Hi everyone! Welcome at my last chapter of the story. We're now nine months further since MacGyver's tragic death in the South American jungle. But not to worry, just read the disclaimer at the end.

(We open at the view of a hospital with a soft tender music)
Chapter IX
Nine months later

The Memorial Hospital. Maria was having a baby. Sam stood right besides her holding one hand, Sally was holding the other. They were both wearing doctor uniforms.
‘And push. Push!’ the nurse ordered.
‘I am pushing,’ Maria screamed.
MacGyver was there too, although she wasn’t able to see him. No one was able to see him.
‘Come on, Maria,’ Sally encouraged her.
‘AAAAHH!!’
‘Do it for, dad.’
‘AAAAHH!! MacGyver!!!’
‘I’m here,’ he said but Maria couldn’t hear him.
‘Think of him, according to the Greek Mythology the dead can hear our thoughts,’ Sally said.
Maria closed her eyes and screamed while she thought of MacGyver.
She kept pushing, while Sam looked.
‘Whoa, this is getting bloody!’ He said while the blood and all came out of Maria. ‘Educational stuff!’
He felled his food from his breakfast coming back up.
‘Taking hearts out with Rambo knifes is ok for me but this is too much, for me to handle.’
‘Then, don’t look,’ Sally said.
‘But don’t you there to let go of my hand,’ Maria screamed.
Sam wasn’t feeling too well. He puked his mouth cover under and fell to his knees but didn’t let go of Maria’s hand.
‘Oh for crying out loud,’ Sally said. ‘Can somebody pick him up?’
‘Don’t you let go of me Sam.’
Sam didn’t let go of her; they just helped him while holding Maria’s hand. They took away his mouth cover and cleaned him up.
Sally was right what that thinking concerned, MacGyver heard of what she thought.
“I love you, MacGyver.”
‘I love you too, Maria.’
Then the kid popped out of her, I mean the baby popped out of her. Maria could’ve sworn she felled MacGyver’s presence. Weakly she fell backwards in the bed, sweating.
‘It’s a boy!’ the doctor said.
‘I’ve… I’ve got a baby brother,’ Sam cried and hugged Sally.
‘Apparently, you have.’
‘I’ve got another son,’ MacGyver said.
‘Congratulations, dad,’ Jack said from behind.
‘Jack, I’m gonna faint, will you please catch me?’
Before Jack could answer, MacGyver fainted. The nurse brought the baby in Maria’s arms. The baby was crying.
‘Oh, look at him,’ Maria said.
The baby became quiet when Maria had him in his arms.
‘How are you going to call him, what’s his name going to be?’ Sally asked. ‘He’s so cute.’
‘How about Sam? Sam’s not a bad name,’ Sam suggested.
They both chuckled. Maria smiled at them.
‘I’m glad I’ve got you two sweethearts, but I’m gonna call him after his father.’
‘MacGyver junior?’ Sam asked.
‘Oh, MacGyver, you gotta wake up, she’s going to call after you,’ Jack said.
‘What?’ MacGyver recovered from fainting. ‘MacGyver junior?’
‘Are you serious?’ Sally asked.
‘Well, actually, I’ve been thinking of this name, for quiet some time and I think this name would a beautiful name.
‘How then?’ Sam asked again.
‘I’m going to call him Stace Angus MacGyver.’
‘Oh, that such a beautiful name,’ Sally said. ‘I love the name already.’
‘Stace Angus MacGyver?’ MacGyver thought it was a beautiful name too and very original. He imagined himself introducing his son. ‘Everyone! I’ve got son called Stace Angus MacGyver. You can call him SAM or Stace or Angus or just simply MacGyver, like his father.’
‘That’s a great name!’ Jack said. ‘I wonder if he would ever have a friend like me.’
‘What’d you mean?’
‘You know a pilot friend.’
‘I hope not. Getting into trouble to get him out? No way.’
‘I was just kidding with ya.’ Jack Dalton laughed.
‘Very funny, Jack.’ (Slow sad music comes up)
Maria kept Stace Angus MacGyver close in her arms, she was going to raise him like nobody else ever did. A good education, sending him to the best schools only to make sure that he becomes what his father ever was. A Phoenix Foundation Field Agent! Helping people all around the world, just like his father.
Maria stayed a couple of days at the hospital with Sam and Sally by her side, keeping their eyes on her. Besides the pregnancy nothing never really bad happened the past nine months. Since MacGyver died, Sam stepped out of the Phoenix Foundation unofficially. He needed to get over his father’s death, which he hasn’t since he wasn’t buried yet. After the incident in the South-American jungle, Sam accepted one last assignment that nearly had cost his own life. He’s been in the hospital for three months after that final assignment, recovering himself. Afterwards he never set a foot again in the Phoenix-Foundation, occasionally he called Pete or Pete called him to find out what’s happening and how they were hanging in but besides that, peace had returned to their lives. There was just one thing that was missing from it. A very important part that couldn’t be replaced by anything in this world. MacGyver. His absence and the fact that he wasn’t alive anymore could be so menacing. He gave his life to safe his loved ones, but he had no choice. If Murdoc didn’t gave him the grenade, it probably didn’t happen. But MacGyver felled it was the only way to win from Murdoc by defeating him with his own weapon. Murdoc should have gotten killed by the fall, like he always does. Falling off or into something and screaming MacGyver’s name. Only this time he can’t return, because Sam burned his body into ashes, which was a good thing. Maria had photographs and pictures set in her hospital room of MacGyver, to keep him in her memory. The only things MacGyver left behind were pictures and some of his stuff. Maria could stay in his houseboat; Sam could do whatever he wanted. Maybe the only memory he had was MacGyver yellow pick-up truck. He was going to take good care of it like he has promised. (The music fades away here) A few days has passed now, since Stace’s birth and Maria got a few visitors in her room. Peter Thornton, Penny Parker and Mary-Ruth Giordano pays her a little visit, but also to see little Stace Angus MacGyver.
‘Oh, let me see him,’ Penny said.
Penny ran to the little bed where Stace was in.
‘Oh, my god, he’s so sweet. Can I pick him up?’
‘Sure!’ Sam said.
‘Just look at him,’ she said. That’s so cute.’
‘All baby’s are,’ Maria said.
Mary-Ruth guided Pete to a seat and then took over the baby.
‘You’re right Penny, let me have him.’
‘Sure, take over.’
Penny puts the child in Mary-Ruth’s arm.
‘It’s like I’m keeping Tommy back in my arms when he was a baby,’ Mary-Ruth laughed.
‘Yeah. That’s the beauty of having kids, you can keep them in your arms as long as you like,’ Sally said.
‘You’re not talking about us getting children, do you, honey?’ Sam wondered.
‘Oh… well…’
‘Well what?’
