Hawaii Five-0 Review: When Elephants and Killer Robots Attack

Elephants, and NFL players, and robots, oh my! There was no shortage of wacky storylines in this week’s Hawaii Five-0. The team deal with so many oddball situations this week it’s hard to tell if they an elite task force or apart of a circus round-up.

The team is called to a base for a secret defense contractor. After having the team sign confidentiality agreements, the director of the facility informs the team that an $80 million defense suit was stolen. The team furiously works to track down the suit since it is basically a fully functioning version of what Iron Man wears. They strike out with past and present employees, as well as rival investors since the Department of Justice already had wire taps on all of those.

The man wearing the supersuit takes something valuable from evidence lockup. After a thorough inventory Five-0 realizes the man took a gun which links a slippery, major criminal named Waiola to a murder. Without the gun there is no case. Steve and Danny break Waiola’s lawyer, who informs them that the monetary exchange for her client’s gun goes down in an hour. The culprit turns out to be a disgruntled former employee of the defense contractor, who was fired for trying to sell the suit’s schematics to the highest bidder. For such a high profile case, the resolution was pretty quick.

During the case Jerry’s gorgeous little sister Isobel arrives in town for a visit. Jerry thinks that his little sister is just in town on vacation from UCLA Law. *Eric finds out that it was actually Isobel who lost track of a circus elephant which nearly flattened NFL players Michael and Martellus Bennett, who made a quick cameo as themselves this week. Isobel has been working with an activist group for captive wild animals in her spare time. Years ago when Tyke the elephant escaped the circus in Honolulu and HPD had no choice put to shoot the elephant, it made a lasting impression on Isobel (on a sidenote, Hawaii Five-0 used actual footage from the attack during the episode). Even though she shouldn’t be asking, Isobel begs her brother to get the elephant she recaptured to safety. *So Jerry enlists Kamekona, Max, and Eric’s help to get Maisie the elephant to a sanctuary in Thailand. Jerry’s great at solving mysteries and conspiracies, but he’s not exactly subtle. Steve is aware of everything that Jerry and Isobel were up to, but he decides to let it go.

Lest Five-0’s greatest villain be forgotten, Kono finally learns that Gabriel went to visit Adam in prison three months ago. Now that Gabriel is basically on a killing spree to rid the island of all the gang leaders, he needs a second-in-command to help him run what he believes will be his new empire. Adam tells Kono he refused Gabriel’s offer, but given that Adam is still breathing, Kono isn’t so sure she believes her husband.

*No Elephants or NFL Players were injured in the making of this episode.