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Thank you.

What is the value of the item, Mr. Haviland?

It's insured for $100,000.

May I see it, please, before we put it away?

There are only five in the world.

Thank you.

It's virtually undetectable without high magnification.

I think you will find it well worth one thousand dollars.

Somebody named Henry Ambecker. Car is registered to him. He can't have been

dead quite an hour.

Che thinks it looks like a very professional job. Thought you'd want to

take a look.

What makes you think it's the work of a pro, Che?

Well, the area around the bullet wound showed massive bruising, but no exit

wound. No exit?

It's as if the bullets exploded on impact, which would mean mercury cores.

Mercury cores?

I'm betting an autopsy would show traces of mercury in the wounds.

If you're right, Che, this is the work of a pro's pro. Big league stuff.

And we don't know nearly enough about the late Mr... What's his name? Aaron

Decker.

Okay, we'll remedy that. Get me the book on him.

That's the one, right?

Oh, I told you they couldn't stick me with that lousy bust.

That'll drop the charges, huh?

You get in strong, because he put up the bill.

It's so good to see you again.

Hey, how did you do it?

How did you fix it for me to get out?

It wasn't me. It was that man over there.

Won't you join me, Mr. Price?

Luncheon is all laid out.

for your release, Mr. Price, because I've heard interesting things about

you. Your special talent.

Okay, so it's an old nickel. So what?

So, exchange it for this one.

Look, mister, I don't know what you got in mind, but I don't understand you.

Arnie, come down.

That delightful little sleight of hand trick you used so profitably at your

carnival booth, huh?

Changing tens and twenties into ones until the police trapped you with marked

bills? Look, mister, I never switched bills on nobody. That was a roust.

It was a roust. Millie, was it a roust? Tell him. Tell him. Well, yeah, you

know...

The cops are always after us, Carney people.

I see.

Possibly the trick is too difficult with small coins.

You can only manage it with currency.

There you are.

Big deal.

It will indeed be, as you say, a big deal. deal if you can do as well wearing

this.

How big?

Hey, listen, Arnie. You know, I don't think you need any more trouble.

Come on, mister.

What do you want me to steal?

A genuine 1913 Liberty Head nickel. The one I just gave you is a well-made fake.

Uh-huh.

Well, uh, what's in it for me?

A great deal of money.

Ten thousand dollars.

When you've accomplished your objective, you'll find me at this

number waiting anxiously for your call.

I hope you're not overcome by greed.

Could prove costly.

Inside, you'll find the name of the hotel where you've been registered as

Wilson Davis.

Also, your credentials as a collector of rare coins.

Oh, wow.

I mean, this guy really operates, right?

Hey, will ya? I'm trying to talk to you. Will you slow down?

I'm asking you, so will you tell me what's wrong? What's so wrong about a

fast 10 thou?

What's wrong with it?

This is never going to end, is it?

You keep promising, and I keep praying, and this thing just keeps going on and

on.

Oh, come on.

Come on, Millie.

It's going to be all right.

Okay. You're promising again, huh?

Look.

We take the 10th hour, and we go right back home to Evanston, right?

We buy a piece of that trailer park that my brother wants us to manage.

Yeah.

Because what we own, we don't have to be flunkies, right?

They're not trailers. They're mobile homes. That's what they call a mobile

homes. What happened?

It's gonna happen.

This time, it is really gonna happen. I can taste it.

Unless you get caught, Arnie.

This isn't Carney's stuff. This is very big.

You were there.

Did you listen to that man?

The way he had it all laid out.

Like D-Day.

Everything figured.

Including what happens to him if you get caught?

What? What happens to him?

Nothing. That's just the point.

Arnie, we don't know anything about him. We don't know his name. We don't know

his address.

All we have is a little piece of paper with a phone number on it. Did you

notice how he knows everything about us and we know nothing about him?

Arnie, please don't do it.

I'm scared.

Baby, I'm really, really scared.

But what can I do?

Now, that man made bail for me.

If I try to back out now, he's gonna put me right back where he found me, or else

do something worse.

Arnie, it's safe in jail.

It's gonna work.

Just like he put it together. Like a Swiss watch.

