Last Magnum P.I. episode
Sandi Alexander Kwee
episode. Is it true that Higgins is actually Robin Masters or
that Magnum was killed in the last episode?
Thanks in advance,
Sandi
Nancy Durgin
>Could someone send me or post a summary of the last Magnum P.I.
>episode. Is it true that Higgins is actually Robin Masters or
Well, it was strongly implied that Higgins was Robin Masters. I'm not sure
it was definitively proven. Personally, I thought this was silly. Early
episodes clearly indicate that Robin Masters is not Higgins, and don't even
imply that there's a doubt about it. Sometime in the last season or so, they
seem to have introduced this mystery and starting dropping hints that Higgins
was Masters, and then they were really direct about it in the last few shows.
But there was no precedent for it from the early part of the series.
>that Magnum was killed in the last episode?
Which last episode? At the end of the penultimate season, they thought
it was the last episode they were filming, and they killed Magnum off
(or strongly implied that he had died). Then at the beginning of the
next season (the series was unexpectedly renewed), they brought him back
to life.
This isn't as odd as it sounds, as the episode where he "died" was all an
out-of-body near-death experience. When they brought him back to life at
the beginning of the next season, it was just a matter of saying "Oh, look!
His heart started again!".
In the real final episode, Magnum is reunited with his daughter, and rejoins
the Navy (and goes off happily into syndication...).
Nancy
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> Subject: Re: Last Magnum P.I. episode
> Date: 27 May 92 20:16:15 GMT
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> >episode. Is it true that Higgins is actually Robin Masters or
Does anyone know if there are Magnum reruns on any of the cable channels?
Peggy
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Well, let's see. It opens with an old girlfriend of Magnum's being
followed and threatened by some mysterious guy. She's hit by a car
in a parking garage, I believe. Cut to Magnum at Annapolis, watching
the military types on the parade square. He looks at the statue of
Tecumseh and seems to be depressed (which is understandable, since
he believes his ex-wife and child to be dead). He returns to his
mother's home, where a surprise birthday party awaits him; it includes
a surprise guest, his paternal grandfather, Thomas Magnum I. It
turns out that the elder Thomas is a bit of a wanderer and has not
seen the family for years. Younger Thomas wants to speak with him
for a long time, but the grandfather is reluctant and ducks out of
a meeting the next day.
After the missed meeting, Magnum returns to his mother's home
and receives a call from Higgins, who tells him of the accident
in the parking garage. Magnum hops on a plane immediately and
we see a lot of flashbacks about their short-lived romance. After
he visits her in the hospital and promises to help find out who
did it, he is corralled by Rick, whose wedding to Cleo is imminent.
Rick is agonizing about whether to pick Magnum or T.C. as his
best man. When Magnum returns to his "guest house," he discovers
the videotape of Michelle and Lily's death is missing. He goes to
the main house and demands that Higgins give it to him. Returning
to the guest house, he plays the video and realizes that there is
a strange noise before the explosion. He asks an old navy friend,
a disc jockey and sound engineer, to identify it for him.
At some point in the episode, Magnum tenders his resignation
as the estate security chief. He says that he's "not sure who to
resign to- Johnathan Higgins or Robin Masters"; and basically
pleads with Higgins to tell him the truth. "Yes," Higgins sighs,
confirming Magnum's assertions at last. "And I regretfully accept
your resignation."
From this point on, scenes alternate between rekindling of
the old romance and Rick's wedding plans, as well as questioning
Higgins' true identity. There is a cute scene where Magnum, Rick,
T.C. and Higgins get into a barroom brawl and are thoroughly beaten;
quite a change from the old days. Anyway, Magnum gets a call from
his engineer friend who confirms that the strange sound is a car door
opening; his daughter had been asking for a doll immediately before.
Magnum thinks she may have gotten out of the car, and immediately
asks his old friend Maggie (aide to Buck Greene at Navy Intelligence)
to find out. She soon calls to say that there was basically no hope.
Cut to a scene of Magnum chopping a very thick tree and looking
very angry. His grandfather suddenly shows up again, willing to talk,
but Magnum is not in the mood. Magnum Sr. decides to stay on for a
while anyway. They talk that evening about Magnum's father, who died
when he was 6 (I think). Preoccupied with Lily, Magnum tells his
old flame that he can't get involved with her at the moment. She
takes it the wrong way, gets angry, leaves, and is nearly attacked
again.
