MacGyver

Leaders of the economic summit in Geneva

vowed to ratify the interim agreement.

In other news, the war against the powerful drug lords of Colombia

has taken a new and dangerous direction.

Narco-terrorism has been unleashed on the United States soil

with the same degree of arrogance

as the declaration of war

made by the Medellin cocaine cartel leaders

Against the Colombian government last month.

Fonsico Echevirria, the first of the 12 extraditables

to be placed in U.S. custody,

and described as one of the world's richest men,

has retaliated.

Ten days ago,

His mercenaries kidnapped a young American journalist.

Their hostage, Alexander Shannon,

Son of United States senator, Tom Shannon.

Young Shannon is the journalist

who exposed the inner workings of the Medellin cartel

in a major book published last year.

Sources indicate that the cartel has demanded

Echevirria be released

with safe conduct back to Colombia

in exchange for Shannon's life.

Authorities, however, refuse comment,

only to state that Echevirria will not be released

under any circumstances.

On Wall Street today, the financial...

You are neglecting your work, Mr. Shannon.

And so long as you are my guest, you will earn your keep, yes?

Don't get your hopes up, Mr. Shannon.

It seems no one in your country wants you back.

So, Escobar, how do you like runnin' a prison camp

along with your construction business?

Ah, the bosses know that I pick the most secure sites

for their cocaine laboratories.

Why shouldn't they trust me to keep their prisoner of war, eh?

So I told my wife, maybe someday

I'll bring a good woman up here for you to soak with in the hot tub.

What hot tub?

The one that I brought up in the net.

Over there.

I don't order no stinking hot tub.

Come on. Let's open it.

It's stupid.

Why would anybody send me a hot tub?

Maybe the bosses thought it would keep you happy.

I think the bosses spend too much time in California.

Alexander Shannon?

Name's MacGyver.

American?

Proud of it.

I came to get you out of here.

You D.E.A.?

No, Phoenix Foundation.

We find we don't have to cut through as much red tape

to do this sort of thing.

I'll meet you behind the storage area.

Uh, look, don't think me ungrateful, but what's your plan?

I brought climbing equipment,

everything we need to get off the mountain.

Then we take a little boat ride.

I've got a problem. Your plan?

I tried it last week without the climbing equipment.

Great.

You got any other ideas?

Yeah, the chopper. It's all there is.

We got to get to it.

I guess we're just gonna have to wait another 10 days.

I don't think you or my makeup will last that long.

Okay.

New plan.

Where can I get four or five hours of privacy?

Lunch is over. The mess hall.

Okay.

You're gonna have to help me on this.

I need a bunch of plastic.

Uh, something like, uh, garbage bags.

Heavy-duty kind.

Heavy-duty garbage bags?

Yeah. And this bamboo scaffolding,

about 100 feet should do it.

Can we discuss this?

No.

You don't want to know.

Right now, you've got to find an excuse to assemble

the scaffolding under that lean-to.

Can you handle that?

I think so.

Good.

Oh, and duct tape.

I'll need lots of duct tape.

Duct tape?

Hey, you! You, Shannon!

Where are you going with that bamboo?

Uh, I thought I'd move into the shade, Mr. Escobar.

That way I'll work faster.

All right. Be sure you do.

A cement mixer?

MacGyver.

Garbage bags.

More duct tape. Lots of duct tape.

You're doing good.

How you holdin' up?

- Fine. - That's good.

'Cause now I need you to build me five basic frames.

Two of 'em, twenty by five, one, nine by two,

And two, nine by six.

Slip 'em under the tent flap as you finish 'em.

Oh! And another tire.

Uh, one of the wheelbarrows ought to do it.

Oh, my God.

I just figured out what you're doing.

You know what I think? I think you're crazy!

Give me a few hours, you'll know for sure.

I've got one section left.

I have a hunch we're about to have company.

We'll make it. Just one minute. We'll make it.

We don't have a minute. They're coming.

Hold them off.

Get in here! Let's go!

Buckle up!

It'll never fly!

You don't know that!

It flies.

It really flies!

Of course!

Home, sweet home, sweet home.

Yeah.

And another one behind us.

MacGyver, I thank you.

And the Shannon family thanks you.

Yeah.

Pete,

you want to tap into some of your other agents

for the next month or two?

I'm about to take a very long nap.

Done.

Oh, uh, one thing.

The Medellin cartel is not too happy about

this great escape of yours, so, uh, watch yourself, okay?

Good night, Pete.

Good night.

Want to hit the light?

Yeah, hit the lights.

Hello? Hello, MacGyver!

Remember me, MacGyver?

It's been a while.

Think. Mission City, Minnesota.

You were a senior in high school, I was in 7th grade.

We lived next door to each other.

Zoe?

Zoe Ryan?

I'm glad that the Colombian rescue I read about

didn't completely soften your brain.

- You did this? - What's the matter?

You don't think the weaker sex is up to a task this formidable?

You did! You did this!

Do you remember what Jack Dalton always used to say

when we were kids in the neighborhood?

"If you want MacGyver's help,

first you have to get his full and undivided attention."

I think I did it. Don't you?

You've lost it, Zoe.

You are completely out of it.

And you haven't changed a bit.

You always used to say stuff like that to me.

That's because you were always a pest.

Like now.

Well, does this mean you're not gonna help me?

That's right.

Well, I'm going then.

Nice to see you again, MacGyver.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What?

Give me the rope.

Does this mean you're gonna help me?

It depends on what you want me to do.

Well, it's not illegal or anything, if that's what you're thinking.

Hey, did I tell you that I got promoted?

You are now looking at a full associate professor in archaeology.

Congratulations. It doesn't answer my question.

Oh, well, I found this great lead in Greece.

It's an artifact that's incredible,

and these guys wanted to put up a grant,

but they don't anymore because I caught on they were playing games.

And, anyway, the dean shut down the whole project,

and I don't have a lot of money to play with.

You'd think the faculty would pitch in,

but those idiots think I'm going off the deep end,

just because I dared to ask a few too many picky questions...

Zoe...

...about their 50 years of precious research.

Which I think is the most unmitigated...

Zoe...

...narrow minded, male dominated, myopic bunch of...

Hey! Slow down. Zoe, will you hold it?

What?

Just tell me what you want me to do.

Help me find the Holy Grail.