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The Jororo Kill

Episode ID: 31
Episode Number: 2.13
Air Date: 1/7/1982
Writers: Donald P. Bellisario, Andrew Schneider, Reuben Leder
Story: D. Bellisario, A. Schneider, R. Leder, A. Sutterfield
Director: Alan J. Levi
Producers: Rick Weaver, Andrew Schneider
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Jeff MacKay (Lt. "Mac" MacReynolds)

Guest Stars

Tyne Daly (Kate Sullivan), Christopher Morley (David Bannister), Burr DeBenning (Ed Russler), Zulu (Hotel Doorman), Ed Fernandez (Santos), Brandon Smith (Russler's Aide)

Plot Outline

When Kate Sullivan, a journalist, and an old friend of Thomas, Rick, and T.C. from the Vietnam days, arrives in Hawaii and asks for Magnum's help in tracking down an international assassin, Magnum learns that the target is a Prime Minister visiting from a small island republic. However, Magnum becomes suspicious of Kate's determination for getting the story.

Rating

8.5 (13 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Season Four's "Jororo Farewell" (4.11) will mention events that take place in this episode. Ed Russler will return, but he will be played by a different actor - John Saxon.

2 The fictional Jororo Islands are located "1200 miles southeast of Guam".

3 The opening scene takes place in the South of France and uses stock aerial footage of Marseilles. The scene with David Bannister and the French policeman was originally broadcast without subtitles. The subtitles were added for the DVD release.

4 The scenes at the "Our Lady of the Holy Veil" church were filmed at Kaumakapili Church on N. King Street in Honolulu. (Noted by rubber chicken)

5 Hawaii Five-O alum and native Hawaiian Zulu (Det. Kono Kalakaua) makes his only appearance on MPI, as a hotel doorman. He is credited as "Zoulou", the French Tahitian spelling of "Zulu".

6 The estate's wine cellar is seen for only the second time in the series. (Noted by Mike Barnes)

7 "Mac" does a very good impersonation of Magnum in this episode!

8 Higgins was with MI6 in Northern Ireland (date unknown) where he was attached to General Cornwall. At the Queen's Birthday Ball, fellow MI6'er David Bannister, a male field operative who dresses in drag, showed up in the same gown as Lady Ashley.

Quotes

1
Magnum: Kate had been a wire service reporter working out of Saigon, when she came to do a story on our team. She was an idealist, not naive, but still an idealist. She wanted to write the truth. And if a truth happened to be location in a free-fire zone, or if the truth wasn't exactly what she thought it would be going in, well she'd write it anyway. That's the Kate we all fell for. And when she got wounded, it was a buddy getting hit.

2
Mac: Magnum, do you have any idea who it is you're dealing with here?
Magnum: Well, I know he used to be an operative with MI6 and that he quit, or was kicked out, because he likes to dress up like girls, and that he's writing a book.
Mac: Magnum, Bannister isn't writing any books. He's selling himself to the highest bidder. He's an international assassin! A killer! Every police department in the world is lookin' for him!

3
Magnum: Nuns don't work on Sunday.
(Begin shootout with David Bannister)
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