Hawaii Five-O (1968) s02e14 Episode Script

What if Williams doesn't take the bait? - He will.
He will.
- You're so sure, huh? Jerry Howe is Five-0's most reliable informer.
- Well? - McGarrett tell you I was gonna die? - My liver's pickled.
- Sorry, Jerry.
Yeah, sure.
Listen, Mr.
Williams, I got a kid I ain't seen in ten years.
I'd like to send him something.
You know, something.
I'll get you something, if we can use the tip.
You know something, kid, you got a heart like a pawnbroker.
Okay.
Gonna be a big bank hit.
- Where? - Bank of Hawaii, King Street.
- When? - Ten, tomorrow morning.
Who's caper? Oh, some haole.
I never saw him before.
He come around the neighborhood here, he was looking for an extra gun.
You know his name? No.
How could anybody pull a job like that on this rock? How could he get off? He said he had a fast car.
With water wings? Look, Mr.
Williams, you gotta believe me.
I wouldn't die lying to you.
Hundred bucks.
Cheap.
You know something? You're real cheap.
Jerry, I just hope I bought something.
Let's go.
He took the bait.
- Is that all he gave you? - It's a hundred bucks.
I'm gonna send it to my kid.
No.
No, I guess not.
Here you are, Sanders.
Cop money.
Hey, come on, you guys.
That's my money.
Yeah, come on, how about the 300 you promised me for conning the guy? Did we say that? Well, sure you did.
Yeah, you told me.
You said you're gonna give me three C's.
I know what I said, Jerry.
But you drink a lot, that makes you talk a lot too.
Sure.
Sure.
Forget the whole thing.
I wish we could do that, Jerry, but I'm afraid we can't forget anything.
- What are you doing here? - Oh, bank manager's inside.
- Name's Keokee.
- Go on home, love.
Mr.
Keokee? McGarrett.
- Where's the rear entrance? - Rear entrance? Rear entrance? We don't have one.
How do you get up on the roof? We have a fire ladder that runs the height of the building on the west side behind this wall.
Here are the teller counters.
Over here we have the Accounting Department, and just forward of it, the Real Estate and Loan Department.
Back to the secretary division and just behind that, the executive offices.
It's an impossibility, gentlemen.
No one could possibly rob this bank of anything important.
- Impossible? - Absolutely.
Well, let's press on anyway.
We have four remote-controlled television cameras like this one that watch the teller windows and the vault area.
We have a silent alarm system to the H.
P.
D.
, which are hidden down under here.
Remote-control front door locks and all the windows, and the most modern safe made.
No way to open it except by computer signal.
So you see, Mr.
McGarrett, we're just flat burglar-proof.
Mr.
Keokee, one thing I've learned.
For every bank vault, somewhere in the world there's a box man who can crack it.
William Mouse Hakaya.
Lots of experience with big boxes.
An expert in alarm systems.
Last safe he cracked was in Lewiston, Idaho.
They caught him, he served 12 years, moved back to Hawaii four years ago.
Nothing on him since.
Last known address, Next.
Ossie Connors.
Pittsburgh caper tripped him up.
His first big job, my first big arrest.
- And he took it like poison.
- Ben Carter jewelry job? You got it.
He's daring, cunning, and imaginative.
And he's visiting Hawaii.
H.
P.
D.
Airport detail spotted him arriving last week.
Next.
C.
C.
Hastings.
Junkie, mahu, con man.
What'd I do.
What'd I do? I'm clean.
I ain't done nothing.
- Ain't seen you around lately.
- Well, you ain't looked hard.
What have you been doing for bread these days, Hastings? Just nickel-and-diming when I can.
Hold up your hands.
- You happy now? - Yeah.
And make sure you keep us that way.
He couldn't hold a screwdriver, much less tap a box.
- Who's next? - Mouse Hakaya.
- What's up, coolies? - You got a big mouth, Hakaya.
- Nothing on him.
- See you around, fuzz.
Hold it.
You been up to something big? Sure, I'm going around with a 300-pound Hawaiian chick.
