Hawaii Five-O (1968) s09e21 Episode Script

What do you make of it, commander? That Russian sub went down almost a year ago.
You have one value for us, Dr.
Hammond.
Because of your position as an oceanographer, working on a United States government project, we want you to use that position and your security clearance.
It's all too neat, too convenient.
The key device turns up just when we need it.
Recognize this? We traced the serial numbers to you.
You're quite positive it is McGarrett? MAN 1 [OVER PHONE.]
: Absolutely.
MAN 2 [OVER PHONE.]
: Then kill him.
Two-seven Victor, Adam to March Leader, over.
This is March Leader, go ahead.
We're at the launch point.
Have you tested the current? We're doing so now.
The current is onshore and strong.
Excellent.
Then by all means release the articles.
If our calculations are correct, they should be on the beach by tomorrow.
How about a ride, Davey? You're his roommate, Cathy.
Not his owner.
[MELISSA CHUCKLES.]
[CHEERS.]
That was terrific.
- What was that for? - Just give me a break, David.
Come on, Cathy honey, really.
I'm gonna go home and do just that.
Are you coming or not? Oh, when I'm ready.
Okay, you're not.
[ENGINE STARTS.]
Cath? Cath.
Cath.
- Hi, hello.
- Are you David Hammond? - Yeah, what? - Come along with us, huh? - Come along.
- What, what? Hey, what's going on here? What's going on? I don't understand.
Hey, look what I found.
Commander, what have we got? So far we've recovered debris washed up here.
Point Kaena, a couple of other places.
This is what got us started.
Parts of that Russian spy sub that went down, huh? Seems there's little doubt about it.
Who found it? A local girl.
Her name's Melissa Carter.
What do you make of it, commander? That Russian sub went down almost a year ago.
Hard to say.
Crosscurrents.
An upheaval on the ocean floor, maybe.
In one of those intelligence reports I got, I think I remember reading that the Navy recovered approximately half that submarine? The rest of it is still down there? Correct.
That's why I'd appreciate the cooperation of your office in locating any other parts of her that might wash ashore.
I can't even place a value on their importance.
You've got it.
Steve? Uh, the Navy would like to keep this under wraps.
Positively.
One thing that still bothers me, though.
Why did all the this stuff wash up now almost a year later? [SCREAMS.]
Yes, sir, it went well.
- Good, put her on.
- All right.
Dr.
Hammond, it's your brother.
Margaret? It's me, David.
Some men grabbed me and I don't know why.
Are you ready to listen? [GASPING.]
[CLEARS THROAT.]
What do you want? Where is Davey? Listen.
You have one value for us, Dr.
Hammond.
Because of your position as an oceanographer, working on a United States government project, we want you to use that position and your security clearance precisely as we instruct you.
What do you mean? Just that you have access to a certain restricted area of beach near the government research facility.
An area inaccessible to us.
There's something we need deposited there.
Are you crazy? I won't do it.
[SIGHS.]
Put young David on again.
MARGARET [OVER PHONE.]
: I won't.
- Talk.
Margaret, they say they'll kill me.
What did you do to David? Not much.
Yet.
It's all up to you, Dr.
Hammond.
Dr.
Hammond.
MAN: Dr.
Hammond.
Didn't have you on the log.
I didn't know you were going this morning.
Well, you know how impulsive we liberated women are.
Yes, ma'am.
She's made it past security.
She's on her way now to the drop point.
Good.
She's gratifyingly obedient.
When it's done, we shall commence phase two.
Good morning, David.
What do you want? I just came to tell you that your sister, the remarkably intelligent Dr.
Hammond is being quite cooperative.
A rare combination, I cherish it.
What's Margaret doing? What are you gonna do to me? Care for you, David.
To ensure your sister's ongoing obedience.
Come here, please.
In the event she requires further reassurance, some sentimental token.
Oh.
Arthur Hammond.
Your father? In my professional opinion, yes.
It's quite possible that this object floated in from somewhere off the Kaena Point.
May I ask what it is? [HORN HONKING.]
MILLER: Oh, we have an expert on the way.
Good morning, McGarrett.
McGARRETT: Doctor.
That's fantastic.
It's an incredibly fortunate discovery.
If you will excuse us, please.
McGarrett, Commander Miller.
What do you think, Dr.
Ormsbee? What is it? That object is unquestionably the computer disengage mechanism from off the sunken submarine.
I've isolated the sub's computer bank.
But for almost a year now her secrets have eluded me.
