Welcome to chapter V. We'll continue our story now it's set in South America and in this chapter fate will decide if it's gonna to make MacGyver's situation for the better or for the worse. Oh I hoped you enjoyed chapter four, there weren't many feedbacks to it. You are going to enjoy this one because this finally contains a few MacGyverisms, we have a couple of meetings with the bad guys and we see a side of Murdoc we only briefly saw in Cleo Rocks. Enjoy!

(We fade in with a view on the compound in South America with army music)
Chapter V
South America
The Hidden Compound
Phoenix Lab
Night Scouting

In the jungle of South America, in the hidden compound Maria Romburg slowly awoke from her tranquilizer, feeling very dizzy.
She was lying on a bed turned her head and threw up. Deborah who was standing in front of her swallowed something back in her throat.
‘Feeling sick, are we?’ she asked.
‘What? Where am I?’ Maria asked in fear.
‘I’ve got something for your nausea,’ Deborah said and emptied a bucket of ice cold water in Maria’s face.
‘What’s going on? Where am I?’
‘You married him, didn’t you?’
‘Married who?’
‘MacGyver!’
‘MacGyver? Is that the reason why you’ve kidnapped me?’
‘One of many reasons.’
‘But I don’t get it. Who are you?’
‘Let me introduce myself. My name is Deborah.’
‘You’re Deborah?’
‘You’ve heard of me, I see.’
‘Yes I have. You are the one who blinded him and tried to pull him of a cliff in the woods.’
‘That’s right. Instead of that I faked my own death and I began on my own. I didn’t had much of victims after MacGyver, just one. After I killed that person, I came down here to this compound. I had contact with Dr. Zito in the asylum after he tried to teach MacGyver a lesson in evil. He told me to get things going here. Two years later we got in touch with Murdoc and from the one the other came. We started a conspiracy against the MacGyver-clan.’
‘Zito? Murdoc? Those names seems familiar, he told me somewhat of them.’
‘Good for you. To nail MacGyver, we schemed out the conspiracy to kill him with an advantage of pleasance for all of us. We strike upon the most dearest in his life. You! Maria.’
‘But why?’
‘MacGyver is very valuable for the Phoenix Foundation. He’s the best man they have. When he’s dead, Peter Thornton will also have his departure and the Phoenix Foundation would become useless without them. An easy target for us then. Poor young Sam will become depressed when he finds out Sally died. We’ve got a lot more upon our sleeves than that’s good for you to know. To give the right answer on your question is simple. Same old, same old. Revenge! MacGyver did a lot of worse things to us then we did to him. I assure you, MacGyver’s last hours are counted. This time he will not get away. This whole area is protected with soldiers; his ingenuity will not save him this time. It’s like Murdoc, once said: his humanity will become his death one day.’
‘How do you really know, he’ll come to rescue me?’
‘With MacGyver it’s always the same thing. He can’t stand the fact of death innocent people. Especially not the ones he loves and certainly not the ones he will have on his conscience. He’ll come, it wouldn’t surprise me, if he’s already here.’
‘What if I try to escape on my own?’
‘You’re at my mercy now. Try it.’
‘OK.’
Maria, who still on the floor, lifted her leg up and kicked Deborah in her stomach.
‘Martial arts, huh?’
‘Karate.’
‘Right.’
Deborah spun on her right leg and kicked Maria with her left leg in the face. Her boot struck her lips, which began to bleed. Deborah did a few nicely done back flips and a summersault to end it and gave a few blows in Maria’s face and another kick in her stomach. Then she took a chain and chained her up against the wall near the bed.
‘You, ***. You stupid f*cking ***.’
Deborah slapped her in the face on the remark.
‘You called me a ***?’
Deborah slapped her again, this time with her left hand.
‘Such a dirty word,’ she said.
‘***,’ Maria whispered but Deborah heard it.
‘I heard that.’
‘Oh, yeah. What are you going to do about it?’
Deborah took a few steps backwards. In a flash she spun on her left leg forwards swinging her right leg into Maria’s face.
‘Agh!’ Maria screamed when she fell how the boot came in connection with her face and how her forehead banged against the sharp side of the bed leaving an opening where blood came gushing out of it.
‘Oh, you poor baby. That was a bit to much wasn’t it? Or to hard?’
Maria was now crying, tears were rolling over her cheeks. She got more freaked when she saw Deborah taking out her knife.
‘I hate the leave a job unfinished, because we will have unfinished business then.’ It made Deborah laugh when she mentioned those words.
‘Unfinished business. I have those with MacGyver too, again. What I’m about to do to you is to make this little incision near your left eye, right here.’
Deborah let the knife slowly go it’s way on Maria’s face. Maria fell how the knife teeth’s made an opening on her face and screamed. Deborah gave Maria a severe blow with her left hand in her stomach.
‘Shut up, ***. Now we’re getting even.’
Maria felt how the blood dripped out of the wound, and then she saw Deborah taking a few white hospital gloves. She pulled hard on it and let go making a shooting sound on her own skin.
‘I love that sound,’ she said when she pulled her other one on, then out of her pocket she took another injection needle.
‘It’s time for you to go to sleep.’
Maria fell asleep and Deborah putted her on the bed.
In the room next door Penny Parker stood eye to eye with Murdoc.
‘Murdoc?’ Penny noticed vaguely.
‘That’s right.’ Murdoc said with a low tone in his voice.
‘Wha… what’s going on?’
‘You’re gonna help us to kill MacGyver.’
‘What? Why?’
‘The usual. Because of him, my previous plan in the theatre failed.’
‘But you were dead.’
‘That’s right. I was dead but just like MacGyver I always survive.’
‘You’re willing to kill my best friend in the world?’
‘You’re smart, Penny Parker. You are the bait, Sam Malloy’s girl too as well as his wife.’
‘Please, don’t do this,’ Penny cried.
‘But I have to, Penny.’
‘No, you don’t.’
‘Yes I have to, it’s the only way to convince HIT – Homicide International Trust – that they’ve made a mistake by letting me go. MacGyver is the only blemish on my record just like with Deborah.’
‘Who?’
‘Deborah. She was once his girlfriend; apparently she was also hired by some company to kill him. Oh, Penny, Penny.’
‘What?’
‘When I played that Jacques Leroux, you woke it up in me. I told you back then that I loved you.’
‘You loved me? That’s right you said that.’
‘I’m saying it again.’
‘How can I possibly love the man who’s going to kill my best friend?’
‘You would be surprised of how fate can play games with people. I should have come to you when I retired from HIT. When I retired my former boss Nicholas Helman, kidnapped my sister Ashton whom later died in avalanche. I asked MacGyver for help, that was the only time in the 15 years that I’ve been after him that I did such a thing.’
‘If you do love me, leave my friends alone then.’
‘I’m sorry Penny but that is the only thing I can never do.’
‘Yes you can, but I can’t love you if you’re willing to hurt my friends. You said you loved me, that can only be mutual if you leave him alone.’
Murdoc fell that she meant it.
‘Penny, my feelings for you are real but as long MacGyver is alive is he too dangerous for us.’
‘I wonder, why that is? He probably couldn’t bear it that the person he takes care of is in love with his arch-nemesis.’
