Full Fathom Five

McGarrett must stop a pair of murderous con artists

Summary
Missing women in Hawaii are being murdered

Plot
The teaser shows a woman having a drink with a couple at sea...she drops dead and her body is buried at sea. A lawyer comes to McGarrett trying to trace a missing heiress...she is found alive; however the Five O Team discover that at least eleven women- wealth widows with few family connections have come to Hawaii...and vanished completely. Checking ship passenger lists of the missing women Five O finds one man name turning up on all the passenger lists from the mainland...Victor Rawlings. A undercover Policewoman poses as a wealthy widow...who is noticed by Rawlings. Danno Williams shadows both of them. Rawlings first romances a likely prospect...then in Hawaii introduces the victim to his "sister"; when the victim cashes a substantial amount of money and gives it to Rawlings to "buy property" she then goes on her last sea voyage. Five O discovers that Rawlings is actually named Victor Reese; the woman posing as his sister is actually his wife. In the nick of time Five O manages to disable Rawkings boat; after the prospective victim drops her poisoned glass, Rawlings tries to kill her. Five O move in; Rawlings/Reese tries to flee killing a policeman but is killed himself; his wife is arrested.

Cast

 * Jack Lord as Detective Captain Steve McGarrett
 * James MacArthur as Detective Danny Williams
 * Kam Fong as Detective Chin Ho Kelly
 * Gilbert Lani Kauhi as Kono Kalakaua
 * Herman Wedemeyer as Lt Balta

Villian

 * Kevin McCarthy as Victor Rawlings/Reese

Quotes

 * Rawlings/Reese {after his latest victim dies} "Boring to the Last Breath....[Slightly misquoting Shakespeare] Full fathom five the widow lies; and Of her bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were her eyes; Nothing of her now that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring her knell: Hark! now I hear them - Ding-dong, bell.
 * Rawlings/Reese {To his next prospective victim after she drops her poisoned glass}: "The Truth of the matter is...we's getting ready to Kill you"

Trivia

 * The method of disposal at sea of the dead women was used again in the episode Death is a Company Policy
 * Herman Wedemeyer returns as Duke Lukela (1968)