Steve McGarrett investigates the drowning death of a close friend. The clues lead him to a foreign agent and a mysterious white powder.
McGarrett's investigation reveals a plot to kill off American agents, and is asked to go undercover as bait. He discovers that a Chinese agent named Wo Fat is in search for agent named Control.
Who is killing off all the visiting rich widows on the islands? The Five-O uses an undercover police woman as bait by sending her on a cruise.
Hawaii's environment minister is assassinated, which McGarrett discovers is because of the victim's policy on developing the lands of Hawaii.
A young singer fakes his own kidnapping as a means of giving himself publicity. But when his wealthy father comes up with the ransom money, the singers pals turn on him and kidnap him for real.
After a crime boss has a witness bumped off before he can testify against him, a group of samurai's target the boss for an assassination, leaving McGarrett to use the opportunity to strike a deal with him while giving him protection.
Danno is wanted for murder when he catches a young man attempting to break into his car and is killed after pulling a gun on him. McGarrett needs to find the woman who may have taken the gun, the only evidence which can prove Danno shot the victim in sell defense.
The team investigates the death of a young mother at a fish market and uncovers a tie in with a gold smuggling ring and an old fisherman.
A woman dies after exiting a speeding vehicle and raises eyebrows when it's discovered that she is wearing stolen earrings from a foreign consulate. McGarrett goes undercover in a jail to get information which may lead to the recovery of the missing jewelry, and is involved in a jail escape plot.
A famed singer begins robbing high rise hotel rooms to pay off gambling debts. Although his girlfriend finds the scheme to be flawed, he convinces her that better days are ahead once he records his next album.
A young private on leave from Vietnam, wanders into the center of a violent organized crime power struggle. Meanwhile, McGarrett has been ordered by the governor to keep a watch on the red light district to protect the visiting soldiers in Hawaii.
Danno takes over command at the Five-O after McGarrett is shot down by a criminal from his past, and discovers that another important person is to be shot in the near future.
McGarrett turns mobster against mobster after hearing of the death of his friend, the assistant prosecuting attorney. harry Cardonus agrees to turn on his boss, Joe Matsukino, after nearly being killed by him, but this can only happen if McGarrett can keep Cardonus from Matsukino, just one more day.
The boyfriend of a young Indonesian female student is a suspect of her murder after she is found murdered on campus. The only clue is a huge shoe print near the body which may belong to the rather large man, but McGarrett isn't convinced it will be this easy of a case.
A delusional soldier in a hospital shoots Danno, believing he was still fighting in the Vietnam War. Danno needs immediate help, but McGarrett cannot risk the innocent patients lives by having a gun fight inside the hospital hallways.
Danno attempts to talk down a woman from committing suicide by jumping off a seaside cliff. having failed, McGarrett chases down a professor, David Stone, who may have sold her drugs.
The Hawaiian Islands has been hit with the bubonic plague, leaving McGarrett to locate the source of the outbreak.
McGarrett offers himself up to get a hostage from harms way. Big Chicken vows to get his revenge against McGarrett.
A mysterious envelope and photo arrives for McGarrett which makes him believe that a serial killer is stalking the workers of a local business.
A Maui policeman begins an investigation on his own to find the murderer of his young son, a promising boxer. But McGarrett believes he is out for revenge and will destroy his own career.
McGarrett heads to L.A. when he discovers his sister has fallen under the advice of a fake healer who claims he can cure her sick child. but when he arrives he finds that the healer has turned McGarrett's sister against him.
McGarrett needs to find evidence he can use against Dr. Fremont to prove he has committed murder, but his sister still believes in the man.
McGarrett faces a wall of distrusting and uncooperative anti-war activists when he investigates the murder of the student leader.
Danno shoots a safecracker in which Chin Ho and Dan Williams were tracking down after her pulls a gun on him. So McGarrett takes his place in order to merge in with a gang of thieves.
Kono's distant uncle, Sam Kalakula is being scared by his niece and nephew, who are making him believe he is being visited by Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire. They hope to frighten Sam into selling his land to a real estate mogul.
McGarrett investigates the mysterious murder of Anna Schroeder, who had just recently collected insurance money following her husband's death in Vietnam. Before long, he realizes this is the latest in a series of similar murders - an apparent scheme to collect the insurance payoffs for servicemen killed in action, and involving fraudulent marriage licenses. Two of those involved never expected murder, and when one of them tries to bow out, the ringleader drives him to a deserted curve of road and pitches his heart pills over a cliff before leaving him there to die. A young woman named Yoko agrees to help McGarrett trap the suspect, but McGarrett doesn't realize what's really going on, and that almost costs Yoko her life!
Yoshio Nagata escapes from a psychiatric hospital. Out of touch with reality, he still believes it is 1941. Back then, he was a member of the Black Dragons, a sabotage and terror ring planted by the Japanese in advance of their Pearl Harbor attack. Now, Nagata intends to complete his long ago mission and destroy a fuel depot. And he has a formidable array of ninjutsu skills to help him carry out his mission. If McGarrett can't stop him, half of Honolulu will disappear in a ball of fire!
Mysterious men break into a weather station and from there issue a false tsunami warning. While the island struggles to prepare for the devastating wave, a mastermind makes his move, kidnapping brilliant genetics researcher Harold Lochner as he flees to safety. His plan is to ship the professor to Red China, where he'll continue his work. But a health problem and the professor's own cunning intellect complicate matters, allowing McGarrett the opportunity to once again thwart the evil Wo Fat!
