Recap
Security guard Abe Sherman breaks into an office at Harding Aeronautics' airfield hangar using a stolen security card and removes a set of blueprints for the stealth helicopter stored there. He then goes out and uses an access card to get into the helicopter. He replaces the fire extinguisher inside the helicopter with a fake one he's been provided with and then flies away with it as the security teams run to investigate. The head of security, Elliott, tells his men LaManna and Major Sneed, not to fire for fear they'll damage the chopper. They quickly figure that their new temp security guard, Sherman, stole it, and call the tower to track it...
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Episode Quotes
MacGyver: You mind telling me what's going on?
Abe Sherman: Those guys were shooting at us.
MacGyver: I know that!
Abe Sherman: You know all those subversive publications that say the CIA financed Perigot and put him in power?
MacGyver: Yeah.
Abe Sherman: It's true. I spearheaded the whole operation.
MacGyver: Great. Iran-Contra, Noriega, now this. Tell me something, is there anybody you guys didn't finance?
Abe Sherman: The Democrats.
Marcel Perigot: Who are you?
Major Sneed: Major Sneed.
Marcel Perigot: Sneeze?
Major Sneed: Sneed.
Marcel Perigot: Well, mon ami, you must pay. By the power invested in me by... moi, I sentence both of you to hang by your neck until long after you're dead, until vultures pluck your eyeballs out.
Major Sneed: I don't like this, Mr. President. MacGyver's an environmentalist. You can't trust those people.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* A flashlight to trigger a laser computer sensor
* A string coated in candle wax to make a fuse
* A billows to spray alcohol out through a keyhole into a cloud, and then ignite it with a fuse to cause an explosion
* The metal hoop to draw sparks to light a bundle of cobwebs on fire and set off a fuse