The BEST episodes of Hawaii Five-O season 5
Every episode of Hawaii Five-O season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hawaii Five-O season 5!
The investigations of Hawaii Five-O, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
#1 - Journey Out Of Limbo
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1972
Danno is found in the back of a truck, dazed and confused, and McGarrett and the others must help him piece together how he came to be in that situation.
#2 - 'V' For Vashon: The Patriarch (3)
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1972
Dominick Vashon, the patriarch of the clan, makes his attempt to bring down McGarrett and Five-O.
#3 - Death Is A Company Policy
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1972
A local thug, Piro Manoa, is trying to create the impression of corruption in the Five-O force, and Duke is implicated in a murder. McGarrett and the team, with new recruit Ben Kokua, must save Duke's position and work out the plot of the organisation behind the false accusations.
#4 - I'm A Family Crook -- Don't Shoot!
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1972
A husband and wife team of scam merchants get caught between some of Hawaii's most powerful mobs.
#5 - 'V' For Vashon: The Father (2)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1972
McGarrett must contend with Honore Vashon, who wants revenge for his son's death.
#6 - You Don't Have To Kill To Get Rich -- But It Helps.
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1972
A private investigator, Sam Tolliver, arrives from Texas to help an old friend who is being blackmailed and is at risk of being killed if he doesn't pay up, but he ends up wanting to become part of the blackmail operation.
#7 - Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1972
When two of a egotistical racing driver's support staff are murdered, suspicions of sabotage fall upon his attractive girlfriend.
#8 - The Child Stealers
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1973
Two drifters, Gar and Nina, steal children and sell them on to a mainland adoption agency in order to raise the cash to buy a boat and go cruising.
#9 - The Odd Lot Caper
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1973
A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
#10 - Thanks For The Honeymoon
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1973
McGarrett agrees to let Toni, a tough female convict, get married and have a honeymoon in protective custody as long as she will testify against a local hood.
#11 - Will The Real Mr. Winkler Please Die
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1973
McGarrett and company must break through a tissue of lies in order to protect a Russian defector from being killed.
#12 - The Listener
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1973
A crazed electronics wizard threatens the lives of a psychiatrist and his patients by using electronic devices and gadgets.
#13 - Pig In A Blanket
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1972
Danno shoots an apparently armed teenager but finds that he was mistaken, and public opinion and the teen's brother turn against him. McGarrett must act to defuse the potentially explosive situation.
#14 - The Jinn Who Clears The Way
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1972
Wo Fat is suspected of being behind the theft of a mobile ICBM device, and McGarrett with other top officials must stop him selling it off to the highest bidder.
#15 - Chain Of Events
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1972
A doctor tracking venereal disease is murdered, and Five-O must track the series of encounters to find out who is a carrier. Their investigation is made doubly important by the murder of a young woman who is close to a upcoming politician. He seems a likely suspect but McGarrett suspects a deeper plot.
#16 - The Clock Struck Twelve
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1972
When McGarrett arrests a group of vigilante nationalists, hidden bombs at the courthouse threaten to destabilise the islands.
#17 - Fools Die Twice
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1972
Army computer technician Jack Gulley kidnaps a scientist and then uses a planned heist by three accomplices on a military base to divert Five-O's attention from his sale of the scientist to the highest bidder.
#18 - 'V' For Vashon: The Son (1)
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1972
McGarrett becomes involved with the Vashon mafioso family after the youngest member, Chris, is implicated in a daring raid on a hotel.
#19 - Here Today, Gone Tonight
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1973
Five-O has a suspect for a murder, but they have one problem. How can the suspect have been in two places at the same time?
#20 - Little Girl Blue
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1973
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.
#21 - Engaged To Be Buried
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1973
Chin Ho must face the fact that his daughter, Alia, is in love with the son of a local criminal under investigation, and that she plans to get married to him.
#22 - The Diamond That Nobody Stole
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1973
A burglary at the home of a well known island family sets off a series of events that ends in murder.
#23 - Jury Of One
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1973
A single person is holding out in a Five-O trial, and McGarrett and the team have to find out who is stalling and why they are doing it.
#24 - Percentage
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1973
A travel agent who operates gambling trips is killed in order to send a warning to others that the syndicates will not tolerate competition.