‘That’s one of the reasons indeed. Oh, Penny, I really wish that we’ve met in different circumstances and that I nor you never met MacGyver.’
‘But MacGyver is a good friend, I love him. He never turned me down on anything.’
‘Well, maybe some day he might.’
‘MacGyver would never do such a thing.’
‘As I told you before fate can play games with people and change their lives forever in a way they never expected.’
‘Not with MacGyver.’
‘Especially with MacGyver. Several things what MacGyver has done in his past left trails behind. His fear of guns among other things.’
‘MacGyver is a lot stronger than you think; maybe that’s why you never succeeded in killing him. You’re hating him and you’re hate made you miss all the time.’
‘He made me hating him, that’s what makes me dangerous. I surely can’t love him for it.’
‘MacGyver, please come quick,’ Penny whispered out loud.
‘Don’t worry, my dear, he’ll come. He’ll come soon enough and his lights will go out and this time forever.’
Penny started to cry on that remark.
‘Oh please, don’t cry woman. I can’t stand that.’
‘You can’t stand it either that he was on the wrong place at the wrong time when he met Peter Thornton.’
‘Ah, Peter Thornton, it all started with him actually, so he has to die too.’
‘You’re going to kill an old blind man?’
‘When he was working for the DXS, he followed me around the world and since I couldn’t have a DXS agent after me, I decided to kill him to get rid of him, unfortunately MacGyver butted in so I decided to kill him to which I intend to do so.’
‘I can’t believe this.’
‘Look, Penny, I like chattering with you but now you have to shut up or I’ll rape you.’
‘You say such things to persons you love.’
‘No! I only say such things to persons that annoys me.’
‘I’m annoying you? Why did you kidnap me than for?’
‘To get MacGyver here and kill him. I conspire against him with two companions, which you will probably meet later on, for now I have you in my power. Please, Penny, I wouldn’t like doing things with you I might regret, so please be quiet.’
Penny Parker kept her mouth shut. She couldn’t believe that even Murdoc had a soft side. She didn’t know what to do or what will happen if MacGyver meets Murdoc. Desperation came closer to her but she kept hoping MacGyver was coming to rescue her as before. It gave a little hope but what Murdoc said about MacGyver turning her down gave her chills. Murdoc tried to break her trust in MacGyver to win her for him and easily kill off MacGyver. She lay down on the bed, keeping one hand under the pillow.
‘This is all a nightmare,’ she whispered again, ‘just a nightmare. MacGyver will come.’
She talked some hope into herself and that’s how she comforted herself, she had this feeling of it that he would come to rescue her.
In another room next-door Sally awoken from her tranquilizing. She had the pleasance of having Dr. Zito as a host.
‘Who… who are you?’ she asked a little dazed.
‘May I introduce myself? My name is Dr. Zito.’ Zito said.
‘Uhuh!’ she replied. ‘And what is your first name?’
‘My first name doesn’t matter.’
‘What kind of doctor are you, then?’
‘A child psychiatrist,’ he said and started to laugh at the remark.
‘Right.’
‘I’m actually more a professor I studied ancient history. History of the Vikings. Ever heard of the Valhalla?’
‘When I went to school, I heard about it and also about Greek Mythology.’
‘Ah, the three fates. Control of life, making decision who goes to Tartarus or the Elysian Fields.’
‘Tartarus?’
‘Home of Hades god of the underworld, like Anubis in Egyptology but that doesn’t matter, right now. The important thing is that you know why I’ve kidnapped you.’
‘I already wondered why I was here.’
‘MacGyver and lieutenant Kate Murphy, that’s why.’
‘My future father in law? What has he got to do with this and that police woman?’
‘I have a score to settle with them and since I want to keep it simple this time, I use you as a bait.’
‘I think you’re gonna have to deal with my boyfriend than.’
‘Oh, and who might that be? A certain Sean Angus Malloy?’
‘That’s right.’
‘Please girl. I know he’s MacGyver’s son and since we’re conspiring against the MacGyver-clan too, he must die.’
Sally laughed.
‘I know Sam and MacGyver.’
‘Do you, now?’
‘Yes, I’ve been through a lot together with them. I know exactly what they can do.’
‘This time it’s different.’
‘No it’s not. There’s no reason to it.’
‘Miss, me, Murdoc and Deborah are three of his most feared enemies in his entire life. We’ve kidnapped you, Miss Parker and his wife to get him over here and settle a score with him and since I know MacGyver, he would drag Lt. Murphy into it and surely his son. If Sam loves you he would absolutely come with his father. They always call the police, that is so MacGyverish.’
Sally planned not to let her know herself and started to look around which Zito noticed.
‘Why do you think of my sanctuary?’ he asked.
‘Sanctuary?’
‘Yes, I only thought I would only feel at home at the asylum.’
‘Asylum?’
‘I let myself declare nuts to escape death row and made it into the asylum for insane people.’
‘Which you are not?’
‘Can you believe I started to doubt it myself? You definitely can’t see my mask of sanity?’
‘Looks more like insanity to me.’
Zito laughed at the remark.
‘Oh, where’s my mind?’
‘You’ve probably lost it somewhere. If you untie me I will help you finding it then.’
Zito laughed again.
‘Stop it! It’s killing me.’
He regained his senses and continued on a lower voice.
‘I meant, where were we? Ah yes, my sanctuary.’
‘What is it with you and sanctuaries?’
‘This is my sanctuary,’ he mentioned the word again, ‘it’s build inside an army base which is build again inside an asylum. So I feel at home here.’
‘Good.’
‘My good girl, you don’t even have the slightest idea of what kind of man I am. You have absolutely no idea that I am a murderous psychopath.’
‘Is that a fact?’
‘That’s right, a big fact.’
‘But why do you wanna kill my boyfriend and his father?’
‘I have a score to settle most of all with Lt. Murphy and MacGyver.’
Zito’s look changed into something dark, something evil that frightened Sally.
‘That’s how evil plays the game,’ he continued, ‘you see, evil never plays fair, that’s why it always win and your side loses.’
‘I’ve seen other things happening.’
Zito smiled evilly.
(Here the music comes up from the scene of Lesson in Evil)
‘Look hard, be diligent and it’ll strikes when you least expect it. Evil is never predictable, it follows no patron. It strikes friends, loved ones, co-workers, and when you least expect it, it comes home for the kill.’
‘I’ve got a question for you, doctor. Why us?’
‘Call it rematch in case for MacGyver, a second rematch. I failed 5 years ago.’
‘How comes it’s the second rematch?’
‘I failed the last couple of times.’
‘How comes?’ Sally asked again.
‘They outsmarted me.’
‘Why is that?’
‘Because my plan failed,’ Zito replied angrily, ‘and don’t give me anything of your smart mouth anymore. You’ll need it. Save your strength or I’ll have to use a device to shut you up.’
‘What can you possible use as a torture device?’
Zito walked up to a closet and took an instrument out of it looking like a helmet.
‘This device was used to calm aggressive patients, the clamp took care of it that they don’t bite of their tongues. Very humane so save your strength, you’re gonna need it.’
