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Jerry Turner.

Turner, Alvin Jones.

Yeah, what can I do for you?

Airbill D-49137.

Yeah, I'm taking care of it.

Do you have a pencil?

Right on.

Airbill L...

It's on the line now.

Get busy. Divert ramp three.

No problem.

Airport security.

Message center.

Officer 11 reporting in.

5.40 a.m.

Message for Arnold Cook.

Yes.

Line moving.

I'll give him the details tomorrow.

I gave Jerry his first job. He said he'd never make it to 40.

All right, Arnold.

Let's have it. What makes you so sure it wasn't an accident? Jerry was working

undercover. On what? The air cargo rings. You told me there was a nickels

and dimes operation.

It was big. Big. It got bigger than you know.

Why didn't you yell cough?

I wanted to, but the front office said it would kill business.

Oh, no. I want a full post-mortem on Jerry.

you think it was murder first fatality at this airport in 10 years and it's my

undercover man could have been a coincidence no sure it happened while he

was doing a job for the ring but i say he was fingered who in the ring gave

jerry's orders voice at the other end of the phone he got anywhere from two to

five hundred dollars for every shipment he pulled off the line who recruited him

another voice on another phone but how do they know jerry would cooperate well

we set jerry up as a cargo handler with a Hidden prison record and a string of

gambling debts.

And they bought it.

Well, why shouldn't they?

If he opened his mouth, they had him.

But Jerry had to have someone in the ring to contact. What if something went

wrong? They gave him a number.

Apili 7-9247.

Chin.

Apili 7-9247.

Check it out.

Got it.

Save your energy. They change the number all the time. Trace it anyway.

Somebody's got to tell Jerry's wife.

What's her name, Larry?

They were divorced.

It's still going to be rough.

I'll take care of it. One other thing.

Ask Dano to check the contents of Jerry's locker. Trace his last

movements, who he talked to, where he went, and so forth.

I'd like to see the cargo crew. Okay, I'll get them.

Mr. McGarrett, I'm Eric Ling, cargo systems engineer.

I came over as soon as Arno called.

He thinks it's homicide.

I can't believe it.

Why not, Mr. Ling?

Mr. McGarrett, why kill a man with a two-ton crate when a common letter

opener would do?

No, it wouldn't. Not when you're trying to make a murder look like an industrial

accident.

Steve!

This, the entire crew? This is John Malcolm, the outside crew chief.

John? How are you?

Where were you and your crew when Jerry Turner was killed?

Any of a half a dozen places.

Ramps, conveyor belts, planes up and down the line there.

Then no one was left in the immediate area?

Nobody. All hell broke loose on a rush job out there.

So anyone could have dumped that load on Jerry?

Or no one.

Look, do we have to assume it's murder?

We're not assuming anything, Mr. Lee.

How do you think it happened, John?

Who knows?

We got pressed. Somebody could have left the cargo way up on the heist. Maybe

even Turner himself.

Maybe it slipped off.

Gentlemen, if this was an accident, there'll be no trouble for anybody.

But we need your help, please.

Did anyone leave that load up on the heist?

Now, think back.

Did anyone see it up there?

All right.

Thank you. That's all for now.

Let Mr. Cook know where you'll be. We may want to talk with you later.

See you, Mr. McGarrett. I don't see anything, Mr. Ling.

You're an engineer. Suppose you tell me how it slipped.

Force of gravity?

I have no way of knowing.

It's only a piece of mechanical equipment.

Accidents happen.

A load can slip.

At the split second, an undercover man is under it?

Hardly.

You can pick up air bill 4181-4181 at Wilco.

Our cargo flights to Taiwan are filled with capacity.

First open departure at 11 a.m. tomorrow.

Oh, yes.

The leather shipment incoming Sydney will be trucked directly to your

warehouse. Our files show customer refused consignment, so cargo returned

to shipper.

Anita Putnam, cargo status.

Anita, it's Alvin Jones.

Do you have a pencil?

Yes. The new number is Kawena 20699.

Coena 20699.

That's correct.

Let's hear from you soon.

Not murder, Hal.

Caught me out.

I never bargained for murder.

Eric, stop wringing your hands.

whatever became of our inscrutable oriental.

Keep up that gallo humor of yours.

Hal, what's the matter with you?

Who did it for you, huh?

Malcolm?

It was an accident, Eric, a tragic accident.

Accident?

Who do you think will buy that self-propelled crate idea of yours?

McGarrett saw through it in less than five milliseconds.

There were no witnesses.

Let him prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

That's a murder rap you're talking about, Hal.

Listen, we've got a smooth, highly, highly efficient, highly profitable

organization right here.

How could you be so stupid?

Eric, you're new at this.

Sometimes killing is necessary.

Oh, no.

Not me, Hal.

Not me.

I'm splitting.