Magnum is called shortly afterward by Maggie, who tells him to
come to the same church where he discovered that Michelle was alive
way back in the second season. She meets him there and explains:
"I wanted to tell you, but if you kept investigating, she would
have been in danger.." or some such lame excuse. Lily is alive,
as it turns out, and reunited with her father. He excitedly
takes her home to meet her great-grandfather, but he has hit the
road again. Magnum is deliriously happy and leaves Lily with his
old friend Carol (the D.A., I believe) while he rushes off to do
last-minute pre-wedding business.
This business includes picking up clothes for the wedding (he
has missed all of his tux fittings), a doll for Lily (she is left
with his rubber chicken at first), and meeting his old flame to
explain things and put things back on friendly ground. As he walks
by an alley returning to the Ferarri, he hears a soft voice calling
his name. He finds one of his old flame's monogrammed handkerchiefs
outside of an old warehouse door and enters, only to be attacked by
her follower- the night security guard at her building. They fight
for a bit and end up struggling against a wall, Magnum trying to
wrestle a big kinfe away from his abdomen. Suddenly, the knife
stabs someone- but who?? If you don't want to know, stop reading
here. :)
Cut to the wedding, where Rick is visibly nervous. He, T.C. and
Higgins are wondering where Magnum is. Rick's afraid he's made
Magnum angry by not picking him as best man. "Here Comes The Bride"
begins to play. Everyone stands. Magnum stumbles through the arch-
way, wearing a spiffy new Navy uniform (rank of Captain). He takes
his place beside T.C. who asks "What'd you do- re-up?" "Exactly."
They try the bridal march again, and Cleo comes this time. Higgins,
wearing sunglasses to hide a black eye from the bachelor party,
nudges Magnum: "do you remember what I told you about being Robin
Masters? I lied." The wedding proceeds.
Cleo says "I do." When Rick is asked, he says "I-I-I-" His
friends nudge and prompt him. Rick lets out a long, tortured "Iii-"
and the scene pauses as the credits begin. While the credits roll,
we see assorted scenes from episodes past; they conclude with a new
scene of Magnum and Lily walking hand in hand on the beach. Cut
to a shot which shows Tom Selleck, still in uniform, watching the
"Universal" logo on a television. He switches it off with a remote
control, stands, and turns to face us. "Goodnight," he smiles, raises
the remote, and the screen goes black.
Does that answer your question? :-) :-) :-)
Well, it goes without saying by now that I was a big fan, and it was
thanks to this newsgroup that I was able to complete my collection
of the show (I also compiled the episode list). While I'd say that
some elements of the final episode could have been better or simply
avoided (ie., dropping the obligatory "old-flame-in-trouble" story
in favor of making Lily's return easier to swallow) but what the
hell. Incidentally, Magnum DID die in the original final episode
at the end of the seventh season, before Selleck decided to sign
on for a short eighth year to wrap things up more satisfactorally.
It was an "open-ended" death, I guess. :-)
Hope you enjoyed that. I enjoyed recalling it.
Scott Marshall
Fount of knowledge
Ronald Oakes
|> >Could someone send me or post a summary of the last Magnum P.I.
|> >episode. Is it true that Higgins is actually Robin Masters or
|>
|> Well, it was strongly implied that Higgins was Robin Masters. I'm not sure
|> it was definitively proven. Personally, I thought this was silly. Early
|> episodes clearly indicate that Robin Masters is not Higgins, and don't even
|> imply that there's a doubt about it. Sometime in the last season or so, they
|> seem to have introduced this mystery and starting dropping hints that Higgins
|> was Masters, and then they were really direct about it in the last few shows.
|> But there was no precedent for it from the early part of the series.
|>
From what I remember (from the Pilot, a late season episode and the final
episode): At first Magnum was allowed to live on the estate by Robin Masters,
in exchange for doing security tasks, such as checking the security. Over the,
next few seasons we began to "see" Robin Masters as this mysterious author who,
looks like Truman Capote and sounds like Orson Wells (voice was Wells).
