Welcome to chapter II. We carry on where we left off in the last chapter. A few things you need to know about this chapter.
1) It contains flashbacks *spoilers* from the series so if you haven't seen the next episodes: Nightmares, Cease Fire, To be a Man, D.O.A. MacGyver, Back from the Dead, Humanity, Trail of Tears, Good Knight MacGyver part 2, The Stringer, Passages, The Negotiator, Legend of the Holy Rose part 1 & 2, The Heist and Halloween Knights.
2) Some things I wrote about the flashbacks doesn't correctly match with what was said in the series, you'll notice that especially during the flashback of Trail of Tears.
3) It's a big chapter but worth to read it.
Enjoy!

(We fade in we're we last fade out, the music plays a slow waking up MacGyver theme song and then fades away)
Chapter II
Wake-up call Breakfast
Big Wedding

It was already past ten o’ clock when MacGyver woke up of the alarm clock. ‘Aw man, I overslept,’ he whined.
‘No, you didn’t,’ Maria said standing in the door with a tray with breakfast on in her purple night robe. ‘You woke up just in time.’
‘I did?’
‘Yeah. I’ve got breakfast here. Juice, toast, eggs, coffee, real butter, and some real East-German Knäckebröd.’
‘That’s great.’
‘There’s enough for the two of us.’
‘And you forgot the most important thing,’ Sam said suddenly from behind the door and came into the room.
‘Oh yes. Champagne and a bowl of strawberries.’
‘Maria, you know I don’t drink.’
‘I know that sweetheart, that’s why I bought apple cider, you know kids champagne.’
MacGyver smiled.
‘Well, I gotta go. I’m gonna pick up Sally,’ Sam said. ‘See you all at church, now.’
‘Who’s Sally?’ Maria asked.
‘His new girlfriend apparently.’ Mac said.
The two enjoyed of a great breakfast made by an East German almost in East Germany and afterwards… yes you guessed it… they went under bed sheets. (happy romantic music comes in here) MacGyver came out on the end of the sheet.
‘Oh, honey, where are you?’ he wondered.
‘I’m here, baby,’ she said on the other side of the bed.
‘Oh, well wait for me.’
He turned around under the sheets and went the other way up but Maria was gone. ‘Where are you now?’
‘Now, I’m over here.’
Now she was on the place where MacGyver used to be. ‘I’ll meet you in the middle of the bed,’ she said.
They both met each other in the middle and their little “game” continued. They kept going until 12.00 o’ clock then it was time to get ready for the wedding. (the music fades away here)
There were a lot of guests in the church. Invited and uninvited guests. Two undercover people where they’re talking to each other through small microphones and ear sets. ‘Mr. M. do you read me over?’ a female voice said.
‘I read you, Ms. D.’ a males voice said.
‘And I read you too,’ a second male voice said.
‘That would be an affirmative answer, Dr. Z.’ the female voice said.
Most of the people were already sitting on their church benches and had familiar faces or were working at the Phoenix Foundation. Jack Dalton, Penny Parker, Nikki Carpenter, Jesse, Frank and Billy Colton, Lt. Rhome and Lt. Murphy with Capt. Kiley. Rachel one of the church employees, Willis, Pete and a lot more. MacGyver was already standing at the alter in a tuxedo. His hair combed decently, he refused to take a haircut, his hands over each other in front of him. Then the music started to play the wedding song “Here comes the bride”.
Later on the ceremony, the priest continued in his bible.
‘Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Mr. MacGyver do you take this woman Maria Romburg to your beloved wife to have and to hold in sickness and in health for better and for worse until death do you part?’
‘I do,’ MacGyver said.
‘And Maria Romburg, do you take this man to your beloved husband to have and to hold in sickness and in health for better and for worse until death do you part?’
‘I do,’ she replied.
‘May I have the rings please?’
Jack came up front with the rings.
‘Here, Mac, my boy.’
‘Thanks.’
The rings were putted on.
‘You may kiss the bride now.’
MacGyver looked into Maria’s brown eyes until he saw himself in her eyes kissing her. He took a few steps towards her and finally his lips united with hers, then the church bursts out in a big applause. Everybody start to get to the big doors until finally the just married couple came outside waving at everyone. The crowd outside started to throw rice at them. MacGyver and Maria were standing now in front of the crowd; they both turned around and threw the flowers or the bride bouquet into the crowd. Penny Parker caught them up. Then MacGyver and Maria went into a very antique and very fancy car, something older than MacGyver’s Nomad and drove to city hall to perform the last things to get their officially wedding things finished and then later on again they went to their party in a big ball room. Also there were the three mysterious figures snooping around unseen. On the party everything went on easy, nothing went really wrong. A few people were dancing, a few waiters were walking around with trays and plates, there was a small band playing. Everything a party need, right? The whole situation was enjoyable and after a few dances with Maria, MacGyver went to the table where Pete and Jack were standing.
‘Hey, there is our new wedded friend,’ Jack said.
‘Hey, Jack, Pete. How is it hanging, fellows?’
‘Oh, everything is just fine. You just got married, that’s all,’ Pete said.
‘How about that, huh?’
‘Yeah, you can say that again. You, the one who’s afraid of love and everything.’
‘Scares are supposed to be won over. I finally got over this one.’
‘And now what? Your going to settle down, do normal things?’
‘Oh, hey, Pete. I don’t want you to think that I quit the Phoenix Foundation again.’
‘You wouldn’t dream of it, right?’
