Peter Lenkov Keeps Booking ‘Em for Five-0

This post contains spoilers.

In Hollywood, it’s easy come, easy go. If a character isn’t working out as expected or if it simply befits the continuously evolving story line, then of course a role is always expendable.

C’est la vie.

We discovered something was up with former CIA analyst Jenna Kaye at the end of this season’s opener and the development in the second episode felt like a goodbye. Peter Lenkov confirmed to TV Guide that the end is indeed near for Jenna:

“We’re wrapping up the Jenna story. She’s going to disappear from her life for a little bit and then come back into it in Episode 10 (likely airing November 21) for a very big story that’s going to be very McGarrett/Wo-Fat-centric. It has to do with the origins of McGarrett and takes us back to North Korea where we started in the pilot.”

Too bad – just when I had just gotten used to her. But episode 10 sounds just awesome, regardless.

But that’s not the only news from the Hawaii Five-0 casting front!

Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett will be making a guest appearance as a pilot friend of Lt. Commander Joe White’s, reports EW.

And speaking of McGarrett’s mentor and former trainer: Terry O’Quinn – who has the possibility of getting his own show on ABC – initially signed on to do six episodes, but has been convinced to stay on for an additional three. Peter Lenkov shares with TV Guide that he is “hoping for even more”:

“Terry’s a guy who really wants to get his own show, and he deserves that. That’s his goal. But we’d love to make it work where he could do both.”

And if the following is true, then it’s casting that’s going to be hard to top this season:

Legendary actor James Caan is in town to do a guest spot on Hawaii Five-0 … which will be the first time he’s worked with son Scott (Dano).

As someone pointed out on Twitter, it wouldn’t be a first-time father-and-son collaboration for the Caans, but hopefully MidWeek got the most important part of their news right!