MacGyver

Listen, I get it. I trespassed, took some photos.

But we can skip this whole rendition room thingy.

I mean, you're not gonna good cop/bad cop me,

because that's so '90s, right?

And from what I hear, you're way cooler than that.

You know, I've never said this before during an interrogation,

but, please, just stop talking.

Copy that.

We searched your bag.

Where'd you get that?

It's the task force I worked with.

So you're law enforcement?

I was. Not anymore.

It's a long story.

Who are you?

This is the Phoenix Foundation, right?

Where MacGyver works?

My name is Jerry Ortega.

Not interested in your name,

Jerry.

Who are you?I'm the guy

in the shadows,

who sees through the chaos.

I'm here to save you.

Whoa.

Okay, that was a little dramatic.

How do you know MacGyver?

He went to Hawaii a while ago.

Helped Five-O.

He brought a sidekick with him.

A big guy, buzz cut, huge karaoke fan.

Jack.

Yeah, that's right.So,

Jerry Ortega

of the Five-O Task Force, what brings you here?

Well, for a while now, I've been tracking online rumors

about a terrorist organization trying to bring about

the end of the world.

And word is some mystery group sent them running.

I put it together, and all roads lead to MacGyver.

So I called up my old boss, Steve McGarrett,

asked for an address, and, voilà, here I am.

I guess I spooked security.

: Yes, I'd say he's pretty harmless.

Just a...

nosy conspiracy theorist.

That's rude.

I prefer "truth hunter."All right then.

Truth hunter.

We'll be back.

You think you stopped Codex, but you didn't.

They're still out there,

talking to each other.

How do you know?

I know

because they're talking to me, too.

We recovered this message from a cell phone

on a previous op.

I tracked

similar single-use burners,

mapped to other intercepted messages.

This pattern here indicates an upper-level Codex operative

in the area.

So, you said that Codex was talking to you?

I tracked them to the dark web, created an alias,

pretended I wanted to join the cause.

We traded a few messages.

How do you know it was them?

Because someone forgot to activate their VPN

when signing on.

Lasted about half a second.

That was enough for me to grab an IP address.

I traced it to a bunker in Montana

before the whole killer volcano thing.

There's been a change of plans.

Mac, Desi, Riley, you're with me on the jet.

Taylor, Bozer, stay with the Codex lead.

You're...

going into the field?

Wheels up in ten.

Matty?

What could be more important than Codex?

Mac, I need your help on this one, okay?

It's personal.

Okay.

Zero, two, five,

five, eight. Zero, two...

Sounds like an old numbers station transmission.

But I thought the CIA stopped using those.

Are you familiar with an intelligence officer

by the name of Ian Cain?

Cain? Yeah. Of course.

The guy's a Cold War legend.

He holds the record for getting defectors

across the Berlin Wall.

I mean, in the '80s, he single-handedly stopped

a Russian military coup against Gorbachev.

Saved the entire peace process.

He also saved my life

more times than I'd like to remember.

Cain and I were partnered on some of my earlier ops.

Two days ago, he sent me this message from his post

at a CIA station in Slovenia.

It's an SOS. He's in trouble.

Any details? No.

And that's what concerns me. I mean, in the past,

we've always had a protocol:

throw up the bat signal, await further instruction.

I got the SOS, but then nothing followed.

Just two days of radio silence.

Whatever happened,

we may be too late.

Are we sure this is the place?

It's a clandestine office.

Its cover is an import/export insurance company,

but the whole building's a CIA front.

Cain's still not picking up.

Don't suppose we have bolt cutters in the trunk?

No, but...

I did see a toolbox.

A bolt cutter uses a complicated leverage system

to produce enough power to cut through tempered steel.

But two wrenches can create enough torque

to break the tempered steel.

Where is everyone?

Attention. Please follow the emergency action plan

for the destruction of sensitive materials.

This is an immediate evacuation.

Sounds like they got their burn bags

Cain would never abandon his post.

He's got to be here somewhere.

You know, my dad once told me

that all the old embassy spies, they had "boltholes."

Hidden offices that no one else knew about.

And they were usually on the top floor,

next to the antennas.

Knowing Cain, it'd probably be tucked away, like a bank vault.

That's what I'm counting on.

If Cain's office isn't part

of the original building structure, and it's fortified,

it'll be heavier than the rest of the offices on the floor,

and create an incline.

The incline may even be too slight to measure with a level,

but it will be enough to distort the momentum

of a small moving object.

Zero, seven, four,

two, seven, nine; it's our fail-safe code.

Ian!

He's still alive. We gotta get him to the hospital.

It's okay.

And so that's how you can tell

that the moon landing was filmed in Morocco.

What? Wow.

This place is awesome.

We got a good start with your message logs,

but let's hook you up to the mainframe,

see what else we can pull from your chat routing.

Is that an electron microscope?

I've always wanted to...

What in the evil robot apocalypse is that?

That's Sparky.

Hang on, you have a robot?

At Five-O we have a table, and everyone's all,

"Oh, cool computer table."

It's just a big stupid iPad.

Sparky's on sabbatical.

He was getting a little too full of himself.

This is impressive.

But don't give him any personal information,

'cause AI is dangerous,

and they're gonna rise up and murder us all.

He knows where I live.

: Ooh, mistake.

You say something?Big mistake.

Webber.

What took you so long?

Stop for a picnic on the way? Well,

if you had left me some intel

instead of fainting like a delicate flower,

it would have been sooner.

It's an honor, sir.

Who's this, your intern?

This is Angus MacGyver.

The famous MacGyver. Apologies.

I need a cappuccino with extra foam. Ian!

I'm just messing with him. It'll put hair on his chest.

Matty says you're good, kid.

I'm looking forward to seeing you prove it.

Thank you. Yeah.

Tell me what happened.

A couple weeks ago,

my staff...

every patient in there,

they started getting sick.

Migraine headaches, nausea, dizziness.

And then it got weird.

Behavioral problems.

Folks just started acting irrational.

Got downright angry and paranoid.

Once I knew my people were in trouble,