EPISODE

4. Straight and Narrow

Magnum's luck takes a tumble when he injures his ankle while training for an upcoming charity sports event, and if his foot doesn't heal in time, his place will be taken for the race. But his luck looks set to fall even more when he finds that prostitute Leslie Emery, who he met when he was working as a hotel detective, has now given up working as a call girl and has recently taken a job as a waitress at the King Kamehameha Club, and wants to hire him to help her find her missing sister. Although she is well-meaning, Leslie has proven to cause nothing but problems for Magnum, and sure enough, in next to no time they are up to their necks in chaos, as they uncover that Leslie's missing sister is involved with powerful political figures.

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Magnum's luck takes a tumble when he injures his ankle while training for an upcoming charity sports event. If unhealed in time, his place will be taken for the race. But his luck looks like a sure fail when he finds that call girl Leslie "Scooter" Emory ( Candy Clark ), whom he met when he was working as a hotel detective (in S06E05), has taken a job as a waitress at the King Kamehameha Club, and wants to hire him in locating her missing sister, Patty ( Cindy Fisher ). Although she is well-meaning, Leslie has proven to cause Magnum chaos; it is found that Patty is involved with powerful political figures.

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