He putted the thing a side and blindfolded her then he left.
He went to the control room where Murdoc and Deborah were waiting for him.
‘And what did we found out, today?’ Zito asked.
‘Nothing we just talked,’ Deborah answered.
‘I found out that I love her,’ Murdoc said.
‘Love who?’ Zito asked.
‘Penny Parker.’
‘Well, hello, colonel Murdoc but I don’t think you don’t quite understand our conspiracy. The plan is to kidnap his loved ones and lure him in here and to settle our score with him.’
‘Yes, general.’
‘I got a question, general,’ Deborah said, ‘who gets to kill MacGyver?’
‘To have equal satisfaction of the killing, we’ll have to do it all together at once.’
‘We about our hostages?’
‘Kill them!’
‘I know exactly what I’m gonna do with mine,’ Deborah said wicked.
‘Good. From all of us, you’re acting the most vicious.’
‘That’s part of the job.’
‘And you’re beautiful too.’
‘That’s part of the job too.’
They all looked at three TV-screens, which showed the three hostages. The first one showed Maria, the second one Penny and the third one Sally.
Maria was sleeping, Penny was crying and Sally was doing nothing.
In the plane Jack was getting everything ready for the landing.
‘Landing gear, coming down,’ he said but what he said afterwards wasn’t comforting. ‘Uh-oh.’
‘Uh-oh? What uh-oh? What do you mean “uh-oh”?’ MacGyver asked.
‘I’m participating a minor problem.’
‘What?’
‘We can’t…’
‘We can’t what? Tell me Jack. Spit it out. Don’t tell me that we can’t land.’
‘I’m sorry, buddy.’
‘Jack, what kind of pilot are you?’
‘An idiot one.’
‘No doubt, and why can’t we land?’
‘We’re almost out of fuel.’
‘So this means, that we can crash and burn, right?’
‘Right.’
‘Right, right, right and guess what Jack.’
‘What?’
‘We’re near the phoenix lab.’
‘So that’s good.’
‘But if we can’t land, the wheels will probably break off on the jungle ground.’
‘That’s bad.’
‘Unless, I can find a way the fix this minor problem.’
‘That’s good.’
‘I’ll take the only parachute.’
‘That’s bad because it has a rips in it.’
‘I’ll take my chances. Is there another way to get some fuel in it, without landing first?’
‘Might.’
‘Don’t worry Jack, I’ll improvise.’
MacGyver left the cockpit.
‘What is it?’ Sam asked.
‘We have a slightly minor problem with the airplane,’ his father answered.’
‘What?’
‘We can’t land.’
Everybody started to panic.
‘But DON’T PANIC!’ MacGyver screamed and everything became silent. ‘I’ll try to find a way to get safely down there.’
‘MacGyver, what is the problem?’ Kiley asked.
‘We don’t have enough fuel to get down there.’
‘What are you going to do?’ Pete asked.
‘I’ll think of a way. I’ll improvise.’
MacGyver walked to the back of the plane to the cargo hold where his car was. ‘Hey, there big fella, it looks like we’ve got a situation on our hands and you might be of help, if I just knew how.’
MacGyver rubbed his mouth with his right hand and looked around for something to work with. (Music of the clip Rock the Cradle from Unfinished Business comes up here) His eye caught the attention of a hose in the cargo hold. He took the hose and suddenly his brains started to work. He went back to his car and opened the trunk and took a bottle of cola out of it.
‘Bottom’s up,’ he said and drank the bottle all the way down. He took his Swiss Army Knife and cuts of the top of the hose, then he opened the gas tank of his jeep. The tank was deep enough for such a small hole. He putted the hose in it and sucked the fuel out and putted it in the bottle until he had enough. He looked down and noticed a grate in the cargo hold’s ground that leads to the engines of the plane. Since the plane was new and Jack didn’t know all the things a pilot should know he hung on every part a name tag.
‘Oh, name tags. How convenient,’ Mac said with a childish cheerful tone in his voice. ‘Now the only thing I have to do is to find the right one. Is it the F of fuel or the G of gasoline?’
He searched the nametags and founded an “F” of fuel but also a “G” of gasoline, so he half emptied it in the “F” and the other in the “G”. Then he returned to the cockpit.
‘What happened Mac? What did you do? Did it worked?’ Jack asked.
‘Check your fuel again.’
‘We’ve got fuel!’
‘That’s right, now put this thing on the ground, will you?’
‘Okay, Mac, there is the laboratory.’
Jack took the intercom and spoke in it.
‘Ladies and gentlemen we would like to thank you for flying with JDAMAFPFPAD which means Jack Dalton And MacGyver Airways For Phoenix Foundation Packages And Deliveries. In the next two minutes we will be on the ground so fasten your seatbelts please.’ Jack Dalton putted the intercom down.
‘JDAMAFPFPAD? New company?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Yeah sort of. To be honest I earned more money since I’m doing these deliveries for the foundation.’
‘You see, working for a living is a lot simpler then your soon-to- become-rich-schemes. If you do good for the foundation you will be rewarded good. I once got 200.000 dollars for getting a man out of Czechoslovakia and saving him afterwards from his wife who was working for the GRU.’
‘And of course you didn’t keep the money, right?’
‘That’s right. I donated it to him for helping his cause.’
‘I would have kept the money.’
‘Well, if they pays you the money, you can do whatever you want with it.’
‘What do I get for this job?’
‘Nothing.’
‘Oh. Here we go, MacGyver, ready for landing.’
(the music changes into a part of the MacGyver theme then fades away)
Jack Dalton landed the plane in front of the Phoenix lab building and everybody got out. MacGyver opened the cargo hold and drove his jeep out of it and parked it near the plane.
‘Now what?’ Jack asked.
‘We go inside and talk, I’m running the show now.’
‘He always runs the show,’ Sam said.
They got inside the lab greeted by Nikki Carpenter and Willis.
‘MacGyver,’ Nikki said hugging him. ‘Pete told us everything of what happened.’
‘Yeah, yeah. The most important thing now is to get these people out of there.’
‘MacGyver,’ Willis said joining in the conversation. ‘I’ve got something interesting news for you then.’
‘Tell me, Willis.’
‘The compound is located about ten hills away from here, although I don’t really know in which direction.’
‘That’s ok, Willis. Pete gave me this tracking device,’ he said showing it. He tried to put it on but it didn’t work. ‘What the hell is this?’
‘What is it, MacGyver?’
‘This thing doesn’t work.’
‘Let me see, maybe I can fix it and adjust it.’
MacGyver gave the tracking device to Willis.
‘Try to get it fixed by tonight, then I’m going scouting.’
Willis nodded and left.
‘What did you say, dad?’ Sam asked.
‘You heard me. I’m going night scouting and I’m going alone.’
‘What?’
‘You heard me.’
‘Dad, this situation also concerns me. If Sally…’
‘Nothing is gonna happen with Sally. She’s going to be fine.’
‘MacGyver, Sam’s right,’ Pete said. ‘It’s going to be way to dangerous to go into the jungle all alone.
‘Pete for the last 15 years I always worked alone.’
‘Not always,’ Nikki said.
‘Alright but that only happened occasionally.’
