MacGyver (2016) s03e03 Episode Script
Bozer + Booze + Back to School
1 MACGYVER: You can do this, Boze.
- You can do this.
- I can do this.
I can do this.
I don't know if I can do this.
I know you can do this.
I have faith in you.
You trained for this.
Now are you ready? I'm ready.
What are you? I'm ready! - [GRUNTING.]
- Go, go.
[CHEERING.]
["PRIMADONNA LIKE ME" BY THE STRUTS PLAYING.]
All right, we need to move.
He's having way too much fun.
Be a prima donna ALL: Nine! Ten! So, when you said you'd be in town and you wanted to see me I didn't think you meant a stakeout.
I know.
My bad.
But it's nice to have backup.
Oh, so I'm backup? Super sexy backup.
Mm-hmm.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Just think of it as a taste of what it'd be like to work with the Coltons.
I told you I'd think about it.
Sooner or later you're gonna have to give me an answer.
[JACK GRUNTS.]
Jack, what are you doing here? Hey, we had an agreement.
Same time, same place, once a week: Skee-Ball and pizza.
Okay? Y-You were a no-show.
I got worried.
So I had one of the many nerds in the lab - trace your cell phone.
- Sorry, Jack.
That's my bad.
- I asked Riley to hang with me.
- It's not your fault, Billy.
Well, I tried to leave you a message, but someone's voice mail was full.
Oh, okay.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, I got so many new cell phones, I can't even keep up with messages.
So what's better than Skee-Ball and pizza? We're following a skip.
A skip? - A bounty? - Oh, yeah.
- [PHONE CHIMES.]
- Uh-oh.
Change of plans.
Looks like Mama got a tip that he's headed to a house downtown.
JACK: Yeah, let's go, let's go.
I'm always up for some bounty hunting.
Oh.
Oh, I know that look.
Am I the third wheel? I mean, I get it.
There ain't nothing cool about a tricycle.
I can head out - and get a bite to eat solo-style.
- [PHONE CHIMES.]
I like the solitude.
Wait, Matty wants to see me ASAP.
I didn't get a message from Matty.
Well, maybe she tried to leave you a voice mail, too.
Well, we'll clear this up right now.
[PHONE BEEPS.]
Looks like I got some free time.
Well, since Jack's free and you just lost your backup, why don't you two you know.
Work together? Oh, I like the sound of that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I like where this is going.
Okay.
- You boys have fun.
- Don't you worry about that.
- Behave.
- Uh-huh.
- Mm-hmm.
- Those were You mind if I hop up front? - Be my guest.
- Yeah! Sorry to cut your date short.
- Wasn't a date.
- It wasn't? - No.
- Billy didn't fly into town to see you? [GASPS.]
Did you guys break up? - Wait, what? - Folks.
Work brains.
Timely crisis.
As compelling as this soap opera is, we have a situation.
In the last 48 hours, two bombs, both made from transparent explosives, detonated in Morocco.
I thought transparent explosives were still in the theoretical phase.
Oh, I'd say we're well beyond the theoretical phase, Mac.
The first bomb took out a weapons manufacturing plant.
The second destroyed a government training facility.
BOZER: Okay, for those of us who aren't experts in kaboom? Uh, transparent bombs are cutting-edge explosives.
They're made from thin, see-through, volatile material that can be molded to cover any object.
MATTY: A-plus, blondie.
Two weeks ago, three labs at three different science and tech firms were broken into.
The material stolen, when combined, gave the thieves everything they needed to build the world's first two transparent bombs.
Well, do we have any suspects? Meet Kyle, Caroline, and Nick.
All three were students at Western Tech.
After graduation, each went to work for one of the three R & D firms that was just robbed.
So these three are working together? No.
And this is where it gets strange.
They all graduated different years, and as far as we can tell, they never crossed paths at school or after.
How do three people who have never come in contact with each other manage to build a high-tech bomb together? 48 hours before the thefts took place, all three received e-mails giving them the green light to proceed with their mission.
So someone's recruiting sleeper agents out of Western Tech.
MATTY: It appears so.
And we have no idea who, because after Caroline, Kyle, and Nick completed their task, all three were murdered.
Damn.
That's just cold.
None of these students seem like the type to betray their country, so how did they get recruited? Maybe these three, at first, thought that they were being recruited into a collegiate secret society.
- Like Yale's Skull and Bones.
- MATTY: The only thing we know for sure about whoever's pulling the strings is that they're sending e-mails from the Western Tech campus, which is why, as of a half an hour ago, the four of you have been accepted as transfer students to Western Tech.
Congratulations.
Wait, so let me get this straight.
We're going back to college? That's correct, Bozer.
- But let me be clear.
- Yes.
This is not about keg stands or rush parties.
The four of you are going undercover to smoke out a skilled handler who's building an army of domestic terrorists.
- Are we clear? - ALL: Yes, ma'am.
["WELCOME TO THE PARTY [REMIX.]
" BY DIPLO PLAYING.]
Lil Pump Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, esskeetit BOZER: Man.
This is dope.
Like, really dope.
- Think he's excited? - Maybe a tad.
Pace yourself, Bozer.
You don't seem as excited, Mac.
It's just weird being back on campus.
Don't know what I was expecting.
I dropped out before I finished so I could join the Army.
Hmm.
Better enlisted than incarcerated.
I went to a supermax instead of college.
Well, I loved college.
Some of the best years of my life.
You went to film school, Bozer.
- That definitely doesn't count.
- [MACGYVER AND LEANNA LAUGH.]
What about you, Leanna? Uh, you mean Ms.
Track Scholarship? You say that like it's a bad thing.
Not bad, just boring.
- Weren't you studying all the time? - Yeah.
Because I had to keep up my GPA.
Not a ton of time for parties.
Just me, my books, and a lot of coffee.
- Like I said: boring.
- You know what? [BOZER LAUGHS.]
Aw, I'm joking.
What do you say we make up for that right now and try to get expelled on our first day? Okay, now.
Clear to enter.
LEANNA [OVER COMMS.]
: Take your next left.
The server room should be just down the stairs.
Wait, guys, stop.
Two rubber guns about to round the corner.
[WHISPERING.]
: Here, get to cover.
Um, we'll create a distraction.
You get to the server room.
- Dude! We did it.
- Hey, you two.
What are you guys doing here? This is a secure building.
Pledge chair's gonna be pissed.
I told you this was a bad idea.
Oh, you told me? You're the one who bragged he could get into any building on campus.
And guess what? I did.
We're inside.
Yeah.
I can't wait for pledge week to be over.
Let's go.
- [BOZER GRUNTING.]
