MacGyver quotes

I need you to stop the killer.

Any idea who it is?

We've got a suspect. He's a professional terrorist. His name is Peter Thornton.

Pete Thornton wanted to come. It wasn't easy keeping him away.

Peter, yes, he always disapproved of me—a keen judge of character.

Pete

Right now, I know you better than you know yourself. You don't use guns. That gun doesn't feel right in your hand. It can't. You don't use guns, MacGyver. You hate them.

Marine Science. Going back to school, nights and weekends. It's going to take a little longer but, I'll do it. And you'll be invited to graduation.

Well, that's something I won't forget.

[doing a bicycle trick] MacGyver! Look! Watch this!

It's kinda interesting how you can put one thing with another and cook up the right formula for stayin' out of trouble. My old high school physics and chemistry classes come in real handy sometimes. Not to mention the fact that when you're in a squeeze, necessity always seems to come through as the true mother of invention.

Viera, you are my wife.

It was an assignment.

Diana

Please, just take it, before I realize what I'm doing. (After Diana gives $20,000 to Anton Dubcek's new foundation.)

Thank you. You're very generous.

Diana

That's something no one's ever said to me before.

Feels pretty good, doesn't it?

[after Diana speaks to the police officer] Where did you learn to speak Czech?

Diana

Correspondence school.

You mean like, "the Czech is in the mail?"

(seeing the partially-wrecked car they're using) That's what you ordered?

Diana

I wanted something that wouldn't attract attention.

Even when they see us pushing it down a highway?

[voice-over narration] When I was a little kid, I used to think ships were like magic. Sailing in from strange places carrying mysterious cargo. This ship was from the People's Republic of China and the cargo was kinda special. A single treasure, literally beyond price. It'd been on display during the voyage and its security had been the responsibility of the Chinese government. Now, it was going to be ours; Pete Thornton's and mine.

Pete

Chu. I mean Commissioner Chu.

Don't be inscrutable with me, Peter. It's good to see you again.

What's it gonna take? What's the price?

You know what trade I deal in. What could you possibly offer me? I know you won't betray your country's security.

You got that straight.

I like you, MacGyver, but I can't let them go. As for glasnost, I don't agree with the current Soviet administration, this new openness. Weak. Foolish. Impractical.

And you think killing three people is more practical. That's amazing.

My husband's name is… Nicholai Kossov.

Kossov? Major Nicholai Kossov? I know him. I escaped from him in Hungary.

Jack

Maybe she's alive.

No. I saw her die... I killed her.