Hawaii Five-O (1968) s02e23 Episode Script

I'm still not sure I heard you right.
I wouldn't have called you unless I thought it was important.
Well, what are three dead cows got to do with Five-0? The Army allows some local farmers to graze their stock on this isolated reservation.
One of the farmers is claiming his cows were killed by some kind of biological experiment.
- I think you ought to see those cows.
- Yeah.
Glad you're here, sir.
He's pretty upset.
Easy.
Easy.
Where are the cows? Chicken skin.
You ever seen anything like that? No smell, no flies.
It's as hard as a rock.
As if it's petrified.
I was raised on a farm, but I never saw anything like this before.
What is he talking about? He says the Army did it with their experiments.
What experiments? He says two years ago, right here, Martin Tuong's sheep herd was wiped out by some kind of nerve gas.
The Army paid him for it, swore they would never allow it to happen again.
Look.
Look, even the bugs are detouring.
You tell him that the State of Hawaii will pay for his cows.
But no further discussion until we find out what's going on.
Kono, seal off and quarantine this area, then get a refrigerated truck out here.
Have the lab boys go over it.
Make sure it's sterile, germproof and airtight.
Then call the county morgue, tell Doc to standby.
Right, Steve.
Well, Doc, what do you say? - Well? - Let's go outside.
Mr.
McGarrett, Mr.
Williams, this is Dr.
Hewitt, the finest veterinarian on the islands.
Doctor.
And this is Dr.
Funakoshi of the Communicable Diseases Center.
Doctor.
- We've been working on this together.
- Where are the animals? We have them in an isolation chamber in the basement.
What have we got, Doc? Well, we've done just about every preliminary test possible.
It isn't anthrax, it isn't brucellosis.
Not Q fever, Rift Valley fever, glanders.
None of those.
Look, gentlemen, I'm not interested in what it isn't, I'm interested in what it is.
We don't know what it is, Steve.
Well, you must have some idea.
Mr.
McGarrett, whatever it was that killed those cows is a bacteria that's completely unknown to us.
- What about nerve gas? - We considered it.
As you probably recall, nerve gas leakage at the Dugway testing grounds in Utah in 1968 killed some 6,000 sheep.
Now, all those animals showed lowered cholinesterase levels.
Our cows show no such signs.
Look, Doc, level with me.
What are we dealing with? If I gave you a straight answer to that Steve, you'd probably wrap me up in a straitjacket and put me away.
Try me.
- Mr.
Steve McGarrett? - Yes.
I'm Lieutenant Valent from Colonel Sindell's office, and I have here a directive for the acquisition of three dead cows.
Really? You can convey my compliments to Colonel Sindell and tell him that he has no authority to confiscate these animals.
They were found on an Army reserve.
That's true, but they were owned by a civilian farmer.
The State of Hawaii is paying for them.
You're interfering with an official investigation.
This is a state police matter, lieutenant, until I determine otherwise.
Where are they? Where they're going to stay until we find out what killed them.
Does that mean that you refuse to give them to United States Army? You bet I do.
I'll have to report this to Colonel Sindell.
I'll save you the trouble.
Three dead cows, sounds like a nursery rhyme.
It sounds like a horror story to me, colonel.
You're taking it too seriously.
Am I? Then why the directive? Why so anxious to take over? When I heard about it, I felt it was in our province to investigate.
And I still think that's the case.
And you don't think there's anything serious? - Do you? - I saw the cows.
They weren't very pretty.
I don't know what killed them, but I'm gonna find out.
Level with me, Steve.
What are you trying to say? Sheepkill.
Okinawan kids with skin burns.
Remember? - You think it was nerve gas? - I don't know.
You people never let us know these things until somebody makes a mistake.
All right, Steve, we have conducted experiments here, but it's not something exclusive to Hawaii or the U.
S.
Or any place else for that matter.
It's no secret there are bases doing the same kinds of work all over.
