Book 'em, Danno: An Old Hawaii Five-O Podcast

Season 7 is almost over, but the crimes continue. Five-O attempts to negotiate a tense situation in "The Hostage" and then follows the destructive trail of a Saturday Night Special in "Diary of a Gun".

As we speed toward the end of Season 7, Five-O tries to keep the lid on the heroin trade against some clever smugglers in "And the Horse Jumped Over the Moon" and then tries to prevent a mob war of sorts in "Hit Gun for Sale". Shirts not required, apparently.

Five-O tries to connect the murders of a business man and two doctors in "Study in Rage" and then the 2010 Five-0 team attempts to track down a serial killer targeting serial killers in "Makaukau 'oe e Pa'ani?", guest starring a resurrected Jack Lord.

Five-O tries to protect a young boy from an assassin in "Small Witness, Large Crime" and then tries to figure out who is killing to get their hands on coveted acquisition in "Ring of Life". We've got hot Bert Convy handball action, folks.

We continue our journey through the back half of Season 7 as Five-O finds themselves untangling a hi-tech web of deception in "Computer Killer" and then attempt to stop three lady bandits in "A Woman's Work Is with a Gun".

We're officially in the back half of Season 7 and learning all sorts of new things! First, Five-O gets a lesson in Japanese culture and high finance in "Hara Kiri: Murder", and then they learn all about the Peking Man in "Bones of Contention." Listen and learn.

It's time for my favorite episode of the season and that means the illustrious Daniel Budnik joins me to talk about some cons who put the art in con artist in "Welcome to Our Branch Office" and then we join Five-O and Wo Fat in a trip to the circus in "Presenting...In the Center Ring...Murder". Spoilers from about 48:50-59:39 and 1:45:00-1:52:28.

Clever and classy thieves have Five-O searching for stolen art in "How to Steal a Masterpiece" and then Steve finds his life on the line yet again in "A Gun for McGarrett". It's been a while since Steve's been blown up.

Five-O has to intervene to prevent some rich man justice in "We Hang Our Own" and then has to solve the murder of a man who wasn't who he seemed in "The Two-Faced Corpse". Leslie Nielsen and Abe Vigoda back-to-back. What's not to love?

First Five-O deals with a senator under attack in "Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got the Bomb?" and then has to solve the mystery of a dead bank robber and the missing loot in "Right Grave- Wrong Body". Trigger warning for mental illness for "Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got the Bomb?". Minor trigger warning for suicide for "Right Grave- Wrong Body".

Five-O contends with a clever killer recreating solved murders in "I'll Kill 'em Again" and then take on a deadly fencing operation in "Pay Now- Steal Later". It's Casey Kasem in some incredible sport jackets and Ray Danton shirtless. The best of both worlds. Minor trigger warning for suicide for "I'll Kill 'em Again" if you watch the episode. I don't mention it in the discussion.

Season 7 kicks off with a radical group committing mayhem in "The Young Assassins" and extortion via volcanic eruption in "A Hawaiian Nightmare". Also my periodic reminders. Let's have some fun!

Season 6 ends with Five-O tying to catch a brazen thief in "30,000 Rooms and I Have the Key". Stick around for the season wrap and my unofficial, unnecessary tallies.

Season 6 begins to wrap up with Five-O receiving an unwanted helping hand in "Mother's Deadly Helper" and then Steve, Danny, and Duke take a cruise to catch a murderer in "Killer at Sea".

A murder turns Five-O on to an elaborate gold plot in "Murder with a Golden Touch" and a serial killer rapist is on the loose in "Nightmare in Blue". Trigger warning for sexual assault for "Nightmare in Blue".

Both a hitman and Five-O are looking for the same guy in "Secret Witness" and a young man with daddy issues is cooking up drugs with a vengeance in "Death with Father". Trigger warning for suicide for "Death with Father".

The back half of Season 6 continues as Five-O surfs for a hitman in "The Banzai Pipeline", and then hopes to con a con artist in "One Born Every Minute". Mild trigger warning for suicide for "One Born Every Minute".

