‘Hawaii Five-O’ Recap: ‘Lapa`au’

It was another lackluster episode unfortunately. As I sat there watching with my pen, paper and iPad in hand, I didn’t find too many things compelling enough to jot down, and the Twitter feed was subdued tonight due to the uninteresting material.

When the best thing about the episode is Masi Oka as Max Bergman pulling up in a yellow Camaro with the license plate “Warp 9,” you know it’s not a great episode. Even guest star Greg Grunberg (“Heroes”) couldn’t spice up a mundane plot about a cancer patient killing a policewoman because he didn’t want her to arrest his source of illegal herbal medicine. Yes, that was the story this week, and it was as bad as it sounds.

Here’s this week’s The Good, The Bad and The Weird

The Good

• The overhead shots of the surfing were beautiful.
• Danno getting emotional while watching the ’80s movie, “Enemy Mine.” Time to dust off the DVD.
• McGarrett being forced to sit in the backseat, because the dog took shotgun was hilarious.
• Shout out to Side Street Inn.
• Masi Oka telling guest star Greg Grunberg that he’s positive they’ve met before. A nice inside joke to their time together on the TV show “Heroes.”
• That was a sweet leap over the boxes, Danno!
• “Thanks, Fong. You’re a geek god.” — Kono
• Max driving up in a Bumblebee type Camaro with the Warp 9 license plate and talking about how he had to sell his DS-9 action figures to pay for it. That scene was pure sci-fi geek heaven.
• Kamekona’s back!
• Kim Taylor Reese photos in the background of the murderer’s house.

The Bad

• McGarrett didn’t take off his shoes when he entered Danno’s apartment. What kine local him?
• Still not loving the fact that Lori Westin gets more field action than Kono.
• Max saying “aloha.” I’ve never been in a non-service work environment where we greeted each other with “aloha.”
• Grace Park’s acting as a stoner. Didn’t buy it.
• Come on, Fong. Make a move and ask Kono out already! Typical local guy, taking forever to catch the girl’s hints.
• The plural of “lei” is not “leis.” What kine local her?

The Weird

• You know you’re in an old building in Hawaii when the walls are made of CMU blocks and the windows are glass jalousies.
• A lei sweatshop? I thought all lei were made by smiling aunties wearing muumuu and humming Hawaiian songs?
• The animal poaching business is apparently a billion dollar industry. That’s a lot of bear bile, bat dung and horse testicles.
• Who else got a “Seven” vibe when Greg Grunberg was thinking about killing the murderer? Or maybe he was trying to read his mind like in “Heroes?”

Favorite Tweets

• “Wonder how many takes it took to have them not calling each other Hiro and Parkman by mistake? #H50” – @ChartHouseHI
• “How many head shops have an Employee of the Month award? Lol. #H50” – @lavasusan
• “#H50 references to Heroes, LOST, Battlestar, Transformers, Star Trek…wow, what’s next?” – @ChunLum
• “Can’t wait for Max’s car to transform. #H50” – @eggfooyoung