Friendship has always ranked high on his list of priorities and when his good friend and surfing companion, Kacy, is found murdered on the beach, Magnum determinedly tracks down her killer.

A customized plane, being piloted to Hawaii by Sam Houston Hunter, a Vietnam vet, crashes in the tidal pool at Robin's Nest and everyone assumes it was insufficient gas and pilot error that caused it.

Multi-Emmy Award winner Carol Burnett reprises her role of bank teller Susan Johnson, recently turned private investigator, whose path collided with Magnum once before.