Termination with Extreme Prejudice (#171) -- As indicated by British spy Harry Wells (Dan O'Herlihy), the titlephrase is spy-ese for "eliminate," or, in plainer English, "kill." It's a typically foggy government euphemism which is used in an attempt to make the action seem less distasteful than it is. McGarrett has a more direct term for it: "Murder."
Also in this episode, Wells cautions his henchman Sloane (John Hunt) against underestimating McGarrett, saying the Five-O chief has "a lean and hungry look." So Julius Caesar says of Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act I, scene ii: Let me have men about me that are fat;/ Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights./ Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;/ He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
Target? The Lady (#172) -- Mob hit man Wally Hatch (Andrew Prine) says to his accomplice Kimo, as they're following damsel-in-distress Susan Bradshaw (Susan Dey), "Easy, Kimo sabe. Don't want to spook her." This is a combination of the Hawaiian name Kimo (equivalent to the English James or Jimmy) with The Lone Ranger's nickname Kemo Sabe, bestowed by his faithful Indian companion Tonto. Supposedly it meant "good scout," but countless jokes have given other meanings.
Sing a Song of Suspense (#176) -- Being questioned in McGarrett's office, singer/witness-on-the-run Chelsea Merriman (Lois Nettleton) says of her experience in being nabbed by mobsters and taken to Five-O, "For a while there, I thought I might end up in an octopus garden." This refers to a song by The Beatles called "Octopus's Garden," which is on their Abbey Road album. She means she was afraid she might end up under the ocean, probably wearing cement overshoes.
Also, as Chelsea is in hiding (at McGarrett's beach house), she and her HPD bodyguard, Officer Oliver MacDougall (Shelley Novack) are picking out guitar chords. Oliver gets the hang of a passage, and Chelsea says, "By George, I think you've got it." This is from the Broadway play My Fair Lady, said to Cockney lass Eliza Doolittle as she begins to get the hang of the proper, clipped Oxonian accent Professor Higgins is trying to teach her in order to prove his theory that one's speech, not one's origins, classifies one as to social status.
Retire in Sunny Hawaii - Forever (#177) -- Dan Williams's Aunt Clara (Helen Hayes), a former actress, refers to her days on the stage with David Belasco. David Belasco (1853-1931), was a playwright and theatrical producer. He introduced innovations in lighting, staging, and effects, including the first lensed spotlights. In her theatrical career, Helen Hayes did indeed work with David Belasco, as mentioned in her autobiographical writings.
Speaking of her acting career, Aunt Clara tells McGarrett that her Hedda Gabler was something to see. Hedda Gabler, written by Henrik Ibsen and published in 1890, was a portrait of a neurotic woman. It broke new ground at that time by forming a character study of one person rather than involving broad social themes.
While Aunt Clara is in an undercover role at the retirement home run by the villainous J. Haven (Charles Durning), Steve asks Danny how she is holding out. "A regular Sarah Bernhardt," Dan says. Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was a French actress famous for a highly theatrical voice and emotional performance. She toured internationally, lionized by the press and fans. She continued acting even after her right leg was amputated in 1915.
When the Five-O team gets ready to go after one end of the fraud/theft ring--the deputy director of the State office of Unclaimed Property (Lynn Ellen Hollinger)--McGarrett says, "Next step: The Hawaiian Connection." This is a reference to the movie The French Connection, a movie about drug smuggling.
Honor is an Unmarked Grave (#180) -- Referring to the seven-year silence of serving-man Koji (David Hashimoto), Dan says, "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil." This is a phrase which derives from the carving of "Three Wise Monkeys" over the door of the Sacred Stable in Nikko, Japan, dating from the 17th century.
Legacy of Terror (#184) -- Stymied by clues that don't seem quite to fit, Steve says to Danny, "Where do we stand, Danno?" Dan replies gamely, "Bowed but unbloodied." This refers to William Ernest Henley's "Echoes: #4, In Memoriam R. T. Hamilton Bruce" ("Invictus"). The verse Danny parodies with his comment is: In the fell clutch of circumstance,/ I have not winced nor cried aloud;/ Under the bludgeonings of chance/ My head is bloody, but unbowed. Dan is saying they're stuck, but not beaten. The above verse could very well be the motto of the Five-O team; whatever befalls them, they don't flinch and they don't give up.
Loose Ends Get Hit (#185) -- HPD officer Sandi Welles (Amanda McBroom), working with Five-O as McGarrett's driver when the Five-O boss is wounded, meets with the expected resistance from Hawaii's leading male chauvinist pig. She confidently tells McGarrett, "Just think of General Eisenhower." "Eisenhower?" Steve asks, puzzled. Sandi smiles broadly as she answers, "He had a woman driver. She got him through a war." When General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Forces Europe, got to England he was assigned a female British Army driver named Kay Summersby, who was a good enough driver indeed to get the general through the war.
