[CROWD CHATTERING]
DISPATCH [OVER RADIO]: An anonymous male reports
that there's a domestic argument... Ripped By mstoll
We're receiving numerous calls on this domestic.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
[GUN COCKS]
[CHATTERING]
- Back at it again, I see. - Hey.
- Three years in a row. - Yeah.
- You are such a good dad. - Aw. That's very sweet. Thank you.
You're welcome.
- What? - You know that's code
- for she thinks you're cute. - Yeah, I know that that is,
but Tamara's mom thinks everybody's cute
that's why she's been married and divorced three times.
Well, you know what they say, fourth time's the charm.
- What's up, Lou? - Danny.
- What are you doing here? - Doing a little community service
as penance for someone's recent transgression.
- Ah. - Daddy, I said I was sorry.
Yeah. I remember.
Do yourself a favor. Don't let yours grow up.
No. I don't want her to grow up at all.
- Where is your daughter, by the way? - She's uh...
Whoa. Hey, hey. Where are your gloves?
Grace, what did we just talk about? Put it down. What are you doing?
Put it in the bag. Go use a whole bottle of sanitizer. Okay?
- What do you think's in here? - What do I think's in it?
Trash. Okay. More trash.
There's medical waste over there you can play with
- if you're interested. - It's not trash, Danno.
I think it's a puzzle. Can you open it, please?
Of course I can open it.
[RATTLES]
This doesn't open.
All right. I got an idea.
I'll make a call later tonight to Santa Claus
and ask him to bring us one of these with instructions.
But I wanna see what's inside that one.
Come on. It could be, like, a gold coin, a treasure map,
a letter from someone stranded on a desert island.
Come on. Don't you wanna know?
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Don't touch it again, please.
Yeah.
Oh, let me guess. I come pick you up, right?
[POLICE SIREN WAILING]
- Hey. - Thanks.
Hey.
Thanks, man. Thanks.
Guess it's casual Friday. Must have missed the memo.
Oh, that'd be funny if it wasn't Tuesday.
Annual beach cleanup at Gracie's school.
DANNY: Right.
Which I'd rather be spending my Christmas Eve over there
than with a dead guy, all right.
- So if we speed this up, that'd be nice. - Well, in that case.
Male vic, GSW to the head, most likely a 9 mm.
Shooter did a pretty good job of covering his tracks.
There's no clothes, obviously. No wallet, no ID.
Nothing on the vic except the gift wrapping.
- Who found this guy? - Fritz over there.
Caught a whiff of our DB in the trunk and alerted the owner.
Well, I don't speak dog. Maybe you wanna question him.
Hey, come here, buddy. Come on. Right here. Come here.
Nice, good dog. Look at this.
You know something. You're a lot funnier in short pants.
- Is that right? McGARRETT: Yeah.
- What about this car? - Owner said it came three days ago,
but there wasn't body in it when it was inventoried.
Which means that someone must've snuck in and dumped our vic inside.
Okay, and how'd the shooter get into this place?
CHIN HO: A lock was cut on the gate around back.
I got CSU checking it for prints and tool marks right now.
What happens to these cars once they're crushed?
Apparently, they get sent over to China where they're sold as scrap.
Now, whoever did this was smart.
If it wasn't for Fritz here, this thing would've gone according to plan,
and we would never be investigating this murder.
Mm-hm. There goes our holiday.
Hey, Fritz. Thanks a lot.
CHIN HO [OVER PHONE]: Any luck locating Adam in Seattle?
No, but I got a hit off his mother's maiden name
on some recent ATM transactions in Canada.
So I'm going up there to run it down.
You really think Adam could be there?
- I don't know but I gotta check it out. - Be careful, Kono.
Love you guys.
[SPEAKS IN HAWAIIAN]
McGARRETT: Hey, Max. - Oh, gentlemen. Come on in.
You are just in time.
Time for what? A game of "Operation"?
I would prefer if you would refrain
from making your mildly entertaining witticisms
as this takes complete concentration.
