Hawaii Five-0 season 8 episode 13 preview: Grover’s powerful story

Hawaii Five-0 season 8 episode 13 is set to air on CBS in one week’s time, and all signs point towards this being one of the best episodes of the season — let alone one of the best performances of Chi McBride’s career. Given some of the work that Chi has done on the series over the years, this is really saying something. It’s going to be very emotional at moments, as the character’s suicidal past is going to be discussed for the first time.

Below, you can see via the Hawaii Five-0 season 8 episode 13 synopsis that CarterMatt has for you as to why that topic is coming about now, and also how CBS and McBride are going to use the story of this episode in order to try and pay things forward for suicide prevention:

“O ka mea ua hala, ua hala ia.”– When a man accused of killing his wife threatens to commit suicide, Grover reveals how he too was once on the brink of taking his own life, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, Jan. 12 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Chi McBride appears in a PSA for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at the end of the episode.

(“O ka mea ua hala, ua hala ia.” is Hawaiian for “What is Gone is Gone.”)

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Basically, Hawaii Five-0 season 8 episode 13 is gearing up to be one that you should really watch live, and to go along with that it should also generate a great deal of discussion. It’s an important story that needs to be told in part because it is a subject that isn’t told all that often. We’re in this era that causes all of us to have a really short attention span — we have to dart from one story to the next because there simply is so much going on in the world. Mental health awareness probably has become, rather unfortunately, a little bit lost in the shuffle along the way. Hopefully, this episode helps to change that. Hawaii Five-0 is at its core a form of entertainment, but it can be about that and speak more towards something greater.

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