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Remembering Jack Lord
December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998
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Remembering Jack Lord
December 30, 1920 - January 21, 1998
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This episode has a premise similar to the season six opener “Hookman” in that a man who blames the police for his permanent disability is seeking revenge. This time, it is Nathan Purdy who was paralyzed by a cop’s bullet during a bank robbery. Unlike “Hookman,” Purdy is sniping and killing any cops he can, not the cops who were specifically involved in his injury. It is particularly offensive that Purdy is pretending to be a Marine and a wounded veteran.
Some thoughts from my viewing:
Whoever did the chalk outline of the first victim got creative. Beside the head outline is a chalk circle that is labeled “HAT” and by the arm is a small chalk oval and lin…
In Don Stroud’s third and final appearance on Hawaii Five-0, he portrays Nathan Purdy, an injured ex-con who is seeking revenge on police officers for the one who shot him and rendered him a paraplegic. With an ego the size of Mount Olympus, he bills himself as a Marine Vietnam War veteran, going so far as to wear a Marine tee-shirt and to play basketball with real war veterans. He provides for himself by taking in stolen electronic equipment, which he repairs and sells. He must be doing all right financially, for he can afford a sports coupe in which to tool around Honolulu and a high-powered rifle with a night scope with which to shoot his intended targets.
The…