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This is awful. The early 70's craze about "multiple personalities", coupled with no epilogue or finality.

In 1973 the book titled "Sybil" came out; it started a phenomenon of people claiming to have multiple personalities. Then came the movie (14 months after this episode of H5-0), and the numbers of "victims" exploded (much to the delight of the Psychiatry Industry, who reaped enormous profits from their "patients").

Sybil was later proven to be a complete hoax; the three women behind it (the victim, the psychiatrist, and the book publisher) all confessed. Search the internet for the NPR year 2011 report that blows the whole story to the wind.

So in 1974, H5-0 writers come up with a story based upon this Psycho-Babble, and the public gobbled it up.

To make it worse, there is no epilogue. No, it did not get edited out for re-runs or DVD's, there never was an epilogue. This was common to Hawaii Five-0, see my review of the entire series here on IMDb. At the conclusion of this story, the cops stop the catastrophe from happening, and then the show just ends. What happened to the Senator? We will never know (and quite frankly, we will never care).

This show is also filled with many goofs (see the IMDb trivia page). The handwriting expert who can almost name the person that wrote the letter (yeah, sure). And the 1970's Lincoln magically turning into a late 1940's Chevrolet, then exploding because it hit a blade of grass.

And improbabilities? McGarrett somehow becomes an expert at rappelling, so that he can save the day. BTW, a very obvious stunt double. And what if the stuck elevator had cranked back up while McGarrett was sitting on top of it?

Not one of the better episodes of H5-0. Five stars for this BOMB!

Florida Fred .

This might just be one of the worst episodes of "Hawaii Five-O" I have seen--and I've seen almost all of them. Part of it is because the episode is based on a lot of psychological mumbo-jumbo--and it's obvious the writer didn't do their research. However, even if you are not a trained therapist, you can't help but noticing how sloppy the episode was--and it was very sloppy. Let me give you a few examples of the sloppy work. The worst was when a Lincoln Continental went off the road and exploded--and the car you see blowing up is NOTHING like a Continental--it's a much, much older sort of car and its shape was nothing remotely like it. There is a ridiculously macho scene with McGarrett rappelling down to an elevator--and the guy doing the stunt looked NOTHING like Jack Lord. And, when one of the bombs is disarmed, the bomb disposal guy starts taking the bomb apart--and McGarrett and the rest of the folks are standing about 10 feet away!! Only a minute later does someone suggest the move back a bit! Duh. And, the Senator's father is played by the same guy--what a dumb cliché.

Now on to the plot and to why it's all mumbo-jumbo. A senator (William Windom) is nearly killed when his car explodes--killing his secretary. Obviously someone does NOT like the guy, as there was no way to anticipate the secretary using his car. Later, there is a bomb planted in his office--but it is disarmed. Things don't add up--and eventually he meets with a psychologist who indicates the Senator MIGHT be a multiple-personality who is trying to kill himself!!! This is really NOT how multiples act (now, by the way, it's called Dissociative Identity Disorder)--and a lot of therapists have recently begun to think that the problem is actually caused by suggestive patients and some over-aggressive therapists--or over-suggestive writers! Regardless if this is so, the example the psychologist shows McGarrett doesn't even appear to be a person with this disorder but schizophrenia. And, it would have been so very easy for the crazy hypothesis to have been wrong--yet he ran with it.

All in all, a dopey episode in so many ways. And, while I am thinking about it, why does Danny always ride as a passenger in this episode (with Ben and Steve)? Did he lose his license for a DUI or something?!