Wo throws them away angrily. However, the plates got away from the Chinese, with various criminal and espionage types looking for them. Kaye says the U.S. knows the plates are coming to Honolulu but little else. What Wo Fat had were fakes and the dead serviceman was really Leo Price, a criminal who had killed someone else for the plates. At the end of part I, a friend of McGarrett who is in U.S. Navy Intelligence is revealed to have been seekin the plates for his own gain.
Various twists occur before the final fate of the plates is known.
You wouldn't guess that counterfeiting would be this big a deal, but the briefing scene where Kaye explains everything to McGarrett is handled quite well. You come away believing this really be disastrous if Five-O fails. The various contestants for the plates are quite a colorful bunch. Mischa is a big, gregarious Russian who had been lied to by Wo Fat concerning the existence of the plates. Highlights include a helicopter assault by Five-O on Wo Fat's Honolulu headquarters and a climatic sequence at the Byodin temple where Wo Fat appears to be mortally wounded but gets away to cause McGarrett trouble another day.