Recap
MacGyver travels to Kasabian but his car breaks down. He heads for the garage, but a policeman orders him back when he comes to migrant workers picketing in the streets. A labor organizer, Tony Garcia, is speaking out about how the contractors are using illegal pesticides and poisoning them. The company owner, Caspar Kasabian, arrives and insists that he follows the government regulations, but Garcia points out that the laws are weak and the growers pay off the government agents who enforce the laws. Caspar's son Nick is tempted about the protestors to do something but his father has tied his hands. Caspar insists the photos proving pesticide contamination are lies and the poisoning occurred in somebody else’s fields. Caspar threatens Garcia and a fight breaks out. MacGyver jumps in to help Garcia and the police arrest him along with the others...
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Episode Quotes
Tony Garcia: Where are you staying?
MacGyver: I'm not really sure.
Alex Silva: Are you staying?
MacGyver: I'm not really sure about that, either. It all kinda depends on when I can get my car back on the road.
Alex Silva: Yeah. Figures.
Tony Garcia: That's his way of saying "thanks."
Tony Garcia: You must be glad you came this way, eh, MacGyver.
MacGyver: Well, someday I'll learn to drive on the interstates.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* Nail polish mixed with a plant sample, viewed through the polarized lenses from sunglasses, to make a crude spectrograph
* A ladder as a snorkel to get oxygen from the upper half of a drained tank filling with carbon dioxide
* Opening the valve on a tank filled with wine under pressure, spraying into an attacker to knock him back