Danny Williams
By Mike Gordon
Danny “Danno” Williams (Scott Caan) was a New Jersey cop who moved to Hawaii after his ex-wife Rachel (Claire van der Boom) relocated to the islands with their daughter and her new husband. He met Steve McGarrett in the first episode during his investigation of the elder McGarrett’s murder.
McGarrett convinced Danno to join the “Hawaii Five-0″ task force by telling him the unconventional job would allow him to make Hawaii a safer place for his daughter.
Working in Hawaii is a tough fit for Danno, who doesn’t like the ocean and the state’s laid-back sensibilities. He insists on proper procedures and the belief that the uniform of police authority is a dress shirt and tie. He doesn’t surf and would prefer a baseball game to a hike in the tropical wilderness. And, at least initially, he didn’t like his ex-wife. When she called his cellphone, the ringtone was the shriek from “Psycho.”
What he does like are malasadas and Coco Puffs from Liliha Bakery.
Danno has a younger brother, Matt Williams (Dane Cook), a Wall Street broker who visited him in Hawaii. But Matt was on the run from federal agents and forced his brother to ignore that so he could escape.
Unknown to everyone on the task force except McGarrett, Danno reconciled with Rachel, and she told him, as the season ended, that she was pregnant with his child and was leaving her husband to return to New Jersey. Danno said he would go with her — but that was before McGarrett ended up in the slammer in need of the team’s help.
Danno apparently won’t be pining for his ex for too long. Autumn Reeser, from “Entourage” and “The O.C.,” has been booked on the show as a love interest.
Because the show is already successful, the addition of several recurring characters in the second season lends more creative flexibility to the stories on “Five-0,” Caan said.
“I think what they are doing is trying to expand the show as much as they can because you are not going to lose what we already have,” he said. “And the idea would be to make the show bigger and have more people for other people to fall for and enjoy and be excited to watch.”
New cast members also challenge Caan’s acting skills, he said.
“As much as I like working with everyone I did last year, doing a show like this, it does feel like the same old characters,” he said. “So it’s somebody else to play with. And everyone so far has been super-cool. I hope they keep adding characters. It keeps things fresh.”
Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser; scans are in the gallery
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