It's gonna work.

$18,000

$15

,000

$15

,000

Twenty thousand dollars.

Twelve thousand dollars.

My name is Davis, Wilson Davis.

What can I do for you, Mr. Davis?

Well, I'm interested in making a bid on your 1913 nickel, and I'd like to

examine it, please.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Lovely condition.

Thank you, I'll look for you at the auction you bet

Just a minute.

Something wrong, officer?

Yes, there's been a little trouble inside. Sir, I'm afraid no one can leave

the building just yet.

Oh, there's no problem. I've got all day.

Would you step back inside, please?

Of course.

You know the folks back here, would you please step back inside?

I have a little problem here.

Everybody, step back in.

And you came to Hawaii solely to attend this convention, is that correct, Mr.

Davis? Well, of course, I've also been enjoying your magnificent weather.

The address checks out, Steve. There's a Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Davis registered at

the Hawaiian Region Hotel since yesterday.

You gentlemen are very thorough. May I offer my compliments?

All right, you can go now, Mr. Davis.

But don't leave town. We may want to talk with you later.

Anytime. Anytime at all.

How many people handled the coin?

At least a dozen.

Dano, check every name on that list of bidders who handled the missing coin.

What about the ones we searched?

Not enough.

Check their credentials. See if they stand up.

Right.

You have no idea when the coins were switched?

None whatsoever.

It's quite a good fake, Mr. McGarrett.

Whoever did it started with a 19-3 coin and changed the zero to a one.

And also neat.

It only shows up under plus three diopter magnification.

Who does work like that? A jeweler?

Perhaps.

Or a metal engraver.

All right, Mr. Hammond, we'll take the coin for now.

Can you get the real one back, Mr. McGarrett?

There are only five in existence.

Do you understand what that means?

To have a coin of such fantastic rarity in my trust, and to... to just let

someone walk away with it.

We'll do what we can.

absolutely crazy.

What? I mean, we should give this up.

Darling, you tried.

Are you kidding?

If I don't get that nickel back, Fatso is going to kill me.

We have been here for hours.

But it's right across the way in that newspaper thing. I can see that lousy

machine from here.

Hey.

Hey. What?

It's the guy.

He's taking the money out.

And you checked Haviland's insurance company?

Yeah. No one's contacted them.

Well, I guess the thief isn't planning to try to peddle the coin back.

Steve, here's a report on Henry Andecker.

His prince rang a bell in Washington.

Ah.

Well, late Mr. Andecker did time in Europe before he retired here.

Oh, and get this.

Convicted of forgery, making counterfeit plates for stock certificates.

Well, that makes him an engraver.

It also makes him a good bet to be involved in that coin theft. Now, didn't

Haviland say that it would take an engraver to make that fake nickel?

Right. And he was wasted a day before the real coin was stolen.

Yeah. Uh, Jenny, get me Hans Vogler in Zurich, please.

The autopsy on Andecker shows that he was definitely killed with Mercury Corps

bullets. But we got lucky.

We found a fragment of an outer shell big enough to analyze.

It came up in alloy that is no longer used by U.S. bullet manufacturers, but

it's still used by a couple of old-line Belgium and West German firms.

Interesting. What's it mean?

That Endekker got hit by a European cat?

That could be exactly what it means, Jen.

Artie, we've got to get out of here. Come on, I'm coming. Come on.

Hans? No, no.

No, you just sound like you're underwater.

The connection is fine.

What a pleasant surprise, Steve.

How can I help you?

Would you be kind enough to wire me a recent photo of your friend Eric Damien?

And I'd like to know his whereabouts as of this moment.

You think he may be enjoying your tropical climate?

Well, if he is, I plan to make it hotter for him than he'd like it. I wish you

luck. You'll need it.

And be careful of the man he's working with, Paul Anthony, a very skilled

assassin. Paul Anthony?

You better wire me a description of him also, Hans.

Will do, Steve.

Thank you.

Auf Wiedersehen.

According to Interpol, Damien has one rule from which he never deviates. The

ones who might wind up cooperating with the law always wind up missing or dead,

like Andecker.

Exactly. Steve, break.

Our nickel thief.

Somebody's credentials didn't check?