Hapless hardware salesman Marty Sloane decides he's going to do the convention thing, and score himself a nice looking lady. But she's actually a high class prostitute, and worse than that, she's stolen something from mobster Charlie Bombay. Bombay interrupts the pair while Sloane is still working up his nerve. From a hiding place, Marty watches Bombay pitch the girl over a balcony to her death. Now Sloane has the key - literally and figuratively - to putting Bombay away for a long time. But revealing what he knows would cost him his reputation back home. And then Bombay learns who he is and what he saw...
Latin American revolutionary Elpidio Acuna sneaks into Hawaii seeking weapons. He and his men break into an armory and steal a large cache of weapons, which they intend to use to further their goals back home. But in the raid, police wound Acuna and capture him. His men escape with him, but he has only hours before the delicate repair to his femoral artery fails fatally. McGarrett wants to find him and the weapons, but even the threat of death won't persuade him. However, McGarrett, and Elpidio's wife Marla, might have something that will.
The murder of a Chinese radical draws the attention of Five-O, who begin to suspect a Chinese spy ring might be responsible. They come to believe Dr. Paul Farrar might be a member of this ring. McGarrett places undercover policewoman Joyce Bennett in Farrar's class, but what he doesn't know is that Farrar reports to the sinister Wo Fat, who once taught the psychologist advanced hypnotic techniques! Wo Fat has informants everywhere, and they soon reveal Bennett's real identity, allowing Farrar and his skills to turn her into a lethal operative aimed directly at the chief of Five-O.
Professor Erich Stross, an international terrorist has created a plot to destroy Hawaii's sugar cane with a fungus, which accounts for nearly half the world's supply.
McGarrett investigate the leader of four university students who have a plot to steal the priceless cloak of the King Kamehameha.
Nicole Wylie is a witness to a crime who fled Hawaii for Singapore instead of testifying. McGarrett receives a call in which he's told Nicole now wants to testify and he must return her safely to the islands.
When a prominent politician, Charles Irwin, becomes the victim of an assassination attempt, the investigation's prime suspect becomes Mike Finney, a former racketeer who had been out of the business for nearly a decade. Although Finney insists he is innocent, the clues all lead from him back to Irwin.
McGarrett gets involved with the complexity of politics when a plane carrying a hated dictator is diverted to Hawaii for his killing.
Two kidnappers known as the Devil and Mr. Frog, have snatched the son of a businessman. But after he makes his escape, McGarrett must the ransom money in which his desperate father had already paid off.
Two young men have engaged in a deadly game to impress a gorgeous heiress, who loves the attention and plays each against one another.
McGarrett is tricked into protecting the wrong bank from a robbery by a old time criminal.
McGarrett is blinded when a birthday present explodes in his face as an assassination attempt. Meanwhile, the Five-O team search for the mastermind of the crime.
McGarrett investigates a shooting when a Navy MP is unjustly shot by an AWOL sailor, John Mala.
A Vietnam veteran is caught up in a plot by a psychiatric worker to make him believe he is insane.
Lorenzo Corman arrives in Hawaii to revenge the death of his brother Peter, who was killed during a poker game. McGarrett needs to find out the facts before Lorenzo carries out his plan.
The Five-O investigates when one of their own, Chin Ho Kelly, is accused of taking a bribe.
Danno's friendship with police officer Lew Morgan becomes strained after he begins an investigation into the murder of his wife, uncovering secrets along the way.
Revolutionaries have arranged to transport Dr. Royce, a research scientist, away from Hawaii inside of a submarine. McGarrett has been assigned to stop them before they reach the sub but is confronted with federal agents who are interfering in the case..
McGarrett investigates when a biologist disappears after he creates a biological mutation which will destroy every life form known to mankind.
McGarrett must find a missing vial of the deadly toxin before it is released unto the world, destroying everything in sight.
A female con artist has wrangled an invitation to the unveiling of the Queen of Polynesia emerald, which she intends to steal and replace for a fake stone.
The daughter of the countries top neurosurgeon is kidnapped just as he is to start an operation on a wounded U.S. agent.
A batch of contaminated heroine may end the comeback attempt for a famous drug addicted female singer.
McGarrett must end an assassination attempt on a Greek doctor who has exiled himself onto the Hawaiian islands.
McGarrett may find his job in jeopardy when he investigates the murder of a lawyer, who's prime suspect is his own wife whom McGarrett was once engaged to.
McGarrett must find the missing priceless violin which was stolen from a Russian virtuoso, before the case becomes an international incident.
As the members of the Five-O attempt to rescue a young boy from his kidnappers, Kono is taken captive and severely beaten.
McGarrett is hospitalized as a wealthy businessman dies in a boat explosion, leaving Danno to take over the investigation.
A Japanese businessman is recognized by Mitch Bradley as being the World War II officer who held him captive and submitted him to torture, and now wants his revenge.
One of Hawaii's most wanted felons has hired a hitman to kill the only witness to a 2-year old murder case he was involved in. But the hitman has fallen in love with his target, leaving a small window of opportunity for McGarrett to rescue her before the hitman goes through with the job.
A top Hawaiian singer who is outspoken about pollution has been made the fall guy for the bombing of the sewage treatment plant, by a gang of criminals.
A master thief is leaving behind a clue after committing a robbery, Monopoly money in the place of his haul, leaving the Five-O gang playing a game of wits.
A murderer has killed Dan Williams' fiancée, leaving a clue behind on the victims' leg...a message written in lipstick. Danno is out to catch the killer before he strikes again.
McGarrett chases down two kidnappers/murderers who have been on the run for six years now. But now they also have their ex-partners hunting them down too.