Yeah. No, I know you don't wanna make the buzzer go off, right?
I don't envy you, commander.
We get an ID on the vic, Max?
Well, I pulled prints and DNA and sent them over to the lab.
We are currently waiting for the results.
However, I do have an early Christmas gift for both of you.
I found something intriguing
underneath one of the victim's fingernails.
It's latex. Most likely from a glove.
We didn't find any gloves at the scene, Max.
It's possibly a professional requirement.
Maybe he was a surgeon or a dentist
or the noblest profession, medical examiner.
Maybe he was using the gloves
because he was gonna kill a medical examiner.
Ah. Witticism. Ah!
There you are, my little friend.
No wonder you were such a challenge to extract.
See the way it's mushroomed like that?
It's a jacketed hollow-cavity.
They're designed for rapid expansion
maximizing tissue damage and blood loss.
Not to mention massive disruption of ballistic evidence.
Which means it's unloadable into IBIS.
Okay. Our victim's been shot execution style,
a well-planned body dump,
and we get this highly lethal ammunition that cannot be traced.
I am saying that this is not this guy's first barbecue.
Oh, he's done this before.
Fingerprints on John Doe came back. He's not in the system.
No, but we did have some luck with his DNA.
Hit came back to 12 unsolved break-ins here on Oahu.
- So this guy's a burglar. CATHERINE: Mm-hm.
That would explain the latex that Max found under his fingernails.
Our victim could have been wearing gloves
because he was involved in the commission of a crime.
CATHERINE: Police reports indicated that all the burglarized homes
had a security system and hidden safes.
- So the guy did his homework. - Definitely a pro. Take a look at this.
He used low-tech items like a glass cutter, tin foil and silicone
to bypass some very complex alarm-systems.
In fact, he was so good at covering his tracks
that some victims didn't realize they were robbed
until days or weeks after they'd been hit.
Maybe could be the burglar surprised a homeowner, paid for it with his life.
If that was the case, why wouldn't he call the cops after he shot the guy
and claim self-defense? Why would he dump the body?
I agree with him. We know our shooter's a pro, right?
So maybe these guys are in it together.
They get into a dispute over some money.
One guy kills the other guy, dumps him in the junkyard.
- What are friends for, right? - Someone's cynical.
Well, that's what happens when you take my day off away from me.
Let's ID this guy, put him in jail so I can get back to my daughter.
You recognize this guy?
No. Who is he?
He is a local burglar that's been hitting high-end homes
all over the island for the last six months.
Looks dead.
He does look dead. That's very observant.
- Do you know his name? - Sorry.
In spite of what you may think,
I don't know every undesirable on the island.
But don't you have a computer that does?
Yes, we do. We're just doing this for redundancy.
You just snarked yourself out of a favor.
No. Please, listen. Okay. Just ignore this man,
and do this for me, would you, please, Kamekona? Come on.
Well, there is this brother down in North Shore. Owns a pawnshop.
Specializes in hot merch.
Okay, nice. Talk to him. See what he knows. Okay? Please.
Shoots.
What are you doing?
I'm knitting a sweater. What does it look like I'm doing?
- Where'd you get that thing, anyway? - Grace found it on the beach.
You've been playing with it ever since you got in the car. It can't be that hard.
Whoa. What are you doing? Why you gotta cheat?
- Cheat? - Yeah. Cheat.
Show me the rules. Show me where it says I can't.
You know what? This is just pathetic.
Give it to me.
- What are you gonna do with it? - Gonna open it.
- Oh, you think? - Give it to me.
Okay. Go ahead, Houdini. You need this?
No, I don't need that.
Very nice.
You know what you are?
Yeah. Smarter than you.
Nope. That's... That's not what I was gonna say.
McGARRETT: You're welcome.
What is that?
Where'd you say that beach cleanup was again?
Ki'i Dunes.
You know there's been tsunami debris washing up in that area recently, right?
The Japanese tsunami? That was what, three years ago now?
Little box. Big ocean.
I'd say it could've taken that long to get here.