Rocky Mountain, Edgewood, Dugway, Fort Detrick.
What has happened to the cows, colonel, has happened here in Hawaii.
My first inclination was purely to avoid any kind of panic or instant emotional prejudice.
Nobody wants to cause any panic, but if the public is in danger, we have a right to know.
Steve, we had nothing to do with those cows.
The Army denied having anything to do with those dead sheep in Utah for 14 months.
Well, they had pressure from the top.
I don't.
Then why were you so anxious to grab them, huh? If it wasn't to keep it quiet? I'll admit that was my original objective, Steve.
Sure, I thought there was the possibility of, well, an accident, leak, who knows what? So I ordered my men to bring them in while I was going over our facilities.
But, Steve, I swear to you by all that's holy, there's been absolutely nothing here that could have contributed to the death of those animals.
- Jonathan.
- Governor.
- You know Steve McGarrett.
- Of course.
Hello, Steve.
Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Dr.
A.
L.
Benjamin, Chief of Operations of the United States Army Department of Chemical and Biological Warfare at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
- Dr.
Benjamin.
- Governor.
- Doctor.
- Mr.
McGarrett.
- Well, won't you gentlemen sit down? - Thank you.
Milly, no interruptions, please.
Well, I think we might as well get right down to business.
The people of Hawaii elected me to represent their interests, and I'm responsible for their welfare.
So if there is an explanation, Jonathan, I think you owe me one.
I agree, governor.
But I feel I must warn both of you that what you're liable to hear is absolute classified information.
This is top-secret.
Steve, would you describe the dead animals to Dr.
Benjamin, please? And please be as precise and accurate as possible.
Hard as a rock.
Petrified like a fossil.
Bloated, swollen, discolored, with large lesions all over the carcass.
And the findings of your medical team? Complete cellular destruction with absolutely no trace of any pathogenic bacteria.
The United States government spends over a billion dollars a year on chemical and bacteriological deterrents.
First, scientists declare that a weapon is theoretically possible.
Now, the Department of Defense feels it cannot take the responsibility for our security unless it has absolute authority to pursue superiority, or at least maintain a balance with other nations.
All of which brings us to what? All of which leads us to a man named Alexander Kline.
At the age of 33, Alexander Kline has been accorded a list of academic honors and scientific achievements that would require a computer bank to list.
Dr.
Kline is a microbiologist specializing in autoimmunity.
His goal, his dream, was to create a vaccine, a single vaccine, that would render man immune to disease.
To all disease for all of his natural life.
But with a touch of genius and the benefit of a freak accident, Alexander Kline developed in the laboratory a "Q strain.
" A biological mutation which proved to be totally hostile to all forms of life on Earth.
Modern man and bacteria have gone through a long and painful process of adaptation.
The human species, easily killed by bacteria, is poorly adapted and hence is eliminated in the process of evolution.
The reverse is also true.
Bacteria which kills its host is also poorly adapted.
When the host dies, it dies.
So the danger of a totally new, uniquely hostile bacteria, is awesome.
What do you got? Fiddler crab.
Looks like he lost one of his fiddles.
He'll grow another.
Pennsylvania.
Pardon? Pennsylvania.
Bet you're from Pennsylvania.
How did you know? I'm a telephone operator.
I play this little game with myself, trying to guess where people come from just from their voices.
When the discovery was reported, we naturally contacted Alex.
At first, he was most reluctant, but eventually we convinced him to take a hiatus from the university and go to work for the Department of Chemical and Biological Warfare.
We wanted him to number one, isolate the bacteria, and number two, perfect a method of rapid reproduction so the germ form could be produced in bulk.
Now, once this was achieved, the ultimate weapon would be a simple matter of engineering.
All we had to do was develop an aerosol that could circulate the bacteria from aircraft or missiles, and the ultimate, the doomsday weapon.
You people frighten me.
