The Best Episodes of Hawaii Five-O
Last Updated: Oct 31, 2018
The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
#1 - Murder Is A Taxing Affair
Season 6 - Episode 6
A corrupt federal agent who is tracking a man under indictment for tax evasion kills him for the $600,000 he is carrying, and then loses the money.
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#2 - F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
Season 3 - Episode 18
Wo Fat and other top international agents converge on Hawaii to place bids on printing plates for twenty dollar bills, which are in the possession of a former friend of McGarrett.
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#3 - The Payoff
Season 3 - Episode 13
McGarrett must apprehend two abductors who are on the run with the proceeds of their crime in order to protect the lives of their co-conspirators.
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#4 - The Golden Noose
Season 12 - Episode 15
McGarrett is suspicious of an aide who arrives in Hawaii to retrieve millions of dollars held in trust for a Southern Asian state and he must prevent a daring gold robbery.
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#5 - The Grandstand Play (1)
Season 3 - Episode 23
A baseball player, Lon Phillips, brings his backward son to Hawaii to escape threats on his life on the mainland.
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#6 - Killer Bee
Season 2 - Episode 18
A psychiatric worker, George Loomis, is trying to drive a fellow Vietnam veteran Ted Frazer crazy in order to cover up the fact that he massacred his own platoon during an action. Loomis kidnaps boys and drugs Frazer to make it look like Frazer is mad and to blame for the tragedy. McGarrett and the team must unravel this web of lies and clear Frazer.
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#7 - Little Girl Blue
Season 5 - Episode 20
Two simple criminals kidnap a young girl, and hide out in a bunker at Diamond Head. McGarrett must unravel the reason why they are there and get the girl safely away from them.
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#8 - Woe To Wo Fat
Season 12 - Episode 20
The series concludes with the final showdown between McGarrett and Wo Fat. Three scientists have gone missing. They have one thing in common: they all attended a symposium that discussed a possible space-based, laser defense system. McGarrett impersonates a fourth scientist, Dr. Elton Raintree, who attended the same gathering and is soon abducted. Wo Fat is behind it all and wants the scientists to complete their work and produce such a device.
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#9 - The Grandstand Play (2)
Season 3 - Episode 24
The son of the baseball player becomes the vital witness in a murder, but he is reluctant to tell either his father or Five-O of the crime.
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#10 - Love Thy Neighbor -- Take His Wife
Season 8 - Episode 23
Ben Tanaka, a well-known ecologist, seems to be behind the kidnapping of a wealthy land developer's wife, but all is not as it seems and a conspiracy gradually reveals itself.
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#11 - Most Likely To Murder
Season 2 - Episode 21
Lew Morgan and his wife are friends of Danno, but she is murdered, and Morgan sets out to find the culprit. However, his wife seems to be hiding secrets that may have caused her death.
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#12 - The Odd Lot Caper
Season 5 - Episode 18
A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
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#13 - Tour De Force, Killer Aboard
Season 9 - Episode 6
Two seemingly unconnected deaths lead McGarrett into a desperate race to prevent the assassination of a visiting Sheikh.
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#14 - Man In A Steel Frame
Season 9 - Episode 14
McGarrett is the top suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, and the evidence against him is seemingly overwhelming...
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#15 - The Last Eden
Season 3 - Episode 10
Five-O search for the criminals who have set up Hawaiian singer and ecologist Jimmy Nuanu as the fall guy for a sewage plant bombing.
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#16 - F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
Season 3 - Episode 19
Five-O must deal with treason, murder and double-crosses in order to solve the case and prevent the U.S. from being flooded by fake currency.
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#17 - Sweet Terror
Season 2 - Episode 7
McGarrett must counter a threat by international terrorist Erich Stoss to use a fungus to wipe out Hawaii's sugar cane, half of the world's supply.
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#18 - The Double Wall
Season 3 - Episode 14
When a convicted murderer, Harry Kellem, hears a dying man say he committed the crime that Kellem was jailed for, he takes a doctor hostage and McGarrett must negotiate his way out of the situation.
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#19 - Death Mask
Season 11 - Episode 7
When a street robber claims that he stole King Tutankhamun's mask for fun, McGarrett suspects there is more to the case than simple robbery.
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#20 - For A Million - Why Not?
Season 4 - Episode 8
Five seemingly good citizens with different motives band together to steal $6,000,000 while McGarrett is away on Maui at a trial.
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#21 - The Case Against Philip Christie
Season 11 - Episode 4
McGarrett is the lone hold-out in a trial where the guilt of the accused seems certain.
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#22 - You Don't See Many Pirates These Days
Season 10 - Episode 2
When a sea-freighter is hijacked, the wealthy millionaire owner calls in Five-O, but all is not how it seems...
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#23 - The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney
Season 3 - Episode 22
Danno's past comes back to haunt him when the brother of a young boy he shot is released and wants revenge. The brother takes Chin Ho, Jenny and others hostage in McGarrett's office and threatens to blow them up, and Danno must resolve the tense situation.
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#24 - Run, Johnny, Run
Season 2 - Episode 17
Two military policeman spot John Mala, a man who McGarrett has helped in the past, but who has gone AWOL. One of the policemen is shot, and tensions rise as Five-O and the army police clash in their techniques of investigation and their treatment of the local population.
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#25 - The Descent Of The Torches
Season 10 - Episode 5
Five-O must find out whether the death of an archaeologist is linked to his supposed desecration of tomb of King Kamehameha.
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