Hawaii Five-0 Recap & Review: The One With Mrs. Fat

We start out with previouslies of who Wo Fat was to Steve and then a bit about Adam's descent into the Yakuza world. Oh Adam. *shakes head*

Then we start off with Adam walking into HQ where Duke and Steve are waiting for him. Uh oh. They show him the watch and in case he's going to deny that it's his, they mention that Kono inscribed the back. (Well, how interesting that he wears something Kono gave to him to commit crimes.) Steve is telling Adam they found the watch at a robbery crime scene from a Filipino gang beefing with the Yakuza. Adam just looks sort of guilty, then takes off his badge and gun and puts it on Steve's desk. He says he's sorry, then walks out. Steve follows, but Adam ignores him until Steve shouts, "I'm talking to you!" Then Adam turns around. Steve points out that he's had Adam's back from day one with the FBI who wanted him for murder and the whole mess with Noriko, so show him the courtesy and tell him what's going on. Adam can only say that Steve deserves the truth, but he can't give him that. Then he walks away. Sigh. Poor dumb Adam.

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When we come back we're in Steve's office and he's telling Danny what happened with Adam. Danny is trying to find excuses for why Adam would do that since usually he comes to them when he's in trouble. (I bet Kono would dispute that claim!) Anyway, Danny wants to talk to Adam himself and they'll just keep the mess to themselves for the time being. Meanwhile, Steve sees Danny's bags on the floor and apparently Danny has a sewage backup at his place. So, the mold wasn't real, but the sewage issue is. Danny's bonsai tree that he uses for therapeutic purposes is also among the baggage and Steve is glad he has a hobby that doesn't involve annoying him. Ha! Steve says Danny can stay at his house for a couple of weeks, but Danny says it will be more like six to eight. Steve just looks resigned, says whatever, and takes a phone call. Poor Steve. It's like he's running a hostel.

On to the COW! Tani and Lou are on a beach where a helicopter was in the middle of a scenic flyover, when it exploded and all six passengers and the pilot were killed. It's weird because the chopper was inspected a week ago and everything was fine, and the in flight recording doesn't show any alarm or indication that pilot knew there was something wrong. Then, Junior finds a piece of the chopper with a hole in it and it was hit by a rocket launcher. Shot right out of the sky!

Cut to Tamiko who is telling her aunt about her father's death the night before. Adam is comforting her and what makes his performance so believable for me is all his little touches and facial expressions that really make me believe he cares for her. He reminds her she was kidnapped yesterday, too and is so tender with her! She's glad he's there, but thinks it's odd because it won't be long before the people he works with find out her father's gone. Adam's all, um, about that . . . I spoke to Steve and there's something you should know. (Like, I'm betraying all my friends for you? Hmm...)

Lou gets MANPADs explained to him by Junior (They're Man Portable Air Defense Systems) and that's what hit the chopper. Luckily the cove they're in had a camera on the beach and they find footage of the helicopter being hit. The shot came from a nearby ridge at 8:42 a.m. So they have seven dead people with nothing in common. But one of the passengers, Ellison Jones, was a successful hedge fund manager who withdrew $50,000 as soon as he landed on Oahu. He is unmarried and alone, but booked two hotel rooms, oddly. Junior calls in to say he found the launcher and has the serial number, so now they can reach out to the DOD to trace it. Danny and Tani are heading over to hotel to find out why Ellison needed two rooms.

At the airport, an older woman gets out of a taxi and goes up a stairway to her room. When she's in the bathroom, she takes off her face makeup, latex mask, and wig, and she's really a younger woman. She burns her mask and creepily watches it. Dun, dun, dun.

