Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)

The Jinn Who Clears the Way (1972)

Jack Lord: Det. Steve McGarrett

Quotes 

• Det. Steve McGarrett : Where is Wo Fat?

  CIA Agent : Nothing to tie him to to this.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Well, there's nothing to say he isn't tied to this either. So I ask you again, gentlemen: Where is Wo Fat?

  CIA Agent : Last we heard, Peking.

  Colonel Cole : Uh-uh. He's at Subic in the Phillipines.

  Cmdr. Smallitt : Our people had him in San Francisco.

  Danny Williams : Figures.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : [Pounds table]  Well, if Wo Fat can be in Peking or Subic or in San Francisco, there is no reason to believe he can't be right here in Honolulu.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : Every man we have available must be assigned to this case, gentlemen. This is no longer top priority - it's the only priority.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : What happened this time, Wo Fat? Your luck run out?

  Wo Fat : No man is perfect, Mr. McGarrett. Every man's plans and designs are born of imperfect minds.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Instructions to the MP captain about dead man]  No identifying photographs are to be made of the dead man. Just check the body in as a John Doe... Cause of death, automobile accident.

  MP Captain : Per whose instructions?

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Mine... As authorized by Jonathan Kaye, chief of special operations, Pentagon.

  MP Captain : Yes, sir.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Giving instructions]  The Pentagon wants this island sealed off... As of now, nothing leaves... Notify All federal agencies... This is a J-35.

• Jonathan Kaye : [Reading report]  How clean a job was it, Steve?

  Det. Steve McGarrett : I'd say it was a very well-planned hit... A half hour before dawn. The dogs were drugged by darts... The kind fired from an air rifle. The GI's were shot to death, point-blank range.

• Jonathan Kaye : We're in big trouble, Steve.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : What was stolen, Jonathan?

  Jonathan Kaye : A device... A prototype for an ICBM guidance system.

• Che Fong : [Giving Steve a run down on the dead man]  Steve, I'm going over Connor's clothes... We came across a small piece of flower stem caught in the fiber of his trousers... It's from an unusual kind of African violet. It's not rare, but requires careful tending. Strictly a collector's item

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Good work, Che... Thank you.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Thinking that Wo Fat got into Hawaii on a submarine]  If Wo Fat was on that sub, the odds are he's here now.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Danny wakes up Steve]  Hi, Danno... What have you got?

  Danny Williams : Some hot coffee and some information.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [after Wo Fat departs]  You sold me out, Jonathan... YOU SOLD ME OUT!

  Jonathan Kaye : Wait a minute, Steve... Believe me, there was no choice.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : THAT I CANNOT ACCEPT!

  Jonathan Kaye : All right, Steve... You're entitled... There was a U2 incident.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : That was under Eisenhower!

  Jonathan Kaye : Not this one... This was three years ago over China. Only this time, no one banged a shoe on a table... This time the Chinese just took the pilot and threw him into an isolation cell. And they kept him there for three years, incommunicado... Now, Steve, we tried every formal negotion there is. They wouldn't even discuss it... Until today.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : They're exchanging that pilot for Wo Fat?

  Jonathan Kaye : That's right... Captain Ruassell Kempton is on his way home, Steve, today... You made it possible.

  [Jonathan departs, and Steve throws Wo Fat's passport] 

• Doc Bergman : [to Steve after Mr. Wong's autopsy]  Now, you wanna tell me why I had to get up in the middle of the night for this one?

  Det. Steve McGarrett : [With a smile]  No.

• Jonathan Kaye : [Wo Fat is being released]  Wo Fat is being returned to his government... The decision is firm.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Jonathan, this man is a murderer... There's a string of a dozen bodies tied to him!

  Jonathan Kaye : Steve, I know that as well as you do... The decision is still irrevocable.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : What do you mean it's "irrevocable"?... He committed crimes, capital crimes... This is my jurisdiction... Why is it irrevocable?

  Wo Fat : [With a smile]  Mr. Kaye will explain as soon as I've left.

• Det. Steve McGarrett : [Steve has Wo Fat, and is questioning him]  This is a genuine United States passport?

  Wo Fat : It is.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : You profess to be a U.S. citizen?

  Wo Fat : I profess to be a citizen of the world... But Specifically for the moment I am as my passport declares.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : Oh, that I am glad to hear... Because as a U.S. citizen, I can also charge you with treason... There's an irony for you. And with robbery and murder as well... And those charges, I guarantee, will stick.

  Wo Fat : Then I should be grateful for the abolition of capital punishment, should I not?

• Danny Williams : [Dan shows up at the scene of Carl Tu's murder]  Steve, what's up?

  Det. Steve McGarrett : There's been a murder here... The man raised ordhids and African violets.

• Jonathan Kaye : There's a plane waiting to take Mr. Wo Fat to Hong Kong, Steve.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : There's a What?

  [Steve is becoming enraged] 

• Jonathan Kaye : There;s a plane waiting to take Mr. Wo Fat to Hong Kong.

  Det. Steve McGarrett : [Rage building up]  There's a what?