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[ "Hawaii five-o" theme plays ]

Here you are, Mr. Bridger.

Oh, thank you.

A good likeness.

It helps pass the time.

Please ask the captain

to radio this message to the Honolulu control tower.

Yes, sir.

Ah, there you are, my dear.

I was wondering, would it be too great an imposition

if I borrowed a scrap of paper?

Will this do?

Hmm. Splendid.

[ Blows ]

Get me Steve mcgarrett, Hawaii five-o, and hurry.

Mr. Bridger, we're on the ground.

Mr. Bridger? Mr. Bridg--

[ "Hawaii five-o" theme plays ]

[ Engine turns over ]

All right, let's hear it.

Bridger died on the plane.

We don't know how. Doc's working on it

he was tailing someone?

The beast. The one he mentioned in the message.

Beast -- what is that, a code name?

Yeah.

Kind of melodramatic, isn't it?

Maybe, but it fits erich stoss.

Erich stoss.

That may not be his real name. He's got five more.

Claims to be Dutch.

He's probably a Nazi who can't go home again.

We think he's working for the Chinese communists now.

How'd you miss him, danno?

Without Bridger, we didn't know who to look for.

No description?

Never got one.

What about luggage?

We held it up till we checked everyone.

If stoss had any, it came in on a different plane.

Let's go.

Last stamp, maracaibo, Venezuela, five days ago.

Well, I'm listening, Mr. Hendricks.

It's a sticky business, Steve.

Plays way, way up in Washington. Top secret.

You asked for my help.

Well, no one knows the rock like you.

I don't know what happened in maracaibo five days ago.

You tell me -- I'm in. You don't -- I'm out.

Now, name the players and tell me the stakes.

That's all I ask.

There was a secret conference.

Revolutionary groups from all over the Caribbean.

Any leaks?

The meeting took place in the america hotel.

Bridger told us it was arranged by high-level communists.

The day after the meeting,

stoss left from Mexico City with Bridger on his tail.

Yeah, but he flew from Mexico City to Los Angeles,

then to here. Why?

We don't know the short strokes,

but Bridger reported something big was planned.

And stoss was dealing the cards.

Washington know anything you don't know?

They haven't told me.

Well, ask.

And if they have a picture of stoss, get that to me, too.

Do you know her?

No.

Bridger's work?

He was a weekend artist.

What about it, doc?

Almost through, mcgarrett.

You think the girl connects with stoss?

I'm betting Bridger thought so.

If she came in on the same flight, we missed her, too.

How come someone from five-o missed a pretty girl?

I guess I was thinking of the beast.

As of now, we think of beauty and the beast, huh?

Okay, what have we got, doc?

Mcgarrett, we have here a very interesting case --

as a matter of fact, the first I've ever come across

in all my years in the medical field.

Do you mind telling me,

or should I wait and read about it in the medical journal?

All the classic symptoms of heart arrest,

but it wasn't that at all.

Cause of death, doc?

Dan, turn around.

There. Right there to the left of the spinal column.

I almost missed it.

Gentlemen, what it is, is a puncture wound

at the level of the lower thoracic spine.

How do you stab a man in the back

when he's sitting down in an airplane?

With a long thin blade.

Correct.

Lumbar puncture --

needle, small caliber.

Right through the back of the seat.

On a crowded plane? How come he didn't yell?

Even if he did, with a torn aorta,

sound would be post-mortem.

If she came in on that flight, somebody must have seen her.

All right, I want to know who she is,

where she is, and what she's doing.

Check with the plane crew, hotel clerks, cab drivers --

anybody who might have seen her.

If we find her?

Don't move in.

Just tail her.

Give her plenty of rope. See if she tries to contact stoss.

Steve, why not go after stoss the same way?

Stoss is smart enough to know we've got something on him.

He's got to stay undercover.

We have a much better chance of getting to her.

Men like stoss,

wherever they go, bring death and destruction.

Why did he come to Hawaii, huh? Why?

I can't figure that out.

Thank you, my boy. Thank you.

There used to be a day when they made cars large enough

so a man could get in and out with ease.

Shall I carry your case, professor?

No, thank you.

The case has not left my hands for the past 72 hours.

I've slept with it.

It must be valuable.

Deadly, sir. Deadly.

[ Doorbell buzzes ]

Well, now.

This, I must assume, is our host.

Mr. Quon li, professor.

