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I came back after I got the call from Billy the other night. We thought maybe

you could tell us where we could find him.

Billy, he just ran off. We got nothing to worry about. It's as long as we all

do what we swore to.

Let's keep our mouths shut. We're all in this together. So one gets down, and all

the rest are gonna come right down with him.

Hold it!

So.

Harry Akua.

As we all know, cockfighting is the single largest attraction for gamblers

on the island.

Harry knows it, too.

It's made him a rich man.

Okay, Chin, lights, please.

All are heavyweights, gentlemen.

Make no mistakes about it. They're not going to fold, not without our help.

Just bear in mind... that they are the force behind every major gambling

operation on the island, not only here in Honolulu, but in Pearl City, Waipahu,

Kaneohe, and Nanakuli.

Donald?

For the past six months, we've been conducting an intensive investigation

into all phases of their operation.

We finally got a breakthrough.

Can you tie the big three together?

We think we can.

According to our information, after the money is laundered, it's siphoned back

here to the three men you saw on the screen and divided equally.

Making them partners.

What do we do next, Steve?

We hit every back room on this island in simultaneous raids. Not only do I want

those three fat cats, but I want every dealer, runner, and enforcer on that

payroll. When do we hit them?

Well, the drops are made every Thursday between 3 and 6 p.m. That's when we go.

Until that time, I want a two-man surveillance team at every location

around the clock.

Any questions, gentlemen?

Okay, that's it.

Yes, Malia?

Mr. McGarrett, Miss Susan Wanani has been waiting to see you.

Oh, send her in, please.

Hello, Susan. Hello, Mr. McGarrett.

What a nice surprise. How are you? I'm okay.

How are things at Berkeley? Fine. I'm in the graduate school now, and I think I'm

going to make the dean's list. Oh, congratulations.

Come on in.

Isn't this the middle of a semester?

If you're asking why I'm here, I have a reason.

Would you like to sit down and tell me about it?

Do you remember my brother, Billy?

Sure, sure. Last time I saw him, he was working on the Waialua Ranch over on the

big island.

He was up until about six months ago.

Then he joined the rodeo to tour the islands.

He wrote me in his letters that he was doing very well.

A saddle bronc rider.

He... Something happen to Billy, Susan?

I don't know.

He phoned me at school night before last.

He said he had something very important he had to tell me.

What was it?

He didn't get a chance to say.

There were voices and a cry.

I think it was from Billy.

And then the phone went dead.

Where was the call placed from? Do you know?

From the rodeo grounds at Waimanalo.

I had the police check there.

What did the police say?

They said that Billy ran away and that nobody wanted to talk about it.

I can't really say why.

I just know that something is wrong.

Well, Susan, I'll look into it myself.

So, uh, if you'll just wait a few minutes, I've got something I have to

take care of.

I'm sure there's some simple explanation.

We'll drive up to Waimanau and take a look.

Donald, want to come in a minute?

That name Waianani rings a bell.

I've known that girl since she was a little kid.

Her father was Captain Paul Waianani, HPD, remember?

Yeah, killed in the line of duty, armed robbery attempt about three years ago.

You received two posthumous awards for valor.

Donald, I wish you'd get into those warrants with, uh, Manicott, if there's

any question. Just, uh, call me about them. And, uh, Kepchin and Duke.

Put these names through the computer.

If there are any mainland connections, I want to know about them.

Put a drive up to Waimanalo.

Seems that Susan is missing a brother.

That'll be two bucks a head, sonny.

Lady asked you a question, cowboy.

She'd appreciate an answer.

Thing is, she's asking the wrong man.

Try Lynn Jessup.

Big Jim won this event last week over at Maui.

Get a good hold on him now, Jim.

Steady now.

Steady. There they come.

Ride him, cowboy.

Good riding there, Big Jim.

Big Jim on Thunderbolt. Excuse me, Mr.

Jessup?

Hi, I'm Billy Wainani's sister.

I'm trying to find him.

I didn't know Billy had a sister.

I'm just trying to find him.