Wilson Davis.

Yeah, Wilson Davis.

One of the people questioned in the convention room. His mainland

credentials are completely phony.

Police record?

Not under that name, but it's probably phony, too.

I've got the HPD sketch artist working with Haviland on a sketch.

Good, good. As soon as it's ready, then I'll put out an APB.

Right.

Yeah, thank you very much.

The Price seems to have forgotten my warning.

Paul.

The desk clerk at Price's hotel said they came in some time ago, but they

don't answer their phone.

Get the car.

I think we'd better go find them.

We missed it!

It's still laying there in that lousy street.

How can we go back? The man could be dead.

Hey, listen, you don't have to go with me if you don't want to, but I've got to

find that nickel or I may be dead.

All right, I'll go.

Somebody mugged a vending machine operator?

Yeah, he was shot for 50 bucks' worth of change.

He's in a coma.

Happened five hours after and less than a mile from the Ilikai Hotel where that

coin was stolen.

That's what caught my eye, Steve.

This man Jennings, the vending machine guy, was the Ilikai on his route?

Yep.

Steve, Eric Damon's picture from Interpol and a description of one Paul

Anthony. This was on the teletype.

They were in Tokyo two weeks ago.

Ah, Tokyo. That's close enough. OK, check immigration.

See if they're here. And, uh,

run off a batch of this.

I want his pudgy mug shown to every cop on these islands. Go.

Go back to the hotel and wait.

When they return, bring them here to me.

Welcome to Hawaii, Mr. Damien.

But of course I'm honored, Mr.

McGarrett. A personal visit by the distinguished chief of Five-O?

Will you join me in a drink?

No, no, no, thank you.

I see.

Too bad.

I'd hoped this was a social call.

Oh, one social note.

Hans Vogler of Interpol sends greetings. Ah, dear Hans.

Such a diligent minion of the law.

I'm collaborating now with you.

One shudders for the poor, outnumbered criminal.

Incidentally, how did you gain admittance to my house?

Legally, Mr. Damien.

I assure you.

Well,

what did you expect to find?

A nickel?

Just a nickel?

Or maybe a clue or two regarding the death of an engraver?

Am I getting through?

Naturally. I'm spellbound.

And also, naturally, I haven't the least notion what you're talking about. Oh,

naturally not.

You know, I'll give you one thing.

You're living up to expectation.

Am I?

I feel like a mongoose.

Watching a cobra.

I've been reading up on your international exploits, Mr. Damien.

One thing puzzles me.

Yeah, what is that?

The way you use up, or should I say waste, hired people.

How do you keep finding people to work for you?

What is it you're saying to me, Mr. McGarrett?

That I'm persona non grata?

That the famous Hawaiian hospitality does not extend to me?

Do you want me to go and never darken your shore again?

Oh, no, no.

No, no, not at all. You stay.

Stay. I like you right where you are.

On my turf.

Thank you.

You've made a dull day brighter.

Now, is our visit over?

No. No, not quite.

Well, then, let me say that you puzzle me too, Mr. McGarrett. Oh?

This visit, these accusations, or hints at accusations, or whatever.

I know this conversation has a point, but it escapes me.

The point is, I want you looking over your shoulder, getting worried.

Who knows, this little visit may even cause you to change a plan or two.

Dear, I come to Hawaii for a holiday and find myself challenged to some

monstrous battle of wigs.

Mr. McGarrett, I regret I have no plans to change for you.

I'm here to relax and enjoy your Pacific paradise.

And you do that.

But don't forget that this is my rock. You're on, Mr. Damien.

You might find the running room a little short.

Oh, uh, one last thing.

Remember, the mongoose always wins.

Honey, why don't you go back to the car and wait for a while? Go ahead. It's all

right. You sure it's all right, Arnie?

Go on, will ya?

Okay.

Look, Grandpa, money.

Nickel.

1913.

That's the year I was born.

That is good luck.

Arnie! Arnie, come here!

Come here!

What? What? For Pete's sake, what?

The little boy!

The little boy!

Barney, come on. You're not gonna do anything crazy. He's just a little boy.

What? Listen, we're just gonna stay with him until we get a chance at it. That's

all.