‘I’m just kidding with ya, there’s still plenty of time.’
‘Good!’
The child yawned in Mary-Ruth’s face.
‘Oh, he yawned at me.’
‘Then it’s time for him to go to bed,’ Maria said.
‘That’s right, sweetheart, time for you to go to bed,’ Mary-Ruth said to the baby as she puts him in his bed.
‘There, there, now!’
Mary-Ruth took a seat next to Penny Parker.
‘I think I’ve got my two babysitters,’ Maria said.
Mary-Ruth and Penny exchanged a smile and agreed for the job.
‘We’ll do it, just call us whenever you need us,’ Penny said.
‘And you can count on me too!’ Pete said.
‘And on us too!’ Sam said.
Maria smiled and then the mood shifted thanks to Sam.
‘Hey, I don’t want to ruin the mood, but I think we should discuss my father’s funeral,’ Sam said.
‘Oh, Sam…’ Sally said a bit harshly. ‘Don’t ruin the mood, now okay?’
‘What? I’m right, right?’ Sam said.
‘Yes, you’re right, Sam,’ Maria said. ‘I think it’s indeed time to discuss your fathers funeral. Certainly after a full nine months.’
‘I can ask the Phoenix-board to arrange a few things if you like,’ Pete said.
‘That would be nice, Pete. I want a large funeral, like our wedding. Everybody should be there. The people that he worked with, people he saved during all his assignments and of course, you guys.’
‘A coffee table, perhaps?’
‘I don’t know. I don’t think so. I don’t feel like for one, anyway, do you?’
‘I don’t want one either,’ Sam said. ‘I think the best thing for us to do is to held a ceremony and all that but a coffee table… no way.’
‘The Phoenix-Foundation will pay for it all,’ Pete said.
‘That’s good, you know, but… What can you do on a coffee table?’ Maria asked.
‘Bringing back memories?’ Sam said.
‘We can do that at home too. So it’s better for us and for everyone else. So I expect you all at my place. I mean at MacGyver’s place, the houseboat.’
‘That can be arranged,’ Sam said.
‘What about the coffin?’ Pete asked.
‘Black with purple on the inside.’
‘That’s macabre.’
‘It’s what he always wanted.’
‘So, we’ve got a big funeral, no coffee table and black coffin with purple on the inside, is that going to be it?’ Pete asked.
‘Yeah, I think so.’
‘Where will the funeral take place?’
‘In the same church where our wedding took place.’
‘OK, I’m sure Pat Lafferty, would wanna do the ceremony for us. So are we through here?’
‘I think so.’
‘When can you go home?’ Penny asked.
‘Within three days.’
‘We’ll help you pack, when the time comes,’ Mary-Ruth said.
Three days later, Maria left the hospital, with a little help from Sam, Sally, Penny and Mary-Ruth. She has been laying the hospital for a week. Sam brought her home along with the girls. When they came home, Maria was pleasantly surprised that Sam made a little cradle and a rocking chair for her and the baby.
‘You made that?’ Maria asked.
‘Yeah, in my father’s style.’
‘I’m very pleased, Sam, you did a job well done.’
‘Thanks, Maria.’
She placed the baby in the cradle, and then she tried out the rocking chair.
‘Very good, Sam, well done.’
Sam smiled.
‘Look Sam there is something, I wanted to talk to you about something.’
‘What is it?’
‘Can you keep a ceremonial speech at your fathers funeral?’
‘What?’
‘You know, saying something about your father.’
‘I don’t know.’
‘It would be really nice, Sam,’ Penny said. ‘You can tell the people who never really knew MacGyver, how he was.’
‘That’s true,’ Mary-Ruth said.
‘And I can help you with it,’ Sally said.
‘Well, if that pleases you, I would be happy to do it.’
‘OK, swell, fine.’
‘When do you want it?’
‘On the day of the funeral. I’m still waiting for Pete’s call.’
Sam nodded, and then the phone rang.
‘At MacGyver’s place,’ Maria answered in the phone.
‘Maria? Is that you?’ Pete asked on the other side of the line.
‘Yes, Peter, it’s me. I’m back from the hospital.’
‘It’s great to hear that. Is the baby alright?’
‘He’s fine, he’s asleep.’
‘Great, to hear it. I just wanted to let you know that everything’s fixed for MacGyver’s funeral.’
‘When will it take place?’
‘Next Thursday at nine o’clock in Father Lafferty’s church. All I want is for you to come over to take his body to the mortuary. Ask Sam to come with you, if he wants to see his father again on the outside of a coffin.’
‘Yes, bye Pete. I’ll be there within in the hour,’ she said and then puts the phone down.
‘Who was it? Was it, Pete?’ Sam asked.
‘Yeah. We gotta bring MacGyver’s body to the mortuary. He asked if you could come to, if you ever want to see your father again outside of the coffin.’
‘You got it.’
‘Sam and I will be leaving soon to the Phoenix-Foundation, can the three of you watch the baby.’
‘Sure!’ Penny, Mary-Ruth and Sally said in unison.
(Music comes up here and fades away)
With Sam’s yellow pick-up truck, Sam and Maria went to the Phoenix Foundation. They parked the car outside and got inside of the Phoenix-Foundation, they went to Pete’s office.
‘We’re here,’ Sam said.
‘Good, follow me to the laboratory’s below,’ Pete said.
Maria noticed this big picture hanging at Pete’s empty wall in his office. It was a big picture of MacGyver on it, smiling.
‘You’ve got a picture of MacGyver hanging in your office?’ Maria asked.
‘Yeah! As a remembrance to him. No one may ever forget about him, he was the best man the Phoenix-Foundation has ever had and he was my best friend I ever had.’
‘And the best father I had. I’ve got to be so damn proud on him,’ Sam almost cried.
‘You should be, Sam. You have all right to be proud of him.’
‘I am, Pete.’
‘Let’s go get his body to bring him to the mortuary,’ Pete said.
Sam guide Pete and Maria to the elevator, which brought them to the laboratories. They wandered through the hallways of that part of the Phoenix-Foundation until they got at the closed section of the hallway.
‘This is it,’ Pete said. ‘We kept his body in the coolers right here at this closed section of this floor, for nine months now. Actually, we froze him in to keep the body fresh.’
‘I understand that, Pete. Can we go in?’ Maria asked impatient.
‘I’ll ask it.’
Pete searched with his hand to the intercom button.
‘Larry? Mrs. MacGyver and Mr. Malloy are here to pick up MacGyver.’
‘OK.’
Larry opened the door from the other side to let the people in.
‘Mrs. MacGyver my condolences,’ Larry said.
‘Thank you.’
‘To you too Mr. Malloy. I always looked up to your father.’
Sam just nodded and smiled vaguely.
‘Thanks. We’re here to bring him to the mortuary.’
