Season 5

1972 · 24 episodes

The fifth season of Hawaii Five-O premiered on September 12, 1972 and ended March 13, 1973. 24 episodes aired during this season. The Region 1 DVD was released on November 18, 2008.

1Death Is A Company PolicyA local thug, Piro Manoa, is trying to create the impression of corruption in the Five-O force, and Duke is implicated in a murder. McGarrett and the team, with new recruit Ben Kokua, must save Duke's position and work out the plot of the organisation behind the false accusations.
2Death Wish On Tantalus MountainWhen two of a egotistical racing driver's support staff are murdered, suspicions of sabotage fall upon his attractive girlfriend.
3You Don't Have To Kill To Get Rich -- But It Helps.A private investigator, Sam Tolliver, arrives from Texas to help an old friend who is being blackmailed and is at risk of being killed if he doesn't pay up, but he ends up wanting to become part of the blackmail operation.
4Pig In A BlanketDanno shoots an apparently armed teenager but finds that he was mistaken, and public opinion and the teen's brother turn against him. McGarrett must act to defuse the potentially explosive situation.
5The Jinn Who Clears The WayWo Fat is suspected of being behind the theft of a mobile ICBM device, and McGarrett with other top officials must stop him selling it off to the highest bidder.
6Fools Die TwiceArmy computer technician Jack Gulley kidnaps a scientist and then uses a planned heist by three accomplices on a military base to divert Five-O's attention from his sale of the scientist to the highest bidder.
7Chain Of EventsA doctor tracking venereal disease is murdered, and Five-O must track the series of encounters to find out who is a carrier. Their investigation is made doubly important by the murder of a young woman who is close to a upcoming politician. He seems a likely suspect but McGarrett suspects a deeper plot.
8Journey Out Of LimboDanno is found in the back of a truck, dazed and confused, and McGarrett and the others must help him piece together how he came to be in that situation.
9'V' For Vashon: The Son (1)McGarrett becomes involved with the Vashon mafioso family after the youngest member, Chris, is implicated in a daring raid on a hotel.
10'V' For Vashon: The Father (2)McGarrett must contend with Honore Vashon, who wants revenge for his son's death.
11'V' For Vashon: The Patriarch (3)Dominick Vashon, the patriarch of the clan, makes his attempt to bring down McGarrett and Five-O.
12The Clock Struck TwelveWhen McGarrett arrests a group of vigilante nationalists, hidden bombs at the courthouse threaten to destabilise the islands.
13I'm A Family Crook -- Don't Shoot!A husband and wife team of scam merchants get caught between some of Hawaii's most powerful mobs.
14The Child StealersTwo drifters, Gar and Nina, steal children and sell them on to a mainland adoption agency in order to raise the cash to buy a boat and go cruising.
15Thanks For The HoneymoonMcGarrett agrees to let Toni, a tough female convict, get married and have a honeymoon in protective custody as long as she will testify against a local hood.
16The ListenerA crazed electronics wizard threatens the lives of a psychiatrist and his patients by using electronic devices and gadgets.
17Here Today, Gone TonightFive-O has a suspect for a murder, but they have one problem. How can the suspect have been in two places at the same time?
18The Odd Lot CaperA senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
19Will The Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?McGarrett and company must break through a tissue of lies in order to protect a Russian defector from being killed.
20Little Girl BlueTwo simple criminals kidnap a young girl, and hide out in a bunker at Diamond Head. McGarrett must unravel the reason why they are there and get the girl safely away from them.
21PercentageA travel agent who operates gambling trips is killed in order to send a warning to others that the syndicates will not tolerate competition.
22Engaged To Be BuriedChin Ho must face the fact that his daughter, Alia, is in love with the son of a local criminal under investigation, and that she plans to get married to him.
23The Diamond That Nobody StoleA burglary at the home of a well known island family sets off a series of events that ends in murder.
24Jury Of OneA single person is holding out in a Five-O trial, and McGarrett and the team have to find out who is stalling and why they are doing it.

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