Magnum Mania!

Memories Are Forever (2)

Episode ID: 24
Episode Number: 2.6
Air Date: 11/5/1981
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Ray Austin
Producers: Rick Weaver, Andrew Schneider
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Marta DuBois (Michelle Hue), Jeff MacKay (Lt. "Mac" MacReynolds), Lance LeGault (Col. Buck Greene), Soon-Tek Oh (Gen. Nguyen Hue)

Guest Stars

Clyde Kusatsu (Col. Ki), Paul Burke (Admiral Kitchner), Brian Fong (Tan-soo), Soo Yong (Old Woman), Yankee Chang (Priest)

Plot Outline

Magnum's desperate search for Michelle faces being forced to a halt after he has been called up for active Navy duty and ordered to testify in Washington. Magnum suspects that is just a political smokescreen to try and get him off Michelle's trail. Magnum is briefly reunited with Michelle, who is married to Vietnamese General Hue, who is involved in delicate negotiations regarding returning remains of M.I.A.s and P.O.W.s from Vietnam. But Michelle is suspected of being a traitor agent and is in great danger.

Rating

9.5 (15 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 The string melody "Michelle's Theme", heard during Thomas and Michelle's "reunion" scene and over the closing credits, is an original composition by composer Mike Post. [audio]

2 Magnum is promoted from Lieutenant to Commander after being re-commissioned. He skips Lieutenant Commader altogether. Magnum's uniform now includes the Special Warfare Insignia (also known as the "SEAL Trident"). The Surface Warfare insignia that was seen on his uniform in the "Pilot Movie" is now absent.

3 This episode contains the first reference to Higgins' memoirs.

4 The chapel scenes were filmed at St. Andrew's Cathedral (the Parke Chapel) in Honolulu.

5 The ship where Magnum and Col. Greene meet is the historic museum ship Falls of Clyde, the only surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full rigged ship, and the only surviving sail-driven oil tanker in the world!

6 It's clear that if Colonel Ki had lived, he never would have become a General. He was wrong about the 'Tiger', he had a clear surprise shot from behind to kill Magnum and he only manages to hit him in the shoulder?! He then fails to finish him off, or at least disarm him. Not very smart, and he paid for it dearly.

Quotes

1
Magnum (in the shower): Who is this "Tiger"?
Michelle (in bedroom): What do you know of the Tiger?
Magnum: Oh, those MVA types who jumped us in Little Saigon, they said something in Vietnamese about being after the Tiger. Who is he?
Michelle: He leads the new revolutionary front.
Magnum: What? Say it again, I don't think I heard you right.
Michelle: Yes you did.
Magnum: You mean, it's starting again?
Michelle: Well there are many from the North who are as disillusioned with the reunification and the party leadership of those in the South. The most effective of these is called "The Tiger". He says the party has betrayed the people and sold out to Moscow.
Magnum: Does that include your husband?
Michelle: Yes, that is why he insisted upon having the MIA negotiations here in Hawaii, instead of Hanoi. He and Colonel Ki knew that the Tiger would be here this month to organize the refugee community and to negotiate for aid from your CIA.
Magnum: The Tiger would trust us?
Michelle: No, but he would take aid from anybody - The Chinese, the Americans, anybody but the Russians.
(Magnum comes out of the bathroom)
Magnum: Do you know who he is?
Michelle: No, why would I?
Magnum: Buck Greene admitted to me that you work for him. Is that why Colonel Ki came after you?
Michelle: I don't know...(Magnum takes Michelle's hair pin out) Thomas please, no... Thomas, no please.
Magnum: It's like we've never been apart. As if these six years didn't exist.
Michelle: But they do.
Magnum: No, not at this moment they don't.
(Long kiss - Magnum carries Michelle to bed)

2
Magnum: I think Michelle is going to die because of you. What do you think?
Buck: You're right. Colonel Ki believes she's the Tiger and I want him to think that. At least until the real Tiger can finish his work here and return to 'Nam.
Magnum: Which is?
Buck: Setup a network of refugees, gather support, arrange funding, weapons, form a political base.
Magnum: Aw, cmon Buck! You're not gonna dance to that fiddler again.
Buck: That's not for me to say, but in the meantime we are trying all the channels we can, to do whatever we can, to get the bodies of our boys back home.
Magnum: Where is Michelle?
Buck: Waiting to join her husband.
Magnum: Can he protect her from Colonel Ki?
Buck: He'll try.
Magnum: But he's counting on you to do that.
Buck: Can't, too risky. It could...
Magnum: Blow his cover...He's the Tiger.
Buck: That's why I can't intervene. Once, last night at the church was risky enough, twice in 24 hours, no way. Colonel Ki would put it together. He'd know we were being tipped off and he'd realize the man he is hunting is General Hue.
Magnum: He probably already does. Either way you can't let Michelle walk into it.
Buck: She was safe. She could have stayed with you.
Magnum: Where is she!!??
Buck: Sorry, I can't tell you that.
Magnum (points .45 at Buck's head): Buck.
Buck: Go ahead, pull the trigger. I can't jeopardize this operation just so you can have General Hue's wife.
Magnum: Say again.
Buck: If he's dead, the lady stays with you. He knows it, she knows it, and I know it, and so do you.
(Magnum lowers .45)

Flubs

1 When Magnum exits the guesthouse to take a swim, he has an Aloha shirt on and is carrying a towel, and he IS NOT wearing a cap. He is met downstairs by the lads and is presumably being chased by them (exercising the lads). This is when Mac comes to the estate to tell Magnum about being reactivated. When Magnum and Mac enter the guesthouse, Magnum still has his Aloha shirt, but now is wearing his Detroit Tigers cap. He did not have this when he left the guesthouse, and I doubt he would have stopped to pick it up while being chased by the lads! (Noted by IslandHopper)

2 When Magnum points his .45 at General Hue's chest, he has already fired the maximum eight rounds without reloading!

3 In the final scene, a military transport aircraft is identified as a C-133 Cargo Master, when it was actually a C-141 Starlifter.

4 The closing credits misspell one of the character's names. Col. Ki's driver is credited as 'Col. Ky's Driver'.

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