Steve looked over to Danny, who still wore an angry expression, even after Chin and the others had left. The ex-SEAL pulled up the desktop screen on the table top and said without looking up, "I'm sorry, Danny. I know you're pissed-"
"Pissed isn't the right word…..homicidally ticked more accurate," Danny replied harshly.
"Well, you heard Chin. Let's work now so you can kick my ass later." Steve looked up and saw a slight smile appear then disappear on Danny's face within a few seconds.
The detective then shot Steve a glare and muttered, "Alright. I'll get traffic cameras by the palace and you get the ones by Joe's home. We'll meet here in about 20 minutes."
"Ok." Steve watched Danny briskly walk to his office room. The detective suddenly stopped short and turned back towards Steve. "Screw it, "Danny mumbled, "Why the hell did you lie to us?"
Steve sighed, instantly knowing that whatever answer he could give would be taken badly. "Danno, I am really, really sorry about what happened-"
"Why do I still get the feeling that this will happen again? I'm not talking about your usual craziness, Steven. I get the sickening feeling that your stunts are just going to get worse and worse until one of two things will happen: number one, I'll get a call that you've gotten yourself killed trying to sink an island or something or number two, you will have killed the both of us by trying to- I don't know, drive off of an aircraft carrier to catch a suspect!"
How'd he even think of that? Steve thought before saying, "Danny, I would never-"
"Put my life in any serious danger, I know!" Danny starting pacing in front of Steve, "Well, the incident in Kalahuu was pretty up there on the my life is in serious danger scale." Danny started back towards his office, "Just forget it. Focus on those traffic cameras.
Before Steve could say anything else, the door wars shut and Danny disappeared into his office.
Twenty minutes later, Steve let out a loud groan after finishing his search through the city's camera between Joe's home and the palace. He struck out on every camera of trying to get a face for facial recognition. Danny, however, had a little more luck and was quietly looking through the videos for the cameras south of the palace in his office.
Try it again. Steve took a loud sigh and walked over to Danny's office. He gave the door a light knock and heard a soft, "Come in."
The ex-SEAL stepped in, his eyes focused solely on Danny. The detective cocked his head slightly at his partner's hesitant behavior.
"Did you find anything?" Danny asked.
"No, but I was wondering if we could sit down and seriously talk, Danno. I know you're pissed about me lying-"
"It's not just about the lying," Danny sighed. His eyes flickered over to the computer screen, making him pause. Steve leaned forward in the chair and tried to get a better look. Danny tilted the screen towards Steve and asked, "Does he look a little familiar to you?"
Steve immediately recognized the individual on Danny's computer. "Yep. I'll call Chin and Kono."
"What did you get?" Chin asked Danny and Steve once he and Kono returned to headquarters ten minutes later. Steve pulled up video and pictures onto the display screens. He pressed the play button allowing all three men and woman to see video from the surveillance camera that sat on the corner of Kali and Hu 'ole, two blocks from the Palace. The video showed Joe's car coming down the street and pulling into the parking lot.
"Wait, that's not Joe!" Chin exclaimed. In the driver's seat, the men could see an Islander step out of the car, pretend to drop an item onto the ground, and place something underneath the car. Danny waited a second and then paused the video on the frame showing the man's face.
"This is Loli Haluu, the man Joe told Steve to super secretly investigate," Danny stated. "Steven, would you like to elaborate since you know him so well? Oh, the man's supposed to be in a wheelchair, by the way."
"Danny!" Chin exclaimed. He angrily narrowed his eyes at the blonde detective and asked sternly, "Can you handle this? Can we focus on catching Wo Fat and not about Steve's lie?"
Danny shot a glare back at his newly appointed superior. "Chin, have you forgiven him-"
"Danny, I'm sure Steve did it to protect us-"
Kono joined the conversation, angry as the blonde detective. "There's a difference between lying to protect and lying at the wrong damn time! You should know this-"
Chin turned to his cousin. "Don't bring up what happened with Uncle right now!" he snapped at her.
"Hey!" Steve yelled, instantly ending all of the arguments. He swallowed hard at the disappointed looks and the angry glares from his team mates. Although he knew that nothing he could say would calm down Danny or Kono, he knew he at least had to try.
"I'm so sorry, but Chin is right- we need to focus on this case. I want this done once and for all so none of you can be in danger anymore." Danny always joked during cases that McGarret was a magnet for trouble and it never bothered him. However, the incidents of the last few weeks were beginning to make him think that the claim was true.
When no tried to stop him, Steve continued, "I was supposed to bring him Haluu to Joe or at least make sure that Wo Fat was connected. I think we need to focus solely on this guy. Is he related to any of the guys that were buried on our case at the reserve park?"
Kono pulled up a document from the file that held the information on the team's case before the car bombing. She quickly scanned through the top of the document before saying with a hint of surprise, "Yes. Haluu has priors and spent a year in jail with the man Danny and Steve spoke to on the beach."
"So our case in Kahaluu, Likhia Reserve Park with the crispy bodies and the car bombing are all related?"
"Yes." Steve stated, "We need to hunt this bastard down. Also, we need to get our families in HPD custody. When we know that they're safe, we'll go back to what's left of the house in Kahaluu and then go from there."
When he finished, Chin grinned brightly. "Now that's the Steve McGarret we all know and love."