Hawaii Five-0 4x03: Ka 'oia'i'o ma loko

A sexy lady in her underwear slices fruit for her husband.

Then three guys in masks break in and shoot them both.

McGarrett gets called away from a tender moment with his lady.

Danny's upset that this baby is now an orphan.

The first suspect is the dead guy's degenerate brother. He sold the code to the security system to some guy.

The only thing missing is a scrimshaw with a symbol for a defunct secret society on it.

Chin's old pal Jerry explains a conspiracy theory surrounding the society and the Rings of the Medici.

McGarrett asks Catherine for one last favour before she retires.

She cracks a code that tells them where the rings are: Hidden in a statue of Kamehameha.

Bad guys figured it out first and replaced the statue with a fake.

But they don't have the key, which was actually on loan to a museum.

After a short chase, Danno does some booking.

And Jerry becomes Lord of the Rings.

Meanwhile, Catherine's retiring and taking a job with her old boyfriend. Danny tells Steve he's an idiot for letting her do it.

Which is true, because Billy surprises her with cake, and cake is the key to a woman's pants.

She looks so handsome at her retirement ceremony.

Billy thinks so, too, which makes Steve jealous.

What I Liked
-Max and McGarrett are BFFs.

I smell M&M slash fiction.

-The black sheep brother celebrates his new wealth by doing two chicks at the same time. That's the right way to do it.
-McGarrett just winds up and whacks the statue with a crowbar. Good thing it wasn't the real one.

What I Hated
-Baby crying as its parents are silently murdered outside. It's been done way too often.

No one's listening. It's so sad.

-Some extremely low-res and dark video is enough for facial recognition. Their magic computers are pretty good.
-A motorcycle from the History of Motorcycles exhibit at the museum had gas in it for some reason. Also, Danny managed to magically teleport outside while McGarrett was chasing the guy who took the bike. That whole scene was just ludicrous.


Final Thoughts
No Kono and Adam shenanigans in this episode. I can't say that I missed them.

Danno got to book someone for the first time this season, but it doesn't count because he stole McGarrett's line and said it to himself.

It was good to see Jorge Garcia getting some more work. I always liked him on Lost, and I was planning to watch Alcatraz, but then it got cancelled. That's two former Lost cast members so far this season. It's probably not terribly difficult to convince them to head back to Hawaii for a couple weeks. My guess is they'll bring in Dominic Monaghan as a murderous psycopath next.

Doing the whole Hawaiian National Treasure thing was a bit strange, and it didn't seem like that had enough time to do what they wanted to do. The boring subplot about Catherine's retirement ate up valuable treasure-seeking time.

That subplot kinda wrecked the episode for me, actually. I don't really give a crap about Catherine and Steve's relationship, so I really don't care if an ex-boyfriend steals her away from him. Which is bound to happen to at least some extent. It always does. Danny even mentioned it while they were driving. It can't not happen, now. And when it does happen, I won't care. Unless Michelle Borth is in a bikini, relationship stuff is not part of the three Bs and is therefore redundant. That goes for everyone else's relationship nonsense, too.