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I understand, Mr. Van Droot.

Mr. Cunningham told me to assure you

that you'll be paid in full by the 30th.

Well, he's in negotiations now

on a pending deal.

No, I don't know when to expect him.

Well, he's on his way back from Hong Kong.

Well, thank you.

Goodbye, Mr. Van Droot.

A year ago, when I had the corner

on those English mortars,

he was begging me for my business.

Now it's cash on demand.

Oh, hello, sweetheart.

Hello, Hank.

Ben, you look exhausted.

Will it be much longer?

Oh, the last of the shipment just came in.

I have to check them into a warehouse.

It'll be a while.

Look, why don't you get some rest and go to bed, huh?

But I feel guilty sleeping

while you stay up half the night.

Claire,

if this deal doesn't go through,

Hank and I will go back to flying charters.

I promise you.

Promises, promises.

But I wouldn't mind that and you know it.

Don't be late.

Good night, Hank.

Good night, Mrs. Cunningham.

What was that?

What?

Ben? Claire!

Ben?

Hank, what happened?

Claire!

I don't believe it.

Hank, somebody took Claire.

They got away.

This one didn't.

The, uh, morgue wagon left with the body

five minutes ago.

Any identification?

John Doe, Steve.

Male. Oriental.

But there were markings on the shoe.

Some kind of a military issue.

Was it G.I.?

No, but the best I can make out,

the stamp was Malay.

Possible foreign national.

All right, Chin.

Let's find out who he was the hard way.

Start with Immigration.

Three, maybe four men broke into the house,

kidnapped the wife.

Cunningham got that one on the way out.

About what time, Danno?

Hank Merrill says about 12:30.

There was a guard patrolling the grounds.

Had a dog.

Somebody sneaked up behind him,

killed the dog.

They broke in from around the back.

Got out with Mrs. Cunningham through her window.

Weren't too quiet about it.

Four slugs so far.

Pretty crude. Desperate, for a kidnapping.

Could have been hopped up.

Yeah.

Let's go talk with Mr. Cunningham, huh?

My wife was downstairs, alone in the bedroom.

Hank and I were up here working.

Look, McGarrett, she's all I've got.

We didn't have any kids.

Has anyone contacted you?

No.

No ransom note? No phone call?

Uh-uh.

Mr. Cunningham, if you're holding anything back

it's not gonna help your wife.

I told you all I know.

Is this the rifle you used?

Yes.

Dutch AR-10, isn't it?

Prototype of the M-15.

Only this one's better.

You were selling these to someone,

weren't you, Mr. Cunningham?

That's right.

I'm an arms and munitions dealer.

I buy and sell.

But within the law.

I never do business with any embargoed countries.

And I pay for a separate license

for each and every case of those that I ship.

Oh, I'm sure you do.

But in this, uh, business that you're in,

you can make a few enemies, can't you?

I guess so. I don't know.

I'm talking about the kind of people

who might kidnap your wife.

Okay, so there are risks.

You can't avoid them.

Claire knew that.

I even wanted her to go this time.

But she wouldn't leave.

This time? What do you mean, this time?

Who are you dealing with?

I can't tell you that.

Mr. Cunningham,

do you want your wife back alive or not?

Look, McGarrett,

every arms deal involves the military security

of some country.

Now, that means secrecy for me.

And if I violate that, I'm through.

Danno, we'll have Che Fong

run that through the ballistics lab.

Have him check it against the, uh,

slugs in the dead man.

Mr. Cunningham,

when you're ready to cooperate,

I wanna hear from you.

Meantime, it's my job to find your wife,

with or without your help.

Ben, McGarrett is a man who can help.

For Claire's sake, please. Stay out of this.

Let me handle this the best way I can.

Steve.

Court order for the phone tap.

Good. You set?

Just about. You'll have to

split the phone-company detail

with Chin and Kono.

Eight hours each, around the clock.

If we get a trace, we gotta move fast.

Right.

Got a photo of Claire Cunningham.

Begrudging courtesy of her husband.

Seems a decent sort of woman.

Loves her husband.

Doesn't like the business he's in.

What about the ballistics test on that rifle?

Checks. Che Fong says the two slugs

came from Cunningham's AR-10.

It killed him instantly.

Okay, Danno. Get some prints of this made.

Have H.P.D. distribute them.

Right.

I see.

Well, okay.

Thank you.

Nothing on the, uh, phone tap yet.

What have you got, Chin?

We've identified the dead man, Steve.

Name was Kemal Orajani. Twenty-five years old.

