Post by Myhlei Caroline Bixby on Apr 15, 2008 12:07:52 GMT -5
Episode 26; Season 2
Original air date: October 8, 1969
An outstanding show, with Wo Fat (Khigh Dhiegh) making his first appearance during the series itself. McGarrett defines Wo as a "Red Chinese agent in charge of the entire Pacific Asiatic theatre." Will Geer plays the cantankerous Dr. Harold Lochner, a genetics genius who Wo wants to kidnap and take back to China to become the boss of the "Institute for Genetic Engineering at Peking." The interaction between Lochner and Wo is delightful -- Lochner tells Wo: "I think you are a maniac." When he calls the evil agent "Mr. Fat", Wo flinches. Near the beginning of the show, McGarrett hustles Lochner's daughter Victoria (the attractive Sabrina Scharf) at the beach in Honolulu where they watch people surfing. There are a few questions, of course. If the weather institute at the beginning is so important, why aren't there guards outside as well as inside? Why is Five-O involved in the tsunami warning prior to any suspicion of sabotage? When Chin Ho captures Wo's first agent, why does Chin have to use a dime for the phone to call an ambulance? (Someone suggested this was because in Honolulu at that time you needed a dime to get a dial tone ... not very practical in an emergency! Chin dials five numbers, by the way.) Although the pharmacy where Lochner got his insulin was in the "Japanese section" of Honolulu, why does the proprietor speak Chinese? (The pharmacy is near the corner of Campbell (a real street in the area known as Kaimuki) and "Mohua" ... maybe they mean "Mooheau", which is in the same area as Campbell ... but it doesn't actually cross it.) And if Wo wants to find out the brand of insulin and where Lochner got it, why doesn't he just check the label of the insulin bottle that Lochner smashed? Oh well, never mind ... the final confrontation between McGarrett and Wo is a classic. McGarrett tells Wo, "Someone handed you the wrong fortune cookie." During the pursuit by various cop cars from the pharmacy to the docks, McGarrett plots the action on his transparent map. Almost all of the street names where McGarrett keeps directing the cars are bogus. Herman ("Duke") Wedemeyer appears very briefly in this show as a police dispatcher and bald-headed Bill Bigelow ("William F. Bigelow II" in the credits) plays Padway. Winston Char plays Ling Po, identified in the credits as "First Chinese," and Gary Ah Vah is "Second Chinese." Wright Esser, who was the nasty boat captain in the pilot, is Crighton. Danno's license number is 2H3524, the car driven from the pharmacy by Wo's second agent has plate number 6942. During one scene, Wo Fat smokes a cigar. The music by Shores is excellent.
www.mjq.net/fiveo/5-0log2.htm
Other comments:
I really liked this episode. It was fast moving and kept my interest. We even had a rare glimpse of McGarrett showing interest in a woman. The whole reason for Wo Fat's re-emergence was quite interesting: genetic engineering. This is a hot topic nowadays but back then the concept must have really been in its infancy.
As usual, I loved the interchanges between Steve and Wo Fat. When they first met each other at the warehouse, Wo Fat said: "I should have killed you a long time ago." Steve replied, "You tried." Wo Fat's response: "As ever, McGarrett, brief and to the point." They later talked about how their situation was like a game of chess that was, according to Wo Fat, at a stalemate. And, Wo Fat added: "In my game, stalemate is a dishonor."
Wo Fat failed in his mission -- another dishonor. Yet he was fortunate to be granted "safe passage" back to China because the US government instructed Steve to let Wo Fat go as a trade for Lochner. Steve seemed resigned to that fact and was committed to honor his word to Wo Fat. This was quite a contrast to the anger he usually displayed when he lost Wo Fat. Of course, little did he know how many times Wo Fat would slip away from him. Wo Fat's final words were: "We will meet again, McGarrett. But next time the balance of power will be mine."
From: Max Brand
Date: 16 Dec 2002, at 18:20:25
I got to see that episode a few times and the man that played the professor was Will Greer. In every show Will's involved in He always plays a wise person that tells it like it is. This was Wo Fat's second appearance on the show and once again he foiled Steve McGarett. It would be 11 years before McGarett would finally put Wo Fat away which perhaps should've happen five years before but doing their encounter Wo Fat would always fine away out of McGarett's cluches. Someone mentioned that Steve was engaged to two women but they never tied the knot, I would like to see Steve and Colleen McMurphy as a couple. Bot have Irish blood in them.
From: Melissa Jones
Date: 30 Apr 1999, at 15:18:08
I thought one of the best lines in this episode was when Professor Lochner said, "May his [McGarrett's] dominant genes replicate!" I agree that it would be wonderful if Steve had children who were as intelligent, kind, brave, and attractive as he is. I don't see any chance of that happening, though. I have always believed that Steve is celibate. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think that Steve would ever "do it" outside of marriage. Steve has had two broken engagements (Kathy Wallis and Margo Cooper), so I don't think there's any hope of his ever getting married. I liked the scene where Steve took Professor Lochner's daughter to the beach, and when he explained to her what a tidal wave was. I felt sorry for Steve when Wo Fat got away from him.
