delicatale

You are not full of shit. It's a great theory, as good as any out there. And I think we can deduce a lot from that episode where Steve talks about his mom's death, the look on his face, the wistful smile. I think Mom McGarrett was a loving, generous woman, who kept her family together as best she could, and once she was gone it all fell apart because she was their glue, with a quietly absent father and two kids who were still far too young to know what they wanted to do with themselves. I think her death broke each and every one of them, and more than any other single circumstance turned them into the people they are today. But I think that she was lovely.