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US Navy SEAL Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) returns to his native Hawaii to find Victor Hesse (James Marsters), a terrorist who murdered McGarrett's father, John McGarrett, a retired officer from the Honolulu Police Department (HPD). He is enlisted by the Governor of Hawaii Pat Jameson (Jean Smart) to head a new task force with legal immunity to clean up the underworld of Oahu. In turn, McGarrett enlists Honolulu newcomer Danny Williams (Scott Caan), a divorced detective who moved from New Jersey to be closer to his daughter; Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim), a disgraced police officer and a protege of McGarrett's father who was wrongly accused of corruption; and Kona Kalakaua (Grace Park), Chin Ho's cousin, a former surfer and soon-to-be Police Academy graduate. Together they discover a link between Hesse and a Chinese human trafficking ring with a mole in HPD. After threatening to deport the ring leader's family to Rwanda, McGarrett is given the location where Hesse is; a frieghter heading to China. McGarrett and Williams storm the freighter and dispatches several of Hesse's guards. McGarrett confronts Hesse and after a fight, McGarrett shoots Hesse, who falls to the sea. However, by the next episode it is revealed the Coastguard have yet to find his body.

A National Security Agency cyberterrorism expert Roland Lowery (Scott Cohen) is kidnapped by a Serbian gang. While Kalakaua is tasked with looking after Lowery's son Evan, the rest of the team discover Lowery was working on a "skeleton key", a computer program that would allow the user to hack into anything. Soon, Kalakaua and Evan are kidnapped by the same gang led by Drago Zankovic (Peter Stormare). The rest of the team realise the gang is using the program to shut down the island's radar, allowing a plane to smuggle through. Zankovic intends to sell the program to the occupants of the plane. Before the deal is made, McGarrett's team storm the warehouse and arrest Zankovic. In the end, the team celebrate Kalakaua's Police Academy graduation.

The team fall witness to a shooting between Triad and Samoan gangs during a high school football game. Kelly gives chase to a suspect, only to find it is Sid (Sidney Liufau), his cousin, who later reveals himself to be working undercover in a gang unit. Sid refuses to have anything to do with Kelly because of his past with the HPD. McGarrett and Williams discover that Frank Salvo (James Russo), the leader of the Salvo family from New Jersey, is meeting with the head of the Samoan gang, after which there could be a full blown gang war. The team manage to stop the meeting. Meanwhile, Williams fights to keep shared custody of his daughter Grace following the gang shooting, as she was present; his ex-wife ultimately drops the case. In the end, the team decides to name themselves "Five-0", after Steve's high school football jersey number.

Five-0 are tasked to find Walton Dawkins (Balthazar Getty) a convict who broke out of prison. The later find he is targetting a couple, who recently won a million dollars and free trip to Hawaii on a game show. Dawkins kidnaps the boyfriend, Craig Ellers (Kenneth Mitchell), who is revealed to be Dawkins' former partner in crime. The two previously robbed five million dollars before Ellers placed it in a bank while Dawkins goes to prison. McGarrett and Kelly arrive at the bank, and give chase to Dawkins, first by road, then by helicopter, where Dawkins' crash lands through lack of fuel. McGarrett catches up with Dawkins and kills him in the ensuing shootout. Meanwhile, McGarrett looks after his sister Mary, (Taryn Manning) who has had problems with the law in the past, when she comes to visit. Danny has a knee injury.

Amanda Reeves, the adult daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Michael Reeves, is found drowned. Governer Jameson takes a personal pledge to find those responsible, and enlists Five-0's head. Over the course of the investigation, they learn Amanda's sister Robyn is still alive and was last found in a nightclub. McGarrett and Williams discover somebody drugged both sisters and sold them to a sex trafficking ring. The Five-0 team storms the operation, but they find that Robyn is not there. They learn from the head of the operation that they were ordered to kidnap the sisters from a Filipino terrorist organisation, headed by Carlos Bagoyo (Patrick Gallagher), who is using the ransom demand to get to Reeves and log in to a database. Five-0 storms the warehouse after confirming Robyn is present, and McGarrett subdues Bagoyo. Meanwhile, Mary Ann finds her father's tool box that he left for her brother to solve a crime, and starts investigating herself. This episode introduces quirky medical examiner Max Bergman (Masi Oka).

