This reincarnation of the 1968 to 1980 original Hawaii Five-O starring Jack Lord has become a firm favourite with South African viewers as Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and his team keep the Hawaiian Islands safe from criminals both foreign and domestic.
Hawaii Five-0 is a crack crime fighting unit of the Honolulu Police Department. It is not bound by the normal rules of police work and reports directly to the state Governor – who sometimes wishes it didn’t.
Season Four seems a little more intense than its predecessors, with 22 episodes ranging from the investigation of stolen artifacts; through a zombie attack, the killing of an undercover cop, a Korean War veteran seeking revenge on the man who killed his father and the murder aboard a fishing charter of three people who witness a Chinese satellite falling from space and the re-appearance of cyber-criminal Ian Wright.
Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park) and her fiancé Adam Noshimuri (Ian Anthony Dale) are on the run from the Japanese Yakuza and McGarrett tries desperately to find his former CIA agent mother and examines the possibility that he might be a half-brother of arch-criminal Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos).
Chi McBride secures his place in the series as Captain Lou Grover, the burly Swat team commander who has family problems of his own and Katherine Rollins (Michelle Borth), by now a fully-fledged member of the Five-0 team, goes walkabout in Afghanistan trying to rescue a child kidnapped by the Taliban.
