This episode begins with Billy Maynard agreeing to testify against his mob boss. Shortly after, a gunman shoots at Maynard and the cops escorting him from the district attorney's office--and McGarrett is hit but is only grazed. But, because of this he's assigned a sassy female police officer to be his driver. In the meantime, Five-O tries to determine who tried to shoot them and it seems pretty obvious who it was.
A few years earlier, there was a very similar episode in which a trashy woman agreed to testify against a mob boss--only to have it turn out she was toying with the police and district attorney. And, in the end, her plan to milk the state out of all kinds of cool perks backfired and the mob boss (her friend) decided to really have her killed--just to be certain. Well, in light of this, I anticipated all this would happen in this show and it did! It was obviously a recycled plot with a few changes. One of the changes was the ending in which McGarrett (with little real evidence) accuses his sassy driver of being on the side of evil--which seemed very uncharacteristic and ungrateful considering how hard this cop had worked during the episode. Clearly not one of the better episodes of the show--too predictable and too familiar...and a bit sloppy.
A few years earlier, there was a very similar episode in which a trashy woman agreed to testify against a mob boss--only to have it turn out she was toying with the police and district attorney. And, in the end, her plan to milk the state out of all kinds of cool perks backfired and the mob boss (her friend) decided to really have her killed--just to be certain. Well, in light of this, I anticipated all this would happen in this show and it did! It was obviously a recycled plot with a few changes. One of the changes was the ending in which McGarrett (with little real evidence) accuses his sassy driver of being on the side of evil--which seemed very uncharacteristic and ungrateful considering how hard this cop had worked during the episode. Clearly not one of the better episodes of the show--too predictable and too familiar...and a bit sloppy.