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Thank you.

Matsu, over.

Hey, George, you lost the house lights again.

Get that circuit breaker at nine, will you?

You got an overload someplace.

Should keep doing that.

Yes, George, I know.

Just get that circuit breaker.

Hey, George, I just lost the monitors. That shouldn't have happened.

George?

George!

Hold it.

Stand.

Turn.

Big one, Duke? A biggie.

Robbery. Somebody walked off with some paintings worth a bunch.

Real pro job.

Looks like a rough place to break into.

They found a way.

There's some people from the family running an inventory.

You okay?

He's been sat pretty good.

This is where the paintings were taken from?

Right this way.

Miss Forbes? Yes.

These gentlemen are from 5-0. Dan Williams.

Good morning. Junho Kelly, dear. I'm Miss Forbes, Mr. Ogden's secretary.

This is Jeff Kessler, Mr. Ogden's grandson.

You got that straight, I hope.

Do you have a list of everything that's missing?

Yeah, it just seems to be the two.

A sketch by Lautrec and the most expensive painting in the gallery, a

Gauguin, that he painted in Tahiti. It was right here.

What was the value?

One and a half million, give or take 100,000.

Million and a half.

It might be worth more. Yeah, it was a super rip-off, man. A work of genius.

Some dude was really thinking.

Why's it super, Jeff? Tell me.

There are three independent alarm systems. You get within two feet of that

wall after hours and zap, all hell breaks loose.

There's no way to disconnect it. You break the circuit and it salivates.

Any way you figure, the bell goes off.

But it didn't.

No. Slept through the whole picture.

You know where the alarm box is?

Sure.

I'm the heir.

I think I'm the heir.

Well, let's check it out.

Show me.

OK.

Duke, see if I can talk to the other guard. Right away.

What's the story?

Plastic foam.

Hot as a rock.

Sprayed into the box?

That's the end of the chimes, huh?

Boy, somebody sure had the smarts. Yeah, you know it.

Well, I'll tell you something, Sherlock.

Must have been an inside job.

Figures. The man got hold of the plans.

Do you know where to keep the plans of the electronic system?

Yeah, sure I know.

Come on down, I'll show you.

They took the gold gun!

They sure did.

Mr. Williams, Hawaii 50, Jacob Durkin. Forgive me. How do you do?

This is Sills Anderson, my assistant.

Mr.

Williams, if there's nothing else for the moment, would you excuse me?

Certainly.

I'm not completely surprised.

I said to Sills two days ago, something is not right.

What struck you as not being right? Ah, well, that's not easy. Not easy.

Perhaps it is that Mr. Ogden was in so much of a hurry all the years, and

suddenly it's a matter of life and death.

Evaluate the collection.

Well, that is American.

Am I not right?

I guess so.

Now, let me ask you.

Mr. Ogden gives his art collection to the university.

You put a value on that collection, and he gets to write off that amount.

Yes.

Your Internal Revenue Service requires an independent evaluation,

or sometimes two or three.

But I can fix a very accurate fair market value.

You see, I know all the... all the big

auction houses. I have here...

Most recent catalogs and the latest prices.

So your IRS people listen to Jacob Durkin?

That must give you a good feeling.

Yes, it does.

Now, whether he gives it away or has it stolen.

Has it stolen?

No, no, I mean it is stolen.

The painting is a total tax write-off, a million and a half dollars.

Oh, yes, that's interesting.

Mr. Ogden.

gives his collection to the university and takes a write-off, but he may keep

the paintings here until he dies.

The university offered him that privilege when the title passes.

It's kind of neat.

It's a very good law.

One of my favorites.

Where can I find Miss Forbes?

Her office is just across the hall.

Thank you.

HPD will leave a man.

Thank you.

You know what to do if you get a call and want to talk to Mr. Ogden as soon as

possible. He'll want to talk to you.

Yeah, well, he never commanded a whole police department before.

You sign for those?

Yeah, your friend, uh, Charlie Chan took care of it.

Jeff.

A quarter of a million dollars worth of electronic security.

An old man Ogden leaves the plan sitting in a hall cabinet that anybody can get

into. How's that for a millionaire's thinking?

Yeah.

Looks like three independent systems.

TV, radar devices, and sensors.

It's a crazy toy.

Let's have a printout on everybody in the house. Whoever pulled this knew the

electronic surveillance up and down.

I'm running Durkin, and he's assisting through Interpol.

Who's Durkin? An art expert.

Appraise and restore him.

Jeff, the grandson, was a combat medic, Vietnam.