I chose his house because it's remote, secluded,

and Mr. Quon is happy to cooperate with us.

Because you're a party member, sir?

No, because I have family still living in Shanghai,

who have been threatened with persecution

unless I cooperate.

Yes. It's a wicked world, Mr. Quon.

Indeed it is,

but we must all make the best of it.

And now at the risk of imposing

upon your hospitality, sir,

I should like to go directly to my room.

I shall need precisely seven hours of solitude

to compose and refresh myself.

Don't!

Move an inch.

Now take your hand away slowly and carefully.

I want it clearly understood, Mr. Quon,

that no one -- I repeat --

no one but myself will ever so much

as approach this case.

As you say.

This is what I need. Please have it ready

at exactly 9:00 tomorrow morning.

These ingredients are rare.

They can be obtained.

It will be expensive.

Old man, I am a chemist.

I know the exact cost of every item on that list.

Then you also know

this formula requires refrigeration.

Pack it in crushed ice in a thermos jug.

You're very young to have such knowledge.

And you are very old to be alive.

[ Speaking cantonese ]

[ Conversing in cantonese ]

What did he want?

He said you were followed.

Is there another way out?

This way.

I will see you at 9:00 in the morning.

How bad?

Bruises, shock, nothing broken.

They're cleaning her up now.

They holding her?

12 hours. Observation.

What happened?

Got hit by a cab as she stepped out of an alley.

There's an enemy agent loose.

One lead to him,

and you blew it.

Look, we gave her rope. She may have spotted us.

Someone might have spotted you and tipped her.

We're still in the ballgame because we got her.

I'm sorry, danno.

I guess the beast is on my back.

Hendricks just called Bridger's wife.

She's coming to take the body home

to his kids.

Let's go.

Steve, this is the formula she left at the chemist.

Does it mean anything?

Some kind of spore-breeding mulch.

No idea how the stuff is used

unless we want to make penicillin.

Did you ask the chemist about it?

Yeah, he identified the chemicals.

Said if we put it together we could make purple water.

Beautiful.

If you want my opinion, part of the formula's missing.

You can go in now,

but just for five minutes. She's been sedated.

Thank you.

Mr. Kelly, there's a phone call for you.

My name is Steve mcgarrett.

I'm with Hawaii five-o.

That's a state police unit here.

Are you going to arrest me for getting hit by a cab?

No, nothing like that.

I just want to ask you a few questions, Ms. De nava.

I am from Barranquilla, which is in Colombia

in South America,

and we are famous for our coffee and our bananas.

And what brings you to Hawaii?

Vacation.

Now, what's all this about?

You came in on flight 507, right?

Did you know the man who died on that flight?

I didn't know anyone had died.

He did that sketch of you.

I wonder why.

So do I.

Name erich stoss mean anything to you?

Stoss?

Sorry.

This chemical formula matches the handwriting

we found in your purse.

What does it mean?

You really would like it

to mean something, wouldn't you?

I wish I could oblige,

but it's a doodle, Mr. Mcgarrett.

Some people draw lines, dots, tic-tack-toe.

I doodle formulas.

I used to be a chemistry student.

Now, why would you bring your doodle

to a Chinese chemist?

I was merely in his shop.

It looked exotic so I went in to browse around.

I'm sorry.

It's nice to have met you.

We'll meet again.

Will we?

Yeah, I have a strong feeling erich stoss

will bring us together.

Hendricks dug up a picture of stoss.

Just sent this flyer over.

He had 1,000 copies made.

Now that we know what he looks like,

let's make it a big-game hunt.

Circulate it all over the islands.

You get anything from Ms. De nava?

Yeah.

She's lying. Now all we have to do is prove it.

One of the field hands brought it out from the city.

Five-o is looking for you.

Taken from an old passport photograph.

These things never do justice.

Still, it does suggest a certain roguish quality.

This five-o, Mr. Lao,

what can you tell me of it?

Run by a man named mcgarrett.

Dangerous?

And ruthless.

Point to remember.

Well, now, gentlemen,

I see we're all present and accounted for.

Gentlemen, I can now tell you

that within the next 72 hours we shall have accomplished

an act of sabotage

of such magnitude,

I should not be surprised if it is considered almost

a second Pearl harbor.

But first some background. Stand up, my boy.

Stand up.

This is my colleague Mr. Esteban,

a citizen of one of the greatest sugar-producing countries

in the world.