A dying man confesses to a convict, Harry Kellum, that he was responsible for the murder in which Kellum was convicted for. McGarrett works as a negotiator when Kellum takes a doctor hostage in response to the news.
Frank Kuakua, a Hawaiian cowboy, accidentally kills a real estate agent who wanted him to sell his land. McGarrett heads to the mountains by horse while Danno takes on the search via a helicopter.
A group of thugs help break Sheldon Orwell, a genius with electronics, out of prison so he can help rob the Honolulu Diamond Exchange of its jewels.
Danno poses as a draft dodger to uncover the facts behind the death of Jack Rigney, a Vietnam War hero who fell from the balcony of his apartment. One suspect is Jack's brother, Michael, who is also planning on heading to Canada to flee the draft.
A group of international agents head to Hawaii to bid on $20 printing plates, which McGarrett's former friend is holding in his possession.
The Five-O gang are trying to keep the U.S. from being overrun with counterfeit bills, while crossing paths with treason and murder.
An arms dealer has arranged for his wife to be kidnapped so he can receive a higher price for the guns from the beleaguered government.
The wife of a convicted man wants her husbands case reopened and fakes the evidence of a new crime so that McGarrett will do just that.
When the brother of a young boy who was shot by Danno is released from prison, he makes plans to exact his revenge. His scheme is to take Chin Ho and Jenny hostage inside of McGarrett's office, then explain that he will blow them up if they do not give him Danno.
When baseball star Lon Phillips receives death threats, he decides to leave Hawaii for the mainland along with his mentally challenged son.
Lon Phillips' mentally challenged son is the key witness to a murder, but refuses to give the details to Five-O or even his dad.
An archaeological dig unearths two skeletons of possible murder victims from ten years earlier, reopening the case for Five-O.
The Five-O investigates the murder and burning of several bodies, which were arranged by gangster Johnny Oporta and the victims are his biggest enemies.
The faces of murdered women are showing up with their faces made-up to look exactly like a former hooker, who has since left the business and is happily married.
A gang has entered the Hawaiian islands with over $750,000 in phony traveler's checks to cash in.
Danno investigates at Berkeley College concerning an embezzlement in which a hippie has stolen a key to a locker which contains $250,000.
A young Vietnam veteran has created a bunker at Diamond Head and is taking shots at the innocent people and the policemen in the area.
McGarrett is called to the airport where he is to investigate a slain security officer, but discovers a gang who are stealing cargo from the airport to sell on the black market.
While McGarrett is away in Maui for a trail, a group of five otherwise normal citizens have banded as one to rob $6,000,000.
The husband of a murdered woman looks like the prime suspect after McGarrett finds holes in the confessed killer's story.
A fired police officer plans on murdering the Governor, blaming McGarrett and the Five-O gang for his dismissal.
A gang war between four different ethnic backgrounds is about to erupt as a mainland syndicate is trying to take over criminal operations.
A mob boss wants revenge on a punchy ex-boxer who tried preventing a young fighter from falling down the same road he had by smashing his hand.
The Five-O search for the person behind the ecological pranks which have so far been harmless, but seems to be threatening the lives of those who cause the pollution along the island.
Lewis Avery Filer, from an earlier episode, has now escaped from prison and plans to steal $4,000,000 from a group of drug smugglers.
As a means of baiting her fiancé to come out of hiding and walk into an assassination, a woman fakes her own suicide.
Wo Fat has set up McGarrett as a thief in order to get him out of his way so he can have the 90 seconds he needs to carry out his plot against a US missile tracking base.
McGarrett must find a way to stop Wo Fat from carrying out his plot against the missile tracking base.
McGarrett believes the braggart soldier accused of beating and raping a woman may indeed be innocent.
An eccentric millionaire is deemed mentally incompetent by his associates when he refuses to leave his yacht and defend himself against charges that he killed one of his business partners.
McGarrett investigates the deaths of three shady real estate agents who all died of the same method...insjesting poison from a rare shellfish.
A woman is given excess police protection from McGarrett when her boyfriend breaks out of prison.
A murdered Chicago mobster leads to a wealthy young widow who is made a victim of an intricate blackmail scheme.
The U.S. Seventh Fleet has a drug ring operating from within, leading Danno to go undercover.
The Five-O searches for a former Army soldier who is killing the wives of his former platoon as they visit their husbands while on furlough.
When the Five-O team turns its big guns on crime boss Piro Manoa he tries to turn the tables by creating an impression of corruption on the team and implicating Duke in a murder.
The galpal of a racing driver is the prime suspect in the murder of two members of the driver's support staff.
Private eye Sam Tolliver flies from Texas to Hawaii to help out a friend being blackmailed, but he ends up teaming up witht he blackmailer for a share of the profits.
Danny shoots an apparently armed teenage robber but when it turns out the youth was unarmed the situation could get explosive.
Wo Fat steals a mobile ICBM device and McGarrett must track him down before he sells it to the highest bidder.
Army technician Jack Gulley kidnaps a scientist and puts him up in an auction to foreign powers, and has his accomplices plan a raid on a military base to divert attention from his scheme.
Five-O tries to track down the killer of a doctor who was tracking venereal disease. The trail intersects with the murder of a woman who was friendly with an up-and-coming politician.
Danny is found dazed and confused in the back of a truck and unable to remember how he got there. McGarrett and the rest try to help him piece together how he got himself in such a situation.
Classic three-part episode about McGarrett's battle against the Vashon crime family. First up is son Chris who just committed a daring hotel robbery.
Crime boss Honore Vashon puts out a contract against Steve McGarrett, who was responsible for the death of his son.
