?

Then how come he's got
a bullet hole in his head?

( dramatic theme playing)

( suspenseful playing)

From Graves
Registration, sir. Thank you.

Graves Registration confirms

your father's burial
here, Miss Crowe.

Of course, you
knew that already.

But these formalities
must be gone through.

Oh, I understand.

Now, you're requesting

that your father's remains
be exhumed and transferred

to the Westland Society
of Southern California

at Long Beach for reburial.

Yes, please.

Well, I don't see why your
request should be denied,

but there is a certain
amount of paperwork.

Verifications,
that sort of thing.

But if you'll just leave me
your name and address

and where I can
get in touch with you

once I receive
official approval.

(band playing
marching music nearby)

I think we can assume
that those footlockers

contain the remains of
a United States Marine.

Probably killed on the
attack at Pearl Harbor.

Wait a minute.

That doesn't make sense.
Why didn't they bury him?

Let's put ourselves
inside Parmel's head.

He's got a crate
containing some rare

and extremely valuable fossils.

Now, if he can hold onto
them until after the war,

they could be
worth a lot of money.

Then the question is how is
Parmel going to hide the fossils

until he can dispose
of them himself?

Okay, how about the footlockers?

One belonging to him,

two to men in his
squad who are dead.

So he shoves the fossils in
the footlocker, burns the crate.

There's no crate, there's
no way to trace the fossils.

The two dead Marines
aren't likely to come back

looking for their footlockers.

DANNO: But that brings
on the next question.

Why aren't there any
fossils in the footlockers?

My guess

is that he was going
to do exactly that.

Put the remains of Peking
Man in those footlockers,

and then he got a better idea.

Have we got Parmel's
service record with us?

Yeah, right here.

Let's see, date of enlistment,

first assignment, reassignm...

B Company, First Battalion.

Returned Honolulu
5 December 1941.

Reassigned 9 December...

9th of December, 1941.

That's two days
after Pearl Harbor.

To Company A, First Battalion,

and placed in
charge of burial detail.

Does that suggest
anything to you, gentlemen?

It sure does.

The remains of the corpse
in those footlockers...

Was switched. Switched.

And Peking Man is now buried

in the grave of that Marine
under his headstone.

Buried there at the
direction of Sergeant Parmel.

Let's go find out.

(phone ringing)

Yes?

Okay, professor, we're
almost ready to move.

You have the fossils?

I've always had the fossils.

Right about now, I'm about
ready to let you have them.

Where? When?

Right now, I'm going
to tell you where.

The Westland
Society's crematorium,

Long Beach, California.

Crematorium?
That's right, professor.

Unless you're there with
the rest of the $80,000

when I tell you to get there,

those old bones are going
to be cremated to a cinder,

flown out to sea, and dumped.

I'll be there. Just
tell me when.

You just sit tight.

When I tell you, "Go,"

you're going to have 36
hours to get to Long Beach,

pay me what you owe
me, and collect your bones.

So you just sit there by
your telephone, professor,

because that
meter starts ticking

the second I say, "Go."

( line hangs up)

( ominous theme playing)

(hangs up phone)

Chin, anything on Burke?

Still keeping quiet, Steve.

Hasn't made a move.

That means those bones are
still in the ground somewhere.

What about the APB on Parmel?

Nothing. He's playing
it very cool, very careful.

Well, he's had 34
years to plan his moves.

But how's he planning
to dig up those fossils?

He can't just drive a U-Haul
into a national cemetery

and dig up a coffin.

No, but there is
one way to do it.

(snaps fingers)

You do it in broad daylight,

in front of witnesses, and
at government expense.

You just say, "Please."

Legal exhumation?
You guessed it.

Chin, I wanna know
how many requests

have been made in
the past few weeks

for exhumation for the
purpose of reburial elsewhere.

