Yep, I enjoy vigilante episodes too. So this was right up my alley. It's nowhere near as good as season 6's "Mother's Deadly Helper" with Anthony Zerbe playing the McGarrett-worshipping vigilante (that kind of episode quality is long gone by this point) but for a season 12 episode I thought this was quite good. In fact it's my favorite from the final season! Granted it's slim pickings by this point, but still...T.Q. wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 11:25 pm Though the Heavens Fall
Good concept à la “Star Chamber”.
I enjoyed the first half but didn’t love where it went with the safari hunt for some reason.
Was good though.
You know I like the vigilante stuff.
Still didn’t like Sharon Farrell‘s acting much.
And Mr. Brady was good again. Out goes the idea of ‘did the producers and casting director think all Asians look alike’ when the same actors are cast in different roles continually. Robert Reed was like 8 episodes apart in different roles too.
MPI: John Allen
Robert Reed is always good in these high-brow, clean-cut, intelligent type roles. Here he's the leader of this "star chamber" type group, where they chant their motto "Let justice be done... though the heavens fall". Hey, I like it. He's impeccably dressed in white suits, walks with a cane, good at fencing, hunting, etc. A man for all seasons! Speaking of hunting, I like the safari hunt just fine. At least it's something we haven't seen on the show before. Also them kidnapping Howell via the back of the cliff (sure, it's a bit silly) but I still like it. They steal Howell right from under Kimo and Lori's noses. So much for the new Five-O team.
The old team was better.There's a good score by Bruce Broughton (whose music we haven't heard since the start of season 10). He would only do this and one more ("Use a Gun, Go to Hell") but it's basically the same score, reused from this episode.
I also get a good chuckle when McG swoops in at the end in the copter to save the day. He flies overhead, knocks out the bad guys with the force of the wind from the copter (I guess), then gives the shaka sign to poor Truck below who's wounded, and then just flies away.
Sheesh! 
He didn't have room for just one person to be air-lifted to the nearest hospital? I bet he wouldn't have bailed like that if that was Danno below.There's also an unnecessary preaching session at the end by McG to Reed about the judicial system and calling one's lawyer. Yes, we get it. Reed is a hypocrite, relying on the judicial system when it suits him. No need to preach. Something like this would have never happened in the earlier seasons. But hey, this is season 12 and McG is high up on his pulpit.
I believe this is the episode that Lord actually directed himself, even though the directing credit went to Harry F. Hogan III. I think the same thing may have also happened with "A Very Personal Matter" which is the other one that Hogan gets a directing credit for. I think I read somewhere that it was Hogan at whom Lord blew up and said "Nobody shoots me through a fountain!" and I think it was during "A Very Personal Matter". At which point I think Lord just took over directing duties and let Hogan take the credit. I could be misremembering if that was Hogan or some other director. But I think it was.
This revenge story really should have been a separate episode.