Now, who laid something on me? Looking for burn marks? Ain't handled a torch in years.
I tell you, I'm straight, man.
I'm straight.
And I'm making it big in numbers, okay? Flake it, Mouse.
- Clean? - Yeah.
And loose.
If Mouse was gonna break a bank in a few hours, he'd be plenty tight.
Let's go.
What are you doing in Hawaii, Connors? You know, McGarrett, you could use a little bit more of the aloha spirit.
I think you ought to be friendlier to someone that you put away for 10 years, huh? It seems like yesterday.
Hard time hasn't done you any harm.
No, just my feelings.
But I'll take freedom and a little cholesterol.
So how come you roust me out at 4:00 in the morning? I asked you what you were doing in Hawaii.
I came back here for a holiday.
I cleared it with my parole officer.
McGarrett, I'm clean.
I mean, I've gone legit.
My new racket is selling.
Well, I'm not buying.
And if you're here on a hit, I'll put you away for so long that 10 years will seem like a coffee break.
Now I've convinced everyone that I'm going straight.
The warden, the prison psychiatrist, and my parole officer.
I just can't seem to get anywhere with you, McGarrett, can I? No chance.
No chance.
All right.
I'm staying at 14 Ali Wana Boulevard.
Stop in sometime, I'll build you a mai tai with a cyanide float.
Connors.
I got a long arm.
Don't make me reach out for you.
I think we just struck out.
Yeah.
But I keep thinking of the Ben Carter jobs.
Three top jewelry shops knocked over like toys.
Police answered all three alarms.
Wound up almost shooting at each other.
How did you know it was Connors' job? Pittsburgh police picked up his driver on another charge.
The driver laid it on Connors.
I picked him up here before he had his suitcases unpacked.
The point is, there was more than a heist involved in those jewelry jobs.
Connors wanted to make the police look like fools.
To him the law is a joke and all cops are boobs.
- What do you got? - Hakaya and Hastings are clean.
Okay.
I want this island locked up, sealed tight by 10:00 in the morning.
That's six hours from now.
Coordinate with H.
P.
D.
Okay.
Here's the bank.
Here's King Street.
On the north, Beretania, on the south, Merchant Street.
Here's Sing Loo's drugstore right here, north of the bank.
One door south is a real-estate office.
Across the street is a mercantile firm, and Nomuru's Currency Exchange.
Now, this is the way we'll stake it out.
- Nine o'clock, let's go.
- Just one thing bothers me.
How are we gonna get off this rock after the job's over? I've got a fast car.
You're either putting me down or putting me on.
What fast car? My fast car is Pacific Armored Express.
Oh, I'm working with a comedian.
I gave you an answer.
I'm not going to spell it out.
The last time I told someone more than they had to know, I ended up in prison.
I'm not gonna make that mistake again.
Sanders, you ought to wear that mask all the time.
It does something for you.
Get out.
Scream and you're dead.
Please, take what you want, but please don't harm us.
All right, go ahead.
Call your husband.
Tosh.
Tosh? What is it, Michi? No questions.
Let's go for a ride, Nomuru.
Don't be afraid, Michi.
- They will not hurt me.
- If you do exactly as I say.
If not All right, move.
- You will not harm her? - That depends on you.
Move.
You keep an eye on her every minute.
Yeah, sure.
Come on, baby, relax.
Relax and sit down.
You and me are gonna get better acquainted.
I'm very worried about my wife.
You saw how frightened she was.
You do what I ask and no harm will come to her.
All right, remember, everyone, business as usual.
Kono, open up.
Let's go.
My employees are gonna be very surprised.
We don't open until 10:30.
- It's only 10:00.
- I know what time you open.
Now remember, it must go exactly as I said.
- I understand.
- All right.
Ring the bell.
It's me, Kydo.
- All right, this is a holdup.
- Please, listen to me.
No shouts, no alarms, do exactly as he says.
My wife is being held captive.
Your obedience guarantees her safety.
You two, get a cash box, fill it with pounds, francs, yen, anything you've got.
I like to have money wherever I go.
And you, you give them a hand.
All right.