KAMEKONA [SINGING]: Tiny bubble
In the wine
Makes me happy
Makes me feel fine
Tiny bubble
Make me warm all over
What are you doing?
"Tiny Bubbles." Written by Leon Pober.
Released by Don Ho in 1966.
- Ah. And butchered by you here in 2013. - I liked it.
"Butchered."
- This is for you, bro. - What is it?
Cost of doing business.
No. This is $300.
What do you...? $300 for a ukulele?
That's koa wood, bro.
And good information does not come cheap.
Especially during the holiday season.
You actually have a wallet.
- I got $80, all right. That's all I got. - Figures.
Here, you thief.
Two hundred twenty more.
North Shore brother hooked us up with the name of your dead thief.
Victor Dobbs.
Word is, worked strictly big scores.
Mostly diamonds and jewelry.
Victor Dobbs. Currently unemployed.
Last job,
he was a manager at the Wailana Electronics Supply Company.
With his background, that's how he could've learned
how to bypass a security system.
It didn't teach him how to dodge a bullet though, did it?
Looks like he lived alone.
[GLASS BREAKING]
Very ironic.
- Whoa. Sorry. Wrong house. - Hey. Show me your hands.
Behind your head. Interlock your fingers.
- Easy, man. - You're a little early, Santa.
We checked out that laptop that Danny found in our vic's place.
These right here were taken inside the homes that our burglar already hit.
And these over here, these were part of his wish list.
What, these are places Dobbs cased and was intending to rob?
CHIN HO: That's right and wrong.
These were places he was gonna hit, but he didn't do the casing.
That was all done by our guest, Tim Sapoli.
Got a hit off his prints.
He's got multiple priors. Did some time in Halawa.
He's currently employed as a cable-TV installer,
and it looks like he's our victim's partner.
How do we know that?
Because he's the one who e-mailed those photos to Victor Dobbs.
Let's cut to the chase,
and talk about what happened with Dobbs.
Thinking it was about money. Maybe he wasn't paying you enough.
Maybe you wanted to renegotiate
the terms of your deal with him, and it went south.
I'm guessing that's why you killed him.
Whoa.
- What? - What are you talking about?
Dobbs is dead?
What? You think I killed him?
We think you put a bullet in him, dumped the body,
then broke into his house and tried to steal the computer
- so, you wouldn't be linked to photos. - Listen. Okay?
The burglaries. Fine.
I helped pull those off.
But murder? No way.
I didn't kill Dobbs.
Gonna have to do better.
I haven't seen him for days.
We were supposed to meet up after the last score. Split the take.
- What score? - I don't know.
My job was to feed him the leads,
but he never told me which house he was gonna hit.
So, what? He just didn't show up for the split?
No. Never showed.
I kept calling him, but he wasn't answering.
I figured something must've happened.
I don't know, maybe he pulled the plug. Maybe he got arrested.
I never figured he'd get himself killed.
You really expect us to believe that?
Why would I want my partner dead?
Dobbs was my meal ticket.
DANNY: So, what you believe him?
First of all, Sapoli's got no alibi.
Second, we caught him breaking into the victim's house to destroy evidence.
So do I believe him? No. I don't believe him.
But until we get something solid on this guy,
all we got is a burglary charge.
LOU: Hey. My guys finished searching your suspect Sapoli's place.
They found a weapon. Glock nine mil.
That's the same caliber used to kill Dobbs.
Yeah. I'm running it against the slug that Max found
- but it's so degraded, it's a long shot. - Even if we get a match,
- we still have to put him at the scene. - If we could find it.
Given the latex found under Dobbs' fingernail,
he might have been killed right after his last burglary.
So if we can figure out where that was,
we can canvass the neighborhood,
maybe turn up a witness or a security cam
that puts Sapoli in the area around the time of death.
The problem is, there were no burglaries reported last night.
- Maybe homeowners were out of town. - Considering the skill of your burglar,
these people might not know they're victims yet.