- But it's his but it Can you put him in jail? Then this Terry Crews-looking dude grabbed me, - and I think he bruised my clavicle.
- That's your clavicle.
Were you able to access the server room? Yeah.
I hard-lined in and confirmed Matty was right.
Whoever's been sending these recruitment e-mails is definitely on this campus.
But that's where the good news ends.
So you couldn't identify them? No.
Digitally, there's no way to track them.
More bad news: I found more e-mails.
- How many more? - A lot.
Each one mobilizing a former student to either steal bomb components or carry out an attack.
So those two transparent bombs weren't an isolated event.
No, not even close.
Someone's been recruiting students from this campus and turning them into terrorists for years.
["LET'S GET DOWN TONIGHT" BY RUBIN HOOD PLAYING.]
Uh, what are you doing? Well, I was studying.
I have a paper due in two days.
Are you serious? We're gonna be done with this op in two days.
You don't know that.
We could be digging into this spy ring for weeks, and being undercover means blending in.
Which means studying.
Nah, nah, nah, nah Nah, nah, nah, nah Is that music getting louder? I think so.
Blending in means partying.
Okay? No one in college takes studying seriously.
- I did.
- So did I.
Yeah, I probably would have, too.
Okay, Matty, upload's complete.
You have all the e-mails we found.
These e-mails go back a decade.
- What did you say? - That's it.
I'm kicking someone's ass.
W-We're undercover.
Just I'm just saying.
I want you, baby I want you I want you crazy Hey, there.
[CHUCKLES.]
: Uh, you look thirsty.
Want to come inside for a drink? Tempting.
But, uh, I have a test in about an hour.
Do you guys think you could turn the music down a little bit - so I can get some studying done? - [MEN LAUGH.]
That's what the, uh, library's for.
Yeah, as if you've ever been there.
I've been there.
Once.
On a tour.
So, how about that brew? Let's get down tonight I take it that went well.
Remind me to lower all their GPAs when this is over.
[KNOCKING AT DOOR.]
Zeta Kappa Tau party tonight.
Hell, yeah.
I'll take one of those.
I'm sorry.
I just ran out.
You're literally holding a stack.
Right there.
I'm looking at 'em.
You should come.
Bring her.
Not him.
Very disrespectful.
Nah-nah, nah Sorry, Matty.
You were saying? I was saying these e-mails go back to '08.
Factoring this in, we uncovered that every time a message goes out, an attack happens less than 24 hours later.
Guys, we uncovered a pattern.
MACGYVER: Yeah.
A pattern we could use to connect this ring to a decade's worth of unsolved bombings.
The recruiter has been at Western Tech at least that long, so it can't be a student.
I've had our techs start looking into the profiles of every staff and faculty member there with this in mind.
We've come up with a suspect.
Elliot Lambeau, Professor of Material Science and Engineering.
Material science that means he'd have the, uh, knowledge and skill needed to make transparent bombs.
And look, he's been arrested a dozen times since he started teaching here - at protests that turned violent.
- LEANNA: And a lot of the graduates involved in these attacks took his class over the years.
This has got to be our guy.
We should pay him a visit.
He just started a lecture.
Mac, go sit in on his class and get a read on him.
The rest of you, go find me evidence he's our recruiter.
The stress parallel to the slope that pulls the object in the downslope direction parallel to the slope.
So Excuse me? Do you have a cell phone? Um yeah.
Do you need it? And on that phone on the top, right in the middle is what? - The - The answer I'm looking for is a clock.
So there was no reason for you to be 32 minutes late to my lecture, Mister? - MacGyver.
- Mm.
Come here.
Come over here.
Since you didn't think it was important to join us on time, I can only assume that you've already mastered the engineering principles of slope stability.
So, there is an object at the bottom of this box.
I want you to retrieve it using those principles.
MACGYVER: Um with all due respect, there's an easier way to do this.
[GROANS.]
Using the principles of fluidization, I can "liquefy" the sand, which is a lot quicker than if I used the principles of slope stability.
[WHIRRING.]
[HIGH-PITCHED WHIRR, WHOOSH.]
[STUDENTS MURMURING.]
Hmm.
Well, that's certainly one way to do it.
But it's not the correct way.
Go take a seat.
Okay, Matty, we're in Lambeau's office.
MATTY: Guys, hurry up.
His class will be over soon.
LEANNA: Hold up, Bozer.
That one's wired.
If you open it, an alarm will go off.
Okay.
No problem.
I got this.
Let's see.
Did you learn that from Mac? Nope.
Learned this little trick while working on a student film.
Heist movie.
[LAUGHS.]
Guess film school was good for something after all.
I hope there's something incriminating on that computer, Riley, 'cause all we got here are tests waiting to be graded.
You know, this Victor guy doesn't seem that bad.
All he's got's a few petty thefts.
Yeah, and then he graduated to robbing convenience stores - and stealing cars.
- Actually, you mean convenience "store" and "car," both singular.
Felonies, for sure, but it's not like this guy's a hardened war criminal or an international terrorist or anything like that.
Look, the flavor of a criminal doesn't matter.
A criminal is a criminal.
That's not In my experience, it isn't always the case.
Now listen to this.
It says here that Victor's dad died when he was 12, and his mother had Oh, my gosh, I mean, his mother had a litany of problems, so, this kid had no parental guidance whatsoever.
I mean, what's gonna happen? Tell me.
Huh? Trouble.
All right, you're reading too far into this.
- You mind if I give you a piece of advice? - Sure.
Don't humanize the skip.
It only makes the job harder.
Now this guy jumped bail.
I was hired to hunt him down, not figure out why he did it.
And is this super detached emotional thing something you apply only to work, or in your personal life? Now, is this your clever way of asking about my relationship with Riley? Give that man a gold star.
I knew you were a smart guy, Billy.
So, are you two exclusive? Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, we are.
And do you see a future in this, - or are you just having fun? - [LAUGHS.]
- Look, Jack - I would encourage you to choose your words very carefully.
Now, that-that's my little girl.
I care for Riley a lot.
And I take this relationship very seriously.
So much so that I convinced my mama to offer her a job.
Wait, the Coltons offered Riley a job? - There.
- In Louisiana? - When did this happen? - What? - You know, Riley, the job interview.
- Jack, we got to cut him off.
Well, answer the question.
- I'll stay on him, you go around.
- Answer the question.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE REVS.]
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
- Billy? - Jack, what the hell?! I told you to go around so we could cut him off.
My bad.
MATTY: Guys, Professor Lambeau's class just ended.
Please tell me you're wrapping this up.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on, hold on.