‘Alright, look, there’s only room for five people in my jeep…’
‘You’re going with your jeep?’ Jack said surprised.
‘Why the hell did you think I brought him with me?’ MacGyver asked. ‘I don’t know,’ Jack replied.
‘For fun, that’s right,’ he answered sarcastic. ‘Look, listen all. I’m going to that compound alone.’
‘MacGyver, you can’t go alone. There’s lots of security to worry about.’ Captain Kiley said.
‘I am going alone!’ MacGyver said angrily.
Pete thought it was time to interfere.
‘MacGyver, as your superior listen to me. Kiley is right, you can’t go alone, it’s way to dangerous.’
‘Pete, you are not my superior anymore; I work unofficially for the foundation. You can’t tell me anymore what to do.’
‘I never did that, I only gave you assignments because they were important.’
‘They were all important, Pete.’
‘MacGyver, like it or not, you are taking a few of these people with you for protection and I’m saying this as a friend not as your boss.’
‘Pete, you let me go alone to that army base where Delasora was held at. Why don’t you let me go alone now?’
‘Because you’re too emotionally involved.’
‘You can count on me!’ Nikki said.
‘And on me too!’ Kiley replied.
‘I’m with them, MacGyver,’ Lt. Rhome said.
‘So am I, dad,’ Sam said.
‘Since Zito is involved, I’m ready again to nail him.’ Lt. Murphy said.
‘And I need some fieldwork.’ Sgt. Blake said.
‘And you can count on me too.’ Jack Dalton said.
‘OK then, but listen to me for once in a while. Sam, Lt. Murphy and Lt. Rhome are coming with me to the compound. Nikki, Kiley and Blake stay a few hills behind as a back up. When there are problems, we’ll give a call. I’m sure there are a few walkie-talkies here.’
‘I’ll get them!’ Nikki said.
‘What about me?’ Jack asked.
‘Jack, the best thing for you is to stay with the plane. I’m sorry, there’s nothing more for you that can help me. Work on your plane; prepare him for the flight out of here or something. Pete you better stay here with Willis. Does everybody agrees with my plan?’
Everybody agreed.
‘Good, now I need a place for my own to think.’
Everybody separated a little. MacGyver went into a long hallway and passed by Nikki.
‘MacGyver, here’s one walkie-talkie for you.’
‘Thanks, Nikki.’
‘Where are you going? What’s the matter?’
‘I need a place to think.’
‘Your dormitory is on the left of the hallway, the last door, you’ll see your name on it.’
‘Thanks.’
‘Look MacGyver, I know we haven’t been the best friends since we know each other. I just wanna say I’m sorry.’
‘Sorry for what?’
‘For the differences between us.’
‘We each work on our own way as long it brings up results.’
‘I hope we can be friends now.’
‘Nikki, I want to be left alone, right now. My wife is kidnapped and I want her back and these people won’t make a phone call to ask for ransom, you know Murdoc and Deborah. I’m going to do my job as I always do, on my way.’
‘I just asked if we could be friends.’
‘Whatever. I’ll see ya later then okay?’ MacGyver said smiling vaguely and left. Nikki looked back at him when he walked away, then she turned and walked her way further.
MacGyver went to his dormitory. He opened the door and walked in, closing the door behind him. For the first time that day he was finally alone. He leaned against the door and putted his face in his hands, he started sobbing and eventually he bursts out in tears. (Slow sad music comes up here) ‘Oh, my God. My dear God. What have I done? What the f*ck have I done to deserve this? Why can’t I just love someone?’
He sat down against the door, rubbing the tears out of his eyes and tried to regain his senses, he sighed. For a couple of moments he was just staring at the ground, and then he went into his pocket and took the magical coin out of his wallet.
‘Please Harry, be there for me,’ he hoped and started to rub the coin over his sleeve. Harry appeared.
‘Feeling a bit down, bud?’
‘I’m losing faith, Harry.’
‘I noticed. I know you are having a rough time since Maria is kidnapped.’
‘I’m only married for one *bad word removed*ing day and the next morning she’s gone.’
‘Watch your mouth, bud.’ Harry said easily trying to calm down his grandson. ‘I’ve seen everything happening up there.’
‘I came up with this stupid idea, to go night scouting.’
‘I don’t think that’s such a bad idea, bud.’
MacGyver looked up at Harry surprised by his answer.
‘Is it?’
‘Yes, I’m sure but you can slightly adjust your attitude towards the people who’s trying the help you.’
‘I know that Harry but the way I’m feeling right now…’ MacGyver couldn’t get out of his words; he was trying to find the right words.
‘You’re feeling the same way when this Paul Moran died, right?’
‘Exactly. I had such a tough time in London back then, apparently that tough that I’m still not over it. I can still see Paul dying in my arms, I couldn’t save him. Sample… pack… were his last words. Do you know how it feels when you’re completely on your own in foreign country deeply tangled in a web of crime with no friends?’
‘I can imagine it how you must have felled, bud. I lost a lot of friends too.’
‘Not the way how Paul Moran died.’
‘As a matter fact, sometimes it did happen that way.’
‘But you probably never got tangled into something dark and sinister like I’ve been through in London.’
‘That’s a correct answer, but the only way to get over it is not living in the past but to concentrate on the present and the future. Think of what you will do when you go night scouting.’
‘According to Pete I should take everybody with me and I disagree with him.’
‘Why?’
‘Oh come on, Harry, you know what I mean. I don’t want innocent people to get killed in a crossfire, especially not Sam, Jack or Pete.’
‘That sounds like one of your rules.’
‘You know how much I hate to see innocent people to get hurt.’
‘Look, bud, I know you must feel terrible right now, but try to loosen up a little, okay? These people are willing to help, let them help. They’ve got a small army in that base, don’t tell me you were going to take them down face to face?’
‘I’ll see how.’
‘I just wanna tell you that you don’t have to let you know yourself.’
‘What have I been doing then lately?’
‘I don’t mean towards your friends but towards the people who got you into this trouble. I once told you to be more careful and that still goes.’
‘I intend too, Harry.’
‘Come on, get up, this is a sorry sight.’
Harry took MacGyver’s hand and pulled him up.
‘Do you feel better now?’ Harry asked.
‘Some.’
‘Try splattering some water in your face. Freshen up a little, before you go out and play.’
Harry disappeared and MacGyver took his grandfather’s advice.
(music fades away and goes over into a military tune then fades away)
In the compound, a young soldier came running into the control room where Dr. Zito, Murdoc and Deborah were still talking.
‘You forgot to knock,’ Zito said.
The soldier knocked.
‘Come in,’ Zito said with unbelievable politeness.
‘Sir, I think you just know this.’
‘What is it, soldier?’ Deborah said.
‘There was a plane spotted in the airspace.’
‘So?’ Murdoc wondered.
‘Doesn’t that ring a bell? That could be this MacGyver fellow.’
‘How long ago did this plane passed by?’ Zito demanded.
‘A couple of hours ago.’
‘Why the hell didn’t you told me this before?’
‘Yeah, why the hell didn’t you told him that before?’ Deborah demanded.
‘Because you didn’t wanted to be disturbed.’