Unfortunately, due to embargoes,

an evil institution,

there is at present very little market for the product

of his country.

Every year more tons of it end up in warehouses

already filled to the bursting point.

Now, then...

Where do we find buyers for this excellent sugar?

How do we bring the world to our marketplace?

You might well ask.

Yet the answer's quite simple.

We will create a shortage.

The contents of these vials, gentlemen,

judiciously introduced into the cane fields here,

here,

here,

and here

will effectively destroy the sugar industry in Hawaii

for the next five years.

A brilliant plan.

Every country will have to buy their sugar from us

at our prices.

Precisely.

When do we start?

Tonight.

Gentlemen, I bid you good day.

Mr. Lao,

care to remain for a few minutes?

Is there something wrong, professor?

An important member of our organization

is in a hospital.

She was involved in a street accident yesterday.

Piece of carelessness, which cannot be excused.

You must contact her, Lao.

Is that a problem?

Yes.

Our friend mcgarrett has made it one.

He's having her watched.

Why is it necessary to make contact?

Firstly, because the contents

of these vials cannot be activated

without Mariana's special knowledge.

Secondly, because as long as mcgarrett has her,

she's a threat to all of us.

But my own dossier on Ms. De nava indicates

she is totally dedicated to the cause.

I deeply distrust people

who are dedicated to abstractions.

Loyalty is a commodity

bought and sold on the open market.

If she is an unreliable, what then?

Good morning, doctor.

Ms. De nava's room, which is it?

It's restricted, doctor. The police --

I'm doctor Lao.

I've been called in for consultation.

There's been no clearance for you.

Perhaps I can reach Dr. Webber.

Your name, please?

Mako. But nothing was said.

Nurse mako,

I have many patients

and seldom time to see them all.

I'm skipping my lunch to examine this woman

at Dr. Webber's request.

I will not squander it discussing the case with you.

I'm terribly sorry, doctor.

I'm sure it's all right,

but in a police matter we must be careful.

Please, this way.

It's all right, officer.

Dr. Lao has been cleared by Dr. Webber.

Do you know who I am?

You're Lao.

Comrade, you have failed.

It was not my fault.

Excuses are not acceptable.

At best, you've been careless.

At worst, traitorous.

No.

Keep your voice down.

You will have an opportunity

to prove your loyalty.

What shall I do?

First, the formula.

Four basic ingredients and one additive.

This is the complete formula.

Good.

Now, what do the police know?

I told them nothing.

You will be questioned again.

Do you think I'd betray you?

That danger exists.

I am as good a party member as anyone.

I have never deviated.

I would die for the cause.

Yes.

What is this? What are you doing?

There will be no discomfort.

You'll become drowsy and quietly slip away.

Please.

I don't want to die.

It's an order.

The next time you are questioned, you might slip.

You could endanger the plan.

No, I won't. I promise.

You promised to die for the cause.

How are you today, Mariana?

I have nothing to say

to an oppressor of the people.

Is that what you think I am?

You function in a capitalistic society,

so you are an oppressor.

And you're a communist.

I admit it with pride.

Yesterday when I questioned you,

you wouldn't admit anything.

Maybe we're getting somewhere.

Nowhere.

You are my enemy.

Correction --

you came to my country and committed a murder.

If you didn't, stoss did. That makes you an accessory.

Help yourself, Mariana. The party can't help you now.

Where is stoss?

Where is stoss?

They were right.

You will come back again and again.

You will force me to --

what is it?

What's the matter?

I'm afraid.

I want to live, whatever the consequences.

Help me, please. Please, help me.

You took something.

What is it? What is it?

They gave me poison.

Nurse.

Get a doctor quickly. It's poison.

They said no pain.

They lied to me.

Who got to you? Who was it, Mariana?

Stoss sold you out. Who sent -- who'd he send?

The one they call Lao.

I'm afraid.

I don't want to die.

Who, besides Lao and stoss? Who was it?

Esteban.

Me.

Mcgarrett, I'm so cold.

Easy.

Easy.

Why did stoss come to Hawaii?

Destroy.

Destroy what?

Its sugar cane fields.

How are they going to destroy

the sugar cane fields?

Fungus.

Fungus.

She's dead, Mr. Mcgarrett. What happened?

She was killed...

By a beast.

Destroy the cane fields?

That's diabolical.

Yes, sir, but nonetheless true.

Gentlemen, any comments?