I can't say where he is. He helped me cut out of here a couple of days back.

Did he say where he was going?

Nope. He must have said something.

Well, that could be, but it wasn't to me.

Did he have any friends with the rodeo who he might have told where he was

headed?

Friends?

You don't know Billy too well. See, he was a little wild and hot-headed, and he

didn't have very many friends.

In his letter, Billy spoke of a Calvin.

He said that sometimes they bunked together when the rodeo went out of

town. Yeah, that'd be Calvin Lyle.

I could save you a lot of trouble, though.

I already talked to Calvin, and he don't know where Billy is either.

I'd like to talk to him anyway.

Where would we find him?

It's a waste of time.

You might try over there by the barn.

Thank you.

Calvin, I'm Susan Wanani.

I'm Garrett, Hawaii 5-0.

I see.

I thought you were off at school in California.

I came back after I got the call from Billy the other night.

He sounded like he was in some kind of trouble.

We thought maybe you could tell us where we could find him.

No, I don't know.

Billy, he just ran off.

Well, didn't he say anything to you? I mean, where he was going?

Nope.

He just took off.

I gotta go now.

Come on.

He was lying, wasn't he?

About Billy going away.

I don't know.

But I do know he was uptight about something.

They all are.

Something is very wrong.

Billy and Calvin were good friends. Why would Calvin lie?

I don't have the answer, Susan.

After I drop you off, I hope to find some for you.

Any progress?

Reports are starting to come in from the HPD surveillance team.

Heavy traffic all morning. A lot of old, familiar faces.

Yeah. But are there any names to match the faces?

HPD's running a check on all license numbers, both coming and going.

And they're confirming the names of the registered owners with the automobile

registration department.

What about the front organizations?

In the computer, Steve.

I don't... I just came back from Warmanella with Susan.

Something very strange going on at the rodeo grounds out there.

Having to do with her missing brother?

Yeah. He seems to have vanished into thin air. Nobody wants to talk about it.

Have Chin run a check on that whole operation.

See what he can come up with on the entrance and all events, stock

contractor, rodeo clowns, the works. Here's a program.

See if anybody is into anything heavy.

Right. Oh, and one more thing.

I want an APB out on Billy Wanani, Susan's brother.

If he's on this island, I want to know about it. Right, Steve.

That was an old crazy look today.

Mean and hateful as ever.

Mr. Jessup?

Some of us... We've been talking, sir, and we want to know why that policeman,

Mr. McGarrett, was here asking all them questions about Billy.

McGarrett?

He don't know nothing, boy.

He's just grabbing at wind, just grabbing at wind.

We got nothing to worry about.

Just as long as we all do what we swore to.

Let's keep our mouths shut.

Now, you gotta remember one thing, boy.

We're all in this together.

So one gets down, and all the rest are gonna come right down with him.

Thank you.

Hi. Hello. I'm Steve McGarrett. Is Susan there?

Yes. Would you like to come in? Thank you.

Susie!

Have you found out anything? Hello, Susan.

Oh, I'm sorry. Mr.

McGarrett, this is my friend Alaki Kaimi.

Nice to meet you.

How do you do, Alaki?

Well, I guess I'd better go finish the dishes, huh?

Won't you sit down? We can talk.

There's not a whole lot to talk about, Susan, except that HPD is helping us

look for Billy.

They have new and sophisticated ways of finding people, even people who don't

want to be found.

I see.

Do you have a picture of Billy? It would be helpful.

Oh, yes, of course.

Do you know anyone...

And Billy might have gone to if he were in trouble.

No one I can think of.

Billy was always a kind of loner.

What about a girlfriend?

Yes, there is a girl.

Billy wrote me about her.

He said that he was thinking about marrying her, but I never took him

seriously. What's her name?

Um, Lonnie.

Lonnie Kapali'i.

Thank you. May I use the phone? Sure.

Williams. Donald, Steve.

See if you can get me a rundown or an address on Alani Kapali'i through the

regular channels.

Kapali'i.

Yeah. K-A-P-A-L-I-I.