‘And why the hell did I do that?’
‘Yeah, why the hell did he do that?’ Deborah said again.
‘Because you said so, general. You wanted to peacefully interrogate with the hostages. Those were your orders, sir.’
‘Oh right, of course, how silly of me.’
The soldier and Murdoc both rolled with their eyes.
‘Well that’ll be all, you can go now,’ Zito said.
The soldier left.
‘Looks like our plan is working.’
‘I do think instead of waiting we should go to MacGyver instead of letting him coming to us,’ Murdoc said.
‘That’s a very bad idea, Murdoc,’ Deborah explained, ‘if we go to MacGyver it always turns bad for us. I think we should let him coming to us is a much better idea.’
‘Whatever.’
They looked at their monitors and it looked like Maria was waking up again from her tranquilizing.
‘It looks like our sleep beauty is waking up again. I do must pay her a visit.’ Deborah said and left with a white what looked like a briefcase.
‘Where did she got that briefcase so fast? That wasn’t standing here before?’ Murdoc wondered.
‘I don’t know. Maybe we should quit drinking,’ Zito replied.
‘Good idea.’
Deborah entered Maria’s room again, holding the suitcase and another bucket of water.
‘Waking up again, dear?’ she asked.
Before she even knew what happened, Maria took the bucket of water out of Deborah’s hand and barfed again in it this time. Deborah closed her eyes and pulled a face of disgust.
‘That is just so disgusting. What is that with you and barfing?’
‘I feel sick, that’s all.’
‘Maybe this will freshen you up.’
Deborah emptied the bucket again in her face.
‘You ***!’ Maria screamed and tries to run up against Deborah but she slapped Maria in the face back on the bed. ‘Now take that purple night robe off.’
‘What?’
‘You heard me. Take off the night robe and put some decent clothes on.’
‘Why? What decent clothes?’
‘These decent clothes.’
Deborah opened the briefcase and took some clothes out of it. It contained a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt with spaghetti strains with a white shirt over it without buttons, socks and shoes. She threw them in Maria’s face.
‘Don’t worry. I won’t look.’
Deborah turned around and listened to the noises Maria made when she was changing her clothes, surprisingly it all fitted.
‘Now what? You’re going to put me back to sleep?’
‘Nah! That becomes so old after a while. I’ll just tie you up. Lay down on the bed and put your hands over your head.’
Maria did what was wanted of her, while Deborah took a rope and tied her up, feet also.
‘Will you please get something for my nausea?’
‘You just got a bucket of water with puke over your face isn’t that enough?’
Maria didn’t respond and looked down, she was indeed looking a bit pale. Deborah looked at her, was she feeling sorry for her?
‘You know, you indeed look a little flushed. Time to play doctor.’
‘What?’ Maria was shocked.
‘Look, if you been imprisoned, they teach you some stuff about first-aid, and I even learned more about it after I stole that ambulance after my “death” or the van of the coroner whatever it was. While we were discussing our plan for MacGyver the last few years I took nursing classes.’
‘Well, that’s comforting.’
Annoyed by the situation Deborah decided to use her nursing skills after all. She lays the back of her hand on Maria’s head.
‘You indeed got a fever. Do you got pain somewhere?’
‘Besides the places you gave me those blows, yes indeed. My stomach hurts.’
‘Do you mind if I take a look?’ she didn’t wait for an answer. ‘Let me see.’ She took Maria’s t-shirt out of her pants and folded it up neatly till under her chest. She fell with her hands around her stomach and passed by it with a stethoscope. Her face changed of what she found out, her eyes went bigger.
‘Maria, you are pregnant.’
‘I’m what?’
‘You’re pregnant.’
(Surprising music comes up and fades out)
Deborah got up from the bed and walked around a little.
‘I… I can’t believe it that he did this,’ Deborah said stunned. ‘He managed to get your pregnant? How?’
‘It’s actually quite simple. MacGyver is virile, he already has a son called Sam.’
‘That, I know.’
‘Now what?’
‘You remain here, now I’ve got something better to hurt his feelings.’
Deborah took a bandage of the first aid kit and started to heel Maria’s face wounds. It didn’t help much because the blood was already crusted. ‘Here, got a souvenir for you.’
‘What might that be?’ Maria wondered.
‘A belt for your pants.’
Weird souvenir if you ask me. Deborah got back to Maria and did her the belt on.
‘Why are you doing this? What good will killing him do?’
‘Satisfaction and revenge.’
Deborah took her handkerchief and tied it around and in Maria’s mouth then she left.
Back in the Phoenix-lab everything was ready to get set for the night scouting. Sam went to his father’s dormitory. He knocked on the door.
‘Dad?’
‘Come on in, Sam, the door is open.’
‘Are you okay, dad?’
‘No, but I’ll live. Is everything set?’
‘Almost everything.’
‘What do you mean almost everything?’
‘We just need you, dad.’
‘I’ll be right there, I just need to tie my shoes.’
MacGyver sat on the bed and started to tie his shoes. A silence went through the room.
‘It’s dark outside, dad,’ Sam said to break through the silence.
‘Is it?’ MacGyver asked surprisingly. ‘Well, I think that’s the idea son. You can’t go night scouting when it’s bright daylight.’
Sam sighed.
‘Dad, what is the matter with you? You’ve got such quick mood changes.’
‘I don’t know what the matter is with me, maybe I’ve got a midlife
crisis.’
‘Dad, I don’t know you like this. I’ve got the feeling that you are not my father anymore. I’m starting to believe that you didn’t love my mother.’
MacGyver’s brown eyes lit up of angry fire.
‘Don’t you ever dare to speak like that to me. I loved your mother like I love Maria.’ He shouted at his son.
‘I think you used her as hooker.’ Sam shouted back at his father.
‘What?’ MacGyver smashed the door closed. ‘Just who do you think you are, talking like that? R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Respect! Are you familiar with that word? I am your father and I deserve some respect.’
‘That’s right! Father’s do deserve respect but not the kinds you are right now.’
‘Why? Because I became cynical?’
‘That’s one reason.’
‘And what kind of father do you think I should be?’
‘The one I knew the day I met you. The father, who helped people in need, talked things in and out of people. The father that used his fresh optimistic mind.’
‘I’m still optimistic and my mind is still fresh.’
‘You may be right about your optimism, dad, but I have seriously my doubts about your fresh mind.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘I mean dad, anger in personal matters clouds the mind.’
‘I never had that before.’
‘Well, dad, there is for everything a first time, maybe this is for you your first time, you never know.’
‘You know nothing about that, son.’
‘Maybe you know nothing about that either, dad.’
MacGyver took his jacket and left the dormitory, Sam followed him.
‘Dad?! Dad!’
‘What, goddamn it?’
‘Just be careful, dad.’
‘I always am, Sam. If I wasn’t careful than I would have died a hundred times by now.’
‘Dad?’
‘What?!’
Sam realised it had no further sense talking to his father.
‘Forget it, dad,’ Sam said and walked away.
MacGyver went to the main room of the Phoenix-lab, when he got in everybody looked at him.
‘What are you all looking at?’
‘We heard you arguing with Sam,’ Pete said.