From: Kelly A. Kostecki
Date: 11 Feb 2000, at 22:20:22
Rack Melissa,
She is right about McGarrett. I don't think nice Irish cop like him would ever had relationship outside marriage. I like the professor line too "May McGarrett's genes replicate." Because if McGarrett had children you know they be intellgent, brave, and attractive like he is. But that was long-shot. You should reject that theory.
From: kailua Oamilda
Date: 6 Mar 2000, at 01:56:10
In this episode, it would have been very easy for McGarrett or Wo Fat for that matter, to trick the other regarding the professor's well being for Wo Fat's freedom. However, the fact that each party honored the deal is a testament to the respect each had for the other's savy, in this case, McGarrett's passion for crime-fighting and Wo Fat's ominous tallents of destruction, pain and mayhem. Aloha A Hui Hou (Goodbye Until We Meet Again), The Great Kailua
From: B. Nickerson
Date: 7 May 2000, at 18:24:31
In every Hawaii 5-0 I notice how carelessly all the show regulars hold and use their guns, which, I think, conveys a sense of "I can handle my gun like this because I know it's not real" to me. In this episode in particular, when Kono and Danny are chasing the guy Wo Fat sent to pick up insulin for Dr Lochner,they both fire closely over and around each other across a lawn to shoot him before he escapes. So closely did they fire over and around each other, it made me gasp at the idea of what would have occurred with real bullets. Danny fired really close to Kono's head which might have been hazardous with anything else but blanks. A funny point is that when Danny pulled out his handcuffs to arrest "the Beast" at the end, it seems they weren't in a cuff-case, but were looped over his pants-waistband, so one cuff was inside his pants, so he could whip them out quick and meet his que. But wasn't that comfy?
From: Amir Ashraf
Date: 13 Mar 2001, at 01:50:09
This was my favorite episode, but when I saw the end of this show, I was mad! Come on, McGarrett should of never let Wo Fat escaped! "I gave you my word" so what, can't McGarrett lie for a change? Wo Fat lied to everybody when he made up a Tsunami warning, why can't he also tell a lie? And McGarrett should of first told Wo Fat, "where's Lochner", I know Wo Fat kept changing the subject, but still. I think all those people who died by Wo Fat's wrath was McGarrett's fault because, he had Wo Fat.
www.ministryofpeace.com/cgi-bin/h5o/comments.cgi?epnum=26
Original air date: October 8, 1969
An outstanding show, with Wo Fat (Khigh Dhiegh) making his first appearance during the series itself. McGarrett defines Wo as a "Red Chinese agent in charge of the entire Pacific Asiatic theatre." Will Geer plays the cantankerous Dr. Harold Lochner, a genetics genius who Wo wants to kidnap and take back to China to become the boss of the "Institute for Genetic Engineering at Peking." The interaction between Lochner and Wo is delightful -- Lochner tells Wo: "I think you are a maniac." When he calls the evil agent "Mr. Fat", Wo flinches. Near the beginning of the show, McGarrett hustles Lochner's daughter Victoria (the attractive Sabrina Scharf) at the beach in Honolulu where they watch people surfing. There are a few questions, of course. If the weather institute at the beginning is so important, why aren't there guards outside as well as inside? Why is Five-O involved in the tsunami warning prior to any suspicion of sabotage? When Chin Ho captures Wo's first agent, why does Chin have to use a dime for the phone to call an ambulance? (Someone suggested this was because in Honolulu at that time you needed a dime to get a dial tone ... not very practical in an emergency! Chin dials five numbers, by the way.) Although the pharmacy where Lochner got his insulin was in the "Japanese section" of Honolulu, why does the proprietor speak Chinese? (The pharmacy is near the corner of Campbell (a real street in the area known as Kaimuki) and "Mohua" ... maybe they mean "Mooheau", which is in the same area as Campbell ... but it doesn't actually cross it.) And if Wo wants to find out the brand of insulin and where Lochner got it, why doesn't he just check the label of the insulin bottle that Lochner smashed? Oh well, never mind ... the final confrontation between McGarrett and Wo is a classic. McGarrett tells Wo, "Someone handed you the wrong fortune cookie." During the pursuit by various cop cars from the pharmacy to the docks, McGarrett plots the action on his transparent map. Almost all of the street names where McGarrett keeps directing the cars are bogus. Herman ("Duke") Wedemeyer appears very briefly in this show as a police dispatcher and bald-headed Bill Bigelow ("William F. Bigelow II" in the credits) plays Padway. Winston Char plays Ling Po, identified in the credits as "First Chinese," and Gary Ah Vah is "Second Chinese." Wright Esser, who was the nasty boat captain in the pilot, is Crighton. Danno's license number is 2H3524, the car driven from the pharmacy by Wo's second agent has plate number 6942. During one scene, Wo Fat smokes a cigar. The music by Shores is excellent.
www.mjq.net/fiveo/5-0log2.htm
Other comments:
I really liked this episode. It was fast moving and kept my interest. We even had a rare glimpse of McGarrett showing interest in a woman. The whole reason for Wo Fat's re-emergence was quite interesting: genetic engineering. This is a hot topic nowadays but back then the concept must have really been in its infancy.