Sandi does a little undercover work for Steve. Feigning drunkenness, she makes some public remarks embarrassing to turncoat witness Billy Madrid (Henry Darrow), who has accused McGarrett of coercing his testimony. Madrid tells Sandi to shut up. She winks knowingly: "Even the ears have walls... Or is it the other way around?" She's making a play on the phrase "the walls have ears." Today a cliche, it was originally a Latin proverb: Campus habet lumen, et habet nemus auris acumen (The field has sight, and the wood a sharp ear). It appeared in a manuscript dating from around 1300, called King Edward and the Shepherd, as "Wode has erys, felde has sigt." Next it is found in the most noted work of GeoffreyChaucer (c. 1343-1400), Canterbury Tales, in "The Knight's Tale" as "That 'feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres.'" The more modern spelling of this same sentence appears in John Heywood's Proverbs (1546): "Fields have eyes and woods have ears." Miguel de Cervantes puts it most succinctly and in its most modern form in Don Quixote (1615): "Walls have ears." Finally, it appears more elaborately in Tennyson's Idylls of the King in "Balin and Balan"(1885): "Woods have tongues/As walls have ears."
Turkey Shoot at Makapuu (#187) -- Oscar Lang, purveyor of stolen car parts, is hauled into McGarrett's office for questioning. "The double-O of Five-O," he breezily greets the boss cop. 'Double-O' is a reference to James Bond, agent 'Double-O-7.' The 'double-O' designation, in the Bond tales, meant the agent had a license to kill. Many episodes of Hawaii Five-O, including the pilot movie and lavish two-hour episodes such as "Nine Dragons" (#192) and "Year of the Horse" (#259) had obvious James Bond overtones in story and setting.
The Capsule Kidnapping (#189) -- Professor Tolvar (Liam Sullivan), in agony over the killing which has marred his scheme to raise money for his idealistic project, quotes Albert Einstein: "Mankind's great problem is a perfection of means, but a confusion of ends." This is in part a reference to the cliche that the end justifies the means, a phrase used often to describe the methods of tyrants and crooks who seek to rationalize their actions and the consequences thereof. A staple of drama is the character who uses ignoble ways to achieve a noble goal. In Professor Tolvar's case, the situation gets away from him. The phrase itself was stated by St. Jerome (c.342-420) as: "The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end."
Nine Dragons (#192) -- Posing as "Prof. Chang," Wo Fat gives a lecture to university students. During the lecture he recites these four lines from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Ladder of St. Augustine," tenth stanza (1858): The heights by great men reached and kept/Were not attained by sudden flight,/But they, while their companions slept,/Were toiling upward in the night." Wo Fat, busy man that he is, seems to live by these words.
Tour de Force -- Killer Aboard (#196) -- Vaughn (Boris Aplon) refers to Chin Ho Kelly as "Charlie Chan." Charlie Chan was an early predecessor of McGarrett as a detective in Honolulu. He was a private investigator who, like Chin Ho Kelly, had a large brood of children. His chronicles were written by British writer Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) and the subject of motion pictures in the 1940s starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
Heads, You're Dead (#198) -- Set adrift with the sailboat's crew in a leaking raft, Officer Sandi Welles (Amanda McBroom) tells of a bad day gone worse as she describes her attempt to make punch from scratch. She refers to "...the commercial where the big guy punches out the little guy." The animated ad actually had it the other way around; the little guy asks the big one, "How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?" "Sure!" says the big fellow, expecting a fruit drink. POW! he gets it right in the kisser. (On a quiz show once, the question was: "What does McGarrett throw in a fight?" The answer: "A Hawaiian punch.")
As the hapless castaways drift on with their raft slowly sinking under them, a shark shows up. "I sure hope he hasn't seen that movie," Sandi says. She's referring, of course, to Jaws.
Let Death Do Us Part (#199) -- McGarrett questions the flaky Anita Newhall, who speaks of 'talking' with her mother via her Ouija board. "Crime is hardly a fit topic for transcendental conversation," Anita tells McGarrett. He replies, "Hamlet did discuss murder with his father's ghost, didn't he?" This of course refers to the opening scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet, where the young Prince of Denmark hears of his father's death from the ghost of the murdered king.
