"(phone ringing)" "Westport Nuclear Processing." "Amy Austin." "KRAMER:" "Yes, this is Sergeant Kramer, State Police." "Uh, what is it, Sergeant?" "Do you know a Mr. Gerald Hillman?" "Of course." "He's my boss, but I'm afraid he's not here right now." "He left several hours ago for New York." "Why?" "Is something the matter?" "Yes, ma'am." "We're still investigating, but for some unexplained reason, his car ran off the road, hit a bridge." "And Mr. Hillman?" "He's..." "I'm terribly sorry, ma'am, but he's dead." "Ready?" "Three-to-one." "I love it, MacGyver." "You got lucky, eh?" "I used to date Wayne Gretzky." "Come on, stop stalling." "Once more for all the marbles." "Okay." "All right, hoser." "Here we go, eh?" "Don't want you to be nervous or nothin', you know." "(laughs)" "I mean, I'm part Canadian, you know what I mean?" "You look it." "(beep)" "And there's the face-off at the start of the defensive end." "Oh, I have a great block!" "Oh, it's a beautiful pass on the wing." "Makes a shot over another wing!" "Oh, you're a dead man !" "And there's a shot!" "Oh!" "I appreciate the call." "Thank you, Sergeant." "(raspy breathing)" "(raspy breathing)" "MacGYVER:" "Oh, and the lady gets faked out of her socks." "od." "Oh, here... go" "Come on!" "at." "(laughs):" "Give me th" "They look a little slow today." "Must be the humidity, eh?" "(mutters) ... Grim and determined." "Almost" "Shot into the corner!" "(laughs):" "Oh!" "Hey!" "Oh!" "Almost!" "Which counts for absolutely nothing." "(alarm buzzing)" "(raspy breathing)" "(raspy breathing)" "(buzzing continues)" "He's about to break away." "Takes a shot." "He shoots!" "He scores!" "Unbelievable!" "Off the face!" "Shoot!" "Trickled into the net, and that's the game!" "(sighs)" "The fans go crazy." "(imitates crowd cheering)" "Now, that was for all the marbles." "MacGyver..." "Susan..." "Are you gonna play fair, or do I spread the word about how totally dishonest you are?" "Totally, eh?" "Okay, one more time." "One more time, eh?" "Yeah, I like that accent." "What accent, eh?" "Waiting for the face-off." "This one literally for all... (beep) the marbles..." "(phone rings)" "I'm not home, okay?" "Come on!" "MacGYVER:" "Hello." "This isnotMacGyver." "So, obviously, you've reached a wrong number." "But if you need to leave a message..." "Shoots-- unbelievable!" "Off his face again!" "...if he happens by." "(beep)" "AMY:" "Mac, if you're home, pick up the phone." "I need to talk to you!" "This is Amy Austin." "Hold it." "Yeah, Amy?" "Mac, Mac, I'm in trouble." "Amy, what is it?" "Oh, Mac, I need you." "Look, if it's real serious, I can be there by tomorrow." "I'll catch a plane out tonight." "What's wrong?" "Well, I don't really know." "I mean, a friend of mine died, and, oh, I don't know who to trust." "Mac, please, please, I need your help." "I think someone's trying to kill me." "Look, look, I know I don't have any right to involve you in this, but..." "Hey, wait a minute." "You've got every right." "Where do we meet?" "The beach,ourbeach." "(raspy breathing)" "d!" "AMY:" "Oh my Go" "Amy, can't you tell me a little bit about...?" "Amy?" "Amy?" "Amy?" "!" "Amy, are you there?" "(raspy breathing)" "Am" "Mac, you okay?" "(suspenseful theme music playing)" "?" "?" "(adventurous theme plays)" "?" "?" "MacGYVER:" "The past is a strange country." "You go back, but it doesn't recognize you." "I'd changed in ways I didn't know, and if I was a stranger, so was Amy." "Used to be Amy and me, one word." "Back in that time, in this place." "(seagulls screeching)" "Amy stayed." "I've moved on." "And what had been between us changed, stretched out over distance and time." "I remember this beach." "There were palm trees then." "?" "I remember when rock was young ?" "?" "Me and Suzie had so much fun ?" "?" "Holding hands and skimming stones ?" "?" "Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own ?" "?" "But the biggest kick I ever got ?" "(laughs)" "?" "Was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock ?" "?" "While the other kids were rocking round the clock... ?" "?" "." "Well, right on time, as usual" "Well, I had a good excuse, as usual." "k, Hey, I