McGarrett has taken out two of the three leading members of the Vashon crime family. Son Chris is dead and father Honore is in prison. Now it's patriarch Dominick's turn to take down McGarrett and his plot is so devious that it might just succeed.
A group of Hawaiian nationalists have a backup plan if they're arrested. When McGarrett and the team arrests them, they discover what the plan is: timed explosives in government buildings.
A husband and wife team of con artists get caught between a rock and a hard place when they scam the wrong persons.
A couple kidnaps young children and sells them to a mainland adoption agency.
Before a female convict will testify against a hood, she demands to be allowed to get married and have a honeymoon.
An electronics genius targets a psychiatrist and his patients.
The leading suspect in a murder would have to have been in two places at once in order to commit the crime. Can Five-O figure things out?
A man comes up with a nearly foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
McGarrett and the boys must protect a Soviet defector from being killed.
Two simple-minded kidnappers snatch a young girl and hide out in a bunker on Diamond Head. Five-O must get the girl to safety and discover why the kidnappers performed the deed.
The syndicate bumps off a travel agent who's been conducting gambling trips. Reason: they don't like the competition.
Chin Ho's daughter becomes involved with the son of a crime boss who's the target of the latest Five-O investigation.
A burglary at the home of a well-to-do family sets off a chain of events that includes murder.
A single juror votes innocent on the trial of a major crimelord and McGarrett tries to figure out why.
An amputee who has lost his hands swears revenge on the Hawaiian cops he believes responsible... including Steve McGarrett.
A serial killer who strikes every six weeks is using a newspaper comic strip as his model. He's killing people whom he imagines are being mean to his favorite comic strip character.
Diseased rats on a charter boat threaten bubonic plague across Hawaii.
The murderous Ferguson clan arrive in Hawaii after leaving a trail of victims on the mainland.
A known arsonist is wanted for setting a series of fires on Sundays, but McGarrett and the team suspect someone is framing him.
A corrupt federal agent kills a fugitive tax evader for the $600,000 he is carrying. Then he loses the money.
When a big-time pimp is murdered, war between two rival vice syndicates threatens to break out.
McGarrett and the team investigate a crooked inheritance scheme involving the murder of wealthy men.
A beautiful woman, Miyoshi, sets up an opal smuggler so she and her friends can rip him off and steal from a jewelry store at the same time.
A female assassin, Rita Salazar, is sent to impersonate the daughter of a dictator, Emilos Ramos, and dispose of him.
McGarrett becomes suspicious of a document expert in a case involving forged government securities.
A gang threatens to set off a small nuclear weapon in Honolulu.
A gambler is the subject of large bets over what time he will assume room temperature.
A valuable stolen coin is stolen and ends up falling into numerous hands.
Mock military maneuvers leave a bank wide open for a robbery.
While filming on a popular surfing beach, the photographer catches a murder on camera.
A pair of mainland crooks team up with local Hawaiian grifters to use phony diamonds to prey on wealthy tourists.
After witnessing a murder, a young man and his family become the next targets of the killer.
A Federal narcotics officer discovers that his son is up to his neck in a heroin refining operation.
McGarrett and company get on the trail of a gold smuggling ring when they discover gold dust on a dead man.
A man posing as a police officer commits a series of rapes.
McGarrett goes after a vigilante who's been meting out his own brand of justice to those who have managed to escape it.
Clues in a robbery/kidnapping lead the Five-O team to a cruise ship.
A jewel thief is running Five-O around in circles by leaving a series of taunting clues behind.
Danny and a college professor are kidnapped by a group of long-haired, maggot infested student radicals led by a hardcore criminal.
A geophysics expert, heavily in debt, comes up with a dastardly scheme to get out from under. He plans to cause a volcanic explosion which will bury the city of Hilo unless he's paid a million dollars.
A whack job begins committing murders that are based on the old cases of Hawaii Five-O.
The Five-O squad must trap a sophisticated thief who's selling his goods to legitimate businessmen.
A schizophrenic state senator begins trying to kill himself but kills his secretary instead with a letter bomb.
A cop is in a panic when his gun is stolen by a robber. It seems as though the cop used it to kill a bank robber a few years back and now the corpse has been uncovered.
A cattle baron takes the law into his own hands when his son is found beaten to death.
The victime of a gangland hit is discovered to have been using two identities. Which one was the target?
Five-O investigates when seemingly infallible security systems break down and priceless works of art are pilfered.
A female art dealer might have something to do with an attempt on the life of Steve McGarrett.
Con men use a group of Five-O lookalikes as part of an extortion scheme.
Wo Fat returns and this time he's out to assassinate a Chinese diplomat whom he considers too soft on the West.
The Five-O team tries to discover why a Japanese businessman seemingly committed hara-kiri.
A murder in Honolulu is linked to a human fossil which was smuggled out of China at the conclusion of World War II.
A computer foul-up sends a murder investigation off course. Can McGarrett and company still solve the case?
Three pistol packin' mamas, desperately in need of cash, take to robbing tour buses.
McGarrett and a prosecutor disagree over how to handle a seven year old boy being held as a material witness to a murder.
Five figurines are stolen and the million dollar reward for their return sets off a chain of murder.
An unfinished painting is the only clue to the whereabouts of a whack job who killed his doctor.
An elaborate heroin smuggling scheme comes unglued when one of the gang decides to sell out the plan for a fix.
In order to prevent a gang war from breaking out, McGarrett must track down a hitman and his intended target.