‘I’m changing the plans, Pete.’
‘What?’
‘I’m changing the plans, Pete. Rhome, Murphy and Sam comes with me to the compound, the rest stays here, like it or not, Pete.’
‘Where is Sam?’
‘He’s probably in his dormitory.’
‘Do you want me to talk to him?’ Nikki asked.
‘No, I don’t want you to talk to him. I’ll do it myself.’
‘Oho, that’ll help.’
‘It’ll help.’
‘MacGyver, just go with Rhome and Murphy, alright?’ Pete said.
‘I’m going alone.’
‘You can’t do that,’ Kiley said, ‘or I’ll hold you in contempt.’
‘On what charges?’
Kiley didn’t know.
‘Think before you say anything.’
‘MacGyver,’ Rhome said firmly, ‘you are not going without us.’
‘MacGyver, he’s right,’ Murphy said softly.
‘We’ll stay behind,’ Kiley said, ‘right?’
They agreed, MacGyver included. They were on their way to the exit when Willis stopped them.
‘Oh, wait a minute, MacGyver. I fixed your tracking device.’
‘Thanks, Willis.’
MacGyver, Rhome and Murphy went to the Jeep and got in.
MacGyver started the engine and used the tracking device for directions. The white dot was pointing to the west, so they drove west for a couple of miles. There was a silence all the way through until the walkie-talkie went off, it was Nikki calling them up.
‘MacGyver, do you read me, over? This is Nikki.’
‘Yeah, yeah, I read you,’ MacGyver said rolling his eyes.
‘Just checking.’
‘Next time, you can check my shorts for gods sakes,’ he said. ‘Here, you use the walkie-talkie,’ he said throwing the thing at Rhome.
‘Hey, man.’
‘Don’t you, hey man, me.’
The silence was terrifying in the car. MacGyver looked again at the device and saw he still had to move west but after a few minutes it changed it’s direction to the north. They drove north and afterwards a bit northeast. According the tracking device the compound was behind two big hills, so he stopped the car and got out.
‘What are we doing?’ Murphy wondered.
‘All right! The compound is behind those two hills according the tracking device, I think we should check it out.’
(Here the music comes up where MacGyver goes the armybase in the episode Obsessed)
And that they did, they ran up the hills and hold at the top of the last hill hiding behind a rock. MacGyver took a binoculars from his inside jacket pocket.
‘Let’s see. Mmmmm.’
He saw several army men walking around in and out of the compound.
‘Looks like a lot of guards,’ Murphy said.
‘That’s right. Okay, I think I’ve got an idea.’
‘Tell us,’ Rhome said.
‘Wait here!’
‘That’s it?’
‘Look it’s too dangerous to go down there with the three of us; the best thing for you to do is to back me up and cover me. If I’m not back within the hour… no let’s make that within the next 25 minutes, you gotta leave without me, the keys are in the car. Drive back to the compound and notify Kiley and all the rest of them.’
‘That’s why, we got the walkie-talkie,’ Murphy said.
‘So that means, that you are going to stay here if they catch me or saw you, right?’
‘What are you gonna do?’
‘I don’t know. I’ll make up something as soon as I go,’ MacGyver said and left down the hill.
(Here the music comes up when MacGyver goes the Von Leers castle in the episode Legend of the Holy Rose then fades away)
MacGyver got all the way down the hill and hid himself from the guards, when he saw the coast was clear, he ran to the entrance of the compound. He could see in the door window that the hallway was empty, safe for him. He looked left of him and right. Nobody. At least that’s what thought, from behind the crates near the door a soldier came along pointing his gun at MacGyver.
‘Okay, amigo. Turn around, slowly with your hands in the air.’
MacGyver sighed when he turned around.
‘You are this MacGyver compadré, aren’t you?’ the soldier laughed.
‘I could really use your outfit,’ MacGyver said, ‘but I assume you wouldn’t just give it to me, right?’
‘That’s right. I’m going to turn you in with general Zito and colonel Murdoc. They would be very pleased and there might be a reward in it for me.’
‘Like what then? A hundred thousand dollars? Two hundred thousand dollars perhaps? And what for? A human life? My good friend… I mean amigo, my life is worth a billion times more.’
The soldier laughed again.
‘I love American humour.’
MacGyver nodded.
‘I see. I am one as you may have noticed and I have my own humour. Actually it’s government humour since I work them.’
‘Oh, is that so? And what might that be?’
‘It’s a saying.’
‘What is it, then?’
‘Did you know that the hand is quicker than the eye?’
Before the soldier knew what happened, MacGyver struck him in the face with his right hand knocking his lights out.
‘That’s what it is.’
MacGyver looked around again, still nobody to be seen. He quickly changed his clothes for the army outfit, which would make it a lot easier for him to infiltrate in the compound.
On the hill Rhome and Murphy observed everything close by through the binoculars.
‘What the hell is he doing?’ Murphy asked.
‘He just punched someone’s lights out and took his outfit.’ Rhome replied.
The walkie-talkie came through.
‘This is Nikki, what’s going on there?’
‘MacGyver ran to the compound, I don’t know what he’s doing in there,’ Rhome answered the walkie-talkie.
‘Let me know something if something happens.’
‘Check.’
(Here the music comes up from Ghost Ship when he searches the ship)
Inside the compound it seemed that MacGyver’s plan was working. Now he was wandering around in the building, he had to be very careful not to make mistakes that could have heavy consequence as well as for him as for the hostages. He had to dodge the cameras and full rooms. It was already passed midnight so that could explain the so many empty hallways, with the exception of the night shifters, that passed by so every now and then. He opened a door and looked into another hallway, only this hallway had several other doors. He decided to check them out, but most of them were locked. He opened just one and that brought him to a new part of the compound. It was darker there, then in any other part of the compound. He was standing in front of a flight of stairs when he closed the door; he stood there in fully darkness.
‘Now what?’ He wondered.
(Here the music goes over from the sewers scene of Trail to Doomsday)
He went with his hands in his pockets to find a flashlight of some sort and luckily for him he indeed founded one in one of the pockets. It was a small flashlight but it gave enough light to see. He carefully went down the stairs. When he was all the way down the stairs he let his flashlight go around the room to see what there was to see. The room looked like a cellar with many doors in it, which were supposed to be dungeons, but were actually rooms or cells like in a asylum. MacGyver went to the back wall and saw on a plaque the word “asylum”.
‘I guess this is where they keep them hostage. This is where I am supposed to be; the asylum. It’s not that I’m mentally ill or anything. What the hell am I saying?’
Indeed MacGyver, what the hell are you saying?
He searched one of the doors which was surprisingly open, he got in and searched the room but there was nothing in there, just a skeleton in a cage hung up at the ceiling and another skeleton attached to the wall with cuffs. The place gave him the shivers. He left the room and went for the second door. He searched the door from the outside and saw a big D standing on it up front when he passed by it with his flashlight.
‘It’s a D. which probably stands for Deborah.’
Right, Mac. Right!
Anyway he looked into the window of the door and he saw his long-lost wife. Well… long lost is perhaps said a little harshly. Maria noticed him in the little light he kept in front of his face.