thought you wanted to have a major tal or did you mean some serious making out?" ". (laughs):" "Oh, ho, ho, ho" "You look like you're about to burst." "So, what is it?" "You remember that freighter I told you about?" "Uh, yeah, something about bucketing around the Mediterranean Ocean or something." "Yeah, it's a sea, and it's the Adriatic." "Oh." "Amy, it's the Greek Islands." "It's Sicily, North Africa, and it's all set." "You and me." "I talked to the captain." "He needs a cook." "He'll sign us both up." "Mac, you signed me up?" "You bet." "Oh, honey, that's crazy!" "Yeah, it is!" "Come on, we talked about this." "Traveling." "Yeah, talk." "And what about your degree?" "I mean, Mac," ", ten miles down that coastline they're-they're building a nuclear processing plant." "They're gonna need people with science degrees." "Mac, we could have a real future there... together." "Amy," "I took physics because it was interesting, and it excited me, not to buy myself a job." "Amy, come on, ther e's a world out there!" "Let's go look at it!" "Being somethin g different!" "I don't want to be different." "I want a life I can count on." "Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about-- counting' on-- us, together." "Not some executive recruiter or a pension plan." "Mac, I can't." "I mean, I never really thought that you meant something this crazy." "y?" "Craz" "Finding out who I am?" "Well, maybe." "Maybe you ought to go." "?" "If words could make wishe s come true... ?" "Just like that?" "?" "?" "I'd save every day... ?" "I don't know." "?" "?" "Like a treasure and then" "?" "Again, I would spend them with you... ?" "(engine starting)" "(horn honking)" "(no audio)" "MacGyver?" "It's Tim" " Tim Wexler." "Tim." "It's been a while, huh?" "Yeah." "(sighing)" "The police called the plant." "They told us... about Amy." "Were you here when this happened?" "All of it." "Her car just blew up?" "I don't think it just blew up, Tim." "Well, what then?" "Well, Mr. MacGyver said Amy called him last night and said she thought somebody was trying to kill her." "Well, then this wasn't an accident?" "DETECTIVE:" "Well, my lab people tell me the evidence shows it might have been a gas leak." "Tailpipe got too hot, she stopped here and..." "Damn shame." "Lord knows she had enough trouble." "What troubles?" "Well, her daddy and mama got killed in a plane crash about a year ago, and then just last night her boss got killed when his car went out of control." "Jerry Hillman." "nt." "The, uh, general manager of the pla" "State police r." "found his ca" "He ran right into the old bridge at South Fork." "TRAIN:" "Knew them both." "I tell you, sometimes this job is just plain god-awful." "Yeah, I can imagine." "Listen, Chief... would you mind having your boys at the lab take a close look at this piece of gas tank I found?" "Sure." "What, what do you have in mind?" "Well, if the tank caught on fire, it would have blown out, right?" "Yeah." "Well, look at that little hole there." "It's blowing in." "And I'll bet the boys at the lab will be able to tell you that white residue there is magnesium oxide." "Magnesium oxide-- you mean that stuff they...?" "That's, uh, the explosive bullet, like a mag point?" "Yeah, I don't have any better answer." "If you're right, we're sure going to start looking for one." "I'd appreciate it." "(sighing)" "Her folks are gone, right?" "What about Aunt Min?" "Or, um, Toby Jenson?" "Someone she may have been close to that she talked to?" "Well, Min moved over five years ago, and I haven't seen Toby in, uh, a good year." "?" "But what about, uh, Amy's roommate, Bonnie" "Oh, yeah." "We tried to contact her." "She took Friday off." "Probably went away for a long weekend somewhere." "I don't think she knows about this." "She probably won't make it back for the funeral." "When is that?" "It's tomorrow morning at 10:00." "It's a coroner's case." "Uh, you don't have to go." "Yes, sir, I do." "...so, today, we are to consecrate the memory of Amy Diane Austin, whose untimely, tragic death ended a joyous and loving young life." "We all knew Amy, and cherished her." "We all mourn the passing