This episode is quite involving. A young Vietnamese of mixed blood, Tran Quoc Jones, has managed to get himself to Hawaii supposedly in search of his GI father. Living on the streets of Hawaii as a seller of souvenirs and such, he accidentally witnesses a murder. The murdered woman had managed to slip something into Tran's bag beforehand. The murdered woman was the one who had contacted Magnum to hire him but when he arrives at the appointment she is not there and he ends up befriending Tran totally unaware of his connection to the murdered client. The plot itself is quite strong and has one of the more believable endings of any episode of any TV show; there is no happy resolution. It is too bad the actor portraying Tran, Roland Harrah III, died quite young (21).
Review of Tran Quoc Jones
