MacGyver makes his way to a small airfield a few miles down the road in order to get directions to the fishing spot.
Kelly, the owner of the airfield, gives MacGyver the information he needs to get to Sparrow Lake. MacGyver seems to be getting a bad vibe from the other customers and decides to stick around for some coffee. MacGyver's intuition is confirmed when Kelly uses lipstick to conceals a message of "help" in his coffee cup. Before MacGyver has the chance to turn the coffee cup into a helicopter and get them out of there, one of the other customers, Buddy, who is the most badass and drug fucked of the posse, pulls out a gun and points it at MacGyver. Say what you will about MacGyver, but you can't deny he is a perceptive motherfucker.
Buddy pours out MacGyver's coffee before he had the chance to finish it. MacGyver quips that the coffee was a little strong anyway, impressing Terry, the leader of the group, with his quick wit and cool demeanour in a crisis.
Two other guys show up in a truck carrying a stolen armoured van. This is one fucking motley crew. Terry informs MacGyver that each member of the group was hand selected as each has his speciality. From what I could ascertain, Terry is the brains of the operation and the other three are expert deadshits.
The armoured van contains a security guard and a shitload of cash. Buddy rigs up some explosives to blow the door of the van open. Knowing that the blast will kill the guard, MacGyver convinces Terry to let him attempt to open the door by telling him that the blast will burn up all the money.
MacGyver makes a torch out of a racing bike and some rust, back in the day when racing bikes were made from the "strongest and lightest material on the planet", magnesium. Using the torch, MacGyver is able to cut through the lock and open the door.
The security guard jumps out of the van unharmed. Buddy pulls out his gun and kills him anyway showing just how loose as fuck he is. Everyone is shocked. They now realise that Buddy isn't one to fuck with.
MacGyver and Dave, one of the other employees, are forced to dig a grave at gunpoint. Dave reveals he was a medivac helicopter pilot in the war but "doesn't fly anymore". He was shot down and spent 13 months as a Prisoner of War where he witnessed all kinds of surreal atrocities. He hasn't flown since, but I have a feeling he'll need to face his demons and get back in that chopper before the end of the episode.
A count of the money, that really didn't take long enough, revealed that the gang have some $8 211 600 in their possession. All they need now is the charter jet and they'll be on their way to Mexico. A call comes in from the pilot revealing he'll be there in 15 minutes however there is a slight electrical problem. In order to try and avoid others getting killed, MacGyver offers to fix the problem. Terry agrees and sends him out to the garage to get the tools required for the repair.
Turk, one of the other bad guys, is sent to supervise. This wasn't the best choice from Terry as Turk had been smashing beers all day. When dealing with MacGyver you really need to be at your most focused. Needless to say MacGyver was able to outsmart Turk by cracking his skull with a "lateral cranial impact enhancer" or a metal pipe.
MacGyver starts to put his escape plan into action. He makes a few bombs out of fertiliser and ether which will act as a distraction giving the others enough time to pile into a fire engine and effortless get away.
While producing these bombs, Kelly reveals to MacGyver that things haven't been easy with Dave since he returned from the war. This episode is set in 1985, so the Vietnam war had been over for 10 years. Assuming Dave was captured right at the end of the war, even if he had to hitch his way back to America, things haven't been good between these two for a good 8 years. I know he has been through a lot and there was once something there, but there comes a time when you just have to call it quits. Kelly really needs to get rid of him and move on with her life. Kelly tells MacGyver "we make allowances for each other" which means they have an open relationship. With the door ajar for a possible bone, MacGyver's spirits are instantly lifted.
MacGyver lets off one of the bombs, attracting the attention of the other three still conscious bad guys who run out to investigate. Kelly, Dave, MacGyver and Al the cook jump aboard the fire engine and get out of there. MacGyver's choice of a super slow method of escape is their undoing on this occasion and within minutes they are captured.
Miraculously, Terry decides to keep the four of them alive. We already know Buddy is a fucking maniac who kills for fun, so it wouldn't have been a problem disposing of them. Just to make sure they don't escape again, MacGyver and Kelly are locked in a freezer room while Al and Dave help fix the plane that has just showed up.
