Hawaii Five-O (1968) s11e15 Episode Script
The Spirit is Willie
What is it? Something's wrong! He's not coming up! He's not dead.
it's all a plot.
Well, the police report says otherwise, Miss Shand.
Mr.
McGarrett, are you here on official business? Yes, I'm looking into Jeremy Walkerâs death.
Miss Shand, you promised.
If you've got a positive theory, move in.
If Rolande is a true psychic he could come up with things that would seem miraculous.
Millie, it's good to see you again.
JEREMY: Who called, honey? CAROLE: Um - Sebastian.
JEREMY: What'd he want? To talk to you.
That'll have to wait till next time around.
Tomorrow morning we're up and away, as promised.
Jeremy, why tomorrow, let's make it now.
Hey, it's my last dive, honey.
I told you.
I want some of that black coral.
Hold it for me, honey.
- Jeremy.
- Yep.
Hey, relax, Carole.
I'll stay down just long enough to get a good size tree.
- Okay? - Heh.
It's been 20 minutes, Elliott.
He should have his tree by now.
He's got to come up in stages, Mrs.
Walker.
What is it? ELLIOT: His air.
[WHIMPERING.]
Something's wrong! He's not coming up! Do something, Elliott! I'll radio the Coast Guard.
Jeremy! Jeremy! DUKE: This package is addressed to you, Steve.
- Where did you get it? - A messenger brought it in.
Hear anything? Steve, there's no stamps, no return address.
Maybe we should have the H.
P.
D.
bomb squad open it.
There are lots of kooks in the streets.
Oh, I know, Danno, but this looks harmless enough.
[PHONE RINGS.]
Williams, Five-0.
Oh, yes sir, Governor.
Hold on.
Steve, the Governor.
McGARRETT: Yes, sir? I've got a surprise visitor here, Steve.
Someone asking for you.
An old friend.
[CHUCKLES.]
No, you will never guess who it is.
I'll be right over, Sonny.
Heh, how did you know, Steve? McGARRETT: I'm psychic.
Good morning, Miss Shand.
My goodness, that's extraordinary.
- What's extraordinary? - Your use of the Word "psychic".
That's what's brought me to Hawaii this time.
Aw.
And here I thought it was to bring me an autographed copy of your latest book.
MILLICENT: That's just my pleasure, young man.
Your contribution to The Case Of The Frozen Assets was satisfactory.
This new assignment should be, how do you say it? A piece of cake.
Assignment? What assignment is that, Governor? It's, uh It's about that scuba diver who, uh, drowned last week.
Drowned my foot.
It's perfectly obvious Jeremy Walker did not drown, and he's not dead.
It's all a plot.
I'm sure he's alive.
Well, the police report says otherwise, Miss Shand.
MILLICENT: Where is his body? Where's a single piece of real evidence he drowned? Oh, McGarrett, the police have been derelict.
They've done nothing but poke down in that reef with a couple of scuba divers, and when they came up empty, Jeremy was pronounced dead.
A team of four expert scuba divers, is not a couple.
And, a 12 hour search is not exactly poking around, Miss Shand.
Mr.
McGarrett, Jeremy Walker faked his own death.
He is hiding somewhere.
I've written 35 Henri Reynaud mysteries.
I ought to be able to recognize a conspiracy when I see one.
Conspiracy? Where's the conspiracy? I don't understand.
Perhaps, you should start at the beginning.
Certainly.
I'll plot it all out for you.
Chapter One, Jeremy Walker, a suspected fortune-hunter, marries my niece, Carole.
Suspected of fortune-hunting by whom? - Me.
- Oh.
Chapter Two.
Carole's father dies and leaves a very large estate.
Carole's father was Millicent's brother, Steve.
Yes, and that's Chapter Two.
Now what about Chapter Three? Jeremy Walker, as an alternative to spending the rest of his life with a sweet but rather shallow young woman, enters into a conspiracy with a phony spiritualist named Sebastian Rolande to bilk my niece of her fortune.
How? How would he do that? By faking Jeremy's death.
And then by bringing him back in a seance where he tells Carole to give Rolande half a million dollars so that they can keep on communicating.
I see.
So, you think that her husband and this spiritualist - are in cahoots? - Yes.
And, your niece? How does she fit in? Well, Carole is a dear, innocent, ingenuous child, head over heels in love with a scamp.
Easy prey for those two rogues.
Oh, she's hooked on spiritualism now.
Miss Shand, you realize that even if what you say is true, if your niece wants to turn over that money voluntarily-- Ignorance, if it is voluntary, is criminal.
Samuel Johnson said that, and he is right.
My brother's will appointed me her adviser.
That doesn't mean I can stop her.
But, it gives us a precious little time in which to operate.
Us? Us, Governor? Your assignment, McGarrett.
To expose the conspiracy.
I'm staying aboard the family yacht, if you care to call on Henri Reynaud.
He isn't hampered by ordinary police routine.
Governor, I think we should have a serious talk.
I'll tell you what.
Run a check on Rolande's background, reputation, credentials.
There are research centers at, uh, Palo Alto and Duke Universities.
Do it by phone, it's urgent.
I think the whole thing's a put-on.
There are a lot of believers in the occult.
You bet.
And, Duke, you might also check with the London Psychical Society.
I think there's an Institute in Paris, too.
Right.
I, uh I'm gonna meet Carole Walker, Miss Shand's niece, I'll be out at Rolande's place, if you need me.
When Jeremy was alive, he was hooked on spiritualism, Mr.
McGarrett.
Did he ever ask you to make a substantial gift to Rolande's Research Group? He suggested it once or twice.
But I didn't share his enthusiasm, or his beliefs, then.
- And do you now? - Now.
I've seen and talked to Jeremy in a seance, and it's a great comfort to me, Mr.
McGarrett.
I'd like to think Aunt Millicent's right about Jeremy being alive, whatever the reason, but I know he isn't.
