Hawaii Five-O: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Hawaii Five-O Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
... And A Time To Die
Sep 16, 1970
Five-O must act swiftly when the daughter of a top neurosurgeon is kidnapped by Wo Fat in order to make the surgeon operate on a wounded U.S. undercover agent who is carrying secre
Trouble In Mind
Sep 23, 1970
Singer Eadie Jordan has not only a comeback concert to perform, but also a serious heroin addiction. Poisoned heroin is being peddled on the islands, and McGarrett must try to save
The Second Shot
Sep 30, 1970
Dr. Lemira, an opposition leader for Greece, is living in exile in Hawaii, but Klaus Marberg is sent to assassinate him. His plan is to get himself shot and work his way into Dr. L
Time And Memories
Oct 7, 1970
When a lawyer is murdered, his wife becomes the top suspect and McGarrett investigates. However, matters are complicated by the fact that the woman had a relationship with McGarret
The Guarnerius Caper
Oct 14, 1970
Shortly after giving a recital, the violin of a visiting Russian virtuoso is stolen, and McGarrett must retrieve it before the theft turns into an international incident.
The Ransom
Oct 21, 1970
Five-O's efforts to rescue a young boy from kidnappers go wrong when Kono is captured and beaten. An angry McGarrett must work out a way to rescue Kono without further endangering
Force Of Waves
Oct 28, 1970
When a ruthless businessman is blown up in a boat explosion, Five-O has many suspects to choose from, and they use psychological methods to determine the guilty party.
The Reunion
Nov 4, 1970
A Japanese computer research company executive is recognised by a veteran as his former captor in a Phillippine prison camp in World War II.
The Late John Louisiana
Nov 11, 1970
The hitman sent to kill the witness to a two year old murder instead falls in love with her and McGarrett and the team must lead the search to find her before duty overtakes love.
The Last Eden
Nov 18, 1970
Five-O search for the criminals who have set up Hawaiian singer and ecologist Jimmy Nuanu as the fall guy for a sewage plant bombing.
Over Fifty? Steal!
Nov 25, 1970
McGarrett and company must pit their wits against a veteran thief and robber who leaves Monopoly money at the scene of his crimes.
Beautiful Screamer
Dec 2, 1970
Dan Williams's fiancee is murdered by a strangler who writes poetry in lipstick on his victims' legs. Danno resolves to catch the culprit who has other murderous plans to carry out
The Payoff
Dec 9, 1970
McGarrett must apprehend two abductors who are on the run with the proceeds of their crime in order to protect the lives of their co-conspirators.
The Double Wall
Dec 16, 1970
When a convicted murderer, Harry Kellem, hears a dying man say he committed the crime that Kellem was jailed for, he takes a doctor hostage and McGarrett must negotiate his way out
Paniolo
Dec 30, 1970
A cowboy fears the loss of his land to a crooked estate agent and accidentally kills him by hitting him. McGarrett and his team must track the cowboy into the mountains and persuad
Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart
Jan 6, 1971
An electronics genius is busted out of prison so he can mastermind a massive robbery of diamonds from the Honolulu Diamond Exchange.
To Kill Or Be Killed
Jan 13, 1971
Five-O investigates the death of Vietnam hero Jack Rigney, who fell from a balcony. His father is a World War II veteran, but his brother Michael is a peacenik, and Danno goes unde
F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
Jan 27, 1971
Wo Fat and other top international agents converge on Hawaii to place bids on printing plates for twenty dollar bills, which are in the possession of a former friend of McGarrett.
F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
Feb 3, 1971
Five-O must deal with treason, murder and double-crosses in order to solve the case and prevent the U.S. from being flooded by fake currency.
The Gunrunner
Feb 10, 1971
The wife of an arms dealer is kidnapped by revolutionaries who want the guns diverted from their original destination, but the arms dealer himself is not as innocent as matters wou
Dear Enemy
Feb 17, 1971
The wife of a convicted man fakes evidence in a new crime so that McGarrett will have to re-open her husband's case.
The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney
Feb 24, 1971
Danno's past comes back to haunt him when the brother of a young boy he shot is released and wants revenge. The brother takes Chin Ho, Jenny and others hostage in McGarrett's offic
The Grandstand Play (1)
Mar 3, 1971
A baseball player, Lon Phillips, brings his backward son to Hawaii to escape threats on his life on the mainland.
The Grandstand Play (2)
Mar 10, 1971
The son of the baseball player becomes the vital witness in a murder, but he is reluctant to tell either his father or Five-O of the crime.