Necessary deterrent power, McGarrett.
War would be impractical, profitless.
There would be no victor.
There would be an awful lot of losers.
I can't quite tie all this in with the three dead cows at Makapuu.
Well, from the outset the venture seemed jinxed.
For over a year, there was one accident after another, and one mistake after another.
Alex's bacteria remained only a test tube victory.
That's when they came to me.
I ordered an absolute security check.
Every man, without question, on that team was loyal.
I then turned the situation over to our chief of psychiatrics.
He evaluated the portfolio and came to the same conclusion.
There was no possibility of sabotage, of conscious sabotage.
Alex, living in terror of what he was about to achieve, was subconsciously sabotaging his own project.
Psychiatric evaluation: Lmmediate removal and release from all responsibilities.
Or one of the finest minds of this, or any age, would face the threat of a possibly irreparable psychotic breakdown.
That was almost one year ago to the day.
Another crab? No.
I don't see anything.
Every square inch is filled with life.
Look.
All I see is a puddle.
Protoplasm, volvox, plankton.
All trying to reach the best spot to plant their seedlings.
Absorbing their portion of this day's energy.
You see all that? I see all that.
And that's only a fraction of what's there.
Almost a year ago, Alexander Kline disappeared.
And despite the CIA, the Secret Service, a worldwide search network, the man was nowhere to be found.
Until the three dead cows at Makapuu.
Exactly.
The symptomology is unmistakable.
And one other fact is unmistakable, Alex has found a method to reproduce his bacteria in bulk.
McGarrett, this is the complete dossier on Alexander Kline.
The rest is up to you.
But why did he kill the cows? What's his purpose? We have no way of knowing that.
What we know is he's carrying the potential for death on an incredible scale.
Global destruction.
Unless we find him, and find him soon.
Gentlemen, as you can see, Kline's detailed description is printed on the back of each one of those blowups, together with a list of possible aliases he might use.
Now, if the man is spotted, an immediate call to Central Dispatch will trigger unit surveillance.
Now, if the man is spotted, he must not be lost under any circumstances.
And he must never be alerted to surveillance.
Now, as soon as a positive identification is made, I'll take it from there.
Gentlemen, I don't think I have to stress the urgency of this manhunt, or the need for complete security.
Any questions? Thank you.
- That that list of private labs? - Yeah.
Okay, let's hit every conceivable place that Kline might go.
Now, Kline killed those cows with some kind of aerosol spray.
That means he's continuing his experimentation.
So he's gotta have a place with pretty sophisticated equipment.
But why is he doing it? What's his purpose? I don't know, Danno.
All I know is the result of biological warfare is death for virtually every living organism on this planet.
You sure you're all right, Arnold? You look like one of the specimens I've seen around here.
I'm fine.
Just a touch of neurotic dedication.
Take a tip from your protoplasm and get in a little riotous living.
- Operator.
- I've been trying to dial 737-7914, and I keep getting a buzzing sound.
Will you try it for me, please? Yes, I'd be glad to, sir.
The number was 737-7914.
- What number are you calling from? - 732-5577.
Thank you.
There does seem to be trouble on that line, sir.
Will you give me the party's name and I'll have the number verified? Abel Morgan, Kewalo Basin.
Now hurry, please.
Pennsylvania? Is that you, Pennsylvania? What? It is you.
It's the girl on the beach, the telephone operator.
Don't you remember? Yes.
Yes, I do remember.
Look, you can just forget the call, I've changed my mind.
I've been thinking about you, thinking I'd ever see you again, and here you are like fate or something.
Yeah, well, it was just a coincidence.
Say, are you married or anything? There's no sense in beating around the bush if we're just being held together by coincidence.
No.
No, I'm not married but Listen, tell me the truth.
Were you freaked out on something, or did you really see all those things in that puddle? I saw them.
It's almost finished.
- How can you tell? - My hands tell me.
Without my hands, I'd be truly blind.