‘Right, I would miss the excitement too much. Remember the time when we got our first assignment together?’
‘From East Germany?’
‘Yeah.’
‘With that family you got together again, when you were in that coffin that became a jet ski?’
‘No, actually, the other one before. You got shot in the arm and they poisoned me.’
‘Ah yes; now I remember. You stashed the list in that lantern pole at the harbour.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Nightmares, music from that scene comes in here)
MacGyver threw the list in the lantern after he opened it in the bottom of it with his Swiss Army Knife. Pete got shot in the arm. MacGyver knocked one of his pursuers down with his bag. He founded a police officer writing by a car. ‘You are an officer of the law, I can tell.’ He said with a delight in his voice.
‘What can I you do for you, sir?’ the officer asked.
‘Well I’m being pursued back there…’ when MacGyver turned his back to the officer the officer who tranquilized him and took him with him knocked him in his neck.
Later in it MacGyver got a needle shot in his arm with the serum, specially designed for MacGyver.
‘You never told me how you got out of there or how you got the antidote.’
‘Well, it was actually pretty simple. After they locked me up in a room I used the bed as a slingshot whamming the door out.’
(the music changes into the part where MacGyver escapes the warehouse)
MacGyver pulled the bed backwards when the bad guys tried to open the door and then wham the door was banged of its place breaking one of the bad guys noses. MacGyver immediately ran away towards the exit. They all went after him.
‘Alive! Take him alive!’ The main bad guy ordered.
They went after him but they didn’t find him of course. (the music fades away) He got sanctuary from a young teenage girl called Lisa. She helped him. Later that day when the effects were taking off clearing his mind again but bringing him nearer death, he just went back to that warehouse to get the antidote. By making a trap with water barrels that where hung up by a rope making them fall on two of the bad guys, beating them out, brought him closer to his goal. (the music from the fight joins in here) After a big fight with Neilson the main bad guy ending it with a big right hand, he managed to get the antidote out of the sewers by making a magnet of a metal pipe and save himself from death.
‘And that’s how I got away.’
‘You never told me that,’ two voices said at once. One belonged to Jack Dalton; the other one belonged to Sam Malloy who was standing behind him with his girlfriend and his “wicked” stepmother.
‘Well, I can’t tell you guys everything. Sometimes I keep stuff out of my files from the Phoenix Foundation.’
‘Well, tell us more about your adventures then,’ Sam replied.
‘OK, just take it easy, relax, sit down, shut up and listen then. Did I ever told you about how I saved Pete out of a cabin in Switzerland?’
‘Oh, with that bomb hanging under it,’ Pete reminded.
‘Yeah, we were supposed to help negotiate for peace between two nations. Well, three of the presidents helpers from one side tried to kill the president by framing me.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Cease Fire, the music from that scene comes in
‘OK, now, move. Move!’ the sniper whispered in himself and when he saw his chance clean to shoot MacGyver managed to stop him just in time to receive a left hand blow into his face. The sniper tried to shoot MacGyver but by a quick reaction he took the gun away and knocked the sniper on the back and threw him over his head disarming the man. His triumph didn’t last long. Getting a weapon smashed against his head leaving him unconscious on the ground for a short time. When he was onto what the bad guys had in mind, which was framing him for the murder, he ran away. While he’s on the run, he gets shot and falls of a hill. Thanks to the help of a little girl by the name of Lisa Woodman he hides out in a boathouse, after their escape, he finds out that there will be a second attempt to kill the president. He locates a bomb under the cabin where Pete and the president were in. He lowers himself under the cabin hanging on a rope several feet above the ground and we all know what he feels about heights. With a Swiss Army Knife he succeeds to cut the bomb under the cabin of and saved Pete’s and the presidents life.
‘I still got the scar of the bullet wound.’
‘Does it still hurt?’ Jack asked who had been so quiet.
‘No Jack, not anymore. Not after the last few years. But this is not the only bullet wound I caught.’
‘Yeah that’s right,’ Pete replied. ‘He’s been shot several times during his career at the Phoenix Foundation.’
‘Tell us dad.’
‘The first time was when I was flying over Afghanistan land to recover a fallen satellite.’
(Flashback scene of the episode To Be A Man, the music from that scene comes in)
MacGyver was flying on a homemade glider to get away from the villains. One of ‘em got a clear shot and shot him in his shoulder. He crashed but was all right. He tried to escape on foot but got chased by a man on a horse and with a homemade slingshot of a piece of clothing and a rock imitating David and Goliath, he made him fall into the river.
‘What about the second time?’ Sam asked.
‘Well the second time was when I was called by a former British spy for something about a new plastic explosives that were about to be used at a funeral. Two hitters killed him, I tried to get away but I got shot instead after I made a smokescreen with ammonia and muriadic acid. At first I tried to scare them away with 2x4 sticks clashing against the ground making them sound like guns.’
(Flashback scene of the episode of D.O.A. MacGyver, the music from that scene comes in)
‘No gun, eh?’ one of the hitters said, while MacGyver continued his aversion plan with the fog screen. When he was finished, they saw him and shot him. MacGyver flew through a big window and landed in the ocean with quite a bad head wound.
‘The third time he got shot by an ex-partner of Jimmy Kendall, right Mac?’ Pete asked.
‘Yeah, he was supposed to get a new identity after he’s picture was in the newspaper.’
‘Yeah, dad, you told me that partly.’
