Hawaii Five-0 Review: Is Abby Staying for Good?

Hawaii Five-0 returned this week with the team at their best. While the case of the week kept most everyone busy, an outing with his children proved perilous for Danny, and Abby made a decision about whether or not to stay in Hawaii.

After revealing herself to Chin as a mole for Caughlin, Abby prepares to leave Hawaii. She doesn’t think her place is in Hawaii anymore, but she also knows that going back to San Francisco means losing her shield. Steve comes by to see Abby as she’s packing to leave. He assures her that no one blames her for the difficult position she was put in. In fact, he asks her to stay on the team, a decision Chin wholeheartedly agrees with.

The case of the week begins with two men are found clinging to life rafts in the middle of the ocean. One is a simple family man named Edward Torres, the other is a dead man who supposedly died six years earlier by firing squad. The victim isn’t the only one supposedly deceased. The life raft they were clinging to was from a ship decommissioned ten years ago. Putting those facts together with the men’s toxicology reports, Steve deduces that these men escaped a slave ship for fishermen. Torres confirms this, explaining the horrific story of his 7-year imprisonment and his escape with his friend.

Steve believes that if they can find the person buying fish from this illegal trade on the island, they will lead Five-0 to the captain of the ship. Kamekona gives them a suspicious contact he knows is selling cheap fish, which leads them to the buyer on the island. He agrees to help them catch the captain of the slave ship, although I’m pretty sure the buyer’s deal was off the table once Five-0 found out he was also helping to supply the slaves for the ship. They find the slave ship, free all of the prisoners, and finally reunited Torres with his family.

Speaking of family, Danny spends the day bonding with his kids. During their family outing someone steals Danny’s car. Since they are in a rather unpopulated area of the island, Danny takes his kids on their first bus ride. Grace spends the beginning of this trip rolling her eyes at her father’s talk of simpler times when everybody wasn’t attached to their cell phones. When they drive past a shootout perpetrated by the men who took Danny’s car, Danny asks his friend Mamo who is driving, to follow the car. The shooters eventually realize they are being followed, leaving Danny to do some quick thinking. He gets everyone off the bus, leaves his children in Mamo’s care, and commandeers the bus to go after the criminals.

The shooters abandon the car and head into the woods with Danny’s firearms and phones. Danny manages to flag down a man hunting in the area who agrees to help, but all he has are bows and arrows. City boy Danny has to make do with what he’s got. Danny may be more comfortable with his gun, but his aim with the bow is actually pretty good.  He hits one of the shooters dead center in the chest (emphasis on dead) while sustaining a grazed gunshot wound himself. Not that this ordeal was any fun, but it looks like Grace got the message that there are things more important than whatever is on her phone screen.

What did you think of tonight’s Hawaii Five-0? Anyone else glad that Abby is sticking around?