- Are you hungry, Abel? - Not yet, lad.
After I finish.
Today, they put almost everything in bottles except ships.
Today, each man is in a bottle, looking out, afraid.
Have you ever felt despair, Abel? Total despair? I'm familiar with the feeling.
Maybe you're fortunate not to be able to see the world around you.
The madness.
The sounds are there.
Each time I leave the sound of the sea, go in to town, same old arguments, never change.
War, young men going off to be killed.
There's a difference now, Abel.
War is no longer restricted to battlefields.
People don't know, they don't realize.
Men who are devoted to saving lives, fighting disease, have been turned into puppets.
Made to use their knowledge of living things to kill living things.
Seek them out wherever they hide, wherever they are.
Pennsylvania, what are you doing here? - What are you doing here? - I came in to maybe buy something.
Oh, this is too much, you being here and all.
How did you know I was here? By the telephone number you gave me to call.
You know, you gave me the name and everything.
You must think I'm awful, chasing after you like this.
You may not believe it, I've never done anything like this before.
I'm leaving, Abel.
I'm going home.
What's the matter? Is something wrong? - You look sick.
You're shaking.
- I'll be all right.
- You need a doctor.
You have a car? - No.
No.
I do, let me drive you home.
- Mr.
McGarrett? - Yes.
Are you the gentleman who called about the picture? Yes, I'm Dr.
Soong.
As soon as I saw it, I called you.
That's Arnold, although he's changed from the picture.
He calls himself Arnold Clay.
You're absolutely positive? Absolutely.
But what's he done? Well, let's just say we have to contact him and it's very urgent.
- When did he first come here? - About five months ago.
I've always been eager to help young scientists, and he seemed so intense.
Do you know what he's working on? He's always been secretive about it.
- Do you have a home address? - Yes, I believe it's in the files.
Danno, check it out.
I'll get some experts down here to go over what he left behind.
Has a toxic effect on the body.
Increase penetration.
Higher.
Higher.
Oh, God.
God.
God.
God.
Maybe Dr.
Soong made a mistake.
Let's ask the lady next door.
Excuse me.
My name is Dan Williams, I'm with the Hawaii Five-0.
We're looking for a man named Arnold Clay.
He doesn't live here.
Does the name Alexander Kline mean anything to you? I don't know him.
Is there an 860 on this street? Sure, right there.
Thank you.
Feeling better? - This is your place.
- I brought you here.
What was it? Malaria or something? Yes, malaria.
Well, aren't you supposed to carry quinine or something like around with you? I mean, just in case.
I went through your pockets and your suitcase, and it's like you have a whole laboratory there but no quinine.
You're a scientist or something, aren't you? I'm a research technician.
Wow, it sure gives you some weird nightmares.
Did I talk? What did I say? I couldn't repeat it if I'd written it down.
Say, how about a slug of rum and some pineapple juice? I don't know what it'll do for malaria, but it knocks the heck out of a cold.
You better take it easy.
Say, don't you have a nickname for Pennsylvania? It's so formal.
Arnold.
Arnold Clay.
I'm pleased to meet you, Arnold.
My name is Wanda Russell.
Thank you for helping me, Wanda.
I'm sorry if I was rude to you.
Nobody's ever apologized to me for being rude before.
All of the guys I've ever gone with have just The truth is, I haven't really gone with that many guys, and I haven't really been around that much.
I think I've got what Shirley Harris, that's information, calls "passive participation.
" That's like when you sit around and watch TV and all the things that happen, you don't really get involved.
That's what I've been doing with the telephone until I Excuse me, I think I'd better leave now.
Oh, listen, Arnold, I have to get back to work, but I'd consider it a pleasure if you'd just stay here and rest until I got back.
There's some fruit and yogurt in the refrigerator.
I'm kind of a health nut.
And then when I got back, I could fix you some soup or something.
Thank you.
I am a little weak.