But how did he switch to coin in the first place?

This Davis character, whoever he is, must have been some kind of sleight-of

-hand artist.

But the big question is, who has the coin now?

Damien doesn't have it, or he'd be long gone.

Steve, HPD saw a bulletin on Wilson Davis.

His real name's Arnie Price.

They had him in custody two days ago on a bunco charge.

Why was he released?

Somebody made bail. We're checking it out now.

If Eric Damien is still here, Price is still here. Bring him in.

Did she put it in the machine?

Honey, I'm gonna follow her. You put quarters in that thing until it won't

take anymore.

Arnie. What? Arnie.

It wasn't there.

She must still have it. Okay.

We were so damn close.

Oh, I'm sorry, baby.

Putting you through all this.

Arnie.

I'm so glad it's over.

I'm really glad it's over.

Come on.

We could both use a drink.

What you like?

Couple of scotch on the rocks.

All right, coming up.

$1.30.

Honey? Oh, my.

It's a... How?

The man from the restaurant.

What's this?

Just come along with us, please.

What's the matter?

What's he doing?

His bail's been rescinded, ma'am. New charges.

Grand theft and assault with intent to commit murder.

All right, let's understand each other, Mr. Price.

I'm not interested in you or your wife, but I am interested in that fat cat who

set this whole thing up, Eric Damien.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I wonder if you realize how lucky you are, Mr. Price.

Oh, yeah, I'm very lucky. I'm really loaded with luck.

But you are, my friend.

You take that vendor, Jennings.

You came very close to murdering him.

But he's going to pull through.

Well, now, Henry Endecker, his luck was all bad.

Endecker?

The engraver, the one who made that phony nickel, the one you switched for

the real thing.

He's dead.

They shot him.

Hey, listen, Mr. McGarrett, I didn't shoot nobody.

I mean,

it was an accident with that coin machine man.

I'm no murderer.

I'm small time.

But you got yourself involved with some big timers, honey.

You're facing a complicity rap for murder.

What do you want me to do?

Testify. I don't make deals, but if you and your wife tell us what you know

about Damien, I'll speak to our DA.

Now, there's one other little matter.

The nickel.

The $100,000 nickel. Certainly you remember that.

Oh, the $100,000 nickel.

Well, sure, I remember that one.

McGarrett.

Steve, Damien just left the hotel. He's in a car driven by another man.

And they've got a woman with them, too.

Hold it, Chin. Hold on just a minute.

Where's your wife?

Back at the hotel, I guess.

Do you think that Damien and his friend could have gotten hold of her?

Well, the guy Paul went back.

Chantale him, but don't move in.

Okay, Steve.

Did Damien tell you where you could get in touch with him?

This phone number.

It's a mobile number.

You may still be in the ballgame.

Put it on speaker. See if you can meet him somewhere.

Yes. Hiya.

This is Arnie Price.

Yes, Arnie. I've been expecting to hear from you.

Arnie.

You have something that belongs to me, and now I have something that belongs to

you. I suggest we get together and exchange.

Where? When?

Come to the front of the cement factory at...

at the corner of...

You just walk along until you're picked up.

You'll recognize the car.

It's the one with your wife in the front seat.

Hey, what's with the gun now? How come he's pointing a gun at my wife?

Don't be dense, Arnie.

And hand over the nickel like a good fellow.

Oh, yeah, right.

So, okay.

Give us the bread and let us out at the next corner.

Be still, Arnie.

All right, Paul.

Start driving to the hotel.

I'm much afraid we're being followed.

Drop me at the next intersection.

I'll try to divert them. I'll leave the radio phone with you.

When you're clear, go to our little picnic area by the sea.

I'll contact you there as soon as I'm able.

Here, this will do nicely.

Steve? They dropped off Damien.

Okay, Chin, stay with the car.

Okay.

She's all right.

Millie's gonna be all right.

Frisk him, Chen.

I'm afraid your plane will be leaving without you, Mr. Damien, but there'll be

another one along in, uh, 20 years.

Oh, dear.

I presume you'll be wanting this.

This isn't worth a plug nickel.

This is the one we're looking for.

Okay.