Season 2, Episode 16: Italian Ice

 


Episode #16 of season #2 finds Magnum outside of Hawaii for the first time(not counting Vietnam flashbacks). As a favor to Robin Masters, Magnum agreed to go to Sicily(by himself) to rescue to the adult daughter of one of Robin's friends who was now a mistress of a Sicilian mob boss. Most people would just move out of the guest house and tell Robin "no thanks". But not Magnum. He successfully extracts the woman(played by Ann Dusenberry of Jaws II fame). He has to sleeper hold one mobster, jump on another to knock them out, and stuffs a cook into a trunk, but our hero gets the job done and brings the mistress back to Hawaii.



This is just the beginning of the drama though. Apparently, Magnum has been dating an acting teacher(played by Mimi Rogers). Magnum's trip to Sicily made him miss a date. She shows up at the estate and Magnum explains what happened. Of course, now is the time that the rescued woman shows up in her pajamas with breakfast as she now has developed an infatuation with her rescuer.

Later, it turns out that the Sicilian mobsters came to Hawaii and are trying to track down the mistress. They are only doing this, though, because she had taken some priceless jewelry with her when she was taken by Magnum. While Magnum deals with this, the mistress steals a gun from Robin's collection, shoots Higgins in the shoulder and goes to kill Magnum's girlfriend. Magnum gets there just in time, though, to talk her down. At this point in time, the show ran out of time and we never find out what happened to the obsessed mistress or the gangsters that were pursuing the jewelry. We do get the update that Higgins recovers.



Side Note: In a rough stretch for the Ferrari, the car gets severely keyed(by the obsessed mistress).


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