The Quick Return

"The Quick Return" is an episode of the American television detective series Hawaiian Eye.

Synopsis

Shady millionaire investor Victor Shaw arrives in Honolulu to bid for a public works project. Reporters at the airport note that commission member Charles Germane is on hand to greet him. While explaining to columnist Roy Hondine his operating methods, Shaw is distracted by a typewritten death threat. Showing it to his public relations manager, Jerry Jackson, Shaw orders him to get police protection. Instead, Jackson hires old buddy Tracey Steele to guard his boss, and more importantly, a notebook on his dirty deals that Jackson uses as insurance to safeguard his own life.

Tracey Steele surprises Victor Shaw's secretary Celia Lewin in a passionate embrace with his right-hand man, George Nolen. Shaw wants Steele to find the notebook for him, but an intruder apparently has stolen it from the suite occupied by Jackson and his wife Alma. Steele suspects Nolen has stolen the notebook, and enlists Cricket and cabbie Kim to keep tabs on him. Kim drives Nolen to a rendezvous at a local church where he secretly weds Celia Lewin. Back at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, Shaw demands the notebook from Jackson, or else.

At a luau that evening Shaw fires his three employees. Jackson disappears on a bender, but Shaw also leaves the party. He is later found murdered, with Jackson as a prime suspect. Commissioner Germane tells Tracey Steele that he wrote the phony death threat to scare Shaw away from Honolulu, but it backfired. Meanwhile, Nolen and his new wife take over the Shaw empire by telephone. Steele locates Jackson in a flophouse, and with his help lures the real killer into the open.

Episode cast

Series regulars

• Robert Conrad ...as Tom Lopaka
• Anthony Eisley ...as Tracy Steele
• Connie Stevens ...as Cricket Blake
• Poncie Ponce ...as Kim

Recurring characters

• Mel Prestidge ...as Lt Danny Quon
• Doug Mossman ...as Moke (billed as Marty)
• Rush Williams ...as Roy Hondine

Guest stars

• Adam West ...as George Nolen
• Harry Jackson ...as Jerry Jackson
• Hugh Sanders ...as Victor Shaw
• Carol Ohmart ...as Celia Lewin
• Patricia Huston ...as Alma Jackson
• Tol Avery ...as Charles Germane
• Dell-Finn Poaha ...as Greta (credited as Dell-Fin Thursday)
• Unknown ...as Lt. Randolph

Musical interlude

All the Warner Brothers detective shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s had one or more musical interludes written into the teleplay. For this episode, Connie Stevens sang "Softly, As in an Evening Sunset" with the Shell Bar band accompanying her.

Episode notes

This episode introduced minor recurring character Roy Hondine, a columnist with the fictional Honolulu Post. It also had Cricket explain to receptionist Greta why the Hawaiian Eye detectives kiss their own hands and plant them on the Tiki statue in the firm's lobby as they enter or exit, a gesture repeated in every episode of the series.

External links

• The Quick Return at the Internet Movie Database