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Serpico
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Leopard on the Rock**
Original air date: 12/3/69 -- Opening Credits -- End Credits
McGarrett has his hands full when a brutal dictator's plane is diverted to Hawaii as part of an assassination conspiracy. It seems odd that the plane is flying to Geneva from Asia, though -- wouldn't it just go east? The dictator, Utomo Jhakal (Jackal?), played by Titos Vandis, wants to personally interrogate one of his countrymen who tried to ram the plane with a gasoline truck as the plane lands. (Beau Vanden Ecker (uncredited) is the driver that the truck is taken away from.) McGarrett gives Jhakal a few pointers in the way the American legal system works. This causes Consul Koryo from Jhakal's country (Paul Stevens) to tell McGarrett, "I consider this very unprofessional." The weary McGarrett replies, "And I consider it a lot of work!" Jhakal is known by some as "savior of Asia", by others as "an Asiatic Hitler." Kono comments, "Fidel Castro would be more popular in Miami." The cockpit scenes in the landing plane are very realistic, though the pilots' dialog sounds looped. The opening teaser is long. McGarrett doesn't take any crap from Koryo, whom he suspects of complicity in a plot against Jhakal along with former ruler of the country Akhbar Savang (Joe de Santis), who is currently a professor in Hawaii. Savang's daughter Banu (Cynthia Hull) tries to shoot Jhakal, and almost plugs Kono, who is standing in for the dictator. Some interesting camera work in this show -- as Kono leaves the airport in Jhakal's limo, the camera rotates 360 degrees. I wonder why they are no guards outside Jhakal's hotel since McGarrett is being so "cautious." A nice helicopter shot of the Five-O team on the way to the climactic confrontation. Hawaiian Airlines gets a credit at the end.
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Der Diktator Utomo Jhakal ist auf dem Weg nach Europa. Unterwegs hat seine Maschine Probleme. Das Flugzeug muss auf dem Flugplatz von Honolulu notlanden. Als dies bekannt wird, machen sich die unterschiedlichsten Leute auf den Weg. Sie haben allerdings alle das gleiche Ziel: Sie wollen den Diktator Jhakal beseitigen. McGarrett und sein Team von "Hawaii 5 - 0" haben alle Hnde voll zu tun.
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