A mentally ill former Army officer shoots a cop and takes a young damsel hostage. McGarrett finds himself at odds with a Honolulu PD captain over how to handle the situation.
In this pro-gun control themed episode, a Saturday night special passes from person to person thus wreaking havoc for both Five-O and others.
The sale of illegal airline tickets costs several people their lives. Five-O must work with an air traffic investigator to put an end to things.
McGarrett, doing his annual Naval Reserve duty, is called to investigate the letter bomb killing of a Naval officer. The trail leads to arch-nemisis Wo Fat.
McGarrett must battle arch-nemesis Wo Fat again in a plot that includes hostages and brainwashing.
McGarrett has his plane crash in the Hawaiian forests while bringing a fugitive mobster into custody. Danny and the rest begin a search for their missing leader.
A British agent arrives in Hawaii. He says he's in pursuit of a traitor but things may not be as they appear.
Five-O searches for a damsel who witnessed a murder before a hitman gets to her first.
An accident starts a trail that leads to a plot to use a Surface-to-Air missile to bring down a jet plane carrying a VIP.
McGarrett must face another old foe, Honore Vashon, once again when he offers himself as an exchanged hostage during a prison riot. Vashon proceeds to put McGarrett on trial for the murder of his son.
The search is on for a suspected Chinese defector being sheltered by a crotchety scientist.
Five-O has its hands full protecting a singer who witnessed a Mob murder.
Danny's aunt arrives in Hawaii for a visit followed by the death of a man whom she met on her flight.
A school vice-principal recruits a couple of his students to help him smuggle narcotics and steal a submarine.
After failing to prevent a series of dockside warehouse thefts, Five-O gets in hot water with an angry owner.
A writer trying to solve a seven year old murder case uncovers a body but the discovery brings about more questions than answers.
After a hard night of drinking, three hooligans gang rape a waitress. One of them happens to be the son of a United States Senator.
Trying to stop a smuggling ring, McGarrett is seemingly caught illegally possessing an Asian statue.
A whack job steals nerve gas to use against a visiting royal family.
Five-O seeks the killer of an importer who was a Japanese spy during World War II.
A clear cut murder case against a mobster suddenly starts coming unglued.
Five-O investigates when a newly completed Global Trade building goes up in flames.
Five-O searches for the killer of a flight attendant and a hang-gliding instructor.
This time Five-O goes after agricultural terrorists who are out to destroy Hawaii's sugar cane crop with a special type of moth.
Kidnappers place their victim, the son of a wealthy Japanese businessman, in an underwater capsule until the ransom is paid.
The kidnapping of the wife of a wealthy land developer isn't exactly what it first appears to be.
The theft of gold from a supply warehouse leads to a home for juvenile offenders so McGarrett places an undercover agent there.
Wo Fat returns to bedevil McGarrett. He has a plan to secure a quantity of deadly V9 nerve gas and destroy McGarrett at the same time. When a thief steals the canister, McGarrett pursues it to Hong Kong - exactly as Wo Fat hoped he would...
McGarrett and Five-O must figure out how to recover the deadly nerve gas, and how to prove that McGarrett was framed. And McGarrett faces his own battle to regain his sanity and will, and throw off Wo Fat's "behavior modification through stress."
A thief named Lambert uses the King Kamehameha Day parade as a diversion to distract law enforcement away from the bank he intends to rob.
Racketeers begin forcing Honolulu's prostitutes to pay protection money figuring that they won't go to the police for help.
Five corpses discovered in the crater of an active volcano trigger a massive investigation - they're radioactive! McGarrett and his team, along with expert Dr. Ormsbee, race to discover the source of the deadly radiation. Beneath a factory that makes dental instruments they discover something far, far worse.
A man found dead on a plane and a hotel employee murdered in a park cannot possible be connected - can they? McGarrett realizes that they are, and that their deaths mean that someone attending a secret OPEC meeting is in grave danger from a top flight assassin.
Hunter Hickey, a master forger whom McGarrett once sent to jail, completes his sentence. Now a free man, he comes to Hawaii - he's got his eye on some Navy funds, and on revenge against McGarrett, whose office is soon under investigation in connection with corruption allegations...
The discovery of a several bodies on a yacht triggers an investigation - McGarrett's determined to find and stop these modern day pirates. He puts Danny undercover on another likely target boat, and sure enough, the pirates strike...
Jim Spier goes over the wall to escape a sentence for a crime he swears he didn't commit. He goes to see his step daughter Anita Newhall for help, but that just makes things worse.
After Ann Waring inadvertently captures "dead" gangster Vincent Kauoli on film the truth trickles out: reports of his death may have been exaggerated, and a ploy to save his life from the murderous designs of rival Doyle Weston. To salvage his plan, Kauoli must silence Waring and recover the film.
Millions of dollars of Chang Liu's laundered cash disappear, and the culprit is his own daughter Lee Mei! She's working with a boyfriend, Jerry Quan, to pillage her father's illegal enterprise. But she doesn't realize that one of Quan's men has plans of his own...
There's a rash of shootings - and the targets are police responding to calls. The Iron Brain at Five-O spits out a name - Nathan Purdy - but he cannot be guilty, because he has been confined to a wheelchair for years. Finally, McGarrett decides to set a trap of his own...
When his girlfriend dies of an overdose, former junkie John Kling decides to get revenge on the people who imported, distributed, and sold the heroin that killed her. To do it, he assumes the identities of gangsters from movies.
McGarrett enjoys some private time with his girlfriend Cathi Ryan - who then dies under circumstances that suggest McGarrett killed her! Of course he's innocent, but he's going to have a tough time proving it - this criminal has build his frame well.
