Lost Love (part 2)

Episode: 046 (S3.E02

Production  No.:  40193-046

Airdate: 28 September 1987

Writer: Jerry Ludwig

Director: Cliff Bole

Nielsen Ratings:  12.2 rating / 19 share / 3rd (47th for the week)

PLOT

Risking a diplomatic crisis to save his ex-fiancée, whom he thought was dead, MacGyver, with Jack Dalton’s help, steals the Ming Dragon—only to discover it was all a setup to catch him.

CAST

MACGYVERISMS

• Used the blade on his SAK to hold down the alarm pins on air vent grill
• Put duct tape over the alarm pins to hold them down while he and Jack climbed into the air vent
• Used cleaning powder to expose security laser beams.
• Used suction pads and electric winch to hold glass door open
• Used clamps to hold down pressure pads
• Hung Ming Dragon from a string to make bad guys follow his instructions.
• Used his breath to make fog so he could write the lock combination for Jack to enter.
• Used hair pin to unlock handcuffs
• Used handcuffs to unlock door

TRIVIA

• Pete’s birthday is 18 December 1933
• MacGyver knows Arnold Palmer’s birthday of 9/10/29
• Pete is a big fan of golf.
• Jack Dalton can fly helicopters as well as planes
• Even though the name Kosov is spelled slightly differently in the two episodes the events and timeline match up for this being the same character as the one we see in Thief of Budapest.
• This was the first of 3 two-part episodes in the series. The other two being “Legend Of The Holy Rose” and “Good Knight MacGyver”

QUOTES

• MacGyver: Jack?
  Jack: I used to be.  (after MacGyver slammed him against a wall)
• Why can’t you just knock or say hello like everybody else? – Jack (after Mac almost punches him)
• Good luck to the good guys. – Jack Dalton
• You’ll come up with something. That’s what you’re good at. – Jack to MacGyver
• Jack: Wouldn’t it have been easier just to check in?
  MacGyver: Yeah, but not half as much fun.
• Jack: I’m getting hives, you know that?
  MacGyver: Just relax.
  Jack: Relax? If that alarm pops when I shot this we’re both in sing-sing.
• Jack Dalton: How in God’s name do you know Arnold Palmer’s birthday?
  MacGyver: Doesn’t everyone?

NIT-PICKS

• The tape Chu shows Pete is supposed to be from the one camera installed in the room. But it contains multiple views and close ups, which wouldn’t be possible with a single stationary camera.
• The helicopter has both Canadian and American registration numbers: C-GZPX on the bottom and N471 on the lower part of the nose. One aircraft cannot legally have two registrations at the same time from two countries.
• As Mac is hurrying back to Dalton’s car after losing his pursuers in the Chinese parade, a city bus is seen driving away into the distance, complete with Diesel engine sound. But the bus is an electric bus, with dual overhead poles.
• When MacGyver (and later Jack) enters Arnold Palmer’s birthday, they only enter 5 digits for the 6 digit code. Instead of the entered code, 91029, it should be 091029 to fulfill the six digit security code.

FILMING LOCATIONS

Service Entrance Wharf Entrance 1075 West Waterfront Road Vancouver, B.C.	Ventilation Shaft Access Underground Parking Area 1075 W Waterfront Rd Vancouver, B.C.
Chinatown 110 East Pender Street Chinatown, Vancouver, B.C	Gift Store 75 E Pender Street Chinatown, Vancouver, B.C
Exiting Chinatown Corner Howe and W Cordova Street Surrey, British Columbia