Natalia Velskaja: MacGyver, he's going to kill us anyway. If I can't bring this gold to my people, I believe the next best thing is to just step off and take him with us. What do you think?
MacGyver: I think you shouldn't go Russian on me just yet.
Natalia Velskaja: What do you mean, "Russian"?
MacGyver: You know, heroic, fatalistic. Russian.
Natalia Velskaja: Oh, that Russian.

MacGyver: Well, he lived his life as a hero. Seems he died the same way.
Natalia Velskaja: Why, MacGyver, you're beginning to sound Russian.
MacGyver: What do you mean, Russian?
Natalia Velskaja: Poetic, philosophical. Russian.

MacGyverisms:
* A pencil taped to a dictaphone cylinder to rotate it, and a lapel pin attached to a paper funnel to amplify the recording
* A fire extinguisher wrapped in rubber and soaked in vodka, with a sleeping bag string soaked in more vodka as a fuse, to blast out of an avalanche
* A backpack frame to jam a trigger mechanism on a weight platform