I know he's dead.
And no doubts about Rolande, Carole? No, Mr.
McGarrett.
He's made a believer out of me.
Seeing Jeremy, and talking to him, couldn't have been a fake.
There are still areas of non-communication in the occult, and a medium can only do so much.
Rolande says that's why his Research Group needs funding.
And that's why I wanna help.
Uh, Ms.
Walker, Mr.
Rolande is free.
He can see you now.
This way, please.
Rolande, this is Mr.
McGarrett.
Hawaii Five-O.
- Mr.
McGarrett.
- Mr.
Rolande.
Thank you, Willie.
You can return to the correspondence now.
Excuse me, that gentleman looks very familiar to me.
Fitzwilliam? Oh, he's an invaluable helper.
But, you're right, he does have kind of a universal face.
Mr.
McGarrett, are you here on official business? Yes, I'm looking into Jeremy Walkerâs death.
Oh, yes.
That was tragic, wasn't it? Well, part of the tragedy is the lack of proof that he really is dead.
Carole, did you bring the watch? Oh, yes.
Rolande has promised to try and locate Jeremy's body.
He was wearing this before he went diving? Yes, Rolande.
Jeremy Walker was a personal friend, wasn't he? ROLANDE: Yes.
Interested in psychic phenomena, too.
A believer.
We're all believers Mr.
McGarrett, deep down, whether we like to acknowledge it or not.
In the very atoms of our subconscious.
And you claim that Jeremy's, uh, appearance at your seance is proof of the ability to bridge the gap between life and the Hereafter? It was proved long before now, sir.
Water.
Very deep.
He's choking.
There's water in his nose, and mouth, and throat and lungs.
He's choking.
I'm sorry, Carole.
Maybe you'd Please go on, Rolande.
I want to go to the yacht, on the deck.
Where is it now? Still anchored offshore.
But aunt Millicent's aboard.
Your aunt's antagonism doesn't bother me, Carole.
I'm getting very strong messages from Jeremy's watch.
He's here.
Somewhere close.
MILLICENT: Dead.
Yes.
And you are communicating with him now.
I'm trying, Miss Shand.
So he can tell you exactly where his dead body is.
Below.
He went down too far.
He was searching.
Over there! About 25 or 30 meters.
He's caught in an underwater fissure.
Uh, you say he's caught? He's trapped.
Foot in a crevice.
He's down there now, Carole.
Deep.
Very deep.
Yes.
I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
How long has the diver been down now? Just about 40 minutes, I'd say.
Well, he can stay down there all day for all the good it will do.
I must say, heh, you put on a good show, Rolande.
Fiddle-f addling around with that watch the way you did.
Now you can say the spirits aren't right or that the psychic forces were all wrong, because you know that Jeremy isn't dead.
There he is.
We found him.
About 275.
His ankle's caught in an outcropping.
DUKE: Can't fault Rolande's credentials, Steve.
He's highly regarded as a medium by the London Research Society, and as a genuine psychic and clairvoyant by the Psychical Institute in Marseilles.
What does "highly regarded" and "genuine" mean? It's not really a science, so there are always controlled experiments.
- I'm still waiting for some reports.
- Danno? I checked with Palo Alto, Duke University, and an outfit in Connecticut.
They all know Rolande and respect him.
Well, there you are, Miss Shand.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Well, with Jeremy dead, I was wrong about the conspiracy between him and Rolande But, I am not wrong about Rolande being a fake.
He is an unprincipled opportunist.
Capitalizing on Jeremy's death to bilk Carole out of half a million dollars.
Rubbing a watch and describing exactly how and where Jeremy died.
How do you think he located the body, Miss Shand? He must have known exactly how and where Jeremy died.
And if that was the case, we'd be looking at murder, wouldn't we? Yes.
Yes, McGarrett.
But, then again, he may be a genuine psychic.
And, we'd all look foolish if we charged him, wouldn't we? Pfft ! Not in my book.
By the way, Steve, one of the Duke University researchers is living in the Islands now.
He's semi-retired, on the North Shore.
A Professor MacKinnon.
I thought you might like to talk to him.
Yes.
Good idea, Danno.
You ask is whether it's possible to touch an article of clothing or jewelry and receive an impression of the owner, something startling that the psychic couldn't possibly have known beforehand.
Yes.
And, of course, the answer is yes, certainly.
Beyond logic or reason? Beyond our intellectual acceptance of things.
Because we are not gifted psychically.
Professor, what is the basic difference between a psychic and a medium? Well, speaking simplistically, a medium or contact is just what the word implies.
He or she is an intermediary between us and the world of the dead.
A psychic has an almost unbelievable ability to feel or receive telepathic messages or signals.
Well can the psychic or the medium cross over into each ether's fields? For instance, could Rolande locate a dead body, pinpoint its location? Tell the cause of death? Feel the emotions of a man at the very moment of death? Mr.
McGarrett, I'm not going to state categorically that anything is impossible.
There are documented police cases on the Mainland, and in Europe, where psychics have helped the authorities solve crimes.
Ahem, if Rolande is a true psychic, and there is evidence on file that he is, he could come up with things that would seem miraculous.
Very well, Miss Shand.
You may ask your questions now.
I have no questions.
I have an opinion.
- And what is that, pray tell? - Rubbish! I must confess, I was impressed, Rolande.
I didn't believe in psychic phenomena.
But when you told us exactly where to find Jeremy, you removed all my doubts.
So, now you want me to conduct a seance? Please.
I want to talk to Carole's father, my late brother.
It has been a source of deep regret that I wasn't with him when he died.
With your help, perhaps I can rectify that now.
When do you want this seance? This evening.
What did you do? MILLICENT [OVER PHONE.]
: Arranged for a seance tonight I've already invited Professor MacKinnon, and Carole will be there.
Miss Shand, you're interfering in the course of an official police investigation again.
