Ti Tree Root Okolehao Applies To Magnum PI's Payback Is For Beginners

Summary: Ti tree root okolehao, if amid Robin's Nest alcohol acquisitions, perhaps abets or averts wine cellar arguments on Magnum PI's Payback Is For Beginners.

Ti tree (Cordyline fruticosa), under synonyms of Dracaena terminalis and Calodragon jaquinii; illustration by 19th-century Spanish-Filipino artist, naturalist, land appraiser and surveyor Cayetano Argüelles y Fernández in Spanish friar and botanist Francisco Manuel Blanco's (Nov. 24, 1778-April 1, 1845) Flora de Filipinas Según el Sistema Sexual de Linneo (Gran Edición, 1877), Lámina 98: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ti tree root okolehao perhaps assures property management and security arguments, akin to those about French wines on Magnum PI action drama television series episode Payback Is For Beginners Sept. 27, 2019.

Director Bryan Spicer and writers Eric Guggenheim and Peter Lenkov broach brief battles brandished in Season One's second episode, From the Head Down, Oct. 1, 2018. The second season's first episode commences with Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and current companion Abby Miller (Brooke Lyons) consuming an entire 2006 Château Latour Bordeaux. Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks), majordomo (from Latin maior domūs, "principal of the house") as Robin's Nest property manager, deduces when the duo decants a second bottle.

Higgins and Magnum, almost 12 months earlier, enjoy respectively exclusive dining experiences of mahi-mahi with 2014 Aubert and of steak with Château Margaux at Lina's restaurant.

Magnum furnishes as favors for Higgin's computer-hacking companionship at Lina's filling with gas and hand-washing the Ferrari and not frequenting the wine cellar for one month.

Magnum generalizes that, going from low-pay sailoring to low-earning investigating, "I did it because I thought I was helping people. I-I guess that's all I know." Helping others, not halting helping himself to wine cellar hoards since, "Magnum, you're not even supposed to be in the wine cellar," heads Higgins toward helping. Alcoholic inclinations at Lina's and at Robin's Nest indicate wine over spirits even though absentee owner Robin Masters' wine cellar perhaps includes ti tree root okolehao.

Ti tree root okolehao (from Hawaiian okole, "butt" and hao, "iron") perhaps journeyed with ancient Polynesians whose canoe plants joined Hawaii-only endemics as native vegetation.

Ti tree root okolehao knows first stages as ancient Polynesian and Hawaiian and 18th-century English fermented drinks and then second stages as 18th-century English distilled spirits.

English sailors in the 1780s under Captain Nathaniel Portlock (1748?-Sept. 12, 1817) loaded ti tree roots into earthen oven-like imu to leach fermentable sugars from starches. William Stevenson, escaped convict from Sydney, Australia, managed around 1790 to make, and mentor making, distilled okolehao with buttocks-like try-pots for making whale blubber into oil. Ti trees, named scientifically Cordyline fruticosa (from Greek κορδύλη, "club [shaped, root-like, stem-like rhizomes]" and Latin fruticōsa, "shrubby"), net underground roots with maximum 300-pound (136.08-kilogram) weights.

Ti trees, observed by Auguste Chevalier (June 23, 1873-June 4, 1956), offer original okolehao, whose variant occurrences observe pineapple, rice, sugarcane or taro substitutes or supplements.

Ebenezer Parker Low (Oct. 4, 1864-Jan. 10, 1954) presented the Hawaiian delegation a ti tree root okolehao that prompted an 1889 Paris World Exposition bronze medal.

Prohibition under King Kamehameha I (died May 8, 1819?) and under the United States territorial government between 1918 and 1933 quickened the Big Island's moonshine production. Dave Flintstone of Haleakala Distillers on Maui and Jim and Leslie Sargent of Island Distillers on Oahu respectively release okolehao as 100-proof spirits and 80-proof liqueurs. Season One's first episode, I Saw the Sun Rise, Sept. 24, 2018, and Season Two's first episode respectively solve a missing husband and a missing wife.

Perhaps Magnum and buddies Theodore Calvin (Stephen Hill) and "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) toast, with ti tree root okolehao, first-season Iraqi gold and second-season bank-robbery recoveries.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez), Theodore "TC" Calvin (Stephen Hill), HPD Detective Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang), Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Orville "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) return for CBS TV's Magnum P.I.'s season premiere, Payback Is For Beginners (season 2 episode 1): Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Sept. 27, 2019

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Ti tree (Cordyline fruticosa), under synonyms of Dracaena terminalis and Calodragon jaquinii; illustration by 19th-century Spanish-Filipino artist, naturalist, land appraiser and surveyor Cayetano Argüelles y Fernández in Spanish friar and botanist Francisco Manuel Blanco's (Nov. 24, 1778-April 1, 1845) Flora de Filipinas Según el Sistema Sexual de Linneo (Gran Edición, 1877), Lámina 98: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordyline_fruticosa_Blanco1.98-original.png;
P. Fr. Manuel Blanco, Flora de Filipinas, Gran Edición, Atlas I, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International, via Biblioteca Digital del Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC @ https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/9470/?offset=#page=102&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=; (image URL); https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/9470-flora-de-filipinas-gran-edicion-atlas-i (Atlas I URL)

Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Jay Hernandez), Theodore "TC" Calvin (Stephen Hill), HPD Detective Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang), Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Orville "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) return for CBS TV's Magnum P.I.'s season premiere, Payback Is For Beginners (season 2 episode 1): Magnum P.I. @MagnumPICBS, via Facebook Sept. 27, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/MagnumPICBS/posts/434340733877288

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