Catherine, pull up Dobbs' wish list, all the houses he was targeting.
Okay. I can take it one step further and create a map.
McGARRETT: Okay. Good.
Chin, Cath, split up these addresses,
go door-to-door, see if any of these places were hit last night.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Got my guys too, if you need.
Thank you. Charlie, what do you got?
I reconstructed the bullet Max removed from your victim.
There was enough land and groove impressions
for me to determine that the round was fired by a Browning.
No, no. The gun HPD recovered from Sapoli's house was a Glock.
- Was a Glock. - Which could mean your suspect
shot the victim using a different gun.
Or he wasn't the killer.
I also processed the tarp that your victim's body was found in.
Contacted the manufacturer.
Production was discontinued six years ago.
So I'm trying to narrow down what retailers sold them.
As soon as I can put together a list of transaction records, I'll call you.
All right, mahalo.
- Just give me a minute, would you? - Yeah.
Charlie, I know you got plenty to do,
but my daughter found this on the beach.
Thought maybe you'd take a look at it.
CHARLIE: It's a puzzle box.
Got significant water damage.
Yeah. Like it's been in the water for a couple years.
I was thinking that maybe it washed up here from the tsunami in Japan.
It's quite possible.
If you get any time, please look at it. It means a lot to Grace.
And you.
Yes, and me.
Look,
a lot of people died in that tsunami, Charlie
and this little girl here,
I can only assume she meant a lot to somebody.
So I'd like to find out what happened to her. That's all.
I'll do my best.
CHIN HO [OVER RADIO]: Just checked the sixth house off my list.
Nothing yet. How you making out?
I've hit four. Got nothing.
Four? To my six?
Aren't you the one driving around in a muscle car?
Hey, you saw my list. My houses cover a wider area than yours.
Okay, then. What do you say the last person
who gets to the bottom of their list picks up the next tab at Side Street?
You're on.
- Hi. Can I help you? - Aloha.
- I'm Lieutenant Kelly. I'm with Five-0. - Gary Nathan. What can I do for you?
Mr. Nathan, we're investigating a rash of break-ins in the area.
We have reason to believe your home has been targeted.
Are you serious?
Did you have any cable or Internet work done here recently?
Yeah. A few weeks ago.
Had a new Wi-Fi system installed. What does that have to do with being robbed?
Our suspects are using service calls to access people's homes.
A lot of our victims don't even know that they've been burglarized
until days or weeks after the fact.
Mind if I take a look around? Lt'll only take a couple of minutes.
Oh, of course. Yeah. Whatever you need.
CHIN HO: Thanks. - Mm-hm.
Nice place.
- How long you been here? - Couple years.
- Before that? - Denver.
Vacationed in Hawaii as a kid,
so when the opportunity came up, I moved here.
- Denver, huh? You a skier? - Used to be.
If you ever get the urge, you ought to try Mauna Kea. It's on Hawai'i Island.
Actually snows there a couple times a year.
- Locals call it "pineapple powder." - I'll have to check that out.
Yeah.
Mind if I take a look at your wall safe?
How did you know I have a wall safe?
As part of the investigation,
we confiscated photos of the homes that were cased,
and as I mentioned earlier, yours was targeted.
Yes. You did say that. It's over here.
Here we go.
- Did the safe come with the house? - No. I had it installed.
- I'm gonna need you to open it up. - Excuse me?
I just need you to verify that everything's accounted for.
Uh...
I don't need to see what's inside. Go ahead.
Of course.
- All good. - Okay. You can close it back up.
GARY: What is it?
- It's tinfoil. - Probably a gum wrapper.
Home burglars use tinfoil to bypass security systems.
At least your prowler has uptown taste.
His targets are in affluent areas. Forget pawnshops.
- Merch is moved through a local fence. MAN: Gentlemen.
McGARRETT: Hey.
Commander McGarrett? Detective Williams?
This is Captain Grover. How can we help you?
- Special Agent Rebecca Conway, FBI. - How do you do?
HPD crime lab ran a search that flagged a case I'm working.
