'Hawaii Five-O' Season Three, Episode 21: “Imi Loko Ka ‘Uhane (Seek Within One’s Soul)” Recap

The episode began with Savannah Walker’s show and her introduction of the assignment to follow the elite task force of Five-O.

She was recanting her time with Five-O through video to a live audience.

She described this as the “ultimate ride-along,” and cited the Governor’s permission for the ride.

The show began with an introduction to the “Big Kahuna,” Lt. Commander Steve McGarrett, who did not feel comfortable talking on camera.

Savannah moved along to Det. Danny Williams, who curtly told her he did not agree with the entire ride-along. He then walked away.

When Savannah stopped Chin, he chatted a bit, then revealed to her that he’d be a jazz trumpeter if he weren’t a cop.

McGarrett exited his office with a call to a crime scene, and the team, as they were leaving, asked Savannah and crew to sign a personal safety waiver and call their insurance agent for full coverage.

The crime scene consisted of a dead, mutilated body that had been killed elsewhere.

When Dr. Max Bergman arrived, he revealed to Savannah that he was a huge fan of hers. He allowed her directly onto the crime scene, to which McGarrett had just banned her.

Savannah later stopped a police officer as he left the scene. As she was interviewing him, McGarrett recognized it to be Wo Fat.

The team gave chase on foot as Wo Fat escaped by car in a rampage of bullets.

Chin later told Savannah in an interview back at the office that Wo Fat was a global terrorist. He gave her a bit of background between McGarrett and Wo Fat and between himself, Wo Fat and Malia.

In an interview with Kono, Savannah learned that Five-O used technology to solve crimes.

With this technology, and the enhancement of Savannah’s crime scene footage, the Five-O team was able to deduct that Wo Fat did not kill the victim.

McGarrett and Danny then visited Max and learned there was no way to identify the victim via fingerprints (because he had no hands) nor DNA (because he was not in the missing persons database).

Max told the two that skin had been removed from the victim’s arm. This was a tattoo that would most likely have been a way to identify him.

Later, through Fong’s analysis of some shotgun pellet evidence, Kono told McGarrett and Danny that the victim was tied to an organized crime unit out of Kansas City, that his name was Dimitri, and that when he arrived on the island, he had checked into an area hotel.

The team also learned that, in addition to Wo Fat, the Russian mob was after the victim.

Five-O arrived at the hotel, and, after Savannah spotted Dimitri, McGarrett gave chase and ended up jumping over a hotel room balcony, into the pool.

Back at headquarters, Chin pulled McGarrett from interrogation to tell him Dimitri was not the killer. He was on the North Shore when the murder took place.

From surveillance photos in Dimitri’s hotel room, Five-O was able to identify the victim as Roger Carson. They tracked him to an empty apartment, then discovered he and a woman had checked into an airport hotel.

At the hotel, the woman, Kammie Leeds, told the team that they moved into the hotel when the apartment was robbed.

The team next visited a tattoo artist, who identified Wo Fat as the cop who came to him for a description of Carson’s custom tattoo. From a camera on site, McGarrett and team also got an image of the tattoo. It appeared to be an ancient goddess that was associated with the Ka’a’awa Valley. It turned out to be a map of sorts.

McGarrett then got a call from Secret Service Agent Kershaw, who told him this was a matter of National Security.

Carson’s real name was Gary Ray Percy, and he’d previously worked at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where he used a 3-D printer to replicate master plates for the $100 bill.

When the team re-visited Percy’s girlfriend, she said she had given her brother, Tony, information about the plates.

When the team narrowed the map image to an area of the Valley, through Catherine, they went in on four-wheelers, Savannah in tow.

Kono found Tony’s body, but no plates were to be seen.

Just as they spotted fresh footprints, a helicopter was heard overhead, with Wo Fat on board.

The team fired relentlessly at the helicopter, bringing it down, along with its pilot.

Wo Fat was seriously injured and taken to the hospital.

The episode ended with a close-up on McGarrett as he watched Wo Fat lying in a hospital bed, heavily bandaged.