Arrived here three weeks ago from the island of Arasunda.

Arasunda?

Well, that explains it.

The island of Arasunda is trying to break off

from the Malanesian Republic.

Separatist movement. Yeah.

Yeah, and separatists need guns. And Cunningham sells guns.

That also explains the, uh, commando-style raid

of the kidnapping.

Yeah, and Cunningham's lack of cooperation.

He's guessing what he may have to pay

to get his wife back.

And it isn't money.

All right, gentlemen, check all shipping companies.

Airfreight, cargo lines, everything.

There's a cache of arms someplace on these islands

and I wanna know where they are before Cunningham panics

and starts bargaining with those people.

McGARRETT: Mr. Sangree, we have reason to suspect

that some of your nationals are threatening the life of

an American citizen here in Honolulu.

Now, this man was involved.

Was? He's dead.

Our immigration records show

that he arrived from Arasunda three weeks ago.

You have managed to keep this incident

out of the newspapers.

So far.

You know of the current difficulties

we are having with the island of Arasunda?

Yes, I do.

But I'm an American police officer

and my concern is with, uh,

maintaining law in this state.

Of course.

We also have a list of, uh, your nationals

who arrived from Arasunda in the last 60 days.

You need not bother, Mr. McGarrett.

We will be happy to cooperate.

This is the man that you are looking for.

You will not find his name on your records.

Not his real name, at least.

He is Lieutenant Emir Kanjil.

As you might imagine, Mr. McGarrett,

we have our own sources of information.

Kanjil is an agent

for the Arasunda Separatist Party.

The dead man was one of a group under his command.

What are these men doing in Hawaii?

Kanjil's mission is to secure arms

for an illegal uprising.

Yes?

Mr. McGarrett, there is a phone call for you, sir.

Oh, please. The black one.

McGarrett.

Steve, looks like we've found the kidnap van.

Abandoned.

Yeah, the transmission totaled out.

McGARRETT: Any prints?

Not yet. The lab boys are still dusting.

There's some blood inside the van, Steve.

They think maybe, uh, from dragging her in.

Tell them to get that blood typed

as soon as they can.

Get back to me.

What about the van, Kono? Anything?

Yeah, checked with Motor Vehicles.

Registered to a man named Bajano.

Export-import business. Resident alien.

Comes from the island of Arasunda.

This is a capital crime.

We need facts and we need them now.

What happened?

They came to my shop.

One of them was my cousin.

I hadn't see him in ten years.

Uh, they were all from... From my home island, Arasunda.

The rest of them stayed outside.

Only my cousin came in.

They wanted to use my van.

And you loaned them your van?

Yes.

I'd call that a pretty strong sense of family.

But you don't understand, Mr. McGarrett.

I didn't know what they wanted it for.

At first,

all my cousin talked about was politics.

I didn't want to be involved.

I'm not political, Mr. McGarrett.

I'm a businessman.

I've been here in Hawaii ten years.

I like it here.

Politics.

That's the curse of countries like mine.

Don't you see?

I don't see why you loaned them your truck.

That makes you an accessory.

But my cousin put a gun to my head.

He said if I tried to contact the police,

not only would I be killed, but...

Mr. McGarrett, some of my family

are still on Arasunda.

He said they would be considered

the family of a traitor.

Can you identify any of these men?

Yes.

This man is my cousin.

This man is dead, Mr. Bajano.

Dead?

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Perhaps I shouldn't be, after all he's done.

But he was surely too young to die.

Do you have any idea where we can find the others?

Oh, none at all.

But I promise you,

if I hear of them or from them,

I will contact you immediately.

If you had done that first time around,

things would be a lot different. Wouldn't they?

All right, Mr. Bajano, you may go.

You believe him?

I don't know, Danno.

They could have put a gun to his head.

He has no record.

According to his consulate here,

he's clean, politically.

Danno, cable the, uh, Malanesian authorities anyway.

See what kind of information they have on him down there.

Anything? Several local calls.

Saying nothing much.

The bookkeeper's been handling them.

A couple of calls from the mainland, though.

One from Holland.

Cunningham is in trouble, Steve. Financially.

They're after him both on the mainland and Holland.

Munitions deals he hasn't paid off on yet.

It's all right here on the tape. Worth listening to.

Yeah, hello.

Yes.

Yes.

I'll get him. Just a moment, please.

Ben!

Ben! Yeah?

It's them. I'm certain of it.

Hello?

Yes, this is Mr. Cunningham.

Is my wife all right?