Specifically, the tarp and firearm information that was entered
linked to a series of murders that I'm covering.
Our suspect's killed 14 people that we know of.
Twelve on the mainland, two in Hawaii.
You're saying we have a serial killer on the Island?
Why are we hearing this now?
We've been after this guy for long time.
Didn't wanna scare him into the wind.
And you think we're chasing the same guy?
I'm not totally convinced, but that's why I'm here. To compare notes.
What do you got?
[COMPUTER CHIMES]
In every case, our suspect holds the victims for less than 24 hours.
All are bound and tortured.
The COD is always the same.
A single gunshot wound to the head
using ç-mm jacketed hollow-cavity bullets.
We think this is a mercy killing after the horrific abuse that he inflicts.
LOU: So, you're sure that the killer's a male?
CONWAY: The kind of atrocities associated with this killer
seem to be a function of masculine traits,
particularly the way he disposes of the bodies.
He's very practical.
He strips the victims of their clothing,
wraps them in a plastic tarp and dumps them in random locations.
The killer also likes to cut a single finger
from each victim's hand, which he keeps as a souvenir.
So he can relive the fantasy at a later date, right?
Right.
Now, what I can't figure out is that up until this point,
all the victims have been females in their 20s,
most likely targeted for those specific traits.
- Your victim is male. - And he's not missing a finger.
Right. But other than that, the MO fits.
I'm just not sure why my guy picked Mr. Dobbs.
Maybe your guy didn't pick Mr. Dobbs.
Maybe Mr. Dobbs picked him.
- What do you mean? - We know Dobbs was a burglar.
We also know that he pulled a job the night he was killed. Okay?
Now, what if he was in the middle of that job when this went down?
You're saying he broke into the killer's house.
So that means that he didn't choose to change his MO,
but your victim forced him to.
- What I'm saying is it's possible. - Do you have an address?
We have people in the field working on that.
Pull them back. Do it now.
If this guy knows he's cornered, he's gonna run,
or do what he does best, which is take another life.
LEILANl: Hey, Steve. - Leilani, you all right?
Yeah. I'm sorry. I've been trying to reach Chin.
We were supposed to meet a couple hours ago.
Have you heard from him?
[LINE RINGING]
He's not answering.
- If there's something wrong, tell me. - Hold on.
- Catherine, where are you? - Pearl City. Why? What's going on?
Have you heard from Chin?
No. Not recently. Why?
Okay. Okay. Listen to me very carefully.
I need you to stand down.
HPD's gonna hit the rest of the houses on that list.
Do me a favor. Call your people. Okay?
Tell them we've lost contact with one of ours.
We need all the help we can get.
CONWAY: Yeah.
[CHIN HO GRUNTING]
You know, there are cops all over this neighborhood.
They're gonna find me.
You know, I don't know what it is you think you're doing, Gary,
but as far as I'm concerned,
all you did was kill somebody who broke into your house.
You know, a jury might look at that as self-defense
but if you kill me, you're gonna die in prison.
You understand that, right?
Are you hearing me?
Think about it.
[CHIN HO GRUNTS AND GROANS]
You know nothing.
You see now?
You know nothing.
Do you see me?
Yes.
I see you, Gary.
I see you for who you really are.
You're above us all. You're a living deity.
You control who lives and who dies.
You're lying.
You think I'm a monster.
Why?
You're right.
I think you're a sick, pathetic little worm
who preys on innocent women for your degenerate needs.
[CHIN HO COUGHS]
My only question for you is, why women?
What did they do to you, Gary? Huh?
What do they represent?
Or maybe it's one in particular,
and you just take it out on total strangers.
What, your mommy hurt you?
Maybe she locked you up in a closet when you were a little kid.
Maybe you had a thing for her, huh?
Maybe, but she was always daddy's, right?
You're mine.
I control you.
Just like all the others.
People like you, you think you're so smart,
that you know what's inside me,
but you don't know, and you never will.
You can't possibly imagine what a great pleasure it is
to have you as my guest.
