Saw the above photo on Facebook today. Then I saw that SFX released its 50 hottest vampires list for the year. Mick was #4 last year and now he is #20. That’s a darn shame because he was one sexy vampire! He deserved to keep his rank I think.

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Very James Bond!

The episode begins with a high speed police chase. The police are chasing a muscle car through city streets and then into a shipping yard. They lose the car there and eventually find it inside a shipping container with dozens of other stolen cars. In one of those cars they find a dead body… a man with a heavily bandaged face and a gun shot through the chest.

News of the case comes to Steve while he is hashing things out with Danny, his new roomie. Danny apparently doesn’t like all the rules and regulations and Steve doesn’t like being awakened in the night by infomercials. Their differences are temporarily forgotten while they work this new case. At the scene, Max tells them the victim has had fingerprints sanded off, leaving them to believe that perhaps the killer did not want the man to be identified and that they will find his face a mess as well. Their only lead thus far is the presence of all the stolen cars and the popular idea is that the car thieves killed the man.

Back at the lab Steve and Danny have a hard time getting information from Max who apparently is mad at Steve/Danny and is giving them the cold shoulder. He is chatty with Lori though and tells her that the man had just had plastic surgery, which would mean the victim was trying to change his identity. He plans to run the implants found in the man’s face against a medical database to see if they can track the surgeon. They do track him and the good doctor tells them he changed the mans’s entire face and that he was paid in cash. The victim insisted on complete privacy and did not even give a real name or address.

Chin Ho and Kono follow the stolen cars lead and through their informant they are able to narrow in on the ring stealing the cars. They place an order for a muscle car and Lori goes undercover in skin tight hot pants and drives that hot car to some sort of car show so she can lure their thief into stealing it. The thief takes the bait and asks Lori if she would like to go for a ride with him. Then an accomplice fakes a carjacking when they stop at a light. Lori is tossed out of the car and the thieves think they have gotten away when the car doors lock and the engine is cut off remotely. The 5-0 team makes an arrest. In interrogation the thief admits to stealing the car in question but he claims that he found it on the roadside, keys still in it. He grabbed it and put it in a shipping container. He had no idea there was a body in the trunk. He gives the 5-0 team a duffle bag he found in the car when he nabbed it. Inside the bag is a hotel key card.

When Steve and Danny go to investigate the hotel room they find the man’s girlfriend. She claims his name was Adam and that he worked on a cable ship. He called her to tell her that he was in trouble (something from his past) and they needed to make an escape. The plan was to meet her at the hotel and run but he never made an appearance. This leads Steve and Danny to the ship where he worked and when Lori tells them she found out the victim was actually named Jimmy and he was on the run from the Boston Irish Mob, they have an idea who to look for. Jimmy’s roommate was from Boston and when 5-0 comes on board he takes a hostage and tries to run but Steve puts a kibosh on that idea. The man owed a debt to the mob and when he recognized Jimmy he phoned the mob to inform them where he was, paying off his debt.

Lori and Chin Ho track the likely hitmen, the O’Toole brothers, on an incoming flight and they are discovered at the girlfriend’s hotel room. One is shot dead and the other is wounded. The girlfriend tells 5-0 that the hitmen were interrogating her about Jimmy’s whereabouts so they obviously did not kill him. Back to square one. The living hitman tells them that they were in Hawaii to “chat” with Jimmy and that they lost him inside a parking structure the previous day.

Chin Ho goes over video footage from the parking garage and finds that a man used his private key card to leave the structure 2 times in one day… most likely using his card to leave with his own car and then doubling back to remove the victim’s car. It is the plastic surgeon. Steve and Danny go to his office and pull him out of surgery. He operated solo on Jimmy per the victim’s wishes and the man ended up dying on the table. In fear the doctor decided to shoot him through the chest and plant the body in the trunk of his own car so that it would look like his past caught up with him. Case closed.

Steve and Danny are at headquarters discussing Danny’s new residence when Lori walks by dressed up as Sandy from Grease. The boys fall all over themselves to get out to her and find she is ready for movie night at Max’s house. He invited the boys to but they thought his email was spam and ignored it, hence the cold shoulder. Max walks by them, dressed as Danny Zuko, and takes Lori by the arm. They walk off together leaving Steve and Danny to stare dumbfounded. Priceless!