Just tell me she's all right.

We warned you not to cooperate with the police, Mr. Cunningham.

I didn't.

I didn't tell them anything. I swear it.

Look, what do you want? Money?

We are not interested in money...

The first thing we're interested in

is that you stop talking...

Chin's got the tracer on him.

I repeat, no more...

We want the full shipment of weapons

the Malanesian government has ordered.

Automatic rifles, mortars, everything.

I can't do that.

They will leave as scheduled

from the Honolulu airport. Tomorrow, noon.

Three planeloads, Mr. Cunningham.

But you will direct your pilots to fly instead

to the Hong Kong airport.

We will arrange to take the shipment from there.

But I can't do that. The weapons are sold.

I have a contract.

You have a contract, Mr. Cunningham,

with a corrupt government of traitors and exploiters.

I don't know anything about the politics

in your country.

All I want is my wife back.

Then you will arrange to deliver the shipment

as instructed.

That is the only way you will see your wife again.

Look, if my wife is...

If she's all right, I wanna talk to her. Now.

I have to talk to her.

Only one more step to go.

Ben?

Claire, are you all right?

Have they hurt you?

Oh, Ben. Help me, please.

Oh, Ben!

Claire? Claire?

Begin making the necessary arrangements now,

Mr. Cunningham.

We'll call you later for confirmation.

They fixed the location. Chin is on his way to it.

If Chin doesn't luck out, we've got until noon tomorrow.

Let's hear it again, Danno.

Dead end.

Mouthpiece to earphone, earphone to mouthpiece.

A perfect splice.

And nowhere for us to go.

How does it work?

Same as a patch through.

Kidnapper has a middleman here.

He calls the kidnapper from Booth 1,

then calls Cunningham from Booth 2.

Couples the phones and beats it.

Period.

You get a look at any of this stuff from Amsterdam?

What should I do, open it up?

I'm too old to play with toys.

Seven tons of toys in this one load, brudder.

You're right, that's an awful lot of play time.

Pier 39 is where it went.

Mind if I take this?

I'm gonna argue with you?

I don't know. I... I guess my nerves have had it.

This is the first time in my life I...

I don't know which way to turn.

All right. Let's take it

from the beginning, Mr. Cunningham.

Well, they left this note behind...

when they took Claire.

"Don't call the police. We'll contact you."

You knew?

Yeah, I've seen a lot of these.

And then they called to give me the terms.

KIDNAPPER: We warned you

not to cooperate with the police, Mr. Cunningham.

I didn't.

I didn't tell them anything. I swear it.

Look, what do you want? Money?

We're not interested in money, Mr. Cunning...

Look, I... I guess I should be

grateful somebody's looking after me.

But you heard what they said, McGarrett.

Tomorrow, noon, or they're gonna kill Claire.

Now, if it was just money...

Money, I could get that somewhere.

But what am I gonna do, McGarrett?

What you're not gonna do is give them the guns.

Buy me some time, as much as you can.

Now, I have some leads and I wanna run them down.

But they won't listen!

Then make them!

You've negotiated some pretty tough deals

in your time, Mr. Cunningham.

I need 48 hours.

McGarrett,

do you think they would kill Claire

even if I gave in?

I can't say.

I don't know.

Most kidnappers keep their victim alive

until they get the payoff.

You get me those 48 hours and it will lessen the risk.

Okay.

I'll give it a try.

McGarrett, I promise you:

I want to, and I will, cooperate in every way.

And whatever you think of me or the business I'm in,

I love my wife very much.

Central Dispatch. Kono calling.

Go ahead, Kono.

Yeah, patch me through to Five-0 office.

Yeah. Yeah, Kono.

Check. Pier 39. Got it.

Right.

Kono found the warehouse where the arms are being stored.

You stay with it, Kono.

If anyone breathes near those guns,

you let me know.

Right.

I checked the, uh, phone tap.

Kidnappers called again.

Cunningham bought us some time.

How long? Thirty-six hours.

Well, it's better than nothing.

But we were to accept shipment of those weapons

by noon tomorrow.

That was in our contract.

I know but, uh...

Uh, some of the ammo for the AR-10's didn't arrive.

That's special caliber stuff.

I find this difficult to believe.

Two days ago, you said

the shipment was complete.

Mr. Cunningham,

our country needs those weapons.

Desperately.

All of them.

Only last night, fighting broke out again

in one of the provincial capitals.

Now look, you know my reputation.

I don't welsh on any deals.

Please, let's make this brief.

