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MacGyver Season 3 Episode 14

The Odd Triple

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AIRED: 2/29/88

After returning home from a long assignment, MacGyver finds Jack Dalton waiting for him and wanting him to help with a new scheme. A wealthy woman has just acquired some valuable jewels and wants Jack to fly her back to her home in France, but when they land Jack and MacGyver are arrested and accused of theft.moreless

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More entertaining Jack Dalton fare, but the execution of this episode didn't floor me as much as most third season episodes did.

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By mark_28, Sep 21, 2011

Returning on leap year day 1988 after the Winter Olympics, MacGyver and Jack Dalton embarked on another globe-trotting adventure that entertained, but at least in my opinion, didn't stack up among the best episodes of the season. The double-cross involving the jewel heist was cleverly crafted, and Pete's outrage as Mac's latest debacle with Dalton was hilarious, but the episode lost some of its energy in the second half. There was nothing particularly worthy of criticism in the second half (other than the usual silliness of "locking MacGyver up" for a few hours before following through with plans to kill him) and Pete's infiltration of the jewel auction was amusing and suspenseful, but I didn't walk away from this episode as blown away as I usually did at this stage of the series. I continue to harbor the same feelings about this episode which would have been extremely solid by the standards of your average 80's crimefighter series but doesn't stand out in the crowd by MacGyver standards.moreless
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Dana Elcar	Peter Thornton
Richard Dean Anderson	MacGyver

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Terence Kelly	Brosz	Guest Star
Judy Geeson	Elena Iturbe/Leann Auber	Guest Star
Ian Ruskin	Andres	Guest Star
Bruce McGill	Jack Dalton	Recurring Role

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QUOTES (16)
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- Max: It might be difficult.
  Jack: Money's no object.
  Pete: Jack!
  Max: In that case, two of them have already checked out of their hotels.
  Pete: You didn't tell me that.
  Max: You didn't mention that money was no object.
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- Jack: Here they come. I anticipate champagne, flashbulbs, and with any luck, local beauty queens panting after my highly-trained pilot's body.
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- Jack: Welcome home!
  MacGyver: No.
  Jack: Ah, the man's overcome with emotion.
  MacGyver: No, just overcome.
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- Pete: We've got to sneak in.
  Jack: Disguised as what, Mother Teresa and a leper?
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- Pete: Jack, having you as a friend is a little bit like owning a pet disease.
  Jack: Why, Pete, old pal, are you trying to hint you're upset?
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- MacGyver: Maybe we should consider a different way out.
  Leann: That door is steel. It is cross-braced and double-locked.
  MacGyver: I never said it was going to be easy.
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- Leann: I believe in honesty. At least, when I'm contemplating my own death.
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- MacGyver: Looks like at least two armed guards on duty.
  Jack: Okay... so I guess knockin' on the front door is out.
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- MacGyver: We're officially crooks until we square with the police. Which means we should get a line on those jewels.
  Jack: MacGyver, we're wanted criminals; we just broke out of a torture chamber by slugging an inspector of police and the head of security for the richest woman in the universe.
  MacGyver: We've got no choice. Either we're innocent—or we're dead.
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- MacGyver: My grandfather used to say, "if you're afraid of the answer, don't ask the question."
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- Elena: You would probably give them to a campaign for hunger.
  MacGyver: Yeah.
  Elena: And save a few lives for what, six months, a year? Until they breed more starving children and the money runs out, and then what?
  MacGyver: Then you'd have bought another year. You can do a lot in a year.
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- Elena: Dalton told me about you. Apparently you would rather give $32 million to medial research.
  MacGyver: Yeah... but then that's probably why you own the plane, and I'm just flying it.
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- Jack: The plane's there. We're signed up.
  MacGyver: What about her flight crew?
  Jack: Lost. Strayed. Stolen. Who cares?
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- Jack: I just taped over some old movie.
  MacGyver: My classic western collection!
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- MacGyver: Jack, the answer is no: no rescue missions, no buried treasure, no sunken gold, no oil wells. No!
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- MacGyver: Three and a half weeks, two continents, five countries, one island, about nine thousand miles, and I was wasted. Right now, I was looking forward to miles and miles of nothing happening—except sleep.
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- Guest Campbell Lane can also be seen with Richard Dean Anderson in Stargate SG-1: Continuum.
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- This is the first of Campbell Lane's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season six's "The Gun".
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- Guest Duncan Fraser can also be seen with Richard Dean Anderson in the Stargate SG-1 episode, "The Torment of Tantalus".
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- Guest Terence Kelly can also be seen with Richard Dean Anderson in the Stargate SG-1 episode, "Space Race".
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- This is the first of Martin Evans' two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season seven's "The Coltons".
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- This is the first of Kim Kondrashoff's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season five's "Log Jam".
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- This is the first of Bill Croft's four, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season five's "Deep Cover", season six's "MacGyver's Women", and season six's "High Control".
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- This is the first of Alan Robertson's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season five's "Halloween Knights".
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- This is the second of Vernon Wells' two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season one's "The Heist".
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- The German episode title is "Das Gangstertrio".
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- The title of this episode is a play on the 1968 movie—and later TV series—The Odd Couple.
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