Wo Fat
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Wo Fat is the name of a fictional villain in the long-running CBS series Hawaii Five-O. He is the arch-nemesis of Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), the head of Hawaii's (fictional) state police force, named "5-0" due to Hawaii being the fiftieth state admitted to the union. Wo Fat is a former Red Chinese intelligence officer and a staunch communist. He appeared in eleven episodes of Hawaii Five-O including the first episode and the final episode. Five of them were two-part episodes. In the final episode, Woe to Wo Fat, the antagonist is finally arrested and jailed. However, in the final shot, he smiles and craftily produces a concealed key.
It remains a perpetual cliffhanger.
Wo Fat was portrayed by actor Khigh Dhiegh (born Kenneth Dickenson) who, despite looking sufficiently Asian for the role, was actually of mixed Anglo, Egyptian, and Sudanese ancestry.
In the first two-and-a-half years of the show's existence, Wo Fat made six appearances. However, presumably due to President Richard Nixon's visit to China in February, 1972 and his talks with Mao Zedong that led to a period of détente between the two nations, his appearances after the historic event became far more sporadic: just five episodes in eight years.
[edit] Episodes featuring Wo Fat
- Cocoon: Part 1 (June 4, 1969)
- Cocoon: Part 2 (June 11, 1969)
- Forty Feet High and It Kills! (October 8, 1969)
- A Bullet for McGarrett (October 29, 1969)
- And a Time to Die... (September 16, 1970)
- F.O.B. Honolulu: Part 1 (January 27, 1971)
- F.O.B. Honolulu: Part 2 (February 3, 1971)
- The Ninety-Second War: Part 1 (January 18, 1972)
- The Ninety-Second War: Part 2 (January 25, 1972)
- The Jinn Who Clears the Way (October 10, 1972)
- Presenting... in the Center Ring... Murder (December 10, 1974)
- Murder - Eyes Only: Part 1 (September 12, 1975)
- Murder - Eyes Only: Part 2 (September 12, 1975)
- Nine Dragons: Part 1 (September 30, 1976)
- Nine Dragons: Part 2 (September 30, 1976)
- Woe to Wo Fat (April 5, 1980)
