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The Reunion**
Original air date: 11/4/70
A Japanese computer research company executive named Hatsuo Shigato (Teru Shimada), visiting Honolulu on a business trip, is seemingly threatened by Mitch Bradley (Joe Maross), who recognizes Shigato as the sadistic Kim Rashiri, commandant of the Lo Tang prison camp in the Philippines where Bradley was tortured during World War II. (Both Japanese last names are bogus-sounding.) Bradley is taking part in a 15th Airborne Reunion at the Ilikai Hotel (where much of this show takes place) with two other vets who were also in the camp -- Frank Epstein (Simon Oakland) and Michael Holt (Barry Atwater). As in episode #4, the word "bushido" (Japanese samurai code of chivalry) is misused. Holt says of Rashiri, "He was a bushido." As the story develops, it turns out that Shigato is the bad guy, setting up the three vets in an elaborate scheme ... a bit too elaborate for one man, though Shigato is revealed to be a very slippery character in his interviews with McGarrett. The plot is interesting with several red herrings, but becomes illogical when a hired gun, Charlie Llacuna (Daws Dawson), not only puts darkroom equipment in Bradley's hotel room (in the bathroom?) but after shooting Holt from Bradley's balcony, manages to slip inside and place the rifle in a rack in front of the seemingly catatonic soldier (and somehow get Bradley's fingerprints all over it) before Kono kicks in the door seconds after the fatal shot is fired. It isn't established whether Bradley actually lives in the hotel room, or he is just visiting Honolulu -- at the beginning of the show he is on the same Tradewind Tours bus as Shigato. Although Simon Oakland is playing a character under considerable stress, his laughter at the Ilikai poolside bar is phony-sounding and his screaming and yelling about Rashiri become tiresome after a while. A real phone number is used -- 277-9277. There is a shot of a radio on a dashboard, seen later in #60, Beautiful Screamer. -
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Auf Hawaii wird ein Treffen von Veteranen aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg veranstaltet. Unter ihnen sind auch Frank Epstein, Mitch Bradley und Michael Holt. Sie waren in einem japanischen Kriegsgefangenenlager und sind vom damaligen Kommandanten Rashiri gefoltert worden. Und ebendiesen Rashiri glaubt Epstein in dem Japaner Shigato wiederzuerkennen. Als Michael Holt erschossen wird, mssen die Mnner von "Hawaii 5 - 0" ermitteln. McGarrett stt auf eine ganz andere Spur.
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