Four robberies have netted thieves more than a hundred and fifty guns. Despite all having serial numbers, none of these weapons has surface on the islands. McGarrett also wonders why a local hitman has tried to kill a visiting Japanese businessman named Harold Asuna. And when he investigates, he discovers Asuna has vanished from the hospital. Five-O tracks down Asuna and discovers he's really Kimo Nahashi, and that his visit to the islands and the attack on him are both connected to the thefts...
Marcus Lucien, a serial rapist and murderer, escapes while en route to prison. He flees into the mountains - the very place where Attorney General Manicote's daughter Karen is on a field trip. Wobbling between insane banter and deadly threats, the psychotic Lucien kidnaps Karen and her friend, a mute named David, and forces them to help him cross the mountains.
Mike Welles is into a shark for a lot of money, and he hasn't got much time to pay it off. Fortunately, he lucks into an answer when he witnesses Victor Palua kill a policeman in a hit-and-run accident. Welles blackmails Palua, and his schemes might drag down his sister Sandi, an HPD officer.
Clinton Palmer, an old man forced from his home by a new youth center, plans to fight back: he wires himself as a human bomb and then seizes control of Jimmy Borges's show at the Palm Plaza. He demands the governor come and make it right. When she sees this on television, crazy Mary Beth Rogers hatches a scheme to use the old man's siege to free her equally nutty boyfriend, currently about to be transported to the mainland. She tricks her way into the hotel and manages to get hold of the detonator. Now Palmer, who never really wanted to hurt anyone, faces even tougher choices...
A pair of punks named Dennis and Quincy hatch a kidnapping: they snatch singer Bobbi Jo and plan to demand a half million dollars ransom. But their boat grounds in a storm and they're forced to seek shelter in a rickety cabin and improvise. And since neither of them is a rocket scientist, that's unlikely to end well.
The Jovanko brothers try to purchase a piece of a local football club so they can launder the proceeds of their rackets through it, but McGarrett frustrates Jovanko again and again. Eventually, Jovanko, insane with rage, hatches a scheme to throw McGarrett off his guard, so he can return to the island in disguise and put McGarrett out of the picture.
Grant Ormsbee returns, this time to extract whatever he can from recovered Soviet submarine components. A year earlier, the Navy recovered about half of a downed Soviet submarine, and now new debris has drifted in to shore - including a unit that Ormsbee believes will help him read the computer core. He adds Margaret Hammond, an expert in ocean currents, to his team to help retrieve any additional debris. But gangsters capture David Hammond, Margaret's brother. Why is their boss Emil Radick so interested in Naval research?
Susie Wanane returns to Hawaii from her mainland college to look into the apparent disappearance of her brother Billy. Eventually, Five-O discovers that Billy's friend Lani is also missing - and when their bodies wash up, the hunt becomes a murder investigation.
Mike Daniels plans an elaborate revenge on police detective Babe Mandel, who led a raid that resulted in Mike's imprisonment and the death of Mike's brother, ironically innocent of wrongdoing. First Daniels and his lover Liana kill a man, and then Daniels forces Sonny Mandel, Babe's daughter, to handle the weapon. He believes she'll go to prison. She manages to escape, and seeks sanctuary in a cult-like group where no one can find her. But a surprise witness leads McGarrett to question her guilt regardless - and some help from Babe puts McGarrett on the right track towards the identity of the mastermind.
Kids demonstrate their hang-gliding prowess steal King Kamehameha's cape. Elsewhere, Lou Marvin's men have failed to steal a shipment of M-16 rifles, and the prank gives one of Marvin's men an idea how to complete the theft: he'll use the hang gliding kids to deactivate the alarm and allow his men to enter the armory warehouse.
"Father" Daniel Costigan comes to Hawaii, there to make connections that will move money and explosives back to his native Ireland, where they'll be used to help prosecute the Irish rebellion. But Five-O has no intention of allowing killers and terrorist bagmen free run of their islands!
Armed men hijack the Alderbaran, a cargo ship in Zeno Stavrick's fleet. The red ball interrupts McGarrett's first day off in three months, teaming him with Navy Commander Hawkins to find and recover the ship. It seems the Aldebaran carries a Top Secret cargo the Navy wants back.
McGarrett must deal with reporter Terri O'Brien, in from Newsworld to do a story on Five-O with the governor's support. Against the transparency to which this exposes Five-O, he must locate a missing child.
Joey Kalima, a rookie cop and McGarrett's friend, gets in a jackpot when police nab his "Uncle" Keoki for bookmaking while Joey attends a party. It's all part of a larger scheme hatched by Marco, owner of a record shop, who has his eye on a plump fiduciary prize: the bank next door. But he can't tunnel into it with a cop walking the beat that includes his store, so that cop - Joey Kalima - has to go...
Archaeologist Charles Underwood, supervising a dig on the main island, finds himself roused from sleep by a mysterious intruder trying to steal his journal. A day later, he's dead, floating in a bay about a mile from the dig. Did traditionalists who wish to preserve the location of King Kamehameha's burial site silence him before he could find it? Or was some other motive at play? McGarrett's determined to find out, but to do so, he'll need the help of a kahuna - a Hawaiian cleric.
Harry Kegel leaves his job at the Flynn Armored Car company for the last time and returns home. He leaves his home with a suitcase as two men approach: Sakai and Vic Salazar. Fleeing them, Kegel rolls his car and burns along with most of the money. McGarrett soon learns this money came from an armored car heist that occurred eighteen months earlier - and so does ex-drunk, ex-HPD cop Marty Cobb, who returns to the island with the idea of putting things right. But that just stirs up a hornet's nest...