I think Mr. Mcgarrett has created

a new credibility gap.

I'd be interested in viewing the evidence.

I asked for a representative

from the department of agriculture to be here.

May we hear from them now, sir?

This is Leonard burleson.

The sugar cane plant is very susceptible to many diseases.

To name a few -- leaf scald, gumming, root rot, smut,

and a whole range of viruses.

Cane has also been badly damaged by insect pests --

the moth borers, the frog hopper, Beatles,

mealy bugs, moths, and many others.

But according to mcgarrett, it's a fungus.

Could somebody destroy a crop that way?

Good heavens, yes.

You'd also want to start with a parasitic fungus,

preferably one that would be able to attack a single host --

in this case, sugar cane.

That's no real difficulty.

There are more than 100,000 species of fungi to choose from.

You would probably want the facultative parasite.

After it's killed the living host,

it could continue to feed on the dead tissue.

Then you'd have a reproduction cycle of spores

to attack next year's crop.

We'll accept Leonard's expertise that it is possible.

I'll concede that it's possible.

How much of the world's raw sugar is produced in Hawaii?

41.6%.

For another country to gain that advantage

would be a tremendous coup.

But for Hawaii to lose it, it would be a stab in the heart.

Very well, gentlemen, let's sum it up.

One -- a group of enemy agents, three professionals,

and an unspecified number of local recruits

are somewhere on this island.

We'll need a coordinated effort

by all law-enforcement agencies to find their hide-out,

and two -- these people have already committed murders,

and their assignment is the destruction

of one of our major industries.

How will they introduce

this fungus in the cane fields?

By spores -- no problems with handling or dispersing.

What about disbursement?

By plane I should think --

fly over a remote corner of a field to the northeast.

Then the trade winds will blow the spores many miles.

Like crop-dusting.

Yes, sir, exactly.

Danny.

Good.

Here it is.

Go.

Crop-dusting and spraying companies by islands,

privately owned crop-dusters,

rental planes adaptable for crop-dusting,

private planes adaptable, helicopters.

It's an awful lot of aircraft.

Some fat in there.

Secret operation, you wouldn't go

to a crop-dusting company -- rent a plane.

Privately owned dusters?

Some growers have their own.

But they don't rent them out.

Other ways.

Pressure?

The worst kind.

What are you getting at?

Stoss is working for the Chinese.

If you could find a grower with family still in China,

he's got it.

Give that man a free foo yong.

Haole food.

Not exclusively.

Let's go over the lists again.

It's almost midnight.

None of the places will be open.

Then we knock on doors!

We nail stoss now or we'll be growing toadstools

instead of cane. Let's go!

It's a pity, my dear Lao,

that we don't have a whole fleet of these.

The entire job could be finished by now.

Still, tomorrow's another day.

Central dispatch.

Calling mcgarrett, five-o.

Mcgarrett. Yeah, danno?

Inter-island charter service -- nothing?

Yeah, what else?

Okay, okay. Split the last few with kono and hit it.

[ Speaking Chinese ]

Sorry, I don't speak Chinese.

Okay, pal.

I asked if you bought a plane,

a crop-duster, from a man named Anderson.

Sure did. Right over here.

Nice plane, eh, honorable cop?

I bought it for a clubhouse for my kids.

Ha ha ha ha.

My name's Williams, five-o.

I can't hear you.

Oh.

What can I do for you?

I'd like to know what you're dusting for.

Are you an expert on plant disease?

No, but I can get one out here in a hurry.

My foreman was the first to notice it.

Some kind of smut.

I've never seen anything just like it.

Is it a fungus?

Sure is.

[ Doorbell buzzes ]

How are you, quon? Steve mcgarrett.

The eyes are not too ancient

to recognize an old friend.

Well, it's been a long time.

Yes, it has.

And people change, don't they?

Nothing has changed, Steve.

Do old friends stand outside and talk?

There is sickness in my house.

The door is closed only to protect your health.

I came to inspect your plane.

I have no plane.

That's right, you have a helicopter.

Yes. I use it to take me to and from the cane field.

Could it be equipped for dusting?

Yes, it could.

Who flies it? I want to talk to him.

[ Ding ]

And talk you shall, Mr. Mcgarrett...To me.

I never relished chess by letter.

The satisfaction of the game, any game,

is to look your opponent in the eye.

Let me introduce myself properly.

The name is stoss.