Best parts: The last one obviously and I also liked when Steve got the surgeon’s attention by using his gun to tap on the glass. I also noticed more vampire love. Yeah, I am a total vampire groupie. If you recall we have already seen three vampires on the show… Steve of course (Mick St. John), Lorena from True Blood, and Pearl from Vampire Diaries. In this eppy the surviving Irish hitman was once Markus from Underworld Evolution. AND although not a vampire, another True Blood alum was in this episode as the cable crew leader, also known as Andy from True Blood. This show certainly nods to sci-fi quite a bit.

This episode begins with two guys getting some hang time in the ocean. They are nearly killed when a plane crash lands into the water. The pilot Monica, was an immigration and customs (ICE) agent and was dead when it crashed.

At the scene Lori introduces the team to Jeff Morrison, Monica’s supervisor. He and Lori use to work together on a Federal Task Force. Jeff is concerned about foul play because Monica was not scheduled to fly. Max determines that she was poisoned (Pufferfish) and her death was 8 hours prior. Steve knows from the plane type and its fuel capacity that she had to have been dead many hours before that plane took off. She had been killed, loaded in the plane, and the pilot jumped leaving the plane to crash and hopefully cover up any evidence.

The team goes to Monica’s home to look for her Red Book, which has extensive notes about what she was working on. They enter and Danny takes an immediate liking to her dog and ends up bringing it back to headquarters and on the job with him. They find the book but it has pages missing, which Lori knows that an ICE agent would not do. They figure that maybe her killer broke in and stole the pages. They also find her camera and they analyze some surveillance photos the agent took. They ID a man who appears in many of them, Leo Miller. They speak with Leo and he insists that he is only a recovering cancer patient was trying to help her nail a local smoke shop that sells medicinal marijuana and isn’t picky about whether or not you have a marijuana card. Kono and Chin Ho go undecover to explore that angle but it ends up being a dead end.

Lori finds a new lead named Jason who left a print on the Red Book. He also makes an appearance in the smoke shop surveillance video. Jason runs from the 5-0 team when they try to question him, making Steve have to go all commando to bring him down. Turns out he didn’t want to be caught with a bag full of drugs. He insists that he only makes deliveries for clients but has no special knowledge of the content. He admits that he was an informant for Monica and that he tipped her off to an area of the customs house that had some hot activity. When he found out she was dead he broke into her home and stole the pages from her Red Book so that he would not be outed as a snitch.

The team gets info from the plane’s black box and Steve’s theory about a pilot bailing out proves correct. Lori pinpoints the area in which he would have jumped but it is very dense so Steve asks her and Chin Ho to grab some quads, traverse the jungle, and find the location where the killer jumped/landed. They find an abandoned parachute still hanging from a tree and motorcycle tire tracks leaving the area. Chin Ho can tell from the tracks that it was an old Triumph motorcycle.

The rest of the team checks out the building that the snitch led Monica to and they find an illegal animal poaching operation. They find animals and exotic ingredients like pufferfish poison and bear bile… which is used in alternative healing. Max tips them off to the fact that Jason’s confiscated bag had some pills with shark cartilage which leads them to Chinatown and an alternative medicine and herb shop. The doctor who runs the place is gone and when they see signs of a struggle and lots of blood they know it was foul play.

Chin Ho puts the pieces together for them when he finds that Leo Miller, the cancer patient that Monica photographed, was an owner of an old triumph motorcycle, like the one the killer used to get away. The guy is a pilot and an experienced jumper. Since he also has cancer he is a likely user of rare Chinese medicine and herbs. The team enters his home and waits for him to come home. When they ambush him he finally admits to killing Monica and also kidnapping the Chinese doctor. He was a patient of the doctor and had been convinced that the medicine was healing him. When the ICE agent threatened to shut the operation down and keep him from the medicine he needed, he killed her. Afterwards he found out his cancer had spread and decided to teach the good doctor a lesson by loading him up on Chemo drugs until he died. He tells the 5-0 team where he hid the man and they find him in the nick of time.

Danny ends up giving the dog to his daughter and the dead ICE agent receives the Medal of Valor for her service.