Thank you.

I'll be in the car.

Got it, Steve.

Mrs. Kapali'i? Yes.

Steve McGarrett, Y50.

Mrs. Kapali'i, I'm looking for Lonnie.

She's not here, Mr. McGarrett.

When did you see her last?

Tuesday night, when she talked on the phone to her young man.

Is that Billy Wanani?

Yes. She left the house right after she talked to him.

Why are you looking for Lonnie, Mr. McGarrett?

Well, actually, I'm looking for Billy.

But I have reason to believe that they might be together.

Now, when she left, how did she seem? Was she in good spirits?

Yes, she was happy and very excited.

That was the last time I saw Lonnie.

Did you call the police?

No. I was sure she'd run away with her young man.

Lonnie's of age, Mr. McGarrett.

I couldn't stop her.

When she left, was she driving?

No. Lonnie doesn't own a car. She took the bus.

I see. OK. Thank you.

Oh, just one more thing.

Do you happen to have a recent picture of Lani?

I think it might help us find her.

Yes.

This was taken a month ago, on her 18th birthday.

Steve, here's a readout on the various front organizations.

Everything from a phony brokerage firm to a Japanese tea room.

Well, that almost completes the scenario.

All missing now are some of the cast members.

Reports are still coming in from HPD surveillance teams.

Well, let's hope that no one slips through the net when we drop it

tomorrow.

McGarrett. Hello, Mr. McGarrett. Yes, Susan?

I'm sorry to bother you. I know you're busy.

I just had to know if you found out anything yet.

Just one thing.

We think that Billy's girlfriend, Lonnie, went out to meet him that night.

That could mean that they're together somewhere.

But where?

That's what we're trying to find out. We have an all-points bulletin out on both

of them. I'm sure they'll turn up somewhere. Try not to worry. Just keep

in touch.

Thank you, Mr. McGarrett.

Alaki?

I have to go someplace very important. Can I use your car?

Sure, the keys are already in it. But if it rains, you're out of luck, because

the top doesn't go up.

I couldn't come up with anything unusual in a rodeo, Steve.

Makes regular true of the islands.

Pays its own way, but just barely.

Now, the prize money that goes to the cowboys is based on the entrance fees.

Nobody gets rich, but they all manage to scratch out a living.

What about the cowboys? Any of them have records?

Well, nothing too heavy. No felony arrest.

Billy Monani?

HBD has a sheet on him.

Two arrests in the past six months, one for drunken disorderly and the other for

assault. A bar brawl.

Yeah, that seems to match the description Jessop gave me. Chin, we

think Billy's girlfriend left home to meet him the night he disappeared.

Her name is Lani Kapali'i.

Check with the bus company. Find out which drivers make the run out to

Waimanalo. I want to know which driver picked her up.

Where he dropped her and what time.

Right, Steve.

I've seen that look before.

Yeah, I know.

I have a feeling about this one, and it's not a very pleasant one.

McGarrett. Duke is calling you, Mr. McGarrett, on line two.

Yeah, Duke, what do you got?

Steve, I'm at Makapua Beach.

I responded to an HPD call about a possible DB.

Yeah? We've got a floater.

A young girl.

Any identification?

The description on clothing matches Lani Kapali'i perfectly.

All right, Duke. Comb that entire area.

Just in case.

Right, Steve.

Call HPD, Donald.

Have them pull the missing person sheet on Lani Kapali'i.

She just washed up on the beach.

Calvin, can I talk to you?

I still got gear to pack. I can't keep the rest of them waiting just on me.

Well, just for a minute.

Look, Billy wrote about you a lot in his letters. He said that you were good

friends.

Why do you have to keep coming here wanting to talk about Billy? Because I

know you're hiding something. I think you know where he is.

Why don't you just forget about Billy?

There's nothing you can do for him.

There's nothing nobody can do for him.

Billy's gone, and he ain't never coming back.

Now, why don't you just let it be?

All right, then.

Just tell me if Billy went away with his girlfriend, Lani Kapali'i. I don't know.

