Recap: MacGyver 4X01: Fire + Ashes + Legacy= Phoenix
Mac is back, and wants to get the team back together for a dangerous mision with an ex M-16 agent. But will the team be able to stay together?
No Chemistry in Chemistry, But a Bioweapon is on the Horizon
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MacGyver(Lucas Till) is racing through a parking lot in his souped up Tacoma. He dodges cars and takes risky turns. Is he after Murdoc( David Dastmalchian)? Is his father in trouble? Nope. Just late for class…
It’s eighteen months after Phoenix was disbanded and MacGyver is teaching at a college. The kids are not impressed, because his heart isn’t in it.
Getting the Band Team Back Together
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Leaving class, Mac rassles(we call it rasslin’ here) a stalker. A rich former M-16 stalker named Russ Taylor(Henry Ian Cusick). He’s kinda shady in the way that the deepest jungle is kinda shady. But he needs help to stop a global catastrophe. Mac agrees to help with the stipulation that he wants his team.
Taylor agrees but says that Matty(Meredith Eaton) has already opted out.
Riley(Tristin Mays) is working as a computer tech at a computer store. She’s in, quitting on the spot to go with Mac.
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Bozer(Justin Hires), now a movie maker, needs a Star Wars quote, after he gets it, IN.
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Desi(Levy Tran) is a bouncer. Even after a bad breakup with Mac,
she’s still in.
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The Mission
With most of his team assembled, Mac gets to work.
A deadly new bioweapon has been stolen, so the team needs to find it, fast.
The bioweapon is tracked to a black market auction. Russ and Desi go inside as a couple. Mac goes to get intel to give to Riley. Bozer is manning the video surveilance. Because everything is written down in a ledger in code, Riley can’t upload it. Desi creates a diversion, then Riley creates a bigger one. Mac manages to get copies made of the ledger, and they escape.
The Team Needs Matty-the Team Hacks Matty’s TED-ish Talk
The level of clearance is beyond even Riley’s hacking skills, the team needs someone who can pull strings The team needs Matty. They end up hacking her computer mid-talk to an auditorium room full of people. Somebody’s gotta take charge and keep everyone safe, y’all.
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Bioweapon UnSurprise
Turns out the bioweapon came from…Russ’s company. Russ realizes he has been doing wrong, in a Scrooge-like turn of events. He wants to right the wrongs he has done. Scrooge-like, but probably no ghosts.
On The Trail
Riley finds that a large order of one of the components needed to spread the weapon has shipped nearby, and the gang determine that the bioweapon will be spread through a major water supply.
They arrive too late, the torpedo has launched and will contaminate the water, putting millions at risk. Racing the clock, MacGyver stops the torpedo using quick thinking and a gel additive.
The torpedo sblorps in the gelled water.
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Team Goals
Russ wants to keep the team together. He bought the old Phoenix building, and upgraded it. Russ can do multimillion dollar technical upgrades, but, in contrast, is still trying to get a foosball table.
MacGyver said it best; The Phoenix Foundation was “home”.
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