Recap
MacGyver pulls up in a moving truck at his new garage as his landlord Mel Krasney, a sculptor and former lawyer, comes by. MacGyver admits that he managed to salvage most of his stuff after his houseboat burned down. A girl, Kelly Dobbs, comes running up and introduces herself as an aspiring actress. She invites MacGyver to dinner and then asks Mel to borrow some money so she can get take a bus to fill in her for her roommate Molly at a manicure appointment. Mel gives in and loans her the money...
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Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* A poker to push a skeleton's hand to knock a lever loose, freeing him from a medieval rack
* Candle wax to hold the ashes of a matchbook together to read the name, written in metallic ink that doesn't burn
* A fire hose wrapped around a scaffold and fastened to an ascending elevator so that it pulls the scaffold down