I found something.
He's got a hidden bank account.
Whoa.
That's way more than even a tenured professor should be making.
MATTY: Could be the funding for his recruitment operation.
Riley, can you source this money? Yeah, I can, but it's gonna take some time.
Mac, stall him.
Professor, I'd like to apologize for being late to the lecture.
I appreciate that, Mr.
MacGyver.
[LAUGHING.]
: You know that was a pretty advanced trick you pulled.
Most students barely have an answer, let alone show up the professor after being put on the spot in class.
I wasn't trying to show you up, but just thinking outside of the box is kind of my thing.
Mm-hmm.
Why haven't I seen you before? - I actually just transferred from State, so - Uh-huh.
And you clearly have a grasp of the material.
Why are you taking the course? All of your other lectures were full and you and I share interests in a lot of the same causes.
Do we? Yeah.
Well, we're gonna have to pick this up on Monday.
Uh, it would be great if I could ask you a few more questions.
Well, um no, I really I have to go.
It would be better if you stayed.
[GRUNTS.]
[HISSING.]
[EXPLOSIVE POP.]
Mac, was that an explosion? Uh, yeah.
Lambeau tried to make a run for it.
I said stall him, not stun him.
Well, I did both.
He'll be fine.
But is he our guy? He was acting shady.
Tried to hit me with a microscope.
RILEY: Well, there's a reason for that.
He is guilty, just not of recruiting sleeper agents.
He's been embezzling department funds to funnel to his radical causes.
Explains why he ran.
He must have thought you were an undercover cop, Mac.
So we're back at square one.
Actually, it's worse than that.
While we were looking into Lambeau, I just got another alert.
Our recruiter just sent out another e-mail.
Which means something's going down in the next 24 hours.
MATTY: All right, people, tell me we ID'd the student that received the recruiter's latest e-mail.
The closest I can get is pinpointing the hub on the network where the e-mail was opened.
Which should lead us to a dorm, which would help us narrow down our suspects.
There.
I got a physical address.
Which dorm is it? That's not a dorm.
That's the Zeta Kappa Tau frat house.
Most likely, our e-mail recipient is a member of that frat.
So, if we can identify them, it may lead us to whoever sent the e-mail.
The Zetas have 16 members.
Any one of 'em could have received that e-mail.
Okay, how do we figure out which frat brother is the right brother? We just need to find the one - with this e-mail on his computer.
- LEANNA: Easier said than done.
We can't just waltz to the front door and expect to get private time alone with all 16 computers.
Actually, we can.
Tonight, the house'll be packed.
Should give Riley enough cover to slip in and search the computers.
It'll give us all enough cover.
You guys can help me search.
All we have to do is plug one of these into each computer.
I can program these to auto-run a search for the recruiter's e-mail address.
The LED will glow red for "no" and green if it finds the e-mail.
Time to show off my PhD in party! I want to have some fun [CHEERING, WHOOPING, GLASS BREAKING.]
[HORN SOUNDING.]
[GLASS BREAKING.]
[HORN TOOTS.]
[LOUD CROWD CHATTER, WHOOPING.]
Man, I missed this! BOZER: Yeah! Yeah, get it, get it, get it.
- Yeah.
- Is this normal? Hell, yeah! Went to one of these every weekend.
You ain't the boy.
Stay focused, guys.
There are people everywhere, way too many to be sneaking - in and out of bedrooms.
- Agreed.
We need a distraction.
Something big enough to get everyone's attention.
I want to have some fun MACGYVER: Boze, I think it's time you broke your old personal best.
- Wait.
What personal best? - As it turns out, he has an almost inhuman ability - to do a keg stand.
- Oh, really? MACGYVER: Back in the day, Bozer started the night as just another freshman.
One minute and 52 seconds later, he was a god.
- I'm impressed.
- Yeah.
Me, too.
I guess some people are just born with a gift.
A gift we need right now.
Come on, man.
We need your super powers.
Crushing a keg is the only thing that'll keep these people distracted long enough so that we can get anywhere near those computers.
Come on.
What do ya say? I want to go out - It's Boozer time.
- Yeah, it is.
- Yeah! Yeah! - Yeah! Yeah! [BOTH GRUNT.]
- Okay, everybody, listen up.
- [MUSIC STOPS.]
My name is Bozer.
And I was put on this planet - for two reasons.
- Two reasons! - To drink beer and kick ass.
- Kick ass! See, I don't care what that lame-ass wall of misfits say, I am the keg stand champ.
You hear me, Alan Kam Kam - Kaminsky.
- What he said.
You're going down.
Tonight we're crowning a new king! [CHEERING.]
[SCREAMS.]
- Whoo.
- Go.
[CHANTING INDISTINCTLY.]
Me tonight CROWD: One, two All right, we need to move.
Come on Bring it on Well, DJ Kev-Dog might have criminally bad taste in music, but he's not our guy.
Try it on Be a primadonna with me tonight Yeah Ah-ha-ha A champagne That's a no on Seth.
Not our guy.
You guys better hurry, for Bozer's sake.
Stick it on the tab Light 'em up Li-li-light 'em up Your ball, my rules A cigarette Don't you know that you are mine? 22, 23, 24, 25.
You're gonna do me right now Do you wanna? Do-do you wanna Feel primadonna like me tonight? Do you wanna? Okay, Matty, you can cross Zack and Drew off the list.
Okay, got it.
Come on Bring it on Don't you know it's all about me tonight? - [PHONE RINGS.]
- Yo, Mac.
Hey, buddy.
You would not believe where I am right now.
Sound like you're in a dance club.
Or a spin class.
What the hell are you doing taking a spin class right now? Try frat party.
But it's for an op.
Well, it sounds like you're having a lot more fun than I am.
What do you mean? Aren't you living your dream of being a Colton? Yeah, well, that dream has now become a nightmare.
What did you do? I kind of lost the skip.
- Jack.
- Yeah, but in my defense Listen, the Coltons are trying to steal Riley, man, as in leave the Phoenix, work for them in Louisiana-type theft.
I can't let that happen.
That's crazy Hey, I got to go.
Did you just hang up on me? Matty, found our guy.
Simon Jones.
Find him.
Find him now.
1:59 Two minutes.
[CHEERING.]
[INDISTINCT CHANTING.]
Leanna, I'm not seeing Simon.
I got him.
He's headed for the door.
Hey.
[GRUNTS.]
Vulcan nerve pinch.
Nice.
Thanks.
Help me get him upstairs.
Hey.
Someone stole my shirt.
You tore it off.
Now come on.
Oh.
[LAUGHS.]
[PANTS.]