When Rolande flunks this test, it will expose him to Carole as the charlatan he is.
Miss Shand, do you realize, if Jeremy Walker was murdered, and Rolande is responsible, you're putting yourself in great jeopardy? Nine o'clock, young man, tonight at Rolande's house.
- Will you be there? - Ugh.
What choice do I have? Martin.
Martin Shand.
Are you near? Is your spirit free? Will you appear to us, Speak to your sister Millicent, who wishes to speak to you.
And to your daughter Carole, whose love for you reaches through me to your spirit.
It has been more than two years since your material form passed from this earth beyond.
Now is the time to reach out across the dark abyss to the ones who love you.
Martin.
Martin.
Bridge the two worlds.
Speak, let us hear your voice, let us see you as we remember you, in earthly form.
Martin.
Martin.
MARTIN: Millie, it's good to see you again.
Carole, my dear daughter I am so sorry about Jeremy Martin, you called me Millie.
MARTIN: I know you always disapproved Martin, do you remember Do you remember my first beau? MARTIN: So long ago, so long.
Wasn't it Tommy? I remember the night Tommy took you to the school prom and you came home alone.
I remember you couldn't stop crying.
Ah! Ah! Oh, Martin! Daddy.
MARTIN: Don? despair; child Jeremy is well.
He can come again and again to talk to you.
There are even other things possible undreamed of on your earth.
Be happy, Carole.
And be wise, Millie.
I love you both.
Be patient Let your heart rule.
It's the heart that counts.
Miss Shand? It was extraordinary.
- Good morning, Carole.
- Oh.
Good morning, Mr.
McGarrett.
Where's Miss Shand? She left right after breakfast.
- Have you spoken to her? - No, I haven't.
Aunt Millicent said she wanted to talk to you too.
But, she's at King's Alley autographing her book.
After last night, I guess I guess you know why I changed my mind about Sebastian Rolande.
Uh, have you got a moment? I'd like to speak to you.
- Sure.
- Thank you.
How long were you married, Carole? Nine months.
Did you meet Jeremy here in Hawaii? Boston.
- Before your father died? - After.
Jeremy and I lived in my Daddy's home in Boston the first three months of our marriage.
And then we outfitted this yacht and came out here.
Now, that day, last week, when you decided to leave Hawaii, was that your idea or Jeremy's? Well, I wanted to leave long ago.
But, that morning he said that he'd settled things and we could go.
Settled things? Well, he had changed his mind about spiritualism.
And he said I was right all along.
And he told me he was glad that I hadn't listened to him about giving Rolande all that money.
What about the money? Tell me about it.
Um Aunt Millicent made me promise to wait just a little while, and then, if I still wanted to, that she wouldn't object.
But I added a codicil to my will, just in case.
Because if Well, if I die, I would like to think that someone, somewhere, might be trying to help Jeremy and me.
I see.
And after last night, what about Aunt Millicent? She was very subdued.
Subdued, huh? Subdued? Nonsense.
Thoughtful, perhaps.
There's a difference, you know.
The only puzzle to me is how he did it.
You recognized your brother? - No mistake? - Mm-hm, mm-hm.
And his voice, though it was kind of muffled.
But, his remembering Tommy, that's what I keep thinking about, McGarrett.
[MILLICENT CHUCKLES.]
I understand that some first editions of Henri Reynaud's earlier cases are going at a premium.
- Happy reading.
- Thank you very much.
- I've read every one of them.
- Oh, good.
Business looks good.
- How's your business? - I'd say we were progressing.
We're checking Rolande's credentials.
Exploring possibilities.
That's police jargon, McGarrett, heh.
Thank you, sir.
Happy reading.
Just because I was wrong about a conspiracy between Rolande and Jeremy.
You might've been right.
What do you mean I might've been right? Maybe Jeremy did enter into a conspiracy with Rolande, in the beginning.
But then changed his mind and decided to stick with Carole and marriage.
Carole did feel that she and Jeremy were growing closer.
McGarrett, if it was true, and Jeremy did call off his deal with Rolande, couldn't that have been a motive for murder? A theory, Miss Shand.
Theory.
If you've got a positive theory, move on it.
Close in.
Duke, have you received a report from the London Society on Rolande, yet? Not yet.
Nor from Marseille.
Professor MacKinnon was impressed with that seance last night.
He can't explain it.
But, I think I can.
[TAPPING ON TABLE.]
I asked the professor to run a test of his own.
How? He's going to ask Rolande to try to bring back a dearly departed wife.
A wife he never had.
Miss Shand is not involved in this, is she? No, no, no.
No, no.
She'll behave.
I made it absolutely clear that she was not to operate on her own.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING.]
Has the material from the London Research Society arrived yet, Willie? Yeah, it has.
All right, I'll be in the room.
Let me know when he arrives.
WILLIE: The car's arriving.
Shh! WILLIE: Right this way.
Please sit down.
There.
Now, you understand a "contact" is not always successful, especially the first time.
I am very hopeful.
Success depends on the will of the subject and the strength of the appeal.
A Ruth MacKinnon, are you near? Your husband David wishes to speak to you.
Ruth.
Ruth.
Is your spirit near? Can you come to us? Something disturbing here.
A contrary aura.
Something alien.
Hostile.
Ruth, can you reach out across the dark abyss, and respond to the love you left behind? There is some difficulty.
I feel it.
My God! Ruthie.
RUTHIE: You call me without credentials.
How could we get married? You never even asked me to marry you, David.
Why are you reaching for me now when it's too late? You always were devious David MacKinnon.
You never told me what was really in your heart You were not truthful with me You are not truthful now.
Why are you lying now? You're a fraud, Mr.
MacKinnon.
It's Ruthie.
Ruthie Summers.
I don't know why you came here, Mr.
MacKinnon.
I don't know why you lied to me about being married.
But I do know that you troubled this poor soul in life, as you are now tormenting her in death.
