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'''''Hawaii Five-0''''' (with a zero) is a [[The Remake|re-imagining]] of the 1968-1980 series ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' (with an "O"), started airing in Fall 2010.
Starring [[Alex O'Loughlin]] as
Put character tropes in the [[Hawaii Five-0/Characters|Character Tab]], please.
{{tropelist}}
* [[Actor Allusion]]
** Danno, responding to an offer of whiskey from a helicopter pilot played by [[Jimmy Buffett]]: "I'm more of a margarita guy myself."
** [[Masi Oka|Max]] begins an episode talking about the plausibility of time-travel. In another episode, he asks an ICE agent (played by Greg Grunberg) if they've met before. Both were on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
** Danno, played by Scott Caan, refers to a suspect, played by his father James Caan, as "old man."
* [[Affably Evil]]: Danny's brother, Matt. He is a money launderer, Wall Street fraud, and lifesavings thief, but he knows how to have fun.
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** The name of Hiro Noshimuri (a season one villain), while not an actual Japanese name, is made of Japanese words; "Noshi" is a type of origami tied to ceremonial envelopes, "Muri" means impossible." Judging from the Google hits, the writers ate him at a restaurant.
** In "I Helu Pu," we learn that Danny knows a few Russian phrases, including "I'm a police officer" and "Your vodka tastes like urine."
* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: The team is
* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: Danno tries to be this but it's tough when the [[Cowboy Cop]] is the boss and has been given license by the governer to basically do whatever the hell he wants.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Danny, a straight cop, is the Abel; his brother, Matt, is a Wall Street fraudster, savings thief, and drug money launderer}}
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Doubles as a [[Retcon]]. In "Kalele", August March tells Steve that a "young officer" that was
** Actually, March says he was arrested by a cop named
* [[The Caper]]: "Heihei"
* [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough]]: Inverted with Steve and Danny. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] frequently by Danny when he rants at Steve about the rules of civilised society and how normal people behave.
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* [[City of Adventure]]: There are an awful lot of high-profile murders, organize crime rackets, and attempted terrorist attacks in Hawaii; makes you wonder why anyone would want to vacation there...
* [[Cool Boat]]: ''USS Missouri''
* [[Cool Guns]]: Not exactly fancy, but Steve has a tactical light attached to his handgun. [[wikipedia:Tactical flashlight|It allows the marksman to simultaneously illuminate, blind, and aim the target.]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
** Ed McKay, who served with McGarrett's grandfather in WWII, and who helps him with the hostage situation in "Ho'apono".
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** Kono
** Dr. Max, when driving Danny's car in the Season 2 opener, "Ha'i'ole".
* [[Driving Question]]: Who is Shelburne? Answered, apparently, in the second season finale, "Ua Hala":{{spoiler|1=McGarrett's mother, whom he (and we) thought had died years ago in a car bombing}}.
* [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu]]: In "Powa Maka Moana", a [[
* [[Dynamic Entry]]
** "Ke Kinohi": Steve enters a Yakuza biker bar by breaking the door down with a sportbike.
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** Kono, a new Cruze (which just went on the market). Kono also owns a [http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_436335-Chevrolet-Blazer-K-5-1981.html Chevrolet K5 Blazer]
** Averted: While we've seen Chin-Ho in Kono's Cruze and other Chevy products, he seems to tool around on a [http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_337560-Harley-Davidson-FXSTS-Softail-Springer.html Harley-Davidson].
** Averted in part: the pilot episode had a number of Ford Products. Danno drove a Ford Mustang, and the Honolulu Police Department used Ford Crown Victorias.
** Un-averted by the end of the first season, as the HPD seems to have acquired a lot of new Impalas to replace the Crown Vics.
** Averted once again in the Season 2 finale, where the HPD garage is full of...[http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_502861-Ford-Crown-Victoria-P71-2006.html Ford Crown Victorias!!]
* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|Governor Jameson}} per the season 1 finale.