Okay, I want the fine print on all of them, even Ogden himself.

Servants, security guards, anybody who worked for him.

Looking for something?

Yes.

Your electronic devices.

McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0.

So, you're McGarrett.

The governor speaks well.

That's good to know.

And thieves are born every hour on the hour. in all the cities of the world,

but sometimes in a whole century, only 20 masterpieces are created.

I think you get my drift.

Yeah, I think I do.

You must have law and order, I know, but sometimes it's a matter of priorities.

Yes, you want your painting back.

If it comes down to a choice, I'll let the thieves go. Pay them off.

Sometimes it's cheaper.

Yeah, it appears that way sometimes.

There's going to be a lot of publicity.

You know, the media.

Now, I don't want any of your people trying to make a name for himself.

Is that understood?

Anything else, Mr. Ogden?

Yes. Forbes!

Read it.

Mr. Ogden has been made aware by the governor of the superior work 5-0 has

provided the state.

As a law-abiding citizen, Mr. Ogden wishes to express his gratitude.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Mr. Ogden? Yes?

This is going to be a ransom situation.

They'll contact you. You understand that?

Certainly. One more thing.

We'll need your cooperation, totally.

And that goes for everyone else in this house.

Teamwork.

One thing I understand mr. McGarrett is teamwork

He's

really a very decent man They're hard to find would you like to see

the gallery please

Each painting has been coated on the back by seals.

Let me do that first. It's for my own protection.

You see, I paint little colored stripes on the

outside of the staple.

Each painting has a different color code.

Then I drive the staple into the stretcher of the painting.

That way I can identify it at any time.

I see.

Let me ask you a question. This entire collection is insured for less than 10%

of its value.

Against theft, Mr. McGarrett. Isn't that unusual?

No.

Premiums being what they are, collectors put their money in elaborate electronic

systems.

And the Gauguin, it was not appraised before the theft?

No. It was coded.

but not yet appraised.

I see.

The people who stole the painting, can they sell it?

To sell a stolen masterpiece is almost impossible because the buyer could not

acknowledge its possession and would therefore derive no pleasure from owning

it. You see...

The collector, like the artist, has his own ego.

He must be known as the possessor, the man who owns the Rembrandt, the Cezanne,

the Renoir.

That's part of the pleasure, the big part.

Thank you, Mr. Turkin.

We'll be in touch.

Please. Oh, Mr. McDarrett, I have assisted the police many times.

Interpol will tell you when you check on me.

Thank you.

Mr. McGarrett!

Hi. I'm Evie Bernstein, Star Bulletin. Remember me?

Oh, yeah, sure. I'm doing color on this Ogden robbery.

I'm the paper's art expert. That means everybody knows less than me. Have you

got a statement for me?

Well, I think I could tell you that leads developed by the department are

being carefully guarded so as not to interfere with the ultimate solution of

the crime.

Okay, Evan? Yeah.

Wow. Good girl.

What I found fascinating is that they took the most expensive oil in the house

and then they took that little LaTrek sketch.

What would you like to drink?

Uh, iced tea, please.

Hello?

This is Mr. Arden's secretary, Miss Forbes.

Can I help you?

Yes. Jeff, get your grandfather.

Yes, Mr. Seavey, from station KGMB.

Yes, I listen to it all the time.

Yes, I have.

That's it?

That's the whole message?

May I speak with Mr. Ogden and get back to you?

No. No, we won't if you won't.

Thank you, Mr. Seavey.

Who is it?

That was Bob Seavey, station KGMB.

There's been a tape left for him at the station.

It's from the thieves.

It's supposed to contain the instructions on how to get the Gauguin

back. It could be a trick.

Well, they included the Latruc sketch in the package.

Shrewd cats.

Don't be so quick to admire.

These are madmen, I know.

Mr. McGarrett, please.

No police.

Not yet!

No, that's foolishness.

I have dealt with more successful thieves and pirates than McGarrett will

ever see.

I'll run this show.

You read his Interpol bio?

Yeah.

Yeah, colorful background.

What about Sills Anderson, the assistant?

He's clean. Been with Durkin for 11 years.

Kid, Jeff?

Doesn't seem to be able to cut it in the big world out there. Keeps bouncing back

to his rich old granddaddy.

His mother is into her sixth marriage.

Well, that would make a boy unstable.

Well, he might get a little confused around Father's Day.

But he seems okay.

He's got a good combat record.

Was he a doper? No bust, nothing on his army discharge.

One positive thing, though.

He had a year of electrical engineering at Fulton Tech.

Home in on that, then.