"Beer love I.
" Why is my shirt upside down? [COUGHS.]
What's going on? Who are you people? Simon, let us ask the questions here, all right? Trust me, you're gonna want to cooperate.
We know you got an e-mail, who was it from? LEANNA: Look, Simon, if you don't talk, you're gonna be charged with domestic terrorism and sent to federal prison.
You ever been inside one of those? Guys like you don't do too well.
[GIGGLES.]
I-I don't understand.
How can I be charged with domestic terrorism? I I've been working with the CIA.
I'm sorry, did this dude just say CIA? Yes.
They recruited me.
Okay, if that's the case, what's the name of the agent you've been working with? I-I was never given a name.
Okay, what does he look like? I have no idea.
I was supposed to meet him for the first time tonight.
I was picking up a package.
He's talking about a bomb.
The recruiter's planning another attack.
Where was this meeting supposed to be taking place? Uh, I don't know.
I don't know.
Um But my-my contact e-mailed me GPS coordinates.
I'm supposed to be there in, like, 20 minutes.
He's telling the truth.
Well, then, we need to get to this meeting now.
I'm the king of the world! [WHOOPING.]
MACGYVER: Bozer, get down.
You know what? Suddenly, I don't feel so great.
Leanna, can you maybe slow down? If we're gonna ID Simon's contact, fast is the only option.
We are ten minutes late already.
Leanna, you can't go any faster, can you? My foot is literally on the floor, Mac.
Riley, any luck with the cameras in the area? No.
The only one is three miles away from these GPS coordinates.
This location was chosen for a reason.
- Here you go.
- The CIA just confirmed what we already suspected.
There's no officially sanctioned Agency ops running out of Western Tech.
This is a "false flag" operation.
So Simon's contact is pretending to be CIA to trick students into betraying the U.
S.
Okay, guys, satellite's up, but perimeter's empty.
There's nobody there.
We missed the meeting.
When Simon didn't show, they must've assumed he'd been exposed.
So we just lost our best chance to catch this guy.
Now what? I dunno about you three, but I'm gonna try really hard to not puke.
[GAGS.]
No, that way.
No.
Oh, man.
I'm having that dream about the woods again.
MATTY: It's not a dream, Bozer.
This is where Western Tech's Meteorology Department conducts its weather experiments.
Hey.
Look.
There.
That's a weather balloon.
BOZER: Maybe, or maybe it's an alien orb.
MACGYVER: Trust me, it's a balloon.
And that one should be able to tell us who was here earlier.
Leanna, I'm gonna need you to start the car.
[ENGINE STARTS.]
Good job.
I hate balloons, too.
And clouds.
Okay, Mac, I'll bite.
Other than pissing off a few meteorology nerds, what's popping that thing gonna do? Well, weather balloons can do a lot of things.
INCLUDING: suspend a thermal camera high above a corn field to measure the heat impact on crop yields.
This camera, every ten seconds, was snapping a high, wide-angle thermal photo of the field, including the road that runs through it, to show the progression of sun damage on crops.
And since this is the only road out here, whoever was meeting Simon must've driven down it.
Exactly.
There may be a photo on here that can help us ID our recruiter.
Guys, this car drove up right before Simon's meeting, parked for five minutes and then left.
Gotta be his contact.
Does everyone else see a red squiggly shape or is it just me? No, it's not just you, but we might be able to use that red squiggly shape to help us ID Simon's contact.
Yeah, look at the heat signature.
There's no engine.
It's running off a battery.
- It's an electric vehicle.
- Uh-huh.
Matty, can, uh, you run the chassis shape and see if you can get a make and a model? If we do get a hit we can cross-reference it with staff and faculty vehicles.
I can, but it might take some time.
Right now, it's our only option.
MATTY: All right.
Stand by for a name.
BILLY: The guy I spoke with said Victor's headed down here to sell some stuff for some quick cash.
But if he doesn't turn up, Mama's gonna be pissed you lost him.
So? She really doesn't like when people mess with her money.
Well, you tell Mama I really don't like it when people mess with my family.
And I consider offering Riley a job behind my back messing with my family.
She's with us now.
Okay, for the record, that wasn't my intent.
I just I don't want to think about a future that doesn't involve Riley.
Well, join the club.
[LAUGHS.]
Riley's amazing.
If she wants to have a future with you, consider yourself very lucky.
I agree with you, Jack.
But you do realize she's not a little girl, right? And whatever Riley decides for her future, that's her decision.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, there's Victor.
Okay.
Can we please be on the same page this time? Oh, yeah, you chase him down, I'll cut him off.
Hey, Victor.
Don't, don't do anything stupid and make this situation worse than it already is now.
Be smart.
If you turn yourself in we'll clear all this up.
Y-You gotta let me go, man.
Please.
Look, I had to do it.
That's what guys in your position say to guys in my position all the time.
Yeah.
I'm sure they do.
But, look, if you take me in I don't know what'll happen to her.
Happen to who? My mom.
What's the matter with her? 24-hour care isn't cheap.
She's so behind in payments as is, I just I needed that money.
I need the money to get her square.
Look, I'm trying to sell everything I can.
That's why I came here.
And I got friends, they owe me money and If I can just get that money and pay off her bills, I will turn myself in.
I swear.
24-hour care, huh? Yes, sir.
Go on.
Get out of here.
Hey, hey.
Take care of your mom.
Thank you.
- [PANTING.]
- Jack.
What are you doing? Did he come this way? No, no, no.
I came around the corner.
I seen this.
So he I don't know He must've doubled back.
No, he didn't.
He didn't.
You sure you didn't see him? You sure you didn't see him? Yeah, no, I'm-I'm positive.
All right, come on.
If we hurry, he might still be in this area.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
MATTY: Julian Sloane, I'm Matilda Webber, and I work for an agency you never heard of.
You have a lot of explaining to do, Ms.
Webber.
Your people just kidnapped me off the street.
Oh, you want to play private citizen? Fine.
But you're not really a citizen of this country, are you, Mischa Burov? Born in Moscow, 1963.
Joined the KGB in 1981.
In 1985, you were sent to the States to recruit spies.
And in 1986, you applied to the Western Tech Admissions Department under the name Julian Sloane.
You were hired and since worked your way up to head of admissions.
Then, in '91, the USSR crumbled.
So, what did you do? You turned your recruitment ring into a private moneymaking operation.
Working in the admissions department gave you access to students' profiles and records, allowing you the opportunity to handpick who you wanted to admit and recruit.
A nice story.
But it's just a story.
Except it isn't.
I've got ten years of e-mails sent from your account to your student recruits ordering dozens of bombings.