But now, gentlemen, now Are you saying that all the information that sub accumulated in the years she was at sea, might still be intact? Why not? Why not? The casing is waterproof.
Commander, I want you to make a search of this entire area in case any other auxiliary equipment might have turned up.
MILLER: Very well.
McGarrett.
I want you to assign every available man you have to this project.
I want you to check out all these other beaches.
I want you to form search parties.
Doctor, I've already sent out a general bulletin, top priority.
If any other units turn up, we'll be on top of it.
Now, would you like to meet this lady? Dr.
Margaret Hammond, Dr.
Grant Ormsbee.
Dr.
Hammond is our chief of oceanography.
Hammond? Oh, yes, section B, I read your paper on the ecology of phytoplankton.
- Quite lucid.
- Thank you.
Dr.
Hammond, we're very hopeful that certain other items of interest may have washed ashore.
I trust you're familiar with the local current patterns.
Oh, yes, I am, doctor.
Good, I wanna have you assigned to my section on a temporary basis.
Commander, see to that please? If you'll have Dr.
Hammond assigned to my section? You take this disengage unit, place it in my jeep, carefully.
Carefully, commander.
McGARRETT: Commander? I want this device placed under armed guard and brought to Dr.
Ormsbee's laboratory.
No, no, no, McGarrett, that's not necessary.
I'm afraid it is, doctor.
Dr.
Ormsbee, it's going to be a privilege working with you.
[GASPS.]
Dr.
Hammond, I wonder if you'd mind coming along with us.
Oh, no, no, no, your brother would not want you to cause any trouble.
DAVID: Margaret.
Margaret.
[GRUNTS.]
[DOOR SLAMS.]
[RATTLING.]
Good evening, Dr.
Hammond.
Who are you? Where's David? Nearby.
Safe, well.
He will remain safe and well as long as you continue to cooperate with us.
I did what you asked.
I released that, um, computer device.
Yes.
I'm appreciative.
And now, I understand you'll be working with Dr.
Grant Ormsbee.
That also suits my purpose.
You'll be in a position to observe his progress with the device.
And if necessary, you will help him.
As I direct.
Your brother is an innocent boy.
He has probably never known extreme pain or loss.
All right.
But, um, there's a police officer, his name is McGarrett.
He's investigating this thing, I I can't do anything to make him suspicious.
McGarrett? Yes.
I suppose his intervention was inevitable.
No, Dr.
Hammond, try not to make him suspicious.
But if he begins to inquire too closely as to the origin of the object, you will notify me.
And if necessary, we will kill him.
Yeah, sure, we can dive off by the Point.
Lots of current there, but, uh, yeah, my boys can handle it.
So you're looking for the rest of that stuff? Yeah, that and anything else interesting that might turn up.
We figure what didn't drift ashore might be just as useful as what did.
Good luck, Pete.
PETE: Cast off.
We'll be diving about ten minutes, so suit up, okay? Hi, Margaret.
Cathy, what are you doing here? I wanted to talk to you.
It's It's that I'm really worried about David.
We had kind of a fight a couple of days ago, and he hasn't come back to the apartment.
You know how irresponsible David can be.
CATHY: Margaret.
I know you don't like me a whole lot.
And I know you don't like my living with David.
But I love him, and I'm worried about him.
Of course I like you, Cathy.
It's simply that I don't think there's any reason to be concerned.
Maybe if you did know, you wouldn't tell me.
But I don't know.
I'm sorry, I can't help you.
I'm sorry.
McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0.
- Terminal three.
- Terminal three.
- Four point four volts.
- Four point four volts.
ORMSBEE: Frequency, 50-K.
- Terminal five.
TECH: Terminal five.
- Four point three volts.
- Four point three volts.
Frequency 50-K.
Frequency 50-K.
McGarrett, I'm glad you could make it.
Now, tell me, are you the ones that ordered that underwater search right off my facility? - Yes.
- Why? Well, I wanted to locate other units of the sub's computer complex.
We know the sub went down right of Kaena Point.
Yes, we do.
So let's just say I'm, uh, checking out a theory.
I can read your mind, McGarrett.
No theory, it's a fantasy.
Now, speaking as an expert, and I underline that word "expert," I've examined the entire unit.
A, it's the same design, same construction as the submarine.
B, it's compatible with computer electronic systems.
Well, then you shouldn't object if I continue the search.
Will you tell me exactly what you hope to find? I won't know until I find it, doctor.
Are you aware that you're giving Navy Intelligence a case of the hives? Are you aware that Commander Miller is hovering over my lab like a one-man anxiety attack? McGARRETT: Well, I can't blame him for that.