Well, it's Masuda's funeral already (they pulled that together so fast!) and Tamiko is hugging the mourners. Kenji approaches her to tell her he's sorry, but the man who killed her father didn't make it out of the jungle that night, so hey, maybe that will bring some comfort. Adam is watching Kenji with an odd look on his face and follows him outside. (He looks might fine in his suit, too) Adam tells Kenji that was quite a performance, but Kenji is annoyed and comes back with, that wasn't a performance, I loved Masuda! But Adam once again accuses him of killing Masuda. Oh, and the leverage Kenji had on him is gone since he quite Five-0, so there! Only Kenji says, that leaves him more exposed since Five-0 are going to look into Masuda's final hours and what if they learn Adam brought a bound and gagged man to the house who never left? And maybe his men will say Adam pulled the trigger. Poor dumb Adam shouldn't have any vulnerabilities but he has many and Kenji turns to look at Tamiko. (I guess he learned nothing from his years with Kono and the same sort of problems with Five-0 and Yakuza business.) 

Danny gets to look at the dumpy room Ellison had and uses his "boomer" lingo to describe it as a boiler room. Tani gets to look at the penthouse suit full of women's clothing. Someone comes in and she pulls her gun. They question her and she was Ellison's vendame, cash master, or money mistress. Danny looks confused so she demonstrates by burning the $20 bill he gave her. Ha! Some rich men who never hear the word "no" enjoy being controlled where it hurts the most. She is shocked to find out Ellison was killed on the helicopter tour because she was the one who was supposed to be on it. She'd booked a tour three days ago, but the pilot cancelled so he could get his helicopter's mechanical issues fixed and when she got around to re-booking, today was the only day available and she was busy so Ellison took it. (Although earlier, they do say Ellison booked the tour for himself, but whatever.) Tani has a little sidebar with Danny that the helo was inspected and cleared a week ago so someone is lying. They call Lou to have him look closer at the pilot, but Lou is already way ahead of them. HPD went over to the guy's house and he had a security system, a German shepherd, padlocks, and a stockpile of ammo that he'd recently acquired. So he probably knew the attack was coming, but he didn't know how it would go down. (All that preparation for nothing!)

Back to the Chatting Table. There weren't any fingerprints on the MANPAD, but the DOD traced the rocket. It was part of a larger shipment stolen from a Soviet manufacturer in Russia years ago. Investigators never made any arrests, but believed it ended up  in the hands of a well known arms trader Wo Fat. (Pause for effect.) Steve is downplaying it, that the weapon could have changed hands multiple times and it doesn't necessarily mean anything. (Uh huh.) Well, they looked into Jordan the pilot. He's been a pilot for thirty-five years and has no criminal record, then all of the sudden he gets paranoid and beefs up security three days ago---the same time he cancelled his entire day of tours! And that cancellation cost him $6500 so he must have had a better offer! Tani is going to see if he had a transponder in the chopper that they can pull flight records from and see where he went three days ago, since that's probably the reason he was blown out of the sky.

We get two car scenes. First, Junior is pumping gas and the young lady who was disguised as an old one earlier, chats him up about his car and taking care of it because he'll miss it one day. She's with a large man with braids in his hair and Junior watches them leave. We also get a scene of Adam paying cash for some guy to fix all the bullets in his car and not do any paperwork on it. He gets a call from Danny which he ignores.

Tani finds the transponder records and shows Steve and Danny the route PilotJordan took. He turned off the transponder for nine minutes while he flew over a no-fly zone, a protected habitat for Nene geese, before he turned it back on and returned to the heli-port so Steve and Danny are going to borrow a helo and go see what's what! Danny is trying to call Adam from the helicopter and gives up. He gets out some binoculars and is looking around wondering if Steve thinks Adam lost his mind and started killing gangsters. Steve calmly says with Adam's Yakuza ties, it's possible something happened to pull him back in. (He read the situation like a book!) Danny sees a body on the ground by an estate so they land and go in, guns drawn. All the security people are dead, probably killed last night since the bodies are in rigor. None of them even pulled their weapon! The guys find security footage of an empty weapons room that once held full gun racks, MANPADs and ordnance. Enough firepower to start a war! Uh oh.