I won't be long because I'm only relieving Dolores Suzuki so she can get her dog.
Do you like dogs, Arnold? Yes, I like dogs.
You're not mad at me for tracking you down like that, are you? No, I'm not angry.
I'll see you later.
Doctor, may I see you for a moment? - Anything? - Well, we've checked everything.
Culture tubes, flasks, pipettes, petri dishes.
He certainly had everything he needed, including hot- and dry-air sterilizers, but there just isn't any way of knowing what conclusions he came to, or what he plans to do next.
Well, we have the lab staked out in case he comes back.
Oh, wait a minute.
Was this among his things? Yes, it was.
He probably used it as a paperweight.
It's whale-tooth scrimshaw, nice piece.
Sailors used to carve them on long voyages.
- Chin, what do you got? - If Alexander Kline is on this island, he hasn't got a car, hasn't got a telephone, he's not using gas or electricity under his own name.
Do you know anybody who carves these things? Nope, but I'll see what I can come up with.
Arnold, I'm back.
I've brought some soup.
Yep, I know the man.
Of course, I never saw him.
Any idea where he lives? No, never asked.
Or where we could find him.
No.
Why do you wanna know? Because he's dying? Dying? Don't ask me how I know.
That's a pained man, a lonely man.
He's searching for peace in the certainty of death.
A peace that he never found in life.
Advanced Research Lab, Dr.
Soong speaking.
Yeah, is Arnold Clay there? Will you hold on for a moment, please? - Hello? - Hello, Arnold? No, Arnold just stepped out.
If you'll tell me who's calling, - I'll have him get right back to you.
- No, thank you.
I'll call back later.
If you just leave your name, he'll get right back to you.
No, that isn't necessary.
Thank you.
Please don't hang up.
I'm a police officer.
If you're a friend of Arnold's, I have to talk to you.
- Police.
- Yes, we're looking for Arnold, and it's terribly important that we find him.
It's urgent.
I don't know where he is.
Please, miss, it's a matter of life and death.
If you'll just give me your name.
Hello? Hello? Try getting the operator.
I think maybe that was the operator.
Arnold.
Arnold.
I know you're in some sort of trouble.
I called one of the numbers you gave me and there was a policeman.
- A policeman? - I didn't tell him anything.
I don't know why, except I just couldn't believe you've done anything wrong.
You shouldn't have come out here.
Well, I thought I'd Well, I hoped you'd be here.
I mean, you look so sick, you shouldn't just be wandering around.
- Why can't you leave me alone? - Well, Arnold.
Why don't you just go away? This is Shirley Harris.
She's one of our information girls.
Shirley, this is Mr.
McGarrett and Mr.
Williams of the state police.
They'd like to ask you some questions.
Fire away.
I answer questions all day.
Sit down, Shirley.
Shirley, we're looking for a man.
He's not a criminal, but he has the potential to do an awful lot of harm to a lot of people unless we find him quickly.
Some of the girls said he had some kind of contagious disease? Yes, something like that.
Would you look at this picture, please, and tell me if you've ever seen this man before? - I'm sorry.
- Take another look.
One of the operators from this office made a call to a medical laboratory in Wai Malo earlier today.
She asked for this man.
- You're kidding.
- No.
The girl who made the call refused to identify herself and she broke the connection.
Well, she must have gotten scared she was gonna get in some kind of trouble.
Or maybe she was just trying to protect him.
Was it you, Shirley? Not on your life.
I wouldn't stick my neck out that far for any man.
Have you any idea who it was? No, I don't, sir.
- Any other girls? - That's it except for Wanda Russell.
She went home sick a couple of hours ago.
I just thought of something.
Wanda's my best friend, and I wouldn't wanna get her into any kind of trouble.
We're not interested in getting anybody into any trouble, but we have to find this man very quickly.
Wanda's the kind who's always picking up strays, you know what I mean? Cats, dogs, birds with broken wings.
