- A group of revolutionaries from a Latin American country have entered Hawaii illegally, raided an armory and stolen weapons and ammunition. Their leader is wounded and captured by McGarrett but his men manage to whisk him away from the hospital where he is being held. However, the leader, who has lost a lot of blood, will die without further medical attention. Five-O attempts to recapture the leader and stop the weapons from leaving Hawaii.—Bill Koenig
- Elpidio Acuna and his accomplises came to raid an armory to steal weapons to arm his countrymen to overthrow their country's government, wounded by McGarrett and in custody, taken away by his cronies tried to leave Hawaii with the weapons he stole—Spock200284123
- This show, the first directed by Reza S. Badiyi who designed the main title, starts out on the beach where Danno and Kono have just finished surfing. A passing cop makes some cracks about Kono's size, wondering if he needs just one surfboard.
The action quickly jumps to the 72nd Battalion Armory, where Henry Silva as revolutionary leader Elpidio Acuna leads several of his followers as they break in and steal rifles -- "the guns we need for the revolution." In doing so, they overpower a guard, played by Beau Vanden Ecker. Acuna, who has "lived in the shadow of the noose for five years," is from some mysterious country 3500 miles away from Hawaii, where many of his countrymen now reside.
McGarrett, dressed casually in white, drops down through the roof during a terrific gun battle, and wounds Acuna after his cohorts escape. McGarrett tells Acuna, "I'm gonna close this island tight as a rock." McGarrett uses his transparent map. When McGarrett asks Chin Ho for an estimate of how far the revolutionaries have gotten, Chin says, "I haven't got my abacus with me."
McGarrett is annoyed when Acuna escapes from the hospital. Consul Vallios (Wright Esser) from Acuna's country visits McGarrett, describing Acuna as a "mad dog" and suggesting they should not track the revolutionary down, since he will probably die from his wounds.
At the end, when Acuna's wife Maria (Julie Gregg) tells her husband she is going to have a baby, he asks "A son?" Maria thanks McGarrett for not killing her husband. McGarrett says "We don't like to kill, the decision was easy." ---Mike Quigley
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