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MacGyver Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Episode 1
DIY or DIE
Fri, Sep 29, 201743 mins
Navy SEAL Lt. Samuel Diaz went missing in a top-secret Middle East mission, after a failed break-out the CIA gives up on him but ex Australian SAS special ops interrogation specialist, now CIA agent Samantha Cage calls a personal marker on Matty to ask for an informal team of Phoenix volunteers. Mac overrules Mac's objections, even to Sam coming along. Diaz is traced to a terrorist hide-out in a 'hissar' (Ottoman fortress, now luxury hotel) in Turkey. There they face and capture the most prominent Saddam Hussain minister still about, Acid Ali, whose capture during a daring series of Macgyverisms is priceless leverage afterwards.
Episode 2
Muscle Car + Paper Clips
Fri, Oct 6, 201741 mins
Despite over-protective Jack's objections, Riley gets her first solo-mission as she's offered to be hired by a master hackers collective under her ex)con alias Artemis. Having proven her skills by blocking them rather then he assigned test, she's taken on a need to know basis on the next mission. It seems a bank robbery, but that's only a means to an attempt on the US Defense Secretary's life, which he waves as routine threat, requiring Mac to step in with a medical improvisation.
Episode 3
Roulette Wheel + Wire
Fri, Oct 13, 201742 mins
MacGyver and the gang have to stop a diamond heist... by stealing the diamonds before a group of terrorists use the diamonds to buy a nuclear weapon. When their plan is blown to bits by some inconveniences, Mac must improvise a way to get the diamonds and stop the weapon from killing everybody in the casino the diamonds are in. Also, Mac tries to figure out how Cage fits into the family.
Episode 4
X-Ray + Penny
Fri, Oct 20, 201743 mins
When Mac searches his long-missing secret agent father in Paris, Jack proves himself indispensable as bodyguard by tracking and capturing a hit-man after him. Back home, Mac gets actually kidnapped by masked goons, who are later found as the dead end to the only trail of his abduction to a subterranean torture chamber. While Murdoc gets his 'toys' to extract son Cassian's location, still semi-drugged Mac manages to escape through a sewer. The agency launches a full chase, but by the time Mac locates the site, it's abandoned, with Murdoc waiting as sharpshooter. A recoverable file on the fiend's burnt laptop leads the boys to Murdoc's presumed next victim, teacher Henry, who turns out anything but innocent and ends up liberated, all according to Murdoc's mysterious plans.
Episode 5
Skull + Electromagnet
Fri, Oct 27, 201743 mins
Jack scolds the team's Halloween party costumes tame, but proves the spooked one when their next job happens to be in the Bermud triangle. The vice-president's son Bill Kearns's military team disappeared with their top-secret captive in a crash. Mac correctly guesses the maneuver and spot, an abandoned island where the US base was never closed after the 13th division vanished from it after World War II. There, the wreck shows a blood trail but the escaped prisoner -rogue CIA agent Harper Hayes - and team remain missing. An old telephone rings, allowing Bill to report he's kept prisoner in an unidentified dark, cool place. Mac makes a devise to follow the signal to a base compound where Jack falls into a trap, and Sam is locked into a hyperbaric chamber, so Mac must balance several searches and rescues.
Episode 6
Jet Engine + Pickup Truck
Fri, Nov 3, 201742 mins
Using a cassette player and a plastic bucket, Mac and the team attempt to extinguish a massive oil wellhead fire in a Nigerian village, set by a rebel group, which is trying to topple its government by destroying their most valuable resource.
Episode 7
Duct Tape + Jack
Fri, Nov 10, 201741 mins
Ecuador's sole democratic presidential candidate Hector León urgently needs a heart transplant, or the country may become a police-state under Colonel Zarate who already lead a coup. While Riley and Cage hide and protect León and have him prepared for surgery, Mac and Jack must safely, candidly transport the donor heart with surgeon Alejandra Rosa to the hospital and avoid Zarate's soldiers, who exact 'passage tax' at will. After a robbery at Jack's apartment, Bozer gets help from Phoenix forensics expert Jill in recovering Jack's things, notably his late father's Vietnam rescue pilot dog tags.
Episode 8
Packing Peanuts + Fire
Fri, Nov 17, 201743 mins
When MacGyver and Jack "steal" a priceless painting, using a table cloth and a shoe lace, in order to draw an infamous stolen art dealer out of hiding, they wind up getting conned out of the painting by the dealer's team. Also, Riley's estranged father, Elwood (Billy Baldwin), asks to be part of her life, and Matty sends Bozer to a spy training camp.
