Hawaii Five-0 3x17: Paʻani

A guy at a tactical ops fantasy camp takes a real bullet to the brain. Obviously, that wasn't in the brochure, so it's up to the Five-0 team to figure out if the guy deserves a refund.

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Duke finds a 9mm handgun ditched in some nearby bushes, but since every single person at the camp was firing a weapon, testing for GSR is useless. Fortunately, everyone was wearing a head-mounted camera, so they have video of everything. When they play it back, they spot an extra guy running around.

The first suspect is one of the guy's co-workers who decided to skip the morning's team-building exercise and who left an angry message on his voicemail the night before. But, the CEO shows up and tells McGarrett that the guy didn't have the balls to kill someone, plus he has an alibi, so they cut him loose.

Max's examination shows that the guy was given a heavy dose of a prescription sedative 12 hours before he died. The co-worker says they were at a bar together the night before, so Steve and Danny go there to check it out. When they get there, they run into Steve's old buddy, Nicky "The Kid" DiMarco.

He opened for Sinatra once. Then hung out with a guy with an awesome moustache for seven years.

The Kid recognizes the dead guy and mentions that he was hanging out with a blonde woman named Holly who's good friends with the bouncer. When McGarrett takes a look at him, the guy bolts and Nicky has to bust him in the chops to stop him. The bouncer's been skimming from the cover charge and helping Holly find rich guys to scam, but he doesn't even know her real name and didn't turn her on to the dead guy because he was buying drinks with his credit card instead of cash.

Kono tracks Holly to the Marriott, but she ran out an hour earlier and left her phone behind. The creepy security guard shows Kono video of an altercation between Holly and an unknown man that ends when he tries to rough her up and Arian Foster of the Houston Texans decks him.

He's dreamy.

Adrian's a good football player, but not the best witness in the world. He doesn't have much info for the guys, but he was wearing a big fat ring on the hand he used to punch the guy, so Steve and Danny borrow it so they can check it for DNA. It comes back as a former army special forces guy who fits the height and build of their unknown suspect. They pick him up pretty quickly and he makes the mistake of telling them he knew who the guy was. He's a corporate espionage guy and he hired Holly to get some data off the future dead guy's hard drive, but she freaked out when she heard the guy was dead and bolted before he could get it from her.

However, when the HPD searched the guy's room, they didn't find a computer. Somebody broke into his room and stole it. Danny and Steve bust down Holly's door and interrogate her sister. Holly found another buyer for the data and she's off making the deal right now. As it turns out, the new chip the dead guy's company was working on was worthless and if the market found out, their stock would tank. Everything now points to the CEO as the killer, which is good because he's the guy who did it. Danny and Steve track him down right before he gets a chance to kill Holly.

It's also Pro Bowl weekend, and Steve and Danny have tickets one row from the AFC sideline, but the NFL hooked Catherine's unit up with some freebies, so she also has tickets to the game, and she wanted Steve to go with her. He makes the mistake of saying he wants to go with his friend rather than his girlfriend because the seats are better. Unfortunately, Danny and Steve wind up missing the game when McGarrett separates his shoulder when he drop kicks the CEO. Catherine picks up a signed ball for Danno, though.

Which is nice.

What I Liked
-Kamekona gets the tickets for Danny and throws in a third one for himself as a convenience fee. It's still probably cheaper than going through TicketMaster.
-McGarrett throws a pass to Danny after separating his shoulder.

What I Hated
-Adrian Foster's acting. He's no OJ. That whole scene was just painful to watch, especially Danny grilling him about how he fumbled the ball in week 11. He's got a decent look, though. Maybe with a few acting classes he could do some light comedy work.
-The CEO did his own killing. That's just stupid. They have guys for that.

Final Thoughts
I'm not sure if CBS had the Pro Bowl this year, but they certainly played up how awesome it is. It might have been a good idea to air this episode before the game, though.

I hate episodes like this because it's so hard for me to say anything about them. I can't say much about what I liked or hated because it didn't evoke any strong feelings in me at all. I guess I can say that this was an okay episode. They did that thing where the killer is a dude who showed up at the beginning and then wasn't seen again until they figured out he was the bad guy, but at least they gave him a decent motive. There wasn't a whole heck of a lot else to the episode, though. No car chases, no real gunfights, and not even that many bikini girls. Maybe if I were a football fan it would've been more exciting for me, but I'm not, so it wasn't.