‘He tried to get his family back on a violent way with a gun. I told him to call the police. He got away first by knocking almost my lights out in a church. I went after him into Papa Chucks factory at the harbour. I managed to get on top of a house thanks to a big and low roof. I dropped a net on Sally and slid down on more fishnets, fighting Ralphie. I lost unfortunately and got shot in the ribs.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Back From The Dead, the music comes in)
MacGyver dropped the net on Sally and slid down and caught Ralphie by his leg. Both men got up and Ralphie started to choke MacGyver. MacGyver broke the chokehold and slapped Ralphie twice in his face with both hands, he missed the third one and received a blow in his stomach and one in his own face making him fall backwards near the side of the ocean. MacGyver got up fizzling with his hands not knowing with to do next, so he tried to kick him a bit clumsy. Ralphie caught MacGyver’s foot and threw him back to the ground then he kicked him three times in the stomach. Ralphie was amused by it and picked him up. MacGyver tried to hit Ralphie again with more force but Ralphie blocked the punch and hits MacGyver again in the stomach and in the face. MacGyver felled backwards again into the ocean. Sally got out of the net and threw Ralph a gun.
‘Ralph!’ he yelled when he threw the gun.
Ralph caught the gun pulled the barrel and shot MacGyver.
‘I got him.’
MacGyver slowly went under his body turned underwater and went to the depths of the ocean.
(the music fades away)
‘The fourth time was the one in Switzerland. The fifth time was shortly before I met Mrs. MacGyver in Romania. We were locked up in an archive room with a bomb set to go off in the next 150 seconds.’
‘Let me guess… you defused it, right?’
‘Not exactly. It looked like a termite bomb when I opened it. There was this guy trained at electronics and tried to defuse it while I looked for a solid place to throw the bomb in, in case the bomb should explode.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Humanity, the music of the episode joins in here)
MacGyver opened the bomb and examined the whole thing.
‘Be careful. Relax MacGyver; it almost looks like a termite bomb. Can you defuse it?’ Pete asked.
MacGyver shook his head in concentration. A French man came to take a closer look.
‘Messieurs? Please, I’m trained at electronics. I will try.’
‘You’ll never make it,’ MacGyver said surely. ‘Do you have the combination for the lock of this safe?’ he asked at the captain they’ve met earlier.
‘No,’ the answer came.
MacGyver took the speaker out of a telephone and took the microphone out of the intercom. He listened to the clicks for the safe’s combinations.
‘I got something here. Bring me that bomb.’
Pete brought him the bomb.
‘Hurry up,’ MacGyver said.
He opened the safe and threw the bomb inside the safe. It exploded in there blowing MacGyver away. Now the doors were still locked but he already got an idea. He used a closet to break through the doors where a gunfight was busy between a K-Force agent and two security guards. During the gunfight the K-Force agent turned around shooting the closet and Mac in the shoulder. The agent took MacGyver as a hostage but eventually MacGyver taught him the sense of humanity and the agent sacrificed his life in the woods to rescue Mac, Pete and the captain who was with them. He used the fishhook as a diversion. After slapping two other guys down another gunfight started. Major Krik shot the captain down.
‘Take him with you, I will hold down the major,’ the K-Force agent said.
The gunfight went to a sudden stop when the agent’s gun jammed. (the music comes up here) The agent and the major looked at each other in the eyes. The major fired his gun shooting the agent down. The major went to look at the body but the agent wasn’t dead. He turned around holding a grenade. He flicked the pin out of it.
‘You taught me well, major,’ he said and let the grenade explode. MacGyver was watching near a tree, shook his head full of disgust, pinching his eyes closed.
‘Oh, God,’ he said.
(we hear now the final part of the background music then it fades away)
‘And I’ve missed that,’ Sam said disappointed.
‘There was nothing to miss. So the next time I was shot was when I’ve met Whitecloud. We want to see his friend in a cabin in the woods, where he got his C-4 to blow up a construction site. There I got shot when they tried to frame him for killing me.
(Flashback scene of the episode Trail of Tears)
‘What are you doing?’ MacGyver asked at the construction site when he pulled out C-4 out of Whiteclouds bag.
‘Don’t go in there, it’s not safe,’ he said.
‘Give me a reason not to.’
‘I just did,’ he said and pulled MacGyver with him in safety when the construction site blew up.
In the cabin of Whitecould’s friend, MacGyver and Whitecloud were standing there near Whiteclouds dead friend.
‘Did Crow had a license for that C-4?’
‘Yeah, I left some C-4 at the construction site.’
‘Along with your rifle. 30-30 maybe?’
‘They killed Crow.’
‘Framing you. They think that I’m on to something.’
‘What are they waiting for to get us too then?’
(a you-got-caught music comes in from that episode scene)
‘Fingerprints!’ the bad guy said. ‘I was waiting for your fresh fingerprints.’ He quickly turned around and immediately shot MacGyver in his stomach.
‘Agh, agh!’
‘There’s my victim and here is my terrorist,’ he said aiming another gun at Whitecloud. His friend who got tripped by a wire outside connected to the can-made-bell distracted the bad guy. He looked behind him and Whitecloud pushed him out of the way and ran away. The two bad guys went after him, chasing him down into the woods, leaving MacGyver bleeding in the cabin.
(the music fades away)
‘So that was the story of me being shot in the cabin.’
‘Djeez, dad. Those are quite some adventures.’
‘But I’m not finished yet, not at all.’
