Hawaii Five-O/I'll Kill 'Em Again

I'll Kill 'Em Again
Season 7, Episode 3
Airdate	September 24, 1974
Production Number	1310-1729-0503
Written by	Tim Maschler
Directed by	Charles S. Dubin
Produced by	William Finnegan
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Hawaii Five-O — Season Seven

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I'll Kill 'Em Again is the third episode of the seventh season of Hawaii Five-O, and is the one hundred forty-ninth episode overall.

Starring: Jack Lord (Det. Steve McGarrett)

with James MacArthur (Dan Williams), Al Harrington (Ben), Kam Fong (Chin Ho)

Guest Stars: Danny Goldman (Eddie Josephs), Ivor Francis (Beecham)

Linda Ann Ryan (Dr. Judith Patrick), Harry Endo (Che Fong), Al Eben (Doc), Lei Kayahara (Sheila Young), Elithe Aguiae (Felicia), Frances Omori (Diana Loo), Galen W.Y. Kam (Wan Soo), Sam Amato (Palley), Joseph Geremia (Marina Guard)

Plot Overview

Five-O becomes involved with the search for a copycat killer who painstakingly recreates past murders investigated by the team. The killer, who has been learning about the previous crimes by reading a magazine article detailing Five-O's investigations of the murders, turns out to be a put-upon nebbish named Eddie Josephs who works at a used bookstore, who sends taunting messages and phone calls to McGarrett regarding the murders. Eddie gloats at McGarrett during the phone calls, arrogantly claiming to be smarter than Five-O and the police and challenging them to find him before he strikes again. After recording the calls, McGarrett consults with psychologist Dr. Judith Patrick, who listens to the tape recordings and deduces that the killer acts the way he does toward him to cover up feelings of insecurity and inferiority.

After Eddie is later fired from the bookstore for lateness and slacking, his ex-boss arrives at Eddie's apartment to bring him his severance pay, but Eddie retaliates (and in doing so, reenacts another murder investigated by Five-O) by bludgeoning him to death with a stone carving. After figuring out that Eddie is behind the copycat murders, McGarrett, Dan and several HPD officers go to his apartment to arrest him but find no one home, as he has already anticipated their arrival and fled the scene. Eddie goes to a woman's apartment to reenact another murder, but McGarrett and Dan get there in the nick of time and stop him. Enraged over McGarrett figuring him out as the killer and being stopped by him, Eddie commits suicide to avoid capture by Five-O by throwing himself out the apartment window to his death in the street below.