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Secret Witness***1/2
Original air date: 1/15/74
I can't follow the topography at the beginning of the show, with Ted Reynolds (Mark Jenkins) keeping up with the car driven by hitman Bo Lansing (Mark Gordon). Reynolds works at the Kal Bi Restaurant, which is at 1146-C 12th Avenue and has the phone number 732-3088. Lansing drives a black Lincoln Continental, license number 4B-2322. The title card is over a freeze-frame and the opening credits are dragged out to over a minute. Reynolds drops his book (The Poetry of Robert Frost) as Lansing chases him, and his library card inside, number 23-8956, reveals his address to be 9916 Kapena Street. This is actually his previous address, his current one is apartment 801-127 Koa Street. The music accompanying this sequence is usually heard as a climax during the "wave." The body of Lansing's victim, Joe Wang, is removed in a black Physician's Ambulance. When Reynolds reads about a reward for information about the shooting in the paper, the paragraph below this has no relation to the case at all, referring to a "preliminery investigation." After the newspaper turns over a copy of Reynolds' letter to Five-O, McGarrett asks to "have some Xerox copies made." Mark Lenard does a good job playing the wisecracking mob boss Bok. When he asks McGarrett and Danno what they're doing about Joe Wang, Danno replies, "We've already observed a couple of seconds of silence in his memory." Later in McGarrett's office when Bok reaches for the suitcase full of stolen money that McGarrett is using to entrap him, the music is momentarily reminiscent of Star Trek where Lenard, among other things, played Spock's father! Lansing is one of Five-O's very nastiest villains -- at the end, he puts a gun to Reynolds' baby's head. Lansing must have good eyesight, since he can see the name and number on the mailbox of R. Tanaka (Yankee Chang) from the eighth floor. (Tanaka's phone number is 555-6571, he lives at 3539 Ewo Blvd. Other phone numbers on the same page in the phone book are either 555- or begin with KL5, the equivalent to 555. Interestingly, in the column to the right of Tanaka are names like Talsky, Talstad, Talt and Talton, all of which should come beforeTanaka, alphabetically speaking.) At the end of the show, where Lansing drills Reynolds, why doesn't Reynolds die immediately? The effect of the scene is not helped by the total lack of blood. There is some creepy electronic music as Lansing knocks on the apartment door and Reynolds' Sally-Field-like wife Sue (Cindy Williams) answers it. A bit of the Hookman score is reused, as is the trombone interval theme, which is heard on plucked strings at the beginning. A fly lands on Lansing's face at the end after he is shot. Overall, a very strong episode.
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Der Student und Familienvater Ted Reynolds jobbt nachts in einem Schnellimbiss. Dabei wird er Zeuge des Mordes an einem stadtbekannten Gangster. Aus Angst vor den Killern geht er nicht zur Polizei. Doch dann lobt das "Star Bulletin" 10.000 Dollar Belohnung fr Hinweise aus. Nun schreibt Ted als "Geheimer Zeuge" an die Zeitung. Doch inzwischen hat der Mrder den Zeugen gefunden: Der Killer schiet Ted nieder und nimmt dessen Familie als Geiseln. McGarrett hat einen schweren Stand.
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