The enemy has done something

to affect this delay you request.

What have they done?

Did McGarrett...? Did he say anything to you?

Oh, no, no, Mr. Cunningham.

We are most aware of your business reputation.

We can only assume that something has happened

to bring about this unbearable pressure.

They've kidnapped my wife.

Fanatics from your country.

And if I...

If I turn the shipment over to you,

they're gonna kill her.

Kanjil.

Mr. Cunningham, we are truly sorry.

How do you know these fanatics

have not already killed your wife?

Because I spoke to her on the phone.

When? How long ago?

This morning.

And since then?

Well, when they called back they wouldn't put her on.

You see.

They will do that.

Let her live long enough to convince you.

But I know these people.

You are right.

The worst kind of fanatics.

They will never return your wife alive.

Forgive our candor, Mr. Cunningham,

but it is the truth.

The general has tracked Kanjil for years.

Three years ago,

Kanjil led a raid on one of the villages of Arasunda.

Thirty hostages were taken.

The central government paid a high ransom

for these hostages.

Kanjil took the money and killed the prisoners.

Every one.

Well, if my wife's dead...

Oh, she can't be.

Mr. Cunningham,

you must think of your wife, of course.

But we must think of the hundreds,

perhaps thousands of lives that must surely be lost

if we do not receive those weapons.

But I promised McGarrett I'd wait.

In that case, we must look elsewhere for what we need.

No, no, no. Wait.

Mr. Cunningham,

we cannot hope to compensate you for this tragedy with money.

But at the same time,

we are most aware of your financial difficulties.

I am authorized by my government to offer you

an additional half a million dollars

for that shipment

if you will guarantee delivery today.

Now.

You will receive payment

the moment the airplane leaves Honolulu Airport.

One half million dollars, Mr. Cunningham.

You lose much.

But you do not lose everything.

Where are the weapons?

Warehouse.

The warehouse on Pier 39.

We are most grateful, Mr. Cunningham.

Kanjil here.

The weapons are going out.

Today.

Time to make the arrangements.

Where are they now?

Pier 39?

Dispatch, this is Kono calling.

Who else beside Cunningham, Kono?

Couple of big shots in a limousine.

Diplomatic plates.

All right. I'm coming down.

Meet me at the foot of Pier 39.

Danno, Chin, get your coats.

It must be Kanjil.

Cunningham!

Hold it! Put down those guns.

You're a man of your word, aren't you, Cunningham?

You're really beautiful.

My wife's dead!

He killed my wife. How do you know that?

Steve, he's in pretty bad shape.

Put a guard on those guns, Danno.

I'm impounding the entire shipment as evidence.

Kanjil, where is Mrs. Cunningham?

What did you do to her?! You killed her!

Stay out of this, Cunningham!

He killed her. He killed her.

Kanjil... the woman you kidnapped.

Is she still alive?

Woman?

Alive?

I kidnapped nobody.

AB negative.

That's a pretty rare type of blood,

isn't it, Doc?

It is.

And here's, uh, Mrs. Cunningham's blood sample

we got from Iolani Hospital

where she was a donor.

Type O.

When we found out it wasn't

Mrs. Cunningham's blood in the van,

we did what you suggested.

Now, that... That was the sample of the blood

of the man that Cunningham killed, right?

Right. AB negative.

But he was found on the lawn.

He never got back to the van.

So the bleeding had to take place

on the way to the kidnapping.

Why would they take a wounded man

on an operation like that? It's crazy.

They didn't.

They didn't take a wounded man, Doc.

They took a dead man.

McGARRETT: So you never actually saw Cunningham shoot anyone?

No.

Ben must have shot him, though.

I didn't have a gun.

There wasn't anything I could do.

You weren't supposed to.

Can you identify this man?

Uh, his name is, uh, Bajano.

He was the middleman between Ben and the separatists

when they first tried to make a deal for the guns.

You mean, Kanjil tried to buy the guns first?

Through Bajano.

But they couldn't, uh, come near the price Ben wanted.

Not even close.

Mr. Cunningham's got financial problems,

Mr. McGarrett.

Big ones.

Yeah, I know. How big?

He made a deal in Central America,

uh, six months ago.

It went sour.

Everything was confiscated.

It nearly wiped him out.

Uh, he figured that if he could make this Malanesia deal,

it would put him back on his feet.

Almost, anyway.

Almost? You mean, he's that broke?

Yes.

All right, Mr. Merrill, thank you very much

for your help.

Just got a reply from Malanesia on Bajano.

