Every week I will be posting a new topic titled "Episode Discussion". In this we will discuss an episode, what we liked about it, what we didn't like, etc.


Episode 77 - Runners

While trying to help a teen-prostitute get away from her pimp and return to her family. He discovers she is being abused by her father, a cop who blames her for the death of his wife.

Votes from March 2006

Poor [ 0 ] [0.00%]
Average [ 1 ] [14.29%]
OK [ 0 ] [0.00%]
Good [ 3 ] [42.86%]
Excellent [ 3 ] [42.86%]
Total Votes: 7

Posted by: MacGyverGod Feb 28 2006, 12:41 AM

Posted by: MACGYVERISMYDAD Feb 28 2006, 02:28 AM

snakeskin did try to get the girl to use hereoin at the end after she ran back to him. i also belive the apartment he was staying in was probably a drug influenced place. i voted good not one of my all time favorites. i love when jenny comes up to mac and pete and propositions them and pete says "arnt you supposed to be in school" then mac does the peek a boo pop up thing from behind the tv. great scene. i always wondered why when mac hooks the garbage can up to snakeskins caddilac why when he realizes that hes towing it he jams on the brakes. not the best move in the world. overall good ep showing a desperate runnaway trying to avoid her father and make some money. word1.png

Posted by: MacGyver Feb 28 2006, 04:30 AM

Posted by: thyla Feb 28 2006, 05:39 AM

Posted by: MacGyverGod Feb 28 2006, 06:02 AM

It's Mac who said: shouldn't you be in school?
Correcting me and then you make a mistake. biggrin.gif

Posted by: MACGYVERISMYDAD Feb 28 2006, 06:22 AM

Posted by: Lothithil Feb 28 2006, 07:49 AM

Posted by: rockatteer Feb 28 2006, 09:05 AM

You can watch this scene in our files section. http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/fv3.html


This episode is one of my favorites, but I have no idea why.

I guess its just a kind of feel good episode, which gives us some insight into MacGyver’s “inner workings”.

I too love the line where Jenny asks Mac why he cares about what happens to her, and he replies.. “I don’t know. I just do.”

I think we get to see a kind of domesticated “Big Brother” side of Mac in this one.

I also really like the scene where Mac first takes Jenny to his jeep and Snake turns up with the knife, and Mac deals to him.
Snake pulls the knife and it doesn’t even phase Mac.. he knew exactly what to do and how to handle both the knife and Snake… VERY kewl !!


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Posted by: MacsChick Feb 28 2006, 03:46 PM

Posted by: MacGyverGod Mar 1 2006, 02:25 AM

Yeah, capiche the whole game pal biggrin.gif This is so hard Mac.

I have that too and at some points -even after some time- you realise what the actual point is of the episode.

MacGirl Posted on Mar 1 2006, 02:14 PM

I just saw this episode for the first time a couple of days ago and I had to watch the dumpster chasing the Snakeskin's car twice! It was so funny, I fell off the couch laughing. The moral of that is though, never leave MacGyver alone near a dumpster and an enemy vehicle. He will go through the dumpster and something will definitely happen to the vehicle

heres a question....

When MacGyver sends snake chasing after his car before he takes Jennifer away from the convention center.. its daylight.. but the very next scene has him driving up to the challenges club in the dark....

They take the scenic rout?? What'd they do in between daylight and dark?

The two places are far apart ?

The Jeep is slow ?

Jennifer distracts Mac from driving and he takes the wrong turn every time ?

They park somewhere and spend the afternoon chatting away ?

Possibly just a continuity issue...

Maybe... there was a total eclipse of the sun!

More likely it was late afternoon when they left the convention center, and it was a very long drive to the Challenger's Club.

What I wanna know is how many speeding laws did MacGyver break to beat Jennifer's cab to Snake's place! He must know ALL the shortcuts!

I love this one, too! I can see Mac was totally unguarded against Jenny: from the time she picked his pocket to the time they talked about their parents in the houseboat. Also Mac's reaction when Jenny proposed to go back to his place: 'What??', he was panic and didn't know how to react!

didn't like this one very much.

Care to elaborate?

well I didn't like it much because it shows another world that MacGyver doesn't belong to the world of drugs, street walkers and just all the around guns.

I really enjoyed Macgygver's reaction in the convention center when jennifer first comes in and asks Pete for a date.(classic)
Did Mac ever get his watch back?

No, that was when he started wearing other watches.

I always wonder about how he said he had to pawn his watch to pay for the gas. I wouldn't have thought an old plastic army watch would be worth enough to pay for gas. I know they're worth a pretty penny now because they're collectors items, but back then they where just a plastic worthless watch.

May be Mac successfully talked the gas station guy into letting him come back later to pay for his gas.

If I were that guy, I would use every mean to make sure he comes back!

I would have been asking for my watch back if i was MacGyver

I find it interesting to see how he acts to this kind of environment. I like this episode, like a lot of people said I'm not sure why, I guess it shows Mac's caring side and how he deal's with certain situations socially in society.

I found it touching when he said that he would not be able to sleep if he knew she was on the street. This one does show that he is a softy.

This was a pretty heartbreaking episode. I normally don't like the whole "social issue" thing, but this one was well done. Even though the guy who played Snakeskin was a horrible actor, you could see past that and get the point of the episode. The poor girl really didn't have anybody to turn to. And then Mac saves the day

I don't know if I mentioned it earlier in this thread, but this is one of my favs for the whole series and I'm not entirely why. It just has a soft homely, caring sort of feel to it.

But isn't that the point? He wasn't looking to get involved in anything remotely connected to drugs, prostitution or guns. He doesn't like any of them, but he wasn't specifically trying to get anyone away from them. He was just helping Pete with something technical that was unrelated to drugs, prostitution or guns. And lo and behold, just as he thinks he might have some time off from being a hero, he has to be a hero. He can't even buy petrol without a heavily pregnant woman wanting his help to get away from her evil husband.

(Obviously, there was only one way the storyline could have gone. If he'd asked her how much she charged and for what, that would have gone down about as well as if he had kicked a dog or something.)

I found some TV Column Article from March 30, 1989, which says "The March 13 episode of "MacGyver," on the plight of runaway children, generated a 300 percent increase in calls to the National Runaway Switchboard, whose special hot line number was displayed at the end of the program ..."

Here's also video about that:

Nice. There seems so little behind the scenes stuff out there and yet there are plenty of interviews but they're all so rare.

Nice video!

I remember when we'd watch MacGyver as a rerun, that episode was on a lot. Great that it helped so many people too!

That's because CBS keeps issuing copyright claims against anyone who uploads them!

We've still got plenty of videos on our channel though.. watch em before CBS finds them.

MacGyver Online Youtube Channel

Yes, I've seen a few yesterday due to this clip. It really is not fair.

WoW, bravo to the actress who plays Jennifer, is only 12 years old, she gives us a perfect performance here, especially with a subject as delicate as prostitution ...

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