MacGyver · Season 4
MacGyver! Oh that does it! I just want to pack up my things right now and I want to go home.
Penny, whatever is going on around here, it's got nothing to do with ghosts or goblins or the supernatural. There is a purely logical explanation for everything.
Really? Well that would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't holding a human skull.
[first lines]
You never know where life's gonna take you. This is especially true when you've got a friend like Penny Parker. So, I wasn't too surprised when she called one day and told me she had inherited a mansion.
[in a voice-over narration as he's shown driving along rural highways and half-listening to Penny Parker's joyful excited long-winded chatter about how she'd inherited the old Parker House] There was a long story behind the way Penny came into her inheritance, and she was in no hurry to shorten it. In high-school geometry class, I'd learned that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but when telling a story, Penny always takes the scenic route.
Anyway, he told me how Aunt Betty's estate goes to the nearest female relative on her 25th birthday. And today is my 25th birthday, and I'm the closest female relative, and before I know it, I'm an heiress! Isn't that wild?
[voice-over narration] My hometown had grown a whole lot in the years since I'd been back. But comin' home was still like reaching into a grab-bag full of memories, some of them good, some of them not so good. And you could never be sure which memory you were gonna come up with. The decisions we make shape our lives. When I was a kid, I made a bad decision about a gun and my life was never the same. Now I was back, 25 years later, to follow up on a promise. One I had to keep, no matter how much it hurt.
So what's the gripe? You've got some of the best scientific support available to any police department in the country!
I'll send a thank-you note to the mayor. [tearing down poster of voluptuous model] See if you can find me something of Mel Gibson half-naked, will ya Wyatt?
He's not really my type, Ma'am.
Listen to me, MacGriever—
It's MacGyver.
Whatever. You just don't get it. What we are doing here is police work. Now, sometimes the public—civilians like yourself—just don't understand what it takes to get the job done.
We don't, huh?
No, you don't. Now, I've heard you hate guns, abhor violence, and I'm sure my tank is very chilling to your... sense of justice and fair play. But we do live in the real world here. Guns and tanks and nasty crooks are all just a part of the big picture.
I think you'll find Mr. Cross to have anticipated most everything.
That so?
He's quite an unusual man, you see. It will be very difficult to stop him. To solve his deadly riddle, so to speak. His cunning is so complex, you have to be intellectually superior, exceptionally persistent, and possess an abundance of ingenuity to even get close to him. Are you all of these things, Mr. MacGyver? Yes, I know your name. Does that frighten you?
Should it?
Why would Zito want to help somebody else escape?
Good question. Maybe somebody in Homicide has an answer.
You're not into some kind of detective work here, are you, MacGyver?
Well, enough to believe that Dr. Zito had something to do with Cross' escape.
[voice-over narration] Technology has just about taking over everything in the world today. But no matter how computerized and mechanized things get, people are still the most important part of any operation - and the weakest link.
I've got to know whether this involves something I can sleep with.
[referring to a Top Secret operation he doesn't know the details of]
What can't you sleep with, Mr. MacGyver?
Shady hip-pocket political scams, for one.
Pete, a parent can only take so much responsibility.
I wish it was that simple. I think we're all responsible. And I think some of us... maybe a lot of us, have been sending out the wrong signals.
[voice-over narration] I'd been doing volunteer work at the Challengers Club for years, dropping by whenever I could. The club began with a dream and an empty building. With some hard work and imagination, it had survived for 15 years. When something was needed it was usually donated or scrounged. I'd added some stuff to the weight machine. I knew the kids would be thrilled with the results.
It'll never fly, man.
Hey, you never told me things were so bad.
If I did, you'd worry. And worrying is Cynthia's thing. She does it better than anybody I know.
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
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