By Stu Robinson,
There isn’t much I can say about Hawaii Five-0‘s Halloween episode other that it was silly fun – mostly at Danno’s expense. The plot is confusing, and the audience never has an opportunity to guess the killer, who appears only at the end and never says a word.
The episode begins Blair Witch style, with two young people dying in a Native Hawaiian burial ground while their camera rolls. The running gag is Danno’s refusal to respect the mystical powers that Hawaiian culture places on the site – and how it comes back to “haunt” him.
Robert Englund plays a creep vagrant on Hawaii Five-0's Halloween episode.
That’s especially true when Dr. Gabrielle Asano (Autumn Reeser), the hot museum curator who drew his interest in Episode 4, turns up to safeguard the cultural sensitivity of the crime scene. When Danno is startled to find her there, McGarrett takes the opportunity to draw out information about their first date, which apparently went well.
Another gag involves the guys’ persistent interest in what Halloween costume Lori had to ditch on her way to work the crime scene. “Wonder Woman?” Danno asks. “Slutty Wonder Woman?” And Lori isn’t the only one who dressed up. McGarrett and Danno enter the coroner’s office to find a candelabra and bubbling erlenmeyer flasks on the desk, and Max dressed up like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.
Danno’s daughter, Grace (Teilor Grubbs), makes her first appearance of the season. A less-than-ideal experience trick-or-treating at his fleebag motel launches a subplot in which Danno tries to score a deal on an apartment where someone was murdered.
Finally, the episode features Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and Willie on the original V) as a creepy homeless guy camped out near the sacred site.
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Stu Robinson, a college friend of the TV Tyrant, is a writer, editor, media-relations practitioner and social-media guy based in Phoenix.