Target--A Cop (#202) -- Officer Ichiro (Bernard Ching) stops at a greasy-spoon before answering the call which will lead to his death. He looks at the grill and tells Matt (Wallace Landford), the short-order cook, "Buy some grill cleaner." Matt retorts, "Who are you--Ralph Nader?" This is the series' second reference to the consumer advocate. The first occurrence was in "A Matter of Mutual Concern" (#83).
McGarrett concludes the killer is listening to police radio as a means of pinpointing police movements. Dan says, "We can't change all the channels. How do we shut him out?" McGarrett asks Dan,"Do you remember that poem by Edwin Markham?" then goes on to recite: He drew a circle that shut me out--/Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout./But Love and I had the wit to win:/ We drew a circle that took him in. McGarrett then tells Dan he intends to create a fake complaint and plant some phony calls over the police frequencies to draw the killer to them. The poem is titled "Outwitted." Edwin Markham lived from 1852 to 1940.
The Bells Toll at Noon (#203) -- This episode is full of references to the movies of the '30s and '40s, especially James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart films. In his sketch before the appreciative audience at the drug rehab center, Johnny Kling (Rich Little) does Sidney Greenstreet, referring to "a certain Maltese Falcon, sir; the black bird, sir." This refers to the classic film The Maltese Falcon, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett, starring Bogart and Greenstreet (and Virginia Mayo and Peter Lorre).
Also, when McGarrett is musing aloud about the clues, overheard by Chin Ho Kelly, he says that all the arcane clues are like hieroglyphics and are "no good without the Rosetta Stone." The Rosetta Stone is a broken piece of basalt upon which is written inEgyptian (both hieroglyphics and the cursive style called Demotic) and in Greek a summary of the good deeds of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205-180 B.C.). It was discovered at Rosetta (Rashid, about 30 miles from Alexandria in Egypt) in 1799 and was the key to the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
A Capitol Crime (#208) -- Clinton Palmer (Barnard Hughes) responds acerbly when the governor uses the term 'senior citizen.' "No 'senior citizen,'" Palmer insists. "That gives me the fantods." Defined in Paul Dickson's Words: A Conoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish Words as "the fidgets, the willies," 'fantods' dates back at least to MarkTwain's Huckleberry Finn. Huck says, "They was all nice pictures, I reckon, but I didn't somehow seem to take to them, because if ever I was down a little, they always gave me the fantods." Illustrator Edward Gorey, known for fantastical and macabre drawings (his work in collaboration with Derek Lamb adorns the opening and closing credits of the PBS series Mystery!), has drawn creepy lizard-like creatures which he calls 'fantods'.
To Die in Paradise (#209) -- "Bible Jim" tells Dennis, who has asked him to fetch cigarettes from the general store, that he won't have any dealings with the evil weed, adding, "Besides, the Surgeon General might just know what he's talking about." In fact, several Surgeons General, beginning with Leroy E. Burney in 1955, may have known what they were talking about. Burney formed the first study group to evaluate the mounting evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer. The results of the study, published in 1959 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, pointed to such a relationship. In 1962, then Surgeon General Luther Terry formed another group of ten scientists agreed upon by all interested parties. Their report, forevermore known as The Surgeon General's Report, was published January 11, 1964, and adduced what it deemed definite evidence that smoking was a cause of lung cancer and other chronic lung diseases. (Note: if anyone's interested in reading the Brown & Williamson Documents, you'll find out that the tobacco companies have known all along -- for more than thirty years --that nicotine is addictive andthat cigarettes cause lung cancer.)
Requiem for a Saddle Bronc Rider (#212) -- Chin boards a city bus to interrogate the driver (Sam Peters). Faced with being stranded far from where he parked his car, Chin asks the bus driver what he's supposed to do. "Leave the driving to us," the driver says, using the advertising slogan of Greyhound bus lines. Greyhound has used that slogan since the 1960s.
See How She Runs (#213) -- The title is both a play on the line from the children's round "Three Blind Mice" (Three blind mice/ Three blind mice/See how they run...) and also a line from the Beatles' song "Lady Madonna."
Meeting his old friend, L.A. cop 'Babe' Mandell (Biff McGuire), McGarrett tells him, "...you still resemble the classic Lombroso criminal type." Cesare Lombroso (1835 - 1909) was an Italian psychiatrist and criminologist who advanced the now-discredited theory that certain individuals are born criminals because they are throwbacks to a more primitive stage of human evolution and can be identified by cranial, skeletal, and neurological malformations. While his theories have now been disproven, Lombroso is credited with giving criminology a scientific basis, i.e., the idea that crime has multiple causes, and that most criminals aren't 'born' but are shaped by environment and associations. The drawback of this school of thought was the lack of attention to personal responsibility.