Ian Adams (Mark Cunningham), the head of Kalakaua's former pro surfing team, Coral Prince, is shot in front of a large crowd. McGarrett suggests Kalakaua sits out the case, but she is determined to find the killer and talks with old friend Ben Bass (Joshua Dallas), the son of Carlton Bass (Kevin Sorbo) who was Adams' business partner. She finds he founded a surf village located near the beach where Adams was killed, but also find gangsters are trying to get them to leave. The rest of the team determine that Adams was targeted and killed by a sniper from a hill overlooking the beach. Realising Ben owns a rifle, they also learn that according to Adams' will, Ben will become his beneficiary, and hence is a prime suspect. However, it is later revealed that it was Carlton who organised Adams' death and is arrested.

The episode opens with ex-Navy SEAL Graham Wilson (Adam Beach) being pursued by the HPD, fleeing the scene of his wife's murder, and taking a group of tourists hostage aboard the USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor. He claims he is innocent, and is using the hostages as leverage to force the authorities to find the real killer, allowing them four hours to do so. Governor Jameson's assistant assigns the case to Five-0. McGarrett sneaks aboard the Missouri alone while the rest of the team try to piece together what actually happened at the crime scene. The team discovers that Wilson was prescribed antipsychotic medication that he had stopped taking, and as a result is suffering from blackouts during which he may have killed his wife without realizing it. On-board Missouri, McGarrett's plan is assisted by Ed McKay (Robert Loggia), a retired sailor who had served with McGarrett's grandfather on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. After Wilson's daughter is kidnapped, it seems apparent he was framed, and team shifts priority to recovering the girl. McGarrett prevents HPD SWAT from killing Wilson, but although he's cleared for his wife's murder, he still faces charges for the hostage-taking.

Williams is shocked to discover his former HPD partner, Meka Hanamoa, is found dead at a luau. Furthermore he learns HPD is not invesitgating who murdered him because Internal Affairs is investigating Hanamoa for possible police corruption, led by the same man who investigated Kelly. Williams' attempts to clear his name only appears to incriminate the dead officer further. Hanamoa's most recent partner Kaleo (Jason Scott Lee) works with Five-0 and find Hanamoa may have worked with the Ochoa cartel, led by Emilio Ochoa (Christian George). Although they plan to capture him alive, Kaleo kills him, claiming he was defending himself. However, Five-0 find Kaleo was the corrupt detective, who set up his partner. Williams attacks Kaleo before McGarrett breaks them up. Now cleared, Hanamoa is given a funeral with full honors.

A security detail member is found murdered in a hotel room. Five-0 investigate to learn he was assinged to protect Tun Pak (Ethan Garrido), a mass-murdering military general from Sandimar, after he would arrive in the Oahu Foreign Aid Summit, indicating a lot of people want to kill him. McGarrett works with an old SEAL friend Nick Taylor (Max Martini) to protect Pak. After viewing security footage of the hotel, Kelly discovers the murderer is Erica Raines (Emmanuelle Vaugier), a CIA assassin. When the team confront her however, she is run over by a bus and dies. When Pak and his family arrives, Five-0 learn too late that Raines contacted Taylor, who intents to kill Pak; Five-0 are able to evade him and his men and seek refuge in McGarrett's house, where Pak reveals he was going to Hawaii to seek political asylum and confess his crimes. McGarrett phones for HPD SWAT, but realises too late that Taylor cloned his phone signal; the SWAT team are also Taylor's men. During the siege, the team defeat most of their attackers, and McGarrett is forced to shoot Taylor to death.

In Waikiki Four masked assailants in white coats robs an amoured car shooting all three guards, killing two of them, in broad daylight. Five-0 quickly recover the van, as well as the money, leaving them confused but realizes the gang are likely to strike a bigger target during a triathlon event, which is being held for the next day. Furthermore, the robbers are atheletes taking part in the event and are living next door to Williams' ex-wife Rachel (Claire van der Boom). Following a stakeout, Williams finds out they are to rob a diamond store. As they split up in the escape, Five-0 follow suit and each member takes down a robber.