John Knight is a reporter, and the subject of his current investigation is a sleazy real estate developer named Frank Devlin. Knight receives a telephone call from a voice asking if he wants to purchase information about Devlin - he does, his final, fatal mistake, for this meet was a set-up. Naturally, Devlin is McGarrett's first suspect, but he has an airtight alibi. To make his case, McGarrett will have to apply the right kind of pressure to the right flaw in Devlin's organization - an ex-astronaut named Richard Royce.
Peter Valchek plays for Team East, a Soviet-bloc collection of tennis players. He also smuggles diamonds, a fact that does not escape the eyes of security officer Denisovich, who dies for his discovery. Against this backdrop, Team East player Katrina Bukowski wants to defect, something Team West player Brent Saunders is more than willing to help her do. But Peter sees an opportunity: he exploits Saunders's suspicious behavior to misdirect McGarrett's murder inquiry.
Maria Noble runs a secret organization whose operative Michael Trikonis is a visual duplicate of Naval officer David Harner. Noble exploits this similarity to get her man into various top secret operations so that he may steal classified data - but the murder of Harner's pal Dominic Rizzo brings in McGarrett, who never lets go of a killer's trail...
A group of students who call themselves the Brain Trust plan a hoax tidal wave (something last attempted by the sinister Wo Fat in season two). They plan this distraction as cover for a jewelry store robbery, and perhaps a little bit for the thrill of pulling the wool over Hawaii's eyes.
Nobel Prize winning dissident Sandanarik, exiled from an unnamed Asian country, drowns in his swimming pool. It might be an accident, except that he was set to deliver an indictment of his homeland's repressive policies at an upcoming conference. His wife is certain forces from their home murdered Sandanarik. McGarrett probes the case, and may finally have an answer when he discovers a surprising witness.
A native, David Kaluna, may be responsible for the disappearance of Debbie Cameron, daughter of extremely rich shipping entrepreneur George Cameron. But he may not be: she and David both disappeared shortly after George threatened to send his daughter to a Swiss boarding school. Cameron has pull with the governor because he makes large contributions, so McGarrett catches the case - a fact he resents, given Cameron's apparent bigotry. Aware that McGarrett resents him, Cameron determines to find his straying daughter his own way.
Constance Kincaid celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Gideon Webb's medical practice. But Dr. Webb has his detractors, among them Dr. John Palahana, who has come from the funeral of a patient he believes was the victim of Webb's age-corroded skills. So when someone murders Webb, suspicion naturally falls on Palahana. Looking into it, McGarrett soon sniffs out deceit and a crooked land deal...
McGarrett leaves to handle family business in San Francisco, at the height of Five-O's investigation into the murder of Anton Krebs, a longshoreman's union candidate. Perhaps coincidentally, a new longshoreman named Riley appears, a hard drinking womanizer who slugs cops and hangs out at the sleazier Honolulu dives...
Congressman John Carr is a man of impeccable character who might one day become President. Well, until he cheats on his wife while judging a Honolulu beauty contest. That gives blackmailer David Chang a lever with which to move the Congressman about - and Chang has a very specific use for a tame congressman...
McGarrett very much wants to arrest and prosecute hoodlum Jack Fabian for the murder of an undercover HPD officer. His problem is that Fabian is also a witness, granted immunity and under the protection of Department of Justice agent Al Marsh.
Danno's at a surfing contest as a judge, when he (and therefore Five-O) become involved in the the apparent murder of Lorca Davidson by her boyfriend, contest competitor Ben Hanakea. All the clues suggest Ben's the guilty party, which only makes Danno look deeper.
After one of Five-O's undercover men, investigating a drug racket, turns up shot in the back, McGarrett needs another undercover operative. One choice is Maui officer Valerie Bates, but McGarrett's chauvinism blocks that choice until she persuades him that she can handle the job.
Willie Barker tries to get revenge on Yuhio Muromoto. It seems Muromoto tortured Barker's father in a Japanese prison camp, and the younger Barker wants revenge. But while engineering Muromoto's downfall, Barker becomes friendly with the man's daughter, Nancy.
When artist Addison Barlow dies, the depth of his hatred for his relatives stands revealed: his will leaves his considerable estate to whomever is still alive after a year. His attorney, Malcolm Rhodes, regards this as an invitation to murder, and indeed the first victim falls at the reading of the will: Barlow's sister Laura dies of a poisoned aspirin. McGarrett, present at Rhodes's request, must discover who killed her before more Barlow relatives die.
Kenneth Kirk runs a cryogenics outfit, claiming he can freeze and revive anyone. Millicent Shand isn't sure, and digs into it. And because she's a friend of the governor, McGarrett finds himself dragged into an investigation. But Millicent may actually be on to something here...
Luciana LaBella, a scandal-monger from an Italian rag, visits the islands and causes trouble for McGarrett. But she accidentally unearths a plot to kidnap another island visitor - a Middle Eastern princess.
There's a burning body in a cane field. It belongs to the owner of a horse farm whose widow moves quickly to sell the property - a little too quickly for McGarrett's taste.
Five-O loses one of its own when a punk named Jimmy Rego pierces Chin Ho's undercover disguise and guns him down. McGarrett puts the arm of Cappy Pahoa, boss of Hawaiian organized crime, to help him find Rego and put him away for good.
When government agent Philip Walden turns up dead, McGarrett must walk in his footsteps, learning what he was investigating, to find his murderer. That eventually leads him to the March Foundation and its strange director Dr. Rathman. The Foundation studies psychology and brainwashing with an eye towards countering them, but a foreign agent may have penetrated and compromised it.