Up the Rebels (#215) -- Irish terrorist Sean Roarke (Stephen Boyd) sees how infatuated Casey Fogerty (Elayne Heilveil) is with his covert operations and the romaticism of "The Troubles." "Is it James Bond you've been reading?" he asks her. This isn't the first reference to Ian Fleming's spy character in a Five-O episode.
McGarrett, suspecting the Catholic priest "Father Daniel Costigan" (Roark's cover identity) to be more than a man of the cloth, engages in some verbal sparring. "Matthew says no man can serve two masters, you cannot serve God and Mammon," he says to the 'priest'. The passage is from Matthew 6:24, and reads: "No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." At the end of this exchange, McGarrett carefully says, "Dominus vobiscum." After hesitating,Roark replies, grinning, "Et cum spiritu tuo." Together, these two sentences translate as "The Lord be with you; and with thy spirit," part of the liturgy of both the Catholic and Episcopal churches.
You Don't See Many Pirates These Days (#216) -- Stavrik (Rossano Brazzi), the shipping magnate, says of the disappearance of his vessel: "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." That is a quotation of Sir Winston Churchill, who uttered thephrase to characterize the Soviet Union and its sphere of influence behind the Iron Curtain (a phrase which Churchill also coined). What Churchill said was, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." He said it in a radio broadcast to the British people on October 1, 1939.
On Maui, the Five-O team finds that Stavrik's henchmen have moved out one step ahead of them. "Stavrik's crew moves like Rommel's Afrika Korps," McGarrett says to Danny. Dan says, "How's that?"and McGarrett responds, "I mean they move rapidly, pal." Just so. Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (1891 - 1944) commanded the tank division known as the Afrika Korps because they operated in North Africa. His bold tactics and habit of striking swiftly earned him the nickname "The Desert Fox."
Stavrik says to McGarrett, "These buccaneers have an audacity and ingenuity equal to Captain Morgan himself." McGarrett replies, "Perhaps. But they have it a lot easier in one way, though. They won't swing from the yardarm when we catch them." But neither didMorgan swing from the yardarm. Sir Henry Morgan (1635-1688) sailed as a buccaneer with the secret sanction of the English Crown, for his depredations were mostly against the Spanish in the New World. This served British interests just fine. His most famous and daring escapade was the storming and capture of heavily-fortified Porto Bello in Panama in 1668. In 1671, he captured the city of Panama. His luck ran bad for a while, because his raid on the city of Panama occurred as relations between England and Spain were becoming friendly. For this, he was arrested and taken to London in 1672. Bad luck didn't last long, though, as diplomatic relations between England and Spain deteriorated again. In 1674, Morgan was 'rehabilitated' and knighted by Charles II, who sent the pirate out in legitimate life this time, as deputy governor of Jamaica. There he died a natural death, a wealthy and respected planter.
The Cop on the Cover (#217) -- Dan Williams describes McGarrett to reporter Terri O'Brien (Jean Simmons): "He's dedicated, honest, intuitive, tough when he has to be, daring, and eminently fair." She cynically says, "The John Wayne of Waikiki." John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison) played many stereotypical macho roles during his acting career (e.g., The Green Berets, countless cowboy movies). He did have acting ability, as seen in The Quiet Man (1952) and in his last film, The Shootist. In most of his films, he epitomized the 'strong, silent type.'
After O'Brien's been following McGarrett around a few hours, Dan asks her how it's going. "Immovable object meets irresistibleforce, eh?" he says with a smile. A song from the 1940s (?), "Something's Got To Give," has the lines: When an old immovable object like me/Meets an irresistible force such as you,/You can bet as sure as you live/Something's got to give...
O'Brien asks McGarrett what made him become a cop. He avoids the question, turning it back on her: "What made you want to become a reporter?" She replies: If you would not be forgotten/When you're dead and rotten,/Either write things worth the reading,/Or do things worth the writing. McGarrett responds, "I don't think Ben Franklin had either of us in mind when he wrote that." It is indeed from Ben Franklin, from Poor Richard's Almanack, May, 1738. In Poor Richard, the passage reads: If you wou'd not be forgotten,/As soon as you are dead and rotten,/Either write things worth reading,/Or do things worth writing.
Kidnapper Kia Chieu (Josie Over) talks to her accomplice about "the Robin Hood caper," referring to their having taken the $50,000 ransom they collected from affluent Stuart Longworth (Henry Darrow) and used to frame poor bus driver Joe Moala (Moe Keale ). Her comment refers to the 'steal from the rich, give to the poor' popular reputation of the legendary Robin of Locksley, outlaw of Sherwood Forest.
