There's always been an ongoing debate about whether reboots/remakes are necessary. But given the fact that people of the current generation might be too busy to go dig up movies/TV shows from twenty or thirty years ago, it all makes sense.
The Magnum P.I reboot is almost similar to the original show, only that it has a modern flair to it. The series revolves around the Ferrari driving war veteran named Thomas Magnum, who now works as a private investigator in Hawaii. Each new episode presents a new villain, and here are the best ones we've seen so far.
10 Professor Neal Conlan
What if you found out your favorite thriller writer actually killed people? Season 2, episode 6 of Magnum P.I presented us with this kind of scenario. In the episode, Magnum's "it's complicated" lover Abby represents a professor named Neal Conlan in court.
Conlan, who is also a best-selling author, has been accused of murdering his teaching assistant. Abby suspects that Conlan is actually a serial killer, so she seeks Magnum's help. After doing some investigations, Magnum discovers that a couple of Conlan's missing female students were all aspiring authors. He also discovers that Conlan murdered the students, buried their bodies, and published their manuscripts as his own novels.
9 Hannah (Magnum's Ex-Fiance)
Just like many other popular action heroes, Magnum never has good luck with love. His lovers always end up betraying him or leaving him. Others just end up dead. In the first season, Magnum's ex-fiance shows up and manages to destroy his relationship with TC, Rick, and Katsumoto.
Apparently, Hannah was responsible for landing Magnum, Rick, and TC in a POW camp back in Afghanistan. But when she shows up in Hawaii, Magnum is still more than willing to help her out. Truly, love is blind. After manipulating Magnum a couple of times, Hannah ends up dead.
8 Melinda Mosley
In the ninth episode of season two, Magnum and his buddies were up against a woman named Mosley. In a rather bizarre set of circumstances, Mosley murdered her daughter and still convinced herself that the girl was killed by someone else.
Mosley even pleaded to the public via news outlets for her daughter to be returned. To replace her dead daughter, she kidnapped another young girl and held her captive for years. Magnum eventually cornered Mosley and forced her to surrender.
7 James The Art Thief
Magnum found himself framed for theft in the fourth episode of season 1 titled, "Six Paintings, One Frame." In the episode, a multi-millionaire named Jack Candler hired Magnum to test the security system he had put in place to protect his art collection.
However, someone still managed to steal the art and kill Mr. Candler. That person was none other than Candler's business partner James. The evil James framed Magnum since he was the only outsider who knew how the security system worked. Magnum was arrested and almost tried before new evidence popped up.
6 Lina
Lina appeared in the Season 2 episode "Knight Lasts Forever." Together with her boyfriend, she showed up at Robin's Nest, pretending to be a fan of Robin Masters and his novels. In reality, she was a mercenary tasked with finding out who the White Knight in the novels really was.
Lina held Higgins and Kumu captive before kidnapping Magnum as soon as he arrived in his Ferrari 488 Spider. She was also the first outsider to find out that Magnum was indeed the White Knight. Unfortunately for her, Kumu, Higgins, and Katsumoto tracked her at the warehouse, where she was holding Magnum and killed her.
5 IT Expert Jim Peele
In the thirteenth episode of season two, Magnum and TC went undercover in a company as efficiency experts. Their real motive was to find out who really murdered Glenn, a senior person in management. Glenn apparently collapsed on the staircase, but foul play was suspected.
It turned out that an employee named Jim did it, but Magnum didn't find this out so easily because Jim covered his tracks. He even managed to use a colleague's computer to research poisons. The real reason for the murder was even more heartbreaking. Apparently, Jim did it because he feared Glenn was going to fire him.
4 Gene (Ivan)
After it was revealed that Lina was serving a more powerful master, we got to know who he really was. In season 2's episode "Day I Met The Devil," James Remar from Black Lightning had a cameo as Magnum's former commanding officer Captain Buck Greene. He summoned Magnum and sent him a secret mission to South America.
There he is taken hostage by an arms dealer named Gene. It turned out that Gene is actually Ivan, the man who sent Lina to search for the White Knight. Magnum's buddies went to rescue him, but Ivan managed to escape, setting the stage for a future return.
3 Detective Jim Dugan
Sometimes, the best villains are always the ones who initially operate from the shadows. Detective Jim Dugan of Hawaii PD was one such villain. In season 2, episode 4, Detective Katsumoto asked Magnum to secretly investigate a cop that he suspected of tampering with evidence.
Katsumoto hated this cop so much that he was convinced he was helping a drug lord. But he was wrong. Apparently, the culprit was the seemingly clean Detective Jim Dugan. When he was discovered, Dugan tried to run, but he was caught.
2 Erin Hong
Erin was the overarching villain in the crossover event between Magnum P.I. and Hawaii Five-O. In the event which concluded in the twelfth episode of Magnum P.I's second season, Magnum and the team from Five-O found themselves trying to prevent a Nock list containing names of undercover CIA agents from getting into the wrong hands.
Erin initially made Magnum and his team believe that she was an innocent wife who had no idea that her husband was a spy. It turned out that she was behind most of the activities, and she was actually trying to get her hands on the Nock list.
1 Mason Watts - The Killer Of Waianae
Mason was a serial killer who appeared in season 2, episode 5. He managed to escape prison during the Halloween season. He went on to hide at the same Halloween party that Magnum was attending. When he was spotted, he stabbed a cop and escaped.
And when Rick and Higgin decided to sleep in a haunted house, because that had always been Rick's wish, Watts showed up at the same house. Apparently, this the same house where Watts murdered a family and earned himself the name "The Killer Of Waianae." Watts brutally beat them up, but they eventually got the better of him.
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