Enough of this chicken feed.
Where's the real money? In the vault.
There are three bags.
Very valuable.
I'll get the money.
If you wanna see that pretty little wife of yours again, maybe you'd better stay here and be sure they're quiet.
- All right, Nomuru, what's going on? - I forgot.
Pacific Armored car.
They stop by every morning a few minutes before we open up.
What do they want? The money bags in the vault.
All right.
Everybody, right back where you were before I got here.
You were back in that room in there.
Here, take this.
Put it in your holster.
Leave it there.
Go let those men in.
Morning.
- Morning, Jim.
Fred.
- Hi.
Well, it's 10:30, and nothing's happened.
- All right, let's move.
- Please, it's after 10:30.
My first customers will be coming right away.
- I don't want anyone injured.
- No one's going to be injured.
The second we leave, open up for business.
Do not call the police or I will shoot Mr.
And Mrs.
Nomuru.
I guess Jerry Howe gave us a phony tip.
You bought it for $100.
I bought Howe's track record.
- Do you think we've been set up? - Maybe.
Maybe.
What does he mean? He means, Mr.
Keokee, that there's a chance we've been boxed.
While we've been tied up here, a crime is being committed someplace else.
- Yeah? - I picked up the groceries.
Tie up the wife and get out of there.
Meet me where we said.
I want you to leave as soon as I hang up.
Wait, Connors.
Connors, there's been a little mix-up here.
I'm sorry, Mr.
Nomuru, but there are some questions that just can't wait.
How much money was taken from your exchange? Mr.
Nomuru, I asked you how much money was taken.
About $40,000.
If Pacific Armored car had not stopped to make a pickup Yes? If they had not picked up, those two men could have stolen a half a million dollars.
Why does a small exchange like yours carry so much money? We buy and sell for smaller exchanges all through the islands.
You said there were two men.
Can you describe them? - They were masked.
- What kind of masks? Grotesque, it distorted their faces.
I couldn't tell.
Mr.
McGarrett, this is so difficult for me.
I understand.
But would you try to help us, please? Yes, you must get them.
- What else, Mr.
McGarrett? - The two men, can you describe them? Average.
One was darker than the other.
He was bigger, heavier.
How were they dressed? I don't remember.
Yes.
One of them, he wore brown and white shoes.
Yes, I'm sure of it.
I did everything I could to help them.
They repaid me by killing Michi.
They promised.
Please.
Please.
- May I? - I wouldn't if I were you.
- I'll fill you in later, McGarrett.
- Please, I should like to know the truth.
Mr.
Nomuru, there are some things that are best left to medical records.
Is there some place I can drive you, Mr.
Nomuru? Nowhere.
The truth, please.
Very well.
She tried to defend herself.
Tissue under the nails indicate she scratched her assailant.
She was strangled.
Tell me all of it.
Lay it out.
She was criminally assaulted.
What kind of a world do we live in, McGarrett? - When's the last time you saw Jerry? - Yesterday morning.
- Were you on duty last night? - And the night before that.
I'm the live-in slave.
Desk clerk, bellhop, janitor, you name it.
- Nobody asked for Jerry? - Who asks? Kind of visitors we get in this place use the back stairs.
- Can I go now? - Yeah, go ahead.
Steve.
He gives us a phony tip and he winds up murdered.
What you got? Looks like Jerry was sending the money to his kid.
The money you gave him.
Only no money.
Whoever took the twenties killed Jerry, huh? Maybe.
We'll see where that leads us.
Get on the horn, Danno.
Send a wagon.
Tell Jenny to dig up that list of serial numbers on the bills we gave Howe.
We found one bullet.
Entered the lower mandible, came out at the quadratus labii inferioris.
English spoken here, doc.
The bullet struck him back of the head from four, maybe five feet away and came out the lower lip.
- When? - Yesterday.
- Dead maybe 24 hours.
- Got the bullet? - And the ballistics report.
- Go.
The bullet was fired from a .
38 Special, McGarrett.
- I wanna talk to Connors again.
- Ain't been around his apartment.
Okay, while you're looking, spread these serial numbers around the islands.