It's not true.
I never promised her anything.
Willie! I don't care to hear your explanation.
It's obvious you are playing out some devious scenario here.
But, I want to warn you that practical jokers have tempted the Unknown before, Mr.
MacKinnon, at their own peril.
Show him out.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
ROLANDE: Did you put him up to this, Miss Shand? Mm-hm? Why are you tempting the Unknown? It would be a pity if you never got a chance to write your next book.
Are you threatening me, Rolande? When you meddle with things beyond your comprehension, the Unknown threatens.
Rolande, in spite of the fact that I consider you a fraud, I must admit you have distracted me.
Distracted you.
Shaken me.
Three times now.
I have a deal for you.
- What kind of a deal? - I challenged him, McGarrett.
Challenged him, Miss Shand? Are you meddling again? Listen, McGarrett.
Up to now that man has had everything his own way.
All these so-called "appearances" have taken place in his own home, under his conditions.
I've challenged him to perform where he won't have that advantage.
- And where is that? - Aboard this yacht.
And I promised him, if he can bring Jeremy back right here in this cabin, I'll withdraw all my objections to Carole giving him half a million dollars.
- Come in, Mr.
McGarrett.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
I had no idea she was in the closet during the seance.
How well did you know Ruth Sommers, Professor? Well, I met her in England, when I was teaching there for a year.
Almost 20 years ago.
- Serious affair? - Yes.
For a while.
Then I returned to the States and, uh, she married a year later.
When did she die? Did you correspond with her? Well, before she married.
Did you save any of her letters by any chance? Well, heh, as a matter of fact, yes.
- Do you have a picture of her? - Yes, but why.
Well, if Rolande is a fake, he had to know all of this somehow.
What better way than through old letters? - Uh, where are they, by the way? - They're in the bookcase.
- May I see them? - Of course- MACKINNON: If Rolande is a fake, how would he know about Miss Shand and Tommy, uh, well, her first beau? Oh, he could have found out from Jeremy.
Jeremy and Carole visited the family home in Boston on their honeymoon.
You can be sure there were mementoes around there too.
Well, everything seems to be here, McGarrett.
I suppose.
Wait a minute.
This photograph of Ruth! That's exactly the way she looked at the seance.
The same hairstyle, the expression.
Exactly the same.
And these letters from Ruth.
They have all the information about our relationship that, uh, Rolande could possibly have needed.
Let me see.
He knew in advance you were coming to see him? Heh, yes, of course.
I made arrangements by phone.
Well, he probably checked up and found out who you were, then he studies these letters and duplicated that photo.
And, that wouldn't be difficult.
I live alone, and I'm not here a great deal.
[SIGHS.]
I must say, I was startled when Ruth made her appearance.
But now I see how Rolande did it.
- A photographic image? - Exactly.
What about the voice? How did she sound? Well, it was obviously filtered.
But, heh, of course, she was speaking from another world.
Wait a minute.
That man, uh, Fitzwilliam.
Willie.
I know I've seen him someplace before.
Yeah, I remember now.
We had a puppet show on television.
- May I use your phone? - Yes.
It's right there.
Danno? Anything come in? We got that report from the London Psychical Society.
There were two "incidents" involving Rolande during seances.
- Incidents? DANNY [OVER PHONE.]
: Deaths.
He was charged the second time.
It seems he was the beneficiary in each will.
The charges were later dropped.
I want to be at that seance tonight, Danno.
- You think Miss Shand's in danger? - I think Carole is.
She made Rolande the beneficiary in her will.
I'm gonna need you and Duke there too.
- Shall we meet you at the dock? - Yeah, please.
Uh And in the center drawer of my desk there's a sealed envelope.
- Bring it along.
- Right.
Thank you, Professor.
I appreciate everything.
Well, thank you.
We ask you, Jeremy Walker, to appear before us.
We come to you with open heart.
Can you hear me, Jeremy? Carole is here.
And Millicent Shand.
We want to speak to you.
Reach out to us, Jeremy.
Reach out.
We are waiting.
Touch us with open heart.
CAROLE: Jeremy, please.
ROLANDE: Jeremy, can you hear me now? Come to us, Jeremy.
Now.
The spirit is near.
Jeremy is close.
Come to us, Jeremy.
Now.
McGARRETT: Don't move, Rolande.
This is not Jeremy Walker.
This is Steve McGarrett, I've come to seek retribution.
Recompense for evil done.
Jeremy can't come.
He's dead.
He was brutally murdered by someone in this very cabin.
And Jeremy is crying out from the grave.
Justice must be done.
Retribution.
Retribution against you, Rolande.
Three times murderer.
Three human lives sacrificed in your quest for money.
Hold it! You're under arrest for the murder of Jeremy Walker.
Book him, Danno.
Murder One.
- Are you all right? - How'd you do that? - How'd you appear like that? - A photographic image.
The same device Rolande has been using right along.
Watch.
Duke! There's your magic.
He projected it.
Right over there.
Good heavens.
Carole, we understand about Jeremy, now.
HPD is searching Rolande's estate right now for additional evidence, including a set of Navy frogman's gear that Willie used.
Well, I know where that is, McGarrett.
- Where? - In the closet in the room Rolande used for his seances Why didn't you tell me that before? You never asked me.
Oh.
Goodbye, Sonny.
We swept out under your rugs again, exposed a fraud and murderer.
Good outfit, that Five-0 group of yours.
Thanks, McGarrett.
You responded adequately.
Oh, thank you for the accolade, Miss Shand.
Adequately, from you, is high praise indeed.
Indeed! Au revoir, or should I say, Aloha.
I'll see you both in my next book.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
What a lady.
So it was Rolande who had Willie Fitzwilliam murder Jeremy Walker under water, and then take the body down to where the diver found him.
It sure was.
And he also operated the slide projector.
Steve, you know she's really gonna write that book.
