[jennkurz]

when MacGyver is in the helicopter with abe as he awakes from being gassed during the discussion twice when the camara is on MacGyver in the lower right hand corner a microphone appears

[jennkurz]

at the begining at harding auronutics as the bay doors are opening the director is walking to his blue buick as the shot pans over the right side of the car you see the reflection of the camara in the right corner of the passencer window. then when the shot moves around to the front and the guy opens his car door there is a CLEAR full shot of the boom mike arm and the crew guy s arms and shoulder in the window of the open drivers side door.

[jennkurz]

when mac pulls up to phillips store the first time he parks longways next to the curb across several lined diagional parking spaces.

[jennkurz]

if mac hasnt seen abe since college graduation how does abe know that mac worked for the DSX and later the Phoenix foundation? Even if abe knew of macs reputation being in the CIA, Mac should have thought it odd and inquired about how a guy he thought was a tuba salesman knew all about his spy work

[MacGyverOnline]

I guess we could assume that Harry might have told him some basic information?

[jennkurz]

why would we assume that? this is the father of a college buddy. no mention that his grandfather and phillips father ever met. Even if they met at mac graduation, mac started his spy work well after that. why would Harry and a father of a classmate keep in touch when its made clear that he and mac havent, and that abe has barely seen his own family. And being the observant guy mac is, it should have peaked his curiousity to inquire how abe knew about him.

[MacGyverOnline]

What was his part in the story line?

[Makedde]

When Mac is collecting that package and Abe drives the car over to him to stop the bad guys, one of them shoots out the passenger window. Mac then drives into that same window, landing on his stomach before hauling himself through.
One would think that he'd be sliced to pieces from the jagged glass - but then 'movie glass' always seems to shatter without leaving any jagged edges.

[Makedde]

At the end when Mac and Abe pull up for the barmitzvah thing, Mac crashes the car into the side of the road. You can hear it, there's a loud 'thump' probably because he was driving too fast.

I wonder if that was intentional, but then I think it probably wasn't. RDA likely misjudged the distance.

[MacGyverGod]

I'm working on the timeline. I know San Rochelle is a fictitious country and our map points out Isla de la Juventud as San Rochelle. Now I've calculated the distance and time it takes to fly from Fillmore to Isla de la Juventud and my calculations say it would take about 5 hours and 13 minutes to fly from Fillmore to Isla de la Juventud.

Yet MacGyver is knocked-out with the sleeping gas and wakes up the following morning as Abe says. MacGyver is surprised by saying: it is? There is no way, no way, MacGyver would still be flying by the time he wakes up if it only takes five hours of flight. I can dig he would still be snoring after he landed but not that he would still be flying. So either it just takes longer by chopper, even if it is the latest piece of military hardware. Still kinda slow if you ask me. Or they missed their stop.

I've been looking into the Carribean Sea. There are a few options though since we're dealing with a French dictator here. There are four French areas in the Carribean. It's either Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Barthélemy or French Guiana. Martinique has been visited and mentioned by MacGyver. So it's either one of those last three. Guadeloupe and Saint-Barthélemy are both about 8 hour flights and French Guiana is almost a ten hour flight.

French Guiana is however not in the Carribean but is located next to Suriname. Guiana, Suriname and French Guiana are however considered to be part of the Carribean region even though they are not located at the Carribean Sea but historically, cultural, linguistical and social-economically speaking, it belongs to the Carribean. Since it's not confirmed that San Rochelle is an island it might as well be French Guiana. It's the farthest away from the other islands, on the mainland and it might explain a longer flight.

Even though it is almost a ten hour flight, since they left in late afternoon and arrived in the morning, I'd say they must've had a delay of a few hours and that it indeed takes maybe even 12-13 hours with the chopper to arrive around breakfast time the next day. Of course it must be the same amount of time or even longer with the extra cargo after they got Peugot and his men so I think it's also fairly impossible that the entire San Rochelle part of the episode and Mac and Abe arriving just in time or a little late in the same day. It's just a bit tricky to know, since the entire episode is set during the day. Though you might say they probably could've changed their clothes by than.

Now, I'm just working on a hunch here. I need to figure out more stuff first before I can write it out. Might as well be Guadaloupe (an island and in the Carribean) which is the second longest distance with almost an 8 hour flight. Saint-Barthélemy takes about 7 hours and 45 minutes. It's only 15 minutes but hey... what the hell. I like doing this stuff.

Anyway what I wanted to say in the first place was that San Rochelle can't be Isla de la Juventud. It's not far away enough to take a whole night flying.