'Hawaii Five-0' season 7 episode 2 recap: Serial killer’s chess piece obsession continues; FBI profiler Alicia Brown offers help; killer gets analysed

The serial killer who fancies chess pieces is still being tracked as the guys seek the help of a behaviour expert.

The biggest mystery for the season remains; and that is who is leaving such chess pieces with his victims and now that Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) has seen one in his house, is he the next target? While this killer has been preoccupied in murdering other killers, he clearly wants Steve’s attention.

After a week since Steve found a chess piece in his house, his patience starts to run out. He brings the piece over to Danny Williams (Scott Caan) and seek the help of a behavioural specialist named Alicia Brown (Claire Forlani) who is able to tell from the piece that the killer finds that he is a worthy adversary and somewhat respectable. While this might freak out a lot of viewers and Steve himself, this might not necessarily be a threat just as everyone thinks. They ask her to come out of retirement so she can work with them closely with this case, but she declines the offer.

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After a while, after the chess piece is left on her table, it gets her attention and gets her thinking. Later on, she firmly decides that she is in and that she will be helping with the case. While she says that her involvement has some reservations since she is already retired, her denial does not stick.

Alicia also says that this killer is able to find similar minded individuals and make them kill for his own entertainment only meant that he was capable of a higher form of manipulation. She warns the guys that they should not underestimate the killer since he can find them if he really wants to.

As to their next case, it had nothing to do with the chess obsessed serial killer. They have been called over to a hotel where the corpse of a young woman had been found and was somehow connected to a disavowed SAS officer.

“Hawaii Five-0” airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on CBS. It also airs on the TEN Channel in Australia.