Episode 9
CD-ROM + Hoagie Foil
Fri, Dec 1, 201743 mins
Phoenix in informed that Jihadists plan to steal nerve gas from a scientific lab, so Mac and Jack are sent to remove it first, but when Webber hears it's going to elusive Indonesian terrorist leader Dev Singh, they are ordered to put it back to be stolen and tail it, with Cage, whom the fiends capture, but believe it's a fake canister and strike a deal to switch it for the real thing at a price. Meanwhile Bozer is driven to the limit by rival Leanna at the secret agents interrogation raining and Elwood gets to dinner-date Riley.
Episode 10
War Room + Ship
Fri, Dec 8, 201743 mins
MacGyver geek-bonds while he helps teacher Zoe Kimura improvising to fix things aboard a ship with 31 students, which is stuck and breaking down in the Arctic Ocean, while they wait for the coast guard, but a break in the ship's hull requires the teacher to sacrifice herself. Jack finds out that Elwood, whom he just abducted i has car booth, never paid the half promised to his mob partner with whom, a year ago, he stole a baseball signed by Jackie Robinson worth 75 thousand dollars, even dumped it in the Hudson river, and now is threatened by him. Jack tries to reason with the man, but he has an army of thugs, so Elwood promises the ball, and Jack seeks help from Riley, who ignores she is also threatened, to make a fake baseball, yet the greedy partner demands a further $10,000 interest, which Elwood chooses to 'pay' i the form of a memorable beating. Bozer and Leanna wake up handcuffed to each other in a hotel room and must work together to return to the Operative Training Center and pass their final test, which they do, only to learn they must now go their separate ways and never communicate with each other again, but agree to seek ways around to enjoy their love.
Episode 11
Bullet + Pen
Fri, Dec 15, 201742 mins
Just when Mac hosts a Christmas party for the team, they learn he's about to be arrested by LAPD as sole suspect for the murder of a man found in a building he and Jack made collapse to destroy a huge shipment of arms before terrorists can collect them. In order to protect the Phoenix covers, he may not defend himself by telling the truth, nor be busted from the police station. Jack takes the lead trying to find out what really happened, and by posing as Mac's lawyer can consult him for crucial insights and clues to identify the real culprits, a drug gang who end up raiding the detectives, whom Mac saves and gets released by having collected evidence.
Episode 12
Mac + Jack
Fri, Jan 5, 201843 mins
Flashbacks reveal how brilliant explosives expert Mac and sharpshooter-bodyguard Jack met in Afghanistan and how their initial hostility bloomed into true friendship. The group has rushed Cage to a hospital, staying until getting word that she will recover. Returning home with Jack, Mac finds that the house has been expertly rigged with super-heavy explosives. Seeing a unique combination of triggering device and explosive material, Mac to deduces from the Ghost's patterns that the bomb was set to distract authorities from an even larger bomb in downtown Los Angeles. Fellow explosives expert Charlie Robinson must disarm it after Bozer helped find it, but the two are linked, which is very hard to undo as it must be 'speed of light' simultaneous, which requires various Macgyverisms on all fronts.
Episode 13
CO2 Sensor + Tree Branch
Fri, Jan 12, 201843 mins
After years of failure at the Martin Korman challenge, a US competition to develop an autonomous armored vehicle for the battlefield, without human crew, Phoenix hopes Bozer's contraption may finally win. Mac isn't amused to see the expensive CIA entry, and its pilot: Allie Winthrop, who earlier pretended to have crush on him but peeked into his design. It's worse than anyone feared: her creation fires eight others to smithereens and runs off, completely out of control. Instead of returning to the CIA lab, as programmed, it heads for the Pentagon. It can't be hacked, having one offline, and Riley can't even track it, being stealth-designed, but Mac improvises a CO2 sensor which finds it. Jack hates the tech contest more than his highway reunion, so returned to Texas first-time, confronting his unbeaten class rival bound to maintain his measly tiles salesman cover, yet gets unhoped-for closure. Being closed to Oklahoma City, where the runaway was originally hacked, Jack is sent there and finds a mentally snapped Korman. Mac must disable the vehicle on his own fast, before Homeland-ordered fighters bomb it with Allie trapped inside, then gets his own closure.
