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[ upbeat surf theme playing ]

[ mysterious theme playing ]

Matsu. Over.

Hey, George, we lost the house lights again.

Hit that circuit breaker at nine, will you?

You got an overload someplace. It shouldn't keep doing that.

Yes, George, I know. Just get that circuit breaker.

[ suspenseful theme playing ]

[ grunts ]

Hey, George, I just lost the monitors.

That shouldn't have happened.

George?

George.[ door opens ]

Hold it.

Stand.

Turn.

[ dramatic theme playing ]

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

A big one, Duke?A biggie. Robbery.

Somebody walked off with some paintings worth a bunch.

Real pro job.

Looks like a rough place to break into.

They found a way.

There's some people from the family running an inventory.

Is he okay?

He's been sapped pretty good.

This is where the paintings were taken from?

Right this way.

[ door opens ]

Miss Forbes?WOMAN: Yes?

These gentlemen are from Five-0. Dan Williams.

Good morning.Chin Ho Kelly too.

I'm Miss Forbes, Mr. Ogden's secretary.

This is Jeff Koestler, Mr. Ogden's grandson.

You got that straight, I hope.

You have a list of everything missing?

Yeah. It just seems to be the two.

A sketch by Lautrec

and the most expensive painting in the gallery.

A Gauguin, that he painted in Tahiti.

It was right here.

What was the value?

One and a half million,

give or take a hundred thousand.

A million and a half.

MISS FORBES: It might be worth more.

Yeah. It was a super rip-off, man. A work of genius.

Some dude was really thinking.

Why so super, Jeff? Tell me.

There are three independent alarm systems.

You get within two feet of that wall after hours

and, zap, all hell breaks loose.

There's no way to disconnect it.

You break the circuit and it salivates.

Anyway you figure, the bell goes off.

But it didn't.

No, slept through the whole picture.

You know where the alarm box is?

Sure.

I'm the heir.

I think I'm the heir.

Well, let's check it out. Show me.

Okay.

Duke, see if I can talk to the other guard.

Right away.

[ indistinct radio chatter ]

What's the story?

[ banging on metal ]

Plastic foam.

Hard as a rock.

Sprayed into the box?

That's the end of the chimes, huh?

Boy, somebody sure had the smarts.

Yeah, you know it.

Well, I'll tell you something, Sherlock.

It must've been an inside job.

Figures. The man got hold of the plans.

Do you know where they keep the plans of the electronic system?

Yeah, sure I know.

Come on down. I'll show you.

They took the Gauguin.

They sure did.

Mr. Williams, Hawaii Five-0. Jacob Durkin.

Forgive me please.How do you do?

This is Sills Anderson, my assistant.

How do you do?

[ speaks in French ]

I'm sorry.

Mr. Williams, if there's nothing else,

would you excuse me?

Certainly.

I am not completely surprised.

I said to Sills two days ago, "Something is not right."

What struck you as not being right?

Well, that's not easy.

Not easy.

[ sighs ]

Perhaps it is that Mr. Ogden was in so much of a hurry.

DURKIN: All the years, and suddenly

it's a matter of life and death.

"Evaluate the collection."

But that is American, am I not right?

I guess so. Now, let me ask you.

Mr. Ogden gives his art collection to the university.

You put a value on that collection,

and he gets to write off that amount.

Uh...yes.

Your Internal Revenue Service

requires an independent evaluation,

or sometimes two or three,

but I can fix a very accurate

fair market value.

You see, I know all the...

All the big auction houses.

I have here

the most recent catalogs

and the latest prices.

So your IRS people listen to Jacob Durkin.

That must give you a good feeling.

[ chuckling ]: Yes, it does.

Now, whether he gives it away or has it stolen...

Has it stolen?

No, no. I mean it is stolen.

The painting is a total tax write-off,

a million and a half dollars.

Oh, yes. That's interesting.

Mr. Ogden gives his collection to the university

and takes a write-off,

but he may keep the paintings here until he dies.

DURKIN: The university offered him

that privilege when the title passes.

It's kind of neat.

It's a very good law.

One of my favorites.

Where can I find Miss Forbes?

Her office is just across the hall.

Thank you.

H.P.D. will leave a man.