As usual, I loved the interchanges between Steve and Wo Fat. When they first met each other at the warehouse, Wo Fat said: "I should have killed you a long time ago." Steve replied, "You tried." Wo Fat's response: "As ever, McGarrett, brief and to the point." They later talked about how their situation was like a game of chess that was, according to Wo Fat, at a stalemate. And, Wo Fat added: "In my game, stalemate is a dishonor."
Wo Fat failed in his mission -- another dishonor. Yet he was fortunate to be granted "safe passage" back to China because the US government instructed Steve to let Wo Fat go as a trade for Lochner. Steve seemed resigned to that fact and was committed to honor his word to Wo Fat. This was quite a contrast to the anger he usually displayed when he lost Wo Fat. Of course, little did he know how many times Wo Fat would slip away from him. Wo Fat's final words were: "We will meet again, McGarrett. But next time the balance of power will be mine."
From: Max Brand
Date: 16 Dec 2002, at 18:20:25
I got to see that episode a few times and the man that played the professor was Will Greer. In every show Will's involved in He always plays a wise person that tells it like it is. This was Wo Fat's second appearance on the show and once again he foiled Steve McGarett. It would be 11 years before McGarett would finally put Wo Fat away which perhaps should've happen five years before but doing their encounter Wo Fat would always fine away out of McGarett's cluches. Someone mentioned that Steve was engaged to two women but they never tied the knot, I would like to see Steve and Colleen McMurphy as a couple. Bot have Irish blood in them.
From: Melissa Jones
Date: 30 Apr 1999, at 15:18:08
I thought one of the best lines in this episode was when Professor Lochner said, "May his [McGarrett's] dominant genes replicate!" I agree that it would be wonderful if Steve had children who were as intelligent, kind, brave, and attractive as he is. I don't see any chance of that happening, though. I have always believed that Steve is celibate. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think that Steve would ever "do it" outside of marriage. Steve has had two broken engagements (Kathy Wallis and Margo Cooper), so I don't think there's any hope of his ever getting married. I liked the scene where Steve took Professor Lochner's daughter to the beach, and when he explained to her what a tidal wave was. I felt sorry for Steve when Wo Fat got away from him.
From: Kelly A. Kostecki
Date: 11 Feb 2000, at 22:20:22
Rack Melissa,
She is right about McGarrett. I don't think nice Irish cop like him would ever had relationship outside marriage. I like the professor line too "May McGarrett's genes replicate." Because if McGarrett had children you know they be intellgent, brave, and attractive like he is. But that was long-shot. You should reject that theory.
From: kailua Oamilda
Date: 6 Mar 2000, at 01:56:10
In this episode, it would have been very easy for McGarrett or Wo Fat for that matter, to trick the other regarding the professor's well being for Wo Fat's freedom. However, the fact that each party honored the deal is a testament to the respect each had for the other's savy, in this case, McGarrett's passion for crime-fighting and Wo Fat's ominous tallents of destruction, pain and mayhem. Aloha A Hui Hou (Goodbye Until We Meet Again), The Great Kailua
From: B. Nickerson
Date: 7 May 2000, at 18:24:31
In every Hawaii 5-0 I notice how carelessly all the show regulars hold and use their guns, which, I think, conveys a sense of "I can handle my gun like this because I know it's not real" to me. In this episode in particular, when Kono and Danny are chasing the guy Wo Fat sent to pick up insulin for Dr Lochner,they both fire closely over and around each other across a lawn to shoot him before he escapes. So closely did they fire over and around each other, it made me gasp at the idea of what would have occurred with real bullets. Danny fired really close to Kono's head which might have been hazardous with anything else but blanks. A funny point is that when Danny pulled out his handcuffs to arrest "the Beast" at the end, it seems they weren't in a cuff-case, but were looped over his pants-waistband, so one cuff was inside his pants, so he could whip them out quick and meet his que. But wasn't that comfy?
From: Amir Ashraf
Date: 13 Mar 2001, at 01:50:09
This was my favorite episode, but when I saw the end of this show, I was mad! Come on, McGarrett should of never let Wo Fat escaped! "I gave you my word" so what, can't McGarrett lie for a change? Wo Fat lied to everybody when he made up a Tsunami warning, why can't he also tell a lie? And McGarrett should of first told Wo Fat, "where's Lochner", I know Wo Fat kept changing the subject, but still. I think all those people who died by Wo Fat's wrath was McGarrett's fault because, he had Wo Fat.
www.ministryofpeace.com/cgi-bin/h5o/comments.cgi?epnum=26
