103. Mörderische Kettenreaktion

Chain of Events ***
Original air date: 10/24/72

A pretty rank "contemporary issues show." At the beginning we are kept in the dark until one of the characters (William Valentine as Jacob Kalima) is murdered. Danno finally reveals Kalima's occupation as the camera moves in for a closeup: "He tracked down venereal disease." One of the people Kalima meets with before his death, Linda Rynak (Gaye Nelson), is supposedly an 18-year-old high school student, but she looks more like 14. Linda gets infected from having sex with her clean-cut boyfriend Walter Clyman (Dirk Benedict). Then Linda "does it" with upcoming politician James Trevor Warren (Linden Chiles), while working as a volunteer on his campaign. Described as "one man in a generation," Warren spouts Kennedy-like rhetoric (with a Kennedy-like accent) to an assembly of students. After Linda is also found murdered, her father (Lou Frizzel) says a "crazy, doped-up hippie" must have done it. Rynak flies off the handle, beating Walter to a pulp and then tries to shoot Warren after he finds some pictures in Linda's scrapbook of the two of them with suggestive messages. (He says that Warren and Linda must have had "sex like animals.") McGarrett arrives on the scene to save Warren and take him to the Five-O office ... but hold on, it's only the end of Act Three! The plot thickens as Warren's estranged wife is understandably upset at getting infected, hissing to her husband's campaign workers over the phone: "He gave me [long pause] syphilis." The true killer of Kalima and Linda is finally revealed as Warren's secretary Jean Holland (Mary Frann), who says of Linda: "Beneath all that innocence, filth ... disease." During the investigation, McGarrett tells Danno to check every car at Linda's school. While Danno and Ben are interviewing Sophie Norris (Ellen Blake), one of the people in the chain of disease, they hardly make any effort to keep the proceedings confidential! Stock laboratory shots to do with V.D. are seen. The "violin" theme is heard numerous times.

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Im Sdseeparadies Hawaii breitet sich die Syphilis aus. Als ein Beamter der Gesundheitsbehrde ermordet und kurz darauf die infizierte Schlerin Linda tot aufgefunden wird, werden die Mnner von "Hawaii 5 - 0" aktiv. Sie finden eine brandheie Spur - und die fhrt zum Wahlkampfbro des Senatskandidaten Jim Warren: Der ehrgeizige Politiker hatte ein Verhltnis mit der infizierten Linda. Hat der Politiker sie und den unliebsamen Zeugen der Gesundheitsbehrde beseitigt?