Thank you.

You know what to do if you get a call.

We wanna talk to Mr. Ogden as soon as possible.

He'll wanna talk to you.

Yeah, well, he never commanded

a whole police department before.

You signed for those?

Yeah, your friend, uh, Charlie Chan, took care of it.

Jeff.

What have we got, Danno?

A quarter of a million dollars worth of electronic security,

and old man Ogden leaves the plans

sitting in a hall cabinet that anybody can get into.

How's that for a millionaire's thinking?

Yeah.

Looks like three independent systems:

TV, radar devices and sensors.

It's a crazy toy.

Let's have a printout on everybody in the house.

Whoever pulled this

knew the electronic surveillance up and down.

I'm running Durkin and his assistant through Interpol.

Who's Durkin?

An art expert, appraiser and restorer.

Jeff the grandson was a combat medic, Vietnam.

Okay, I want the fine print on all of them,

even Ogden himself.

Servants, security guards, anybody who worked for him.

MAN: Looking for something?

Yes.

Your electronic devices.

McGarrett, Hawaii Five-0.

So you're McGarrett.

The governor speaks well of you.

That's good to know.

Ten thieves are born every hour on the hour

in all the cities of the world,

but sometimes in a whole century,

only 20 masterpieces are created.

I think you get my drift.

Yeah, I think I do.

Now, we must have law and order, I know, but...

But sometimes, as a matter of priority--

You want your painting back.

If it comes down to a choice,

I'll let the thieves go, pay them off.

Sometimes it's cheaper.

Yeah, it appears that way sometimes.

There's gonna be a lot of publicity.

You know, the media.

Now, I don't want any of your people

trying to make a name for himself.

Is that understood?

Anything else, Mr. Ogden?

Yes. Forbes?

OGDEN: Read it.

"Mr. Ogden has been made aware by the governor

"of the superior work Five-0 has provided the state.

"As a law-abiding citizen,

Mr. Ogden wishes to express his gratitude."

Thank you.

You're welcome.

[ mysterious theme playing ]

McGARRETT: Mr. Ogden.Yeah?

This is gonna be a ransom situation.

They'll contact you. Do you understand that?

Certainly.One more thing.

We'll need your cooperation, total.

And that goes for everyone else in this house.

Teamwork.

One thing I understand, Mr. McGarrett, is teamwork.

He's really a very decent man.

They're hard to find.

Would you like to see the gallery?

Please.

Each painting has been coded

on the back by Sills.

We do that first. It's for my own protection.

You see,

I paint little colored stripes

on the outside of the staple.

Each painting has a different color code.

Then I drive the staple

into the stretcher of the painting.

That way I can identify it at any time.

I see.

Let me ask you a question.

This entire collection

is insured for less than 10 percent of its value.

Against theft, Mr. McGarrett.

Isn't that unusual? No.

Premiums being what they are,

collectors put their money in elaborate electronic systems.

And the Gauguin,

it was not, uh, appraised before the theft?

No. It was coded,

but not yet appraised.

I see.

Uh, the people who stole the painting,

uh, can they sell it?

[ chuckles ]

To sell a stolen masterpiece is almost impossible,

because the buyer could not acknowledge his possession

and would therefore derive no pleasure from owning it.

You see, the collector,

like the artist, has his own ego.

He must be known as the possessor,

the man who owns the Rembrandt,

the Cézanne, the Renoir.

That's part of the pleasure. A big part.

Thank you, Mr. Durkin.

We'll be in touch. Please.

Oh, Mr. McGarrett,

I have assisted the police many times.

Interpol will tell you when you check on me.

Thank you.

Mr. McGarrett.

Hi. Hi.

I'm Evvy Bernstein, Star Bulletin.Remember me?

Oh, yeah, sure, Evvy.

I'm doing color on this Ogden robbery.

I'm the paper's art expert.

That means everybody knows less than me.

Have you got a statement for me?

Well, I think I could tell you

that leads developed by the department

are being carefully guarded

so as not to interfere

with the ultimate solution of the crime.

Okay, Evvy? Yeah.

Wow.

Good girl.

What I found fascinating is that they took

the most expensive oil in the house

and then they took that little Lautrec sketch.