- Post them so they can't be missed.
- Good as done.
You really think Connors took the currency exchange? I don't know, Danno.
I keep thinking about that Ben Carter job.
What's that got to do with this heist? When Connors took those three jewelry shops, he wanted the police to look like fools.
Same intent's behind the Nomuru job.
We're in a bank across the street from the currency exchange being heisted.
The arrogance, the contempt for the police.
Connors wears it like a mantle.
But you can't hang a guy because his personality fits the crime.
True.
But no two guys operate alike.
An m.
o.
Is like a fingerprint.
I'll tell you something else, Danno.
In that Pittsburgh jewelry heist, a cop was wounded with a .
38 police special.
The revolver was found on Connors.
And Jerry Howe was killed by a bullet from a .
38 police job.
Right.
Connors way of thumbing his nose at the law.
Think about it.
Steve.
That's what we get for looking the wrong way.
- At least it's a good likeness.
- Yeah.
- I don't like it.
- Now look, Walker, you told me you're busted.
I'm giving you $10,000 for 30 seconds work.
If it's so easy, why don't you do it yourself? He doesn't trust me.
I can't get close to him.
Well, what's that money box all about? I told you how he killed Mrs.
Nomuru, didn't I? Now, I want him found with some of the bread so they will take the heat off me.
Yeah? Who is it? Connors sent me with your payoff money.
Come on in, I'll buy you a drink.
How'd it go? Couldn't miss.
Let's get out of here.
Morning.
What do we got, Jenny? Surprise, McGarrett.
I hear you're looking for me.
You heard right.
In here.
Sit down.
Where you been, Connors? Around.
Surfing and sightseeing.
That's what paradise is all about, isn't it? You're a funny man, Connors.
You are still trying to tie me into that currency exchange robbery.
Yeah, and add two murders to that.
And you can't prove a thing, right? No, not yet, but I'm gonna bust a gut trying.
You know something, McGarrett? I'm gonna get you off my back by proving to you that I didn't do it.
Oh, and that will be the day.
You get a bigger charge out of giving us the needle than pulling a job.
I had nothing to do with this caper.
As a matter of fact, I even turned it down.
Yeah, who was the contact? Who was it? Who asked you in? If I tell you that, I'm a dead man.
Give me the name of the contact.
You nervous, Connors? Suppose we give you a little protection? I don't want protection.
All I want is for you to get off my back.
Not a chance.
But that's okay, Connors.
Just take your time.
You're not going anywhere.
All right.
The man who contacted me is a guy by the name of Joe Walker.
Just a punk.
Pushes pot, moves around a lot.
You'll find him.
Okay, Connors.
But there better be a Walker, and he better know what you're talking about.
Because if this is another one of your put-ons, watch out.
McGarrett.
Where, Danno? Yeah.
Yeah.
We're on our way.
Come on, we're going to take a little ride.
That makes 40.
All of Nomuru's money? - What have we got? - Unless I got my pounds, yens and francs mixed up, the whole 40,000 is here.
- Doesn't make sense.
- More than that adds up, Steve.
- What's that? - Couple of the twenties we paid Howe, we found them in Sanders' pocket.
- What about the scratch marks? - Three.
Right down the cheek.
It still doesn't add up.
Who's the guy with Sanders? No ID.
But why knock it? For once we get a break.
The Sanders caper, he and the gunsel committed the murders and set us up.
- What's not to buy? It's obvious.
- It's too obvious, Danno.
Well, look at it this way, Steve.
They were in a car, got into an argument.
The driver got his gun first, started shooting, then lost control of the car.
All wrapped up.
Bodies, Nomuru's money.
Connors, come here.
Take a look.
Paradise getting pretty rough, eh, McGarrett? Ever seen this one before? - Never saw him before in my life.
- How about the other one? Wait a minute.
That looks like Walker.
The fellow that contacted me.
- What happened? - You tell me.
Well, how should I know? Look, McGarrett, my capers are written up in textbooks.
Trying to tie me in with this amateur operation, that's insulting.
I'm sorry, Mr.