‘Come on, tell us, Mac,’ Jack said.
‘Alright, alright, alright, then.’ He laughed.
‘How many times did you get shot after that one?’ Sally asked.
‘Twice more, well actually just once but let me explain it. After I got a knock on the head, I dreamed that I was back in time with King Arthur and his knights. He putted me up with Merlin to rescue Cecilia from Queen Morgana’s filthy dungeons. I got locked up there too with Merlin and Cecilia but thanks to a Ben Franklin trick we got away, just like that.’ He said snapping his fingers.
‘Like that?’ Sam said snapping his fingers too.
‘That’s it,’ Mac replied.
(Flashback scene of the episode Good Knight MacGyver part 2)
‘When will it happen?’ Merlin asked.
‘Well soon I hope,’ MacGyver replied.
MacGyver made a kite with pieces of wet clothes, quills, silk and a knife. Morgana appeared.
‘What is this? One of your weak tricks, Merlin? I’m afraid those days are over,’ she said.
‘Uh, Morgana… you are standing on a very dangerous spot, the best thing you can do is run.’
‘Ah yes, the MacGyver defiance. That’s why there was something about you that I despise.’
‘Well I’m having it the other way.’
‘Than it pleases me, that you will be the first official victim of the weapon that will ultimately conquer the world. I’ll bid you a fond farewell, my friend.’
Then lighting struck the kite sending an electrical shock through the kite into the lock of the dungeon door blowing it open and continuing his way to the barrels of gunpowder in Morgana’s laboratory making it explode, the whole room.
‘NOOO!’ she screamed. ‘MY RESEARCH! YOU! YOU DID THIS! YOU WILL PAY!’
Another time the lighting struck the kite giving Morgana an electric shock. ‘OOH! OOH!’
She fell down, so MacGyver took the occasion to escape with Merlin and Cecilia. (The music from that scene comes up) They ran down the stairs, through the burning laboratory to the big gates of the castle but Merlin stayed behind.
‘Morgana’s journal! Wait!’
‘Merlin!’
‘But all this knowledge! No I must have it!’
MacGyver pulled Merlin with him and covered him and Cecilia waiting for the last explosion to happen but Morgana dragged MacGyver’s attention.
‘MacGyver!’
He turned around too late to get away and saw Morgana firing her weapon at him. He was hit above his left eyebrow. He felled backwards against the big gates, only to see Morgana fall backwards again too when the final explosion exploded. If the doors weren’t there the explosion would have blown him away. He let himself slide down on his behind not knowing of what’s happening. He’s body became heavy and let him fall on his right side, and then everything became white in front of his eyes.
(The music fades away)
‘And so is how it happened, but after all it was just all a dream. Just like my dreams of Serenity and all my other normal dreams.’
‘What about the last time then you got shot?’ Sally asked friendly.
‘That was when I’ve first met Sam.’
‘Oh, he told me something of that,’ she replied.
‘Yeah I’ve met him when I was supposed to get up a videotape containing information of the Tienamen Square Massacre. My contact got killed in the progress and then I got rescued by Sam.’
Sam had this big smile on his face.
(Flashback scene of the episode The Stringer)
Sam rode on his motorcycle into the warehouse kicking one of the bad guys down. He made a quick turn and stopped.
‘Get on!’ he yelled at MacGyver who was hiding.
MacGyver didn’t hesitate for a second and hopped on.
‘Cover your head! We’re going that way out,’ Sam said pointing his finger at a big window. MacGyver immediately covered his head under his jacket when Sam rammed his motorcycle at full speed through the window.
‘Then we had to rescue Mei-Jan who was kidnapped and taken prisoner on a ship.’
(the music comes up)
MacGyver and Mei-Jan were looking in the cargo hold. MacGyver looked behind him to see where Sam was. He saw above Sam a man aiming his gun at him.
‘Look out Sam!’
The man shot MacGyver instead and he fell over the side into the cargo hold landing half on a box breaking his arm.
‘Dad?’
‘No!’ Mei-Jan screamed.
The main bad guy came on. ‘It looks like we have more burials at sea to perform,’ he said.
(The music fades away)
‘And that’s about it of all the times I got shot.’
‘Wow! Great dad you got Sam,’ Sally said.
‘Yep that was about it! He told you almost everything of every time he got injured,’ Pete said.
‘Almost? Dad?’
‘I got once pushed of a parking structure, fell three floors to the top of a car. Got a near-death experience.’
‘That poor car!’ Jack said.
‘The poor car?’ MacGyver asked surprised. ‘Poor me. I was the one who was almost dead, remember?’
‘The poor man or woman who was driving the car,’ Sally said.
‘What happened to driver?’ Sam asked.
‘I don’t know! My lights were already out, almost for good.’
‘But I know!’ Pete said.
‘You do?’
‘I do.’
‘I don’t. I’m already married a couple of hours ago and I don’t date nor marry men,’ MacGyver joked and got a few laughs.
‘The man got out of the car and almost got an heart attack when he saw a 6 feet 2 inches guy taking a nap on his roof.’
‘It was just more then taking a nap, Pete.’
‘I had to pay 50.000 $ for it, but of course my friend came first.’
‘How did they get you of that car?’ Sally asked.
‘They needed a few man to get him of the car and on the stretcher by lifting him up at each side and get him on the stretcher.’