If she does, I have a title for her.
What? The Spirit is Willie.
[CHUCKLES.]
it's all a plot.
Well, the police report says otherwise, Miss Shand.
Mr.
McGarrett, are you here on official business? Yes, I'm looking into Jeremy Walkerâs death.
Miss Shand, you promised.
If you've got a positive theory, move in.
If Rolande is a true psychic he could come up with things that would seem miraculous.
Millie, it's good to see you again.
JEREMY: Who called, honey? CAROLE: Um - Sebastian.
JEREMY: What'd he want? To talk to you.
That'll have to wait till next time around.
Tomorrow morning we're up and away, as promised.
Jeremy, why tomorrow, let's make it now.
Hey, it's my last dive, honey.
I told you.
I want some of that black coral.
Hold it for me, honey.
- Jeremy.
- Yep.
Hey, relax, Carole.
I'll stay down just long enough to get a good size tree.
- Okay? - Heh.
It's been 20 minutes, Elliott.
He should have his tree by now.
He's got to come up in stages, Mrs.
Walker.
What is it? ELLIOT: His air.
[WHIMPERING.]
Something's wrong! He's not coming up! Do something, Elliott! I'll radio the Coast Guard.
Jeremy! Jeremy! DUKE: This package is addressed to you, Steve.
- Where did you get it? - A messenger brought it in.
Hear anything? Steve, there's no stamps, no return address.
Maybe we should have the H.
P.
D.
bomb squad open it.
There are lots of kooks in the streets.
Oh, I know, Danno, but this looks harmless enough.
[PHONE RINGS.]
Williams, Five-0.
Oh, yes sir, Governor.
Hold on.
Steve, the Governor.
McGARRETT: Yes, sir? I've got a surprise visitor here, Steve.
Someone asking for you.
An old friend.
[CHUCKLES.]
No, you will never guess who it is.
I'll be right over, Sonny.
Heh, how did you know, Steve? McGARRETT: I'm psychic.
Good morning, Miss Shand.
My goodness, that's extraordinary.
- What's extraordinary? - Your use of the Word "psychic".
That's what's brought me to Hawaii this time.
Aw.
And here I thought it was to bring me an autographed copy of your latest book.
MILLICENT: That's just my pleasure, young man.
Your contribution to The Case Of The Frozen Assets was satisfactory.
This new assignment should be, how do you say it? A piece of cake.
Assignment? What assignment is that, Governor? It's, uh It's about that scuba diver who, uh, drowned last week.
Drowned my foot.
It's perfectly obvious Jeremy Walker did not drown, and he's not dead.
It's all a plot.
I'm sure he's alive.
Well, the police report says otherwise, Miss Shand.
MILLICENT: Where is his body? Where's a single piece of real evidence he drowned? Oh, McGarrett, the police have been derelict.
They've done nothing but poke down in that reef with a couple of scuba divers, and when they came up empty, Jeremy was pronounced dead.
A team of four expert scuba divers, is not a couple.
And, a 12 hour search is not exactly poking around, Miss Shand.
Mr.
McGarrett, Jeremy Walker faked his own death.
He is hiding somewhere.
I've written 35 Henri Reynaud mysteries.
I ought to be able to recognize a conspiracy when I see one.
Conspiracy? Where's the conspiracy? I don't understand.
Perhaps, you should start at the beginning.
Certainly.
I'll plot it all out for you.
Chapter One, Jeremy Walker, a suspected fortune-hunter, marries my niece, Carole.
Suspected of fortune-hunting by whom? - Me.
- Oh.
Chapter Two.
Carole's father dies and leaves a very large estate.
Carole's father was Millicent's brother, Steve.
Yes, and that's Chapter Two.
Now what about Chapter Three? Jeremy Walker, as an alternative to spending the rest of his life with a sweet but rather shallow young woman, enters into a conspiracy with a phony spiritualist named Sebastian Rolande to bilk my niece of her fortune.
How? How would he do that? By faking Jeremy's death.
And then by bringing him back in a seance where he tells Carole to give Rolande half a million dollars so that they can keep on communicating.
I see.
So, you think that her husband and this spiritualist - are in cahoots? - Yes.
And, your niece? How does she fit in? Well, Carole is a dear, innocent, ingenuous child, head over heels in love with a scamp.
Easy prey for those two rogues.
Oh, she's hooked on spiritualism now.
Miss Shand, you realize that even if what you say is true, if your niece wants to turn over that money voluntarily-- Ignorance, if it is voluntary, is criminal.
Samuel Johnson said that, and he is right.
My brother's will appointed me her adviser.
That doesn't mean I can stop her.
But, it gives us a precious little time in which to operate.
Us? Us, Governor? Your assignment, McGarrett.
To expose the conspiracy.
I'm staying aboard the family yacht, if you care to call on Henri Reynaud.
He isn't hampered by ordinary police routine.
Governor, I think we should have a serious talk.
I'll tell you what.
Run a check on Rolande's background, reputation, credentials.
There are research centers at, uh, Palo Alto and Duke Universities.
Do it by phone, it's urgent.
I think the whole thing's a put-on.
There are a lot of believers in the occult.
You bet.
And, Duke, you might also check with the London Psychical Society.
I think there's an Institute in Paris, too.
Right.
I, uh I'm gonna meet Carole Walker, Miss Shand's niece, I'll be out at Rolande's place, if you need me.
When Jeremy was alive, he was hooked on spiritualism, Mr.
McGarrett.
Did he ever ask you to make a substantial gift to Rolande's Research Group? He suggested it once or twice.
But I didn't share his enthusiasm, or his beliefs, then.
- And do you now? - Now.
I've seen and talked to Jeremy in a seance, and it's a great comfort to me, Mr.
McGarrett.
I'd like to think Aunt Millicent's right about Jeremy being alive, whatever the reason, but I know he isn't.
I know he's dead.
And no doubts about Rolande, Carole? No, Mr.