Now, one of those graves has
the bones of Peking Man in it,

and I'll bet... I'll bet you

that that's how Parmel
plans to get hold of them.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Steve, there have been
three requests for reburial

since the 18th of this month.

The names are Rodzinski,
Crowe, Edgarton.

Crowe? Hold it, Chin.

Danvers mentioned a
Crowe, Ed Crowe, a corporal.

Assistant squad leader.
A buddy of Parmel's.

Chin, would that be Ed Crowe?

Edward Andrew Crowe, Steve.

That's the one.

Was he killed in action?

Yeah, Steve.

Strafed from the air
on December 7, 1941.

Has the exhumation request
for Crowe been approved?

Yeah, Steve, his
daughter's expected here

sometime this afternoon
to sign the final papers.

All right, Chin,
listen to me carefully.

You stay right where you
are until the lady shows up.

When she leaves, tail her.
Don't let her out of your sight.

She may lead us to
Parmel and to the bones.

Okay.

Danno, have Che get
Ed Crowe's dental records.

I'd like a comparison

with the teeth in that skull
we found in the footlocker.

On my way.

Something's wrong.

What's wrong? I don't know.

I was supposed to sign the
final papers this afternoon,

but when I went, the guy
said there'd been a hitch.

What kind of hitch?

I don't know. Something
about a relative...

What relative? That's bull.

Ed Crowe grew up
in an orphan asylum.

I knew everything about him.

( suspenseful theme playing)

( dramatic theme playing)

Che.

The man was Crowe, Steve.

The dental chart confirmed it.

Danno, call Manicote.

Get an exhumation
order in the works.

Good work, Che.

Okay, Steve, the veterans
administration okayed the order.

You can dig.

Only, Steve, it had
better be the fossils.

They're not exactly
enthusiastic about it.

Open it.

Peking Man never
wore a G.I. uniform.

Those are ribbons
from the Korean war.

He switched grave markers on us,

and that rainstorm last night

washed away any chance we
might have of spotting the switch.

( suspenseful theme playing)

( dramatic theme playing)

Steve, Professor
Burke is here. Professor.

Mr. McGarrett, I
thought I explained to you

that I was abandoning
my investigation.

And leaving on the next
available flight if you recall.

Surely, you could have
found one out of Hawaii

in the last 36 hours.

Here they are, Steve.

The lady is Jo Ann Summerville.

She posed as Corporal
Crowe's daughter.

And I think you
know Maro Sunyako.

Oh, I do indeed.

Up to your old pursuits,
I take it, Sunyako.

Pandering, forging.

I resent the inference,
Mr. McGarrett.

Unless you're arresting...

I resent being herded in here

and forced to stand about
with common criminals.

Well, right now, I am
only interested in Parmel

and you three are the only
ones who can help me find him,

and that is exactly
what you are going to do.

Or, so help me,

I will find ways to put you
away for a long, long time.

Now, is that understood?

Are we ready to cooperate?

( mysterious theme playing)

Was that Parmel? Yes.

Chin, come with me.

May, slide in here.

Keep an eye on the professor.

( tense theme playing)

Greetings.

All right, I got your
message. What's it all about?

(door opens) Freeze.

Where's the rest
of your platoon?

Out digging
foxholes in the alley?

You're under arrest, Parmel.

So? I'm under arrest.
What happens now?

You'll be tried for the
murder of Southwood.

You go back to San Quentin
to finish your sentence.

Which is life.

What do I get for killing
Southwood? More life?

Professor, let me clue you
in. You still want those bones?

Of course I do.
That's why I'm here.

You'd better have
a nice, quiet talk

with this thickheaded cop here.

I'm the only guy who knows
where those bones are.

Where they are is where
they're going to stay.

Unless I walk out of here
with $80,000 in my pocket

and a full pardon.

Mr. McGarrett.

Get him out of here.

Mr. McGarrett. What...? Do
you know what you're doing?

Go home, professor.

All right.

