Barney

Barney is a Colonel who works for “The Department” and was responsible for ordering MacGyver on a mission to destroy a Middle Eastern nuclear facility. When MacGyver got home from that assignment he found Barney waiting for him with a dire warning that he had been identified during the mission and assassin-for-hire, Axminster, had been contracted to kill him.

Barney recommended that MacGyver get out of town, and he offered to set up a safe house for him to stay in, but MacGyver declined the offer, instead choosing to visit his grandfather in Colorado.