I know that she came here that night.

Mr. McGarrett knows it, too.

He's looking for both of them.

Lani was here?

Yes.

Look, I got nothing more to say to you. Now, I just want you to get out of here.

I want you to go.

What about cause of death, Doc? Has it been determined?

Those deep bruises on the throat indicate strangulation.

What about time of death? It's a little difficult to say with the way the body

was battered by the surf and some saline deterioration. But I'd guess in the

neighborhood of 36 hours.

That would make it Tuesday night.

Yeah.

Same night Billy Wanani disappeared.

Thanks, Doc.

There's something else, Steve. It's a strong possibility that she was raped.

Hey, Possum, where'd Mr. Jessop go?

Town.

You say when he was coming back?

Couple hours.

You know, Possum, I've been thinking.

You got something in your head neat saying?

I guess we all do, Poss.

Officer Kelly, 5-0.

Yeah, but you still got to pay.

What's with you guys? Don't you drive cars anymore?

You know, my boss asked me that when I turned into mileage on my expense

report.

You rob it up, Colo?

Yeah, but I didn't do it with the butler.

You recognize this girl? Her name is Lonnie Capolini, and we think she got on

your bus Tuesday night.

Hey, sure, I know her. She rides this bus a lot.

What about Tuesday night?

Yeah, she got on the corner at... What time?

I get to that intersection about 8.15.

Where did she get off?

I don't know for sure.

Did she go to the end of the line, Guamanolo?

I don't know. She could have. I make about 20 stops before I get out there.

Okay. Let me off in the next corner.

I can't, pal. Unauthorized stops are against regulation.

But I left my car parked back there. The harm I'm going to get back.

Take the bus. Leave the driving to us.

Yeah.

I had a funny feeling you were going to say that.

Steve. Yes. This just came in from the license bureau.

Marriage license?

They took their blood tests Tuesday.

Tuesday?

That's the day they both disappeared.

Dispatch, this is Officer Lockello 5-0. Pass me through to McGarrett.

Go ahead, Duke. You're on speaker.

I'm still at Makapu'u Beach.

HPD just finished dragging the area.

They came up with a second body.

Billy 190?

That's right, Steve.

They fished him out only about 100 yards up the beach from where they found the

girl.

Okay, Duke. Thank you.

Keep in touch.

Marriage license, huh?

Life is so strange.

Both dead.

Hardly more than kids.

How do we put it together, Daniel? Where do we start?

We've got some of the pieces.

Maybe we can put them together.

Let's get out of here. I need some air.

It's gonna be tough on Susan.

Yeah.

Steve, that stretch of beach where the bodies were found, it's near the rodeo

grounds. Could be a connection.

All right, Donald, let's try to reconstruct what we have.

Billy called Susan just after midnight California time. That would make it just

after nine here.

Now, she heard a cry.

The phone went dead.

She tried to call back.

There was no answer.

At 8.15, Lonnie Kapali'i, Billy's girlfriend, got on a bus to Waimanalo.

Yeah.

Sometime after that, Lonnie was raped and killed.

Now, the rape would give us a possible motive for her death.

But what about Billy? Why was he killed?

Maybe he saw what happened, found out about it, confronted the rapist and was

killed by him.

Could be.

Then the killer took the bodies up to the cliffs and dumped them, hoping

they'd wash out to sea and never turn up to haunt him.

Don, I have a very strong feeling that the rest of the answers are out there at

the rodeo grounds.

We have a couple of hours before the HPD briefing.

Let's take a ride out there and see what we can come up with.

What are you still doing here? Why didn't you take off with the rest?

Mr. Jessop, I got to talk to you.

It's gonna have to wait, boy. I got things to mind. No, Mr. Jessop.

It can't wait.

Here, boy. Come on in.

Yeah?

Billy's girl, Lonnie, she was here that night.

The police, Mr.

McGarrett, they're looking for her.

Well, now, do tell.

I think I know what happened to her.

And I think you do, too.

Well, now, maybe you'd better come out and say what you're thinking.

All right.

