2. 01 "Ha’i’ole"


McGarrett is in prison awaiting trial for the murder of the Governor. Danny visits, bringing a surprise guest, McGarrett’s SEAL Lt. Commander Joe White (Terry O’Quinn). Shortly after they leave, Victor Hesse shivs McGarrett in the yard which sends him to the emergency room. McGarrett escapes from the ambulance and makes his way to Max’s house, who treats him and helps reunite McGarrett with his team (except Kono) who now are working together to exonerate McGarrett. Joe recognizes a medal from McGarrett’s father’s lock box and takes McGarrett to see and elderly Japanese man named Mokoto. Mokoto worked with McGarrett’s father to help clean up the HPD. He also gives additional intel that helps Jenna Kaye trace a key from the lockbox to a locker in the Molokai airport. Danny and McGarrett find a memory card with video footage from a camera McGarrett’s father set up in the Governor’s study. Our team realizes the hidden camera may still be there. They find the camera and there’s footage to exonerate McGarrett. The team gets reinstated. Kono has been suspended from HPD pending further investigation of the evidence forfeiture locker theft. Also, we learn that Danny’s ex-wife Rachel has gone back to Stan, turns out she figured out the baby was his and she wants to put their marriage back together.


2.02 "Ua Lawe Wale"
Eliminated in round one!


2.03 "Kame’e"


McGarrett’s friend and mentor Joe White asks McGarrett to investigate the death of SEAL team member, Max Garcia who apparently committed suicide. McGarrett persuades Max to redo the autopsy (Max’s boss did the original), and Max discovers that Garcia was murdered and now Five-0 (including Lori Wilson) can officially investigate. Joe helps the team by getting whatever information he can from the military and when a second SEAL from the same team is found murdered; McGarrett realizes they’re being targeted. They work to find the killer and the motive for these murders in order to save the rest of the team and McGarrett manages to rescue the final team member unaccounted for in a daring sky dive maneuver. Chin Ho worries when he learns that Kono is hanging out with a bunch of dirty ex-cops ever since she was kicked off the force.


2.04 "Mea Makamaee"
Eliminated in round two


2.05 “Ma’ema’e”


The Five-0 team investigates the murder of Honolulu State’s Women’s Volleyball team Coach. The Coach lives in the guest house of one of the University’s wealthy patrons, and when they find compromising pictures of one the player’s on the team, McGarrett wonders if the Coach was killed because he was threatening the player. The player defends the Coach and said he was protecting her. Further investigation takes Chin Ho and Lori to a motel the Coach was renting. There they quickly discover Trisha, the wife of the Coach’s landlord has been staying there. They wait for her return, but give chase when a thug breaks into the room. They shoot the thug, but he escapes into a waiting car being driven by Kono. When the team brings in Kono, Captain Fryer shows up, furious at Five-0. Turns out, Kono’s suspension and bad behavior has all been set up as she’s been working undercover to infiltrate a group of former cops who are running illegal businesses. When Trisha left her husband, she emptied their bank accounts, not realizing he was money-laundering for the dirty cops. Unfortunately, the Coach got in the cops way when he tried to protect Trisha. Chin Ho reconnects with his former fiancée, Malia, and confesses his concern about Kono’s recent behavior but when Malia tries to talk to Kono, she shuts Malia down. Danny’s apartment is being torn down and he has to find a new place.


2.06 "Ka Hakaka Maika'i"


The apparent home invasion robbery/murder of a local celebrity chef connects to a series of home invasion robberies perpetrated by a group of valet parkers. As our Five-0 team investigates the valets, things don’t quite add up and they figure out the home invasion was staged to cover up the murder. Taking a closer look at the chef’s personal life, they discover he sponsored a local charity that trains kids to be MMA fighters to keep them off the streets. His sister now runs the charity organization and one of the fighters who works out at the gym has a past record of violence. When Five-0 find the murder weapon in his apartment, it seems like a closed case, but there’s one final twist in finding the killer. Because the main fighter was injured when McGarrett went after him, McGarrett ends up having to “pinch-hit” for the fighter in a charity MMA fight.