Adam is trying to comfort Tamiko who is rambling on about how she didn't think she could feel more pain after losing her fiance on her wedding day. Adam assures her it's different with a parent because they're the first ones to know us and love us and no matter our differences, it's like losing a safety net that was always there. She tells him she didn't have differences with her dad, she just hated his way of life. (That's a pretty big difference, but whatever.) She says that when Kenji mentioned the comfort he got from vengeance, she wanted to be Yakuza, because wouldn't that be easier? And she did feel better knowing the man who killed her father was dead. Adam looks really uneasy and asks her how well she knows her father's men. (Is he going to challenge Kenji? Hmm...)

The dead security team is being zipped into body bags and the ATF is on its way to the estate. Tani found a chain link fence cut from top to bottom and Steve is impressed that from infil to exfil this was an extremely well orchestrated op. Not one shot was fired in defense and no alarms raised. They used PilotJordan to recon the grounds, get the layout of terrain, and see how many security personnel there were and their locations. Then PilotJordan realized what he was involved in and beefed up security since that crew was probably going to come after him. But it wasn't enough! Poor PilotJordan. The homeowner was John Tang, a known associate of Wo Fat's, and a guy the ATF couldn't catch, but they did know he inherited Wo Fat's arsenal. Danny shows Steve some footage of men loading up the crates (I guess they left the extras in the basement to be found?) And one guy takes off his mask for a smoke and it's the Braids Guy from the gas station! Junior recognizes him and now they really want to know who he is.

Adam goes to get a Japanese whisky and gets a gun in his bag, too. (He always looks so guilty when he does stuff like that!) He pays with a wad of cash. Back to the gas station footage, where Junior is telling them he talked abut cars with the lady, that's it! Interpol doesn't have anything on Braids, but the lady has an Interpol red notice. Her name is Diyu Mei who escaped a Chinese prison while serving time for trafficking illegal weapons and her file is classified. So why did she want to talk to Junior? We cut to Diyu Mei in a warehouse where Braids tells her their Interpol friend says that Five-0 requested her records. So there's no room for error from now on!

Steve is doing the day-to-day stuff bringing the governor up to speed (who isn't thrilled about the situation) Interpol hasn't sent the file, but they have a BOLO out. And if they weren't busy enough, Duke shows up to tell them that Masuda's dead of a supposed stroke AND Adam was seen coming and going from the house. Danny pipes up that Adam's girlfriends is Masuda's daughter, so that's explainable. And maybe after she lost her father, she got nervous since their job is dangerous and asked Adam to quit! Problem solved. But why didn't he just tell them the old man is dead?

Adam is drinking the whisky he bought, tell Tamiko how he once told her father that he'd arrest him someday and Masuda laughed and said he wasn't fooling him wearing that badge, that Adam couldn't escape where he came from and who he is. And he was right! Tamiko asks him if he's sure he wants to do this and Adam lifts his glass to Masuda's picture, takes a drink and stands up when a guy comes to get him. "They're" ready for him. They walk slowly down a hallway and Adam goes into a room and sits at the head of a table while Tamiko watches anxiously.

Interpol finally gives up the file and Diyu Mei had four aliases and one of them has an address from Florida that connects to a storage building on the island . . . where you could store weapons! They all head over there with air support and the whole works. They pull up and go in, but it's empty. Steve sees a bunch of cameras and comments on the amount of surveillance for an empty warehouse, but now she knows they're on to her. Which is why she kept her name on the building and wanted Junior to see her face. She's been one step ahead of them the whole time! She's one smart lady.

Well, Diyu Mei has a buyer who comes in with the money and she demonstrates the M4 for him. It can fire 950 rounds a minute and so she starts shooting. She kills everyone but one guy who isn't quite dead. She tells him she'll call an ambulance for him if he does her a favor. When they arrive, tell the policeman there's a message for Steve McGarrett. "My name is Diyu Mei and he may not know me, but he'll be familiar with my late husband, Wo Fat. Tell him I look forward to meeting him soon." And then she walks away.

I'm really excited to see where this storyline goes! Is she as ruthless as Wo Fat? Will she have any more answers about Steve's past? And what is Adam planning? To take over the Yakuza? We'll have to wait until Jan. 3rd to find out!

Did you watch? What did you think?