How come nobody else went along when you drove that buckboard up to them cliffs?

Because you didn't want nobody to know who else was in it besides Biddy.

Now, I told you never to mention his name again, lest you know some way of

raising him from the dead.

Mr. Jessop, I ain't hardly slept since that night.

I close my eyes, I keep seeing Billy.

I think I hear him calling my name.

What we done to him wasn't right, but none of us meant for it to happen.

None of us except you.

Now, either you tell me what happened to Lonnie, or I'll go to Billy's sister and

I'll tell her everything.

She came out here that night, that little girl.

Just after we loaded Billy's body in the bug board.

I saw she was standing out there by the trees in the dark.

She saw, boy.

She saw everything.

You mean what was done to Billy?

Yeah, then she started to walk on down the road.

I caught up with her halfway.

And she started that screaming.

She started that screaming. Couldn't take that screaming.

So I took me. That little girl.

Heck, it being Billy's wedding night and all, I kind of filled in for him.

And then you killed her.

And when nobody was around, you put her in that buck boat with Billy.

Who's that?

Sounded like some kind of moan.

Who did this to you, Kelly?

It was Mr. Jessup.

Is he still around here?

I think so.

Danno, call for an ambulance. See if you can find Jess. And be careful. Yeah.

Easy, kid. Easy.

Central, this is Dan Williams, 5-0. Request an ambulance at the Waimanalo

Rodeo grounds immediately.

Just take it easy I got to tell what happened to Billy I got to tell somebody

Will you listen, Mr. McGarrett? Sure.

Sure, go ahead.

Well, it all started out as a party for Billy on his wedding night.

We all got half drunk, including Billy.

Billy, he started showing off, saying how the rest of us... How we were scared

of Crazy Luke.

Crazy Luke?

He's a mean old bull we got that's never been rode.

I see.

Billy, he was saying how he wasn't scared of him.

How he wasn't scared of no dumb animal.

I don't know why, but that made Mr. Jessup real mad.

See, Mr. Jessup, he got broke up real bad one time by a bull.

That's why he don't rodeo no more.

Well, then, Mr. Jessup, he said... He said, we ought to

see what kind of a hero Billy really is, seeing how he's never tried no Mexican

fight.

Billy, he just laughed and said he had a phone call and the vehicle went off.

Is that when he called his sister, Susan?

He wanted to tell her about him getting married.

When we couldn't find nothing around here like a red cape.

Mr. Jessup, he got this idea how we didn't need no cape.

So he painted Billy.

He painted him?

From head to toe.

Make sure that old bullet's sealed.

He said we don't go to prison for what was done.

He said it was the same as murder and all of us was in on it.

Yeah.

But if you could get rid of the body, nothing would happen, right?

The rest of us, we was too scared.

But Mr. Jessup, he said he'd do it.

He said he'd take Billy off in the buckboard and...

After them clips.

Mr. McGarrett, did we kill Billy?

I'm afraid that's a question a jury could answer, not me.

Because we was just fine when we started. We didn't mean for nothing to

happen.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's the tragedy of it.

That's the way it always starts.

Steve. Yeah, Don?

I spotted him across the yard, carrying a rifle.

Calvin, lie still.

An ambulance is on the way. We'll be back.

Take the front.

Thank you.

Anything? No, Steve.

Check the van.

Very good.

If you had gotten here a little sooner, maybe you would have saved his life.

That bull was let loose.

How'd that gate get open?

I opened it.

You opened it?

You see, he needed dying.

I know. Cuff him.

Well, she came to the office to see you, Steve, and since I was coming out here

to meet you anyway, I just... It's all right, Chief.

Well, the HB, these strike teams, are ready to move.

They're just waiting for your final briefing.

It goes down in about an hour. All right, we'll make that.

Susan?

You don't have to say anything.

I know.

You were going to tell me that Billy is dead.

The heavenly prophet

of our Hawaiian heritage tells of a beautiful

life beyond death.

I loved my brother very much, Mr. McGarrett.

I know that, and I'm sure Billy knew it, too.