In one episode during the last, or second to last, season; someone was trying to
kill both Magum and Higgins. He trapped them both in an elevator in a building
scheduled for demolition. While in the elevator Higgins slipped and refered
to "My Car" or "My House." After this Magnum was convinced that Higgins was
the actual author, and "Robin Masters" was someone he heired as a cover. Since,
in another episode we learn that Robin Masters writes by dictating his books
onto tapes that a secretrary then transcribes, he could have just been reading
what Higgins wrote.
In the final episode, Magnum confronts Higgins and asks for a direct answer and
Higgins says that he is indeed Robin Masters. However, near the very end, during
Rick's weding, Higgins turns to Magnum and say that he lied (but not about what).
So this was one of the things left as a mystery at the end of the series.
Ronald B. Oakes
Michael Limprecht @Sun Micro Mt View.
This has always been bugging me. Maybe Scott can answer this...
In what was supposed to be the last episodes (the season before)
where magnum was shot and near death but helps out Michele in
a ghost like fasion. He also asks for a "Pint of Stout".
What is the name of that Joe Cocker song that he whistles??
At least it's sounds like Cocker.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Mick
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J3SF
>
>This has always been bugging me. Maybe Scott can answer this...
>
>
>In what was supposed to be the last episodes (the season before)
>where magnum was shot and near death but helps out Michele in
>a ghost like fasion. He also asks for a "Pint of Stout".
>
of season 7; but he asked for the stout in "Infinity & Jelly Donuts,"
the first episode of season 8, after waking from the dead.
>What is the name of that Joe Cocker song that he whistles??
>At least it's sounds like Cocker.
>
Yeah, there are two songs which stand out in my memory from about
that time. I recall the one by Cocker concluded with the line
"I've lived to see the sun break through the storm/ I'm so glad
I'm standing here today." I think that was from "Infinity." The
other was sung by someone with a much smoother voice and had something
to do with flying. Sorry, that's probably not much of a help.
>Inquiring minds want to know.
>
Incidentally, Cocker's version of Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" was
played at the conclusion of "Going Home," one of my favourite episodes.
(It was the one where Magnum returned to Virginia (?) for his
grandfather's funeral and it was revealed that his step-brother
Joey died in the Viet Nam war.)
Scott Marshall
I Wanna Be Sedated
Nancy Durgin
|>
|>This has always been bugging me. Maybe Scott can answer this...
|>
|>
|>In what was supposed to be the last episodes (the season before)
|>where magnum was shot and near death but helps out Michele in
|>a ghost like fasion. He also asks for a "Pint of Stout".
|>
|>What is the name of that Joe Cocker song that he whistles??
|>At least it's sounds like Cocker.
|>
|>Inquiring minds want to know.
Hmm... Are you talking about the song that is sung at the beginning and
end of the episode? I don't recall that he whistled it at all, so maybe
you're talking about a different song.
But anyway, the song at the beginning and end (while Magnum is walking in
the Limbo clouds) is "Looking For Space", and is sung by John Denver.
The beginning of the song goes:
"On the road of experience,
Trying to find my own way.
Sometimes I wish that I could fly away...."
And the chorus is:
"And I'm looking for space,
And to find out who I am.
And I'm looking to know and understand...."
(I wish I had the complete lyrics...)
This is one of my favorite John Denver songs, and I found it very appropriate
for this episode.
I also find it satisfying to figure that people who would scoff at John
Denver probably enjoyed this song in that context, too...
24220s-knights
> Hmm... Are you talking about the song that is sung at the beginning and
> end of the episode? I don't recall that he whistled it at all, so maybe
> you're talking about a different song.
>
> But anyway, the song at the beginning and end (while Magnum is walking in
> the Limbo clouds) is "Looking For Space", and is sung by John Denver.
>
> The beginning of the song goes:
>
> "On the road of experience,
> Trying to find my own way.
> Sometimes I wish that I could fly away...."
>
> And the chorus is:
>
> "And I'm looking for space,
> And to find out who I am.
> And I'm looking to know and understand...."
>
> (I wish I had the complete lyrics...)
>
> This is one of my favorite John Denver songs, and I found it very appropriate
> for this episode.
>
> I also find it satisfying to figure that people who would scoff at John
> Denver probably enjoyed this song in that context, too...
I've always loved John Denver, and I was really tickled
to see this song on this show.
>
>
Here's the words to the song as I remember them.
I don't have access to lyric sheets, so I'm
going from memory, but I used to have this
entire album memorized, so it should be pretty
accurate.