Yeah, I know -- the beast.

I venture to say there's very little

about me has escaped you.

Including the murders of Bridger and miss de nava.

Distressing events, indeed.

And so close to success.

The plan brilliantly conceived

and worked out in the finest detail.

A coup, sir, now mangled beyond repair,

first by their blundering and now by yours.

Now, then, we must consider what to do next.

You're under arrest, stoss.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Look around you, Mr. Mcgarrett.

Just look around you.

I have to do a lab test,

but we can be pretty sure it is a fungus.

It was especially developed to attack cane.

It's very fast-acting,

and we don't have a pesticide that will be effective.

What do I have to do?

Burn it.

Kono, they started burning. Where's Steve?

I haven't heard from him.

Call me back as soon as you hear from him.

Quon.

Quon.

You will be hungry.

Quon.

Very well. I betrayed you, Steve.

I had to chose between you and my own blood.

These people don't honor agreements.

Don't you understand that?

Your relatives will pay the price anyway.

Now, please, quon, help me.

Quon.

I cannot. Please understand.

How long have you lived in Hawaii?

30 years, maybe longer?

Stop looking back to the old country, old man.

Your home is here, right in these islands,

and you owe a debt.

When are you going to make a payment?

Steve --

Well, Mr. Mcgarrett,

it appears we'll have a little more time together.

I don't think you can afford it.

Unfortunately, the situation provides no option.

Such was the confidence in our plan,

that an emergency escape route was not provided for.

A shocking tactical error, of course.

That's the ballgame, stoss. You've had it.

Not quite, sir.

There is in the harbor a ship of sympathetic registry.

The problem is how to get to it.

My sources of information tell me

that there are roadblocks all over the island.

There is, of course, the helicopter,

but I believe you will agree

that there's a certain amount of risk involved

in trying to land it near the harbor,

a risk which I would prefer to keep as a last resort.

And where does that leave us?

It leaves us at the very reason

why I've spared your life.

Oh, we make a deal?

Oh, let us say a compromise that we can both live with,

as the saying goes.

You're a man of sound judgments.

I believe we can reach such a compromise.

What are you asking?

One -- free passage to all checkpoints

between here and the harbor.

Two -- your presence to insure safe conduct,

and three -- no interference with the sailing of the ship.

And what do you offer?

You, sir,

unharmed in any way.

No deal!

What could be fairer?

No deal!

My final offer.

A beast belongs in a cage.

When you hear the sound

of the helicopter taking off, kill him.

Mr. Lao.

Yes, professor.

It seems that our activities here

will have to be temporarily suspended.

Then we've failed.

A setback, no question of that, sir.

But we've only lost a battle, not a war.

He who will run away...

Will run into a roadblock,

unless you've discovered a way around them.

I propose to fly over them.

Unfortunately, there will be space for only two.

Yourself and...

And Esteban, the pilot of the helicopter.

Then it's all been decided,

and I have no voice in the matter?

I am to be left behind as sacrifice.

I refuse to accept.

Oh, I'm disappointed in you, Mr. Lao.

I would expect a little more fatalism

from a man of your race and dedication.

After all, this is your cause, sir, not mine.

I'm only a poor mercenary trying to sell

his unique talents for a small profit.

However, let us not quarrel.

The situation for you is by no means critical.

It should be comparatively easy for you

to fade into the local population

and make your way to safety,

once all the hue and cry has died down.

Now I shall have to ask you to step aside.

[ Gunshot ]

Quon, are you all right?

I'm all right, Steve. I'm all right.

Stoss!

[ Gunshot ]

Stoss!

Esteban, I urge you to yield

as gracefully as circumstances will permit.

We can only hope that Mr. Mcgarrett

will be a generous Victor.

The fortunes of war have shifted.

May I lower my arms, please?

All this exertion for a man of my temperament.

I surrender to you, sir.

Drop it.

Where you been, danno?

Been looking for you.

Check stoss for cyanide pellets.

A ridiculous notion, Mr. Mcgarrett.

Gestures are for fanatics and patriots.

I'm a businessman, pure and simple.

What's with the arm?

Stoss was showing me how he killed frank Bridger.

Wrong, sir. It was Esteban.

He did it without my knowledge or approval.

Please, fair is fair, Mr. Mcgarrett.

I do expect justice.

You'll get it, stoss -- life without parole.

[ "Hawaii five-o" theme plays ]