BOOB TUBE REVIEW: Hawaii Five-O "Ho'ohuli Na'au" (Season 1, Episode 22)

SOURCE:  CBS

I am getting caught up with my Hawaii Five-O write-ups just in the nick of time as another new episode airs tonight.  ARGH!  Completing these reviews are tougher than originally thought, but I am glad that I am doing it.  In this episode, the famous "Jesse's Girl" singer, Rick Springfield makes a cameo appearance as a famous photographer and my favorite local bruddah, Kamakona is back!

The Five-O team is on the case when the world-famous photographer, Renny Sinclair (Rick Springfield) is killed in a trailer explosion while on a swimsuit photo shoot in Hawaii.  At first it seems like Renny's womanizing past might have gotten him killed when his current girlfriend (who is pregnant with his child), accuses his old girlfriend (star model on the shoot) of still having feelings and killing him in a jealous rage.  However, the team also suspects Renny's huge gambling debts could have led to his death.  In order to track down his bookie, McGarrett and Danno ask for Kamekona's assistance after seeing his name on the list of gamblers calling in their debts to the same phone number that Renny used.  After convincing Kamekona to place a call to lure the henchmen to Kamekona's shave ice stand, Kamekona and Danno deliver the best lines of the episode:

Kamekona:  "Lesson learned.  If I live through this, I never going to gamble again."
Danno:  "Yeah, right."
Kamekona:  "How much you like bet?"

The team busts into Derek Marcum's gambling house, but Marcum reminds them that he'll make bail in a matter of hours, so the team's efforts are pretty futile.  Besides, the team has nothing on him that they can pin successfully in court.

Meanwhile, Kono makes a new (and long lost) connection with Honolulu crime lab analyst, Charlie Fong.  The two crome solvers put together their technology know-how to figure out how Renny's trailer exploded.  They identify that the explosion was caused by a special lighter.

Finally, the team discovers that Renny recently changed his will, leaving a large sum of money to a woman unknown to the investigation.  Turns out, in the photographer’s earlier years, he got a model pregnant and he left money to the child he never wanted.  Unfortunately, that daughter didn’t know his change of heart and got a job as a PA on the set of his shoot and killed him.

Also, Chin Ho tells the police board that his Uncle Keako is lying about the money and that he stole it.  When they say “prove it” by showing them the money, Chin Ho goes to borrow the money from Marcum.

Next episode, as the team gets closer to Wo Fat, Danno collapses.