NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

The Last Eden***
Original air date: 11/18/70

    This show features Ray Danton as outspoken Hawaiian singer Jimmy Nuanu who performs at the Canoe House in the Ilikai Hotel, often haranguing the audience with ecological issues. Jimmy is apparently well-to-do, since he drives a Rolls-Royce. On the walls of his dressing room are posters of Arthur Lyman and "Beverlee & Sidro with the Sneakers." Jimmy is set up as a patsy by a consortium headed by Walter Colfax (Paul Stevens) which wants to get control over the disposal of the island's garbage. When he is questioned by McGarrett as the most likely suspect in the bombing of a sewage plant, Jimmy tells McGarrett: "We Hawaiians always trusted you because you were always on our side." McGarrett refers to Jimmy as "a hot-headed Hawaiian." When the two discuss Jimmy's kid, the music features what sounds like a recorder -- similar to #161, Small Witness, Large Crime. After Nuanu's pal Eddie Kamoko (Tom Fujiwara) -- who helped set up Jimmy in exchange for paying off gambling debts -- is thrown out of his apartment window and killed, there is a hair in the picture when the Beacon Ambulance team prepares to transport his body. During the investigation, McGarrett encounters a bar girl who offers him her services for free. His response: "It's never free, honey." Richard Morrison, who plays Professor Hale says "Greed and money ... that's what ecology's all about" when interviewed in McGarrett's office. During the teaser, Jimmy utters the popular phrase "Ain't no big t'ing" (in a spoken, not singing voice) and Eddie says the title of the episode when talking to Jimmy. McGarrett refuses a drink twice. At the finale, Jimmy pursues Colfax up a down escalator which seems peculiar, since the up escalator is right beside it. This show was co-written by Jerry Ludwig and Eric Bercovici, who wrote over a dozen Five-O episodes in total. Prior to this episode, which aired on November 18, 1970, they had written a Mission: Impossible episode called Butterfly (broadcast October 30th of that year) which starred Khigh Dhiegh as well as other actors who appeared on Five-O such as James Shigeta and Helen Funai. Two of the characters in the Five-O show are named Phelps (Mitch Mitchel [sic]) and Briggs (Wallace Landford), the same as the "bosses" of Mission: Impossible.


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Jimmy Nuanu, ein Snger und fanatischer ko-Anhnger, wird beschuldigt, eine Fabrik in die Luft gesprengt zu haben, die ihre Abwsser ins Meer leitet. Zwar werden in seinem Wagen Sprengkapseln gefunden, doch McGarrett kann nicht glauben, dass Jimmy so weit gehen wrde. McGarrett kommt dahinter, dass ein anderes groes Unternehmen daran interessiert ist, dass die Fabrik auer Betrieb ist. Der Fall nimmt eine ganz andere Wendung, als pltzlich ein Freund Jimmys ermordet wird.