Five-O is in search of five cents in "The 100,000 Nickel" and then try to track down clever bank robbers hiding in plain sight in "The Flip Side is Death". Come for Victor Buono, stay for the 8-track tapes.

We're officially at the half-way point of Season 6 with a group doing a little nuclear blackmail in "Anybody Can Build a Bomb" and an unconventional lottery in "Try to Die on Time". Minor trigger warnings for mentions of suicide.

The greed monster is back in the form of a questionable inheritance company in "Why Wait 'Til Uncle Kevin Dies?" and and some illegal opals in "Flash of Color, Flash of Death".

Political agendas and personal vendettas collide in "A Bullet for El Diablo" and counterfeit bonds and murder are the means to a million dollars in "The Finishing Touch". It's all very nice.

Five-O deals with a killer in their midst in "Murder Is a Taxing Affair" and then tries to keep a group of pimps from going to war with a loan shark in "Tricks Are Not Treats". Come for the soul crushing government jobs, stay for the '70s mack fashion.

Season 6 starts to find its groove with murderous hillbillies in "One Big Happy Family" and arson with an agenda in "The Sunday Torch". Heads up for some racism in the former and mental illness discussion in the latter.

Season 6 has barely started and we're already to my favorite episode. Dan Budnik from Eventually Supertrain joins me to talk about "Draw Me a Killer" and "Charter for Death". Minor trigger warning for animal death for "Charter for Death". We do discuss it. And of course, you can find spoilers for the episodes at 47:08 to 58:47 and 1:48:30 and 2:03:55.

Season 6 kicks off with a unique kind of bang. It's a compare and contrast episode between the 1968 Season 6 opener "Hookman" and the 2010 reboot's version. Spoiler Warning from about 30:01 to about 34:18 and 50:15 to about 54:19.

Season 5 comes to a close with Five-O baffled by a stolen diamond necklace in "The Diamond That Nobody Stole" and then trying to determine which juror has been compromised in "Jury of One". And of course, my season wrap-up that nobody asked for.

Season 5 is almost over but Five-O's work is never done. First they have to solve a tricky murder in "Percentage" and then Chin Ho is beside himself when his daughter gets involved with the son of a criminal family in "Engaged To Be Buried".

Season 5 is winding down, but the cases are still going full-tilt. In "Will the Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?", Five-O finds themselves in the middle of a spy mess, and in "Little Girl Blue", a kidnapping turns into a stand-off.

Season 5 begins to wind down with a couple of big plot episodes. Five-O has to untangle an impossible murder in "Here Today...Gone Tonight" and unknot a stock exchange heist in "The Odd Lot Caper". Come for the Monte Markham doubles, stay for the Richard Basehart villain laugh.

Season 5 rolls on with Five-O first charged with providing a couple of witnesses with a wedding and a honeymoon while protecting them from a mob boss in "Thanks for the Honeymoon". Then they must track down a malicious stalker in "The Listener". Slight trigger warning for animal death in "Thanks for the Honeymoon" and full blown trigger warning for suicide in "The Listener."

It's time for my favorite episode of the season, which means the illustrious Dan Budnik of Eventually Supertrain fame is back to talk criminal couples with the episodes "I'm a Family Crook -Don't Shoot!" and "The Child Stealers". Spoiler Warning! Dan and I talk episode endings from about 51:39 to 1:08:18 and 1:48:22 to 1:58:48.

We are officially at the half-way mark of Season 5 with "The Clock Struck Twelve". Five-O is up against some bombers looking to take out the courthouse. And for fun, I'm also talking about the Season 5 Halloween episode of the 2010 reboot, "Ho'oma'ike". There's a mild trigger warning for "The Clock Struck Twelve" episode and discussion for brief mentions of sexual assault.

Season 5 gifts us a three-parter. Five-O finds them up against a formidable crime family in "V for Vashon: The Son", "V for Vashon: The Father", and "V for Vashon: The Patriarch". Heads up if you're watching the episodes...The ending of "V for Vashon: The Patriarch" could be upsetting for some viewers.

The Season 5 fun continues with an STD-related murder in "Chain of Events" and then Danny struggles with amnesia in "Journey Out of Limbo". Trigger warning for animal death in "Journey Out of Limbo" both in the episode and in the discussion.

