Hawaii Five-0 3x23: He welo 'oihana

An unarmed security guard chases some guys in hooded sweatshirts through a field. Unexpectedly, he falls into an open grave and breaks his leg. As he screams for help, the guys return and bust some caps in his ass. Later, the team drops by to investigate. Max finds the skeletal remains of a human thumb in the hole with the dead guy, and there are at least eight other holes elsewhere in the field.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

After some investigation, the cops find a total of eleven holes in the field, each of which contained a human body at some point. They can't ID everyone, but the ones they can identify were all informants or witnesses in cases against the local Yakuza. When two of the bodies turn up connections to Michael Noshimuri, Danny suggests that Kono recuse herself from the case.

When Danny and Chin go to question Michael, he refuses to talk, directs them to his lawyer, and then insults Kono in front of her cousin. Danno stops Chin from breaking his face, but says he won't do it if Michael badmouths their friend again.

At the same time, Kono is off talking to Adam, trying to figure out what's happening. He tells her he doesn't know, and she believes him, but when she leaves, the phone she had Fong clone earlier this season makes an outgoing call. She gets Charlie to trace it and it leads her to a warehouse where she finds eleven barrels, holding the remains of the bodies from the field.

Not quite as much fun as a barrel of monkeys.

Two goons arrive shortly thereafter, and a gunfight ensues. Kono kills one guy then sets a distraction with her phone so she can get a drop on the other. He falls for it, but he still manages to put one in her gut before she kills him. She calls for help before she passes out and when Chin gets there the EMTs tell him that the bullet missed her vital organs and she'll be fine. So he does the only logical thing and says that when she wakes up, he's going to kill her.

Adam is distraught when he gets to the hospital. He thinks his brother is involved with the killings and he was trying to protect her by not telling her what was going on. She forgives him, and starts to tell him that she's been spying on him, but before she can get to it, she gets wheeled away for a CT scan. While she's gone, Adam gets a call on his secret Yakuza phone, and Kono's cloned phone starts to ring, alerting him to its existence.

Dude, she's your girlfriend and you had a secret phone. What did you expect?

Meanwhile, Catherine brings in a file for Steve to look at, and he bolts without telling anyone what's going on. Danny chases him out of the building because he's tired of playing that game, and gets McGarrett to tell him that the FBI thinks they caught Doris hacking into the national fingerprint database. When Steve goes to confront his mother, she admits to being behind the hack and tries to get him to go out for coffee to discuss it. But when he hears a noise from another room, he goes to investigate it and finds Mick Logan and Cmdr. Gutches running some kind of operation out of Doris' office.

He should probably visit his mother more often.

She's looking for the guys who stole the microfiche from her safe a while back. Their main suspect is Craig T. Nelson, who used to work for the CIA and is now up for a big-time federal post that requires Senate confirmation. If the contents of the microfiche got out, it could burn a lot of people, including him, so he stole it, and now he's holding on to it for leverage. The three old folks have been running surveillance and checking out the building for weeks and they're almost ready to launch their Op. However, Steve points out that the three of them have a combined age of nearly two hundred, and they should be out playing shuffle board, not running covert ops.

They're aghast at his ageism and he can't convince them to stop, so he has to go with them. Steve and Doris drop down on the roof from a helicopter while Mick goes through the front door and uses the awesome power of his Windows 8 tablet to help shut down the security cameras and take control of the elevators.

You'll place that product and like it, Treat Williams!

The McGarretts manage to grab the microfiche, but they trigger a hidden alarm and have to make a hasty retreat. Steve makes it out via the roof of a freight elevator, but Doris gets busted and has to have a chat with Craig T. Nelson. Craig offers to trade Doris back for the microfiche and they have a little stand-off in his office. Instead of returning the microfiche, Steve burns it in a trash can. He and his mother have lost their safety net, but Craig will get his fancy new job, so he lets them go. On their way up to the roof, Doris admonishes her son for destroying the film, but he pulls a little sleight-of-hand and magically reproduces it from up his sleeve.

For his next trick, he'll need a volunteer from the audience.

Elsewhere, Danny and Grace are waiting at the airport for his girlfriend Gabby to return. He gets a text from her saying that she's been offered a fellowship, and she's staying in Morocco. A day later, he's sitting in his office with Steve, ignoring her calls when Max comes in with some bad news. He's pulled a slug from one of the bodies in the barrels, and it was fired from Kono's gun.

Case... closed?

What I Liked
-Random shots of girls in bikinis.

I like it when this show gets back to the basics.

-They gave some closure to Danny and Gabby's relationship. I figured they'd just forgotten about it entirely since she hasn't been on the show in well over a year.
-During a lull in the operation, Doris does a magic trick. You've gotta do something during the down time, and magic is better than small talk.

What I Hated
-The security guard asks the guys he was chasing for help. Seems like a good plan. I hope it worked out for him.
-The building rent-a-cops are fine with murdering a woman. Maybe the guys in suits would be cool with it, but dudes who wear shirts that say 'Security' on the back don't get paid enough for that stuff.

Final Thoughts
I'm glad that they managed to tie up a few of the loose plot threads that have been plaguing the show this season. It's been so long since Michael swiped Kono's gun that I'd nearly given up hope that they'd ever get back to it. Plus, they mentioned Gabby. Last season they made a whole big deal about her meeting Grace, but then the actress got a better job and she was never heard from again.

The whole microfiche plot was kinda dumb from beginning to end. Doris hid it in an easily accessible safe rather than leaving it hidden under the floorboards where no one had found it or even looked for it for more than 20 years. Then Craig T. Nelson somehow magically found out about it, hired a guy to steal it, then hid it in his own safe on the very same island where it was stolen, rather than sticking it in a box and burying it in the woods in Montana or something. I'd expect more intelligence from former CIA agents.

Beyond that, Kono was kind of a dumbass, too. She broke into a warehouse without backup and without knowing who or what was inside. Not only are the criminals idiots, but the law enforcement officials are, too. Hawaii is a good place to commit crimes, I suppose.