‘MacGyver?!’ she said through her stuffed up mouth but it sounded more like a humming of his name.
MacGyver searched the lock of the door and took his SAK to pick it. He was so busy that he didn’t noticed the voices that were coming closer. He couldn’t pick it open.
‘Damn it.’
But he kept trying until the lights that suddenly went on drew his attention.
‘Uh-oh.’
(The music becomes suspenseful)
He got up and looked at Maria again, doubt was to be read of his face. He threw her a kiss and left the door back to the exit of that room. When the door got open he smacked the door right back in the faces of those who were coming to the asylum part. It were two soldiers who took orders of Deborah and Dr. Zito to rape Maria and Sally but of course MacGyver couldn’t know that, and that’s how he eventually saved them of a horrible night without knowing. One soldier was knocked out the other one was knocked against the wall but still conscious. He looked up at MacGyver surprised by his tallness. The soldier got up but MacGyver punched his lights out and ran towards the door he came through before. That hallway was empty but the hallway after that wasn’t empty, there were three men coming at him. He decided to ran through the door and giving a shot at it. The person who ran through the door surprised the men. MacGyver was like a mad man, his arms stretched out knocking the first two men down by their throats. He ran into the third one smashing him against the wall, balding up his fist ramming it into the man’s stomach, a left one in the face and another right one coming from below, then he threw the man aside, surprised by his sudden strength. Another door went open where another man came out. MacGyver and the soldier looked at each other for a short time, suddenly MacGyver ran out on him and tackled him with fast speed and hard strength down, he finished it with a hard kick in the face. The soldier wasn’t knocked out but MacGyver didn’t pay any attention to him anymore and ran away. The soldier kept his hand on his face when he went for the alarm. The alarm was an intense mixture of a ringing, toet-toet-toet-toet-toet-toet and a weuh weuh weuh weuh weuh weuh sound. Four major headlights like the police siren lights started to circle around with an intense red colour.
‘What’s going on?’ Murphy asked.
‘I think he’s caught,’ Rhome replied.
‘I hope not. Should we fire our weapons?’ she asked grabbing after her trusty 9 mm.
‘No, not yet. That would blow our cover and drag attention. We’ll cover him from as soon he runs out of there.’
‘And what if he doesn’t come out?’
‘Then we’ll call for back-up or drive back to the Phoenix-lab.’
‘Come on MacGyver, get out of there.’
‘What’s happening out there,’ Nikki asked through out the walkie-talkie.
‘I think they caught him,’ Rhome replied.
‘Can you see him? Is he alright?’
‘I can’t see him, so I don’t know if he’s alright or not. We’ll let you know something as soon as possible.’
‘Copy that. Roger! 10-4.’
While MacGyver was running through the hallways he forgot all about the cameras and Deborah noticed him in the control room.
‘There he is. MacGyver is here.’
‘What, where?’ Murdoc demanded.
‘He’s in here somewhere.’
MacGyver ran through another camera.
‘There!’
‘I see.’
‘Where the hell is he going?’ Zito demanded furiously.
‘I think, he’s coming up this way, that’s why the alarm went off I guess.’
Soldiers were seen on the monitors.
‘We can close him in,’ Deborah said.
Murdoc and Deborah and few other soldiers ran to him.
‘Alive! Take him alive! I want him alive!’ Zito said.
MacGyver was trapped.
Well not quite yet but he was running into one.
He looked behind him and heard the men running at him, he looked in front of him and saw more men coming at him. They had him. He recognised Murdoc and Deborah but there was no time for that now. They were closing in on him, he saw a door in the wall leading into another hallway but it was closed. There was no time for him to pick the lock so he starts banging on it with his foot.
He kicks it but no reaction, another kick and another kick. With his fourth kick he got the door open. He putted the door on hold and let the men come closer to him. He let them come so close until Murdoc gave the signal to wait. (the music fades away here)
‘Well, well, MacGyver, long time no see,’ he said.
‘Not long enough. I thought you died after that you drove off that cliff.’
‘That’s right. You thought! That must have hurt, thinking. You also thought I died in that truck, falling off a mountain, electrocution and drowning, a grenade explosion and falling in a mineshaft.’
‘And you Deborah? I thought you died after falling of Whistler’s Cliff.’
‘Well perhaps you shouldn’t think, that can hurt for the ones without brains.’
‘I got more brains than you woman.’
‘But you didn’t had the brains to know that someone like you should never marry.’
‘Sorry, it was stronger then myself.’
‘You see MacGyver even if you don’t work for the Phoenix Foundation it still dangerous to love someone,’ Murdoc said.
‘Murdoc, you don’t work for the Foundation either and you still love someone.’
‘Says who?’
‘I wonder why you’ve kidnapped Penny Parker.’
‘Oh, her.’
‘Or do you just wanna use her as a lover or are you gonna victimise her to show HIT you’re still in the business?’
‘Well I’ve thought of that but I can’t kill her as long you are around.’
‘And that’s what this conspiracy is all about, right? Revenge.’
‘That’s right.’
‘Then I wonder why aren’t there anymore vengeful villains in your crew?’
‘Like who?’
‘Like Hakim and the Von Leer brothers.’
‘Hakim, the Egyptian whose bodyguard that threw you of the third floor parking lot of that museum?’ Deborah asked. ‘And Erich and Nikolaus Von Leer those treasure hunters who sells priceless artefacts on the black market?’
‘Yeah them. Hakim was shot by Nikolaus maybe he wore a bullet proof vest and maybe was Nikolaus alright after the boulder struck just like his brother Erich when he got the laser in his chest and was crushed by rocks. Murdoc was once crushed to by rocks and he was alright.’
‘Well, let’s say the we couldn’t tag alone then. Those people are really dead; they weren’t in our business either. They were thieves of priceless artefacts. We’re mercenaries and Zito is a just a psycho looking for revenge and you’re the reason of our partnership.’
‘I know the three of you would like the joy of killing me. But who’s gonna kill me then?’
‘All of us for equal satisfaction.’
‘And you trust each other?’
‘We’ve been working secretly together for the past years now, sorted things out in detail and if there was one rule that could not be violated by any of us was to trust each other no matter what happened and that three of us could kill you at once.’
‘Weird combination, such a conspiracy working together so well without distrust.’
‘MacGyver, if you are trying to break our spirit, well forget it then. It wouldn’t work.’
‘Oh, what do you think that should work?’
‘I don’t know and I don’t care. All I know for sure is that you are coming with us, alive and well.’
‘Alive and well? Sounds great.’
‘Sounds great indeed. Drop your weapons all.’
‘Sounds too great so I think I’ll better go.’
‘There’s no way for you to go; the only door in front of you is locked. So you better come with us because you have been a very, very, very, naughty, naughty boy. Naughty!’ Deborah said coming closer to him and smacked him with her hand on the back of his head. (Suspenseful music comes up here)
MacGyver smiled at her and unexpectedly he pushed her against the floor and run through door he previously kicked open. They tried to get after him but instead of that they ran in on each other.
‘Next time lock your doors better so that they can’t be kicked open.’
