It’s not even the holidays yet and it’s all about Ohana. Thus far on Hawaii Five-0 we’ve met Danny’s parents, his nephew Eric who now works with Five-0, and his dearly departed brother Matt. Now we get to meet one of Danny’s sisters, the baby of the family Bridget (played by Rookie Blue alum Missy Peregrym). While Five-0 works a ten year old cold case which suddenly gets hot again with the discovery of a body, Danny has to go into Big Brother mode in order to protect his sister from herself.
Hypnotherapy hasn’t really been used to crack cases for Five-0 before, but there’s a first time for everything. When a teenager named Reese undergoes the process he realizes he knows the location of a body buried in the woods. The body is that of a former star softball player on the island named Maggie Reed, who disappeared ten years earlier. Detective Yang, the original detective on the case, was convinced that Maggie was killed by her ex-boyfriend Travis, who she broke up with two days before her disappearance. Travis now admits he and Maggie were dating, but claims Maggie never met him the night of her murder. No sooner does Five-0 follow a lead from Reese’s recent hypnosis, than Travis walks into HPD and confesses. Steve doesn’t buy it for a second. He proves that there is no possible way Travis could have killed Maggie because the timeline doesn’t fit. He’d have to have superhuman speed. What does make sense is that in order for Reese to have even been close enough to see Maggie’s body, he couldn’t have walked there. Reese would have to have been riding in the back of a car, and it just so happens that a car accident would account for some of Maggie’s injuries. Reese remembers just as Five-0 puts together that Reese’s mother hit Maggie after driving drunk, then bludgeoned her to death and buried her in the woods because she was afraid of being stripped of her parental rights. All ten years did was traumatize Maggie’s loved ones and Reese.
Danny’s little sister Bridget comes to town for a corporate retreat and to catch up with her brother. She covers very well, but Danny notices Bridget tries just a little too hard to convince him that everything is good on the home front. His eyebrows are really raised when Bridget seems to be overly familiar with her colleague Spencer. These aren’t just Danny’s instincts as a cop kicking in, or his emotions getting ahead of him as an overprotective older brother. Danny remembers a time when he started looking at a colleague differently, his late partner Grace who died the morning of 9/11. Danny never pursued anything because he wanted to start a family with Rachel, but he knows that Bridget shouldn’t be near the temptation. As Danny suspected, Bridget isn’t having an affair, but she is facing temptation. Truly all Bridget wants is to be seen as a woman, not as a wife, mother, and daughter struggling to keep up with her own life. Bridget feels so alone that it’s nice when someone offers her an ear to listen. Danny just has to remind his sister that he will be that ear 24/7 when she needs him. Everyone goes through rough patches. The important thing is to reach out to people for support when you need it.
Chin’s anxiety after not hearing from Sara for a week seems over-the-top to Kono. Admittedly using your niece as a spy against her other family isn’t the best way to instill trust among the adults, but Chin tends to lead with his instincts as a cop. Combine that with his parental instincts and Kono can understand why Sara’s aunt and uncle might be trying to create some distance between Sara and Chin. As we see from the previews for the midseason finale, Chin has reason to worry about Sara.
Get ready for Hawaii Five-0‘s midseason finale where Five-0 proves once again just how important Ohana is.
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