* [[Evil Plan]]
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** Richard Cannon in "Ho'opa'i" {{spoiler|orders a hit on the FBI agent who has infiltrated his father's criminal empire in order to frame his father--so that ''he'' can take over the "family" business.}}
** Chloe in "Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau" using chemical weapons to kill the owner of the company she worked for so she could continue her affair with the company's #2 man. She used chemical weapons so it would look like a terrorist attack and not a garden-variety crime.
* [[Expy]]: Harry Langford, a British agent first seen in the second episode of Season Seven is an expy of [[James Bond]]. And when they get at [[Jurisdiction Friction|cross purposes]] Five-0 team captures him [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|twice.]]
* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: Danno and Kono in "Malma Ka Aina".
* [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Hiro Noshimuri}}, with Joe White's help. Becomes a minor [[Story Arc]], as his son suspects Joe of murdering him and Steve has to prevent him from retaliating until he's able to convince Joe to tell the truth about what happened.
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* [[Fan Service]]:
** Hello, Grace Park in a bikini.
***And in her underwear.
** And shirtless Alex O'Loughlin.
** And Daniel Dae Kim on a motorcycle.
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{{quote|'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Billy, so help me God, you answer incorrectly one more time, I gonna put those scrubs on you myself and then drop you in general population. How long do you think you'll last there?}}
** In "Nalowale", McGarrett and Danno witness a suspect drug a girl's drink in a club. Danno tells the suspect to drink it, if he "didn't do anything to it", and if he doesn't drink it, Danno will break his teeth and make him drink it. He drinks it, and passes out. McGarrett wakes him up in an interrogation room with ''an air horn''.
** In "Mana'o," Danno ''ties a suspect to the hood of his car'', then proceeds to drive around the streets of Honolulu like a madman to get information out of him.
{{quote|'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Just for the record, if I pulled something like this, [[What the Hell, Hero?|you would be reading me the riot act on proper police procedure]].
'''Danno:''' No. I'd probably just arrest you.
'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Compared to this, hanging a guy off a roof and throwing a guy in a shark tank is pretty tame.
'''Danno:''' You know what? I disagree. Shark cage is way worse.
'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Whatever. You're wrong. I'm just saying, to be clear, next time I get a free pass, okay? }}
** In "Alaheo Pauʻole", Chin and Danno discover a small cache of weapons in a murder suspect's home. When the suspect tells them that the grenades in the cache are fakes, Danno makes him hold one and takes the pin out, which immediately makes the suspect start talking. Also elicits a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from Chin:
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{{quote|'''McGarrett:''' What makes you think I won't kill you right here in this restaurant?
'''Wo Fat:''' "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." Old Chinese proverb.
'''McGarrett:''' "[[Scarface|Say hello to my little friend.]]" ''([[Click. "Hello."|cocks pistol under the table]])'' Old American proverb. }}
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Ka Iwi Kapu". Five-0 investigates the murders of two college kids out [[First Person Camera|shooting video]] for a [[The Blair Witch Project|documentary]] on [[Army of the Dead|legendary Hawaiian ghost warriors]] in an [[Ancient Tomb|ancient Hawaiian graveyard]] at [[Tempting Fate|midnight]] on [[All Hallow's Eve|Halloween]].
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: McGarrett and Danno catch a suspect putting a roofie into a girl's drink. They force ''him'' to drink it before carting him off. [[Captain Obvious|He passes out.]] They then awaken him with an air horn.
* [[I Call
* [[I Can See You]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leW-co14MOo&NR=1 At 1:20]. "Should have taken the deal. By the way, that's a nasty cut on your eye."
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: All the episode titles (except for the pilot episode) are Hawaiian words or phrases. (The pilot episode is named [[Captain Obvious|"Pilot"]].)
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** Vince Fryer in "Ua Hala", the second season finale.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]
** McGarrett describes [[Book'
** In this series, as the odd haole (non local) out, he is the king of the Lampshade Hanging, especially when it comes to McGarrett's ridiculously illegal interrogation techniques.