MacGyver laughed at them but it didn’t last long since he still wasn’t out of the compound. He ran up a flight of stairs that led right to the roof of the compound. Another soldier was waiting for him there aiming his gun at him. They looked at each other with this tough looking looks, waiting to hear the bullet come out and go in into MacGyver. He fired the gun but the gun jammed luckily for MacGyver it jammed because the soldier forgot to put the safety off.
‘You forgot to put the safety off,’ MacGyver laughed, ‘what kind of a soldier are you, man?’
‘A good one,’ the man answered in a Spanish accent while he took off the safety of his gun.
MacGyver looked at the gun that was pointing to him. He quickly grabbed the man’s arms and made him point the gun elsewhere, in this case to the air. A few gunshots were heard throughout the jungle.
‘I think he’s on the roof now,’ Murphy said.
‘I think so too,’ Rhome said taking the binoculars focusing on the place where the gunshots came from. ‘Yep, it’s definitely him. He’s fighting with a soldier.’
‘5 dollars on the soldier,’ Murphy said.’
’20 on MacGyver.’
‘Deal.’
On the roof the fight kept going, MacGyver blocked a punch and struck the man in the face, slapped the gun away and struck the man again with a left uppercut and a right hook. MacGyver grabbed the man and made him smack his head against the wall beside the door. He opened the door and threw him down of the stairs.
‘Gotcha, you ***,’ he said and locked the door from the outside.
’20 dollars, Murphy,’ Lt. Rhome laughed.
‘Damn you,’ she said paying the man.
‘Ha, ha. Look MacGyver is gesturing at his.’
Rhome was right; MacGyver was indeed waving at them from the roof. He was alright, but still in danger. He looked after something to work with.
‘There must be something, there is always something, damn it why can’t I find anything?’
He started to think on his own unique MacGyver-way, which means he looked around.
‘There’s not much to work with here.’
There was actually nothing to work with or at least not much but you already knew that right?
‘Damn it!’
Suddenly he knew it.
‘Those siren lights. Maybe I could um… no. However?’
MacGyver went to a siren light and examined it. He followed a wire that looked like a telephone wire. ‘Hmm.’
He looked to other three sirens, which had same telephone wires. He unplugs them, which made the siren go off. One red light was off and soon all the four sirens were off.
It became quiet again in and out of the compound but also in the jungle. He yanked at the wires but only more came out from under neat the sirens.
‘Djeezes, how much more wire can there be underneath them?’
He threw the four wires of the roof and climbed his way down. He smiled at himself but it was quickly gone as quickly it appeared because more soldiers were waiting for him in an ambush.
‘With how many guys are you people?’ he asked.
‘About 200 and counting in total,’ a soldier answered.
‘You know, you can’t kill me, because they need me alive and as long I’m alive I can escape, no matter how.’
‘Try to escape two hundred people.’
‘OK, adios. By the way there only five of you here, learn counting.’
MacGyver climbed back on the rope to the roof.
‘Follow him, after him,’ the soldier commanded.
When the soldiers went after him MacGyver was already upon the roof and the soldiers only halfway. MacGyver took his Swiss Army Knife again and cuts the wires. They all fall down on the ground.
MacGyver cuts the ropes in four and tied them all together to make one big piece of rope. He went to the back of the roof and threw the rope down there. He went down to rope of the back all the way down. He heard men coming closer.
‘Maybe he got away through the back door,’ he heard one of them say.
‘Let’s go check it out,’ another man said.
‘Back door?’ MacGyver whispered, he didn’t saw one, not immediately at least. It was a door camouflaged by the colours of the wall, you had to look good to find it and he found it. He ran back to the front door, now the coast was clear. He storms out of there, out of the compound again.
‘My clothes!’ He remembered and ran back to where he left his clothes. ‘Fair is fair.’
He ran back up the hill when he did his T-shirt back on over his stole army outfit together with his jeans jacket, he strapped his jeans over his waist no matter how ridicules it seemed.
‘There he is!’ Murphy said pointing her finger at him.
‘I think this means covering him up.’ Rhome said when he saw some soldiers on the roof; apparently they got the door open.
‘Grab your trusty weapon, Murphy, we’re gonna have some fun.’
Murphy and Rhome started shooting at the soldiers on the roof.
MacGyver run up the hill shouting at them.
‘Run. Go. Get to the jeep.’
The both cops fired another couple of rounds and ran away with MacGyver following on a short distance. On the top of the hill he turned around to see if anybody was following him. He didn’t saw anything until the front door was opened and ten soldiers showed up running and shooting after him.
MacGyver fastened his paces and quickly gained in on Rhome and Murphy. ‘Come on, hurry up,’ he said.
He looked after him again when he was on top of the last hill in front of his jeep. He saw that five man also had jeep coming right after him. ‘Whoa!’
They run back to the jeep and MacGyver started to engine and tried to ride back to the Phoenix-lab.
At the top speed of the jeep which was 75 miles an hour, he drove up a half big hill on that speed and that’s how the car got launched into the air landing on it’s wheels a few yards further, but it kept riding. MacGyver looked into his mirror and saw the other jeep coming over the hill.
‘Damn it, I can’t speed it up anymore.’
‘They’re coming closer,’ Murphy said. MacGyver looked in his side mirror and saw one of the men firing a rifle at them. Of course they missed because MacGyver made a sharp turn to his left.
‘You missed me,’ MacGyver taunted them.
‘Damn, I missed,’ the soldier said.
‘Oh really, you think?’ another soldier replied. ‘Time to get the big guns.’
‘You mean…’
‘That’s right. Get the rocket launcher.’
MacGyver looked in his side mirror again and saw the soldier aiming a rocket launcher at him.
‘Is he aiming a… a rocket launcher at us?’ MacGyver wondered.
‘It sure looks like one.’ Rhome confirmed.
‘That guy is really aiming a rocket launcher at us, the mother*bad word removed*er. Time to get out of here.’
MacGyver made a sharp turn to the right, just in time to dodge to rocket that was fired from the launcher, but he didn’t dodge it good enough. When MacGyver made the turn the rocket crashed right besides his tyres from the left, by the intense power of the explosion was the left side blown away from the Jeep which tipped over and made it flip over a couple of time until it stayed on his right side. MacGyver climbed out of the car and quickly helped Rhome and Murphy out of it. MacGyver looked back to see where the other jeep was but Rhome dragged his attention.
‘Run MacGyver, run!’ (Here we hear the music of Bitter Harvest of that scene)
They ran but Murphy got behind and she fell over a rock and stayed down.
‘Take the woman and MacGyver alive, kill the black lieutenant.’ one of the soldiers ordered.
MacGyver started to run faster and Rhome couldn’t hold it much longer either since he was few years older then MacGyver. MacGyver looked where Rhome was, who was a couple of yards behind him. MacGyver saw how one the soldiers grabbed a sniper rifle aiming at Lt. Rhome.
‘Rhome!!’ He screamed trying to safe Rhome but it was too late.
MacGyver’s scream distracted Rhome and before he knew, he fell a bullet piercing his skin. Hot lead went through his back.
‘Aaagh!!’
MacGyver ran back to see if he could help Rhome.
‘Rhome, oh god.’

Original date of story post: Feb 29 2004 10:06 AM