‘Later on I suddenly got a little visit from Harry when that doctor was checking my eyes for reactions and I tried to tell Pete who took the sunboat.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Passages)
The doctor was checking MacGyver’s eyes for any reactions. (the music comes up and later turns into Harry's theme song)
‘Pete!’ MacGyver noticed in his coma. ‘What’s happening to me? Answer me Pete, what’s going on?’
He received no answer, and then he saw the guy who took the sunboat.
‘Wait a minute. That’s the guy, he stole the sunboat. Pete, he’s working for Hakim, Pete can you hear me? Pete that’s the guy!’
‘Give it up, bud.’
MacGyver’s eyes opened surprised of the voice he heard.
‘Harry? Is that you?’
‘Last time I looked.’
‘What are you doing here?’
‘I came to tell you in what mess you got yourself into. You gotta learn to be more careful, bud.’
Harry left. MacGyver was unaware of the things happening around him. ‘No! Wait. Harry, don’t go!’
MacGyver got out of his hospital bed, running after his grandfather but something was holding him back as if he remembered that he forgot something. He looked behind him and still saw his body lying on the bed. He looked back at Harry, who shook his head and then went away. ‘Harry! Wait! Harry!’
Harry didn’t respond when MacGyver stood in the passage of life and death with the white light on their faces. MacGyver turned back to the door until he saw his own reflection. He looked back into the window of the door watching his own body staying behind. What the hell was happening to him? He tried to get back in but the door was suddenly locked. He looked at the hallway and saw Harry disappear in the white light. He went after him and saw that he came out at a ship at the ocean all so peacefully.
(the music fades away)
‘Oh, dad!’
‘Let me finish Sam.’
‘Sorry, dad.’
‘When I was nearing my death, they shot with an injection needle poison in my I.V.’
(the music comes back in)
The poison was sprayed in and MacGyver’s beeping machine sounded like one big beep. MacGyver was actually now officially dead. But thanks to the quick reactions of MacGyver’s doctors and nurses they reanimated him until they had his heart rhythm back.
‘We have a heart rhythm on him,’ the nurse said.
‘Oh, thank God,’ Pete said.
‘He’s got to keep fighting. He’s not on solid ground yet.’
MacGyver said goodbye to his grandfather and tried to get off the ship now time was running out for him.
‘Come on, bud. Jump! Go for it!’ His grandfather encouraged him.
MacGyver was hanging on a rope and tried to bounce himself from the ship back to land. He bounced of but couldn’t get to the side, so he tried again. Not just yet, again, almost. With all his powers left in his legs, he pushed himself with both legs of the ship and reached the side but just barely enough to hold himself. Oh, no, he was slipping away. With all he had in his fingers, he perished his fingers into the side to have final hold on, then he grabbed Pete’s hand and awoken from his coma.
‘Doctor? Look!’ Pete said.
‘He’s coming out of it. Your friend is quite a fighter, mister Thornton. He has a normal sinus rhythm.’
MacGyver opened his eyes, unable to speak and trying to regain his senses.
‘I don’t believe it. MacGyver, can you hear me? Can you speak?’
Pete looked at his hand, which was trying to scratch something on the bed. ‘Doctor, look.’
The doctor couldn’t describe of what MacGyver was doing.
‘Maybe it’s his reflexes,’ Hakim said.
‘No!’ Pete answered.
Pete took a plate and some baby powder and putted MacGyver’s hand on it. On it MacGyver drew Hakim’s symbol, he was wearing.
‘KA! Are you saying Hakims people did this?’
MacGyver putted his thumb up.
‘You! This is all your doing.’
‘No. This is a mistake,’ Hakim said while his bodyguards tried to reach their weapons.
‘Don’t move!’ Pete said drawing his own gun. ‘Don’t even breath. Doctor, can someone of your staff call the police? Tell them that I’m holding three suspects for grand theft and attempt to commit murder.’
‘Nurse!’ the doctor ordered.
Pete was holding MacGyver’s hand again.
‘Welcome back, MacGyver.’
(the music fades away)
‘Aw, djeez, dad. That was a horrible story.’
‘What ever it was. I survived. We both survived.’
During everything he told a lot of the guest came sitting around him including his wife Maria Romburg-MacGyver. She was crying of it.
‘Oh, hey, baby. You crying over the story?’
‘Yes. My god if you look on what you’ve been through the last years.’
MacGyver puts his arm around her.
‘Don’t you worry about it,’ he said. ‘Those things happened long ago and belongs to the past now. There is nothing to worry about.’
‘Think again, MacGyver,’ one of the mysterious figures said.
‘So, another time I got hurt was when I was just driving down the road in Pennsylvania. I must have drove over something sharp because one of my tyres of the jeep just blew up ending the jeep on its roof and me on big rocks.
(Flashback scene of the episode The Outsiders, the music of the first scene joins in)
MacGyver was just like he was telling driving his car on an empty road. Nothing big was happening until the tyre blew. He tried to keep the car on the road but crashed through the protection rails. He unfastened his seatbelt and jumped out of the car, landed quite badly on his back. He had a big bleeding scratch on his forehead. How long he lay there, he didn’t know. He had to thank his life by two children and an Amish family.
(the music fades away)
‘Bit of bad luck there with the car, huh?’ Maria said.
‘Yeah! Then we have Deborah.’
Everybody looked curious of how Maria was gonna react.
‘What?’ she asked innocently. ‘He told me about her.’
Everybody was relieved.
‘She tried kill me tree times, only her first attempt succeeded. Luckily for me only partly.’ MacGyver continued.