Nomuru, to put you through this.
Is that the man who robbed you? I'm sorry, Mr.
McGarrett.
I can't tell.
- The masks they were wearing - Okay, Connors, beat it.
Mr.
Nomuru, would you please take a look at those other two bodies, try to identify them? Chin.
I wanna know everything Connors did last night.
Where he ate, slept, drank, everything.
The works.
Danno, get blood and tissue samples from Sanders' face.
Make comparison tests with the material found under Mrs.
Nomuru's fingernails.
Somebody else might have scratched him.
Mr.
McGarrett.
I can't tell from his face, but I'm sure this is the man who murdered my wife.
- How can you be sure? - The shoes.
I remember his shoes.
What about the other man? His size, his shape, the color of his hair are about the same, but He's shabbier.
The other man was well-dressed.
Other than the shoes, can you make a positive identification of either man? I'm sorry, Mr.
McGarrett, but with those masks, I can't say.
I just can't tell.
Yeah, serial number checks.
Do you remember who passed it? As soon as I saw it was a 20, I went right to your list.
I'm not sure.
I guess I must have been excited.
Was it a man or a woman? A man, I'm sure of that.
Well, was he tall, short, fat, thin? All I remember, is that he bought a flower for his lapel, 50 cents.
Then he asked for change in quarters.
Nineteen dollars and fifty cents in quarters.
- Two-bit poker? - Or a phone call.
A long long-distance phone call.
That's right.
I remember now.
He asked if he could use our payphone.
Do you have the number? Jenny, contact the phone company.
I want all long-distance tickets placed from 287-1299 and rush it.
Yes, I have an open ticket on flight number one.
When can I leave? I'll be right there, baby.
Lab report.
Blood and tissue from under Mrs.
Nomuru's nails definitely came from scratches on Sanders' face.
Well, I still don't think Walker or Sanders could have planned that robbery.
They don't have the know-how or the guts.
Guts, know-how.
Steve, all I can see is a couple of gunsels whose ideas were too big for them.
Look, they blew half a million dollars to Pacific Armored with bad timing.
Yeah, and they murdered twice for nothing.
First, Jerry Howe, and then Mrs.
Nomuru.
So, what's it gonna be, Steve? Hard evidence or gut instinct? Mr.
Nomuru's here.
Send him in.
So like I told you, I was gonna cut the H myself and push it.
But I didn't.
Now, you gotta believe me.
Mr.
Nomuru, about a year ago, a man by the name of Joe Walker was picked up on a narcotics possession charge.
Honolulu Police Department taped his statement.
Does his voice sound like one of the two men? Mr.
McGarrett, the voice on that tape doesn't sound like either of the men.
Not the one who killed my wife, nor the one who robbed my exchange.
- I'm sorry.
- You're not disappointing me.
I would have bet that Joe Walker had nothing to do with the murder of your wife or the robbery.
- Well, I wish I could have helped.
- You have helped, sir.
You have.
Thank you, sir.
Boss, Connors left on flight one.
Stops at Manila, Okinawa and Hong Kong.
Anything from the phone company? Two long-distance phone calls from the florist shop.
- One to the mainland - Oh, forget it.
- And one to a Lee Atsukema.
- Where? Hong Kong.
- Mr.
Atsukema? - Yes? May I help you? Deak and Company, currency exchange, Honolulu.
I believe you're holding three bags of currency for us.
- Have you the manifests? - Yes.
Deak and Company, currency exchange.
- Anything wrong? - No, all in order.
You wish us to deliver the bags? No, thank you.
I've arranged to deliver them myself.
Perhaps somebody could help me take this out though.
But you're not taking them out.
This time we were watching the right store, Connors.
Freeze.
Freeze! You're under arrest.
Extradition papers.
You wanna read them? No.
I just want to know one thing.
How did you trace me here? You made a call to Atsukema.
Only you would have the gall to use an exchange in Hong Kong run by a retired cop.
The ultimate contempt.
I guess this means we head back to paradise, huh? That's where you're gonna be living, brother, for the next 199 years.
If you can call it living.
Take him.