I advise you to do the same thing.

To go where and do what?

I do not intend to live the rest of my life on the run.

But you don't have to.

I know where to go.

Besides, we've already skimmed off the cream. Huh?

Why be greedy greedy?

Do you know what I've done for this company?

Cargo profits are up 28 million In gratitude. They threw me a few extra

nickels How We're on a collision course

with McGarrett all he's got is a dead body Why run we're built to take a

squall

You're copping out on your own systems engineering.

But it wasn't programmed for murder.

Listen, I meant what I said.

I want out right now.

That was part of our deal, do you understand?

You're panicking, Eric.

All right, all right, you're free as a bird.

Only do me a favor.

Invent a dying relative or something.

Cover me when you walk.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm walking.

But I think... I think you're making a big mistake, Hal.

Anita Putnam, cargo status.

This is Oahu Hospital.

We're expecting a shipment of glucagon.

Has it arrived yet? Air bill number?

Just a moment, please.

Hello? I'm terribly sorry.

We have no record of arrival.

Would you check on it for us?

It's a new drug. We need it in a hurry.

I'll send a tracer.

20699. Your call is being answered electronically.

When the tone sounds, you will have 60 seconds to record your message.

Speak slowly and clearly.

This is Anita.

Arrival flight for pharmaceutical.

Glucagon.

Air bill number BI14339.

Insured for $130,000.

Visitors are taxing, even husbands.

I love you, Joanna.

Jerry's notebook.

Hope the lab can make something of that.

Come in.

Arnold, you look beat. I am. Here's that personnel file you were after.

Who's who in air cargo from director to janitor.

Good.

Kono, this is your Bible.

Put together a boiler room with HPD, everybody on this list gets a thorough

going over.

What are we looking for?

Who's in debt, whose wife is sick, who's losing a shirt gambling, who's stashing

a chick, the usual.

Boy, that's some fishing expedition.

Those bloodsuckers who run that cargo ring find out who's vulnerable and uses

them. We're going down the same rat holes.

Who's going to sign for this package?

I will.

Receive one corpse.

Cheaper by the dozen, Arnold.

Chalk up another murder for the ring.

How'd they get to him?

Garroting.

Japanese pathologist says the murder weapon was packing case wire.

He died about eight hours before he turned up in Tokyo.

It's about the flight time from here.

They must have been hard put to get rid of the body fast. They just killed him

and shoved him in the container.

Yeah, they still took time to cover themselves.

False ID, false passport.

If the Tokyo police hadn't checked with Interpol, we'd still be looking for him.

Aloha, brother.

Aloha. We're special today on Lop Chong.

No, no, no, not today.

I'm here on business.

Shino Kelly, 5-0.

My herbs are pure.

I give no prescription just for general health.

Don't worry. I'm not here to make an arrest.

Just tell me where I can find this number.

It's upstairs.

I'll show you.

What happened to the people?

The place is empty.

No, one of the phones stops ringing.

I used to hear it night and day.

They're never giving me notice.

You rented them the room?

Good tenants paid two months in advance.

They were never there.

Who answers the phone?

You sound as though you just came off the boat.

In America, the phone answer itself makes beeping noises and plays back.

Who came to see the room?

Nobody. A man saw the sign for rent.

He telephoned me, needed a place cheap to get his mail and messages and to hang

his hat. I say, okay.

He sent me a check.

Would you still have his check?

Yes.

Arnold and I talked to everybody who went near that Tokyo flight.

Nothing. They must all be deaf, dumb, or blind.

Ling's murder is an inside job, no doubt about it. But, uh, why kill a systems

engineer?

You mean, why kill this one?

We don't know anything about Ling yet.

Okay, Kono, what is your boy that we'll come up with?

Four alcoholics, three adulterers, and one ex-bookie.

But we can't tie any of them to the cargo ring.

I have a feeling we're really breathing down their necks now.

Let's go.

What's that all about?

Blow-ups of Turner's notebook.

The blood made the ink run, but the lab was able to filter out the stain on the

few pages remaining intact.

Those numbers mean anything to you, Arnold?

Yeah, that's all routine freight information.

Jerry was memorizing it to pass as a handler.

Anita Putnam. Who is she?

Anybody know her?

All right, Kona, that's one for you.

Yes, I'll hold.

Yes, Dr. Fowler?

Paula Thomas again.

Oh, I'm from the hospital.

What about that glucagon shipment?

No, it has not arrived.

I've checked air cargo I don't know how many times.

We have to have an emergency shipment as soon as humanly possible.

Two days.

All right, do the best you can.

We have a patient in cardiac shock right now.

Thank you.

They're running on the special batch.

It'll be here to enter tomorrow. Miss Thomas, I'm an import-export myself.

I ship every day of the week.

This is inexcusable.

Who kept airport security from coming to us for help?

