The title of this week’s review sounds a little silly considering the context of the content, but we’ll go with it. Hawaii Five-0 touches on not one, but two humanitarian issues with two separate murders. One is very current, involving an issue important to the people of Hawaii, and the other dates all the way back to the Holocaust. Oh, and Kamekona has drama with his shrimp, leading him to a compromise which actually works in his favor in the long run.
I suppose the bright side to having your kid date your partner’s kid is that you always know where they’re at. Danny can trust that Grover will feed Grace disgusting pancakes before school. Not to mention kids on social media usually know things before the police do, which is how Five-0 catches their first case.
Five-0 works two different cases this week. The first is a hunter named Sam Harrison, who came to Oahu to kill a great white shark, which the locals consider a huge no-no. Danny and Kono strike out with their first suspect, an animal rights activist named who says murder would undermine her cause. Harrison’s injuries actually correlate to being bitten by a shark before he was filleted himself and strung up like a fish. By finding Harrison’s killer Five-0 is able to shut down an illegal shark hunting operation on the island.
What’s more disturbing than the Filet-o-Fish case is that Five-0’s second victim of the day has numbers on her arm resembling those of a Holocaust survivor. The problem is that this woman is in her 30s. They figure out that their victim, Leia Rozen, is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor who got the tattoo as a way to honor her grandfather. Knowing about that kind of hatred in the world seemed to motivate Leia to volunteer for worthy causes. One of those took her to Kalaupapa, an area on the island of Molokai restricted to the public. In the 60s it was quarantined for a leprosy outbreak, though now is just an area for local families and volunteer workers to take care of the land.
Leia’s local guide Bill has no idea why the woman would have a gun. After some bonding time with Eric as he looks for clues, he and Bill find out that Leia purchased the gun from a local who is also on the run. Leia was actually traveling the world doing a hunt of her own. She was trying to track down the Nazi who made her grandfather choose which one of his siblings lived or died. She found him, and was killed by his daughter, Molokai’s sheriff, in kind. Luckily the world has changed radically since Nazi times. There is almost nowhere in the world you can hide. The sheriff and her Nazi father don’t get far into the main land before they are caught, giving both Leia and her grandfather the justice they waited nearly 60 years to get.
Though not as high stakes, but still dealing with a genuine dilemma is Kamekona’s Shrimp. Kamekona deals with a labor dispute led by Flippa of all people. (Very nice touch with the “It is perfectly legal to peacefully protest”.) This isn’t one disgrunteld employee (s) fighting back against a conglomerate. Kamekona and Flippa are family. In order to keep the peace, Kamekona expands his shrimp truck business to include a new truck, which Flippa will be in charge of. Another alls well that ends well.
Did Hawaii Five-0 do right by these important issues?
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