Recap
At a nuclear facility in Siberia, MacGyver slips in disguised as a motorcycle messenger. He's looking for political prisoner and poet Yuri Demetri, who is assigned to do dangerous work. MacGyver is there to help him defect and meet with his father in the States. MacGyver tells him to hang tight and then gets on his motorcycle and circles around to Yuri. He gets Yuri on board and drives for a loading ramp, jumping over the good and making good their escape...
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Episode Quotes
MacGyver: Ah, Siberia. Not known for its tourist trade or over-population. That's exactly why it's such a popular place for political prisoners. And nuclear facilities.
Yuri Demetri: You can't get me through the gates without paper. They'll stop us. They'll shoot!
MacGyver: Who said anything about going through?
MacGyver: Penny, do you have any relatives or friends?
Penny Parker: I have you.
Penny Parker: I'm an actress; it's my job to study people.
Yuri Demetri: As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Lyle: I vote for death.
Penny Parker: I promise I'm not going to talk!
Lyle: Sweetheart, you do nothin' but talk!
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* A flare tossed on top of a van to follow it from a distance without being seen
* Magnesium alloy from a wheelchair wheel, put inside an iron pipe and rags used as wadding, to heat the pipe and pop a padlock open