What would you like to drink?Uh, iced tea, please.

[ phone rings ]

Hello?

This is Mr. Ogden's secretary, Miss Forbes.

Can I help you?

Yes. Jeff, get your grandfather.

Yes, Mr. Sevey, from station KGMB.

Yes, I listen to it all the time.

FORBES: Yes, I have.

That's it? That's the whole message?

May I speak with Mr. Ogden and get back to you?

No. No. We won't if you won't.

Thank you, Mr. Sevey.

Who is it?

That was Bob Sevey, station KGMB.

There's been a tape left for him at the station.

It's from the thieves.

It's supposed to contain the instructions

on how to get the Gauguin back.

It could be a trick.

Well, they included the Lautrec sketch

in the package.

Shrewd cats.

Don't be so quick to admire.

These are madmen. I know.

Mr. McGarrett, please.

No police. Not yet!

No. That's foolishness.

I have dealt with more successful thieves

and pirates

than McGarrett will ever see.

I'll run this show.

[ suspenseful theme playing ]

BEN: You read his Interpol bio.McGARRETT: Yeah.

Yeah, colorful background.

What about Sills Anderson, the assistant?

He's clean. Been with Durkin for 11 years.

The kid, Jeff?

DANNO: Doesn't seem to be able

to cut it in the big world.

Keeps bouncing back

to his rich old granddaddy.

His mother is into her sixth marriage.

Well, that'd make a boy unstable.

Well, he might get a little confused around Father's Day.

[ chuckles ]

DANNO: But he seems okay.

He's got a good combat record.

Was he a doper?

No busts, nothing on his Army discharge.

One positive thing, though.

He had a year of electrical engineering at Fulton Tech.

Home in on that, Danno.

Chin, what have you got?

The servants are straight,

and Melissa Forbes has one interesting item.

Her ex-husband served 15 months in the lockup for embezzlement.

[ intercom buzzes ]

For embezzlement?

Yes, Jenny?JENNY: Bob Sevey is here.

He says you're expecting him.

Yes, I am. Send him in, please.

McGARRETT: Hey, Bob.

Steve, this is the tape I told you about.

It was delivered to the station.

Mr. Ogden's grandson picked up the original.

I had one of our engineers dub off that copy.

You gave the Lautrec sketch back to the grandson.

Wasn't I supposed to?

I guess you had to.

Set it up, Chin.

[ upbeat music playing ]

I don't get it.

What about the note you got in the mail?

Let me take another look at that.

Again. Read-- Read it again.

"Do you read me? Do you read me?

"Gauguin lives on the wrong side of the tracks.

You can read me when you get the tape."

They want a quarter of a million dollars,

and they're playing children's games.

Don't you think we ought to call Mr. McGarrett?

Wait a minute.

[ rewinds tape ]

Let me try something.

Take a hold of this. Put your pen through it.

What are you doing?

Listen. Listen.

The wrong side of the tracks, right?

That's what the tape said.

You can read me. You can read me.

That has got to mean something.

But that-- There it is.

They wrote on it.

This is the message: "10:00, Thursday morning,

take 250,000 in small unmarked bills."

It's all there. Let me get it down.

You're a genius.

That's stupid.

No, Gramps. It's really pretty smart.

I mean, the station could play the tape,

they could copy it,

they could study it, analyze it for days.

All they'd hear is that dumb music.

It's really a trick because like the man said,

it's on the tape.

It's very simple.

Sir, Sample just phoned from the electronics room.

Police are watching the house, front and back.

Thank you, Ducky.

[ chuckles ]

Apparently Mr. McGarrett doesn't trust us.

Well...

Mr. McGarrett presents us

with an interesting challenge...

which we shall accept.

[ upbeat theme playing ]

Williams calling Central.

Central, patch me through to McGarrett.

DANNO [ on radio ]: Steve. Ogden, Miss Forbes and grandson

heading Coco Head on Kahala Avenue in Ogden's limo.

Stay with them, Danno. Ten-four.

Coco Head.

Been in there for 15 minutes. This could be a gimmick.

[ dramatic theme playing ]

Steve, the girl just got out of the car

at Diamond Head tennis courts.

She's carrying a briefcase.

A Bernie's taxi is picking her up.

