- Nakamura: Five years on the force and I wind up guarding a fishbowl.
- 2nd Police Officer: [seeing 2 dead fish] You haven't been doing too good of a job, look.
- Mingo: [Mingo is greeting his friends at his birthday party] My friends... My good partners... Thank you, from deep in my heart where it counts.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: All right, Doc... What's the story?
- Doc Bergman: I'm not sure... Very strange. Something hit his central nervous system... Turned the lights out, but fast.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: Nervous system?... What does that mean?
- Doc Bergman: Some sort of cerebrovascular accident... We'll have to put the pieces together. It'll make an interesting autopsy.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: Not for Mingo.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [Looking around at the people attending the party] The cream of society, Eh Danno?
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [Referring to Mingo] What happened to your partner?
- Wallis: He got sick... He just got sick and died.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [Referring to Mingo's death] Black magic?
- Akamai: You figure it out, pal... That's your job.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: You three are partners, is that right?... Who gets Mingo's piece of your real estate shill game?
- Wallis: Oh no, McGarrett... that's no way to talk to respectable businessmen.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [to Wallis] How many people have you swindled?
- Wallis: Now, now, McGarrett... No unsubstantiated charges.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: Okay, I'll put it another way... How many phony real estate lots have you sold?
- Wallis: Oh, have it your way... Four thousand, give or take a few.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [to the attendees at the party] All right, go home, the party's over. And no sudden departures from this rock.
- Wallis: [Akamai is going in the water, despite receiving a death threat] You're a lunatic... Crazy out of your Hawaiian head!
- Akamai: [to Dan] Listen, cop... I don't like you here. You're busting up my party... You think Ralph was murdered? You go and find the murderer... Wallis here is scared? You hold his hand... Me?, I'm not interested... And now I'm going fishing... You wanna ask me any more questions? You gotta come in the water.
- Danny Williams: [Akamai is going fishing] Hey Akamai... I can think of at least a dozen things I'd rather do than baby sit you.
- Kono: [Kono is looking in the fish tank] Hey Danny, look at this... Dead fish, dead man, same house, same day... Interesting, huh?
- Danny Williams: Okay, enough of the deep Hawaiian symbolism.
- Danny Williams: [to Wallis] One of these days, you guys are gonna slip off of that legal tightrope you've been walking on... And when you do, we're gonna be there to catch you.
- Wallis: [Akamai almost drowns, and Manoa saves him] Allright girls, lets get back to the booze... The show is over, Akamai needs his rest.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [McGarrett is talking about the scam Mingo and his partners were running] A guy in Indiana buys a lot from these people... Never saw it, of course... Buys it from a description in a brochure... Finds out that he's bought himself a quarter acre of lava rock.
- Danny Williams: [Wallis is scared] You want protection?
- Wallis: Yeah, every day... Unless it snows.
- Danny Williams: We've got a nice cell downtown... Solid steel bars.
- Wallis: No way!
- Danny Williams: No other way.
- Danny Williams: Where are your two friends?
- [Referring to the girls]
- Wallis: I told them to cut out.
- Danny Williams: Hope I didn't spoil your fun and games.
- Manoa: [Manoa gives Wallis the Cloth of Gold] The cloth of gold, Mr. Wallis... A noble Hawaiian creature... It's work is over. Beautiful, isn't it?... As beautiful as a young girl named Tia... You remember Tia, Mr. Wallis? Sweet, pure, as lovely as a plumeria flower.
- Manoa: [Wallis is dying from the cloth of gold] You don't remember that girl, Mr. Wallis?... Then I'll show you, I'll show you what you did to my Tia.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [Steve and Kono are after Manoa] Manoa had it planned very well... He had the shell out of the tank before we put a watch on it.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [Steve boards Manoa's boat] I'm sorry about your daughter, Manoa... But I've gotta take you in... You've already killed three men.
- Manoa: How can you arrest a dead man?
- [Manoa presses the cloth of gold against his chest, and falls overboard]
- Mingo: [Mingo reads a card from one of his gifts] "Happy Birthday, pilau kane, Mingo... It is your last".
- [Mingo turns to Akamai for a translation]
- Mingo: What does it mean, Akamai?
- Akamai: Oh nothing... Forget it.
- Mingo: [Getting indignant] What does it mean, Akamai?
- Akamai: It means, "You filthy scum".
- Doc Bergman: [Talking to Dan and Kono about Mingo's autopsy] You know, a pathologist waits for an interesting case, and this is a beut.
- Danny Williams: Cause of death?
- Doc Bergman: Unknown, so far... Mr. Mingo did not die of natural causes... He did not die of a disease of the nervous system, and he did not die of a cerebrovascular accident.
- Danny Williams: He is dead?
- Doc Bergman: Oh yes, quite... He suffocated.
- Det. Steve McGarrett: [Steve and Kono are looking for Manoa] Kono, if you wanted to hide in a canebreak, what island would you head for?
- Kono: The big island... Hawaii.