Episode: 036 (S2.E14)
Production No.: 40192-036
Airdate: 02 February 1987
Writer: Rob Hedden
Director: James L. Conway
Nielsen Ratings: 14.8 rating / 22 share / 3rd (42nd for the week)
PLOT
MacGyver is trapped inside an abandoned factory with a pregnant woman who’s being chased by her murderous husband.
CAST
MACGYVERISMS
- Used old boat to block alley way.
- Used high pressure water pipe as a water cannon to knock out bad guy.
- Made ramp to get jeep out of pit with boards & barrels.
- Lifted Jeep with boat crane.
- Used bits of old cars and junk to camouflage and hide his jeep.
- Soaked bag in some water sitting in an old tire to stop the helium from escaping through the bag material.
- Made signal balloon with a bag, helium and signal flags.
- Used fishing line tied across doorway to knock bad guy off his bike.
TRIVIA
- MacGyver still has the same messenger bag we see in the pilot episode.
- The scene where MacGyver lowers his jeep down left a dent on the front fender from where the strap pushed against it. This dent can be seen through out the rest of the series when they used that jeep in a scene.
QUOTES
- MacGyver: There’s a pretty simple reason why fishermen get up at the crack of dawn: that’s when the fish get up.
- Elaine: Something tells me I finally met the right man at the right time.
- Elaine: Do you believe in fate, MacGyver? Well, I do. Whenever I do anything good, it turns out bad. And whenever I do anything bad, it turns out worse.
- Elaine: Can’t wait to see how you’ll get us out of this pit.
MacGyver: Me, too. - MacGyver: I think if you try hard enough and make the best of a situation, the situation won’t get the best of you.
- Elaine: Are you ever wrong about anything?
MacGyver: Never – well, once. Maybe twice. - Elaine: You just never give up, do you.
MacGyver: No, ma’am, I don’t. - MacGyver: Good thing about boats: some of the stuff you find on ’em work just as well on land as they do on sea.
- MacGyver: Desperation tends to make one sort of . . . flexible.
- Elaine: I suppose I could keep her on a trial basis. You know, for a week or two? (talking about the newborn baby)
MacGyver: Yeah. A lot of people do that.
NIT-PICKS
- When MacGyver is driving into the warehouse area we can see his left break light is not working. In later scenes it’s working again.
- In the scene where MacGyver makes a ramp to get out of the pit in the warehouse we can see the dent in the left fender made by the crane left scene later in the episode – indicating the scenes were filmed our of order
FILMING LOCATIONS
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