The taxi's heading Coco Head on Paki Street.

License number 5-Frank-4924.

Okay, Danno, I got it. You stay with Ogden,

we'll pick up the girl.

[ tires screech ]

[ dramatic theme playing ]

Steve, I just saw Ogden carrying a briefcase.

He's transferring to a white limo.

License number N340.

Heading east on Diamond Head Road.

Can H.P.D. pick him up?

Yeah, we'll pick him up, Danno. You stick with the kid.

The kid is settling down to a legal 30.

You think maybe we've been had?

You can count on it.

[ energetic theme playing ]

Break out the good china, Steve. You've got visitors.

Forbes.

Mr. Ogden wants you to know

in his effort to accomplish his objective,

he did not wish to embarrass the police department.

It's true, Mr. McGarrett. Gramps insisted.

But the second the money was paid, we came straight here.

Teamwork, huh?

Is that what you call this, teamwork?

Now, now, now. Let's not get our hackles up.

I told you straight out from the word go

my purpose was to get the painting back.

And you got it back?

No, not yet.

Oh.

[ chuckles ]

You mean you paid the $250,000 ransom?

There was 250,000 in the wall safe at home.

While your people were following us,

my houseman dropped that off just about an hour ago.

And what about the painting?

It will be returned within 24 hours.

And I have every confidence it will be.

It is of no value to the thieves at this point.

Sure, sure. Good luck.

Good luck, Mr. Ogden.

I hope you get your painting back.

And I'll see if we can put the citizen's tax dollar

to better use than playing follow-the-leader with you.

Now, if you'll excuse me. Show them out, Danno, please.

Okay, Danno, you've got the duty.

If anything urgent comes up, I'll be on my boat.

Shall we file charges on the de Milo case?

I think you'd better check with Manicote first.

MAN [ over radio ]: Five-0, unit one.

Don't tell me.

Yeah, unit one. McGarrett.

CHIN HO: Steve, Chin. The Ogden painting has been returned,

but Jacob Durkin wants you to come out there right away.

What's wrong? I don't know.

He says he won't talk to anyone but you.

Okay, Chin. We're on our way.

Well, there goes the Sunday sail. Hop in.

[ dramatic theme playing ]

[ tires screech ]

OGDEN: All right, McGarrett, you wanna be Sherlock Holmes?

You wanna be in charge? All right.

I'll eat whatever crow's expected

under the circumstances.

Is this the painting that was stolen?

I believe it is.

It is not.

On the back is a coded mark

made for identification and cataloging.

It was on the painting when it was removed from this gallery.

It is there now.

Sills, remove the staple.

Oh, thank you.

Red and yellow.

Gauguin.

Red and yellow. Check.

That is the Gauguin from Mr. Ogden's collection.

That is the painting taken from this gallery.

And that is a lie.

That painting is a copy.

Is it?

Without question.

It's a forgery.OGDEN: I did not buy a forgery.

[ dramatic theme playing ]

DURKIN: Now, here, mimicry.

An unusual, but not uncommon talent.

A man can mimic your voice, your walk.

A man can mimic the brush stroke of a genius.

Let me show you.

This is a picture

of a 1911 Matisse hanging in Moscow.

This is the picture of the forgery done in Paris.

They're both the same period, the same size,

the same canvass.

Even the same frame.

Can you tell which is which?

They look exactly alike.

Right. Because you see only the surface.

It's remarkable.

Then the forger has to be a very accomplished painter.

Of course.

The greatest experts in the world have been fooled.

When Mr. Ogden bought the Gauguin,

it was authenticated by a museum

and several private experts.

Now, are you telling me

that they can't pick up on those things?

Well, museums have been fooled.

But remember that Mr. Ogden

bought his Gauguin 35 years ago.

The techniques of detection

are now very sophisticated.

Okay.

Specifically, how do you know

that that's a forgery?

Well,

we have other ways besides x-rays.

Chemical tests, radioactive aging.

Take the canvas itself.

I count the number of threads per square centimeter,

then from biographical data and my own research,

I know exactly the canvas Gauguin used

at this time in his life.

I can even tell you how much he paid for it.

The x-rays and other details

bear out my judgment.

So Ogden could've bought his forgery 35 years ago.