(Flashback of the episode The Negotiator)
‘Help me to shove off,’ MacGyver said.
‘Don’t forget to call tonight. It’s your turn to cook.’
‘It’s a date.’
(the music from that scene is heard now)
MacGyver started the boat and left to the middle of the bay but Deborah made the boat explode by a homemade remote control.
‘Then she tried to stab me down during a thunderstorm.’
(music from that scene comes up)
She tried to stab him down but MacGyver knocked her down with his coat and crawled away. He hided behind some crates and took his bandages from his eyes. His eyes were painful from the blindness the explosion caused. By using the jumper cables of his jeep, he could electrocute Deborah.
(the music fades away)‘And those are all my stories from my injuries.’
‘Oh, come on, dads, tell us just one more,’ Sam said.
‘Yeah MacGyver, what’s one more story?’ Pete asked.
‘Haven’t you guys heard enough?’
‘NO!’ the answer came from almost everybody in the ballroom.
‘All right, all right, one more than but that’s the last one also.’
Everybody nodded with a smile.
‘OK. Any questions?’
‘Yeah, what’s your most near-death escape?’ one of the guests asked.
‘My coma, that I’ve just told you all before. You got wax in your ears?’
‘No. Haven’t you been through something else near-death?’
‘I once got almost split in two by a pendulum torture. Some bad guy by the name of Erich von Leer let me tied up the sarcophagus.’
‘You got split by a what?’ the guest asked again.
‘A pendulum torture. You know those big sharp blades that comes lower each time it swung around once like a big clock?’
‘Oh! How did you got out of there?’
‘With good foot work,’ MacGyver answered.
(Flashback scene of the episodes Legend of the Holy Rose part 1&2 the music of the finale of the first part comes in)
‘Shima, introduce Mr. MacGyver to the sarcophagus,’ Erich von Leer said. MacGyver was introduced to it while Erich released the blade. The blade started to swing around from left to right. Zoef, zoef, zoef. Then he opened a small crane were tap water started to pour out. The water fills the spoon; the spoon empties it and lowers the blade. ‘In a minute or so Mr. MacGyver will enhance extreme pains and is he gonna be half the man he was. Take the girl to the car.’
The girl he was referring to was Zoë Ryan, the girl who blackmailed him to search the Holy Grail but Indiana Jones already did that. So they actually went after the Holy Rose. The girl tried to scream but the hand in front of her mouth prevented that.
‘Von Leer. Mmmm, mmmm. Von Leer.’ The girl was taken away.
‘Mr. MacGyver, we can use your knowledge in our quest for the Holy Rose, but as I said before: you are just too dangerous.’
Erich went to the door but stopped there to say one more thing.
‘Intriguing, isn’t it?’
He made an adieu sign and left with his hands in his pockets. MacGyver was left alone in the torture museum with a blade coming closer to his half every time it swung around. No one out there to help him. (now the music turns into the escaping music of the beginning of part 2) MacGyver didn’t intend to stay longer than necessary and immediately started to look for things to help him out there. It wasn’t going to be easy with his hands and ankles in cuffs. The only thing he could use were his shoes. He founded a shelf that stood in connection with armour and an axe to the top shelf with dummy heads on. If he could manage it to make a head fall in the water it might freeze it and the blade can’t come lower. He threw one shoe at it but misses. He throws his other shoe and lucky for him it scored big time and it was about time because the pendulum torture touched his belt already. The chain reaction succeeded and the pendulum torture couldn’t come lower. He was saved.
‘Yes,’ he said full of delight and putted his head down in relief.
(the music fades away)
‘That’s about it. No more stories, guys,’ MacGyver said.
All of the guests made an “aw” sound.
‘Is this a party or a bedtime situation?’ he asked. ‘It’s my goddamn wedding. Dance, drink, eat, have fun is that so hard?’
‘Yes!’ the guests replied in chore.
MacGyver rolled with his eyes.
‘Come on, MacGyver tell us some more!’ Penny Parker said who standing somewhere between the guests and come up front.
‘All right, Penny. One of my most daring and most fun rescues was to drive a car out of an airplane at 20.000 feet. A bad boy by the name of Catlin stole diamonds destined for a famine relief charity. I had to steal them back in which I succeeded but my contact Chris Rhodes got captured so I had to get her out of there.’
‘Where’s there?’ Sam asked.
‘The back of an airplane. She slapped him with a ring where the diamond was missing from, making this big scratch on his face. Then I attached some parachutes on the car and drove out of there.
(Flashback scene of the episode The Heist)
‘Do you still got that ring?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Yeah, but why?’ Chris asked.
‘Use it.’
‘Come on!’ Catlin said but Chris used the ring to scratch him. ‘Yargh!’
They pushed him inside the cockpit and locked the door. MacGyver attached the parachutes he found onto the car and drove the car out of the airplane at 20.000 feet. The parachutes got open and the car started to hover around in the air. MacGyver putted his helmet of his head. (Music comes up for that known scene)
‘You can come up now,’ he said to Chris who was keeping her head down. She was stunned of what she saw. ‘How are you feeling?’
She kissed him immediately.
‘Great!’ she said. ‘Great!’ They kept kissing while the car slowly hovered downwards back to Earth, back to solid ground.
(the music fades away here)
‘And that was one of my most daring and most fun rescues,’ MacGyver said proudly.
‘You know darling, you never said anything about that kissing part.’ Maria said.
‘Well, some things can better stay unsaid, Maria,’ the answer came.