McGarrett, exasperated with O'Brien after he has disarmed Joe Moala and prevented his suicide, explodes with, "Why didn't I have theluck to draw a reporter who deals in solid facts instead of a second-class Lois Lane?" Lois Lane was the girlfriend of comic-book superhero Superman, who was created in 1938 by Joe Siegel and Jerry Schuster, and appeared first in Action Comics #1. ThoughSuperman himself emerged in the late 1930s, he didn't get involved with the lady until the 1950s. Like Superman's secret identityClark Kent, Lois was a reporter for the Daily Planet. (By the way, a very fine to near mint condition copy of Action #1 is listed in the 20th edition of Overstreet's guide as worth $35,500. Just thought you'd like to know.)
The Descent of the Torches (#219) -- Prof. Kalei (George DiCenzo) tells McGarrett that anthropologists Dr. Charles Underwood (John Hunt) and his sister, Dr. Philomena Underwood (Geraldine Page), are "almost as legendary as the Leakeys." The Leakeys were Louis Seymour Bazert Leakey (1903-1972), his wife Mary, and their sons. L. S. B. Leakey made fossil discoveries in East Africa proving man as a species was older than previously thought. His finds in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge were his most noted.
The Ninth Step (#220) -- Marty Cobb (Gil Gerard), an ex-HPD cop fired for drunkenness, returns to Honolulu. His stated purpose is to carry out the ninth of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: Make amends to all those you've harmed through drinking. The Twelve Steps is at the heart of the AA program.
Shake Hands With the Man on the Moon (#221) -- Ex-astronaut Richard Royce (James Wainwright) tells McGarrett, "Like old soldiers,heroes tend to fade away." When relieved of command by President Harry Truman, General Douglas MacArthur gave an address to a joint meeting of Congress, April 19, 1951. He said, "I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. I now close my military career and just fade away." The refrain MacArthur referred to is from a British army song, c. 1915.
Two remarks in the episode are attributed to Will Rogers: "All our solutions become our problems," which Royce says to the soon-to-be murdered Ramos (Kwan Hi Lim); and "All my clippings baled together wouldn't buy one chicken," which Royce quotes to McGarrett. While I couldn't find those particular quotations, they sound like vintage Rogers. Will (William Penn Adair) Rogers (1879 - 1935) was a keen observer of the American scene in the 1920s and 1930s, mixing biting social comment with comedy much in the vein of Mark Twain. Rogers died in an airplane crash in Alaska.
Another former astronaut, an Apollo-program colleague of Royce's interviewed by McGarrett, has a grandson named Buzz. This is a small tribute to Apollo astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. ("Buzz"), the second man to walk on the moon and holder of a record for extravehicular activity.
Deadly Doubles (#222) -- McGarrett tells East Block "cultural liaison" Borzov (Stefan Gierasch) that tennis player Katrina Bukowski (Carole Tru Foster) is "the best kept secret since Sputnik." Sputnik was the name of a series of orbital satellites launched by the Soviet Union beginning on October 4, 1957. That unexpected launch caught the U.S. flatfooted in the space race and spurred the creation of NASA, culminating in the U.S. moon landing of 1969.
A Short Walk on the Long Shore (#228) -- The title is a twist on a sarcastic comeback used to indicate that one wishes another would disappear: "Take a long walk on a short pier."
When the still-undercover McGarrett and drug-besotted Frankie Demara are sprung from jail, he suggests to her she needs some sleep. "Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleeve of care," she says; "What's that from?" McGarrett, in his undercover persona,replies, "From hunger." No, it's from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act II, scene ii, line 36: Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more!/Macbeth does murder sleep!'-- the innocent sleep,/Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,/The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,/Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,/Chief nourisher in life's feast, -- In this scene, Macbeth has just murdered the king and his attendants. In the episode, Frankie Demara, tainted by her deeds and her association with unsavory characters, likewise is denied "the innocent sleep."
Head to Head (#230) -- Chin Ho and Dan Williams uncover a stash of heroin belonging to crafty criminal Jack Fabian (Charles Cioffi). Chin remarks that it is "the stuff that dreams are made of." In Shakespeare's The Tempest, Prospero uses the phrase to refer to the insubstantiality of human life: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." (Act IV, Scene i)
Frozen Assets (#235) -- Mystery writer Millicent Shand (Mildred Natwick), poking about in the Kirk Foundation, a private firm purporting to specialize in cryogenically freezing its clients for future resurrection, puts to the test a man supposedly resurrected after six years in cold storage. She discovers he is familiar with a book she wrote only two years previously, for which she won the Edgar award, he reminds her. The Edgar is awarded by the Mystery Writers of America for outstanding novels and short stories each year. It is named for Edgar Allan Poe.
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