MacGyver
A reimagining of the classic series, is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus "Mac" MacGyver, who creates the Department of External Services, a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem-solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives. Joining his team on high-risk missions around the globe is maverick former CIA agent Jack Dalton; Patricia Thornton, an ex-field agent turned director of operations; and Riley Davis, an unpredictable computer hacker with a chip on her shoulder. At home, MacGyver is entertained by his ambitious roommate, Wilt Bozer. Under the aegis of the Department of External Services, MacGyver takes on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with resourcefulness and little more than bubble gum and a paper clip.
- Metascore38
- 2016-2021
- 5 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense
- TV-14
A reimagining of the classic series, is an action-adventure drama about 20-something Angus "Mac" MacGyver, who creates the Department of External Services, a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem-solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives. Joining his team on high-risk missions around the globe is maverick former CIA agent Jack Dalton; Patricia Thornton, an ex-field agent turned director of operations; and Riley Davis, an unpredictable computer hacker with a chip on her shoulder. At home, MacGyver is entertained by his ambitious roommate, Wilt Bozer. Under the aegis of the Department of External Services, MacGyver takes on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with resourcefulness and little more than bubble gum and a paper clip.
Season 5 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2020 - 2021
Episode 1
Resort + Desi + Riley + Window Cleaner + Witness
Fri, Dec 4, 2020 43 mins
The team infiltrates a Zurich hotel/safe house to recover an insider who has information on a Brazilian gangster. Matty combines Mac with Russ, and Riley with Desi, so they can have some "alone" time together to resolve their trust issues after Codex.
Episode 2
Thief + Painting + Auction + Viro-486 + Justice
Fri, Dec 11, 2020 40 mins
To recover a bioweapon, the Phoenix team recruits a former cat burglar to train Desi in how to break into the seller's manor, open his impenetrable vault, and get the vial with the bioweapon out before he sells it to terrorists. Things go south when Desi discovers the vault is empty.
Episode 3
Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma
Fri, Dec 18, 2020
The remnants of Codex abduct Russ to force a trade for Eric Andrews, who they need so they can get back something vital that Codex lost in their last confrontation with Phoenix. Eric is a killer who has been imprisoned, and is now a pacifist. Mac and Desi have to break him out of prison while repairing their own broken relationship.
Episode 4
Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason
Fri, Jan 8, 2021 43 mins
Desi take Mac to see her family, but her brother Simon is in trouble and they end up helping him. Meanwhile, Matty and Russ try to recruit a high school teenager and discover that he's wanted by dirty FBI agents - so they turn to an old enemy for help.
Episode 5
Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO
Fri, Jan 15, 2021 42 mins
The team going for the killer of a fallen friend, and the trail leads to Zegreb, Croatia where they must find who was really responsible for their friend's death - and the identity of the terrorist he was hunting. Riley and Mac both deal with the loss of their friend in their own ways.
Episode 6
Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance
Fri, Jan 22, 2021 43 mins
In April 2020, the team is split up with Desi quarantines with her parents, Russ with his "friend", and Mac, Riley, and Wilt at Mac's place. Wilt spots an apparent murder at a neighbor's house, and convinces the others to investigate. Meanwhile, Russ has an argument with his friend, Sofia.
Episode 7
Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage
Fri, Feb 5, 2021
Mac is developing a secret cancer-cure treatment with the aid of his friend, Frankie Mallory. Bad guys get wind of the project and steal the treatment, which can be weaponized into a nerve-gas agent. Phoenix has to recover the agent before it falls into the wrong hands.
Episode 8
SOS + Hazmat + Ultrasound + Frequency + Malihini
Fri, Feb 12, 2021 42 mins
While Russ and Wilt work with a conspiracy theorist, Jerry Ortega, to get a lead on Codex, Matty has Mac, Desi, and Riley help her save an old CIA friend, Ian Cain, whose front office staff are suffering from inexplicable symptoms from what appear so be a contaminant.
Episode 9
Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
Fri, Feb 19, 2021 42 mins
Mac, Desi, and Riley pursue a lead on Codex when it steals a Department of Defense hard drive with encrypted information on U.S. troop deployments. To stop the transmission of the information, Mac has to scale a sheer wall, while Desi and Riley steal the hard drive before the Codex can send the information to a secondary location.
Episode 10
Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower
Fri, Mar 5, 2021 43 mins
While on a mission to hunt down a Codex lead, Mac and the team discover Murdoc hacked their comms and has recorded them for months. Now, Mac and the team must stop Murdoc, who is working with Andrews, as they plot to kill thousands and reveal each Phoenix member's most-guarded secrets.
Episode 11
C8H7CIO + Nano-Trackers + Resistance + Maldives + Mind Games
Fri, Mar 26, 2021
Mac and Riley travel to Europe to help protesters who are being tracked by their government by nanobots, Russ interrogates the man who designed the nanobots, Desi goes on a solo mission to Argentina, and Wilt takes temporary charge of Phoenix in the middle of government contract negotiations.
Episode 12
Royalty + Marriage + Vivaah Sanskar + Zinc + Henna
Fri, Apr 2, 2021
Mac, Desi, and Russ go undercover during a royal Indian wedding to protect a princess whose policies could put her life in danger. Also, Russ and Sofia come face-to-face at the wedding, Bozer suspects Riley is up to her old hacking ways and Matty runs down a lead in hopes of getting to the bottom of Mac and Riley's ingested nano-trackers.
Episode 13
Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer
Fri, Apr 9, 2021
While Mac and the team delve into the world of Italian car culture in order to track down a crime boss-in-hiding, Mac must lean on Desi when he discovers that he losing the ability to control his hands. Also, Mac and Desi move in together and Riley reveals the truth about her secret team of hackers to Russ.
Episode 14
H2O + Orthophosphates + Mission City + Corrosion + Origins
Fri, Apr 16, 2021
Mac and Desi travel with Bozer to his childhood home when his aunt dies in a tragic accident, however, they soon discover she may have been murdered for trying to expose the city's contaminated water supply. Also, Riley, Matty and Russ continue to follow leads on their nano-trackers investigation.
Episode 15
Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal
Fri, Apr 30, 2021
Mac and Riley disappear at the end of a mission, for 24 hours, and when found have no memory of what happen. They retrace their steps and discover a plot by the U.S. government in which they were unwitting pawns due to the nano-bots in their bodies.
