Almost Home (3.11)

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J.J. Walters wrote:Sam spotted this one...

Gabriel Aio (Kimo) is a career criminal. He has served time for armed robbery (1965), felony burglary (1974), and conspiracy to commit money laundering (2002 - in connection with a large-scale Chinatown gambling operation). Aio also appeared as "Little Tony" in two Luther Gillis episodes ("File #521" and "The Return of Luther Gillis").

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This is the third guy connected to organized crime to appear on the show! :shock:

Great piece of info, wow! This guy was an absolute beast, I figured football player rather than career criminal but it is what it is :) Who were the other two?

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Milton Collins wrote:Who were the other two?
Lenny Montana (Italian Ice), pro wrestler and enforcer for the Colombo crime family. Played Luca Brasi in The Godfather.

Michael Spilotro (Thicker than Blood), associate of Chicago's La Cosa Nostra organized crime organization ("The Outfit") with his brother Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro. Joe Pesci's character in Casino was based on "Tony the Ant".

You could also toss in Leo Gordon (The People vs. Orville Wright) who served time in San Quentin for armed robbery as a young man (but later turned his life around and appeared in many films and TV shows, and was also a novelist and screenwriter).
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I had no idea about Leo Gordon.

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J.J. Walters wrote:
Milton Collins wrote:Who were the other two?
Lenny Montana (Italian Ice), pro wrestler and enforcer for the Colombo crime family. Played Luca Brasi in The Godfather.

Michael Spilotro (Thicker than Blood), associate of Chicago's La Cosa Nostra organized crime organization ("The Outfit") with his brother Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro. Joe Pesci's character in Casino was based on "Tony the Ant".

You could also toss in Leo Gordon (The People vs. Orville Wright) who served time in San Quentin for armed robbery as a young man (but later turned his life around and appeared in many films and TV shows, and was also a novelist and screenwriter).

Which character did Leo Gordon play? His IMDB has no picture. And Michael Spilotro was the young guy who TC saved in Thicker than Blood correct? Just curious, thanks!

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Milton Collins wrote:Which character did Leo Gordon play? His IMDB has no picture. And Michael Spilotro was the young guy who TC saved in Thicker than Blood correct? Just curious, thanks!
Leo Gordon played a mobster.

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Michael Spilotro, amusingly, played a federal marshal. He was only in a couple of brief scenes. He came from the same Chicago neighborhood as Larry Manetti.

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I’ll also go along with the consensus that Kathleen Lloyd was much sexier in this role than she ever was as Carol Baldwin. Never really cared for that character. Also liked seeing Agatha and Maggie in this episode, before they would really become semi-regulars later in the show run.

Good episode, gave it a 9. I always like the episodes dealing with WW2 and what had transpired to those who had lived through it. Those who are watching MPI for the first time need to remember that this was taking place in the early 80’s, when there was still plenty of people from that era still around and were only in their late 50’s and 60’s. Hard to believe but the youngest of the WW2 who are still with us are pushing 90.

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EZiller wrote:I’ll also go along with the consensus that Kathleen Lloyd was much sexier in this role than she ever was as Carol Baldwin. Never really cared for that character. Also liked seeing Agatha and Maggie in this episode, before they would really become semi-regulars later in the show run.

Good episode, gave it a 9. I always like the episodes dealing with WW2 and what had transpired to those who had lived through it. Those who are watching MPI for the first time need to remember that this was taking place in the early 80’s, when there was still plenty of people from that era still around and were only in their late 50’s and 60’s. Hard to believe but the youngest of the WW2 who are still with us are pushing 90.
I agree, it's sad to see their numbers shrink. I work on the Empire State Building block in Manhattan and make a point ever year to catch at least some of the Veteran's Day Parade as it runs up 5th Avenue. Those men need to be appreciated and hear the cheers and applause while they are still here.
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I liked any show that paid respects to the attack on Pearl Harbor since it is an important part of history and the Navy and I think Kathleen Lloyd showed how she can play different roles from a prosecutor. I liked her as both.

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J.J. Walters wrote:Indeed Steve, indeed! :)

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Better quality screenshot:

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Jay-Firestorm wrote: * When Magnum gets a drink from the drinks machine, notice how the ‘Coke’ logo has been covered up with a large white panel.
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Milo Minderbinder wrote: Also thought it was funny in the opening scene with Agatha using a Sawzall like a jigsaw. Not sure if that was intended, as if meaning she wouldn't know she was using the wrong type of saw, or if they just handed her whatever was handy from the set.
Really straight curve:

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ConchRepublican wrote:An example of the little things I think make this show so good . . .