The sub was brought up by the Navy, it's their baby.
Now, I'll have my search completed within a week.
You can sit tight until then.
ORMSBEE: No.
No.
I'm not making any time commitments.
I'm gonna go on this when I think conditions are right.
Hi.
Hi, I'm Sergeant Mirataki.
Can I help you? Well, my name is Cathy Doar.
And I'd like to report kind of a missing person.
Well, what kind? My boyfriend, David Hammond.
He's been gone for over two days.
I mean, we live together, and he hasn't come home.
Have you? Were there any people found? Why don't you give me a description.
He's 22.
He's 5'8".
Sandy, blond, curly hair.
Um A hundred and 30 pounds.
No.
Nobody found fitting that description.
Miss Doar, uh, Cathy You two have a fight? How'd you know? I'm a mind reader.
Look, I'll put out a bulletin.
But you know something? I think he's out somewhere cooling off.
You know what I mean? Uh If he doesn't show in a day or so, you come back and see me.
- Okay? - Okay.
Meanwhile, uh, if we find him, we'll send your wanderer home to you.
Thanks.
DANNY: Hello.
I understand one of you found a piece of electronic gear.
Yeah, that's right.
Washed up here this morning.
- I planted the device with the police.
- Good.
While I was hanging around the beach, I picked up on something.
A girl named Cathy Doar could present a problem.
Now, she's been going around asking about her missing boyfriend.
David Hammond.
Did you secure the girl's telephone number, address? Absolutely.
Then you will see that the problem is resolved? Without question.
- It fits like a glove.
- Exactly.
This washed up on Maili Beach? That's right, doctor.
Uh, clearly, it was detached from the storage disengage unit.
They drifted separately, they washed ashore miles apart.
Now, doctor, is this consistent with current patterns? Yes.
Are you absolutely satisfied? Absolutely.
Good.
Well, I'm not satisfied.
Not yet anyway.
It's all too neat, too convenient.
The key device turns up just when we need it.
Doctor, is there any possibility, any chance, that using this disengage unit could destroy the computer's memory bank? - Wipe it clean? - So that's what your theory's all about.
All right, McGarrett, to answer your question, there is virtually no chance that it will erase the memory bank.
But what if Steve is right? Aren't you running a great risk? No, because I intend to test this unit exhaustively.
Transistor, by circuit, by diode.
I will not take any chances.
But unless we use this device, it's a virtual certainty, we're gonna lose some, if not all, of the computer's information.
Okay.
Go ahead, doctor.
Thank you, commander.
But I've already begun.
It's my hope that I'm gonna be able to engage the device within 24 hours.
Can I have iced tea, please? LARSEN: Hi.
- Hi.
- You Cathy Doar? - Yeah.
You don't know me but I got a message for you from a guy named Dave Hammond.
- Where is he? - Hey, come on, nothing's that heavy.
He just wanted me to let you know that he's kind of gotten his head together, and that he'd like to talk to you.
Now, he's gonna be at the Makapuu Lookout about 3:00.
- Wants to know you can pick him up.
- Can I? Thanks.
Sergeant Mirataki, please.
[PHONE RINGS.]
Just a minute.
Sergeant Mirataki.
Hi.
This is Cathy Doar.
I'm calling to say that everything's okay now.
I've found him.
Wait, wait a minute.
Who found who? Cathy.
Mm, mm.
Cathy.
Right, right, right.
The girl with the wandering boyfriend, right? Yeah, you were right, I just got a message, and I'm gonna go right now to pick Davey up.
Um, I guess you can cancel the bulletin.
I'm sorry.
Hey, no trouble.
Look, I'm glad you found him, or he found you, whatever.
Main thing is, it's a happy ending, right? Look.
You know something? You just made my day.
[SCREAMS.]
OFFICER: Dead at the scene.
Catherine Doar.
I have her down as a hit-and-run.
No witnesses, nothing on the car that hit her.
DANNY: What did you find, Pete? Tell me, Williams, is the stock market going up tomorrow or down? What are you talking about? I'm gonna go with your pick anytime.
Either you're pretty lucky, or you got a second sight.
Look at what we came up with.
Is that a piece of equipment off the sub? Maybe that's what it's supposed to look like.
But what's it doing in a U.
S.
Government work tarp? PETE: Exactly.
Thanks, Mickey.
Hi, Mira, got anything for me? Yeah, over at my desk.
Say, why the long face? Uh, this kid Young girl, and she just reported a missing person.
And she turns up DOA.
- Hit-and-run.