LOOKING FOR SPACE
John Denver
On the road of experience
I'm trying to find my own way
Sometimes I wish that I could fly away
When I think that I'm moving
And suddenly things stand still
And I'm afraid cause I think they always will
CHORUS
And I'm looking for space
And to find out who I am
And I'm looking to know and understand
It's a sweet, sweet dream
Sometimes I'm almost there
Sometimes I fly like an eagle
And sometimes I'm deep in despair
All alone in the universe
Sometimes that's how it seems
I get lost in the sadness and the screams
Then I look in the center
And suddenly everything's clear
I find myself in the sunshine and my dreams
CHORUS
--------
Katriena Knights
"Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time!"
-- Samuel Beckett, "Waiting for Godot"
Michael Limprecht @Sun Micro Mt View.
>In article <l2dfh3...@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> adm...@m-5.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht @Sun Micro Mt View. ) writes:
>>
>>This has always been bugging me. Maybe Scott can answer this...
>>
>Well, I'll try. :-)
>>
>>In what was supposed to be the last episodes (the season before)
>>where magnum was shot and near death but helps out Michele in
>>a ghost like fasion. He also asks for a "Pint of Stout".
>>
>Well, he was shot and helps Michelle in "Limbo," the last episode
>of season 7; but he asked for the stout in "Infinity & Jelly Donuts,"
>the first episode of season 8, after waking from the dead.
>
>>What is the name of that Joe Cocker song that he whistles??
>>At least it's sounds like Cocker.
>>
>Yeah, there are two songs which stand out in my memory from about
>that time. I recall the one by Cocker concluded with the line
>"I've lived to see the sun break through the storm/ I'm so glad
>I'm standing here today." I think that was from "Infinity." The
>other was sung by someone with a much smoother voice and had something
>to do with flying. Sorry, that's probably not much of a help.
>
Yes! That's the one! I don't remember which episode (the last of season 7 or
begining of season 8) but I do recall a scene where Magnum is standing
out on this mountain point at the ocean's edge and this song is played in the background.
Jog any more memories??
Thanks for the clue.
Tim Dodd
^In article 00...@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA, J3SF <J3...@UNB.CA^ () writes:
^^In article <l2dfh3...@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM^ adm...@m-5.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht @Sun Micro Mt View. ) writes:
^^^In what was supposed to be the last episodes (the season before)
^^^where magnum was shot and near death but helps out Michele in
^^^a ghost like fasion. He also asks for a "Pint of Stout".
^^Well, he was shot and helps Michelle in "Limbo," the last episode
^^of season 7; but he asked for the stout in "Infinity & Jelly Donuts,"
^^the first episode of season 8, after waking from the dead.
^^Yeah, there are two songs which stand out in my memory from about
^^that time. I recall the one by Cocker concluded with the line
^^"I've lived to see the sun break through the storm/ I'm so glad
^^I'm standing here today." I think that was from "Infinity." The
^^other was sung by someone with a much smoother voice and had something
^^to do with flying. Sorry, that's probably not much of a help.
It's John Denver: the song is "Looking for Space".
Tim
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do they recognize what they experience, but believe their own opinions."
-- Heraclitus (5th century B.C., tr. C. H. Kahn)
Tim Dodd, Research Scientist, Georgia Tech ceg...@prism.gatech.edu
fran...@gmail.com
There were times, I remember
Had to fight just to hold my head up
Those times when even my friends
Tried to make a fool of me
There were things that my heart attacked
That they just couldn't see
Some said, "I was hopeless
Mind tangled in the night"
Strong hearts just keep goin'
That is why I'm still standing here today
Come together, raise up your voices
This time my song of love and life wont go away
I'll sing forever here in the sunshine
If your lost in your troubles
And the world just seems to forget you
If you remember sunshine
Even on your darkest day
Just follow what your heart says
And you will find the way
Some said "I was hopeless
Mind tangled in the night"
Strong hearts just keep goin'
That is why I'm still standing here today
Come together, raise up your voices
This time my song of love and life wont go away
I'll sing forever here in the sunshine
Come together, raise up your voices
This time my song of love and life it wont go away
I'll sing forever here in the sunshine
I've lived to see the sun break through the dawn
And I'm so glad I'm standing here toda
fran...@gmail.com
> you can watch or listen to it on youtube
Frank