Well, she told me she met a guy on the beach.
And she went on and on about how smart he was, talked like some kind of poet or scientist.
Yes? And she said he had some kind of malaria attack.
Yes, and? - Well, she's got him at her apartment.
- Where is that? - 2466 Waimea Drive.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
Steve.
Pan of water and a wet towel.
Might have been somebody with a fever.
Yeah.
She had a visitor all right.
Steve, just came over the radio.
Emergency hospital reported a man answering Kline's description.
- He brought a girl in for treatment.
- Let's go.
X-rays look okay.
She's awake now.
- Then she'll be all right? - I think so.
- Are you sure you're all right? - I'm fine.
Well, I'm gonna need some information about what happened.
You can give it to the nurse.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to hurt you.
I know that.
I didn't want you to get involved.
I don't care what you've done.
Whatever it is, it was a mistake or an accident.
I know that.
I've never met anyone like you.
I guess that goes for me too.
I grew up like a machine, a human computer.
They fed the questions into me and the answers always came out right.
They said a mind like mine comes along only once in a lifetime.
So they kept me locked up like some sort of freak.
They kept me away from people.
I never got to know people.
Oh, Arnold.
Listen to me.
I don't have much time.
I have something to tell you and you must promise me something.
Do you really trust me, Wanda? - Yes.
- Then you must promise me, swear to me, you'll get up out of this bed, get in your car, drive home, pack your bags and leave for the mainland today.
- Leave? - You said you trusted me.
- Yes, I do.
- Well, then you must do what I say.
There's this island, and all the people on it Arnold, what is it? Can't you tell me what it is? Have you ever heard of biological warfare? I think so.
Well, there are men working all over the world, breeding test-tube destruction.
God, Wanda, I never wanted to be part of their madness, but I did.
I did and the only way to stop them was to shock them.
Shock the whole world into realizing Look, something has happened, here on the island.
An accident.
Something that will kill everyone here within the next 12 hours.
Okay, come on.
Come on.
Now, I don't wanna see a gun or a uniform.
What he plans is still unknown, we've gotta find out before we nail him.
So disappear, keep your eyes open.
If you spot him, let me know by walkie-talkie.
I'll instruct you from here.
Let's go.
So you've got to leave.
You've got to.
Now.
Trust me, Wanda.
Believe me.
But what about you? What will you do? I'll leave as soon as I can.
Don't ask anymore.
Just promise me you'll go.
I promise.
Wait a minute.
It's not on me.
It's hidden out there somewhere.
You'll never find it in time.
I was like so many others when I went to work at Fort Detrick.
Hoping to do something creative.
All the money, the facilities.
And I was so impressed by their work.
Practical value.
And look what I end up creating.
Devastation far exceeding that even of a nuclear bomb.
And as the generals have said, there will only be casualties.
It won't hurt any of that precious real estate.
For God sakes, Alex, it just doesn't make any sense at all.
Not to you, to me it does.
You lie there and tell me you're gonna exterminate three quarters of a million people.
Now, that makes sense? I don't expect you to understand.
Alex, there must be some words that can reach you.
Words are useless.
Don't you see? That's the whole point.
People have used words, holocaust, global destruction.
Talked until they're blue in the face and nothing is accomplished.
But what can you possibly hope to accomplish? I've told you.
Shock therapy.
Wasn't that the purpose of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? No, Alex.
Those were acts committed during war to save lives.
Mine isn't any different.
Only this war concerns the survival of mankind.
The man is a lunatic.
- Easy, colonel.
- Easy? He's a criminal.
More perverted and dangerous than Hitler.
Alex, how do you know that your mutant strain won't survive and destroy life beyond these islands? The life span of the bacteria can't exceed six hours during sunlight.
If you want to live, leave now, get off the island.
Where did you hide the vial? My wife's in this hospital, she just had surgery.
She can't be moved!