Chen, what do you got?

The servants are straight, and Melissa Forbes has one interesting item.

Her ex-husband served 15 months in the lockup for embezzlement.

For embezzlement?

Yes, Jenny?

Bob Sevey is here.

He says you're expecting him.

Yes, I am. Send him in, please.

This is the tape I told you about.

It was delivered to the station.

Mr. Ogden's grandson picked up the original. I had one of our engineers dub

off that copy.

You gave the LaTrek sketch back to the grandson.

Wasn't I supposed to?

I guess you had to.

Spread it up, Chin.

I don't get it.

What about the note you got in the mail? Let me take another look at that.

Again. Read it again.

Do you read me? Do you read me?

Gauguin lives on the wrong side of the tracks.

You can read me when you get the tape.

They want a quarter of a million dollars and they're playing children's games.

Don't you think we ought to call Mr. McGarrett?

Wait a minute.

Let me try something.

Take a hold of this. Put your pen through it. What are you doing?

Listen, listen.

The wrong side of the tracks, right?

That's what the tape said.

You can read me, you can read me. That has got to mean something.

But there it is.

They wrote on it.

This is the message.

10 o'clock, Thursday morning.

Take $250,000 in small, unmarked bills.

It's all there.

Let me get it down.

You're a genius!

It's stupid.

No, Gramps, it's really pretty smart.

I mean, the station could play the tape. They could copy it. They could study it,

analyze it for days.

All they'd hear is that dumb music.

It's really a trick, because like the man said, it's on the tape.

It's very simple.

Sir, sample just phoned from the electronics room.

Police are watching the house, front and back.

Thank you, Doctor.

Apparently, Mr. McGarrett doesn't trust us.

Well, Mr.

McGarrett presents us with an interesting challenge, which we shall

accept.

Williams calling Central.

Central, pass me through to McGarrett.

Ogden, Ms. Forbes, and grandson heading Cocoa Head on Kahala Avenue in Ogden's

limo. Stay with him, Dano.

there for 15 minutes. This could be a gimmick.

Thank you.

Bye.

Steve, the girl just got out of the car at Diamond at Tennis Course. She's

carrying a briefcase.

A Bernie's taxi is picking her up.

The taxi's heading Cocoa Head on Potkey Street.

License number 5 Frank 4924.

Okay, Dano, I got it. You stay with Ogden, we'll pick up the girl.

See? Just so I can carry your briefcase.

He's transferring to a white limo.

License number N-340.

Heading east on Diamond Head Road.

Can HPD pick him up? Yeah, we'll pick him up, Dono. You stick with the kid.

The kid is settling down to legal 30.

You think maybe we've been had?

You can count on him.

Break out the good china, Steve. You've got visitors.

Forbes.

Mr. Ogden wants you to know in his effort to accomplish his objective, he

did not wish to embarrass the police department.

It's true, Mr. McGarrett. Gramps insisted.

But the second the money was paid, we came straight here.

Teamwork, huh? Is that what you call this?

Teamwork? No, no, no. Let's not get our hackles up. I told you straight out from

the word go. My purpose was to get the painting back.

And you got it back?

Not yet.

Oh.

You mean you paid the $250,000 ransom?

There was $250,000 in the wall safe at home. While your people were following

us, my house man dropped that off just about an hour ago.

And what about the painting?

Will be returned within 24 hours.

And I have every confidence it will be. It is of no value to the thieves at this

point. Sure, sure. Good luck.

Good luck, Mr. Ogden. I hope you get your painting back.

And I'll see if we can put the citizen's tax dollar to better use than playing

follow the leader with you.

Now, if you'll excuse me, show them out, Dano, please.

Okay, Dano, you got the duty. If anything urgent comes up, I'll be on my

boat.

Should we file charges on the DeMilo case?

I think you better check with Manicose first.

5-0, Unit 1.

Don't tell me.

Yeah, Unit 1, McGarrett.

Steve, Chin, the Ogden painting has been returned, but Jacob Durkin wants you to

come out there right away.

What's wrong?

I don't know. He says he won't talk to anyone but you.

Okay, Chin, we're on our way.

Well, there goes the Sunday sale. Hop in.

All right, McGarrett.

You want to be Sherlock Holmes, you want to be in charge, all right.

I'll eat whatever crow is expected under the circumstances.

Is this the painting that was stolen?

I believe it is.

It is not.

On the back is a coded mark made for identification and cataloging. It

was on the painting when it was removed from this gallery.

It is there now.

Sills removed the staple.

Thank you.

Red and yellow.

