Wo Fat

Wo Fat was the main antagonist of the American series Hawaii 5-0, until his death in season 5. He is an expert in explosives and a powerful criminal leader, having sponsored the death of the father of the show's main protagonist, Steven "Steve" J. McGarett.

Season 1
Wo Fat made his first appearance at the end of the episode Hana' a' a' a Makehewa, where he spoke to murderer Victor Hesse, the man responsible for the assassination of John McGarrett, Steve's father.

In the episode Ke Kinohi, Fat was seen playing golf with Honolulu Yakuza's crime chief, Hiro Noshimuri, when Steve and Detective Sergeant Danny Williams confronted Hiro's brother and Hiro, Koji, for stealing evidence. Steve Mary's sister.

After Hiro Noshimuri's arrest for organizing the robbery, it is implicit that Wo Fat was of some importance as he was seen being driven into a golf cart by a bodyguard.

In the episode Ne Me' e Laua Na Paio, agent Jenna Kaye shows Steve a photo of Wo Fat talking to Victor Hesse in prison.

Jenna told Steve that Hesse and Hiro were both working for Wo Fat, and that while she was at the CIA, she was working on Wo Fat's case. She discovered that Wo Fat was in Macao and that the CIA had sent a capture team to capture him, but it turned out to be a trap. The entire team was killed, including Jenna's fiancé Joshua Hirsch, although her fate was not revealed until later in the series.

At the end of the episode, Wo Fat confronted Steve in a restaurant where Steve was to meet Jenna. Wo Fat wanted to know what Steve knew about him and warned Steve not to dig too deep into the McGarrett family history because Steve might not like what he would find in the confrontation, probably leaving Steve deeply shaken.

In the Oia' i' o episode of Season 1, Wo Fat set up a car bomb that killed Laura Hills, Governor Pat Jameson's assistant, leaving Jameson devastated and Steve looking for answers. Steve finally confronted Jameson by breaking and entering his mansion where Jameson told him that he had ordered Hill's death after learning that she was sending packages of Steve with evidence from John McGarrett's investigation.

During the confrontation, Wo Fat snuck into Steve and electrocuted him, using Steve's gun to kill Jameson before fleeing the scene, giving the impression that Steve killed Jameson. As a result, Steve was arrested and imprisoned for Jameson's death while Hawaii Five-0 was broken and their headquarters were closed.

Season 2
One week after the death of the governor and Steve's arrest in the Ha' i' ole episode, Chin noticed Wo Fat at Governor Jameson's funeral. After the funeral, Chin approached Wo Fat. His two bodyguards, Pao Dan and Wei Ling, tried to stop Chin but were defeated after a short scuffle.

Chin told Wo Fat that he knew Fat had killed Jameson and that the truth would be uncovered, but Fat ignored the warning and congratulated Chin on joining HPD before he left.

After Steve was stabbed by Hesse, Danny and Chin learned that Hesse had been ordered to kill Steve by Wo Fat but purposely did not do anything to make Steve escape and get Wo Fat. Hesse knew that after killing Steve, Wo Fat was going to leave so that he would "stop things" before Wo Fat disappeared.

Steve eventually escaped and after he was cleared, he, Danny and Chin tried to arrest Wo Fat. Using information from Wei Ling's wallet, which Chin Ho stole during the fight at the funeral, they discovered that Wo Fat was organizing an arm deal involving ingredients for a dirty bomb in a boat harbour.

Kono watched them but was captured by Wo Fat. He interrogated her to see what she was doing here and finally, Pao Dan took Kono with him so that he could be detained or executed.

Kono managed to escape and reported 5-0 on the weapons deal. Steve, Danny and Chin attacked the boat but did not find Wo Fat, while Joe and Kono engaged the buyer in a chase before killing the mysterious buyer, also finding the bomb materials.

Towards the end of the episode, Steve learned that a video recording showed that his father met both Wo Fat and Governor Pat Jameson, but the video had no sound. Steve had doubts, thinking that his father might be dirty, remembering that Wo Fat had said not to dig too deep into his family's past.

Wo Fat was later shown leaving Halawa Correctional Facility after killing Hesse, in a car driven by Jenna Kay.

In Ka Hakaka Maika' i, Joe White brought NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye, a lip-reader, to try to understand the purpose of the meeting. The only important thing she could find was the name "Shelburne". Joe and Steve couldn't understand the meaning of the word, so Joe arranged with Steve to meet Hideki Makoto, a former Japanese Imperial fighter pilot who helped bomb Pearl Harbor and later became John's friend.

Makoto hired John to investigate corruption in the police department and politics after getting tired of both. As John investigated further, he found that the governor was actually in league with the Yakuza and Wo Fat. John could not follow up on his findings because of threats to his family, including the death of his wife.

Wo Fat later confronted Joe White in his apartment to find out what Joe knew. Joe retorted and asked what "Shelburne" was. Wo Fat was troubled, admitting to Joe that he was surprised by what Joe and Steve knew. Wo Fat then tried to kill Joe with a rifle he was carrying, but Joe disarmed him.