[DOORBELL RINGING]
WOMAN: Gary?
[CHUCKLES]
Shh.
Don't go anywhere.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
WOMAN: Gary?
I heard someone here needs soup.
Emily, hi. Didn't you get my message?
I ignored it, like any good girlfriend would when her man says he's sick.
Oxtail soup from Pho Bistro. Your favorite.
Oh, wow, you feel a little feverish to me.
Yeah. You know, I think you're right.
Last thing you need is to get sick, so maybe leave the soup and go.
Don't worry. If I get sick, then you'll just take care of me.
Look what you made me do.
[SIRENS WAILING]
OFFICER: Come on. Let's go.
Yeah. Grover. What do you got?
Really? All right. Thanks. Wait. Hang on, hang on.
That was the impound yard, with a car
that's registered to your murder victim Dobbs.
It was towed there from a no overnight parking spot in Kahala park.
There's a house on Dobbs' list two blocks from there, Moa Street.
All right. Forget this place.
Do me a favor. Call Agent Conway.
- Have her meet us on-site. CATHERINE: Got it.
[GROANS]
- Gary, what are you doing? - It's not you. It's me.
No, no.
[MUFFLED SCREAMING]
McGARRETT: Chin. Chin.
McGARRETT: Chin.
DANNY: You all right? - Yeah.
Thanks.
I wanted to be the one to pull the trigger.
Be glad you didn't.
It's over.
We should let those families know.
[CHATTERING AND SIRENS WAILING]
Hey.
You ever finish your sweep?
Almost. You?
I got a little distracted.
Okay. You know what. Let's call it a tie.
- A tie? - Yeah.
No. I say a tie goes to the guy who got stabbed in the shoulder.
- Don't you think? - Sympathy play. Okay.
- I'm sold. Dinner's on me. CHIN HO: All right.
- Oh, you buying? - Yeah.
Who invited you?
This Grinch act of yours, just stop it. You know you like me.
You just have difficulty expressing your feelings.
I don't know how he feels about you, but he definitely likes a free meal.
That I know.
What's that supposed to mean?
Well, I don't wanna put a fine point on it but you are cheap.
In three years, when was the last time you picked up a check?
Everything's money with you. Obsessed.
This specifically, yes, it's about money.
When the bill comes, what you do
is you have to reach in your pocket, take the lock off your wallet,
take out the green paper it's called money
and pay the bill. That's how it works.
Meal after next, I'll pay for everybody.
What do you mean? Why meal after next?
Catherine just clearly said she's paying for this meal. Right?
- Catherine. Where'd she go? - Putz.
She just said it, Danny. Catherine.
[CHATTERING]
Huh?
Yeah.
Weight down. Weight down. Slap it in. Come on. Let's go.
Oh!
Everybody goes completely nuts. The entire East Coast loses their mind.
Hey. Practice.
Please be careful. All right?
- What's up, buddy? Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas, Danny.
- What are you doing here? - I couldn't sleep.
Oh, what'd you find out?
I recovered a hair from inside the locket.
Extracted DNA and ran the profile against a database
the Japanese police set up to help identify victims of the tsunami.
What'd you find?
The little girl in the photo was 6-year-old Akiko Tanaka.
She lived with her family in Ishinomaki,
one of the towns hardest hit by the tsunami.
I contacted the girl's father.
The family's only survivor.
He was away on business when the quake hit.
Tried to get back in time but was forced back by the wave.
When the water receded, it was all gone.
His wife, daughter, house.
His whole life was wiped out in a matter of minutes.
You said you spoke to this guy. Where is he now?
[CHATTERING IN JAPANESE]
Excuse me, hi. Do you know where I can find a Mr. Tanaka?
[SPEAKS IN JAPANESE]
Okay. Thanks.
Come on.
Excuse me. You Mr. Tanaka?
[SPEAKS IN JAPANESE]
I think this belongs to you.
[SPEAKS IN JAPANESE]
DANNY: Welcome.
- Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas to you too.
Come on.
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