Season 5 continues with a couple of big plots. First Wo Fat needs to smuggle a stolen device out of the country in "The Jinn That Clears the Way" and then Clu Gulager has one hell of a heist going in "Fools Die Twice".

We get a necessary dose of William Shatner in "You Don't Have to Kill To Get Rich- But It Helps" and then Danny finds himself going through it after a friend is killed in the line of duty in "Pig in a Blanket". I hope your blackmail insurance is up-to-date.

Welcome to Season 5! Things kick off with a big time criminal enterprise in "Death Is a Company Policy" and then Five-O untangles a web of lies in "Death Wish on Tantalus Mountain". We've got Ben, Duke, and Ricardo Montalban.

Some 'Goodnight Baby- Time to Die!" chat that had to be edited out of Episode 49 of Book 'em, Danno. Warning! This is nothing but spoilers.

Season 4 comes to a close with "R&R&R". A killer is targeting the wives of servicemen who are meeting them in Hawai'i for R&R. I also do an inadequate season wrap-up as per tradition.

As the end of Season 4 looms, an interesting trio come together to assassinate a mob boss in "Didn't We Meet at a Murder?", and then Five-O goes gloriously undercover to bust a heroin ring in "Follow the White Brick Road". We're come to a close with some amazing aloha shirts.

Season 4 is almost over, but couldn't end before I talked with Dan about my favorite episode. Between "Cloth of Gold" and "Goodnight, Baby- Time to Die!" we've got a whole lotta comeuppance happening. Minor trigger warnings for watching "Cloth of Gold" as it has mentions of sexual assault. Also Spoiler Warnings for "Goodnight, Baby-Time to Die!" from about 1:02:18 to about 1:19:49. So, heads up!

Season 4 is winding down as Five-O attempts to put away a man who attacked a woman in "Skinhead" and figure out a bizarre shooting in "While You're at It, Bring in the Moon". Major Trigger Warning! for "Skinhead" as it is a sexual assault case.

It's finally time for Season 4's two-parter and it's a doozy! "The Ninety Second War" starts off with a car wreck and ends with a missile launch, with an extensive frame job, a doppelganger, and a trip to Switzerland along the way.

Steve finds himself being used to help eliminate a witness in "Bait Once, Bait Twice". And the reboot crew tackles an assassination plot during Thanksgiving in "Hau'oli La Ho'omaika'i". Come for the short shorts, stay for the turkey shenanigans.

Five-O once again tackles environmental concerns in "Is This Any Way to Run a Paradise?". Mild trigger warning: we've got a bigoted character with strong anti-Asian feelings in the ep. And the return of Lewis Avery Filer in "Odd Man In" means the return of Daniel R. Budnik to the show. As always, we'll be talking spoilers from about 1:07:40 to about 1:24:17.

We're getting mobbed in this episode! In "A Matter of Mutual Concern" there's a mob war a' brewin'. And in "Nine, Ten, You're Dead", a man uses mob resources to avenge his injured fighter. Minor trigger warning for the use of some Asian racial slurs in "A Matter of Mutual Concern" and cockfighting in "Nine, Ten, You're Dead".

Steve shows his disdain for a neat case in "Burning Ice" and then Five-O finds themselves on the receiving end of a psychological game in "Rest in Peace, Somebody". You'll definitely want to watch these episodes before you listen.

We've got a clever theft ring in "Air Cargo -Dial for Murder" and a wild robbery plot in "For a Million...Why Not?" There is an excessive number of corpses being shipped in this episode.

A charming panhandler and his girlfriend steal money from an embezzler in "Two Doves and Mr. Heron"; and a sniper opens fire on a busy road and a stand off with HPD and Five-O ensues in "...And I Want Some Candy and a Gun That Shoots". Minor trigger warnings for mild homophobia, a sniper situation with mass shooting vibes, and mental illness.

A killer targets women to fulfill a specific fantasy in "Wednesday, Ladies Free"; and in "3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu", a faculty group is a cover for a half-a-million scheme. Monte Markham, Soon-Tek Oh, Buddy Ebsen, and David Canary. All-star shenanigans.