The two men then engaged in a brutal fight in which Wo Fat used his greatest skill in martial arts to finally take the lead over Joe, well trained. Wo Fat proceeded to strangle him but Joe finally freed himself and went for Wo Fat's gun, only to find out that Wo Fat had fled.

In Kil' ilua, Wo Fat used local journalist Bethany Morris to give Jenna Kaye the hope that her fiancé Joshua was still alive. The journalist was later murdered and it was revealed that Jenna was working for Wo Fat because he threatened his fiancé's life. Jenna lured Steve to North Korea where Wo Fat and his men emerged, capturing Steve.

Jenna was finally led to where her fiancé was but discovered that he was dead, and had been all along. Wo Fat had used his hope that Josh had survived to keep Jenna working for him in order to reach Steve. Devastated, Jenna contacted Danny Williams and told him what was happening as Kono Kalakaua followed the call, prompting the Hawaii Five-0 team to launch an unofficial rescue operation to save Steve.

Back in Korea, Jenna took some medical pins from Josh's knee and slipped them to Steve while apologizing for what had happened. After one of Wo Fat's men discovered the satellite phone and showed it to Wo Fat, Fat shot Jenna in the chest in front of Steve.

Later, Steve used the pins to free himself and tried to escape, but he was taken back. In the transfer process, Wo Fat's convoy was attacked by Lori Weston's RPG while Danny, Kono, Chin Ho Kelly, Joe White and some SEAL members of SEAL Team 9, who needed Steve McGarrett to save one of their own, attacked Wo Fat's convoy, saving Steve even though Wo Fat escaped in the treatment.

A few months later, with his desire to find Joe White and get answers in "Shelburne" getting stronger and stronger, Steve finally temporarily left the team before Ha' elele and the two crossover episodes with NCIS: Los Angeles, Pa Make Loa and Touch of Death which also allowed Danny to become the temporary team leader.

Wo Fat returns to Ua Hopu when Steve arrests him in Japan and expels him to Hawaii. Their plane, an unregistered CIA black flight under radar in the Hawaiian jungle, was shot down by the Yakuza, with only Steve and Wo Fat surviving the accident. They are forced to work together to defeat a cleaning team sent to kill them, resulting in the theft of a helicopter. They are intercepted on landing by the Yakuza, led by Adam Noshimuri, who blames Steve and Wo Fat for the death of Hiro Noshimuri, his father and Yakuza's leader. The arrival of the rest of Five-0, and Kono's personal call to Adam, saw the Yakuza retreat from killing Wo Fat, who is sent to prison.

Season 3
In La O Na Makuahine, Wo Fat was about to be transferred, but the truck from the prison he was in was overthrown, which led to Fat's release.

It was later revealed that Frank Delano was the man responsible for breaking up Wo Fat out of prison with the team to conclude a deal. Delano and his men would be able to get drugs off the island in exchange for giving Wo Fat the location of Shelburne, which turned out to be Doris McGarrett, Steve's supposedly dead mother.

Wo Fat finally confronted Doris in Steve's house, resulting in a stand off, holding each other under the threat of a gun. However, Doris fired three bullets into the ground, giving Wo Fat time to escape, although it is not known why she allowed it.

In Hana I Wa' Ia, Wo Fat kidnapped a congressman and was about to kill him until Steve and Danny arrived in a helicopter. Danny exchanged fire with Wo Fat during the rescue, but Wo Fat managed to escape again.

In Imi Loko Ka' Uhane, Wo Fat returned, dressed as a police officer, and was interviewed by Savannah, host of the show, for her program on the Five-0 working group. Steve noticed Wo Fat during this interview and gave the hunt, shooting several shots, but Wo Fat avoided the capture. Wo Fat was then seriously injured in a shootout in the jungle, where he begged Steve to kill him. Steve refused to do so, and he chose to send Wo Fat to the hospital instead, with prison guards guarding the room while Wo Fat was handcuffed to bed.

In the final episode of season 3, Aloha, Malama Pono, Wo Fat was seen lying in bed in a high-risk detention centre in an unknown place with Steve standing in the room, staring Wo Fat. At the end of the episode, Fat told Steve that he was his protection because the unknown forces currently falling on Fat's door want Wo Fat to die, ending the episode in a cliffhanger.

Season 4
In Aloha ke kahi I ke kahi, NLM terrorists tried to kill Wo Fat with McGarrett who finally saved him. Later in the season, he escapes from prison. Even later, he rescued Lou Grover's daughter from Ian Wright, whom he eventually killed.

Season 5
Wo Fat returned to Ina Paha after kidnapping Steve in the hope that Steve would break down and tell Wo Fat what had happened to his father, Dae Won.

Meanwhile, Steve was held captive and given drugs, going so far as to hallucinate an alternative reality where he was still a Navy SEAL, his father John McGarrett was still alive and this as a result of the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force never existing, Danny, Chin and Kono lead different lives.

Returning to reality, Steve later discovers that he and Wo Fat are brothers or likely half-brothers since Wo Fat grew up with Doris McGarrett.

Steve and Wo Fat are also engaged in a brutal fight that ends with Steve shooting Wo Fat in the head and killing him like this, avenging his father's death.

Season 8
One of Wo Fat's victims' brother, Aaron Wright, mentions Wo Fat as his brother's killer.