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: McGarrett and Danno. Lampshaded in "Ua Lawe Wale":
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** In "Ma Ke Kahakai", McGarrett makes his own splint after breaking his arm.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Wo Fat. He's the man behind:
** Victor Hesse (revealed at the end of "Hana'a'a Makehewa")
** Noshimuri and the [[Yakuza]] (implied strongly in "Ke Kinohi," confirmed in "Ne Me'e Laua Na Paio")
** Sang Min ("Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau")
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** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Ba_jz22sI opening titles] are clearly an homage to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w the 1968 original]. This even includes the zoom in from the sky on each version's McGarrett at the beginning.
** The beachfront cookout/make-out scene between Steve and Catherine at the end of "Nalowale" seems to be an homage to the beachfront cookout in the original series' pilot film "Coocoon".
** The big black '74 Mercury Marquis sedan McGarrett senior had in his garage is one of the cars Jack Lord drove in the original series. (See [http://www.staradvertiser.com/hawaiifive0/20100919_Hawaii_Five-0_back_on_the_beat.html this article] under "The Ride", and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131125171444/http://www.carlustblog.com/2011/02/the-cars-of-five-o.html this one in a car blog.]) Steve decides to finish restoring it, and this was a minor [[Story Arc]] ("He Kane Hewa'ole", "Powa Maka Moana"). By the end of the first season, in "Oia'i'o," Steve has finished the restoration and the Mercury may even be his daily driver. (He drives it to Kamekona's place to obtain {{spoiler|a gun}} for use in his {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]}}.)
** Al Harrington, who appeared in six different roles in the 1968-80 original, plays an elderly surfer first seen in "Ke Kinohi".<ref>The role was originally intended for James MacArthur, who played Danny in the 1968 series, but he died unexpectedly before the episode was filmed.</ref>
** Dennis Chun, the son of Kam Fong (the original Chin Ho), has a recurring role as Sergeant Duke Lukela of the HPD.
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*** The second occurs in "Ke Kinohi", when he sees the Yakuza boss complicit in his parents' death has a lunch date {{spoiler|with the Governor}}.
*** The third occurs in "Ne Me'e Laua Na Paio" during the meeting with Wo Fat:
{{quote|'''Wo Fat:''' [[Did You Actually Believe?|Did you really think I would come here without some assurance of my safety?]]
'''<nowiki>McGarrett:</nowiki>''' Where's Agent Kaye? }}
*** And then, in "Oia'i'o," when he discovers that {{spoiler|the Governor}} is working for Wo Fat.
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: Apparently, Grace Park is 37 years old. She looks [[Dawson Casting|about ten years younger]].
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Danny, as a regular cop, is Five-0's voice of reason. In universe, Danny sees himself as this to the entire population of Hawaii. Especially in "Oia'i'o", when {{spoiler|Kono and Steve are arrested, Chin has possibly gone over to the opposition and Rachel's decided to leave Hawaii with about thirty seconds warning...}}
* [[Origin Story]]
** In the 1968 original, the team was called "Five-O" from the very start, with no in-show explanation of how the name came about. The re-imagined version provides one. At the end of "Pilot", the characters are sitting around the office trying to come up with something better to call themselves than the prosaic "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Governor's Task Force]]", but [[Averted Trope|can't think of anything.]] Two episodes later, at the end of "Malama Ka Aina", Kono derives the nickname from {{spoiler|1=McGarrett's high school football jersey number}}.
** "Pilot" also has an origin story of sorts for Danny's nickname "Danno".
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** {{spoiler|The Governor.}} Seemingly averted for the entire first season until "Oia'i'o".
* [[Product Placement]]: Where to begin...