Hello, operator, I want to place
a long-distance telephone call,

State Department,
Washington, D.C.,

person-to-person to
Mr. Jonathan Kaye.

202-655-4000.

What do you want
with Jonathan Kaye?

McGARRETT: Jonathan,
the man is a convicted killer,

a prison escapee, and a suspect

in another murder
here in Honolulu.

He's also the only person who
knows where Peking Man is.

I know where Peking Man is.

He's buried in the
National Cemetery.

But you don't know where.

No, I don't know where,
but maybe I can find out.

How? By opening
every grave there?

I don't know yet, Jonathan.

There have already
been protests.

When you opened
that grave the other day,

it hit the wire services.

Veterans' families have
been sending telegrams

to their congressmen. They think

you're going to dig up
every grave in the cemetery.

Steve, I understand
your problem.

Do you?

And you've got to
understand ours.

We've got to weigh the relative
value and importance of Parmel

against our developing
relations with China.

Which you've
obviously already done.

I think it's been done
without either of us.

One man against the foreign
policy of the United States?

Jonathan, I don't give a
damn about communist China,

and I will not
bargain with Parmel.

Be reasonable, Steve.

Look, suppose I make
a bargain with you?

What kind of bargain?

I'll give you the
rest of the day.

I've got to fly out of
here by 10:30 tonight.

Find Peking Man by that time,

and Parmel gets
what's coming to him.

Otherwise, I'll have
to follow orders.

Okay, you've got a
deal. By 10:00 tonight.

( suspenseful theme playing)

McGARRETT: This is
the grave we opened.

Now, how do we
find the right one?

Any ideas, suggestions,
notions, hunches?

Well, aren't they
numbered, Steve?

Doesn't the corps have a record?

It's inaccurate, Chin.
We checked the record.

About 15 years ago,
Graves Registration

began a rearrangement
of the cemetery.

They moved about
a quarter of the plots,

and then the plan was abandoned.

All we've got left is a mess.

Well, it can't be very far
from the grave we dug up.

I mean, shifting markers is
kind of conspicuous, isn't it?

It could have
been done at night.

Could we dig up one
or two in the same area?

Chin, right now
they'd be on our backs

if we dug up a handful of weeds.

All right, gentlemen,
every grave in that cemetery

has the body of a
serviceman in it except one.

Now, what's different
about that one,

and how do we
find that difference?

Put your minds to it.

What's in that coffin

that is not in any
of the others?

Steve, how about
asking it the other way?

What's in all the other coffins

that isn't in the one
we're looking for?

What?

Belt buckles, buttons,
shrapnel, maybe.

Dental fillings,
dog tags, rings.

Metal. Metal. I think
you've got it, Danno.

There is no metal in
Peking Man or on him.

Jenny? JENNY (on
intercom): Yes, sir.

Get me Marine headquarters
at Camp Smith, please.

( suspenseful theme playing)

No. Next one.

Stop.

What have you got,
Che? Hold it, Steve.

Now, very carefully, all
the way around the edges.

Now, dead center.

Steve, this coffin has metal

all the way around
its perimeter,

Probably nails. No other metal.

And nothing in the center?

Nothing.

Jonathan, that's it.

All right, Steve.

Dig it up.

( suspenseful theme playing)

Open it.

Hold it.

What are you talking
about, Jonathan?

Steve, I want this casket sealed

and sent back to
Washington with me.

Mr. Kaye, we have
spent months... Hold it.

My orders are to have the
contents examined and tested

under government
supervision in Washington

and its proper
ownership established.

Doctor, I'd like you
to come back with me.

What about Parmel?

He's all yours, Steve.

Book him, Chin.

If Peking Man
really is in there,

how old would you
say he is, Steve?

Five hundred-thousand
years, give or take a few thou.

I think we put a new
record on the books.

Yeah, could be the oldest
missing-person case in history.

( dramatic theme playing)

( upbeat surf theme playing)