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MacGyver Season 2 Episode 21

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AIRED: 4/27/87

MacGyver is called to a meeting with an explosives expert formerly with British Intelligence, who has learned of a group of terrorists that will use a new plastic explosive in a vengeful attack on the U.S. army. However, before the explosives expert can give MacGyver all the details, he is shot. MacGyver flees through a window and is picked up by a boat, whose owner soon learns that the man she has rescued doesn't have any memory.moreless

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pretty good episode...

8.9

By Fwirrel, Jul 19, 2007

MacGyver gets shot and falls out of a window into the water. He then gets onto a passing boat and meets a lady who decides to try to help him. Mac has amnesia and the bad guys eventually get him and tell him that Pete is bad and when he's about to shoot Pete Mac remembers and yadda yadda. Anyways, the episode has good action and a great story. Mac actually handled a gun for once, even though he didn't remember anything. The main thing that bugged me was the woman that helped him (I forgot her name). She acted in Star Trek Deep Space Nine and I just kept seeing her as Major Kira and it screwed up the moment. Anyways, good episode and one of the top ones. Actually, another thing, they've done the amnesia thing before, but this time it was a little different and better.moreless
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The "amnesia" theme is usually pretty ridiculous, but this episode had enough other things going on to hold its own.

8.3

By mark_28, Apr 28, 2007

This episode got off to a great and suspenseful start with the murky espionage theme in full effect and the thugs chasing MacGyver through the warehouse after killing Braddock. I always roll my eyes at the far-fetched "amnesia" theme because writers never seem completely effective at flawlessly pulling it off. "DOA: MacGyver" did a pretty good job, but still managed the faux pas of having MacGyver tell young Jason that "the chain on his bike used to break all the time when he was a boy" right in the midst of his amnesia. Beyond that, however, commercial fisherwoman Carol Varnay was one of the few three-dimensional female characters featured on the series, not easily fitting the typical categories of "bimbo of the week", "damsel in distress", or "femme fatale" and was well played by actress Nana Visitor. The ragtag team of villains were not as convincing and seemed far too disorganized to be taken seriously as shadowy assassins. Nonetheless, the final scene with Pete was done about as well as one could expect and gave some dramatic momentum to the episode. The final scene before the epilogue, where Mac tucked the bomb into a conveniently placed metal can and tossed it under Lancer's motor home two seconds before it exploded, was kind of weak, but the episode was nonetheless satisfying overall. And unlike "Friends", flashbacks were used effectively in this one.moreless
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From the worst form of Clip Show to the best. Clipshow number 3 starts, It's better, but is it good?

9.0

By kinglink2, Apr 22, 2006

There must have been a bet between writers of MacGyver. Who can make the best clip show? Or maybe the show with the least McGyverisms and most crap?

Either way this is the third MacGyver episode in a row that has flashbacks, more often known as "clips" and with as many these shows have they become "clip shows". As meantioned in the previous show's review there's a numerous amount of clip shows, but unlike that, this is a fine example of how it works.

The episode starts with a little excitement, of which Macgyver loses his memory. Which starts the main story. MacGyver then meets a young lady (wow, it's as if he's using Axe body shots every week. He meets more hotties than Hugh Hefner.) Who after a quick run in helps him out until he regains his memories. His memories come back a little at a time from sound, sight, and actions. And if that's not enough, there's a touching ending with Pete's talk about them.

However there's very few MacGyverisms, actually only one major one. The fixing of a young kids bike. So fans of his quirky inventions might be disappointed, however the story is very solid, and their's more action than many episodes.

Overall this is a decent MacGyver episode. It could have used a little more of his inventiveness, but with his brains scrambled, its understandable. There is a great story, and fans of the shows likely will not be disappointed, unlike with the previous week's episodes.moreless
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Dana Elcar	Peter Thornton
Richard Dean Anderson	MacGyver

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Priscilla Morrill	Helen Wilson	Guest Star
John Pleshette	Lancer	Guest Star
Clive Revill	Braddock	Guest Star

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- Although he has amnesia, MacGyver fixes a little boy's bike using his name to make a guide to the chain.
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- MacGyver: Pete Thornton wanted to come. It wasn't easy keeping him away.
  Braddock: Peter, yes, he always disapproved of me—a keen judge of character.
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- Pete: Right now, I know you better than you know yourself. You don't use guns. That gun doesn't feel right in your hand. It can't. You don't use guns, MacGyver. You hate them.
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- Pete: His name is MacGyver; he can fix anything. He could fix a computer with a hairpin and a piece of duct tape.
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- Carol: So you are one of the good guys after all. Told ya.
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- Pete: I know you've got amnesia. You don't know who I am, do you?
  MacGyver: You're Peter Thornton. You're a killer.
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- Lancer: I need you to stop the killer.
  MacGyver: Any idea who it is?
  Lancer: We've got a suspect. He's a professional terrorist. His name is Peter Thornton.
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- MacGyver: Everything I'm remembering is filled with explosions and gunfights. And I'm right in the middle of 'em.
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- MacGyver: Maybe he wasn't the kind of guy you'd want your kids to grow up to be, but one of his bombs got me out of prison in Morocco. So when he called early on a quiet Sunday afternoon and said he was in trouble, I had to make good on my IOU.
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- MacGyver: Most people come to southern California for the sunshine. But there are others who burn easily, so they stay in the shadows.
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- MacGyver: (to Carol) Your phone is dead.
  (Jules suddenly appears)
  Jules: And so are you.
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- This is the second of Buck Young's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season two's "Final Approach".
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- This is the first of Kim Miyori's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. She can also be seen in season five's "Second Chance".
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- The German episode title is "Black-Out". The Finnish episode title is "Muistinmenetys", meaning "Amnesia". The French episode title is "MacGyver mort ou vif", meaning "MacGyver: Dead or Alive". The Italian episode title is "L'attentato", meaning "The Attack".
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- This is the second of Nana Visitor's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. She can also be seen in season one's "Hellfire".
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