Season 2, Episode 15: Try to Remember

 


Episode #15 of Magnum's 2nd season, "Try to Remember" finds our hero unconscious in a damaged Ferrari to begin tonight's story. Magnum is rushed to the hospital where we find he has had a severe concussion, two cracked ribs, a bruised hip, and bruised kidneys as a result of his accident. Not only that, but Magnum cannot remember the hours leading up to the accident, meaning he has(wait for it) amnesia....

Over the next day, as Magnum heals, he puts together that he was working on locating a woman's missing sister. Soon, Magnum is paid a visit by Lieutenant Tanaka of the Honolulu P.D. Apparently, the missing girl was found dead in an apartment and Magnum's trademark Detroit Tiger's baseball cap was found beside her body. Magnum has some splainin' to do, but he can't remember.



As the police start to close in on him for the murder, a desperate Magnum agrees to have Higgins hypnotize him to regain his memory. This brings up some ugly Vietnam PTSD dream scenarios, but also shows that Magnum can only remember having dinner with the client who hired him to find her sister and her husband.

Finally, Magnum puts together the pieces that his client was the murderer and that she and her husband set Magnum up to take the fall by dosing him and rolling his car off of the road with him in it.

Magnum ends up poisoning the suspects saying that he would only give them the antidote if they confessed. I guess that is admissible...? In any case, Lieutenant Tanaka winks winks to Magnum that the poisoning never happened, now that they found the murderers.

Side Note: The Ferrari had a rough week, experiencing $8K in damages.

Side Note #2: Magnum's doctor is played by the same actor who played a slain doctor in an earlier episode. But nobody will remember in the days before binge watching is possible.




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