MacGyver has to work fast to break them out of there before they freeze to death. He uses a pipe to channel water melted by a light bulb into the lock. The water will refreeze, expanding in the process and breaking the lock. With all the elements in place, it is a waiting game. This gives MacGyver and Kelly a chance to chat. Kelly tells MacGyver how much she wants kids, but with Dave she just don't know if it is a good idea. Kids need a home, not just a place with two strangers. Kelly is clearly freezing and after the "wanting kids" comment, as well as the fact that Kelly and Dave have an open relationship, I'm surprised MacGyver didn't use this as an opportunity to break out the tried and tested "I know one way we can keep warm" line. I guess he respects Dave too much.
After 5 minutes, in a process that should have taken several hours, the lock cracked and MacGyver was able to break the freezer door down.
With the lock destroyed using the power of ice, this time it really is time to get the fuck out of the air field. MacGyver straps some of his unused explosives, which weren't confiscated by Terry, to a remote controlled plane and flies it out onto the runway. The plane explodes and each and every one of the bad guys has to go and investigate, leaving the hostages free to run away again. These fucking idiots fell for exactly the same trick twice in the matter of half an hour. Couldn't two have investigated while the other two watched over the hostages? Clowns. Fucking clowns.
MacGyver is on the loose and nobody can find him anywhere. He takes out Turk for the second time before finding the bad guy that doesn't talk or have a name and takes him out too. With absolutely no idea where any of the hostages are, despite the extremely limited amount of hiding places, Buddy turns to Terry telling him "I'll look around brotha" in what it without doubt the worst piece of dialogue for the series so far.
Al knows that it is only a matter of time before either them or MacGyver are captured and this time it is unlikely they'll be kept alive. He may only be a cook at a small air field diner but he is a man with so much wisdom. He looks Dave in the eyes and tells him "this is one of those times in you life when you either go one way or the other and the rest of your life depends on which way you pick".
Taking this on board, Dave knows he needs to get in that helicopter and help MacGyver get them out of this situation alive.
Terry has had enough of trying to find MacGyver and realises that with the money and a functioning plane they can just get the fuck out of there and not worry about MacGyver.
Dave is having a few problems coming to term with what he has to do. He hasn't flown for so long that the fear is overtaking him. What if he is shot down again at the airfield and has to spend another 13 months in a prisoner of war camp? Irrational thought, yes, as there is no fucking way that could happen but you don't know what the man has been through. MacGyver convinces Dave with "we can't let them get away. They killed a man and I give a damn about that".
MacGyver jumps on the back of the plane Terry and Buddy are attempting to escape in, making it impossible for them to take off. Terry makes his way onto the top of the plane and shoots at MacGyver but is unable to hit him. Terry eventually falls off.
Dave flies over in the chopper to make it even harder for Buddy to take off and takes Terry out in the process. Dave flying that chopper was the happiest I'd seem him in, well, to be honest I don't think I've ever seen him that happy.
Buddy stops the plane and decides it is time to finish MacGyver once and for all. He is too weak as shit and MacGyver deals with him with minimal effort.
With all four bad guys debilitated, two possibly dead, the ordeal is over. Al and Dave round up Terry and Buddy and take them back to the diner. I have a feeling that deep down Al is a bad motherfucker and will most certainly be dishing out his own unique brand of justice rather than calling the cops.
At the end of the day, it wasn't essential for Dave to get back in the chopper to escape, but it was essential for his own self confidence. MacGyver knew that. He made Dave get back in that chopper just to make him feel like a person again, to feel alive. Dave can now move on and if he wishes revive his career as a medivac in Iraq in about 5 years.
MacGyver and Kelly have a few moments alone in which MacGyver tells her "better be careful what you wish for Kelly, it might just come true". MacGyver realised that Kelly is pretty hot, and that not fucking her would be something he'd regret later, so this line was just a subtle way of MacGyver saying "I really want to fuck you". The episode ended here but they would have most definitely sent Dave and Al for help, giving them some alone time back in the freezer. He kind of deserved it, as he did save their lives and his holiday was fucked up because of them.
MacGyver showed that making someone do something they don't want to do because of severe mental scarring is a good thing and that helping someone out makes it ok to bone their wife. He also showed that it is relatively easy to defeat fucking idiots.
THE END
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