Or the forgery could have been substituted

some time after the purchase.

We can't tell.

The painting was loaned and traveled extensively

in several major

Gauguin retrospective exhibitions.

One last question.

Have you subjected the painting the thieves returned

to all of these tests?

Of course.

And they proved beyond question that it is a forgery.

[ mysterious theme playing ]

You made a mark on the painting?

JEFF: Made a mark?

Man, I almost put my fist right through it.

Boy, talk about being freaked.

I don't understand.

How could you do a thing like that?

It was just before I shipped out to Nam.

I was showing this friend of mine, Dennis.

He was another grunt. He was juiced too.

I was telling him how if anybody crossed this invisible screen

around the Gauguin, the alarm system would go off.

Well, he thought that was the funniest thing

he'd ever heard.

He started laughing and making weird jokes.

Anyway, he-- He wanted to try it out,

so he came at me. I pushed him away.

He came at me again and--

Like I said, I almost made a hole in the canvas.

[ speaking in French ]

The alarm went off?You know it.

There were enough buzzers and bells and ringing

to evacuate hell. Spotlights went on.

Man, it was really a trip.

Who found you?

One of the security guards.

He was all over me in just a few seconds.

Now, that mark on the Gauguin,

was it right down here?

Here, let me show you.

See? Now you know where to look.

There were a lot of little tiny fracture-like cracks.

You could see them as clear as day.

Did your grandfather know about this?

Are you kidding? No way.

But six months ago, I checked the painting again.

Those little tiny hairline fracture marks were still there.

And these little cracks are not in the forgery,

in the painting that was returned to the gallery?

No. That's exactly my point.

This is not the same painting that was in the gallery

six months ago.

Sills, I think he's got something.

Jeff, I will make one suggestion.

All right?Sure.

Before you say anything, let me check.

The painting has been revarnished.

It's possible that the tiny fractures

might've been obscured by the process.

At his age, to see your grandfather let down--

Sure, I can dig it.

When do you wanna start?

Right away.

I'll have to pick up some special chemicals at Kimiecueke.

All right,

I'll meet you at the gallery in about an hour, okay?

Fine.

[ speaking in French ]

[ ominous theme playing ]

They are there.

I think I can etch

very fine lines

on the copy.

Fill and revarnish.

[ suspenseful theme playing ]

JEFF: So...

you found the marks.

Jeff, I didn't hear you.

I came over straight from your hotel.

I wanted to catch the early show.

[ ominous theme playing ]

Jeff, come with me.

I want to show you something.

[ mysterious theme playing ]

DANNO: Hey, Steve,

I got a message on my service.

I know.

The police report came in about 20 minutes ago.

Jeff Koestler? Kid is dead?

Yeah.

He went off the road at Kehena Point about 9:30.

His van was totaled, burned.

We got a positive ID about 11:30.

May I help you?Yeah. What will it be, Evvy?

Orange.Make it two, please.

MAN: Okay.

How would you like to perform a public service?

I thought you'd never ask. Thank you.

I'm going to pick your brains, Evvy. Thank you.

Whatever moves you.Thank you.

You did an interview with Durkin when he first hit the islands.

Hey, you read it.Yeah, it was very good.

Do you remember a book called

Forgeries and Fine Arts

about the great art swindles?

That and 20 others. I got into some heavy research.

To me, Evvy, the theft of Ogden's Gauguin

doesn't make any sense at all.

Now, if the painting was a forgery and Ogden knew it,

why didn't he just let it stay stolen?

He had enough of a provenance,

a pedigree on it, and the original bill of sale,

he could've written the entire thing off totally.

You checked with IRS?

I sure did.You would.

Another thing.

If the thieves substituted the forgery for the original,

they couldn't have, um, sold the original

to any museum or private collector in the world.

Durkin tells us that.

That's about it.

I mean, they could come back for seconds on the ransom,

but everyone in the art world

knows the painting's been stolen.

I mean, who's gonna pay a million for a picture

and hide it under the mattress?

How did Durkin get to be so important

in the art world, do you know?

About 20 years ago,

he exposed a fake Vermeer

that had been hanging in the Dresden gallery for 73 years.

There was a big stink about it. The museum sued.