of a young and beautiful woman-- a life ended too soon." ""Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." ""The body returneth to the earth, and the eternal spirit unto God, who gave it."" "Amen." "MOURNE RS:" "Amen." "Mac." "Don't turn." "Amy!" "Just drive to my dad's old place, okay?" "Please?" "(sobbing):" "Oh, thank God!" "Thank God you're here!" "(engine starting)" "MacGYVER:" "My God, Amy!" "I arrive here yesterday, in time to see you die, and just ten minutes ago saw you buried." "AMY:" "I know it's a shock to you, but... t." "That's one w ay of putting i g." "I mean, here you are-- you're talking, breathing" "Mac, I had no choice!" "I believe you, Amy, but somebody died in your car." "Who was that girl?" "(sobbing):" "Bonnie, Mac." "That was my roommate Bonnie!" "She was supposed to come pick you up because I was too scared." "." "And she was killed ed She was kill because somebody thought she was me." "And you let them bury her with everyone believing it was you?" "Do you have any idea what it did to me watching them lower your coffin into a grave?" "What it did to everyone at that funeral who loved and cared about you?" "You don't think I thought about that, or about Bonnie?" "I haven't slept in 36 hours." "Mac, I don't know what to do." "(crying)" "All right, come here." "I'm sorry." "(crying):" "Oh, Mac..." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "All right, tell me what's going on... slowly." "Okay." "I'm Director of Research at the nuclear processing plant now." "Three days ago, I found that somebody had messed with the records to cover up the theft of enough uranium to build a nuclear bomb, Mac." "!" "A nuclear bomb" "Who else have you told this to?" "My boss." "The two of us searched the plant from top to bottom, and nothing." "I think we better go inside." "Come on." "Your boss, Jerry Hillman?" "." "I see you heard about his so-called accident" "Jerry took a c opy of my records, and he took off to catch a plane for Washington." "ac." "He made it two mil es outside of town, M" "That's when you called me?" "me." "Someone was after" "I mean, that's why I sent Bonnie to meet you." "r Mac, I never dreamt somebody would kill he because they thought she was me." "(crying) All right, all right, all right." "Come on, I think we could both use a cup of coffee, don't you?" "Sounds good." "KYLE:" "Tim, you want some coffee?" "TIM:" "No, thanks." "d"?" ""Most Likely to Succee had Boy, you sure m?" "them fooled, huh, Ti" "(chuckling softly)" "Yeah." "Ever wonder why we hang onto these yearbooks?" "Oh, my wife and I pulled ours out last week." "It's just kicks, that's all." "Yeah." "A chance to remember those bright hopes for the future, huh?" "How we were going to get to be somebody, do something really worthwhile." "(phone ringing)" "Westport Nuclear;" "Tim Wexler." "No, nothing." "What?" "W-When did that come out?" "My God." "Yeah." "Yeah, okay." "Thanks." "What is it?" "Tim?" "Uh..." "Coroner's Office just made their findings public." "Amy Austin isn't the girl that burned up in that car." "Here." "Drink." "Mac, I can't." "Drink." "Better?" "(quavering breath)" "I'm sorry." "Look, have you got a handkerchief, or something?" "Uh, yeah." "Yeah, I think so." "You always carried a pocketful of junk." "Yeah." "And you always fixed everything." "(sobbing)" "I'm sorry." "(sobbing)" "I'm okay now." "Honest?" "Honest." "How long has it been since we were together?" "e." "A lot of tim e." "Not much els n." "Christmas ca rd now and agai" "And one red rose from you every birthday." "Well, you used to li ke that kind of stuff." "I still do." "Yeah?" "Mm-hmm." "Mmm." "I still remember how you taste." "Thank you, Mac." "Thank you for coming." "Everyone I could possibly turn to is... they're already dead." "I'm here, Amy." "it." "And we'll get to the bottom of" "All the way." "This audit report you hid." "e?" "Does it show theft over a period of tim" "Yeah, little by little." "They must have hidden it away." "Well, must be somebo dy from the plant then." "Or an inspector, or a supplier." "I mean, lots of people had access." "Well, it's probabl y a group then." "re." "We are talking