Recap
On behalf of the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and Pete are using a model submarine in a water tank to test ERMA (Echo Regeneration Module Active), an anti-sonar system. The system's creator, Gwen Carpenter, is supervising the experiment. Dan Stringer, the DEA agent in charge of interdiction, arrives and explains that the major drug cartels have equipped their ships with sonar. The DEA hopes that ERMA will let them bypass the Cartels' sonar. The test is successful and Stringer insists that Gwen may have changed the course of the war on drugs...
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Episode Quotes
Pete: MacGyver! What are you doing in there?
MacGyver: The backstroke, Pete.
MacGyver: Why don't you call for some backup? I'll see if I can slow them down.
Pete: How? (thinks about it) Never mind. I know you'll think of something.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* A flare pistol tied to a submarine hatch's ladder, rigged with electrical wiring, to fire and blow open the hatch
* Inflatable life raft tossed into a cabin to inflate, trapping the men inside
* A life jacket to immobilize a man by tossing it over his head