They smiled at each other and kissed. A ‘wow’ sound came from the guests. ‘What, you all never saw someone kissing before?’ MacGyver asked.
‘Dad, I don’t want to interrupt.’
‘You don’t than.’
‘I don’t want to spoil the party…’ he couldn’t finish his sentence.
‘You can’t.’
‘OK, then I’ll just ask the question.’
‘Go on.’
‘What about Murdoc?’
MacGyver putted his head on Maria’s shoulder.
‘Oh, son.’
One of the mysterious figures that were staying in the back of the audience unseen whispered: ‘Did you hear that Ms D. and Mr. M.?’
‘Yes Dr. Z.,’ the answer came from both.
‘I thought he forgot about me?’ Mr. M. said. ‘We are famous.’
‘The word is infamous Mr. M?’ Ms. D. said. ‘Infamous for the Phoenix Foundation.’
‘What can I tell you all about Murdoc, huh?’ MacGyver asked. ‘The *** tried to kill me several times, died several times. He always comes back. I don’t know how. He got demolished by an collapsing building, he was careless with a stick of dynamite in his truck that exploded, he fell of 2000 foot mountain, he drowned after I electrocuted him, he died together with his boss by throwing a grenade in a snake pit, he fell in a mine shaft and drove a jeep of a cliff. But after all it’s been over two or three years since I last saw him. He once even asked me to helping him saving his sister from Homicide International Trust or HIT for short. So that was also the one where he died with his boss. He asked me for help but I didn’t trust him. He convinced me but I told him to do it my way. No guns.’
(Flashback scene of the episode Halloween Knights)
‘You got to help me out, MacGyver,’ Murdoc said. ‘She is the only family I got.’
‘I don’t do favours for hit men and I can’t trust you.’
‘Help me now MacGyver or feel free to go. There,’ Murdoc opened a door with a remote. ‘But you should know you got a death of an innocent girl on your conscience then and I know you can’t live with that.’
MacGyver got convinced and had a hard time admitting it.
‘All right then, but no one gets killed, no weapons. Are you going to turn those people and yourself in?’
‘MacGyver, Nicholas is very well trained expert killer. He’s one of the pro’s that’s why he leads Homicide International Trust. We can’t go without weapons.’
‘Oh, we’ve got weapons. Our own. But we’ll do it my way.’
‘MacGyver, I…’
‘My way.’
(the music joins in)
Murdoc agreed and for once the two enemies worked together. Everything went well on Nicholas’ shooting ground until a surprise scared Murdoc the hell out of him. They were almost with Murdoc’s sister Ashton. When a secret door locked them up and floor went open full of snakes, Murdoc started to sweat.
‘Oh, no snakes. Not snakes, MacGyver, I hate them. I hate snakes.’
‘Well, I’m not to crazy about them myself.’
MacGyver already found his solution. Well duh. He saw a torch on Murdoc’s side behind the door and looked at his side and found another one. He took the torch on his side.
‘Yes, MacGyver, that’s it. We can use the fire to keep them aside.’
But MacGyver didn’t answer and blew the torch out.
‘What are you doing?’
‘Snakes don’t like the smell of kerosene too much,’ he said while he poured the kerosene on his legs and on Murdoc’s legs. MacGyver stepped into the snake pit and indeed the kerosene trick worked but Murdoc chickened out, he was too scared.
‘Murdoc, come on.’
‘No, MacGyver, I’m not going to do it.’
‘Murdoc, come on!’
‘No, MacGyver, I can’t do it.’
‘Aw, man!’
MacGyver was already halfway the snake pit when he turned back to get Murdoc.
‘Murdoc, come on, get on my shoulders and don’t make any sudden movements.
‘Yes, well, you better tell that to the snakes, MacGyver.’
They got over the snake pit and managed to save the girl but Murdoc got shot in his shoulder when Nicholas opened the door and came closer. ‘MacGyver, save the girl. Get Ashton out of here. We had a deal,’ he said when he pulled a grenade out of his pocket.
‘Goodbye, Murdoc,’ Nicholas said. ‘This is the end.’
‘The end for you both,’ a female voice said.
‘Sonia!’
‘Goodbye Nicholas, I’m the chairman of the board now,’ she said and opened the snake pit again. Nicholas fell right in it and Murdoc threw his grenade in it. The explosion was quite intense for in a short room. MacGyver and the girl get outside just in time.
‘Your friend,’ she cried.
MacGyver didn’t felled right about it because his plan got backfired.
(The music fades away)
‘And that’s the story about Murdoc when I had to help him out, and this was the final story also.’
The guests started to applaud with a few wows in it. MacGyver stood up of his chair. ‘Come on people, this is a party let’s have some fun now. But first I would like to propose a toast,’ he said raising his glass of champagne. ‘I want to propose it first of all on myself and you guys, who are with me now. I would like to propose also on Peter Thornton my boss and best friend of the Phoenix Foundation. It was thanks to him I got in touch with Maria by sending me to East Berlin and to reunite her with her grandfather Otto Romburg. Cheers! Mazeltov!’
Glasses were tinged with each other and everybody had great time. ‘Well, MacGyver, I thought you didn’t drink?’
‘I don’t. It’s the same kids champagne from this morning.’
‘Oh! Well, cheers then.’
‘Cheers.’
The band started to play again and people started to dance. Penny Parker danced with Jack Dalton, Sam with Sally and so on. Dinner passed by and the presents too. Then it was time for dessert and coffee.