Astrologer Agnes du Bois comes to McGarrett with predictions about the identity of a murderer that turn out to be so accurate, McGarrett comes to believe du Bois is at least involved in the crimes!
Courier Walter Sherman's attache case explodes and McGarrett believes he rigged the booby trap to go off and kill the recipients. And he did - but not of his own free will. Ultimately, Danno goes undercover to discover how this could happen and gets a first hand dose of a weird form of brainwashing that leaves him programmed to kill McGarrett!
Someone murders Penny Christie and law enforcement is pretty sure they know who: her husband Philip. But when they put him on trial, McGarrett, a member of the jury, isn't convinced. The lone voice of dissent, he brings his formidable deductive powers to bear, refusing to "go along" until he's convinced logically - or can convince the other jury members to change their opinions.
McGarrett and Five-O investigate the small time racketeer Johnny Noah, and McGarrett crosses paths once again with Federal investigator Kendricks, whom he considers a jackass. McGarrett goes undercover at one of the syndicates gambling dens as part of the investigation, and Kendricks arrests him when he raids the place!
Harrassment of Robert Tamara, the "Hawaiian Kennedy" prompts McGarrett to send Danno undercover into a local chapter of the National Socialist Movement - homegrown Nazis determined to keep bad ideas alive.
McGarrett believes there is more to a common robber's story than the simple robbery of King Tutankhamen's mask for fun, in which he is confessing to.
McGarrett schemes to provide Five-O inside information from a gang member by assisting him in a prison escape.
An encounter with an old girlfriend has Danno concerned when she is arrested for shoplifting, but fears that she is linked to a murder case.
Five-O is faced with their most bizarre case involving a love triangle when a Canadian politician becomes the victim of a hit and run accident.
An assassination attempt on a visiting minister uncovers that he may have been involved in the suspects wife's murder.
A mob war is on the horizon when the mainland syndicate moves in on the Hawaiian music scene.
Five-O must keep control of the growing rivalry between mob gangs before an all out war begins.
McGarrett and the Five-O are stumped when a bank robbery with a vault that is thief proof is emptied, and there are no clues left behind. All signs point to an inside job and the designer of the safe.
Millicent Shand, an elderly mystery writer is convinced that her nieces husband has faked his own death to get a hold of his wife's fortune.
McGarrett tries to warn a vacationing heiress that someone may be targeting her precious ruby for a theft, but she seems less than concerned.
A common photographer catches a politician on film making a deal with a mob figure and decides to make a fortune from it by blackmailing him. But he is unaware of the world he is stepping into and the ruthlessness of the mobsters.
A former cop is killing pimps around Hawaii to remove the girls from their prostitution grips.
McGarrett believes a doctor is guilty of over prescribing medicines to his patients, resulting in the death of a friends young son.
The Five-O is having trouble locating the high rise killer, and their job just got tougher as a journalist wants to pay for the exclusive story from the killer.
McGarrett and Danno go into Singapore to uncover a drug smuggling operation, after the government is blamed for a woman dying when hidden heroin packets explode inside her body.
McGarrett and Danno learn of where the heroin came from which caused the death of a woman in Hawaii.
McGarrett is caught up in the center of a battle between the Hawaiian mob and a local faction of the union workers concerning their upcoming elections.
McGarrett must prevent a street war when the local union and the Hawaiian syndicate battle over the coming union elections.
A Honolulu policewoman vows revenge against the robbers who shot down her husband.
A group of high society men want to make sure that justice is brought to the area, and on their terms.
After an astrologist foretells the impending doom for a boxer in his next match, McGarrett must shun his skepticism to use her clues to help him with a murder case.
"Pigs on the Wing"
McGarrett seems to be the only one who doesn't buy the theory that a woman who has been suffering frightening attacks is only seeing them in her mind, and that she is mentally ill as someone is trying to convince everyone.
When a pair of surfers use a handgun to rob a shop, it leads to a painful trail of death and misery, and McGarrett must find the gun before it wreaks anymore havoc.
A pair of political terrorists have taken a policewoman hostage to use in their scheme to complete their demands. McGarrett must take them out without harming the officer.
A young psychic on vacation has a vision which leads to the whereabouts of a missing cache of $2 million in stolen jewels.
Five-O investigates when the remains of two young boys are dug up on a private Hawaiian island in order to bury them at sea and prevent an autopsy being performed.
The husband of a wealthy socialite kidnapping victim objects to the Five-O being involved in the investigation of her disappearance, fearing she will be harmed if they do.
McGarrett and the Five-O try to keep a meeting of the energy ministers on track, when a group of international forces will do anything to stop it, even an assassination.
An old counterfeiter fails to see any problems arising by using ancient $1 plates to raise money for a worthy charity.
McGarrett believes something is not right when an aide to a southeast Asian premier comes to Hawaii to bring back the $150 million in gold from the country's treasury.
A radio controlled planes are being used by clever students to smuggle priceless jewels from an exhibition in Honolulu.
McGarrett and the Five-O are drawn into the world of the Nazi regime as the investigate the murder of a famed Nazi-hunter, who's bullet riddled body was found with a rare German medal upon his chest.
The Five-O investigate why a seemingly harmless group of bird watchers are being targeted for a bloody vendetta.
A candidate for the US senate finds his campaign in peril when his blackmailer is found murdered.
McGarrett disguises himself as a famous scientist to help find a missing colleague, and finds himself locked in combat once again with Wo Fat.