NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

While You're at it, Bring in the Moon ****
Original air date: 2/8/72

    Barry Sullivan plays Morgan Hilliard, a Howard Hughes type who has McGarrett kidnapped and brought to his boat where he describes a plot by his associates to have him declared mentally incompetent and to take his $2.5 billion fortune. McGarrett tells Hilliard, "Nobody takes me under duress and gets away with it!" There's lots of snappy dialogue between the two of them and an excellent cast for Hilliard's conspiratorial hangers-on (Ed Flanders, Milton Selzer, H.M. Winant). The way McGarrett figures out who's responsible for the murder at the beginning of the show is a bit too quick. When McGarrett tells Chin Ho he needs a crucial seventh bullet found, Chin says, "Now that's persistence." McGarrett replies, "And the murder weapon -- that's Chinese persistence!" When McGarrett asks why the killer was using a silencer, Chin replies, "Maybe the guy hates noise." I'm surprised that Che Fong can't figure out where the bullets are coming from by analyzing the angle at which they hit the ground. The opening titles are over freeze-frames, and the way the dialog in the first scenes overlaps is interesting. Duke is played by "Harry" Wedemeyer. Why can't the approaching helicopter see the cops on the beach at the end?


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Der Milliardr Morgan Hilliard handelt mit seinen vier Geschftspartnern einen groen Deal aus. Als einer der vier erschossen wird, sind alle Beteiligten davon berzeugt, dass Morgan Hilliard der Tter ist. Der Milliardr taucht unter und greift zu einem ungewhnlichen Mittel, um seine Unschuld zu beweisen: Er lsst McGarrett entfhren und erklrt diesem, dass seine Partner ihn reinlegen wollen. McGarrett nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und entdeckt einige Ungereimtheiten.