Gauguin.

Red and yellow. Check.

That is the Gauguin from Mr. Ogden's collection.

That is the painting taken from this gallery.

And that is a lie.

That painting is a copy.

Is it?

Without question.

It's a forgery. I did not buy a forgery.

Now, here, mimicry.

An unusual but not uncommon talent.

A man can mimic your voice, your walk.

A man can mimic the brushstroke of a genius.

Let me show you.

This is a picture of a 1911 Matisse hanging in Moscow.

This is the picture of the forgery.

done in Paris, about the same period, the same size, same canvas, even the

same frame.

Can you tell which is which?

They look exactly alike.

Right, because you see only the surface.

It's remarkable.

Then the forger has to be a very accomplished painter.

Of course.

The greatest experts in the world have been fooled.

When Mr. Ogden... It was, uh, authenticated by a museum and several

private experts.

Now, are you telling me that they can't pick up on those things?

Well, museums have been fooled.

But remember that Mr. Ogden bought his Gauguin 35 years ago.

The techniques of detection are now very sophisticated.

Okay.

Specifically, how do you know...

But that's a fortune.

Well, we have other ways besides x-rays, chemical tests,

radioactive aging.

Take the canvas itself.

I count the number of threads per square centimeter.

Then, from biographical data and my own research, I know exactly the canvas

Gauguin used.

at this time in his life.

I can even tell you how much he paid for it.

The X-rays and other details bear out my judgment.

So Ogden could have bought his forgery 35 years ago.

Or the forgery could have been substituted sometime after the purchase.

We can't tell.

The painting was loaned and traveled extensively in several major...

go-god retrospective exhibitions.

One last question.

Have you subjected the painting the thieves have returned to all of these

tests? Of course.

And they prove beyond question that it is a forgery.

You made a mark on the painting?

Made a mark?

Man, I almost put my fist right through it.

Why, talk about being freaked.

I don't understand.

How could you do a thing like that?

It was just before I shipped out to Nam.

I was showing this friend of mine, Dennis.

He was another grunt. He was juiced, too.

I was telling him how if anybody crossed this invisible screen around the Gogan,

the alarm system would go off.

Well, he thought that was the funniest thing he'd ever heard. Started laughing

and making weird jokes.

Anyway, he, uh, he wanted to try it out.

So he came at me.

I pushed him away.

He came at me again and... Like I said, I almost, uh, made a hole in the canvas.

You don't know it. I don't know. buzzers and bells and ringing to evacuate hell.

Spotlights went on.

Man, it was really a trip.

Who found you?

One of the security guards.

He was all over me in just a few seconds.

Now, that mark on the Guggenheim, was it right down here?

Yeah, let me show you.

See?

Now you know where to look.

There were a lot of little tiny fracture-like cracks.

You could see them as clear as day.

Did your grandfather know about this?

Are you kidding?

No way.

But six months ago, I checked the painting again.

Those little tiny hairline fracture marks were still there.

And these little cracks are not in the forgery, in the painting that was

returned to the gallery?

No, that's exactly my point.

This is not the same painting that was in the gallery six months ago.

Sills, I think he's got something.

Jeff, I will make one suggestion, all right? Sure.

Before you say anything, let me check.

The painting has been re-varnished.

It's possible that the tiny fractures might have been obscured by the process.

At his age, to see your grandfather let down a... Sure, I can dig it.

When do you want to start?

Right away.

I'll have to pick up some special chemicals at Kaimuki.

All right.

I'll meet you at the gallery in about an hour, okay?

Fine.

That one.

They are there.

I think I can etch very fine lines on the copy.

Fill and re-varnish.

So, you found the marks.

Jeff, I didn't hear you.

I came over straight from your hotel.

I wanted to catch the early show.

Jeff, come with me.

I want to show you something.

Hey, Steve.

I got a message on my service.

I know.

Police report came in about 20 minutes ago.

Jeff Kessler?

Kid is dead?

Yeah.

Even off the road, it ain't a point. About 9.30, his van was totaled.

Burned.

We got a positive ID about 11.30.

May I help you? Yeah, what'll it be, Evie?

Orange. Make it two, please.

Okay.

How would you like to perform a public service?

I thought you'd never ask. Thank you.

I'm gonna pick your brains, Evie.

Thank you. Whatever moves you. Thank you. You did an interview with Durkin

when he first hit the islands.

Hey, you read it. Yeah, it was very good.

Do you remember a book called, um, Forgeries in Fine Arts? About the great

art swindles?

and 20 others. I got into some heavy research.