‘I know that, sir.’
‘So, where is he?’
‘He’s in cooler three. Follow me.’
Larry opened cooler three and MacGyver’s body came out of it. Maria started to cry and Sam covered his with his hand, wiping his tears away. The body still looked good, there were no signs of decomposing. It was just like he was a sleep for nine months.
‘Maria, are you ok?’
‘Oh, Sam…’ Maria cried and grabbed Sam for a hug.
‘I’m going to call the coroner to bring him to the mortuary,’ Pete said silently.
Maria nodded.
‘What about Jack?’ Sam asked.
‘We’ll take care of Jack, too,’ Pete said.
Sam nodded.
It took the coroner about fifteen minutes to get at the Phoenix-Foundation to pick the bodies up. Sam and Maria watched how MacGyver and Jack Dalton got set in the coroners van.
‘Does anybody care for a ride?’ one of the coroners said.
‘Oh, I don’t know. Sam perhaps?’ Maria asked.
‘You go, Maria, I’ll follow with the car.’
Sam helped Maria to get in the van, once inside; she takes place besides MacGyver’s body. She takes his hand and holds it. Sam nodded at her and closed the backdoors of the van. Sam followed the van with his car. It was painful. There was no music on and his mind was with his father. He remembered all the things he’s been through with his father while driving. They’ve known each other only for three years. Why’d they had to meet so late? Sam was already 19 when they had met each other. They’ve met even by accident. Sam and MacGyver where just at the same place at the same time doing their jobs. He learned so much of his father about the use of guns, drugs and alcohol. He remembered the moment when he and his father discussed the issue about using guns. His first father to son lecture in his life.
(Flashback scene of the episode The Stringer)
‘What are you doing?’ his father asked.
‘I’m going after Chung,’ Sam said loading a gun.
‘Not with that gun.’
‘Why not? The law can’t touch him.’
‘Let we understand something then. You are going out there to take a human life?’
‘I want justice.’
‘So what? You’re the judge, jury and executioner?’
‘He was.’
‘All right, hold it right there. He was like that, we’re not. You have got to understand that killing has got to stop. It has got to stop. If you wanna go after Chung, that’s fine, but we’ll do it my way.’
‘Well, well. My first father to son lecture.’
MacGyver cooled down a little.
‘Yeah, well, how was it?’
‘Hard to take, but not bad. Not to bad at all.’
That was something he never forgot, afterwards, he learned much more of his father about improvising. Making things out of nothing. Well usually the things are already there, he just founded different ways to use it. MacGyver and Sam were just like two halves of the same person. There was just one thing he never really understood. His mind couldn’t get around it how his father knew about his middle name. Sam’s middle name is also Angus. How his father knew that was just a riddle to him. His father said that he knew that Kate thought it was a beautiful name. Well, maybe in the middle ages but not in the 20th century, no way.
In the coroners van Maria’s mind was also with MacGyver. She met him in East Germany, shortly after the wall went down. He was supposed to get her out of there to reunite her with her grandfather. He founded her in an orphanage in Leipzig.
(Flashback scene from the episode The Wall)
MacGyver arrived at the orphanage where he found Maria playing blind man or in this case woman with a group of children. A sudden silent drew her attention from the children.
‘Kinder? Kinder, was ist?’
She takes of her blindfold, and then she saw MacGyver.
‘Sorry, to interrupt,’ he said apologising.
‘Yes, what is it, you wish?’ she asked politely.
‘Your grandfather has sent me to get you back to the States. He wants to see you again.’
Maria told the children to go inside.
‘And why didn’t he came?’
‘Well, his doctors say he better can’t take any trips.’
‘Well, you can tell my grandfather that to me, he’s dead.’
Maria walked away.
‘Maria, things were different back then.’
‘Mr. MacGyver, do you know how it is for an eight year old to be left behind at the hands of the Stasi-agents, and to see how your father gets shot that night at the border?’
‘Your grandfather had no choice to leave you behind and since the wall is down there is nothing that can forbid you to be reunited with him.’
‘Mr. MacGyver, I’m sorry. I do not wish to see him again.’
‘Okay, then. All right, but if you change your mind, you can call me at my hotel. This is where I stay in.’
MacGyver gave her a note with the address from the hotel on, and then he left.
She was glad; she went after him the next day. But what he didn’t know was that she was working for the Stasi-agents, to find her grandfathers gold that he was keeping in the toy soldiers of his toy store. She only took one misstep. When one of the henchmen assaulted and blamed her that the plan failed, she slugged him really hard in his throat and threw him down of a flight of stairs. Enough hate to kill? Something was indeed suspicious about this woman. When a wrong computer result definitely said she wasn’t the girl she said she was MacGyver didn’t believe her anymore until she proved otherwise, thanks to her doll Birgit and her dog Valdi. Later on she wanted MacGyver all for herself. It was a messy relationship, especially during the first weeks. When it came to commitment, MacGyver always snapped, then she was sent to Brazil, but their love was so strong that he had to go after her. So after his assignment in Turkey in search of the Eye of Osiris, he took a plane to Brazil and brought her back. But still then it was jumpy. After many fights and Sam’s show up they finally decided to get married. But a honeymoon to the South-American jungle wasn’t exactly what they had in mind. Anyway, MacGyver is dead now and there’s absolutely nothing that can change that. Maria had nightmares of what happened that day in the jungle. She keeps seeing those moments time and time again in front of her eyes. Murdoc pushing MacGyver of the roof, both men fell screaming each other’s name on the way down. The horrible sound of the glass roof shattering, the explosions that follows. In her mind she saw the way how MacGyver died with the lifeless look in his eyes when he falls back against the collapsed entrance, blood on his face… It was just terrible for her, to see her first and only husband like this. After all that has happened she could never possibly fell in love again with someone else. Now she has the same curse resting on her like MacGyver had. Love is a big no-no, now. Getting too close with someone means that that person or herself can die. If you work for the Phoenix-Foundation, you have your enemies to look out for. MacGyver had Murdoc for instance. Maybe unless you work on a less violent department, but still each department, every job in the entire world has a dark side, especially a job at the Phoenix Foundation where your life is at stake. The bright side of it is that if you like adventures this is a job for you and you can help to change the world little by little.
They drove on for a while until they arrived at the mortuary. Once there, they took the bodies out of the van and brought them in the mortuary. Maria and Sam followed them going inside. The bodies got cleaned up and prepared to go to their final resting places from as soon the funeral is finished. The funeral takes place in three days.
‘I’m going to ask you to leave now,’ a worker in the mortuary said.
‘Can’t we stay?’ Maria asked.
‘No, I’m sorry, Mrs. MacGyver, that’s impossible. We have to finish our work with the bodies.’
‘But…’
‘Maria, if he says we can’t stay…’
‘I just wanna see him one last time. His coffin will be closed on the funeral, remember?’
‘You got a point. Can you give us five minutes or so?’
‘Five? I want twenty minutes.’
‘Sure go ahead,’ the man said.
(Sad music comes up again)
Maria and Sam sat on either side of MacGyver’s body. Maria was crying and Sam had tears running down of his face.
‘Djeez, dad.’
‘Your father was an intelligent man.’
‘I know.’
‘Wherever he was needed, he was there unless something came up.’
‘I know that too. He shouldn’t have gotten killed.’
‘I don’t really think he was killed.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘You remember the last explosion?’
‘Yeah, well, I think MacGyver caused that one.’
‘You don’t know that.’
‘I know but since he died, I’ve got this images going through my head of how he died.’
‘How then?’
‘They fell of the roof, through the shack, an explosion followed. Then it became silent for a short while and another followed. I think Murdoc had another weapon.’
‘A grenade, perhaps?’
‘Maybe.’
‘When I went in there Murdoc was dead but he was laying much further away then where dad was laying.’
Maria nodded.
‘I think I figured it out. They both survived the fall and the first explosion, Murdoc threw the grenade at dad and dad threw it back, that caused the last explosion and that explains why Murdoc was laying much further then dad.’
Maria nodded again.
‘And since there was no time or no way out for dad, the explosion costs him the last of energy. He got blown away against the collapsed entrance and died there.’
‘Yeah, that’s the way how I saw it, in my mind.’
‘He sacrificed his life to save ours.’
‘Yeah!’
‘But still, it’s a loss.’
‘A loss that shouldn’t have happened to us.’
‘Nobody deserves to die, except for the ones who did this us. There I go again.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘If there is something I have learned of my father, that I’ll never forget is our conversation about taking lives.’
‘A good lesson but not very well taught.’
‘Oh, he taught me very well, I just forgot and because of that two people are dead now. If that man just haven’t messed with my girlfriend…’
‘I’m sure your father forgives you.’
‘I hope so. Sorry dad.’
Sam thought his apology and his father heard it accepting the apology.
‘I’ll think he accepts your apology, Sam.’
‘I think so too Maria.’
Maria and Sam hugged each other.
‘I’m glad you’re my stepmother, Maria.’
‘Are we becoming sentimental?’
‘Yeah!’
Maria smiled at Sam when the man from the mortuary came back in.
‘Your twenty minutes are up.’
‘No, they’re not, we still have 13 minutes,’ Maria said.
‘Maria, I think it’s best, we go home now. We had at least got our chance to say goodbye to him. Besides my father will always be with us, here in our minds and in our hearts.’
Maria agreed.
‘Let’s go then.’
Sam led Maria to door, where they shared a final look at MacGyver.
‘I love you, MacGyver,’ Maria whispered that only Sam could hear her.
‘Yeah, I love you too, dad.’
(The music fades away here)
Sam and Maria turned around and went to the car. Sam started the engine and both of them went home.
Thursday. It was day of MacGyver’s funeral. Sam and Sally stayed the night at the houseboat. They were all dressed in black mourning outfits. Maria came down the stairs while Sam and Sally where waiting for her downstairs. Sam was holding MacGyver’s hockey shirt, while drinking of MacGyver’s black mug. Sally was holding on Sam’s shoulders.
‘You miss him, don’t you?’
‘Yeah, of course, I miss him.’
‘I’m ready,’ Maria said taking Stace in her arms.
‘Let’s go then.’
‘Honey, do you want me to drive?’ Sally said.
‘No, I’ll drive, but let’s take the blue Nomad, there’s not enough room in the pick-up.’
They agreed and went to the Marina’s parking lot. They took the car and drove to the church. There were many people from the Phoenix-Foundation, the DXS and Western Tech. Everybody he once helped in his lifetime were there. Penny Parker and Mary-Ruth were there too with Pete and Lt. Kate Murphy. The church was full when everybody took their seats and the ceremony started. Priest Lafferty did everything how it was supposed to go on a funeral. After a ceremony that lasted two long hours it was time to take the coffins to the cemetery. The cemetery wasn’t too far from the church. (Music from the funeral from Trail to Doomsday comes up here) Sam took one side of his father’s coffin and some other of his father’s ex co-workers took the coffin with him. Four others took Jack Dalton’s coffin and carried it after MacGyver’s. Once outside everybody opened there umbrellas for the rain, except the ones who are carrying the coffins. It was pretty damn cold outside. The cemetery was not so far behind the church. The priest walked upfront reading his stuff from his bible. Most of the women and some of the men were crying including Sam and Maria. When everyone arrived on MacGyver’s and Jack Dalton’s resting places the people who carried the coffins placed them on the ground. Sam realized that this were his last minutes with his father, he was about the collapse but tried to regain his senses. He wiped off his tears and regained his senses, and then he stood in front of the coffin with his hands over each other.
‘Ashes to ashes, dust to dust…’ the priest said and continued. Then he made a cross sign over both coffins.
‘Before concluding our services, is there anyone how has to say something about these two brave men?’ the priest asked.
Nobody responded except Sam.
‘I would like something to say,’ Sam said.
‘Then come here, my son and say what you have to say.’
The priest made room for Sam. Sam stood now in front of everybody else.
‘Um… what can I say? My father was a remarkable man during his time. He was always there when somebody needed him. The man who needed him most of the time to get him out of trouble was Jack Dalton, the man in the coffin next to him. His get-quick-rich schemes always worked counterproductive. Jack gets him in, my father gets him out. That was his plan, working like a team. I can’t say much else about Jack Dalton. What I just said was how he was, there’s not much else to it, but my father was someone different. My father was the smartest man I have ever met. He always had things figured out, was almost always right. Nobody could’ve caught him and if he got caught, he always founded a quick way to escape. That was the way how my father was. He always knew how to get out of trouble, with his SAK and his duct tape and occasionally a match. He helped so many people in the entire world. The world became a safer place because of my dad. My father, Maria’s husband is gone. So I think it’s up to us to continue his work. My father died and went thanksgiving. I wrote something down on a piece of paper for my new brother. I wrote it in the name of my father, it was also something he once told me and it goes like this: “Walk in love, walk in service and you will walk in honour, my beloved son. Angus.” I’m going to miss you, dad. I love you.’
(The music fades away here)
Sam was finished with his speech; a silence went through the audience. Slowly a short applause came to existence. Three more men came upfront with bagpipes and starts playing amazing grace when both coffins were lowered in their graves.
‘This concludes our service,’ the priest said.
People spread out and went back home. Sam, Sally, Maria, Kate Murphy, Penny Parker and Mary-Ruth Giordano went back to the houseboat. Sam opened the door and let everybody else go in first, he followed. Maria lays Stace back in his cradle while everybody took a seat. Maria also sat down when it became silent.
‘So, it happened,’ Sam finally said. ‘My father is buried and I’m an orphan, now. My mother was shot and my father was blown away. Without my new baby brother, my whole family would have be gone.’
‘They will always be in our hearts,’ Sally said.
‘Such a tragedy.’
‘The cemetery is the only place, were we can be with him, now,’ Maria said sombrely.
‘I know.’
‘Don’t worry, Maria, nobody will ever forget him,’ Mary-Ruth said.
‘Yeah, I hope so. He was special to all of us.’
‘I know what you mean,’ Penny said.
‘What’s that?’
‘MacGyver was special to me, because of the so many times, he helped me.’
‘Go on,’ Sam said.
‘On an airport in Bulgaria, I putted jewellery in his bag and they caught us, we escaped through the conveyor belt. After he returned from Russia with a political prisoner, I witnessed a man being tortured to death.’
‘And you brought him into trouble?’ Murphy said.
‘Yeah, but he said that the trouble usually finds me and that I drag him in it unintentional. It’s just because I care about many things.’
‘Which is not a bad thing,’ Sam said.
‘There is also one thing I learned from MacGyver.’
‘And that is?’ Mary-Ruth asked him.
‘There is no such thing as ghosts.’
(Flashback scene of the episode The Secret of Parker House)
‘Oh the diary!’ Penny said.
‘What diary?’
‘This diary, I found it hidden in my aunt Betty’s music box. By the way are you good in fixing music boxes?’
‘A penny for your thoughts?’
‘My name is on it. This is getting really weird.’
‘It is only a book, Penny.’
‘No, it’s not just a book; it’s this whole house. Haven’t you noticed how it’s closing on you? Like you’re being watched all the time.’
‘Thinking like that will drive you absolutely nuts. Now repeat after me: there’s no such a things as ghosts. There’s no such things as ghosts. Come on. There’s…’
‘There’s no such thing as ghosts. There’s no such thing as ghosts.’
‘My father was good at teaching things.’
‘Yeah, I never forgot that lesson,’ Penny said.
‘MacGyver once helped me and my crew with a drug bust,’ Murphy said.
‘What when wrong?’ Maria asked.
‘Well, nothing actually, it was one of those close calls. But MacGyver’s new technology costs us 32 seconds and I insisted to get my tank back.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Deadly Dreams, suspenseful music comes up)
When they had a clearance to do their bust, MacGyver and detective Sweeney went to action.
‘It’s all yours, MacGyver.’
MacGyver placed his four charges at drug house door.
‘All set!’
‘Go!’
MacGyver pushed the ignition button the blow the door out. Unfortunately it was ineffective. The third charge didn’t ignite.
‘This is the police. We have reason to believe that narcotics are being sold. Open the door!’ Sweeny said. ‘Number three still has to go, come on.’
‘Nothing.’
‘Now what?’
‘Muscle.’
‘I got that.’
MacGyver and Sweeney placed the charges away while Cooper another cop ran towards them with a beam to smash in the door.
‘Come on, get it down,’ she yelled and smashed in the door. ‘Alright, one of them is going to the joint.’
‘Stop him!’ Sweeny said.
‘I’m trying, he’s going to flush the drugs through the toilet.’
Sweeny nudged another drugs dealer down.
‘I have twelve kids, mister and I’m going home tonight.’
‘You okay?’ MacGyver asked.
‘I’m alright.’
‘Open up,’ Cooper screamed.
MacGyver went over to Cooper to help her.
‘Open up. Come on open up or I’ll bust it. Open up now or I’ll blow my way in.’
‘Stand back,’ MacGyver said and kicked the door open just on the moment the dealer flushed the drugs through the toilet. The drug dealer tried to hit MacGyver but he ducks, another blow but MacGyver ducks again and grabbed the dealer from behind.
‘Hold it! Turn around, in position,’ Cooper said.
The drug dealer gave himself up and Cooper arrested her.
‘It’s too late!’ MacGyver said when he looked in the toilet.
‘Not to worry,’ a voice said from underneath the toilet. ‘Give me a hand here.’
‘What?’
‘Give me a hand. Move the toilet.’
MacGyver moved the toilet, another cop was underneath it.
‘Murphy had it coming,’ he said smiling.
‘I’ll say!’ Cooper said impressed. ‘Perfect casting too. Where is Murphy.’
‘Cooper, behind you. Suspect over to the kitchen,’ Sweeney said.
A suspect was running over to the kitchen, trying to get rid of the drugs through the waste disposal.
‘Hold it,’ Murphy said. ‘Go down, Tyrone. I said down.’
The man went down and Murphy fired a couple of bullets into the waste disposal.
‘Way to go Murphy!’ Cooper said.
‘What happened here, lieutenant,’ the captain asked when he came in with Pete.
‘MacGyver’s technology just costs 32 seconds,’ she said at a blaming tone. ‘I want my tank back.’
‘Interesting,’ Mary-Ruth said.
‘Well, afterwards he saved me from a human sacrifice with 32 seconds left.’
‘He once saved my son from my husband in Canada after my son was kidnapped.
(Flashback scene of the episode The Battle of Tommy Giordano music from that scene comes up)
‘Where is he?’ Mary-Ruth ask referring to her son.
‘There he is,’ MacGyver said.
Two men sneaked up to Tommy and suddenly one of the men grabbed but of course MacGyver saw that.
‘Hey!’
‘Wait! Stop, that’s my boy! Tommy!’
MacGyver immediately ran after them. Both men ran away with Tommy through the backdoor. There was a car waiting for them there with Tommy’s dad sitting in it. Tommy’s dad came out.
‘Surprise!’
‘Dad!’
Tommy’s dad took Tommy into the car. When he saw MacGyver coming he went into the car also and took off. MacGyver ran outside but a man grabbed him from behind. MacGyver slugged him, when he was up to take onto the other one, he got a blow in his face against his nose and another blow in his stomach. The man grabbed him and smashed him against the garage door. MacGyver went down, keeping his hand against his face. Now Mary-Ruth ran outside screaming for Tommy.
‘Tommy! Tommy!’
MacGyver came to her and holds her, Mary-Ruth cried against his chest when they both saw that the car and the boy were gone. (Music fades away)
‘They took Tommy to a ranch in Canada. MacGyver and I went after them where he succeeded to get him back.’
‘He always succeeded,’ Maria said.
‘That runs in our family,’ Sam said.
‘So, what’s going to happen now?’ Sally asked.
‘I think there is much we can do,’ Maria said. ‘MacGyver is dead and now he is buried, it’s like we closed a chapter of our lives. No matter how painful it is when we try not to.’
‘It’s over, isn’t it?’ Sally asked.
‘Yeah, it’s over, for good,’ Sam said.
It became late in the afternoon when Penny Parker, Kate Murphy and Mary-Ruth Giordano went home. It was a depressing day for all of them. MacGyver is dead, how would you feel?
‘Sam, I wanna go to my place to pick up a few things, you know.’
‘Sure, I’ll give you ride.’
Sam notified Maria about Sally for picking up a few of her things, at her place. Maria said it was no problem. It wouldn’t take too long. Sam and Sally went outside to the yellow pick-up truck and took off. While driving they had no clue of what terrible fate was waiting for them. They drove around a street corner where a long piece of a straight street followed. Fields on both sides of the street. The street was as good as empty. Sam was just driving the car when suddenly the loading platform at the back of the car blew up . The back flew up through the air making the car tumble. The car rolled over a couple of times. Sam and Sally screamed inside the car. The car kept rolling over and crashed against an electric pole. The pole fell on the car, you get hear the electricity crackle. Another explosion followed. Sam and Sally got fried now. The electricity went down all over town. When it became dark outside Maria started to get worried. It’s dark outside; Sam and Sally aren’t back yet. It wouldn’t take long they said and the electricity fell out. Something was definitely wrong. (Creepy music comes up) Suddenly someone knocked on the door. Maria opened door. A cop was standing in front of her.
‘Maria MacGyver?’ he asked.
‘Yes.’
‘Stepmother of Sean A. Malloy?’
‘What happened?’
‘I’m sorry to tell you this, but there’s been an accident. The car crashed against an electricity pole. That’s why there’s no electricity in town.’
‘Are they both alright?’
‘I’m sorry, they’re dead.’
‘Thank you.’
‘G’night, ma’am.’
(The music becomes sad)
On the day MacGyver was buried, his son and his almost daughter in-law crashed with the yellow pick-up truck against an electricity pole causing the lights go off in the whole town.
‘It never stops, Stace. Damn it, it never stops!’ she yelled out loud. The baby started to cry in his cradle. Maria came to the cradle and took him out of it. She comforted the baby.
‘It’s okay, Stace. It’s not your fault. But the fact precious ones keeps dying works on my nerves. First your father now your brother, your almost sister in-law. It’s depressing, now it’s just us. We only have each other, now, baby.’
The next morning she notified Pete throughout the phone. He was devastated about the news. They agreed to meet each other at Pete’s office along with Mary-Ruth and Kate Murphy.
‘What? How in the hell did that happen?’ Pete asked.
‘They were just going to get some stuff at Sally’s place and they never came back,’ Maria said holding the baby on her arm.
‘We’re investigating that matter, Maria,’ Kate Murphy said.
‘It’s horrible,’ Mary-Ruth said. ‘Just horrible. First MacGyver and now Sam and Sally. They were such a cute couple.’
‘I just can’t believe this is happening,’ Maria said.
‘Maria, everything will be alright,’ Pete said.
‘That’s what MacGyver use to say. It’s not all right. It’s not been alright since the day MacGyver died.’
Somebody knocked on the door.
‘Come in,’ Pete said.
A cop came in. He was Sgt. Blake’s replacement.
‘Excuse me, Lt. Murphy?’
‘Yes?’
‘I’ve got the rapport finished, but there is something, you should look at. It might interest you, in case of the Malloy investigation.’
‘Let me see it.’
Murphy reads through the file. Her eyes became wider of what she has found out.
‘Murphy, what is it?’ Maria asked.
‘Sam’s car crash wasn’t an accident.’
‘What?’ Pete asked.
‘They were murdered.’
‘Oh, my god,’ Mary-Ruth said.
‘But… how?’ Maria was confused.
‘In Sam’s car wreck, pieces of a bomb were discovered while they were searching it.’
‘Who would wanna kill Sam and Sally with no reason?’ Mary-Ruth asked.
‘I was thinking of Murdoc but that can’t be,’ Pete said.
‘No, there is no way to that possibility. Sam cremated him,’ Murphy said. ‘It couldn’t have been Zito either because Sam killed him and I shot Deborah and Nikki. I saw them die.’
‘Well, I saw Murdoc many times too and he always came back.’
‘I’m going to check it out,’ Murphy said and left with the cop.
‘Maria, I think it’s best for you to go home now. There’s nothing you can’t do here. Go home and do whatever widow does. Mourn,’ Pete said.
‘I’ll give you a lift, if you want to,’ Mary-Ruth suggested.
‘I’ll be fine, Mary-Ruth, thanks.’
‘Suit yourself then. I’ll come later to pay Stace a little visit, okay?’
‘Sure.’
From then on it looked like everybody was parting other ways. Mary-Ruth returned to her lab, Pete stayed in his office and Maria went back home. Well not really at home, she went to the store to get a few things for tonight. She turned on the radio.
‘And now time for the local news,’ the voice on the radio said. ‘It appears that recently one of the best agents of the Phoenix-Foundation has been buried after been frozen in for nine months.’
Maria changed the radio channel.
‘Latest news says that the Department of External Services, better known as the DXS has been blown up by terrorists. We’ll try to get more on that as soon as possible.’
‘Oh, my god. What the hell is going on?’ Maria wondered. She took the phone from in the car and called Pete.
‘Hello?’
‘Pete?’
‘Yeah!?’
‘Have you seen or heard the news?’
‘No, why?’
‘I just heard it on the radio. They said the DXS has been blown up by terrorists.’
‘What?!’
‘There is not much to it, Pete. They just said that DXS has been blown up by terrorists.’
‘But, why now? Nothing big happened since MacGyver died.’
‘I know that Pete, something weird is going on around here. Sam and Sally dies on the day MacGyver was buried and now the DXS is destroyed. What will follow next?’
‘Well, certainly not the Foundation, because I’m going to increase our security staff.’
‘Right.’
‘If more strange things happen, let me know something, then.’
Maria drove further to the store to get a few things for her tonight. When she was in the store, she came out of it too, not much later, carrying a few bags and Stace on her arm. First she placed Stace back in the car, then she placed the bags in the trunk and then she went back in the car. She was on her way home when the phone in the car rang.
‘Maria, it’s Pete, again.’
‘Yes, Pete? What is it?’
‘You were right about that explosion at the DXS but there’s something else.’
‘What then?’
‘I just got a call from the fire department when another explosion was heard.’
‘And?’
‘The houseboat is on fire.’
‘WHAT?!’
‘I’m sorry, Maria. But that’s not all.’
‘What? What else can go wrong?’
‘The police station also blew up earlier today. Murphy didn’t make it, nobody there did. It was very intense.’
‘Oh my god.’
‘I’m coming over to the houseboat.’
‘Okay.’
‘Be right there, with ya,’
‘Yeah, um, Pete…’
Suddenly a very loud explosion and a heavy scream from the other line was heard. The Phoenix Foundation blew up too. In a beautiful Independence Day effect the Phoenix Foundation just blew up. On every floor of the main building explosives were set which blew up always a second later then the other one to achieve the Independence Day effect. The other labs and the ones underneath the ground just blew up too. The entire piece of land where Phoenix had his buildings just blew up. The buildings collapsed. Maria was terrified to death and stopped the car.
In the afterlife MacGyver saw everything that happened.
‘Isn’t there something, we can do?’ he asked Kate Malloy.
‘I’m sorry, we can’t.’
‘Oh, no come, there has got to be something, we can do.’
‘I’m sorry too, bud. But there is nothing that can be done. We have to welcome your son and his girlfriend in heaven.’
‘Something didn’t had effect. I’m sure it has to do something that happened nine months ago.’
‘MacGyver, we can’t do anything,’ Kate said.
‘NO!’ MacGyver was outrageous and desperate.
‘I’m sorry.’
Maria holds the steering wheel very shaken, her eyes in tears. She looked at Stace who was sleeping very tight. She softly rubs his cheeks. She couldn’t believe it that she was really losing everything. At the far horizon black smoke was to be seen where once the building of the Phoenix-Foundation stood. She started the car again and drove on slowly. She was crying and shaking. Then she entered the street where Sam and Sally crashed the other day. People were working there, fixing the damage. She drove further until they were out of sight. The street was still very long. She looked out the right side window and saw black smoke again at the horizon there. It was indeed at the Marina. She started to believe more and more that the houseboat was on fire. Then it happened.
Maria was just driving the car but a bomb underneath the car caused an explosion. The left side of the car flew up in the air and flipped over a couple of times. The car rolled over on the fields and it kept rolling over until it was twenty feet of the road. The car kept still lying on its roof when another explosion followed. Maria was still conscience but badly hurt. Stace was crying his lungs out but he was all right. Fire broke out on the inside of the car, burning Maria completely. From out of nowhere two persons showed up, all dressed in black, with black masks on. They looked like two ninja’s. One of them took the baby out of the car and they ran further down in the field. They kept running until they didn’t saw the road anymore but just the car wreck with a heavily burned to death Maria.
‘OK, you got what you wanted now,’ the second one said.
‘And you too,’ the first one replied. ‘That baby is your responsibility. If it wasn’t for you, I would’ve killed that baby.’
‘Why?’
‘It has the MacGyver-genes running in it. He has the MacGyver-blood running through his veins.’
The second one took off its mask and behind the mask there was no one else then Nikki Carpenter. (Surprising music comes up and then fades away) The other one took her mask off too and the other one was no one else then Deborah. They survived the bloody showdown in the South-American jungle.
‘Maybe it’s better to raise him and to give him an education.’
‘Come on, Nikki, that’s crap and you know it.’
‘We’ll raise him the way our parents raised us and the kid is an orphan now. I don’t kill kids.’
‘But I do. Keep him away from me because from as soon I’ll get my chance to kill him, I will kill him.’
‘Deborah, don’t you have a heart?’
‘Sweetie, if I had a heart, I would have gotten married with MacGyver. By the time this kid is 18, I will be somewhere in my late fifties.’
‘By the time this kids is 18; he can take care of himself. It runs in their family.’
‘And that’s what worries me. It would only make it harder to kill him. That boy cannot live this life. If he becomes like his father, he would become a major liability to us. We have to kill him now!’ Deborah said flicking her knife open, holding the blade at the kid’s face.
‘No, don’t do this.’
Deborah poked the kid with the knife, the baby screamed.
‘Hey! Don’t do that!’
‘Alright, then. I’ll let him live. Like I said before, he’s your responsibility, you raise him on the way our parents raised us, but if I get the chance or even the slightest opportunity to kill him, I will kill him. You remember that, sister? If I kill him, don’t say that I didn’t warn you, then.’
‘You were always like this, Deborah. Always.’
‘Some things, don’t change. Did you ever thought were we’ll get the money from? I haven’t seen money seen the past nine months.’
‘We’ll work something out, now let’s get out of here, because I can smell the cops already.’
‘Just keep that thing away from me.’
‘No problem, don’t you worry.’
Nikki and Deborah vanished into thin air. By the time Maria was out of the car, she was already dead for two hours. The men who were fixing the damage of the crash last night called the police and an ambulance after they got Maria out of the car. There was no use for her anymore. Maria Romburg was dead. When they brought the body away her soul was left behind laying the in field. MacGyver was going to pick her up to take her into the afterlife.
‘Maria? Maria, wake up! Open your eyes.’
Maria opened her eyes startled. She had to adjust her vision, which was so blurry. Slowly MacGyver became visible.
‘MacGyver?’ she asked a little dazed.
‘That’s right, baby. It’s me.’
‘But that can’t be. You’re dead. You are dead.’
‘That’s right, Maria. I’m dead, I’m really dead and so are you.’
‘What? Why? How?’
‘I’ll explain but first you get of the ground.’
MacGyver helped Maria getting up.
‘That’s better.’
‘MacGyver, what is going on?’
‘I know it’s a bit strange, but you’ll get used to it, to be dead.’
‘That’s not a real answer on my question.’
‘I wish, I could’ve done something. I tried, I wanted to but I couldn’t. Kate said so.’
‘Kate who? Kate Murphy?’
‘No, Kate Malloy, Sam’s mother.’
‘You found out about everything.’
‘I saw the Phoenix Foundation blew up, yeah and the DXS too. Kate Murphy is dead too, so is Pete. Everybody is just as dead as we are.’
‘But how come.’
‘Do you remember when Murphy shot Nikki and Deborah?’
‘Yeah, so? What about it?’
‘Nikki and Deborah weren’t dead. They must’ve had bullet proof vests on or something.’
‘We should’ve checked their bodies.’
‘Yeah, you should’ve done that.’
‘I’m sorry, we didn’t. So it’s our fault, this all happened?’
‘No, not at all. It’s Deborah and Nikki’s fault. They caused all those explosions and because of that all of our friends including ourselves are dead.’
‘How is everybody, now?’
‘They’re all here.’
‘Really?’
‘Yeah, Sam, Sally, Jack, Pete, Blake, Kiley, Murphy and even Rhome. They’re all all right. We’re a family again.’
‘Yeah! There’s one thing I don’t understand.’
‘What is it, then?’
‘How come the houseboat came on fire?’
‘They placed a bomb exactly in the middle of it, underneath the floor. It blew up and from one the other came. Fire everywhere, completely burned out.’
‘It’s such a waste.’
‘I know. I liked it living there, that’s way I came back here.’
‘You’ve been through many crazy adventures with that houseboat.’
‘Yeah, that’s right.’
‘What’s your most craziest thing you’d been through, with that houseboat?’
‘I once woke up in the middle of the bay, Kate Murphy got blown of my staircase because Dr. Zito putted a booby-trap on it and I once got slugged in my own house by a bodyguard of an ex-girlfriend of mine. She made him kill her own husband and framed me for it.’
‘Who was she?’
‘Ellen Jerico.’
‘From the JBN studios?’
‘Jerico Broadcasting Network, yes. I met her when you were in on assignment in Brazil.’
‘What happened to her?’
‘She went to jail. I haven’t seen her since.’
‘Now what?’
‘Now, we’re at least together again. After nine long months.’ (Soft tender music comes up here)
‘It’s about time, huh? So, what’s it like up there?’
‘An exact copy of what we have here.’
‘Yeah?’
‘You can find out soon enough, because it’s time to go.’
‘I died and gone to heaven.’
‘And went to thanksgiving.’
Maria smiled and hugged MacGyver.
‘You’re going home, baby. Everything is over now. It’s all over now.’
‘What about Nikki and Deborah?’
‘Those girls will make a mistake some day and be caught and stand trial for what they did.’
‘What about our son, Stace?’
‘They took him with them.’
‘I hope they catch them quick! I don’t want our son be raised and trained to become a killer.’
‘It’s the only thing we can do: hoping that it wouldn’t happen that way.’
‘If he is raised like that, can we go haunt them?’
‘That, I don’t know. But I do know is that they’ll get there payment in hell. Apparently it’s very hot down there. How hot, I don’t know, but very hot, to say the least about it.’
‘So, are we going to heaven or what?’
‘Check this out. I learned this from Sam’s mother.’
‘What is it?’
‘This.’
MacGyver snapped his fingers and in a flash they were in heaven.
‘Neat!’ Maria said.
‘Pretty cool, huh?’
‘The afterlife doesn’t look so bad, at first sight.’
‘Do you feel that?’
‘What should I feel?’
‘Warmth, appreciation, no worries, illumination.’
‘You are right. I haven’t felt like this anymore since you died.’
‘How does it feel?’
‘It feels great.’
‘And it gets better, when you eat a meal of grandma Celia,’ Sam said suddenly sneaking up behind her. Sam, Sally, Kate Malloy, Pete and Harry also showed up.
‘Hey, Harry, is she making one of her special diners?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Yep, just like yesterday,’ Harry replied.
‘And the day before,’ Sam said.
‘And the day before that,’ MacGyver said.
‘It’s so great up here, Maria,’ Sally said.
‘Well, it looks great up here too. I feel great, warmth, appreciation like MacGyver just said.’
‘Everything MacGyver says is true,’ Pete said. ‘It is great up here.’
‘But still, none of you actually belongs here.’
‘Bud, there times had come. Just like yours, nine months ago.’
‘You’ve got any idea, how I feel about this?’
‘No!’
‘Defeated. It’s as if, they finally succeeded in killing us. There conspiracy worked against us.’
‘MacGyver, don’t think that,’ Kate Malloy said.
‘Why not? We’re defeated.’
‘Don’t think like that. By giving your life, you did something they can’t take away. You overpowered them with that.’
‘You mean if I didn’t threw that grenade back at Murdoc, they would’ve won?’
‘Then, they would’ve won. You actually killed yourself a little, in order to save your family. You gave them the final blow and that’s something they can overpower. But, what’s more important then being a family again?’
‘Yeah, you’re right! After al these months and for some of us years we can finally become a decent family again.’
‘Dad, what about Penny? She isn’t dead, remember?’
‘Penny! That’s right, she’s been through a lot too.’
‘Penny is safe, MacGyver. They will not harm her. I’m sure of that. She didn’t do anything wrong, with any good luck, she’ll find little Stace and give him the education he needs.’
‘Maybe you’re right. Penny can raise him if she ever finds him.’
‘Don’t worry, she will find him. She will take care of him.’
‘That’s good and what about our cops and Mary-Ruth?’
‘Kiley, Blake, Rhome and Murphy are alright,’ Pete said. ‘So is Mary-Ruth.’
‘What about Tommy? He is going to be really heartbroken!’
‘He’s a tough kid, he’ll live through it,’ Sam said.
‘Yeah, and if he knows Penny, he knows, he can count on her,’ Kate said.
‘So then everything is solved?’ Maria asked.
‘Yeah,’ MacGyver replied. ‘We fought our battles and I think it’s time for all of us to become a family again and to rest.’
‘You are right, dad! It’s time for us the rest. Somewhere else?’
‘That’s right, son. Somewhere else.’
This is how it ended. The good thing is that they’re a family again and finally had their peace and quiet. The bad thing is that little Stace fell in the hands of Deborah and Nikki Carpenter. The only thing, we can hope for is that he’ll be alright and get raised by Penny Parker. She may be a bit scatterbrained but she’s caring for others. She has a mother instinct and if Stace is in her hands, he’s going to be raised the way it should be. But most of all, MacGyver is alright, well and safe and sound again with his entire family. Okay, with the exception of Penny and Stace then but still… he is where he belongs and that’s with his family. His wife, son, friends and parents together again after so many years MacGyver’s family was complete again.
(The soft tender music reaches it's peak as we fade out here and launch in the extended version of the MacGyver theme song from the last three seasons when the end credits comes on and off)

Executive Producers
Mario Vandermeulen
Richard Dean Anderson
Henry Winkler
John Rich
Stephen Downing

Written, Directed and Produced by
Mario Vandermeulen
Richard Dean Anderson

Music by
Dennis McCarthy
Randy Edelman
&
Ken Harrison

Special Music Composer
Alan Silvestri

(End credits roll while music proceeds)

Cast

Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver
Dana Elcar as Pete
Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton
Michael Des Barres as Murdoc
Teri Hatcher as Penny Parker
Elyssa Davalos as Nikki Carpenter
John Anderson as Harry Jackson
Bruce Harwood as Willis
Kim Zimmer as Lt. Kate Murphy,
Kristian Alfonso as Deborah,
Jackson Davies as Capt. Kiley/Pat Lafferty
Blu Mankuma as Lt. Rhome
Brigitta Sternberg as Maria Romburg
Dalton James as Sam Malloy
Nancy Sloan as Sally Rally
W. Morgan Sheppard as Dr. Zito.
Sgt. Blake as himself
Lisa Savage as Kate Malloy
Mario Vandermeulen as the guest on the wedding
Sgt. Blake’s replacement as himself
A whole bunch of Latino soldiers as their selves

Disclaimers: MacGyver nor the other good guys were harmed or died
during the making of this motion picture.
Without my dark and violent imagination this wouldn’t
have been possible.

© Copyrighted MMIII-MMIV 2003-2004

Original date of story post: May 4 2004 07:21 AM