At the end, when they are interring Bridget's father with his shipmates on the Arizona and they are all standing on the boat you can see Magnum standing at military attention. To me, the attention to his character as a former Naval Officer, even when more part of the background of the scene than the focus, shows how everyone understood the little things that complete the picture.
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Croix de Lorraine wrote:Kathleen Lloyd is much sexier here than she is as Carol. They made her too frumpy.
Milton Collins wrote:I see it mentioned in other posts that Kathleen Lloyd was really attractive in this episode, MUCH more so than when she reappears later as Carol Baldwin. I have to say that I was thinking this the entire episode, she really looked hot!! Not sure what the difference was there but had to point it out.
EZiller wrote:I’ll also go along with the consensus that Kathleen Lloyd was much sexier in this role than she ever was as Carol Baldwin. Never really cared for that character.
Yeah, i never liked her ass Carol in the later seasons too, she was more gray and kinda irritating, but in this episode i quite liked her. Despite the fact that she was irritating in this one too.

Sir Fearing wrote:I love Magnums face when Bridget puts her fathers ashes on the table! :lol:
Dad?

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I remember Robin Masters had a Nikon camera in the first season, in the last episode of the season two (Three Minus Two) he had a Hasselblad (T.C. was using it) and in this episode Higgins has camera with a Cannon band:

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Coops present: check:

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Clearly Rick's double:

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Season 3 Top up to this episode:

1. Black on White
2-3. Did You See the Sunrise?
4. Flashback
5. The Eighth Part of the Village
6. Past Tense
7. Almost Home
8. Ki'i's Don't Lie
9. Mixed Doubles
10. Mr. White Death
11. Foiled Again

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karolis wrote:
Jay-Firestorm wrote: * When Magnum gets a drink from the drinks machine, notice how the ‘Coke’ logo has been covered up with a large white panel.
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But you can still see the logos on the individual buttons. Ha!
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ConchRepublican wrote:
EZiller wrote:I’ll also go along with the consensus that Kathleen Lloyd was much sexier in this role than she ever was as Carol Baldwin. Never really cared for that character. Also liked seeing Agatha and Maggie in this episode, before they would really become semi-regulars later in the show run.

Good episode, gave it a 9. I always like the episodes dealing with WW2 and what had transpired to those who had lived through it. Those who are watching MPI for the first time need to remember that this was taking place in the early 80’s, when there was still plenty of people from that era still around and were only in their late 50’s and 60’s. Hard to believe but the youngest of the WW2 who are still with us are pushing 90.
I agree, it's sad to see their numbers shrink. I work on the Empire State Building block in Manhattan and make a point ever year to catch at least some of the Veteran's Day Parade as it runs up 5th Avenue. Those men need to be appreciated and hear the cheers and applause while they are still here.
I try not to think of this whenever Higgins starts musing and they tell him to shut up. I know it's a running gag, I know it's played for laughs.

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ALMOST HOME
Hawaiian shirts: 0
Island Hopper shirts: 1 white on green
Body Count: 0
Shirtless: 0
Little Voice: 0
I know what you’re thinking: 1
When I write HTBAWCPI: .5
Investigator corrections: 0
Magnum injuries: 0
Higgins musings: 0
4th wall breaks: 0
Negotiations: 0
Famous guest stars: 0
Magnumometer: 2.5

Potential magnumania usernames: Intra Pacific Imports
Higgins organizations: Anglo Polynesian Servants of the Sea (although the subtitles amusingly called them the Savants of the Sea)

I am one that agrees with those who are in the "annoying to be funny" is just annoying camp. She is so over the top, she almost costs herself her own case on more than one occasion. Too over the top for me, although I guess the fact that I'm annoyed by it means the writers and Kathleen Lloyd did their jobs well. I would have preferred less well, thank you very much.

BTW Lloyd is too skinny in this episode. Any time you can see the upper ribs (i.e. those above the bust line) on a woman through the skin (see the pic posted by karolis) I'm like "Honey, let me buy you a cheeseburger."

I gave a half point on How To Be A World Class Private Investigator because, although TM says the following, he doesn't mention it in the contest of writing a book: "There's another cardinal rule a good private investigator follows. Don't try telling a client something she doesn't want to hear. It never works. Sometimes you've just gotta let people go. If they want to tilt at windmills, let 'em tilt."

Although I realize this would have made the entire episode unnecessary...when she's on the boat and being intercepted by the Coast Guard in the beginning of the episode, isn't she already over the Arizona? Why didn't she just drop Dad over the side? (I'm also assuming she's not actually that close to the memorial IRL, that it's a set they built to resemble the openings in the Arizona memorial just for the shot.)

