The Best Episodes Directed By Carlos Bernard

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Captured

   S8:E210/20/2025

   When paintings from a high-profile international cultural exchange are stolen – leaving a security guard dead – the team races to recover the priceless artworks. Meanwhile, Maggie turns to a friend for help profiling suspects.

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   10.0/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Crusader

   S8:E153/23/2026

   A dangerous drug kingpin from Eva's past resurfaces when two children and a daycare worker are killed due to an accidental drug exposure. While the team works the case, Eva wavers between her mission as an agent and her personal vendetta.

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   8.8/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Descent

   S7:E91/28/2025

   The investigation into an assistant U.S. attorney’s death leads the team to a related airline whistleblower scandal and the chilling discovery that they don’t have much time to thwart terrorists from crashing numerous in-flight commercial airplanes. Dealing with the memory of his brother, who was a 9/11 victim, the case pushes Scola hard to prevent another catastrophe.

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   8.8/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Devoted

   S7:E215/13/2025

   When two IRS special agents are stabbed to death in Brooklyn, the team is thrown into an investigation that leads back to the resurgence of the online conspiracy community of Duke Ducoyle, their suspect from a previous case.

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   8.7/10(6 votes)

   #5 - Bullet + Pen

   S2:E1112/15/2017

   The LAPD interrupts the team’s Christmas celebration to arrest Mac for terrorism when they find a body in a building destroyed by a bomb Mac built.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Finish What You Started

   S10:E194/20/2022

   Firehouse 51 tackles a fire caused by a dropped jet engine, and one of their own is accused of a theft related to the incident. Kidd and Boden disapprove of Kylie's potential new love interest.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Safe Room

   S2:E162/18/2020

   After the police ignore a desperate father's plea for help, he abducts a billionaire's daughter and holds her hostage in a near-impenetrable safe room until his own missing child is returned to him. Also, Jubal puts his hostage negotiation skills to the test.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Victim

   S5:E410/11/2022

   The team investigates a series of brutal assaults; OA hides information about his own mugging.

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   8.0/10(6 votes)

   #9 - Unforgettable

   S12:E204/26/2017

   The BAU investigates when several federal government employees, including a close friend of Walker's, succumb to symptoms of a heart attack; Reid anxiously awaits his trial date.

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    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Mac + Fallout + Jack

    S3:E111/4/2019

    Mac and Jack hit the road for a weekend of relaxation in Las Vegas, but their mini-vacation is cut short when someone from their past abducts them and locks them in a concrete room. Also, Matty tasks Riley, Bozer and Leanna with stealing a diamond encoded with terrorist intel from a princess in Milan.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Save + The + Dam + World

    S4:E135/8/2020

    With Mac and Riley undercover with Codex, hoping to stop the organization from within, their mission is interrupted when Russ, Desi and the Phoenix team move to prevent Codex from detonating a weapon of mass destruction, with Mac and Riley caught in the crosshairs. Also, the team discovers Russ’ real reason for purchasing the Phoenix Foundation.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Discord

    S3:E73/2/2021

    As the team hunts a killer who is fatally shooting seemingly unrelated targets, an experience on the job has new agent Tiffany Wallace examining the tension between her career as an FBI special agent and the responsibility she feels to her community as a Black woman.

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    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Mōhala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua (Unfolded By the Water Are the Faces of the Flowers)

    S8:E611/10/2017

    The murder of two tourists leads Five-0 to a man suffering from multiple personality disorder, where one of them becomes violent and another is a child. McGarrett is accompanied on the case by a stress management consultant, whom Danny and the others have hired to help him manage his health.

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    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Lele pu na manu like (Birds of a Feather)

    S9:E811/16/2018

    Thanksgiving brings Grover’s parents and brother Percy Jr. to Oahu for a visit tainted by sibling rivalry, and Five-0 investigates a thief who is crushed to death by an empty safe.

    Director:Carlos Bernard

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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Neʻe aku, neʻe mai ke one o Punahoa (That Way and This Way Shifts the Sand of Punahoa)

    S10:E811/15/2019

    Five-0 teams up with a DEA agent to search for a killer whose plane crashed in the jungle with $10 million worth of heroin on board. Also, Grover is thrilled when his niece Siobhan comes to try out for the University of Hawaii basketball team.

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