I take full responsibility.

You do?

Mr. Williams, you surprise me.

What do you think I'm here for?

I'm not in air freight. I'm in the charm business.

I massage and caress customers till they purr. I send the wives on island

junkets, and I get girls for the daddies.

Your company was being robbed.

Why didn't you come to us?

Come now, Mr. Williams, after wooing the world's largest concerns, tripling our

tonnage, did you expect me to scare everyone off with a crime wave?

What were you going to do, massage it out of existence?

Just keep it in the family.

Did you hire Eric Ling?

I rubber-stamped it.

The company's slide rule boys picked him.

Who were his friends?

I never met any of them.

Who did he work with?

The whole airport.

He was our troubleshooter.

Did he have any friends in particular?

Not that I noticed.

I'm sorry I can't be more helpful.

So am I.

It's a search warrant.

Mrs. Kohama, it gives us the right to look through Mr. Ling's house.

Yes, I understand.

On the day he disappeared. Thursday.

Yes, Thursday.

Did he come home from work?

No. The last few times you saw him, did he seem nervous or upset?

I don't know.

Steve, look at this.

What is one systems engineer doing with three safety deposits?

Where's your manager?

I'm afraid he's still out.

Well, I've been here for an hour.

Grayson. Remember the name?

Well, if you'll tell me what it's about, Mr. Grayson. It's about a missing

shipment of glucagon and negligence.

Criminal negligence. My wife is dying because of it. That's what it's about.

Operator, this is an emergency.

Get me UI-50.

What's the air bill number?

Yes. Yes, Mr. Grayson, it is possible it was stolen.

Well, if it was, we'll make sure the replacement gets there safely.

Yes, we'll have a man there.

You have my word. You're welcome.

Thank you for letting us... Yes, thank you for telling us.

Chin, be at the airport tomorrow.

A woman's life depends on the shipment.

I'll be there.

What's the count?

Oh, very nice nest egg.

280,000.

The richest man in the cemetery.

How many of those we've had through the years, huh?

Translation, if greed were a fever, all the world would be ill.

Speak for yourself, Chin.

Okay, Dan, let's go.

Check these signatures against the photostat of the rent check.

The loops of the E.

And the L.

The formation of the R.

And the W.

All four guys are linked.

No question?

Yeah. And he's dead.

Well that's it.

What do you mean by a lot of money?

Yes?

Yes, I see.

What do you think he's lost? Heavy feedback from Anita Putnam.

Okay, let's hear it.

She's divorced.

Got an 18-year-old daughter named Cynthia, always being picked up for

sniffing coke, taking LSD. A real bummer.

It cost Mrs. Putnam an arm and a leg for bail, attorneys, psychiatrists. Yeah,

so?

So take a look at her bank account.

Besides her payroll check, $200 on the 4th, $500 on the 7th, $300 on the 8th,

$400 on the 15th.

Well, it could be alimony or child support.

No way. We checked.

Were these deposits made by check?

Cash. Every one.

You got us a lead, Carl. Good.

McGarrett, Bible.

Well, what is it?

Is Cynthia in trouble again?

We're interested in you, Mrs. Putnam, not your daughter.

Did you know Jerry Turner, the cargo handler who was killed?

Yes, but just to say hello to.

Funny thing, your name was in his notebook.

Was it?

Well, somebody at work must have, you know, told him to call me for a date or

something.

How did they get you to join?

Join? Join what? What are you talking about?

Could you account for the two, the three, and the $500 bank deposits?

Oh, that's my ex-husband. He sends us money all the time.

Oh, he doesn't.

He's in Maryland.

He's remarried. He has four children, and he's in debt.

Now, would you like to talk here, or would you rather go down to 50

headquarters?

My daughter was in trouble, having really bad trouble.

So you started spotting for them?

All right, let's go. No, please.

All right.

What do you want to know?

Who was in the ring with you?

Well, that's how I can't even help you.

Because I didn't meet any of them.

This man phoned me.

He knew about Cynthia. I mean, he knew things that I didn't even know.

So I had to have the money. I did whatever he wanted me to.

Such as?

No, don't ask me, because they're going to find out.

And they'll kill me. They will.

Mrs. Putnam, decide. Do you want to talk, or do you want to be booked?

Yes, I was a spotter.

I phoned in all air bill numbers on accounts that were insured for over $20

,000. To whom? To whom did you phone?

A blind tape that erased itself when they got the message.

Do you remember any specific shipments?

Swiss watches and...

Industrial diamonds, fine art, and pharmaceuticals.

Pharmaceuticals?

Glucagon?

Do you know that Joanna Grayson is dead because of you?

Oh, my God.

I couldn't help it.

I'm dead over my head.

You just... You don't know what it's like to have a daughter that's in

trouble. What was the phone number you used?

A... A Peely.

A 792-77.