‘MacGyver?’ Jack said from somewhere at the table.
‘Yes, Jack?’
‘We want speech-speech.’
‘Oh, Jack, no not now.’
‘Come on like in the old days.’
‘I didn’t gave them old days.’
‘Oh that’s right. I gave them. Ladies and Gentlemen now I would like to say a few words…’
‘All right Jack all right. I’ll give one,’ he said standing up from his chair at the table. He scratched his head a little and laughed. ‘I don’t even know where to begin. Well, I just want to thanks everyone that were able to be here with me… I mean with us today. You are all very special to me and meant a lot for me the last few years. I’ve been through a lot with you guys. We’ve had some great adventures together but I think it’s now time to settle down a little and to take it more easier. Even a guy like me has to take it easier somewhere at point in his life. I think I’ve reached that point now that I’m married. Everybody knows that I’m afraid that something will happen to Maria with a job like mine at the Phoenix Foundation. So Pete, I would appreciate if you would give me something else to do at the Phoenix Foundation.’
‘MacGyver, what? You just said before you would miss the excitement too much.’
‘I do, but during this party I’ve realised that I’ve got something of more value here. She’s more worth than a few assignments overseas or wherever it can be. I’m not leaving the foundation, Pete. I just want to do something else. That’s all.’
‘I can try to find something else but I don’t know if something is free. I’ll have to check my files for that. And if I don’t find anything?’
‘Then I’ve got no choice then to keep working in the field.’
That relieved Pete.
‘And to conclude this speech I specially wants the attention of my son Sam Malloy and of my bride Maria Romburg. But first I would like to thank Sam for the beautiful presents he gave us. So I give him something back to thank him. Sam, catch this.’
MacGyver threw something at him and Sam caught it up neatly.
‘Dad, what’s this?’
‘Open it up, son, you’ll see.’
Sam opened the little box and two items were in it.
‘Keys?’
‘Yes that’s right, son. Keys. Car keys, to be exact. I’m willing to give you the 1946 yellow Chevy pick-up truck.’
‘Geez, dad, thanks.’
‘And take a look at the other item.’
Sam took the other item.
‘Woah, dad, this is too much. I can’t take this. Don’t give me this.’
‘Yes you do, Sam. You can take it. Your own Swiss Army Knife and take another look under it.’
Under it there were two more items in it.
‘Matches and scotch tape?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Smart presents, dad.’
‘Well, with my imagination…’
‘Thanks, dad.’
‘Your welcome. Now I got one more thing to give.’
‘Oh, dad, I…’ Sam started but couldn’t say anything.
‘It’s not for you, Sam.’
‘Oh.’
‘It’s for Maria,’ he said and took a small box out of his pocket.
‘Darling, what is it?’ she asked
‘Open it,’ he said.
She opened it. It was the exact the same box Sam had.
‘Oh, darling, come here.’
MacGyver bend over and she kissed him.
‘Tell us what it is?’ Pete said.
‘Car keys,’ Maria answered.
‘Again?’
‘Let me guess. They’re not from the yellow pick-up truck, right.’
‘Yep and not from the Jeep either.’
‘Then they from…’
‘The 1957 blue Nomad station wagon. It also belonged to my grandfather Harry just like the yellow pick-up truck.’
‘Do you think Harry would be happy about it that you give me his car?’ Maria asked uncertain.
‘Yes, I think he understands. It was his legacy for me.’
MacGyver looked at the end of the table were he saw Harry standing nodding his head with approval then Harry disappeared.
‘Thank you honey,’ Maria said.
The evening carried on into the night, into the late night even. It was 4:30 am when almost everybody was gone. There were just a few people cleaning up, the band was gone and radio was playing some slow music. MacGyver and Maria were the only ones from the wedding that were still there dancing in the middle of dance floor, holding each other. MacGyver was never happier.
(fades out)

Original date of story post: Feb 12 2004 05:24 AM

I know some things aren't quite accurate to the descriptions, like the Trail of Tears clip. That's why I wrote the title episodes with it.

Nope. Now they're just doing some observation. If you're planning to read the other chapters, I better don't say anything else. The answers are giving in the next chapters. 

That could of course work, though in general comments like that are a bit distracting from the flow of the story.

What also might have worked is rather than write the flashback scenes is let Mac tell those scenes, including deadpan commentary. That would also get you out of that trouble of not remembering scenes word for word. So instead of repeating the scene at the snake pit, let Mac tell what he thought about Murdoc's fear of snakes and having to carry him across the snake pit. That would have been a nice addition to the story.

For that flashback to Halloween Knights I mean something like:
When we had almost crossed Death Row it turned out Helman had one more surprise in store. One especially for Murdoc. A pit of snakes. Murdoc likes snakes even less than I like heights. He's downright terrified of them. Our way back was closed off by a gate, but, given enough time, I'm sure Murdoc would have gnawed through it. Like an animal in a trap would gnaw off its own leg.

There was a torch standing just out side the gate that I could reach. I sprinkled the kerosine from the torch on our pants' legs so we could walk through the snake pit without being bothered by the snakes. Snakes don't like the smell of kerosine. But Murdoc wouldn't budge. I ended up carrying the guy across the snake pit on my shoulders.

etc.

Something like that. I don't know what Mac would think of an assassin that seems impossible to kill that has a fear of snakes. Surely it can't be because he thinks they can kill him?