Hawaii Five-0

There was an armed robbery

at the Union Liberty Bank this morning.

Early reports indicate that two men wearing masks

threatened tellers into handing over more than $30,000 in cash

before making their escape.

Thankfully, no one was harmed.

HPD has asked any witnesses to come forward,

and for the public to remain vigilant at this time.

Either way

So long

Aint no fun just hanging around

Shouldnt hide

Shouldnt hide

Oh, oh

Ooh...

Adam.

My man.

Hey, Hal.

Hey.

How are you today?

Im great, thank you.

And you're doing great, too.

Your signing is really coming along.

Ah, thank you.

So, uh,

what's my word of the day?

Ah.

Malasada.

W-Wait a second. Is that your way

of telling me you're sick of sandwiches?

Oh, please.

This is my favorite kind of sandwich.

Free.

Hey.

Did you ever hear back

about that... janitorial job?

I did.

They said they needed a permanent address

for the application.

Im sorry to hear that.

Hey.

Next time,

if you need to put down an address,

you can use mine.

You've already been so kind to me.

Which is why I feel terrible

asking you this.

My granddaughter, Alexis...

shes turning six next week,

and I want to send something back home to her.

Im not asking for money.

I have enough saved up.

Its just...

...I cant go into a kids store looking like this.

Of course.

Just...

tell me what you need,

and Ill go pick it up for you.

But heres the deal.

I need you to meet me

at the corner of 8th and Pahua

in one hour. Deal?

I don't suppose you're gonna tell me why?

You'll know soon enough.

Okay, this is a first.

You know, so I-Ive been to, uh, band camp with Grace,

took her, uh, to circus camp once.

I even heard of a place called magic camp.

But mermaid camp... this is definitely something else.

Sirens of the Seven Seas is not a camp.

Its Oahus premier mermaid experience.

Its also not for kids.

Theres lots of grown women who do this.

They also pay up to $10,000 for these custom silicone tails.

Ah. They should be spending that money on therapy.

That's on top of the price of the course.

This stuff is not cheap.

They also have these "finstructors"

that are trained synchronized swimmers,

and they teach you, you know, all the moves

and how to hold your breath underwater and stuff.

Did you read the brochure, or...?

No, this has, like, kind of been on my bucket list

for my entire life.

I love mermaids. I really love mermaids.

I-I watched

The Little Mermaid so many times as a kid,

that I wore out the VHS.

Try to hold yourself together,

because we have to investigate a murder here.

Ah, I cannot make any promises.

Hi.

What do we have, guys?

Well, from what I can tell,

C.O.D. was acute poisoning.

I won't know the exact kind until I can run further tests,

but my best guess would be rodenticide, aka rat poison.

If she was poisoned, what's with all the blood?

Because most rat poisons are anticoagulants, which explains

why our vic hemorrhaged out of all of her orifices.

Well, what do we know, Duke... anything?

Her names Gwendoline Baker.

33 years old.

She works for a health and beauty company.

Apparently, she booked out

this whole place for her top sales team.

Huh. What about a spa day?

Nobody does that anymore, or what?

Were in the process of getting statements

from everyone who was here.

All right.

Oh, this is interesting:

did you know that, uh, women are five times more likely

to, uh, use poison as a murder weapon than men?

For the record, were just as capable

of using a gun or a knife.

Ha, ha. Sister.

Also, last time I checked, poison was

a common murder method for both genders. Spouses, actually.

Okay. That reminds me... does she have a spouse?

Her husband Josh is off the island.

He's coaching at a tennis camp on Kauai.

He's catching the next flight back.

I recognize her necklace.

Duke, what did you say that company

she worked for is called?

It was, um, Plum & Rose Beauty.

What is that... you heard of it or something?

Yeah.

Imagine your ideal life.

The places you'd visit.

The experiences you'd have.

Everything you could possibly want.

Well, Plum & Rose Beauty

can make all of those dreams come true.

If you told me five years ago that this would be my life,

I would have said you were crazy.

Yet here I am.

I started with Plum & Rose Beauty as a way

to supplement my schoolteacher income.

But by my second month,

my sales commissions

had surpassed my yearly income.

And me? I got to retire at 38 cause this boss lady

makes six figures a month.

Thanks, honey. But Im not special.

Plum & Rose Beauty is for anyone whos motivated, coachable

and looking to live their best life.

If that sounds like you, then don't wait.

Join our sisterhood today.

Im Gwendoline Baker, and my greatest joy is showing people

how to live the life of their dreams.

See, I get that shes selling a load of crap, and yet

you still kind of want to buy it.

Buy what? I just watched the video, too,

I have no idea what shes selling.

Plum & Rose

is a beauty and health company

that sells a wide range of skin care products,

but what they're really selling is a lifestyle,

with some aspirational female empowerment stuff peppered in.

And these ladies are all about the gram.

Instagram, people. You know, exotic vacations

and-and champagne brunches and mermaid camps.

They put it all on social media

so it boosts the brand.

It just seems

like a-a lot of work to sell hand cream.

They're not doing it to sell hand cream,

they're doing it to recruit new sellers.

Its called multilevel marketing.

So with every new client brought in,

you get a commission off the purchase

of the initial starter kit,

and then every subsequent sale.

I know this because I went to high school with a girl

who kept pestering me to join.

And I had to unfriend her on Facebook.

Its a pyramid scheme.

- That's what it is. - Our victim

Was at the top of the food chain.

Yeah, which could have made her a target.

Elite sellers like Gwendoline... shes an exception

to the rule. Most people that join...

they spend thousands and thousands of dollars

on these starter kits that they cant sell,

and then they end up broke and totally screwed.

So, if Gwendoline

had hundreds of people selling under her...

Then that means theres hundreds of people

who might have struck out and gone broke.

Uhp, update from Noelani.

So the poison turns out to be foxglove,

and it was ingested between six and 24 hours

before time of death.

Okay.

So that means were not just looking for people

at the mermaid camp, we need to consider

anyone who came in contact with her