about big bucks he up." "Sure adds" "The question is, what do I do?" "." "We get your report..." "then we tell the world en." "We'll get them to list" "Mac, it's Sunday." "There's hardly anyone even there." "re." "Security's the re." "Phones are the" "Yeah." "?" "?" "(sighs)" "Do you really think it's possible the uranium's still at the plant?" "Well, it's t he only reason" "." "I can come up wi th for two killings" "How 'bout you?" "I'm right out of explanations, Mac." "Right now, I'm jus t barely hanging on." "You always were pretty good at that." "Uh-uh." "ce." "I let go too easily on" "Shall we?" "MacGYVER:" "So, where'd you hide it?" "The last place anybody'd look:" "the disposal chamber." "They only backwash the reactors once a week." "I figured it'd be safe till then." "MacGYVER:" "Last place I'd want to be in." "e." "Hey, nic" "Love what you've done with the place." "y." "It's a beaut" "It does the job." "Look, trust me, MacGyver, if we were in here when this valve cranks open, we'd be fried to a crisp." "ush 5,000 gallons of radioactive sl ed." "comes pouring in h ere to be decontaminat" "Slush?" "Ooh, not the time to be in here." "What do you say we get the report?" "Right." "Well, all there." "?" "Then it's all downhill from here" "Oh, God, Mac!" "Damn!" "(alarm buzzing)" "What's the setup on this door?" "Uh, an electro nic time-lock, t, but, Mac, on ce it's been se it can't be opened f or 60 minutes minimum." "ed!" "Mac, it's been activat" "Excuse me, Amy, um, how soon before that sludge comes racing out of there?" "t." "It's already start ed." "I can feel the hea" "And how hot is it going to get in here?" "Mac, before it reaches this room, it'll get too hot for us to breathe." "Oh, wonderful." "And how long before that happens?" "About ten minutes." "Great." "Well, I'll tell you, I sure don't feel like sitting around and being chewed up by your radioactive garbage disposal, that's for sure." "Our only hope is Control." "I mean, if they look at the board and see the chamber door indicators," "Mac, they're going to know something's wrong." "It's Sunday." "Don't you think that's asking a lot?" "ANNOUNCER:" "Parsons hits a long fly ball t." "into right center..." "KYLE:" "All righ" "Parsons a double to center field, and here com es Jacamazzi." "Safe." "I got your five bucks, Tim." "it." "I got" "We'll see." "(beeping)" "What about climbing up through the valve opening?" "Where's that go?" "Straight t o the core." "Forget it." "k." "Oh, come on, think, Amy, thin" "All right, wait a minute." "Bottom line, the only way out of here is through that door." "t." "Mac, we've alrea dy been through tha" "Time-locked, right?" "Time-locked, pick-proof." "Electric time clock?" "o." "With 59 minutes to g" "Mac, we've got nine." "Unless we do some time travel." "Meaning?" "Electric time clock measures time with an oscillating quartz crystal, so if we can hit it with a hot electrical surge..." "But wouldn't that just burn it out?" "Well, that'd be th e end result, yeah." "The immediate result would be to set up a violent secondary vibration." "Which would speed up the clock." "d." "It shoul" "Oh, I don't know, Mac." "I think they ought to just run you for president or something." "s." "Oh, no thank" "I'd rather have this problem than his." "(beeping)" "f." "All right, watch yoursel" "(rapid beeping)" "ANNOUNCER:" "Bottom of the eleventh, the score is still tied two-two." "?" "Hey, Tim, what's happening with t he disposal chamber" "Well, this is strange." "The manual override's activated." "I can't shut it down from here." "(rapid beeping)" "(electrical sizzling)" "(hissing)" "!" "Shut it, quick" "Mac!" "Amy!" "I-I-I just heard o n the phone that..." "What are you...?" "Uh, I mean, who's in the...?" "Wha-Wha-What 's going on her e?" "Tim... it's a long story." "It's just nice to know we have time to tell it." "Let's go." "Come on." "TIM:" "Well, I still think you're suiting up for nothing." "MacGYVER:" "Well, maybe, but I'm convinced the uranium is still here." "This kind of stuff just doesn't happen in Westport Beach." "Read the report, Tim." "It's happening." "That door didn't close on us by