5 years and 100 episodes later who knew they would make it this far…I did but who’s complaining? Well, the episode starts at the very beginning of the series when Steve is transporting a high level fugitive Anton Hesse. When their convoy was attacked by a missile. As Steve tries to protect the hostage he grabs a gun and shoots at Steve. He fires back but lands on barbed wire and dies. When Steve gets a call from Anton’s brother Victor he has his father taken hostage when shots are fired. The line went dead until the line was picked up by Danny? That’s not how the story started. It seems that Steve was dreaming as we find him in a room enclosed. Where is Steve?

Well the team is tracking him down with the help of Sang Min (Guest Star: Will Yun Lee). He meets with Johnny Moreau (Guest Star: Gavin Rossdale) to find out what he’s been up to. When Danny gets a call from HPD they find Steve’s car abandoned and was taken. When we get back to Steve the room darkens and a projector activates to reveal an old family memory of Steve’s. Until the room fills with gas and knocks him out.

As Steve continues his journey through the what if life we see Danny wearing a Hawaiian shirt, Jerry is a homeless man, Kono is a surfer champion, Lou on vacation Max is a doctor at the hospital and Chin the Captain of HPD? Not that I don’t like this alternate universe but this is messed up. Steve wakes up and is treated but not getting answers. He gets injected with some sort of chemical that makes him hard of sight. He somehow sees a man come in which looks like Wo Fat (Guest Star: Mark Dacascos)

Wo Fat tortured Steve for information about his father in which he has no information about this. But it made things worse as something incredible is revealed. Steve and Wo Fat are brother of the same mom. Back at Five-0 HQ Sang Min helped the team find an associate who might know a thing or two about Steve’s abduction. Kono pays a visit to her boyfriend Anthony Noshimori to ask him about a man named Anthony Shue in connection to his father Hiro Noshimori.

So at this point Wo Fat is still putting him through various tortures and having him see snip its of his life as well as the continuation of his alternate life. Even on the alternate universe Wo Fat died and the team well…never got made. Well Wo Fat seemed convinced and when he leaves Steve escapes and takes down the doctor.

Wo Fat returns and takes on Steve when the Five-0 team finds both of them with the help of Adam’s Intel. When they find him they are both on the ground. But Steve was still alive and Wo Fat…dead. The episode ends with a backtrack through the timeline and the formation of the team…good times. Happy 100 to Five-0 and here’s to many more.

We’ll see you in two weeks!!!

Photo Credit: CBS/Hawaii Five-O

The episode begins with Steve heading to National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific to visit his father’s grave. Which in the series premiere almost 5 years ago his dad got shot by Victor Hesse, one of the members of Wo Fat’s gang. Well, not long after another mourner stops at McGarrett’s grave. Steve becomes curious meets the woman known as Ellie Clayton who seemed to know Steve’s dad back in the day. Reason being is that his father was investigating a case involving Ellie’s father murder. John would also check in on Ellie on the anniversary of his death. But she would visit his grave site on the day he died almost four years ago. Now it just so happens that his son would meet this girl. Here’s the best part, she’s also a deputy prosecutor. Well it seems Steve might have a connection to her after all. Since the beginning of the series he has been holding on to his father’s tool box with various items of evidence. One piece was from the bar that Ellie’s father owned. Before he died John worked with Chin at HPD so Steve consulted him for what he knows about the cold case his dad was working on.

Ellie gives us a flashback of what happened that night from doing homework to the shots fired in the bar. To meeting John McGarrett (Guest Star: William Sadler). Back then John had a possible lead on a homeless man named Ned Burrows. He had been tracking him since the case and got nowhere. However thanks to a program in Hawaii that gave homeless people a license and a job they were able to find Burrows. When they find him Burrows told Steve and Chin that when he got the sweater from the dumpster he found a metal box with money and a watch.

Steve talked with Ellie to see if there was anything out of the ordinary the days leading up to his father’s murder. She said that he was talking with a boy named Jordan Lewis in which her dad got into an argument with a week before he died. When they met with Jordan at the correctional facility he mentioned how he was learning to get off drugs thanks to Ellie’s Father. Hence why they were arguing. But digging deeper into the past Chin remembers Christmas 15 years ago when John was visiting Ellie and regretted sending Steve away after staging his mothers death. Something Steve has been holding on to for a while. Well it turns out that Ellie’s father may have been caught up in a gambling ring that might have costed his life.

Steve and the crime lab opened up the autopsy report again to see what they might have missed. After the reports it seems that there was a connection between Paul Clayton and Tony Malua’s gun. But he gave his gun to a guy named Jimmy Sykes the killer. So Steve and Chin consult Jordan to help catch the killer and it worked but he got shot by Clayton. Ellie makes a visit to Steve’s house to thank him for finding the killer. It almost looks like these two could have something going on. I mean now that Catherine is gone who might be his new love interest? Well remember Jerry’s hunch on the counterfeit book seller? Well he just got made! Now what happens from here? Your exclusive sneak peak is down below.

For the last few weeks we learned that Danny’s brother was held in custody by Marco Reyes. Reyes was hoping that Danny would find the 18 Million taken by his brother. Last week he found the money but now has only a few days to deliver it to Reyes. Well when Steve visited Danny’s place he sees the pile of money but Danny only has 13 Million accounted for. So question is…what happened to the missing 5 Million? So Danny visits a friend Mr. Ko but it’s unknown what it’s about. That was until Chin shows up and offers his services. Meanwhile at Honolulu International a scuffle between TSA and a Mr. Bristol triggers an alert from Five-0.

Chin goes to visit his brother in law Gabriel for information regarding Danny’s brother and the missing 5 Million. Unfortunately he was no help to Chin. Back at Five0 Headquarters they find out that the Mr. Bristol is actually Joseph Stegner from Detroit and has close ties with the Bagosa Crime Family. When they find him at Ala Moana Mall. When they get ready to apprehend him he gets shot by an unknown sniper.

Steve was able to injure the sniper and is now on the run. When Danny and Steve find his car they found blood on the seat they ran it through and got a match linking to a member of the Bagosa’s Nick Mercer. He’s known in the family as the Painter (hence the title of this episode). Mercer was able to commandeer an ambulance and was on the run once again. But passed out on the road when he lost a lot of blood.

Steve, Chin and Grover meet with Mercer to find out his plans and why he killed Stegner. He said that after a change of heart and a near death experience he started to think about helping people and taking down the Bogosa family. Stegner was actually on the island after all the people Mercer saved. It wasn’t until a group of Bagosa members were seen on a charter flight heading west and possibly Hawaii.

The team takes to Molokai where Mercer said the people he was protecting live. But now he was able to take down the entire team including the Bagosa Crime Boss. Now, we take to Columbia where Danny and Steve has all 18 Million in his possession thanks to Gabriel. When they meet with Reyes they make the trade but Matt was actually In a oil barge…dead. All of that and for nothing? Well not quite, after Steve and Danny got outside they killed Reyes’s men and him as well. I’m sure this won’t end well when the government finds out about this. Here’s a sneak peak at next week’s.

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