McGarrett.
He's made a believer out of me.
Seeing Jeremy, and talking to him, couldn't have been a fake.
There are still areas of non-communication in the occult, and a medium can only do so much.
Rolande says that's why his Research Group needs funding.
And that's why I wanna help.
Uh, Ms.
Walker, Mr.
Rolande is free.
He can see you now.
This way, please.
Rolande, this is Mr.
McGarrett.
Hawaii Five-O.
- Mr.
McGarrett.
- Mr.
Rolande.
Thank you, Willie.
You can return to the correspondence now.
Excuse me, that gentleman looks very familiar to me.
Fitzwilliam? Oh, he's an invaluable helper.
But, you're right, he does have kind of a universal face.
Mr.
McGarrett, are you here on official business? Yes, I'm looking into Jeremy Walkerâs death.
Oh, yes.
That was tragic, wasn't it? Well, part of the tragedy is the lack of proof that he really is dead.
Carole, did you bring the watch? Oh, yes.
Rolande has promised to try and locate Jeremy's body.
He was wearing this before he went diving? Yes, Rolande.
Jeremy Walker was a personal friend, wasn't he? ROLANDE: Yes.
Interested in psychic phenomena, too.
A believer.
We're all believers Mr.
McGarrett, deep down, whether we like to acknowledge it or not.
In the very atoms of our subconscious.
And you claim that Jeremy's, uh, appearance at your seance is proof of the ability to bridge the gap between life and the Hereafter? It was proved long before now, sir.
Water.
Very deep.
He's choking.
There's water in his nose, and mouth, and throat and lungs.
He's choking.
I'm sorry, Carole.
Maybe you'd Please go on, Rolande.
I want to go to the yacht, on the deck.
Where is it now? Still anchored offshore.
But aunt Millicent's aboard.
Your aunt's antagonism doesn't bother me, Carole.
I'm getting very strong messages from Jeremy's watch.
He's here.
Somewhere close.
MILLICENT: Dead.
Yes.
And you are communicating with him now.
I'm trying, Miss Shand.
So he can tell you exactly where his dead body is.
Below.
He went down too far.
He was searching.
Over there! About 25 or 30 meters.
He's caught in an underwater fissure.
Uh, you say he's caught? He's trapped.
Foot in a crevice.
He's down there now, Carole.
Deep.
Very deep.
Yes.
I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
How long has the diver been down now? Just about 40 minutes, I'd say.
Well, he can stay down there all day for all the good it will do.
I must say, heh, you put on a good show, Rolande.
Fiddle-f addling around with that watch the way you did.
Now you can say the spirits aren't right or that the psychic forces were all wrong, because you know that Jeremy isn't dead.
There he is.
We found him.
About 275.
His ankle's caught in an outcropping.
DUKE: Can't fault Rolande's credentials, Steve.
He's highly regarded as a medium by the London Research Society, and as a genuine psychic and clairvoyant by the Psychical Institute in Marseilles.
What does "highly regarded" and "genuine" mean? It's not really a science, so there are always controlled experiments.
- I'm still waiting for some reports.
- Danno? I checked with Palo Alto, Duke University, and an outfit in Connecticut.
They all know Rolande and respect him.
Well, there you are, Miss Shand.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Well, with Jeremy dead, I was wrong about the conspiracy between him and Rolande But, I am not wrong about Rolande being a fake.
He is an unprincipled opportunist.
Capitalizing on Jeremy's death to bilk Carole out of half a million dollars.
Rubbing a watch and describing exactly how and where Jeremy died.
How do you think he located the body, Miss Shand? He must have known exactly how and where Jeremy died.
And if that was the case, we'd be looking at murder, wouldn't we? Yes.
Yes, McGarrett.
But, then again, he may be a genuine psychic.
And, we'd all look foolish if we charged him, wouldn't we? Pfft ! Not in my book.
By the way, Steve, one of the Duke University researchers is living in the Islands now.
He's semi-retired, on the North Shore.
A Professor MacKinnon.
I thought you might like to talk to him.
Yes.
Good idea, Danno.
You ask is whether it's possible to touch an article of clothing or jewelry and receive an impression of the owner, something startling that the psychic couldn't possibly have known beforehand.
Yes.
And, of course, the answer is yes, certainly.
Beyond logic or reason? Beyond our intellectual acceptance of things.
Because we are not gifted psychically.
Professor, what is the basic difference between a psychic and a medium? Well, speaking simplistically, a medium or contact is just what the word implies.
He or she is an intermediary between us and the world of the dead.
A psychic has an almost unbelievable ability to feel or receive telepathic messages or signals.
Well can the psychic or the medium cross over into each ether's fields? For instance, could Rolande locate a dead body, pinpoint its location? Tell the cause of death? Feel the emotions of a man at the very moment of death? Mr.
McGarrett, I'm not going to state categorically that anything is impossible.
There are documented police cases on the Mainland, and in Europe, where psychics have helped the authorities solve crimes.
Ahem, if Rolande is a true psychic, and there is evidence on file that he is, he could come up with things that would seem miraculous.
Very well, Miss Shand.
You may ask your questions now.
I have no questions.
I have an opinion.
- And what is that, pray tell? - Rubbish! I must confess, I was impressed, Rolande.
I didn't believe in psychic phenomena.
But when you told us exactly where to find Jeremy, you removed all my doubts.
So, now you want me to conduct a seance? Please.
I want to talk to Carole's father, my late brother.
It has been a source of deep regret that I wasn't with him when he died.
With your help, perhaps I can rectify that now.
When do you want this seance? This evening.
What did you do? MILLICENT [OVER PHONE.]
: Arranged for a seance tonight I've already invited Professor MacKinnon, and Carole will be there.
Miss Shand, you're interfering in the course of an official police investigation again.
When Rolande flunks this test, it will expose him to Carole as the charlatan he is.