- Well, sorry to hear it.
Uh, these washed up on the beach, turned in by a haole couple.
I don't think you'll find anything there.
Looks like junk to me.
Yeah, everything we've turned up so far looks like junk.
And this is no exception.
But I guess I'll take it in.
You know, I wonder if young David Hammond would technically still be considered a missing person if the person who reported him missing is no longer around.
- David Hammond? - Yeah.
[KNOCKING ON TABLE.]
- Hello.
- Hello.
Dr.
Ormsbee should be back any second.
It's you I came to see, doctor.
I have to ask your expert opinion on something.
You're an oceanographer.
How did that storage disengage unit get through those channel rocks, off this installation without damage? How would I know? Messages in bottles can be carried thousands of miles, or deposited back at your feet.
Tidal waves have been known to lift swimmers 50 feet, and deposit them safely on a cliff.
Or demolish an entire town.
Ocean currents can be very unpredictable, Mr.
McGarrett.
Of course.
Let me ask you something else.
Why did that question make you so uptight? In the name of Galileo, McGarrett.
I would appreciate your staying away from my scientific staff.
Now, if you have a compulsion to bully people, try me.
I have a feeling that this isn't the time to ask a favor, doctor, but will you postpone connecting that disengage unit? To the sub's computer bank? McGarrett, the longer I postpone this, the greater the risk that important data will deteriorate.
Perhaps even be destroyed.
Doctor, that's a calculated risk.
I have good reason to believe that that unit is a fake.
Now, if you will not postpone your test I'm afraid that I'll have to go over Commander Miller's head to the chief of Naval Intelligence in Washington, D.
C.
And I think I should warn you about that.
Why, I see, McGarrett.
I think I should tell you that I've already talked to Washington this morning, and I've been given total authority.
Total, which means that I only talk to God.
Now, the test is gonna commence in exactly three hours.
You, of course, are welcome to attend.
Always a pleasure, McGarrett.
- Malia? MALIA [OVER SPEAKER.]
: Yes, sir.
Get me Admiral Tennant in Washington, please.
- Right away.
- Yeah, Chin, what do you got? I was down at H.
P.
D.
Picking up some more debris that washed up on the beach, Steve.
I saw a missing persons report there on a David Hammond.
I was curious, so I checked it out.
It seems that David is Dr.
Hammond's kid brother.
- And he's missing? - Yeah.
Chin, that's strange, why wouldn't she have mentioned it to us? Chin, this could explain something that's troubling me.
Dr.
Margaret Hammond might be the light at the end of a very dark tunnel.
What do you mean? Hold it just a second.
Malia, hold that call to Washington, please, and see if you can get me Dr.
Margaret Hammond.
But I don't know when Dr.
Ormsbee plans to engage the unit.
He doesn't confide in me.
Then find out.
Ask him.
Seduce him.
Do anything, but find out.
He's been delaying for two whole days.
Why? I don't know why, and I simply can't do any more.
Dr.
Ormsbee is a brilliant man.
He's one of the great men in his field.
Now, he has tested your device inside and out.
Every possible way, and it's exactly what it's supposed to be.
Of course.
We had to plant a genuine storage unit.
Anything else would have been discovered immediately.
Well, I don't understand.
What are you trying to do? Help Dr.
Ormsbee retrieve that information? Perhaps.
Or perhaps I'm simply interested in furthering the cause of pure research.
In any case, I want you to accelerate the process.
But I don't understand.
You must consider the art of indirection, Dr.
Hammond.
In the eternal savage conflicts of nature, creatures assume different guises.
Fear is concealed behind the mask of ferocity.
Death appears as a smile.
A soft enticement.
I think of myself as an ecologist.
Dealing in the balance of fear, greed, desire.
You need not understand.
Simply see that Dr.
Ormsbee commences the test.
McGarrett will suspect.
Uh I ca I can't do it.
Would you prefer to speak to your brother again? Perhaps this time I can arrange a more painful interview.
All right.
I'll try and do what you ask.
But, uh, can I go to David and talk to him? Of course.
Just as soon as Dr.
Ormsbee commences the test.
[SIGHS.]
How did you? Oh, of course, it's a silly question.
The police are free to break in any time they choose.
Only it really wasn't necessary.
You could have called that you wanted to see me.
Maybe I didn't come here to see you.
Maybe I came here to see your brother.
You do have a brother? Why didn't you tell us that he was missing? What do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, don't lie, doctor, you're not good at it.
You've been lying for the last three days and it's tearing you apart.
