When Rick bribes Magnum after his morning kayak time for courting advice with a coffee, they discover Higgins's horse and traces selling the feared ransom demand and call in T.C.. They can't confide further in Katsomoto -nor even Kumu- as it's not cash but liberating at prison transport Elliot Hamler, a former client Magnum got jailed for wife-abuse. It turns out the kidnapper is his son, marine veteran Miles Hamler. Katsumoto is discretely patient, even helpful. At the exchange, Elliot takes Thomas prisoner, admitting hen intends to kill him after escaping by boat, so Thomas tells unsuspecting Miles what happened to his mother.
—KGF Vissers