Elegy in a Rain Forest

[Myhlei Caroline Bixby]

William Watson gives his best Five-O performance in this near- perfect episode as the very nasty Marcus Lucien, who escapes while being transported to prison to serve a sentence for multiple rape/murders. He escapes into the mountains where Attorney-General Manicote's daughter Karen (Laurie Prange) just happens to be on a field trip where she has gotten lost and is under the care of a mute "nature boy" David (Edward Gallardo). Watson is totally psycho -- when he comes upon a hippie pad, he tells the two occupants, "Hey, you're under arrest," and laughs ... then becomes deadly serious, saying "Let's have a party." (He murders both of them.) He forces David and Karen to lead him across the mountains, leering at her and licking his lips as he tells her "We wouldn't want him [David] lookin' on when we get to know each other, would you?" When he confronts McGarrett, Lucien again flip-flops between lunatic babbling and seriousness. McGarrett wears a hat throughout much of this episode. Beau Vanden Ecker appears briefly as Lucien's karate-chopping associate Homer Womano. The only thing that bugs me about this show is Manicote suddenly whipping out a gun to shoot Lucien near the end. The guy is Attorney-General, for gosh sakes! (McGarrett manages to miraculously find his own gun which Lucien forced him to throw over a cliff.) Bruce Broughton's score is excellent and the photography, much of it hand-held, is well-suited to the mountainous locations.

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Jack's hat looked sooo cool. In the beginning he was wearing shorts (and may I say he looked hot!) and near the end, when he and Karen were on the moutain b4 he went after the crazy psycho, he looked like he was on top of her (bad boy, Steve

What does everyone think of this episode