The new number.

That's the only number I know. The new number!

Listen.

If I help you, maybe you can... No. No.

No deals.

Then start cooperating. What was the new number?

Your call is being answered electronically.

When the tone sounds, you will have 60 seconds to record your message.

Speak slowly and clearly.

The federal judge is okay? In writing, Che. In writing. What are we waiting

for? It's not that easy. We know the ring uses an automatic answering system.

They all work on the same principle.

Dial the lab extension.

will be recorded when the tone sounds.

Testing. One, two, three, four.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he

hears a different drummer.

Put it down.

All right, if that were a cargo spotter, how do we rob the tape?

Here, I'll show you.

Dial a lab extension again.

because he hears a different drummer.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Will that beeper work on all automatic answering devices?

No, but we can test until we find one with the right combinations of beeps.

But we've got to be careful. Mrs. Putnam said that the tape automatically erases.

That's just the problem.

As soon as we pick up their messages from their spotters, the tape will wipe

clean. and the ring will draw a blank.

They'll know something's up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you have an ordinary tape recorder around here with a telephone hookup?

Right.

Yes.

Connect it to this.

Now, if this works, you're about to hear the cargo ring in operation.

Now, I'm gonna dial the ever number, rob their tape, and record it on ours.

So will you start the machine?

When the tone sounds, you will have 60 seconds to record your message.

Speak slowly and clearly.

No. When we get it all on our tape, you dial the ever number again and play it

right back to them when the tone sounds.

I see what you're doing. They get their messages, we have our copy. Right.

You make voice prints of all those spotters. They'll be our fingerprints.

Very clever. And you're not even Chinese.

Listen, Che, all we have are the little fish. We haven't even laid a mitten on

the big shots who are running this operation.

But there's got to be a way. There's got to be a way.

Wait a minute.

Maybe this is my lucky day.

Mr. McGarrett, I... I'll do anything.

Anything you suggest.

It's all right.

Corrine's been with me for 25 years.

Mr. Grayson, we'd like you to prepare a shipment of rare jade.

Ensure it heavily.

The amount has to be large enough so that the head man won't trust anybody

else to dispose of it.

Will a quarter of a million be enough?

Perfect. And the sooner the better. You know where to reach us. What will happen

to...

Whoever killed my Joanna.

Well, that's up to the courts.

Oh, yes.

The courts.

Delays, appeals, years, and nothing.

It's a stupid ritual.

Useless and stupid.

You're wasting your time.

Then help us produce some hard evidence.

And whoever runs that ring will be behind bars, I promise you.

I'm sorry.

I just can't believe that.

You don't have to.

But at least stop them from killing other people.

You'll have your package tomorrow.

Anita, ACI-M, antique jade, company Jade Unlimited.

Air bill Y24388, departure Maui flight 3,

insured for $243,000.

Steve, Anita came through for us.

It's on its way.

Isn't that John Malcolm?

The cargo handler who was working with Jerry the day he was killed?

Yeah, that's him.

Get a good, clear head and shoulder shot.

Where's he diverting the J-2?

Here's your answer.

Central is standing by.

Go ahead, McGarrett.

Add cargo handler outside crew chief John Malcolm to your pickup list.

Suspicion of first-degree murder.

Grand theft. We'll tell you when you can move.

What happens at the Wilco warehouse?

Nothing. The shipment just sits there until somebody shows up with a copy of

the air bill and picks it up.

Kono, it's coming out gate number seven.

I got him.

Amen.

We need the chopper to get a fix on a blue pickup heading east on Baratania.

License plate 70784.

I don't want to lose him. 10-4.

Doctor to McGarrett.

Yeah, go ahead, Hank.

You can lay back, Steve. I've got him. He's heading east on Wainama Road.

Okay, but alert HPD units, but tell them to keep clear.

Fred, what's this doing here?

Fred, answer me.

You're not planning to use this?

Mind your own business.

But... but why?

Joanna's dead.

That's why.

Fred, that package.

You didn't.

But Mr. McGarrett, the policeman, they can be killed.

They won't get close to it.

I, uh, I know about explosives.

The top man will get it.

And maybe some of the greedy ones around him.

I want them to die.

I want them all to die.

Five-oh headquarters.

Hurry, please.

Central dispatch calling car one.

The jade shipment, it has a bomb in it. Repeat, it has a bomb in it.

I read you, dispatch.

Over and out.

Package being hand-carried to house at end of Wainama Road, Black Point.

Received your message on the way.

You're under arrest.

Your noble act just destroyed all the evidence.

You're looking at two eyewitnesses who saw you receive stolen property, but

that's only the kickoff.

We've got you on manslaughter and murder.

Book him, Dono.

Rhetoric, Mr. McGarrett.

Don't bet on it. From what I know of John Malcolm, he'd be glad to trade his

life for yours.