Season 1, Episode 12: Thicker Than Blood

 


Episode #12, "Thicker Than Blood" is the T.C. episode. In fact, we don't see Magnum's shirtless torso until 12 minutes into the episode.

The Set-Up: T.C. flies his chopper 3-plus hours in the dead of night to a shipping vessel in the middle of the ocean to pick up a Vietnam deserter buddy who once saved T.C.'s life in order to smuggle him back into the U.S. T.C. tries to convince this guy to turn himself in, but he's an addict and wants no part of that. T.C.'s chopper gets intercepted shortly before getting back to Oahu. He has time to drop his buddy off in the brush, but the Coast Guard catches T.C. after that.

The Solution: Magnum and Rick now have to figure out what T.C. was doing in order to get him off the hook. This involves Magnum tracking down the ship(now in dock) and pretending to be a longshoreman to snoop around. Finally, Magnum figures out that the captain of the shipping vessel was a drug smuggler who called the Coast Guard in order to get T.C. and his chopper caught. Once T.C. was caught, they could then buy his impounded chopper for $80K from the Coast Guard. Why do that? Because they had secretly stashed $10M worth of heroin in the chopper while refueling T.C.'s chopper on the boat. Of course, please don't think too much about why drug smugglers would purposely put $10M worth of smack in the custody of the Coast Guard where drug sniffing dogs could discover the booty at any time. In the end, given the extenuating circumstances, T.C. was given a suspended 5-year sentence.

As far as injuries are concerned, Magnum got into a fight with T.C when T.C. was out on bail and took a few good punches to the jaw. Magnum also dealt out a few blows to both T.C. and some random sailor who got in his way.


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