Welcome back to The Will of Sin! Last time, let's just say everything went a little crazy. Specifically, the moment Kamekona heard Sin was in town, he tried to run, heading for the North Shore to warn his cousin Flippa, before the North Shore Shrimp Truck exploded. But while Kamekona and Flippa escaped death, Elora wasn't so lucky, having died suddenly after getting out of surgery. But in the midst of it all, Adam appears to have information regarding what is going on here, all from a playing card. So, what on earth is going on? Read on to find out...
(Our tale resumes in a morgue, where a freshly dead Elora is laying on a cold metal slab with everything but her head covered by a sheet, where the medical examiner is standing over her body, still not used to the sight of someone so young on his table, just as McGarrett and Cynder walk in)
Max: (Seeing Cynder) Ah, I had a good feeling we had visitors from the Realms. And not just because the victim gave it away.
Cynder: (A little surprised) How'd you figure that out?
Max: Any city or nation citizens of the Realms visit is statistically proven to feel more hopeful for upwards of 8 months from end of the visit. Yes, there was an actual study on this. I was surprised when I saw it too. But ultimately it did make sense.
Cynder: Huh. Never heard of that one.
Max: I highly recommend looking it up. (Realizing something) My apologies for not introducing myself. Doctor Max Bergman, Medical Examiner
McGarrett: So, what've we got?
Max: Possibly the most perplexing method of murder I have ever seen.
McGarrett: Murder? So this wasn't some byproduct of the operation?
Max: Not unless the operation was done on death row.
Cynder: I have a bad feeling I know where you're going with this, Doctor Bergman.
Max: Max is fine. But to answer your question, the IV drip contained high traces of Potassium Chloride and Pancuronium Bromide.
McGarrett: Lethal Injection.
Max: Exactly. The only chemical missing from the common trio is Sodium Thiopental, the anesthetic.
Cynder: In other words, she was paralyzed and her heart was shutting down, but she could still feel every ounce of the pain.
Max: A terrible way to go to be sure. But it was worse than you could imagine. Because upon a second review of the tox screen, there were traces of Hydrogen Cyanide.
McGarrett: What kind of sick bastard are we dealing with here?!
Cynder: The worst of the worst, Steve. The worst of the worst.
Max: Worst is an understatement.
(As this revelation is made, we transition to the main room of Iolani Palace, where McGarrett, Jerry, Cynder, and Spyro are looking over the security footage from the hospital, looking for whoever killed Elora)
Jerry: Been combing through the hospital security footage, and whoever this guy is, they are good. I can't find anything on them.
Spyro: Trust me, Jerry. We've been trying everything to figure out who this creep is. But they've got fingers in every pie imaginable. If they're on camera, they can scrub it.
Jerry: Well, they haven't met me yet. (Pulls up a select video) I did manage to find this footage, looks like Sin just deleted it, but didn't scrub it clean enough.
(Now Jerry shows the video, showing the same cloaked figure who chased Elora enter the room, never showing their face before pulling out three syringes, and injecting all of them into the IV drip, before leaving with the empty syringes just as Hunter, Ember, and Flame arrive)
Cynder: Well, there we have it. We finally catch Sin on camera, and it's just their back.
Jerry: I'm still reviewing the rest of the footage from the hospital. This is all I've been able to find of Sin so far. We may have a front view in there somewhere, it's just going to take some digging.
McGarrett: Let us know if you find anything, Jerry.
(Just as Jerry leaves to continue his work, Kono and an unknown man enter the room, who McGarrett immediately recognizes)
McGarrett: (Seeing the guy walking in with Kono) Adam, good to see you're safe.
Adam: No offense to Five-0, Steve, but with Sin on the loose, nobody is safe. (Pulling out a Nine of Spades playing card) Especially not after getting this in the mail this morning. (Seeing Spyro and Cynder) Guessing these are the Realms detectives?
McGarrett: Yep, that's them alright. Spyro, Cynder, Adam Noshimuri, one of our CI's in the Yakuza.
Spyro: Wait, the Yakuza?
Adam: Yeah, long story.
Cynder: At least we can trust the quality of the information.
Adam: (Caught off guard) Really?
Spyro: Yeah, in our experience, informants with Yakuza ties always give the best info. When they do that is.
Adam: Huh. Good to know.
Kono: So, Adam, you said you know who tried to kill Kamekona.
Adam: When you told me Kamekona found a playing card in the Shrimp Truck, I realized who we're dealing with right away. He's a myth in the organized crime circles, but now you've shown the myth is real.
McGarrett: So, who is this guy?
Adam: The only one who knows for sure is his perennial employer, Sin. But everyone in the underworld knows this maniac as 9.
McGarrett: 9? Just, 9?
Adam: Yep, after the playing card he leaves for each of his marks. Until recently he's been a very subtle killer.
Cynder: We can explain the escalation. 9 is getting extreme, since we figured out his identity. Or, at least part of it.
(Getting the cue, Spyro plugs a flash drive into the table and pulls up a file on what appears to be an ape, but smaller, clad in green, with black boots, carrying a sniper rifle)
Spyro: His name's Abel as far as we can tell. This guy was a marksman like no other, meeting all the qualifying material for a special group of Malefor's assassins, known as the Prime 8. But he was also insane, even for the Dark Army, so he was rejected and became a gun for hire.
Cynder: Once we identified him, 9 got a lot more erratic. Looks like he's gone completely nuts at this point.
McGarrett: How much do you want to bet he's the one who shot Elora?
Kono: We'd need to get his gun to confirm, but it looks like a rifle capable of causing the damage we saw.
Spyro: 9 fails Sin, by not killing Elora, so Sin goes in and finishes the job themselves. Seems about right.
McGarrett: Okay, so Sin and his top killer are on the island, our one lead into who they are is dead, and they're already going after us. We need to divide and conquer.
Cynder: Way ahead of you, Steve. Our team will comb every inch of these islands if we must.
McGarrett: (Placing his hands on the table, causing the display to change to the picture of 9 and a placeholder photograph of Sin) Get them ready, we'll be pairing them up with some of our officers. We've got to track these two down before anyone else gets hurt.
(And as the camera shifts to the pictures of the two targets of the investigation, our tale ends for today)
And that looks like a good place to wrap up for now. So, we've identified Elora's attempted assassin. And if that description sounds familiar to Spyro fans, it really should. That's because 9 is really Agent 9 from the classic series. So, now we've got two deadly killers in Honolulu, and two teams ready to track them down whatever the cost. So, what is going to happen going forward? Tune in next time to find out! Same time... same channel!
