Garret Sato Garret T . Sato is an actor who appeared as a regular background actor in several episodes of . Sato was originally scheduled to appear as one of the Ilari guards in the third season episode for which he filmed his scenes on Thursday on Paramount Stage 16 . However , in the final episode fellow background actor Lou Slaughter replaced him . Born in Oahu , Hawaii , Sato attended the University of Hawai ' i and the Leeward Community College . Following his move to Los Angeles , he trained acting under Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa , Sal Romeo , and Suze Lanier . Among his earlier acting work are supporting roles in the comedy " Son in Law " ( 1993 , with Dan Gauthier and Graham Jarvis ) , the comic adaptation " The Shadow " ( 1994 , with Aaron Lustig , Ethan Phillips , Rudolph Willrich , Larry Hankin , Lily Mariye , Patrick Fischler , James Lew , Al Goto , and Raul Reformina ) , the fantasy comedy " The Mask " ( 1994 , with Reg E . Cathey , Christopher Darga , Kevin Grevioux , Beau Lotterman , Scott McElroy , Robert O ' Reilly , Louis Ortiz , and Jeremy Roberts ) , the action thriller " The Dangerous " ( 1995 , with John Savage , Joel Grey , and Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa ) , the action film " Midnight Man " ( 1995 , with James Lew , Eric Pierpoint , Diane DiLascio , Steven Vincent Leigh , Juli Donald , and Bill Bolender ) , the action comedy " Bulletproof " ( 1996 , with Maury Sterling and Tracee Cocco ) , and the drama " Beyond Paradise " ( 1998 ) . He also appeared in episodes of " One West Waikiki " ( 1994 , with Tony Plana ) , " Total Security " ( 1997 , with Tony Plana , Kristin Bauer , Stanley Kamel , Clyde Kusatsu , and Benjamin Lum ) , " On Common Ground " ( 1999 ) , and " Martial Law " ( 1999 , with Gelbert Coloma , Hiro Koda , Frank Torres , and Jeff Imada ) . Further film credits include the drama " Pearl Harbor " ( 2001 ) , the action film " Chick Street Fighter " ( 2003 ) , the television fantasy film " Cerberus " ( 2005 ) , the action film " Lethal " ( 2005 ) , the war drama " Only the Brave " ( 2006 ) , the comedy " All In " ( 2006 , with Robert Costanzo and Jamison Yang ) , the action drama " Aces " ( 2006 ) , the horror film " Ghost Hunters : Point of Contact " ( 2006 ) , the crime drama " Machine " ( 2007 , with Neal McDonough ) , the adventure " The Flyboys " ( 2008 , with Robert Costanzo and Tommy Hinkley ) , the action film " Street Kings " ( 2008 , with Justin Rodgers Hall ) , the crime drama " Stiletto " ( 2008 , with Efrain Figueroa , Ben Bray , Peewee Piemonte , Mark DeAlessandro , Alina Andrei , Kavi Raz , and Sala Baker ) , the drama " Fear of Attraction " ( 2009 ) , the science fiction film " Project Purgatory " ( 2010 ) , the crime drama " Corrado " ( 2010 , with Michael Bailey Smith ) , the drama " Violent Blue " ( 2011 , with Tad Atkinson ) , the science fiction film " Wasteland " ( 2011 , with Zero Kazama ) , the drama " Blue Dream " ( 2013 , with Walter Koenig and Richard Riehle ) , and the comic adaptation " The Wolverine " ( 2013 , with Famke Janssen and Patrick Stewart and executive produced by Stan Lee ) . Television guest roles include " Alias " ( 2003 , with Greg Grunberg , Victor Garber , Clifton Collins , Jr . , and created and executive produced by J . J . Abrams ) , " Unfabulous " ( 2005 , with Molly Hagan and Tim Russ ) , " Untold Stories of the ER " ( 2005 - 2006 ) , " 24 " ( 2006 , with Tzi Ma ) , " ER " ( 2007 , with Paula Malcomson and Lily Mariye ) , " In Case of Emergency " ( 2007 , with Leigh Allyn Baker , Darin Cooper , and John Jurgens ) , " Days of Our Lives " ( 2007 ) , " The Bold and the Beautiful " ( 2002 , 2005 , and 2008 , with Ivar Brogger ) , " NCIS : L . A . " ( 2011 ) , " Hawaii Five - O " ( 2010 - 2011 , with Daniel Dae Kim ) , and " Intelligence " ( 2014 , with John Billingsley and Annie Wersching ) . More recently , Sato worked on the television movie " Chiang " ( 2015 ) , the drama " Eternal Salvation " ( 2016 ) , the comedy " Buddy Solitaire " ( 2016 ) , the action film " The Last Tour " ( 2016 , with Ron Balicki , Anthony DeLongis , Mimi Cozzens , Diana Lee Inosanto , and Michael Krawic ) , the thriller " House Rules " ( 2016 , with James Black ) , Sidney S . Liufau ' s " Seers " ( 2016 ) , the short fantasy film " The Water Phoenix " ( 2016 ) , the crime thriller " To Topple an Empire " ( 2016 , with Toni Blair ) , and the action drama " Duel of Legends " ( 2016 , with Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa ) .