Five-0 investigate when 26 year-old Erica Harris (Peyton List) is found by two hunters asking for help, not knowing what she was running from. Erica is on her honeymoon with her husband, Jake Harris. Her mother-in-law suspects her of being involved, having possibly only married Jake for his money and that she is $100,000 in debt. After Jake is found strangled to death in their hotel room, Bergman discovers a series of related murders in French Polynesia in December 2009 where three couples were targetted; the husband was strangled, while the wife's body would be found mutilated later. Five-0 find the women had a similar appearance to Erica, and they find the face of the killer, Bradford Matinski (Rhys Coiro), in the pictures from each couple. He was engaged to a woman who called off the wedding; Five-0 believe he later killed her. After he escapes from his cruise ship, Williams finds his next target. He kidnaps the wife and after a car chase, Matinsky threatens to kill the woman. McGarrett shoots him in the shoulder, and he falls off a cliff. Meanwhile, McGarrett reveals to Kelly about a Champion Spark Plugs tool box left to him be his father after he died, showing pictures and files about Yakuza activity. There are also a set of unexplained numbers. Kelly does some digging and reveals the numbers were a case file that mysteriously disappeared, involving McGarrett's mother's death, which is believed to be murder.

A weapons dealer is found dead after washing up on shore. Surveillance shows the victim walking with Victor Hesse, the man believed to be dead, who killed Commander Steve McGarrett's father. Hesse also holds the fate of Chin Ho in his hands after strapping a bomb to his neck. After being sent back to jail, Hesse is seen negotiating with Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos).

Mary Ann is kidnapped, and the Champion Spark Plugs tool box is stolen from the McGarrett house, Steve and Five-0 discover clues in the murder of his mother, including ties to the Yakuza.

Chin Ho & Kono join the HPD in a high speed car chase, ultimately leading to a fatal accident and the discovery of a severed head in a cardboard box. What they are about to discover leads the team to a innocent illegal Chinese immigrant, a decapitated cancer patient, his missing wife and a kidnapper. The investigation also leads Chin Ho to awkwardly reunite with his former fiancée Malia (Reiko Aylesworth) at the hospital while trying to identify a John Doe.

The team investigates the disappearance of Dr. Norman Russell (John Sullivan), the head of the Tsunami Warning Center as a tsunami threat approaches the island and authorities prepare residents for evacuation.

When the key witness against a gang leader disappears, the team is sent to bring her back to the courtroom in time for the hearing. The two armed guards sent to protect her are found dead in the trunk of a police cruiser, and the house she was supposed to be living in is ransacked: McGarrett's Navy SEAL instincts tell him that she put up quite the fight and escaped the well-trained assassins. Danny doesn't attend Steve's hunt through the dense Hawaiian forest, and instead focuses on keeping his daughter (Grace) and his ex-wife (Rachel) safe after they were carjacked. Convinced Stan (Rachel's current husband) has something to do with the carjacking because it was his car that was stolen, Danny intends to get to the bottom of any danger in order to keep Grace safe.

The team investigates the kidnapping of 12 partying college students on spring break, who are being held for ransom after getting their catamaran attacked by pirates off the coast of Waikiki. Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo guest star.

The team tries to find out who's behind a wave of bombings while Danny's younger brother Matthew (Dane Cook) comes to Hawaii unexpectedly, hiding his own dark secrets.

After an innocent man is killed, the team investigates only to find out that the murder is linked to a much bigger case. Meanwhile, McGarret teams up with a CIA analyst (Larisa Oleynik) and finds the person that caused the death of McGarret's parents, the hiring of McGarret's father's killer and the head of the Yakuza: Wo Fat.

McGarrett and Williams go on a leisure hike in the Ko'olau Range but results in McGarrett getting injured after finding a body with a gunshot wound on a cliff. Meanwhile, Chin Ho reveals to Kono the exact circumstances behind his HPD dismissal and corruption charges after visiting their ailing aunt.

When a crime lord moves against the family and killed the wife of an undercover NYPD detective (Diddy) who infiltrated his organization, it's up to Five-0 to stop the policeman from exacting revenge.

A world-renowned photographer Renny Sinclair (Rick Springfield) has been murdered while on assignment in Hawaii shooting the annual swimsuit edition of a top sports magazine. Danny thinks this case may be the best one yet that Five-0 best case ever when he has to talk with the models in town for a sports magazine's annual swimsuit cover shoot.

Agent Kaye's information has helped Five-0 narrow in on capturing Wo-Fat, but before they can act, Danny becomes exposed to a lethal chemical. The investigation into this neurological agent takes precedence as Five-0 must prevent a bio-terrorism threat to the island.