But five years later, the real item turned up.

Durkin was vindicated.

He made his rep on that number.

That's very interesting.

How often does a thing like that happen?

Oh, I don't know.

Usually when you chump the average millionaire,

he doesn't release the story to the press.

About nine years ago, I think.

Yeah, there was a very valuable Turner

that turned out to be a fake.

Durkin again.

You mean it happened a second time?

He exposed another forgery?

Yeah, the owner, uh, Arturo de Layo--

It's a neat name, huh?

He tried to kill Durkin.

He really did.Wait a minute.

Let me finish the story for you.

About, oh, a few years later, the original Turner,

the real Turner, was, quote, "Discovered,"

and Durkin's judgment was vindicated again. True?

Well, yes, but how did you find all that out?

You just made your annual contribution to law and order.

Thank you, Evvy. The next time, we'll have lunch.

[ soft theme playing ]

[ mysterious theme playing ]

Mr. Ogden.

Did they kill Jeff?

Is it my fault that they killed Jeff?

No, I don't think so, Mr. Ogden.

I don't think so.

I'm not saying that just to make it easy on you.

The ransom wasn't important.

If Five-0 handled it, they would've known.

Nothing would've changed.

Nothing.

Thank you.

This is the third time

over a period of 20 years

that Durkin has had a violent disagreement over a forgery.

In the other two cases,

the masterpiece turned up several years later.

Durkin substitutes a forgery,

and he walks off with the original.

Then a few years go by,

and the original is discovered.

You can see the possibilities.

What is it you want me to do?

One phone call, Mr. Ogden. One.

DURKIN: Thank you, Mr. Ogden.

[ ominous theme playing ]

I understand.

When all this is settled, I should like to return

and finish the work for you

at no additional cost.

Yes, sir.

He doesn't want us to go on with the work,

but we will be paid in full.

I like that.

Steve, Durkin and Anderson are leaving

at 11:05 in the morning.

They had their space booked 24 minutes after Ogden called.

They haven't left the hotel room except to visit the coffee shop.

If the painting's hidden somewhere in the hotel,

there's no evidence of it.

We checked the managers, bell captain,

room service.Frank?

Nothing at the gallery. We went over all the equipment.

What's next? Search warrant?

Yeah. That's our only play

if they're leaving in the morning.

Danno, this is what I'd like you to do.

[ action theme playing ]

[ ominous theme playing ]

You mind if I repack it now?Go ahead.

I really resent this, McGarrett.

Not only are you implying that I'm dishonest,

you're suggesting I am stupid.

My apologies.

Steve, look what I found.

If I had the Gauguin,

do you think, do you really think,

I'd be insane enough to put it in there?

Are you going to open these, or should we?

Sills.

[ speaking in French ]

Oui.

DURKIN: These are the two paintings I bought in Los Angeles.

I have the bills of sale from the auction gallery.

Would you like to check them and forward them to me?

You don't mind if we take a look?

Look at everything!

Here!

Perhaps this is what you're looking for.

Don't make me miss my flight.

It takes off at 11:05.

You have just enough time to pull up the carpet.

Why don't you?

Satisfied?

No.

But we'll leave you for now.

All right, gentlemen, let's go.

[ door shuts ]

You are insane.

Daring.

That's what makes the artist.

Steve, I think we've been had.How?

I don't know, but he was laughing at us.

[ suspenseful theme playing ]

Wait a minute.

He stuck it right in my face.

Bring the old man. Come on.

[ uneasy theme playing ]

Sorry to trouble you again.

There's one thing I'd like to check.

What is this, Mr. Durkin?

I guess a genius like you

could peel that little landscape right off the top

and find himself a million-dollar masterpiece

to be discovered a couple of years from now

in some attic, huh?

You're under arrest, Mr. Durkin,

for the murder of Jeff Koestler.

Book them, Danno.

Murder one, grand theft.

[ solemn theme playing ]

Well,

here's your painting, Mr. Ogden.

And we'll get your ransom money back too.

I'd trade it all,

all the paintings, all the money,

to get my Jeff back.

Good work.

Thank you.

He doesn't say that to people very often.

Maybe he should.

Thank you.

[ upbeat surf theme playing ]

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