NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

The Ransom***1/2
Original air date: 10/21/70

    As in #35, another boy is kidnapped (Timmy O'Brien, played by Geoffrey Thorpe, same actor as the previous episode). His father (Lloyd Gough) looks very old (as did the previous father) and the mother is nowhere to be seen. This time Kono also gets captured while doing surveillance on the money drop, but subsequently helps the kid to escape. This doesn't endear Kono to the nasty kidnappers who then beat him up very badly. At least he lets fly with a good head butt while fighting with one of them. When he sees pictures of the badly beaten Kono, McGarrett is very upset -- vowing to get the kidnappers -- in one of his most intense moments of the entire series. McGarrett gets Chin Ho and Winston Char to trace the source of a call to a pay phone (in what will become a stock sequence) -- but why does McGarrett alert them only after he receives a call? Didn't he know where the phone booth was in the first place? At least they get it traced, just after the kidnapper hangs up. Doug Mossman appears briefly near the end. McGarrett is sprayed with gasoline, but he saves Kono in the nick of time, asking him, "How do you feel, you big Kanaka?" Kono can barely reply, "Starved." Incidentally, at the Five-O convention, Zoulou said that during this final scene, it was him -- not a stunt man -- in the coffin-like box. If someone had screwed up and the box fallen into the water, Zoulou would have drowned!


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Timmy, der Sohn des reichen Geschftsmannes Nelson Blake, ist entfhrt worden. Blake lehnt die Zusammenarbeit mit der Polizei strikt ab und will die Lsegeldforderung der Entfhrer erfllen. Bei der bergabe der Geldtasche kommt es durch einen bereifrigen Touristen zu einer Panne. Dabei berwltigen die Gangster Kono, fr den sie jetzt auch ein hohes Lsegeld fordern. Doch solche Spchen leistet sich man mit den Mnnern von "Hawaii 5 - 0" nicht ungestraft.