** Early on in the first season numerous characters -- notably McGarrett -- own and prominently use iPhones. In one episode a father and son are seen talking to each other via FaceTime, a scene which eerily looks like an Apple commercial. Kono is also seen with a MacBook Pro numerous times. What makes this interesting is that after many episodes with extensive Apple product placements, in "Mana'o" Chin asks Kono to "Bing it", when she doubts his knowledge about a modern artist. Sure enough, Kono whips out her LG Optimus 7 and we get a close up of the phone's screen ''for almost 10 seconds''. Soon after this episode Danny gets a new Windows Phone 7, and the Apple logos on both Kono's laptop and McGarrett's iPhone are suspiciously covered up.
** [[Everybody Owns a Ford|Steve, Danny, and Kono drive 2011 Chevys.]]
** Various Hawaii businesses have had their [http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/14080415/local-businesses-get-good-exposure-on-hawaii-five-o names and products appear on the show], including Liliha Bakery, Kona Brewing Company, Waiola Shave Ice, and Hawaiian Airlines. Most episodes will give at least one local company national advertising.
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* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: The whole point of the new unit.
{{quote|'''Governor Jameson:''' ...Your task force will have blanket authority to go after guys like Hesse, and ''get them the'' '''''HELL''''' ''off my island''. Your rules, my backing, no red tape....}}
** And this is being deconstructed slightly in Season 2, as the fallout from the Season 1 finale is coming back to haunt Five-0. The new Governor is keeping them on a much tighter leash, assigning them a team member of his choosing to keep an eye on them. And it turns out that Captain Fryer {{spoiler|used a full police investigation of Five-0's behavior as leverage to get Kono to work for him}}.
* [[Sequel Episode]]: In "Kalele", Ed Asner reprises his role of art smuggler August March from the original series' 1975 episode "Wooden Model of a Rat". Doubles as [[Mythology Gag]].
* [[Shameful Strip]]: When Kono goes undercover to investigate a "snakehead" (someone who smuggles people into the West), the gang leader makes her strip to her underwear to prove she isn't wearing a wire.
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Jenna Kaye performs one on a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] in "Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau."
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: Chin Ho's weapon of choice.
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'''Danno:''' No, no. Of course, you’d have to kill me.... I’m just curious, though: Was there an "Operation Abbey Road"? Were you the walrus? ''(Joe White gives him a disapproving look)'' Time to shut up?
'''Joe White:''' Roger that. Are you people ready for the magical mystery tour? }}
** In "Ka Iwi Kapu", Max delivers a [[CSI: Miami|Horatio Cain]] [[
** The episode's [[Cold Opening]] is a deliberate imitation of ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]''.
* [[Story Arc]]
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** For McGarrett, it's the [[Story Arc]] concerning the contents of the Champ box and his father's relationship with the Yakuza and Wo Fat.
** For Chin Ho, it's the drug case where {{spoiler|the $28 million was seized}}. Led to Chin Ho being blamed {{spoiler|for embezzling $200,000 of it}}. {{spoiler|Subverted. In "Ma Ke Kahakai" it is revealed that Chin already knows who the embezzler is.}}
* [[Took a Level
* [[Too Soon]]: Invoked in-show in "He Kane Hewa' Ole".
{{quote|'''McGarrett:''' Okay, what about our John Doe #2?
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'''McGarrett:''' You got an I.D.?
'''Danno:''' No Ja -- his head was in a box. Jack.
'''Chin Ho:''' [[Dude, Not Funny|That ain't right, bro.]]
'''Danno:''' Too soon?
'''McGarrett:''' Little bit. }}
* [[Tonight Someone Dies]]: "Ua Hala"
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** And there is a [[Take That]] to ''[[24|Twenty Four]]'' in Ohana:
{{quote|'''Danny:''' If a suspect dies, he no longer has the ability to speak! Ergo, he's useless to us!
'''Steve:''' ''([[High Altitude Interrogation|to guy he's hanging off roof]])'' You think anybody's gonna care? You just killed two people, buddy! I'd be doing the world a favor!]]
'''Danny:''' [[What the Hell, Hero?|That's enough!]] }}
* [[True Companions]]: Invoked in show in "Ohana", which is the Hawaiian word for Family.
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