With Higgins now in charge of Robin's Nest, and Magnum now dealing with possibly getting evicted if he can't pay rent, their next job is to help a woman find her missing brother. Things go awry when it turns out the guy they find has no siblings, and not only have they led criminals straight to a man they want dead, they're now a loose end that will have to be silenced.
Tropes:
- Faking the Dead: It turns out that the man Magnum tracks down isn't their client's brother, but her ex-husband, who faked his own death. This led to the client spending sixteen years in prison after being charged for murdering him, during which she starts a relationship with a guard, and plotted to kill him for real.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: Dr. Ethan Shah, the surgeon that removes the bullet from Higgins after she's shot, ends up asking her out on a date when she recovers.
- Stalker without a Crush: Magnum notices that a rented white SUV is tailing him throughout the episode, but it's unrelated to the current case and still stalking him in the episode's final shot, setting up the season's story arc.
- Title Drop: In the episode's closing, they remark that Margaret, the deceitful client, would've gotten away with killing her ex-husband under the Double Jeopardy law (since she'd already falsely served a prison sentence for killing him) if she and her partner hadn't also shot Higgins.
- Despite what Magnum and Katsumoto claim, Margaret would not have been immune from prosecution for killing her former husband. The double jeopardy law only prevents a person from being punished twice for committing the exact same crime (i,e,, a crime with the exact same elements, like victim, location, time and method). Committing the same crime (like murder or theft) against the same victim but with different elements (like where or when) counts as being a different crime.
- Vanity License Plate: Following the damage it took in the previous season finale, Magnum is glad to see that the car is repaired until he sees that it has the new license plate of "HIGGINS-2".
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: The episode's villain first pretends to be a man's sister in distress so Magnum leads her to her target, then calls the police to report gunfire after her accomplice shoots Higgins and Magnum tries to rush her to a hospital in order to have the cops think Magnum's a fleeing culprit while they slip away.