I couldn't figure out why, until I learned that your kid brother, David, was missing.
Recognize this? It's a government issued tarp.
It was found in the water off the research station.
We traced the serial numbers to you.
Trouble.
You're quite positive it is McGarrett? REED [OVER PHONE.]
: Absolutely certain.
Then kill him.
Who was behind the kidnapping of your brother? I don't know his name.
Did you actually ever see him? Well, I was blindfolded and taken to some sort of a strange place.
But l He never did completely reveal his face to me.
What do you mean by some strange place? A building.
It had a kind of a hollow feeling to it.
You know, the kind you can You sense when you walk through? As if it were empty or abandoned, maybe? MARGARET: Yes.
I also remember stepping on some broken glass.
Could you tell if the building was outside the city? I think so.
L No.
I don't think so, I remember hearing traffic all around me.
Approximately how long did it take to get from here to there? Ten, 15 minutes at the most.
Ten or 15 minutes.
Let's see now, I have one more question, and it's absolutely vital if we're gonna find your brother.
Could you tell in which direction you were traveling? I'm a scientist, Mr.
McGarrett.
My work involves plotting directions.
We traveled roughly southwest before we turned into the grounds.
McGARRETT: Grounds? What grounds? MARGARET: Well, they were quite bumpy.
Unpaved.
We must've driven 50 yards or more before they stopped the car.
They took me up to the second story of the building.
- How many were there? - Two.
I'm sorry, Danno.
You got here fast.
We were in the area.
We heard the H.
P.
D.
Code 3.
Steve, suspect got away.
H.
P.
D.
In pursuit.
Okay, get out an APB, Danno.
I think I nicked one of them.
- That should slow them down.
- Right.
Duke, get with Dr.
Hammond.
See if you can pinpoint the building her brother's being held in.
[PHONE RINGS.]
Yes? I wanna speak with Dr.
Grant Ormsbee.
This is Steve McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0, and tell him that it's urgent.
Oh, uh, just a second.
Dr.
Ormsbee, it's Mr.
McGarrett.
Tell McGarrett I can't talk to him now.
I've already started the test.
You tell him that the disengage unit he has is a phony, a fake.
He's making the biggest mistake of his life.
What the hell are you talking about, McGarrett? Ormsbee, listen to me.
Dr.
Hammond just confessed.
She's under extreme duress.
Her brother is a kidnap victim.
Now, that famous disengage unit of yours is a fake.
It's a phony.
It's designed to sabotage.
To wipe the memory bank clean.
DANNY: You think the sabotage device is inside that casing? No, Williams.
I'm positive it is.
X-ray scanning reveals it right there.
Very clever.
Placing a device right under my nose.
Designed to admit only one signal.
Ordering the computer to erase all its memories.
Very simple, very effective.
Electronic suicide.
Quite safe now.
Uniquely subtle and sophisticated.
Steve, we got a fix on that building.
The old Malalo Mission School.
Come on, doctor, let's not wait for an invitation.
Uh, A team, this is McGarrett.
We're on the, uh, makai side of the Malalo School.
What the hell is he doing here? Hurry.
What is this? An end.
Well, are you gonna let me go? Yes, David.
In a very few minutes.
[WHISPERS.]
That's the door, I'm sure of it.
[GASPS.]
Margaret.
David.
Dr.
Hammond.
And the estimable Dr.
Grant Ormsbee, I'm flattered.
But I'm also disturbed.
That's intelligent.
Your plan's been scrubbed.
Zeroed out.
I'd advise you to release the boy and run as fast as you can.
[WHISPERS.]
Chin, you go around there.
CHIN HO: Okay.
Cover me, Danno.
I imagine this should interest you.
I presume then that the computer bank is informato intacto? [SPEAKS IN SPANISH.]
And the police are outside? In virtual armies.
Watch them.
Don't move.
Up against the wall, drop that gun.
What are you doing here? We told you to stay in that car.
The man you want just went through that door.
McGARRETT: He must have gone up here.
Book him.
Book him.
McGARRETT: How many degrees do you have, doctor? Oh, McGarrett, six or seven.
Why? You've just earned yourself another one.
For blatant stupidity.
You could've gotten that boy killed.
On the contrary, McGarrett.
Dr.
Hammond and I probably saved the boy's life by providing you with a very timely distraction.
Really? Well, you better make sure that that's on your statement.
After we book you for interference with the police action.
Book him, gentlemen.
McGarrett, you can't do that to me.
McGARRETT: Can't I? Try me.
What are you doing to him? Just letting him squirm, Danno.