accident." "So... what do we do?" "You call the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, get them down here nd along with the police ." "We'll try and fi that missing uranium." "It should make a heck of a press release, eh?" "Just like our college days, huh?" "Never a dull moment with MacGyver." "He does a lot of that-- thinking about the past." "Like me." "Mac, this film badge reacts to radiation." "ck." "If you're near anything hot, it starts to turn bla" "And when it's all black..." "they give you a new one?" "When it's all black, they give you a coffin." "Oh." "Good." "Come on." "c." "I don't know wha t you expect to find in here, Ma" "Jerry and I checke d every container against the records." "There aren't any extras." "Well, this is the only place high-grade could be kept, right?" "de Of course-- the al arm system would explo if any high-level radioactive material got anywhere but here or the reactor itself." "Well... if I was going to hi de high-grade uranium," "I'd put it in with a bunch of other high-grade, so you couldn't sort out the readings." "Maybe you guys just overlooked one." "Mac, that's filled with concrete." "We use it as a sign post." "bet I'd be willing to" ". this is filled with a lot more than just concrete" "(detector crackles rapidly)" "Take a listen." "(detector crackles rapidly)" "You were right, Mac." ", So far so good." "All right." "Now we have some evidence." "Step two is finding out who put it there." "Hi, Tim." "You don't look very surprised, Mac." "No... more disappointed than anything." "But it all adds up, I guess." "Had to be somebody with run of the plant, somebody who knew how to handle radioactive material." "Tim, I can't believe this." "We grew up together, and you tried to kill me?" "And you killed Bonnie?" "I never killed anybody." "I never expected anybody to die." "I didn't want this to happen." "Put the gun down, Tim." "No." "No, it... it's t oo late for that now." "I..." "I have to lock you up... both of you." "I don't think either one of us wants ow." "to be lock ed up right n" "There's too much at stake." "I can't help that." "I'm in too deep now to get out." "my." "Come on, A" ". TIM:" "I'll shoot" "I mean it, Mac." "so." "No, I don't think" "Tim, I don't know how you got involved in all this, ide but somewhere along the line , you had to dec t." "whether you're going to be a killer or no" "You're going to have to live with that decision." "MacGyver!" "I'm warning you!" "WEXLER:" "MacGyver, stop!" "Mac, just how well do you read people?" "I'm taking the final exam right now." "WEXLER:" "MacGyver, I'll shoot!" "MacGyver!" "(sobbing)" "on Kyle, key the re d line to Washingt and call the police." "We've got..." "Kyle?" "Afraid he can't do that, Amy." "Well, the other conspirator." "e?" "Or are there mor" "Just the customers we're going to meet in Canada." "30 kilos bring in a pretty hefty price, Chief?" "$50 million." "AMY:" "That'sifyou deliver." "Not if... when." "." "For God's sakes, Train ium You're selling eno ugh weapons-grade uran" ". to make a nuclear bomb" "TRAIN:" "What happens to it after I deliver it is no concern of mine." "And you're not going to care, either." "Train, no!" "Listen." "There's been enough killing already." "We-we can tie them up." "Leave them behind." "If we let them live, our face will be on the front desk of every law enforcement organization in the world." "(grunting):" "No!" "(gunshot)" "COMPUTER VOICE:" "Pressure overload." "Pressure overload." "Relieve manually." "Mac, he shorted out the monitor circuits." "The reactor's going out of control!" "What does that mean?" "Meltdown!" "Oh, my God." "(alarm blaring)" "Tim, can we stop it?" "I don't know." "The board's half wrecked." "When that reactor temperature hits critical, we're..." "You know a meltdown won't fry just everybody here in the plant." "We're talking about the contamination e." "of half the stat" "COMPUTER VOICE:" "Cooling system failure." "Commence evacuation procedure." "(alarm blaring)" "AMY:" "It's heating up fast." "COMPUTER VOICE:" "Procedure Red." "Procedure Red." "Commence evacuation." "You got to get out of here." "There's