To me, Evie, the theft of Ogden's Gauguin doesn't make any sense at all.

Now, if the painting was a forgery and Ogden knew it, why didn't he just let it

stay stolen?

He had enough of a provenance, a pedigree on it, and the original bill of

sale. He could have written the entire thing off totally.

You checked with IRS?

I sure did.

You would.

Another thing.

If the thieves substituted the forgery for the original, they couldn't have

sold the original to any museum or private collector in the world.

Durkin tells us that.

That's about it.

I mean, they could come back for seconds on the ransom, but everyone in the art

world knows the painting's been stolen.

I mean, who's going to pay a million for a picture and hide it under the

mattress?

How did Durkin get to be so important in the art world, you know?

About 20 years ago.

He exposed a fake Vermeer that had been hanging in the Dresden Gallery for 73

years. There was a big stink about it. The museum sued.

But five years later, the real item turned up.

Durkin was vindicated.

He made his rep on that number.

That's very interesting.

How often does a thing like that happen?

Oh, I don't know.

Usually when you chump the average millionaire.

He, uh, doesn't release the story to the press.

About nine years ago, I think.

Yeah, there was a very valuable Turner that turned out to be a fake.

Durkin again.

You mean it happened a second time? He exposed another forgery?

Yeah, the owner.

Uh, Arturo DeLeo. It's a neat name, huh?

He tried to kill Durkin. He really did.

Wait a minute. Let me finish the story for you.

About a few years later, the original Turner, the real Turner, was, quote,

discovered.

And Durkin's judgment was vindicated again. True?

Well, yes, but how did you find all that out?

You just made your annual contribution to law and order.

Thank you, Webby. The next time we'll have lunch.

Strut? Did they kill Jeff?

Is it my fault that they killed Jeff?

No, I don't think so, Mr. Hutton.

I don't think so. I'm not saying that just to make it easy on you.

The ransom wasn't important.

If Five-0 handled it, they would have known. Nothing would have changed.

Nothing.

Thank you.

This is the third time over a period of 20 years that Durkin has had a violent

disagreement over a forgery.

In the other two cases, the masterpiece turned up several years later.

Durkin substitutes a forgery.

He walks off with the original.

Then, a few years go by, and the original is discovered.

You can see the possibilities.

What is it you want me to do?

One phone call, Mr. Houghton.

One.

Thank you, Mr. Houghton.

I understand.

When all this is settled, I should like to return and finish the work for you.

At no additional cost.

Yes, sir.

He doesn't want us to go on with the work.

But we will be paid in full.

I like that.

Steve, Durkin and Anderson are leaving at 11.05 in the morning.

They had their space book 24 minutes after Ogden called.

They haven't left the hotel room except to visit the coffee shop.

If the painting's hidden somewhere in the hotel, there's no evidence of it. We

checked the managers, bell captain, room service.

Frank, nothing at the gallery.

Who went over all the equipment?

What's next? Search warrant?

Yeah, that's our only play if they're leaving in the morning.

Donald, this is what I'd like you to do.

Do you mind if I repack it now?

Go ahead.

I really resent this, McGarrett.

Not only are you implying that I'm dishonest, you're suggesting I'm stupid.

My apologies.

Steve, what I found.

If I had the Gauguin... Do you think, do you really think I'd be insane enough to

put it in there?

Are you going to open these or should we?

These

are

the two paintings I bought in Los Angeles.

I have the bills of sale from the auction gallery.

Would you like to check them and forward them to me?

You don't mind if we take a look?

Look at everything!

Here!

Perhaps this is what you're looking for.

Don't make me miss my flight.

It takes off at 11.05.

You have just enough time to pull up the carpet.

Why don't you?

Satisfied?

No.

But we'll leave you for now.

All right, gentlemen, let's go.

You're insane.

Daring.

That's what makes the artist.

Steve, I think we've been had.

How?

I don't know.

But he was laughing at us.

Wait a minute.

He stuck it right in my face.

Bring the old man. Come on.

Sorry to trouble you again.

There's one thing I'd like to check

What is this, Mr. Durkin?

I guess a genius like you could peel that little landscape right off the top

and find himself a million-dollar masterpiece to be discovered a couple of

years from now in Somatic, eh?

You're under arrest, Mr. Durkin, for the murder of Jeff Kessler.

Book them, Dano.

Murder one, grand theft.

Here's your painting.

And, uh, we'll get your ransom money back, too.

I traded all... all the paintings, all the money...

to get my Jeff back.

He doesn't say that to people very often.

Maybe he should.