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The Best Episodes of Hawaii Five-O Season 5

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 1 - Death Is A Company Policy
    8.1/10(179 votes)

    #1 - Death Is A Company Policy

    S5:E1

    A local thug, Piro Manoa, is trying to create the impression of corruption in the Five-O force, and Duke is implicated in a murder. McGarrett and the team, with new recruit Ben Kokua, must save Duke's position and work out the plot of the organisation behind the false accusations.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 2 - Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain
    7.2/10(168 votes)

    #2 - Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain

    S5:E2

    When two of a egotistical racing driver's support staff are murdered, suspicions of sabotage fall upon his attractive girlfriend.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 3 - You Don't Have To Kill To Get Rich -- But It Helps.
    7.9/10(197 votes)

    #3 - You Don't Have To Kill To Get Rich -- But It Helps.

    S5:E3

    A private investigator, Sam Tolliver, arrives from Texas to help an old friend who is being blackmailed and is at risk of being killed if he doesn't pay up, but he ends up wanting to become part of the blackmail operation.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 4 - Pig In A Blanket
    7.6/10(133 votes)

    #4 - Pig In A Blanket

    S5:E4

    Danno shoots an apparently armed teenager but finds that he was mistaken, and public opinion and the teen's brother turn against him. McGarrett must act to defuse the potentially explosive situation.

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Bill Stratton

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  5. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 5 - The Jinn Who Clears The Way
    8.4/10(155 votes)

    #5 - The Jinn Who Clears The Way

    S5:E5

    Wo Fat is suspected of being behind the theft of a mobile ICBM device, and McGarrett with other top officials must stop him selling it off to the highest bidder.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 6 - Fools Die Twice
    7.5/10(143 votes)

    #6 - Fools Die Twice

    S5:E6

    Army computer technician Jack Gulley kidnaps a scientist and then uses a planned heist by three accomplices on a military base to divert Five-O's attention from his sale of the scientist to the highest bidder.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 7 - Chain Of Events
    7.7/10(141 votes)

    #7 - Chain Of Events

    S5:E7

    A doctor tracking venereal disease is murdered, and Five-O must track the series of encounters to find out who is a carrier. Their investigation is made doubly important by the murder of a young woman who is close to a upcoming politician. He seems a likely suspect but McGarrett suspects a deeper plot.

    Director:Ron Winston
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 8 - Journey Out Of Limbo
    7.1/10(150 votes)

    #8 - Journey Out Of Limbo

    S5:E8

    Danno is found in the back of a truck, dazed and confused, and McGarrett and the others must help him piece together how he came to be in that situation.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 9 - 'V' For Vashon: The Son (1)
    8.6/10(245 votes)

    #9 - 'V' For Vashon: The Son (1)

    S5:E9

    McGarrett becomes involved with the Vashon mafioso family after the youngest member, Chris, is implicated in a daring raid on a hotel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 10 - 'V' For Vashon: The Father (2)
    8.8/10(237 votes)

    #10 - 'V' For Vashon: The Father (2)

    S5:E10

    McGarrett must contend with Honore Vashon, who wants revenge for his son's death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 11 - 'V' For Vashon: The Patriarch (3)
    8.7/10(220 votes)

    #11 - 'V' For Vashon: The Patriarch (3)

    S5:E11

    Dominick Vashon, the patriarch of the clan, makes his attempt to bring down McGarrett and Five-O.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 12 - The Clock Struck Twelve
    7.0/10(133 votes)

    #12 - The Clock Struck Twelve

    S5:E12

    When McGarrett arrests a group of vigilante nationalists, hidden bombs at the courthouse threaten to destabilise the islands.

    Director:Ron Winston
    Writer:Anthony Lawrence

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  13. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 13 - I'm A Family Crook -- Don't Shoot!
    8.0/10(206 votes)

    #13 - I'm A Family Crook -- Don't Shoot!

    S5:E13

    A husband and wife team of scam merchants get caught between some of Hawaii's most powerful mobs.

    Director:Bob Sweeney
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 14 - The Child Stealers
    6.9/10(158 votes)

    #14 - The Child Stealers

    S5:E14

    Two drifters, Gar and Nina, steal children and sell them on to a mainland adoption agency in order to raise the cash to buy a boat and go cruising.

    Director:Corey Allen
    Writer:Larry Brody

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  15. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 15 - Thanks For The Honeymoon
    7.6/10(174 votes)

    #15 - Thanks For The Honeymoon

    S5:E15

    McGarrett agrees to let Toni, a tough female convict, get married and have a honeymoon in protective custody as long as she will testify against a local hood.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 16 - The Listener
    8.4/10(176 votes)

    #16 - The Listener

    S5:E16

    A crazed electronics wizard threatens the lives of a psychiatrist and his patients by using electronic devices and gadgets.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Meyer Dolinsky

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  17. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 17 - Here Today, Gone Tonight
    7.8/10(170 votes)

    #17 - Here Today, Gone Tonight

    S5:E17

    Five-O has a suspect for a murder, but they have one problem. How can the suspect have been in two places at the same time?

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 18 - The Odd Lot Caper
    7.7/10(146 votes)

    #18 - The Odd Lot Caper

    S5:E18

    A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Meyer Dolinsky

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  19. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 19 - Will The Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?
    7.5/10(156 votes)

    #19 - Will The Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?

    S5:E19

    McGarrett and company must break through a tissue of lies in order to protect a Russian defector from being killed.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 20 - Little Girl Blue
    6.4/10(160 votes)

    #20 - Little Girl Blue

    S5:E20

    Two simple criminals kidnap a young girl, and hide out in a bunker at Diamond Head. McGarrett must unravel the reason why they are there and get the girl safely away from them.

    Director:Bob Sweeney
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 21 - Percentage
    7.7/10(147 votes)

    #21 - Percentage

    S5:E21

    A travel agent who operates gambling trips is killed in order to send a warning to others that the syndicates will not tolerate competition.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Norman Lessing

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  22. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 22 - Engaged To Be Buried
    7.7/10(172 votes)

    #22 - Engaged To Be Buried

    S5:E22

    Chin Ho must face the fact that his daughter, Alia, is in love with the son of a local criminal under investigation, and that she plans to get married to him.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 23 - The Diamond That Nobody Stole
    7.2/10(151 votes)

    #23 - The Diamond That Nobody Stole

    S5:E23

    A burglary at the home of a well known island family sets off a series of events that ends in murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Hawaii Five-O Season 5 Episode 24 - Jury Of One
    7.8/10(152 votes)

    #24 - Jury Of One

    S5:E24

    A single person is holding out in a Five-O trial, and McGarrett and the team have to find out who is stalling and why they are doing it.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Ken Pettus

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Death Is A Company Policy" is the best rated episode of "Hawaii Five-O" season 5. It scored 8.1/10 based on 179 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/12/1972. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain".