[MacGyverGod]

This is the last chapter of this story. Enjoy! It's rated R for language and violence.

(We fade in again with tense music while MacGyver tries to escape)
Chapter Five
Escape
Playing Chicken
Accepting Events

MacGyver, Michael and Nikki sat deadly silent on their chair, staring at their weapons aimed on them. The slightest movement could mean their deaths.
Despite what MacGyver said about having a plan already, he sure had to think a few things through before coming to a solid plan and he tried for as far he could see to look for something that could help him out. There was nothing around and he couldn’t afford to make the wrong movement. The first thing he had to do was to take out the weapon.
He got a few ideas but couldn’t share them with Michael or Nikki because of the tape. He could either fall backwards so that the arrow would fly over his face instead of in it, or yank the rope so that chair would over and send the arrow in the ceiling, or he would move his chair so that crossbow would shoot in the wall.
Whatever it should become, he should decide now. He put himself ready, leaned somewhat sideways and yanked the rope. The crossbow shot but the arrow flew between Michael and him through, sending the arrow in the wall. MacGyver fell with his chair on the ground. With a little effort he was able to wriggle through the ropes and got free. He took out his Swiss Army Knife and cut through his other ropes. Than he freed the others. (The music becomes more relaxing but remains tense)
‘Is everybody alright?’ he asked.
‘Yes, we are. How about you?’ Nikki asked.
‘I’m fine. Michael?’
‘I am. But I’m losing a lot of blood. I have to go to the hospital right away.’
‘Yeah, sure. We’ll get you to the hospital from as soon as we get out of here.’
They walked up to the door, trying it but of course it was locked. MacGyver thought for a moment and got another idea when he saw that Michael was holding the shotgun.
‘Gimme, that!’ he said.
‘What are you doing?’
‘I’ve got a plan,’ he said while taking two shells out of it.
‘No, really?’ Nikki asked. ‘What is it?’
‘Well, if what I think is right, these shells can help us escape,’ he said while taking of the lids of the shells with his knife. The red shells were filled with gunpowder.
‘Now, if I shove these over each other, we get one big shell, right?’
‘Right,’ Nikki said.
‘So?’ Michael asked.
‘If we tape this to the door, it can blow it right open.’
On the topside of the big shell, MacGyver stabbed his blade in it to make a hole. He cut of a piece of a rope to use it as a fuse and stuck it in the hole.
‘Nikki, get me a piece of tape,’ he said.
Nikki gave him a piece of tape and he taped it to side of the door.
‘Alright, find some cover,’ he said and struck on a match. (The music becomes more tense)
He touched the rope with the flame setting it in on fire and found some cover for himself. They peeked from their hiding places to see the rope burn. It took a while for the rope to burn decently but when it burned right, the door blew right open. BANG!!! The gunpowder exploded and the door blew open.
MacGyver, Michael and Nikki made sure they got out of there but still they remained cautious. Murdoc’s still around.
They walked back out of the caves into the night.
‘MacGyver, your car is right here. Let’s go for it, while we still can.’
‘No,’ MacGyver said.
‘What?’ Nikki asked. ‘MacGyver, we have to go now. We got Michael back. I’d say we go for it as well.’
‘Do what you gotta do, Nikki. I want Murdoc.’
Before MacGyver could react, Murdoc appeared behind Nikki and grabbed her. Nikki screamed but the courageous woman didn’t want to give up that easily. With a powerful elbow blow, she hit him in his stomach, she turned around and kneed him in the groin. Murdoc moaned of pain but than he hit her against a tree. MacGyver and Michael tried to attack him but Murdoc began swinging a baseball bat. He hit Michael down with blow to the head and he went down, than he hit MacGyver in his stomach. With a knock on his back, he knocked him out. Everything became black in front of MacGyver’s eyes.
(Blackness and music stops here)
MacGyver gained consciousness again after a few minutes. Slowly everything came back to him. MacGyver and Murdoc were back on the road in front of the house. MacGyver sat in his car wearing his seatbelt with his hands cuffed to the steering wheel. His right foot was tied to the gas pedal.
Murdoc stood next to him on the driver side.
‘MacGyver, welcome back to the world.’
‘Murdoc.’
‘Who else?’
‘I was hoping, I’d wake up at home and that this was all a dream.’
‘Sorry to disappoint ya. It’s not a dream, it’s for real.’
‘That it is.’
‘You’re probably wondering why you’re cuffed to the steering wheel and why your foot is tied down to the gas pedal?’
‘I’m sure, you’d explain this to me.’
‘Well, MacGyver, I knew you’d escape so that’s why I figured another way to kill you.’
‘Typical.’
‘What does a game of chicken tell you?’ Murdoc asked.
‘You wanna play chicken with me?’
‘That’s right, MacGyver. You ride with your jeep into my truck. With luck you get killed, with bad luck, I get killed and with sick freak luck, we both get killed.’
‘You really are a crazy b*stard.’
‘That I know, but now I know for sure, you won’t escape. Your hands are cuffed to the steering wheel and I’m the only who has the keys. Your foot is tied down and I installed a little device to it, which I can control with this remote. So I know for sure you won’t jump out of the car.’
MacGyver shook his head. ‘Wait a minute. Where are Michael and Nikki?’
‘Oh,’ Murdoc answered trying to avoid the question. ‘Let’s just say there is a tree between them.’

Michael and Nikki were tied to a tree at the edge of the field as they regained their senses.
‘Wow, it’s like I’ve been drinking scotch all night,’ Nikki said. ‘My head!’
‘Yeah, mine too!’ Michael said.
‘What happened?’
‘Well, I remember Murdoc swinging that bat and than blackness. Total blackness.’
‘Yeah, now, I remember.’
‘By the way, where is MacGyver?’
‘I don’t know,’ Nikki said and looked in the direction where his car was. ‘His car is gone.’
‘Just like Murdoc,’ Michael sighed.
‘Well, we better don’t give up yet,’ Nikki encouraged him. ‘How are you holding up?’
‘I’m holding up fine.’
‘I meant your shoulder.’
‘It’s just a shoulder wound, it’ll heal.’
‘Shoulder wound or not, you need a hospital.’
‘I’m just a little weak and nauseated from the blood loss, I think.’
‘You see, there you go. Let’s get out of here and help MacGyver out, alright?’
‘Alright.’
Than Nikki’s eye caught the attention of something.
‘Well, well.’
‘What is it?’
‘If you’re looking for MacGyver, you can find him right across the field.’
‘Can you see, what’s going on?’
‘Michael, I might have good eyes, but they’re not that good.’
‘Well, whatever he’s into, we gotta help him out.’
‘Yeah, I think if we rub the rope hard enough against the tree, we can escape.’
Michael and Nikki tried systematically to rub the rope against the tree. It might take some time but they would get loose.

Murdoc stood next to MacGyver paying his last respects. ‘Well, MacGyver, I guess this is finally it. Goodbye. I can say that since the DXS selected Pete to come after me, I had a great time. But when you joined in the game, everything became much more fun. I had a swell time this last… what’s it now? Thirty years?’
Depends on how you do the math, MacGyver figured.
‘Anyway, MacGyver, after I killed Pete, I realized that to everything must come an end.’
MacGyver just kept looking at Murdoc.
‘I just have to confess something to you, MacGyver.’
‘What?’
‘You were my most worthy opponent. I’m not sure if I ever really wanted to kill you. You were my mouse and I was the cat that played you around.’
‘So according to you we’re like Tom and Jerry?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Well, Tom, than you must know I always win.’
‘Not this time, Jerry.’
‘The mouse always wins from the cat.’
‘But the cat always wins from the dog.’
‘But the dog is always humble to man!’
Murdoc was stumped, he didn’t know anything else to say.
‘Take that on for size,’ MacGyver added.
‘Doesn’t matter. You’re dead anyway.’
‘Yeah, we better get this over with.’
‘Just one more thing, MacGyver.’
‘What?’
‘Do you think that if I wasn’t a hit man, you and I could’ve been friends?’
MacGyver looked surprised up to Murdoc.
‘What kind of question is that?’
‘A question that requires an honest answer.’
‘I don’t believe this.’
‘Answer the question.’
MacGyver thought for a moment about this unexpected question. ‘To be perfectly honest with you, Murdoc. I don’t know, maybe. When we worked together to save your sister from H.I.T., you were not such a bad guy. Why are you now?’
‘Do you know the story about the turtle and the scorpion?’
MacGyver sighed. ‘Yeah, I do.’
‘There’s your answer.’
‘It’s your nature.’
‘Just as your nature is helping peoples, mine is killing them.’
‘It didn’t look like your nature when I helped you out.’
‘Because I was retired at the time.’
‘Yeah and I don’t see you play golf or see you fishing either.’
‘That’s right. This is what I’m good at.’
MacGyver could hold back a laughter because he always survived, but because of Pete’s death, he had to revise that opinion.
‘So, MacGyver, I think this is it now. It’s no point in delaying it. It has to happen and it’s gonna happen. Goodbye, MacGyver,’ he said and closed the car door. (The track The Runway starts playing from Die Hard 2)
Murdoc got into his pick up truck and drove way ahead down the street. MacGyver tried to find a way out but it was clearly pointless with his hands cuffed to the steering wheel. He saw Murdoc turning his car so that they would stand right over each other.
All of a sudden MacGyver’s car seemed to get started from itself. His engine started to rev multiple times and also Murdoc was revving.
In the meantime Michael and Nikki got loose.
‘Alright, we’re free,’ Nikki said.
Michael collapsed.
‘Michael, are you okay?’ she asked.
‘Yes, I am, it’s just the nausea.’
‘Can you run?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Come on, let’s go!’
Michael and Nikki ran as fast as they could across the field back to the road of the house. When they almost reached the road again, MacGyver’s car took off with great speed before they could get to him.
‘Oh, no!’ Michael said.
‘Damn it!’ Nikki swore.
She saw that Murdoc was coming down from the other direction and realized the two cars would ride in on each other. ‘Oh my God! They’re going to ride in on each other.’
MacGyver was trying to get free in the car. With several attempts he tried to wriggle his foot loose, but that wasn’t easy. And still if he would get his foot free, he was still cuffed to the steering wheel. The distance between the cars was getting shorter and shorter, making MacGyver more and more desperate to get out, while Murdoc saw his victory coming closer and closer. He even laughed evilly about it. (The music becomes more and more tense)
Michael and Nikki couldn’t do anything else but to watch to what was going to happen. MacGyver didn’t saw a way out anymore and decided it would be better to avenge Pete’s honor. The distance got tighter and tighter and than the inevitable happened. The cars banged in on each other on an incredible speed, sending both cars in the air.
‘MACGYVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!’
The cars flipped over, landing on their sides on the road and continued to roll over several times. Murdoc’s car ended up in the field across the house upside down and fire broke out in the engine. MacGyver’s car ended up several yards next to the house also on his roof. Michael ran up to the car followed by Nikki.
‘MacGyver?! Are you alright? MacGyver?’ he asked in panic when he opened the door. (The music becomes slower and more tense and than fades away)
MacGyver was sitting upside down in the car shaking of the adrenaline. His face was bleeding. There was another cut now near his other eyebrow.
‘Michael,’ MacGyver said breathing heavily. ‘I’m stuck. I can’t move.’
‘Have you broken anything?’ Nikki asked worried.
‘Not that I am aware of,’ MacGyver answered. ‘Look, Michael. Try to get my knife, it’s in my right pocket.’
‘OK,’ Michael said and crawled in the car. ‘Right pocket?’
‘Yeah.’
Michael grabbed MacGyver’s knife in his pocket.
‘Cut my foot loose. It’s tied at the gas pedal.’
Michael cut MacGyver s foot loose. He also cut his belt loose.
‘Give me that,’ MacGyver said and with the cork screw, he picked the lock of his handcuffs.
With a little moaning, he crawled out of the car.
‘Are you ok?’ Nikki asked.
‘I’m fine, Nikki.’
Michael also came crawled out of the car. MacGyver offered his hand to help him up and Michael took it. ‘Thanks, Michael. You saved my life.’
‘You would’ve done the same.’
They shook hands.
‘Come on, let’s go see if there’s a body,’ MacGyver said and the three of them ran up to Murdoc’s car. (Now we hear the track Ending from the game Fahrenheit)
The car was burning from the inside out. The door opened and an explosion followed. Murdoc was frying in there. The fire was consuming his legs. His arm fell out of the vehicle bloodied. MacGyver reached up for the arm and got a hold of it, but Murdoc refused.
‘Forget it,’ he said with his last breaths.
‘MacGyver, are you crazy?’ Michael asked and pulled him away, but MacGyver didn’t want to let go.
‘He’s still alive!’
‘The car can still blow up,’ Michael warned him.
Again MacGyver grabbed Murdoc’s arm.
‘Get out!’ Murdoc screamed. ‘Get out of here!’
‘Come on, MacGyver, let’s go!’ Nikki said.
They ran away from the car again as it blew up one more time. The explosion blew MacGyver, Nikki and Michael to the ground. Shaken and shocked they got up again and observed on how Murdoc got burned in his own car.
(The music reaches it's peak and we fade out here. We fade in again with the track of Main Title of the same game)
The following night MacGyver, Nikki and Michael were standing in front of Pete’s grave. Nikki brought flowers and laid it on the tombstone.
‘Those are nice flowers, Nikki,’ Michael said.
‘Thanks, Michael,’ she said and smiled as warmly as she could.
Michael smiled but groaned when his shoulder hurt again. He had his arm in a sling now. MacGyver swung his arm around Nikki’s shoulder and kissed her head.
‘I’m going to miss your father, Michael,’ MacGyver said. ‘He was the best friend I had.’
Michael nodded. ‘I know. He was the best father I had. Too bad he couldn’t always be there.’
‘Despite his dedication to his work, he was also dedicated to his family. Divorced or not, he always helped you out,’ Nikki said.
‘Yeah.’
‘I’ll miss him too,’ Nikki said softly. (The music fades away here)
‘So, what’s going to happen now with the Phoenix Foundation, now that my father is gone?’
‘It depends on what the board will decide,’ MacGyver said. ‘Normally the three of us are capable of Pete’s job, but if they offer me the job, I’ll refuse.’
‘Why?’
‘Because I can’t replace your father.’
‘Than what are you going to do?’
‘I was thinking about quitting.’
‘MacGyver, no,’ Nikki said.
‘But if it wasn’t for Nikki…,’ he said and pressed her against his body.
‘Well, I can’t take the job either,’ Michael said. ‘After all I betrayed you once.’
‘Michael, that was a long time ago. That’s been almost twenty years ago!’
‘Treason is not easily forgotten, Nikki.’
‘Maybe not forgotten but it’s forgiven,’ MacGyver said. ‘Besides I think unless after careful consideration it would be nice if the son follows the footsteps of his father.’
‘I’ve considered it, MacGyver, it’s not a good idea. I hope you understand.’
‘I do,’ MacGyver said.
‘Who else do you think is capable of the job?’ Michael asked.
‘I think, you would do a good, Nikki,’ MacGyver answered on that question.
‘Me?’
‘Yeah, you have the leading abilities and a great strength of character.’
‘But you’re a better leader, than I am. You can think a lot quicker and takes better decision.’
‘Nikki, you don’t have to underestimate yourself. You can do this and Michael and I are always around to help you out.’
‘Yeah,’ Michael said.
‘I don’t know.’
‘You did a good job so far, just make it official,’ MacGyver said.
‘Well, if that’s what you really want me to do, I’ll offer my candidature to the chairman of the board, first thing in the morning,’ Nikki said.
‘Alright.’
‘Can we go now? I know better places to be at on this hour of the night than on a cemetery.’
‘Sure.’ (The same track starts again)
MacGyver and Nikki said their goodbyes to Michael and returned to houseboat. The houseboat was still boarded shut and dark when they entered it.
MacGyver threw his keys on the table while Nikki took of her coat and went up to him for a hug and a kiss. (The music fades away here)
‘So what do you plan on doing now?’ she asked.
‘Go on with my life, I guess,’ he answered.
‘Where?’
‘Here, with you.’
Nikki smiled.
‘How?’
‘I’ll never get over Pete’s death but I have to live on. Maybe I’ll move to somewhere else in the city. The marina is a goner for sure. I don’t know what the hell I’m still doing here.’
‘You can always move in with me.’
‘Nikki, I like a place of my own, where I can retreat when I want to be alone. We’ll see, alright?’ he said and caressed her face with his index finger and she smiled again.
Suddenly there was thud outside. (Creepy tense music comes up again)
‘What was that?’ she asked startled.
‘I don’t know. I’ll go and check it out.’
‘Be careful.’
MacGyver walked to the door and slowly opened it and walked outside scanning down the area with his one good eye to see if there were any dangers nearby.
‘And?’ Nikki asked. ‘What’s going?’
‘Nothing, I guess,’ he replied.
‘Wrong!’ Murdoc said and jumped on MacGyver’s back putting the gun against his temple. ‘You thought, I was dead again, didn’t you? Get back inside.’
Murdoc pushed MacGyver back inside. Murdoc entered the houseboat. His face was horribly burned and so were his arms and his legs. He really looked like the reaper now.
‘Oh, my God!’ Nikki exclaimed when she saw Murdoc’s face.
‘No games, this time, MacGyver. Strictly business.’
Nikki looked for her purse she set on the table. The barrel of her gun was partly visible and she knew if she got to him, she would get Murdoc.
‘God, Murdoc, when will you finally get it? You can’t kill me.’
‘Oh, yeah?’ he asked and pulled the trigger. (The music becomes more chaotic)
MacGyver rammed his elbow in his stomach, turned around, punched him with his left fist, kneed him in the gut and with a right hard blow he hit Murdoc against the refrigerator. Murdoc hit him back with a left fist, hard enough to get MacGyver down behind the counter of his kitchen. ‘Now, it’s your turn to die, MacGyver!’
When he was about to shoot MacGyver, Nikki fired her gun at him, three times. Murdoc fell back against the refrigerator. Shocked he looked at Nikki and than he collapsed on the ground. Nikki walked up to him and fired three more shots.
‘If he’s not dead now, we’ll burn him up,’ she said. (The music becomes darker)
‘Nah, we’re on the ocean. We’ll feed him to the sharks,’ he said while coming to her.
Than something jumped on the counter of the kitchen startling both MacGyver and Nikki. (The music relaxes again)
‘It’s ok, it’s just the cat,’ MacGyver said and petted the animal. ‘I know him.’
MacGyver was right because it was the cat from the house of the set-up.
‘He’s cute. We keep him?’
‘Suits me. Let’s get Murdoc out of here first.’
MacGyver and Nikki dragged Murdoc’s body upon the terrace and dumped it in the ocean. ‘This is very hard against my principals, Nikki. But I just can’t care about it, anymore,’ MacGyver said staring at the water. Nikki rubbed over his arm.
‘Not if the care is Murdoc?’ she asked.
‘Yeah.’
‘Come here!’
MacGyver and Nikki hugged each other, not willing to ever let go.
(The music changes into the finale of Obsessed and when it reaches it' speak we fade out here and launch into the MacGyver Theme Song)

Executive Producers
Mario Vandermeulen
Richard Dean Anderson
Henry Winkler
John Rich

Co-Executive Producers
Stephen Downing
Michael Greenburg
Hudson Hickman
John B. Moranville
Stephen Kandell

Created by
Lee David Zlotoff

Written, Directed and Produced by
Mario Vandermeulen
Richard Dean Anderson

Music by
Dennis McCarthy
Randy Edelman
Ken Harrison

Special Music Composers
Mychael Danna
James Horner
Michael Kamen
Angelo Badalamenti

Starring
Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver
Dana Elcar as Peter Thornton
Hank Stratton as Michael Thornton
Michael Des Barres as Murdoc
Elyssa Davalos as Nikki
And
Penelope Windust as Connie Thornton

Disclaimer: MacGyver lost about 50 per cent of his eyesight during the making of this motion picture.
Murdoc became shark lunch during the making of this motion picture.

© Copyrighted MMVIII 2008

[MacGyver's_Baby]

yay loved this story, very exciting and I can't wait for another one!

[MacGyverGod]

Thanks.

[AussieMacFan]

lol, the cat could have been Murdoc!

Great story!

[MacGyverGod]

Yeah, thanks a lot.