nothing more I can do." "Tim, make the call to the NRC first." "We might still be able to get a couple miles of away before the reactor goes." "Just make the call and go." "?" "And what about you" "Check me on this." "We've got a reactor that's heating up fast." "No coolant getting in, right?" "That's it." "In about 12 minutes, it's going to blow." "What about the high pressure injection system?" "It's operative." "But there's nothing getting into the reactor." "There's a blockage." "That's what I figure." "So, if I can open it manually, we're home free, right?" "Mac, no-- it'll kill you!" "No way!" "I haven't paid my taxes yet." "Nuclear Processing Corporation, Westport Beach plant." "We have an incident." "I repeat, we have an incident." "MacGYVER:" "A Marine sergeant once started a charge by yelling at his men," ""Come on, you want to live forever?"" "Now, I used to think that was about the guttiest thing ever said." "But of course, the older you get, the more nervous you get." "And I was getting." "." "We need to do a high-pressur e bleed and feed" "We get the coola nt pressure up, d, and if MacGyver could unblock that reactor fee then she shoul d cool down." "I had the theory, but I'm a long way out of practice." "Pressure's coming up." "Time's running out." "(gunshot)" "AMY:" "It's on automatic." "It just needs flow regulation." "I can handle this." "But I need you." "You know, um... chances are we, we might not make it." "Look, it's worth trying." "." "See you around" "You can't run forever, MacGyver." "MacGYVER:" "Train, are you crazy?" "We got a runaway reactor to worry about here." "TRAIN:" "That's wha t I'm trying to help you with." "Stop all that worrying." "MacGYVER:" "Isn't 30 kilos of nuclear explosive enough for you?" "My God, it's enough to level a whole city, enough to kill a quarter of a million people!" "Nobody says that's what they're going to do with it!" "MacGYVER:" "Yeah, right!" "Who are you trying to kid?" "Besides yourself?" "It's more money than you could ever dream of-- that's what counts." "And the meltdown.." ". (laughs) ...that'll cover all the traces." "(grunting, then gunshot)" "(groaning)" "Oh, God!" "What are you..." "what are you looking at?" "AMY:" "Your badge-- it's black." "Ed, you've been hit with a major dose of radioactive material." "You're contaminated." "MacGYVER:" "Put him in washdown." "do." "That's all we can" "TRAIN:" "Hurry up!" "Get me to the shower!" "(rapid beeping) e." "Kyle, get out of her" "." "There's nothin g you can do now" "What about you?" "me." "It's too late for te." "Way too la" "Okay, but..." "AMY:" "I'm going with you." "Look, Mac, there's washdown water up there, and you are going to need it to survive." "MacGYVER:" "What about the high pressure injection system?" "ne." "It's on li" "Tim's standing by in the control room." "ac." "Looks like you pas sed that final exam, M" "Yeah, so did Tim." "I know." "AMY:" "Something wrong?" "MacGYVER:" "Yeah." "I hate heights." "AMY:" "Oh, I forgot that." "MacGYVER:" "And I thought you remembered everything." "Amy, give me some water!" "AMY:" "Is it moving?" "It's stuck!" "MacGYV ER:" "Damn!" "Oh, no!" "You'll never get it off without that wrench!" "Amy, give me Train's gun!" "Please!" "Come on!" "More water, Amy!" "MacGYVER:" "I hate heights, and I despise guns." "So, how the hell did I get myself up here?" "Come on, please..." "Do it, Mac!" "MacGYVER:" "Hot damn!" "There she blows!" "First time in my life I've ever been happy to have my hands on a gun!" "Yeah!" "We did it!" "Okay!" "Oh, we did do it!" "Oh, yeah!" "(rapid beeping steadily slowing down)" "A lot of strong memories you've stirred up here in Westport Beach, Mr. MacGyver." "Well, you've kind of conjured a couple that I'll be taking home myself..." "Miss Austin." "me." "And I'll be hanging on to them for quite some ti" "You know, sometimes I wish we could find a way back to that crossroad, Mac." "d?" "Yeah?" "What do you think we'd fin" "Just what we have-- our friendship." "Did you ever wonder how we kept hold of that through everything?" "y." "Well, that's eas" "It's how we started." "(engine starting)" "(theme music playing)"