Today we should have a first look at «
3-14 – The arrow that is not aimed ».
First, i have to admit that well known Mako was quite impressive in that episode which is mainly sustained by his character and his dilemna.
Besides, i won't go back to whether, in 1982, hiring an old-fashioned samurai to guard an antique japanese plate is the best guarantee (or more discreet mean?) for businessmen...
I was interested to find out where exactly two scenes were filmed: the escape from Gallagher's gift store and the fall of Gallagher's car into the waters of Honolulu harbor...
The first one gave me a little trouble because, from the camera, you never really see the building that houses Gallagher's store and since the Honolulu Harbor's area was extensively rebuilt (
edit: see below). This is why the location of the sequence is a bit tricky to spot nowadays.
Nevertheless, from what we understand from the interlude that precedes it is probably at the passenger landing of the port, in other words at the landing of the Aloha Tower.
here are some shots from the episode :
https://ibb.co/3rbQBBv
https://ibb.co/PW2Xy9y
The most important clue is the very tall building, left in the very background, which turns out to be the
Prince Kuhio Federal Building (which hold the US federal courthouse), a building that already appears in episode 3.8 - "Foiled again".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Ku ... l_Building
https://ibb.co/Q8cV1xn
Here you can clearly see the 70's modern arches and curved concrete pillars which are clearly those of the Aloha Tower landing compound at that time.
Good clue : here are two shots, with a more distant framing, taken from 1-8 « The ugliest dog in Hawaii »
The Honolulu passenger landing compound was widely rebuilt then but the southern wing (along the pier) remains.
https://ibb.co/2MbPQy5
https://ibb.co/T1w6d4W
This overprint démonstrates that the actual southern (and older) part of the Aloha Tower complex is in the correct angle of view.
https://ibb.co/Tt2TMQ7
So, we could roughly place the scene here, in this 1993 satellite view
https://ibb.co/kJVtpWt
And there, in this 2020 google maps perspective
https://ibb.co/XsYN29K
edit: The whole merchant area was completly overhauled in 1994, with the creation of the Aloha Marketplace which offered numerous shops, restaurants and others services. Active between 1998 and 2002, the Aloha Marketplace suffered a major bankrupcy in 2002. However, the facility was bought by the Hawaii Pacific University which "renovated the shopping center into a mixed-use facility with retail, restaurant, and HPU student dormitories". Thez new complex was commissionned in 2015.
https://ibb.co/N6fsn62
To be continued... Thanks for reading !