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Maggie: Magnum, I told you, those transcripts are confidential.
Magnum: Oh, come on, Maggie. I remember a dozen times that Mac bent the rules a little.
Maggie: That's because Lieutenant MacReynoIds was different. Very different.
Magnum: Yeah. Right. I could appeal to his heart.
Maggie: Yeah. And his stomach.
Magnum: Oh, come on! That food stuff, that was just an excuse. Listen, underneath that stomach was a heart as big as...that stomach. He cared, Lieutenant.
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ENSHealy wrote:ALMOST HOME
Hawaiian shirts: 0
Island Hopper shirts: 1 white on green
Body Count: 0
Shirtless: 0
Little Voice: 0
I know what you’re thinking: 1
When I write HTBAWCPI: .5
Investigator corrections: 0
Magnum injuries: 0
Higgins musings: 0
4th wall breaks: 0
Negotiations: 0
Famous guest stars: 0
Magnumometer: 2.5

Potential magnumania usernames: Intra Pacific Imports
Higgins organizations: Anglo Polynesian Servants of the Sea (although the subtitles amusingly called them the Savants of the Sea)

I gave a half point on How To Be A World Class Private Investigator because, although TM says the following, he doesn't mention it in the contest of writing a book: "There's another cardinal rule a good private investigator follows. Don't try telling a client something she doesn't want to hear. It never works. Sometimes you've just gotta let people go. If they want to tilt at windmills, let 'em tilt."
UPDATE - 3.11 ALMOST HOME
Famous guest stars:
Hawaiian shirts: 1 dark blue with white flowers (or birds?)
Tigers Cap: 1
Island Hopper shirts: 1 white on green
Shirtless:
OMG/Extraordinarys:
Higgins Organizations: 1 Anglo Polynesian Servants of the sea
Higgins musings:
Negotiations:
Body Count:
Bullet wounds:
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking: 1
When I write HTBAWCPI: 3
Investigator corrections:
4th wall breaks:
Magnumometer: 9

Potential magnumania usernames: Bridget Archer, Vic Stout, Uncle Duke
Magnumometer Moments: https://vimeo.com/379286837

I must have been asleep at the wheel the first time I went through this episode, as I missed a Hawaiian shirt and TWO rules about how to be a world class private investigator. And I discounted the one I did catch to .5 because he didn’t cite writing the book. But there are three clear rules in here, so I’ve adjusted it to a full 3 points.

As I said before, I just found Carol, I mean Bridget, too annoying and obnoxious to enjoy this one much.

And I removed Intra Pacific Imports from the potential username list, as I now know the character limit is 20, so it wouldn't fit.
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#59 Post by SeamanWolfe »

A few random questions.

1) magnum mentions his dad and that he was in the navy. How early was this established? In my head I always thought home from the sea (season 4) was the intro of his dad's story.

2) when entering the Japanese ladies house magnum removes his shoes and hat. Is this a custom/courtesy in the Japanese culture?

3) Kathleen Llyod was billed as special guest star. Was she that famous? What qualifies someone to be special guest star?

All in all a decent episode. Nice to go back and visit almost 40 years later (weird trick of time that pearl harbor was only 40 years ago when the episode aired.

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SeamanWolfe wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:27 am A few random questions.

1) magnum mentions his dad and that he was in the navy. How early was this established? In my head I always thought home from the sea (season 4) was the intro of his dad's story.

2) when entering the Japanese ladies house magnum removes his shoes and hat. Is this a custom/courtesy in the Japanese culture?

3) Kathleen Llyod was billed as special guest star. Was she that famous? What qualifies someone to be special guest star?

All in all a decent episode. Nice to go back and visit almost 40 years later (weird trick of time that pearl harbor was only 40 years ago when the episode aired.
My answers will not be all that helpful, but I will try.

1) I always just accepted that Magnum came from a Navy family. Looking at the prior episodes titles and thinking about them this may be the first time that this is established.

2) The taking off of shoes is a tradition in parts of Asia including Japan. Taking off your hat when entering a building is a western tradition and I do not know if the Japanese also had this tradition. It was not really followed by the 1980s and it would be curious to see if Magnum has a habit of doing that in other situations.

3) I have no idea what caliber of actor gets considered a guest star. Kathleen Lloyd is only known to me as Magnum's friend Carol (the prosecutor) in later episodes. She was in a lot of things according to IMDb but I do not know if she was considered a "star."

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