Miss Shand, do you realize, if Jeremy Walker was murdered, and Rolande is responsible, you're putting yourself in great jeopardy? Nine o'clock, young man, tonight at Rolande's house.
- Will you be there? - Ugh.
What choice do I have? Martin.
Martin Shand.
Are you near? Is your spirit free? Will you appear to us, Speak to your sister Millicent, who wishes to speak to you.
And to your daughter Carole, whose love for you reaches through me to your spirit.
It has been more than two years since your material form passed from this earth beyond.
Now is the time to reach out across the dark abyss to the ones who love you.
Martin.
Martin.
Bridge the two worlds.
Speak, let us hear your voice, let us see you as we remember you, in earthly form.
Martin.
Martin.
MARTIN: Millie, it's good to see you again.
Carole, my dear daughter I am so sorry about Jeremy Martin, you called me Millie.
MARTIN: I know you always disapproved Martin, do you remember Do you remember my first beau? MARTIN: So long ago, so long.
Wasn't it Tommy? I remember the night Tommy took you to the school prom and you came home alone.
I remember you couldn't stop crying.
Ah! Ah! Oh, Martin! Daddy.
MARTIN: Don? despair; child Jeremy is well.
He can come again and again to talk to you.
There are even other things possible undreamed of on your earth.
Be happy, Carole.
And be wise, Millie.
I love you both.
Be patient Let your heart rule.
It's the heart that counts.
Miss Shand? It was extraordinary.
- Good morning, Carole.
- Oh.
Good morning, Mr.
McGarrett.
Where's Miss Shand? She left right after breakfast.
- Have you spoken to her? - No, I haven't.
Aunt Millicent said she wanted to talk to you too.
But, she's at King's Alley autographing her book.
After last night, I guess I guess you know why I changed my mind about Sebastian Rolande.
Uh, have you got a moment? I'd like to speak to you.
- Sure.
- Thank you.
How long were you married, Carole? Nine months.
Did you meet Jeremy here in Hawaii? Boston.
- Before your father died? - After.
Jeremy and I lived in my Daddy's home in Boston the first three months of our marriage.
And then we outfitted this yacht and came out here.
Now, that day, last week, when you decided to leave Hawaii, was that your idea or Jeremy's? Well, I wanted to leave long ago.
But, that morning he said that he'd settled things and we could go.
Settled things? Well, he had changed his mind about spiritualism.
And he said I was right all along.
And he told me he was glad that I hadn't listened to him about giving Rolande all that money.
What about the money? Tell me about it.
Um Aunt Millicent made me promise to wait just a little while, and then, if I still wanted to, that she wouldn't object.
But I added a codicil to my will, just in case.
Because if Well, if I die, I would like to think that someone, somewhere, might be trying to help Jeremy and me.
I see.
And after last night, what about Aunt Millicent? She was very subdued.
Subdued, huh? Subdued? Nonsense.
Thoughtful, perhaps.
There's a difference, you know.
The only puzzle to me is how he did it.
You recognized your brother? - No mistake? - Mm-hm, mm-hm.
And his voice, though it was kind of muffled.
But, his remembering Tommy, that's what I keep thinking about, McGarrett.
[MILLICENT CHUCKLES.]
I understand that some first editions of Henri Reynaud's earlier cases are going at a premium.
- Happy reading.
- Thank you very much.
- I've read every one of them.
- Oh, good.
Business looks good.
- How's your business? - I'd say we were progressing.
We're checking Rolande's credentials.
Exploring possibilities.
That's police jargon, McGarrett, heh.
Thank you, sir.
Happy reading.
Just because I was wrong about a conspiracy between Rolande and Jeremy.
You might've been right.
What do you mean I might've been right? Maybe Jeremy did enter into a conspiracy with Rolande, in the beginning.
But then changed his mind and decided to stick with Carole and marriage.
Carole did feel that she and Jeremy were growing closer.
McGarrett, if it was true, and Jeremy did call off his deal with Rolande, couldn't that have been a motive for murder? A theory, Miss Shand.
Theory.
If you've got a positive theory, move on it.
Close in.
Duke, have you received a report from the London Society on Rolande, yet? Not yet.
Nor from Marseille.
Professor MacKinnon was impressed with that seance last night.
He can't explain it.
But, I think I can.
[TAPPING ON TABLE.]
I asked the professor to run a test of his own.
How? He's going to ask Rolande to try to bring back a dearly departed wife.
A wife he never had.
Miss Shand is not involved in this, is she? No, no, no.
No, no.
She'll behave.
I made it absolutely clear that she was not to operate on her own.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING.]
Has the material from the London Research Society arrived yet, Willie? Yeah, it has.
All right, I'll be in the room.
Let me know when he arrives.
WILLIE: The car's arriving.
Shh! WILLIE: Right this way.
Please sit down.
There.
Now, you understand a "contact" is not always successful, especially the first time.
I am very hopeful.
Success depends on the will of the subject and the strength of the appeal.
A Ruth MacKinnon, are you near? Your husband David wishes to speak to you.
Ruth.
Ruth.
Is your spirit near? Can you come to us? Something disturbing here.
A contrary aura.
Something alien.
Hostile.
Ruth, can you reach out across the dark abyss, and respond to the love you left behind? There is some difficulty.
I feel it.
My God! Ruthie.
RUTHIE: You call me without credentials.
How could we get married? You never even asked me to marry you, David.
Why are you reaching for me now when it's too late? You always were devious David MacKinnon.
You never told me what was really in your heart You were not truthful with me You are not truthful now.
Why are you lying now? You're a fraud, Mr.
MacKinnon.
It's Ruthie.
Ruthie Summers.
I don't know why you came here, Mr.
MacKinnon.
I don't know why you lied to me about being married.
But I do know that you troubled this poor soul in life, as you are now tormenting her in death.
It's not true.
I never promised her anything.
