MacGyver may be in its first season, but it knows how to kick off well after a winter hiatus. Several friends and enemies return in the first episode of 2017, including the one that got away. Both MacGyver and Jack Dalton have a difficult time when their exes come back to town, spurring the unraveling of a conspiracy deep within the Phoenix Foundation. As if fighting international terrorists every week wasn’t difficult enough, the dynamic duo has to do so with the unavailable loves of their lives looking over their shoulders.
Jack’s ex Sarah returns to tell the Phoenix Foundation that she found Nikki. Now Jack has been avoiding Sarah like a bad cold, because it’s almost just as painful. Sarah is getting married in a few days, and Jack has been having trouble coming to terms with it. After all, what does it say that Sarah decides to assign herself to a case which the Phoenix Foundation can handle right before she’s about to get married? Regardless, they have a mission. Jack, MacGyver, and Sarah catch Nikki, only to learn she is became a CIA operative, not a traitor. They’re not altogether convinced at first, but slowly little things start persuading them. Nikki claims she has been working undercover to find a mole, code name Chrysalis, linked to international terrorism. Nikki leads the team on a trip to a safe house only the Phoenix Foundation knows about, because she knew that’s where her information would be secure. Upon arriving, and after much skepticism from Jack, they find all of Nikki’s intelligence cleaned out just as armed snipers arrive to kill them all.
Back in Los Angeles, Bozer and Riley have to figure out a way to get more information on Chrysalis without alerting them or Thorton. Riley can’t go through her normal channels to get information, so Bozer proves his worth in spades by thinking outside the box. They go to see Murdoch, who demands a first edition copy of Paradise Lost in exchange for information. All he gives them an International Bank account number in exchange for a very rare, difficult to find novel. Luckily Bozer has small-firm accounting experience, and is handy with prosthetics. Bozer is able to get them into the bank’s basement so they could find proof of the mole’s existence, which they do.
Proof of the mole’s existence becomes very puzzling when Thornton shows up to arrest Nikki for creating all these incidents in order to divert and disrupt funds in U.S. government. Thornton is the only person who could’ve known where MacGyver and Nikki were at all times, and there were too many coincidences of chance encounters. Not to mention Sarah finds an NSA analyst who confirms that Thornton’s code name is Chrysalis. Thornton is arrested for treason as the team wonders how they could have missed the signs. Where does this leave the team? Nikki and MacGyver will try again, as much as they can being undercover operatives constantly on the move. As much as Jack loves Sarah, he can show her that he loves her by letting her go. To quote Jack, “This week sucks.”
Is anyone else relieved that the Phoenix Foundation will be under new management?
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