MAGNUM, P.I.: DID YOU SEE THE SUNRISE? {PART 2 OF 2} {THIRD SEASON PREMIERE} TV)

Summary

The third season premiere in this detective series set in Hawaii, starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a former naval officer turned private investigator. In the second half of this two-part episode, Magnum is stunned and guilt-ridden by Mac's death by car bomb and furiously accuses Colonel Buck Greene of being somehow involved. Elsewhere, Higgins catches Rick taking bets on the following week's race, and T.C. seems confused when Rick reminds him that he has never met Nuzo, as he was not present during their escape from Duc Hue in the war. Magnum broods over his lost friend and tells a startled Higgins that the Ferrari has been destroyed, and Admiral Hawkes questions Greene about the bombing, wondering why Magnum was targeted for death. T.C. blames the mysterious Ivan for Mac's death, sure that he has somehow tracked them down a decade after the war in an effort to "clean his record." T.C. and Magnum find Nuzo, who also seems to be suffering a delayed form of trauma, and T.C. swears that they are being followed. Lieutenant Maggie Poole tells Greene that tracking down the rogue bomber will prove next to impossible, given the sheer number of veterans with whom Magnum and Mac might have served, and Greene follows the three vets in a chopper.

Magnum narrowly avoids being shot by a sniper and furiously confronts Greene when he lands, then learning that his name is involved in a criminal plot known as "Operation Reunion," which prompted Greene to recruit Mac to stop Magnum from finding and killing Ivan. Magnum, angry over Mac's unnecessary death, refuses to explain about the "vendetta" involving himself, T.C., Nuzo and Ivan, despite Hawkes' frustrated protestations that an important Japanese delegation is soon to arrive in the midst of the unknown Russian plot. Poole drives Magnum home and, exasperated by Greene's sexist attitude towards her, agrees to help him track down Mac's killer without involving the colonel. Elsewhere, an increasingly antsy T.C. begs Rick to loan him his car, and Poole helps Magnum to identify the "Ivan" from whom they escaped back in Vietnam. Higgins' off-handed comments about "The Bridge on the River Kwai" then lead Magnum to realize that Ivan intentionally allowed them to escape their confinement. Magnum then examines Nuzo's military record and finds that he is not the man with whom he escaped Duc Hue, realizing that the real Nuzo likely died in the war and an operative of Ivan's has been posing as the American soldier ever since. He realizes that the fake Nuzo has been drugging T.C. in order to brainwash him into killing the Japanese prince – while believing that he is the elusive Ivan -- and elsewhere, the fake Nuzo is seen dosing T.C. before Ivan suddenly appears, taunting T.C. with the memory of his friend Cookie, the gunner killed in Vietnam, and instructing him to kill "him," Ivan, on the following day at "Quan Loi." T.C., unaware of his actions, accompanies Fake Nuzo to the barracks, where he boards a chopper and flies to the Valley of the Temples, but Magnum and Rick pursue him, and Magnum gets the idea to use their old call signs to convince the entranced T.C. to abort his "mission" before anyone is killed. T.C. is sent to Walter Reed for "deprogramming" and the fake Nuzo is captured, but Magnum learns that Ivan has been given diplomatic immunity by the State Department out of a desire to avoid further antagonizing Russia. Angered by this, Magnum captures Ivan and holds him at gunpoint, though Ivan smugly states that the principled Navy vet would never kill an unarmed man, regardless of his past actions. Magnum, however, merely echoes Mac's last wish to see the sun rise, and the episode concludes as Magnum shoots at Ivan point-blank. Commercials deleted.

Details

• NETWORK: CBS
• DATE: 1982 9:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:55:12
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: B:33361
• GENRE: Drama, police/private detective
• SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, police/private detective; Drama, action/adventure
• SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1980-1988
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Donald P. Bellisario … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
• Joel Rogosin … Supervising Producer
• Douglas Green … Producer
• Rick Weaver … Co-Producer
• Reuben Leder … Co-Producer
• J. Rickley Dumm … Associate Producer
• Ray Austin … Director
• Larson, Glen A, … Created by
• Mike Post … Music by, Theme Music by
• Pete Carpenter … Music by, Theme Music by
• Tom Selleck … Cast, Thomas Sullivan Magnum
• John Hillerman … Cast, Jonathan Quayle Higgins III
• Roger E. Mosley … Cast, T.C. (Theodore Calvin)
• Larry Manetti … Cast, Rick
• Bo Svenson … Cast, Ivan
• James Whitmore Jr. … Cast, Sebastian Nuzo
• Jeff MacKay … Cast, Lieutenant McReynolds
• Jean Bruce Scott … Cast, Lieutenant Maggie Poole, USN
• Lance LeGault … Cast, Colonel Buck Greene
• Paul Burke … Cast, Admiral Hawkes
• Marianne Bunch … Cast, Julie Barbara
• Robert Hoy … Cast, Repairman
• Kevin Bash … Cast, Cookie
• Jimmy Borges … Cast, Happy Ho
• Rap Reiplinger … Cast, Chef
• Laurie Foi … Cast, Nurse
• Winston Char … Cast, North Vietnamese Army Officer
• Emmett Rose … Cast, Chauffeur
• James Grimshaw … Cast, Guard
• Hong Souksamlane … Cast, Vietnamese Girl