Episode 14
Mardi Gras Beads + Chair
Fri, Jan 19, 201843 mins
The team heads to New Orleans, worried about the use of one of Jack's CIA days undercover aliases, big spender Duke Jacoby, who made many enemies to entrap various criminals. It turns out to be used by Dixie, a professional identity thief, who poses as his fictitious wife Dixie Jacoby to enjoy his squandering lifestyle. She stole the data for a laptop containing many more CIA aliases, which may all be compromised. But Duke's enemies get wind of his return and seek revenge by kidnapping him. Mac must find him and liberate before various fiends work out who gets the torture and cremate him to alive. Jack has actually fallen in love with Dixie, who claims her real name is dawn, despite the obvious risks of dating a profi fraudster.
Episode 15
Murdoc + Handcuffs
Fri, Feb 2, 201843 mins
One of Murdoc's hired assassins, who teamed up to turn on him, offers Murdoc to the Phoenix Foundation in exchange for $10 million. The team runs into trouble after acquiring Murdoc, learning that his even more dangerous mentor Nicholas Helman is hell-bent on revenge after Murdoc left him to burn to death and giving chase. After Mac, Jack and Murdoc successfully fend off Helman, Murdoc is allowed to visit his kid son before being imprisoned, but manages to escape.
Episode 16
Hammock + Balcony
Fri, Mar 2, 201843 mins
The partying son of a Serbian war criminal takes his new bride to an exclusive French chateau for their honeymoon, and Matty assigns Leanna to work with Bozer, Mac, and Riley to go undercover and find out where the father is. Meanwhile, Jack convinces Elwood and Jill to help him break into Matty's house to find out what she's hiding from Mac.
Episode 17
Bear Trap + Mob Boss
Fri, Mar 9, 201840 mins
Mac, Jack and Riley set out to find a mobster-turned-informant after he's kidnapped and taken to Chernobyl by an international crime boss; Bozer struggles to keep a secret from Matty.
Episode 18
Riley + Airplane
Fri, Mar 30, 201843 mins
Mac and the team search for a former government tech who stole classified intel and cross paths with the Coltons, who are hunting the same man for different reasons.
Episode 19
Benjamin Franklin + Grey Duffle
Fri, Apr 6, 201843 mins
Unlike Jack, the Phoenix team is suspicious when his fraudster lover dawn asks their help, claiming her CIA supervisor's fatal car crash was probably murder. He was about to prove an unidentified CIA agent was using many CIA undercover identities. Maddy gets CIA director Julian Halsey access to the suspect analyst personnel files and grill them together. Meanwhile Mac organizes to break into the office and confiscate the victim's wiped notebook, which Riley reconstructs. They look into the IDs and end up working out it's a $100 bills forgery scam, located in Lima, so head there. However the gang has police connections, so Mac must break out as well as in repeatedly..
Episode 20
Skyscraper - Power
Fri, Apr 13, 201841 mins
The Phoenix Foundation learns that a former Navy SEAL who has organized a criminal empire has targeted billionaire Ralph Jericho. The chase starts flying to South Korean capital Seoul, but they are too late to catch the criminals parachuting out of a jet. Mac and Jack have to hijack a private plane chartered by Vietnam veteran named Saul to tail the other jet, which takes them to Beijing. Riley and Bozer soon also arrive to help. An outgunned Mac and Jack enter a skyscraper where Jericho owns an entire floor and rescue Jericho's head-strong pre-teen son Ethan from the thugs, who initially resists but greatly enjoys the adventure. They must thwart what they suspect is a robbery. Finding Jericho's safe untouched, they learn that the criminals' plans are more sinister.
Episode 21
Wind + Water
Fri, Apr 20, 201842 mins
MacGyver took Jack, Riley and Bozer along on 'holiday' in Puerto Rico to help Carlos, Mac's old friend from basic training, rebuild his family's hurricane-damaged home. Already preparing to leave, they get wind of a group planning to steal $2 million in relief aid from the bank Carlos manages. As they arrive at the bank, Carlos and several others have already been taken hostage by the armed robbers. Mac and the team want to help. However, Phoenix needs them on a plane to Los Angeles to deal with an urgent terrorist matter. Matty buys them some time by having a plane pick up the team in Puerto Rico. Mac intentionally gets himself taken hostage at the bank, so he can deal with the matter from the inside, facing trigger-happy robbers as well as hothead hostages.
Episode 22
UFO + Area 51
Fri, Apr 27, 201842 mins
Mac and Riley are attacked by a group of masked men after the government calls them to examine a curious object that crash-landed in the Nevada desert. Also, Riley finds new information about MacGyver's father but questions whether to deliver it to him.
Episode 23
MacGyver + MacGyver
Fri, May 4, 201843 mins
When Mac decides to quit Phoenix, he gets a shocking surprise in the form of his father; Bozer also gets a shocking surprise.