Willie! I don't care to hear your explanation.
It's obvious you are playing out some devious scenario here.
But, I want to warn you that practical jokers have tempted the Unknown before, Mr.
MacKinnon, at their own peril.
Show him out.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
ROLANDE: Did you put him up to this, Miss Shand? Mm-hm? Why are you tempting the Unknown? It would be a pity if you never got a chance to write your next book.
Are you threatening me, Rolande? When you meddle with things beyond your comprehension, the Unknown threatens.
Rolande, in spite of the fact that I consider you a fraud, I must admit you have distracted me.
Distracted you.
Shaken me.
Three times now.
I have a deal for you.
- What kind of a deal? - I challenged him, McGarrett.
Challenged him, Miss Shand? Are you meddling again? Listen, McGarrett.
Up to now that man has had everything his own way.
All these so-called "appearances" have taken place in his own home, under his conditions.
I've challenged him to perform where he won't have that advantage.
- And where is that? - Aboard this yacht.
And I promised him, if he can bring Jeremy back right here in this cabin, I'll withdraw all my objections to Carole giving him half a million dollars.
- Come in, Mr.
McGarrett.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
I had no idea she was in the closet during the seance.
How well did you know Ruth Sommers, Professor? Well, I met her in England, when I was teaching there for a year.
Almost 20 years ago.
- Serious affair? - Yes.
For a while.
Then I returned to the States and, uh, she married a year later.
When did she die? Did you correspond with her? Well, before she married.
Did you save any of her letters by any chance? Well, heh, as a matter of fact, yes.
- Do you have a picture of her? - Yes, but why.
Well, if Rolande is a fake, he had to know all of this somehow.
What better way than through old letters? - Uh, where are they, by the way? - They're in the bookcase.
- May I see them? - Of course- MACKINNON: If Rolande is a fake, how would he know about Miss Shand and Tommy, uh, well, her first beau? Oh, he could have found out from Jeremy.
Jeremy and Carole visited the family home in Boston on their honeymoon.
You can be sure there were mementoes around there too.
Well, everything seems to be here, McGarrett.
I suppose.
Wait a minute.
This photograph of Ruth! That's exactly the way she looked at the seance.
The same hairstyle, the expression.
Exactly the same.
And these letters from Ruth.
They have all the information about our relationship that, uh, Rolande could possibly have needed.
Let me see.
He knew in advance you were coming to see him? Heh, yes, of course.
I made arrangements by phone.
Well, he probably checked up and found out who you were, then he studies these letters and duplicated that photo.
And, that wouldn't be difficult.
I live alone, and I'm not here a great deal.
[SIGHS.]
I must say, I was startled when Ruth made her appearance.
But now I see how Rolande did it.
- A photographic image? - Exactly.
What about the voice? How did she sound? Well, it was obviously filtered.
But, heh, of course, she was speaking from another world.
Wait a minute.
That man, uh, Fitzwilliam.
Willie.
I know I've seen him someplace before.
Yeah, I remember now.
We had a puppet show on television.
- May I use your phone? - Yes.
It's right there.
Danno? Anything come in? We got that report from the London Psychical Society.
There were two "incidents" involving Rolande during seances.
- Incidents? DANNY [OVER PHONE.]
: Deaths.
He was charged the second time.
It seems he was the beneficiary in each will.
The charges were later dropped.
I want to be at that seance tonight, Danno.
- You think Miss Shand's in danger? - I think Carole is.
She made Rolande the beneficiary in her will.
I'm gonna need you and Duke there too.
- Shall we meet you at the dock? - Yeah, please.
Uh And in the center drawer of my desk there's a sealed envelope.
- Bring it along.
- Right.
Thank you, Professor.
I appreciate everything.
Well, thank you.
We ask you, Jeremy Walker, to appear before us.
We come to you with open heart.
Can you hear me, Jeremy? Carole is here.
And Millicent Shand.
We want to speak to you.
Reach out to us, Jeremy.
Reach out.
We are waiting.
Touch us with open heart.
CAROLE: Jeremy, please.
ROLANDE: Jeremy, can you hear me now? Come to us, Jeremy.
Now.
The spirit is near.
Jeremy is close.
Come to us, Jeremy.
Now.
McGARRETT: Don't move, Rolande.
This is not Jeremy Walker.
This is Steve McGarrett, I've come to seek retribution.
Recompense for evil done.
Jeremy can't come.
He's dead.
He was brutally murdered by someone in this very cabin.
And Jeremy is crying out from the grave.
Justice must be done.
Retribution.
Retribution against you, Rolande.
Three times murderer.
Three human lives sacrificed in your quest for money.
Hold it! You're under arrest for the murder of Jeremy Walker.
Book him, Danno.
Murder One.
- Are you all right? - How'd you do that? - How'd you appear like that? - A photographic image.
The same device Rolande has been using right along.
Watch.
Duke! There's your magic.
He projected it.
Right over there.
Good heavens.
Carole, we understand about Jeremy, now.
HPD is searching Rolande's estate right now for additional evidence, including a set of Navy frogman's gear that Willie used.
Well, I know where that is, McGarrett.
- Where? - In the closet in the room Rolande used for his seances Why didn't you tell me that before? You never asked me.
Oh.
Goodbye, Sonny.
We swept out under your rugs again, exposed a fraud and murderer.
Good outfit, that Five-0 group of yours.
Thanks, McGarrett.
You responded adequately.
Oh, thank you for the accolade, Miss Shand.
Adequately, from you, is high praise indeed.
Indeed! Au revoir, or should I say, Aloha.
I'll see you both in my next book.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
What a lady.
So it was Rolande who had Willie Fitzwilliam murder Jeremy Walker under water, and then take the body down to where the diver found him.
It sure was.
And he also operated the slide projector.
Steve, you know she's really gonna write that book.
If she does, I have a title for her.
What? The Spirit is Willie.
[CHUCKLES.]