Magnum P.I The Jororo kill




This is an episode that has become infamous on YouTube and social media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFIkOgyf9o

The episode starts with three minutes of dialogue in French. A nun, asks a French gendarme to assist her to change a flat tire. The gendarme is distracted for a few moments from his job supervising the entrance to an embassy 

The Nun, is a trained killer. The antagonist is possibly what we would understand as trans.
The ``Nun''  has been hired by the Popular Front of Jororo-( Jororo is a small but plausible sounding island in the South Pacific ) The Popular Front want to kill the PM. The Cold War is rattling on




Tyne Daley- ( Cagney and Lacey) has a guest star role- as an old friend of Magnum's Daley was a journalist embedded in Magnum's team during the Vietnam era. This is a bit awkward in retrospect as Magnum worked for the Phoenix Project which was charged with the assassination of VC and Viet Minh

Daley was wounded  in Vietnam  and is wounded now Having moved back stateside has a chip on her shoulder. It is interesting as the grizzled veteran - TC and Rick have both moved on. While the Officer and the journalist seem stuck 

 We see archive footage of Daley in Vietnam in tigers stripes talking into the camera standing with one hand in her pocket. Daley's character is really well done. This episode could have been about the attraction that war has for many people. Which even Magnum notes at times. 

Instead we get the Nun with the gun. 

Speaking of dirty wars - Higgins was in Northern Ireland with Mi6. 

There is a great scene where Rick (-who gets less and less to do as the series goes on) bribing Mac with food and beer. As Magnum does 



 

Two other scenes of the Pacific world that Magnum lives in. The PM of Jororo is visiting Hawaii to sign a trade agreement. Now PM implies a commonwealth country?  The PM of Jororo is a devout Catholic. So he is attending mass On the other side of the equation Magnum is trying to get information out of a Bell Boy- and is offered girls and a 2000 dollar entry poker game 

Two final bits of trivia:

A decent bottle of wine -French imported as 37.50 in American dollars. 

The hotel has a front desk computer- Magnum does not comment on this so it must be SOP for Hawaii in the early 80s


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