2.07 “Ka Iwi Kapu”


A young couple filming a spooky documentary about a traditional Hawaiian burial site are murdered in this Halloween episode. A homeless man who considers himself to be the protector of the site, curses Danny, and Danny seems to have a run of bad luck afterward. A fingerprint on one of their victim’s face gives Fvie-0 a solid lead, except that their putative killer is dead. Convinced he faked his own death, McGarrett and Lori interview the girlfriend who confessed she killed him. It’s a puzzling case with lots of conflicting leads, until they find body parts on multiple victims also buried at the site. The new victims all connect to the same mortuary where all the bodies (most dead from natural causes) were meant to be buried. Danny thinks he may have found the perfect new apartment and he negotiates a great price because a murder took place inside, however when he discovers it’s haunted he walks away from it.


2.08 “Lapa’au”


A group of “tow surfers” remove a body from a plane that crashes into the ocean and it turns out to be a DEA agent. McGarrett and the team work with the victim’s DEA boss and start investigating the drug cases she was working on. She was doing surveillance on local medicinal marijuana shop and had interviewed a number of their customers, but there doesn’t seem to be anything that leads to her murder. When they find the man who stole pages from her case journal, they’re able to restore the pages enough to get an address, only to discover she was investigating the secret world of exotic medicine. It’s a world that promises cures to cancer, but doesn’t always deliver and the killer killed her because he thought she was going to cut off his supply to his miracle drug. After her death, he realized the medicine wasn’t working and he kidnapped the healer who was supplying him and Five-0 has to find the healer before he dies too.


2.09 “Ike Maka”


After a police chase through a shipyard, police grab the high-end car thieves, but get an unexpected surprise. A dead body in the trunk of one of the stolen cars, with his face wrapped up like a mummy. The victim’s fingerprints have been sanded down and he’s clearly had plastic surgery to change his appearance, but Max helps them with their first lead, by identifying the doctor who put in the facial implants. McGarrett and Danny talk to the doctor, but he’s not helpful: the man used a fake ID, refused to have his pictures taken and paid in cash. Meanwhile, the rest of the team pursues the car thief ring, hoping to possibly find the killer. Finally, a hotel key in the car leads our team to the victim’s girlfriend who reveals he’d been working on an oil rig when something happened and he said they needed to disappear. Turns out, the victim had left witness protection and disappeared when his cover had been blown. Someone from his old neighborhood recognized him and called the mob boss who wanted him dead. But in a surprise ending, the mob hit men hadn’t killed him. Also, Danny, still searching for an apartment has been sleeping on McGarrett’s couch. It’s an arrangement that suits neither of them.


2.10 “Ki’ilua”
Eliminated in round 3

2.11 “Pahele”


A busload of school children is kidnapped and McGarrett and the team are puzzled by the ransom demand: the kidnappers want the $80 million worth of cocaine Five-0 recently seized. As the team works to locate the missing children, Danny and McGarrett question Vargas, a low-level courier and the only man who survived the recent drug bust. He doesn’t seem to know anything but Kono works with him and gets him to retrace the route they took. They manage to locate the warehouse and though it contains the missing bus, the children are gone. McGarrett manages to get the Governor to let them use the confiscated drugs as bait, but when they put the drugs in the drop car, the car is immediately blown up. With the evidence destroyed, Vargas will go free, and the team realizes that the kidnappers went to a lot of trouble to free him, meaning he’s much higher up in the cartel than he’s admitted. With time to find the children running out, McGarrett and the team put together a bunch of other leads in order to locate them and manage a daring rescue in a rock quarry.


2.12 “Alaheo Pau’ole”


Exploring an abandoned WWII bunker, three teenagers discover a body and our 5-0 team is called in to investigate. Upon arriving at the scene, they quickly find out the victim is still alive. Following several leads, McGarrett and the team stumble onto an investigation led by Fryer, who is looking into the murder of a Jane Doe. Ultimately, they discover the victim was searching for his missing son; Fryer’s Jane Doe and the proprietor of a tourist bar were working to scam the distraught father out of the reward money he offered to find his son. The 5-0 team is able to find the son’s real killer and get a confession out of him.
Adam Noshimuri, Hiro’s son, confronts McGarrett about his missing father and Chin Ho and Malia get married.


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