Season 1, Episode 16: The Black Orchid

 



Onto episode #16 of Magnum's inaugural season, "The Black Orchid", features a woman hiring Magnum to play live action detective games with her spoiled rich sister. We get to see Magnum try his hand at old-timey detective accents calling this woman "dame" and such. It's all fun and games until Magnum finds out that the woman's husband is one of the richest men on the island and figures that if he finds out about these "games" he'll make Magnum's life miserable. Magnum tries to quit, but before he can he gets attacked by a couple of goons hired by her husband. Magnum fights them off, but takes a few punches to the chin and suffers some bruised ribs.



Later, Magnum finds out that the girl he was entertaining was poisoned for reals. She recovered, but is still in danger. Turns out it was her jealous sister that tried to do her in. By the time Magnum figures it out, the sister has sent two men to kill her. Magnum manages to sleeper hold one of them and steal his gun before shooting and (presumably) killing the other. In the end, the poisoned sister doesn't press charges against her murderous sibling(because they're rich) and Magnum housesits their mansion while they second honeymoon on the mainland. So, a happy ending...except for the hired killer that Magnum had to shoot and kill



Side Note: The Ferrari received a bullet hole to the wind screen requiring replacement.


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