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Magnum (Tom Selleck) insists upon reopening a military court-martial that occurred some forty years earlier. The reason for this belated investigation is to determine the innocence--or guilt--of a sailor who was reported AWOL from the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941. The man's daughter (played by Kathleen Lloyd before she was established on Magnum, P.I. in the semi-recurring role of ADA Carol Baldwin) has been denied permission to scatter her father's ashes at the Pearl Harbor memorial, and Magnum wants the whole story. . .for better or worse. This episode once again touches upon the protagonist's fascination with such classic detective films as The Maltese Falcon: the allegedly AWOL sailor's name was Miles Archer, the same name as Sam Spade's unfortunate partner in Falcon; and his daughter's name is Bridget, as in "Bridget O'Shaughnessy", the duplicitous heroine in the same film.