LEANNA: Bombings that directly correlate to deposits made into your offshore bank account.
Oh, yeah.
We found that, too.
Your last three deposits all came from the same place, which tells me that you were hired to set off three bombs.
Two already detonated.
So where's the third, Mischa? We know you didn't make the handoff to Simon.
And there's no bomb in your car, your office, or your home.
Which means you planted it yourself.
The only way to stay out of jail for the rest of your life is to tell us where that third bomb is before it goes off.
What was Simon's target? Turn on the news at 9:00.
All your questions will be answered.
MATTY: It's just after 8:00 a.
m.
, which gives us less than an hour before that third bomb goes off.
That's just not a lot of time.
GPS in Sloane's car has been turned off.
There's no way to tell where he's been.
The, uh, time stamp on the weather balloon photos, it said that Sloane drove away from the cornfield at 2:00 a.
m.
, and we grabbed him at 7:00 a.
m.
So he drove two and half hours max to the target and two and a half hours back.
The list of potential targets is massive.
Okay, let's review what we already know.
The students involved in these attacks used their employee access to sneak the bombs into the buildings.
What did Simon have access to? Well, he's a Chinese and business double major.
Did a semester abroad interning at the Shanghai National Bank.
Shanghai doesn't fit our timetable.
No.
But the Shanghai National Bank does have a corporate services branch located on the 20th floor of a building half an hour from Western Tech.
Well, that's got to be the target.
RILEY: Without Simon's access, Sloane couldn't have snuck his bomb into the bank.
So where'd he hide it? MATTY: Probably somewhere in the building he could easily access.
Like the lobby? Like the lobby.
Go.
Now.
- [TIRES SCREECHING.]
- [HORNS HONKING.]
- [BEEPING.]
- RILEY: Damn it.
I can't see it anywhere.
Isn't that the whole point of a transparent bomb? It can't be seen to the naked eye? BOZER: Yeah, but it's not invisible.
- Got to be some way to detect it, right? - [GRUNTS.]
There is.
It's called an induced secondary emission generator.
Do all those big words mean - "transparent bomb finder"? - Pretty much.
When I pass this over the bomb, it will shoot ions at it, causing it to glow orange.
The fire department's on its way.
How far out are you guys? Yep.
We are nearly there.
Mac, you have 20 minutes to find that bomb before it goes off.
So, no pressure.
Thanks.
- [ALARM BLARING.]
- BOZER: There's 28 floors in here.
We'll never get everybody out in time.
Well, then I guess it comes down to Mac - and his bomb detector.
- LEANNA: Come on.
- Everybody.
Out.
- [DETECTOR CLICKING.]
- We got 12 minutes, Mac.
- Not helping.
I hate to say this, but are we sure we picked the right building? At least if we die, I'm spared a massive hangover.
Yeah, that's a bright side, I guess.
[CLICKING.]
Wait a second, I got it.
- It's right here.
- Can you disarm it? No way.
There's too many redundancies.
If I try, I could set it off.
What about trying to contain - the blast? - No.
There's just too much explosive.
Wait, this is a green building.
Okay.
Means there are solar panels.
Is anyone else following this? Is this lobby spinning? [GRUNTS.]
We got to get to the roof.
Now.
LEANNA: Come on.
He's just not gonna tell us what he's doing, is he? He could, but it'd be all weird and nerdy.
Solar panels have hydrogen fuel cells.
I'm gonna use 'em to get rid of the bomb.
Can you do it fast? We got two minutes.
MACGYVER: Come on, get up there.
Higher.
Higher.
Come on, come on.
Higher.
That would've looked so much prettier at night.
[CHUCKLES.]
- [CHUCKLES.]
: Hey! - [CHUCKLES.]
Not so boring now, huh? - Drink up.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
All right.
[SIPS.]
There.
Okay? Everybody happy? All right.
- Whoa.
- MACGYVER: What was that? My equilibrium's off.
MACGYVER: Dude, it's soda, not beer.
You have no excuse.
Really, guys? Whose idea was it to play beer pong with soda? I've had enough beer for one lifetime.
Thank you.
You want to get in on this, boss? First things first.
We were able to connect the dots between the two attacks in Morocco and Shanghai National.
Turns out the Moroccan government was doubling its efforts to fight terrorism and secured a loan at the Chinese bank to fund both a weapons development facility and a training center for their anti-terrorist troops.
Oh, so a local radical group was trying to hurt the government's efforts to stop terrorism.
Yeah.
And they hired Sloane to maintain control over the region.
But when they failed, they all went on the run.
Which is good news for us and Morocco.
LEANNA: So what's gonna happen to the students that Sloane recruited? Phoenix agents have already started to round them up.
But they're victims in this, too, so they're all gonna need to be debriefed.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Hey.
What happened yesterday? Billy said you lost the skip.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, sometimes they're a step faster, I guess.
First chance you get to be a Colton and a bail jumper gets the best of Jack Dalton, huh? I'm okay with not being a Colton.
Really? Mm-hmm.
What can I say, I guess skip chasing just ain't my thing.
Hmm.
Dig that T-shirt, by the way.
Yeah.
Geez, Bozer, what's up? You look like the south end of a northbound mule.
Thanks, Jack.
The good news is I feel the south end of - whatever you said, too.
- Mm, mm, mm.
Hey, blondie, I've got something for you.
Really? Another gift? Well, this one's not from me.
In light of everything you did for Western Tech, the administration wanted you to have this.
You are no longer a college dropout.
Aw.
You know what they say about diplomas, don't you? No.
You gonna tell me? Great for when you run out of toilet paper.
[CHUCKLING.]
Are you jealous, Dalton? Girl, I don't need a piece of paper to prove how smart I am, okay? Well, I don't need a piece of paper to prove how smart you're not.
[CHUCKLING.]
- Was that an insult? - [LAUGHTER.]
No.
You're a genius.
- Oh, thank you.
- All righty, who's ready to take me on? Drink up, Bozer.
- You can do this.
- I can do this.
I can do this.
I don't know if I can do this.
I know you can do this.
I have faith in you.
You trained for this.
Now are you ready? I'm ready.
What are you? I'm ready! - [GRUNTING.]
- Go, go.
[CHEERING.]
["PRIMADONNA LIKE ME" BY THE STRUTS PLAYING.]
All right, we need to move.
He's having way too much fun.
Be a prima donna ALL: Nine! Ten! So, when you said you'd be in town and you wanted to see me I didn't think you meant a stakeout.
I know.
My bad.
But it's nice to have backup.
Oh, so I'm backup? Super sexy backup.