He was indicted once for smuggling. No conviction.

But remember how he told us the dead man was his cousin?

As far as they know, he had no living relatives

on Arasunda.

Wow.

Danno, I think Bajano has Mrs. Cunningham.

And I think he took her with the help and connivance

of her own husband.

Cunningham had his own wife kidnapped?

That's the way I see it.

I think he set us up from the very outset.

Even the phone calls.

He knew that we'd tap the line if he didn't cooperate.

He had Hank there to support his story.

But the dead man was killed by Cunningham's gun.

Hours before the kidnapping.

And that's what ties Bajano

and Cunningham together.

Well, you can forget self-defense.

That's conspiracy and murder one.

Right, and we're gonna get Mr. Cunningham

on exactly those charges.

After we find his wife.

Danno, I want surveillance on him.

Around the clock.

I think Claire Cunningham is alive.

And he's gonna lead us to her.

Hello?

Where are you calling from?

Yes, of course.

She's in the next room.

What do you mean, release her?

Without payment?

Look, I don't know what Kanjil told him before he died.

And they've questioned Hank Merrill again.

Now, all you have to do is let her think she escaped.

And once she gets home safe, my lawyer said he's sure

he can get the guns released.

But it's gotta be done now.

I've gotta get McGarrett off my back.

So do we, Mr. Cunningham.

So do we.

We have taken risks also. Big risks.

Kidnapping, murder.

When you have paid the agreed $50,000,

then we will let your wife go.

Not before.

But I don't have it! Don't you understand?

I don't get a penny until the guns are shipped.

Look, it's worked great up to now.

Why foul it up?

I'll, uh... I'll give you a bigger cut.

I suggest you ask the Malanesian consulate

to advance you the money.

Tell them, $50,000 now

and you can ship them the arms.

They are reasonable gentlemen.

Also, they need the guns very badly.

All right, I'll give it a try.

And if I get the money, I'll be right out.

But just one thing:

You make sure my wife doesn't see me.

If he brings the money,

we will leave here today.

I want this place wiped clean.

No traces of...

Tie her again.

She's seen our faces.

We're gonna have to kill her now.

When we get the money.

And not before.

He just came out of the consulate, Steve.

Started north.

Kono will pick him up.

Don't lose him, Chin.

Stay in touch, we'll be with you soon.

Right.

Chin, suspect turned right on Paki.

He's yours.

I got him.

He's going north again on Kilauea.

You interfered in a perfectly legitimate business transaction

which affects the interests of my country.

I do not see why we should cooperate any further.

May I remind you, sir,

that you are involved... Deeply involved.

In a deal that is a whole lot messier than you think.

Now, so far there is conspiracy, murder and kidnapping.

Now, I can make this the biggest, dirtiest

front-page story in the international press,

or you can cooperate.

Now, what happened with Cunningham?

Yes. Cunningham.

Uh, Mr. Cunningham asked for an advance of $50,000

in cash.

Did he get it?

Yes.

All right. One more thing.

When you knew that his wife had been kidnapped,

you offered him a lot more money than the original deal, right?

It was the least we could do.

Steve, Chin said Cunningham just left his house.

He's headed north on Monsarrat.

Let's go.

I'm turning.

Stay with him, Chin.

We're coming west on Campbell.

Be with you in minutes.

He turned into a private road, Steve.

In Fort Ruger.

It dead ends in Diamond Head.

If I remember right,

there's an old abandoned house in there.

Claire, are you all right?

What do you care?

She knows about our arrangement.

What did he tell you?

Essentially, that I am

her husband's employee.

He's lying, Claire. He's lying.

Ben, please don't make things worse.

Why did you tell her?

Because she saw my face.

She saw all our faces.

Now, that was not part of the deal, was it?

But she won't say anything.

Claire, I had to do it.

You know the bind we're in.

I had to do it this way.

To make an extra half a million dollars.

All right, let's move in.

Chin, Kono, take the back of the house.

Danno, you come with me.

Look, Bajano, believe me.

She won't tell anybody about this.

I can guarantee it.

Is this the money?

Oh, no.

Claire walks out of here first.

Come, come, Mr. Cunningham. The money.

The $50,000.

Oh, no. Ben.

Oh, Ben.

Hold it.

Oh!

Oh!

Ben.

They were gonna kill me.

Ben was trying to save me.

Easy.

It was all over the last shipment of guns,

wasn't it?

That's right.

I guess those guns are legally yours now.

Are they?

Then I know what I'm gonna do with them.

Sink them in the ocean.