104. Das Boot im Bunker

[Serpico]

Journey out of Limbo **
Original air date: 10/31/72

    This show can only be described as "bizarre." Danno just happens to be out horseback riding and just happens to stumble across several conspirators planning the assassination of a visiting Chinese dignitary who just happens to be the central focus of the episode. Not only that, Danno is pursued by the bad guys, who shoot his horse which falls, causing Danno to become dazed. Yet he manages to struggle through the underbrush and come out on a cliff where he just happens to jump from a considerable height into the back of a dump truck filled with sand and knock himself out. Yeah, right... Aside from this plot weirdness, the show does have a few interesting angles on improving American-Chinese relations of the period -- McGarrett says, "The world turns, Duke.". There's a peculiar scene when Ben and Danno return to the riding stables -- Ben touches Danno's arm after Danno freaks at the sound like a gun, and Danno suddenly recoils. (Why don't they ask the owner of the stables more questions about what Danno was doing there, by the way?) Good music by Shores -- the "military theme" is heard when Hummel (Keenan Wynn) is looking at pictures of his son, who was killed in Korea. There are weird camera angles during the explosion at the end. In a scene at the airport, the shot where the camera completely rolls over is taken from #34, Leopard on the Rock.


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Dan Williams wird bewusstlos aufgefunden: Er hat eine Gehirnerschtterung und kann sich an die letzten vierundzwanzig Stunden nicht mehr erinnern. McGarret geht der Sache nach - und steht zunchst vor einem Rtsel. Doch dann kommt er einem raffiniert eingefdelten Sprengstoffattentat auf die Spur: Der Rotchinese Mr. Li soll aus Rache fr einen jungen Mann sterben, der im Korea-Krieg gefallen ist. Und bei diesem Plan ist Dan Williams eine ganz besondere Rolle zugedacht worden.