Best parts of the episode would have to be the dog riding shotgun while Steve sat in the back of the car, when he finds out the dog took a dump in his office, and when Max and Jeff try to determine if they know each other from somewhere else (ala Heroes), funny stuff.

This episode begins with two documentary filmmakers exploring a historical site that is believed by the locals to be inhabited by the spirits of their ancestors. They are looking for the Night Marchers, warrior spirits who some have claimed to see at this sacred place. The female documentarian trips and lands on a duffle bag with something alarming in it. She begins screaming first at that and then at something behind her partner as they are apparently attacked by someone or… something.

Meanwhile Danny is taking Grace trick or treating at his hotel. She is not into it and luckily for her Danny is called away on police business. He meets up with the the rest of the team at the crime scene and even though they tell him he needs to wait for a priest to bless them before they can access the scene he decides to explore the area anyway. And of course he has to sneer at the idea of spirits cursing him for good measure. He is rewarded later with a huge rock lodged in his front car window. On the way back to headquarters he and Steve have a spirited debate about the idea of a higher power and an afterlife.

At headquarters Max, dressed like Neo from the Matrix, informs them that the female victim was killed with a shovel blow to the head and the male victim was buried alive. A print was found on the lens of her glasses but the print was identified as that of a man who died a week previous. They go to the burial site of their dead suspect and find his coffin is empty. They also hear from a friend of the victims that a man had been bothering them at the sacred site where they were filming. He attacked them at some point and was knocked to the ground and hit his head pretty badly. The team wonders if this man might have wanted a little revenge.

While they are investigating the reappearing dead guy they visit the apartment where he was supposedly shot. Danny speaks with a kindly older woman outside who tells him an apartment is available. This gives him the idea to convince the landlord to lease him the dead guy’s apartment for a bargain price.

After looking at the video feed from the documentarian’s camera they figure out that the print got on the female victim’s glasses when she fell face first on a duffle bag that had a severed hand in it. Someone was likely trying to get rid of the dead guy’s remains when the documentary filmmakers stumbled upon the grisly scene and were killed before they could talk. They also find a dozen or so other bodies when they do a thorough scan of the area. But who had motive?

After a visit to the scene Danny finds his other car window smashed in. Rather than believe he is cursed he figures out that it may have been a homeless man that warned them away from the scene. He and Steve go venturing into the forest to look for the guy and they find him, complete with camp, tent, and bloody machete. The blood turns out to be animal blood though and the homeless guy seems pretty harmless. He is just trying to protect an area he considers sacred. He ominously tells Danny that anyone who doesn’t respect the place opens a door and the dead will seek them out.

Max gives them a new lead when he tells them all the bodies found were already dead prior to being buried at that hallowed ground. He found that some tissue and ligaments were removed to sell on the black market. They were all buried at the same place leading them to the funeral director as a suspect. When they get to the funeral home though they find the director has been embalmed alive and Lori is attacked from behind by the culprit… the funeral director’s partner in crime.

After establishing that Lori is a-okay they get back to business and they use the info they found at the scene to track their killer. He works at a hospital and did not show up to work but from his financials they see he bought a property recently. That is where they track him down. He is living in some sort of warehouse with lots of lye. When the man is surprised by their presence he opens a lighter and sets himself on fire. The lye explodes and takes the whole building down. The 5-0 team gets out okay of course.

At the end of the episode the team is helping Danny move into his new apartment, which he must have gotten for a steal. Kono and Lori are carrying boxes and Chin Ho and Steve are carrying in a brand new mattress. Danny is marveling at all the free labor he managed to wrangle up. The landlord makes an entrance and Danny asks about getting a dog. When the lady tells him he cannot have a dog he reminds her of the older lady with the cute dog who told him about the apartment.  With much confusion the landlord tells him he is describing a tenant who passed away when she fell down the elevator shaft. When Danny discovers that he was tipped off to the apartment by a dead lady, he bolts and tells his friends to pack it up because he out of there.

This was a light hearted and fun episode. Not my fave but it had its moments. Also couldn’t help but notice the subtle hints that Steve may be a bit more than professionally interested in his new team member Lori.

What did you think?