Mm-hmm.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Just think of it as a taste of what it'd be like to work with the Coltons.
I told you I'd think about it.
Sooner or later you're gonna have to give me an answer.
[JACK GRUNTS.]
Jack, what are you doing here? Hey, we had an agreement.
Same time, same place, once a week: Skee-Ball and pizza.
Okay? Y-You were a no-show.
I got worried.
So I had one of the many nerds in the lab - trace your cell phone.
- Sorry, Jack.
That's my bad.
- I asked Riley to hang with me.
- It's not your fault, Billy.
Well, I tried to leave you a message, but someone's voice mail was full.
Oh, okay.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, I got so many new cell phones, I can't even keep up with messages.
So what's better than Skee-Ball and pizza? We're following a skip.
A skip? - A bounty? - Oh, yeah.
- [PHONE CHIMES.]
- Uh-oh.
Change of plans.
Looks like Mama got a tip that he's headed to a house downtown.
JACK: Yeah, let's go, let's go.
I'm always up for some bounty hunting.
Oh.
Oh, I know that look.
Am I the third wheel? I mean, I get it.
There ain't nothing cool about a tricycle.
I can head out - and get a bite to eat solo-style.
- [PHONE CHIMES.]
I like the solitude.
Wait, Matty wants to see me ASAP.
I didn't get a message from Matty.
Well, maybe she tried to leave you a voice mail, too.
Well, we'll clear this up right now.
[PHONE BEEPS.]
Looks like I got some free time.
Well, since Jack's free and you just lost your backup, why don't you two you know.
Work together? Oh, I like the sound of that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I like where this is going.
Okay.
- You boys have fun.
- Don't you worry about that.
- Behave.
- Uh-huh.
- Mm-hmm.
- Those were You mind if I hop up front? - Be my guest.
- Yeah! Sorry to cut your date short.
- Wasn't a date.
- It wasn't? - No.
- Billy didn't fly into town to see you? [GASPS.]
Did you guys break up? - Wait, what? - Folks.
Work brains.
Timely crisis.
As compelling as this soap opera is, we have a situation.
In the last 48 hours, two bombs, both made from transparent explosives, detonated in Morocco.
I thought transparent explosives were still in the theoretical phase.
Oh, I'd say we're well beyond the theoretical phase, Mac.
The first bomb took out a weapons manufacturing plant.
The second destroyed a government training facility.
BOZER: Okay, for those of us who aren't experts in kaboom? Uh, transparent bombs are cutting-edge explosives.
They're made from thin, see-through, volatile material that can be molded to cover any object.
MATTY: A-plus, blondie.
Two weeks ago, three labs at three different science and tech firms were broken into.
The material stolen, when combined, gave the thieves everything they needed to build the world's first two transparent bombs.
Well, do we have any suspects? Meet Kyle, Caroline, and Nick.
All three were students at Western Tech.
After graduation, each went to work for one of the three R & D firms that was just robbed.
So these three are working together? No.
And this is where it gets strange.
They all graduated different years, and as far as we can tell, they never crossed paths at school or after.
How do three people who have never come in contact with each other manage to build a high-tech bomb together? 48 hours before the thefts took place, all three received e-mails giving them the green light to proceed with their mission.
So someone's recruiting sleeper agents out of Western Tech.
MATTY: It appears so.
And we have no idea who, because after Caroline, Kyle, and Nick completed their task, all three were murdered.
Damn.
That's just cold.
None of these students seem like the type to betray their country, so how did they get recruited? Maybe these three, at first, thought that they were being recruited into a collegiate secret society.
- Like Yale's Skull and Bones.
- MATTY: The only thing we know for sure about whoever's pulling the strings is that they're sending e-mails from the Western Tech campus, which is why, as of a half an hour ago, the four of you have been accepted as transfer students to Western Tech.
Congratulations.
Wait, so let me get this straight.
We're going back to college? That's correct, Bozer.
- But let me be clear.
- Yes.
This is not about keg stands or rush parties.
The four of you are going undercover to smoke out a skilled handler who's building an army of domestic terrorists.
- Are we clear? - ALL: Yes, ma'am.
["WELCOME TO THE PARTY [REMIX.]
" BY DIPLO PLAYING.]
Lil Pump Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, esskeetit BOZER: Man.
This is dope.
Like, really dope.
- Think he's excited? - Maybe a tad.
Pace yourself, Bozer.
You don't seem as excited, Mac.
It's just weird being back on campus.
Don't know what I was expecting.
I dropped out before I finished so I could join the Army.
Hmm.
Better enlisted than incarcerated.
I went to a supermax instead of college.
Well, I loved college.
Some of the best years of my life.
You went to film school, Bozer.
- That definitely doesn't count.
- [MACGYVER AND LEANNA LAUGH.]
What about you, Leanna? Uh, you mean Ms.
Track Scholarship? You say that like it's a bad thing.
Not bad, just boring.
- Weren't you studying all the time? - Yeah.
Because I had to keep up my GPA.
Not a ton of time for parties.
Just me, my books, and a lot of coffee.
- Like I said: boring.
- You know what? [BOZER LAUGHS.]
Aw, I'm joking.
What do you say we make up for that right now and try to get expelled on our first day? Okay, now.
Clear to enter.
LEANNA [OVER COMMS.]
: Take your next left.
The server room should be just down the stairs.
Wait, guys, stop.
Two rubber guns about to round the corner.
[WHISPERING.]
: Here, get to cover.
Um, we'll create a distraction.
You get to the server room.
- Dude! We did it.
- Hey, you two.
What are you guys doing here? This is a secure building.
Pledge chair's gonna be pissed.
I told you this was a bad idea.
Oh, you told me? You're the one who bragged he could get into any building on campus.
And guess what? I did.
We're inside.
Yeah.
I can't wait for pledge week to be over.
Let's go.
- [BOZER GRUNTING.]
- But it's his but it Can you put him in jail? Then this Terry Crews-looking dude grabbed me, - and I think he bruised my clavicle.
- That's your clavicle.
Were you able to access the server room? Yeah.
I hard-lined in and confirmed Matty was right.
Whoever's been sending these recruitment e-mails is definitely on this campus.
But that's where the good news ends.
So you couldn't identify them? No.
Digitally, there's no way to track them.
More bad news: I found more e-mails.
- How many more? - A lot.
Each one mobilizing a former student to either steal bomb components or carry out an attack.
So those two transparent bombs weren't an isolated event.
No, not even close.
Someone's been recruiting students from this campus and turning them into terrorists for years.
["LET'S GET DOWN TONIGHT" BY RUBIN HOOD PLAYING.]
