Meanwhile, two bank robbers are escorting two hostages, Sylvia and her child back from a local diner to her home.

Steve reveals to Danny that the letter Doris left is only a cipher, confiding in Danny how much things have changed in the ten-years since his father died, that he doesn't plan on solving the cipher because he doesn't need another mystery in his life.

Five-0 begins looking for the two men along with the mysterious busboy who is found to be living under an assumed identity of a person who's been dead for three years.

Adam searches the busboy's hotel room and finds DNA which matches to Lincoln Cole, a former marine who went AWOL.

Despite being credited in the opening title sequence Taylor Wily and Dennis Chun did not appear in the episode.

[6] Dale McGarrigle with TV Fanatic said "well, that was a peek at what will never be," and "as far as Chuck Norris's appearance, I call criminal misuse.