Uh, what are you doing? Well, I was studying.
I have a paper due in two days.
Are you serious? We're gonna be done with this op in two days.
You don't know that.
We could be digging into this spy ring for weeks, and being undercover means blending in.
Which means studying.
Nah, nah, nah, nah Nah, nah, nah, nah Is that music getting louder? I think so.
Blending in means partying.
Okay? No one in college takes studying seriously.
- I did.
- So did I.
Yeah, I probably would have, too.
Okay, Matty, upload's complete.
You have all the e-mails we found.
These e-mails go back a decade.
- What did you say? - That's it.
I'm kicking someone's ass.
W-We're undercover.
Just I'm just saying.
I want you, baby I want you I want you crazy Hey, there.
[CHUCKLES.]
: Uh, you look thirsty.
Want to come inside for a drink? Tempting.
But, uh, I have a test in about an hour.
Do you guys think you could turn the music down a little bit - so I can get some studying done? - [MEN LAUGH.]
That's what the, uh, library's for.
Yeah, as if you've ever been there.
I've been there.
Once.
On a tour.
So, how about that brew? Let's get down tonight I take it that went well.
Remind me to lower all their GPAs when this is over.
[KNOCKING AT DOOR.]
Zeta Kappa Tau party tonight.
Hell, yeah.
I'll take one of those.
I'm sorry.
I just ran out.
You're literally holding a stack.
Right there.
I'm looking at 'em.
You should come.
Bring her.
Not him.
Very disrespectful.
Nah-nah, nah Sorry, Matty.
You were saying? I was saying these e-mails go back to '08.
Factoring this in, we uncovered that every time a message goes out, an attack happens less than 24 hours later.
Guys, we uncovered a pattern.
MACGYVER: Yeah.
A pattern we could use to connect this ring to a decade's worth of unsolved bombings.
The recruiter has been at Western Tech at least that long, so it can't be a student.
I've had our techs start looking into the profiles of every staff and faculty member there with this in mind.
We've come up with a suspect.
Elliot Lambeau, Professor of Material Science and Engineering.
Material science that means he'd have the, uh, knowledge and skill needed to make transparent bombs.
And look, he's been arrested a dozen times since he started teaching here - at protests that turned violent.
- LEANNA: And a lot of the graduates involved in these attacks took his class over the years.
This has got to be our guy.
We should pay him a visit.
He just started a lecture.
Mac, go sit in on his class and get a read on him.
The rest of you, go find me evidence he's our recruiter.
The stress parallel to the slope that pulls the object in the downslope direction parallel to the slope.
So Excuse me? Do you have a cell phone? Um yeah.
Do you need it? And on that phone on the top, right in the middle is what? - The - The answer I'm looking for is a clock.
So there was no reason for you to be 32 minutes late to my lecture, Mister? - MacGyver.
- Mm.
Come here.
Come over here.
Since you didn't think it was important to join us on time, I can only assume that you've already mastered the engineering principles of slope stability.
So, there is an object at the bottom of this box.
I want you to retrieve it using those principles.
MACGYVER: Um with all due respect, there's an easier way to do this.
[GROANS.]
Using the principles of fluidization, I can "liquefy" the sand, which is a lot quicker than if I used the principles of slope stability.
[WHIRRING.]
[HIGH-PITCHED WHIRR, WHOOSH.]
[STUDENTS MURMURING.]
Hmm.
Well, that's certainly one way to do it.
But it's not the correct way.
Go take a seat.
Okay, Matty, we're in Lambeau's office.
MATTY: Guys, hurry up.
His class will be over soon.
LEANNA: Hold up, Bozer.
That one's wired.
If you open it, an alarm will go off.
Okay.
No problem.
I got this.
Let's see.
Did you learn that from Mac? Nope.
Learned this little trick while working on a student film.
Heist movie.
[LAUGHS.]
Guess film school was good for something after all.
I hope there's something incriminating on that computer, Riley, 'cause all we got here are tests waiting to be graded.
You know, this Victor guy doesn't seem that bad.
All he's got's a few petty thefts.
Yeah, and then he graduated to robbing convenience stores - and stealing cars.
- Actually, you mean convenience "store" and "car," both singular.
Felonies, for sure, but it's not like this guy's a hardened war criminal or an international terrorist or anything like that.
Look, the flavor of a criminal doesn't matter.
A criminal is a criminal.
That's not In my experience, it isn't always the case.
Now listen to this.
It says here that Victor's dad died when he was 12, and his mother had Oh, my gosh, I mean, his mother had a litany of problems, so, this kid had no parental guidance whatsoever.
I mean, what's gonna happen? Tell me.
Huh? Trouble.
All right, you're reading too far into this.
- You mind if I give you a piece of advice? - Sure.
Don't humanize the skip.
It only makes the job harder.
Now this guy jumped bail.
I was hired to hunt him down, not figure out why he did it.
And is this super detached emotional thing something you apply only to work, or in your personal life? Now, is this your clever way of asking about my relationship with Riley? Give that man a gold star.
I knew you were a smart guy, Billy.
So, are you two exclusive? Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, we are.
And do you see a future in this, - or are you just having fun? - [LAUGHS.]
- Look, Jack - I would encourage you to choose your words very carefully.
Now, that-that's my little girl.
I care for Riley a lot.
And I take this relationship very seriously.
So much so that I convinced my mama to offer her a job.
Wait, the Coltons offered Riley a job? - There.
- In Louisiana? - When did this happen? - What? - You know, Riley, the job interview.
- Jack, we got to cut him off.
Well, answer the question.
- I'll stay on him, you go around.
- Answer the question.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE REVS.]
[TIRES SQUEALING.]
- Billy? - Jack, what the hell?! I told you to go around so we could cut him off.
My bad.
MATTY: Guys, Professor Lambeau's class just ended.
Please tell me you're wrapping this up.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on, hold on.
I found something.
He's got a hidden bank account.
Whoa.
That's way more than even a tenured professor should be making.
MATTY: Could be the funding for his recruitment operation.
Riley, can you source this money? Yeah, I can, but it's gonna take some time.
Mac, stall him.
Professor, I'd like to apologize for being late to the lecture.
I appreciate that, Mr.
MacGyver.
[LAUGHING.]
: You know that was a pretty advanced trick you pulled.
Most students barely have an answer, let alone show up the professor after being put on the spot in class.
I wasn't trying to show you up, but just thinking outside of the box is kind of my thing.
Mm-hmm.
Why haven't I seen you before? - I actually just transferred from State, so - Uh-huh.
And you clearly have a grasp of the material.
Why are you taking the course? All of your other lectures were full and you and I share interests in a lot of the same causes.
Do we? Yeah.
Well, we're gonna have to pick this up on Monday.
Uh, it would be great if I could ask you a few more questions.
Well, um no, I really I have to go.
It would be better if you stayed.
[GRUNTS.]
[HISSING.]
[EXPLOSIVE POP.]
Mac, was that an explosion? Uh, yeah.
Lambeau tried to make a run for it.
I said stall him, not stun him.
Well, I did both.
He'll be fine.
But is he our guy? He was acting shady.
Tried to hit me with a microscope.
RILEY: Well, there's a reason for that.
He is guilty, just not of recruiting sleeper agents.
He's been embezzling department funds to funnel to his radical causes.
Explains why he ran.
He must have thought you were an undercover cop, Mac.
So we're back at square one.
Actually, it's worse than that.
While we were looking into Lambeau, I just got another alert.
Our recruiter just sent out another e-mail.
Which means something's going down in the next 24 hours.
MATTY: All right, people, tell me we ID'd the student that received the recruiter's latest e-mail.
The closest I can get is pinpointing the hub on the network where the e-mail was opened.
Which should lead us to a dorm, which would help us narrow down our suspects.
There.
I got a physical address.
Which dorm is it? That's not a dorm.
That's the Zeta Kappa Tau frat house.
Most likely, our e-mail recipient is a member of that frat.
So, if we can identify them, it may lead us to whoever sent the e-mail.
The Zetas have 16 members.
Any one of 'em could have received that e-mail.
Okay, how do we figure out which frat brother is the right brother? We just need to find the one - with this e-mail on his computer.
- LEANNA: Easier said than done.
We can't just waltz to the front door and expect to get private time alone with all 16 computers.
Actually, we can.
Tonight, the house'll be packed.
Should give Riley enough cover to slip in and search the computers.
It'll give us all enough cover.
You guys can help me search.
All we have to do is plug one of these into each computer.
I can program these to auto-run a search for the recruiter's e-mail address.
The LED will glow red for "no" and green if it finds the e-mail.
Time to show off my PhD in party! I want to have some fun [CHEERING, WHOOPING, GLASS BREAKING.]
[HORN SOUNDING.]
[GLASS BREAKING.]
[HORN TOOTS.]
[LOUD CROWD CHATTER, WHOOPING.]
Man, I missed this! BOZER: Yeah! Yeah, get it, get it, get it.
- Yeah.
- Is this normal? Hell, yeah! Went to one of these every weekend.
You ain't the boy.
Stay focused, guys.
There are people everywhere, way too many to be sneaking - in and out of bedrooms.
- Agreed.
We need a distraction.
Something big enough to get everyone's attention.
I want to have some fun MACGYVER: Boze, I think it's time you broke your old personal best.
- Wait.
What personal best? - As it turns out, he has an almost inhuman ability - to do a keg stand.
- Oh, really? MACGYVER: Back in the day, Bozer started the night as just another freshman.
One minute and 52 seconds later, he was a god.
- I'm impressed.
- Yeah.
Me, too.
I guess some people are just born with a gift.
A gift we need right now.
Come on, man.
We need your super powers.
Crushing a keg is the only thing that'll keep these people distracted long enough so that we can get anywhere near those computers.
Come on.
What do ya say? I want to go out - It's Boozer time.
- Yeah, it is.
- Yeah! Yeah! - Yeah! Yeah! [BOTH GRUNT.]
- Okay, everybody, listen up.
- [MUSIC STOPS.]
My name is Bozer.
And I was put on this planet - for two reasons.
- Two reasons! - To drink beer and kick ass.
- Kick ass! See, I don't care what that lame-ass wall of misfits say, I am the keg stand champ.
You hear me, Alan Kam Kam - Kaminsky.
- What he said.
You're going down.
Tonight we're crowning a new king! [CHEERING.]
[SCREAMS.]
- Whoo.
- Go.
[CHANTING INDISTINCTLY.]
Me tonight CROWD: One, two All right, we need to move.
Come on Bring it on Well, DJ Kev-Dog might have criminally bad taste in music, but he's not our guy.
Try it on Be a primadonna with me tonight Yeah Ah-ha-ha A champagne That's a no on Seth.
Not our guy.
You guys better hurry, for Bozer's sake.
Stick it on the tab Light 'em up Li-li-light 'em up Your ball, my rules A cigarette Don't you know that you are mine? 22, 23, 24, 25.
You're gonna do me right now Do you wanna? Do-do you wanna Feel primadonna like me tonight? Do you wanna? Okay, Matty, you can cross Zack and Drew off the list.
Okay, got it.
Come on Bring it on Don't you know it's all about me tonight? - [PHONE RINGS.]
- Yo, Mac.
Hey, buddy.
You would not believe where I am right now.
Sound like you're in a dance club.
Or a spin class.
What the hell are you doing taking a spin class right now? Try frat party.
But it's for an op.
Well, it sounds like you're having a lot more fun than I am.
What do you mean? Aren't you living your dream of being a Colton? Yeah, well, that dream has now become a nightmare.
What did you do? I kind of lost the skip.
- Jack.
- Yeah, but in my defense Listen, the Coltons are trying to steal Riley, man, as in leave the Phoenix, work for them in Louisiana-type theft.
I can't let that happen.
That's crazy Hey, I got to go.
Did you just hang up on me? Matty, found our guy.
Simon Jones.
Find him.
Find him now.
1:59 Two minutes.
[CHEERING.]
[INDISTINCT CHANTING.]
Leanna, I'm not seeing Simon.
I got him.
He's headed for the door.
Hey.
[GRUNTS.]
Vulcan nerve pinch.
Nice.
Thanks.
Help me get him upstairs.
Hey.
Someone stole my shirt.
You tore it off.
Now come on.
Oh.
[LAUGHS.]
[PANTS.]
"Beer love I.
" Why is my shirt upside down? [COUGHS.]
What's going on? Who are you people? Simon, let us ask the questions here, all right? Trust me, you're gonna want to cooperate.
We know you got an e-mail, who was it from? LEANNA: Look, Simon, if you don't talk, you're gonna be charged with domestic terrorism and sent to federal prison.
You ever been inside one of those? Guys like you don't do too well.
[GIGGLES.]
I-I don't understand.
How can I be charged with domestic terrorism? I I've been working with the CIA.
I'm sorry, did this dude just say CIA? Yes.
They recruited me.
Okay, if that's the case, what's the name of the agent you've been working with? I-I was never given a name.
Okay, what does he look like? I have no idea.
I was supposed to meet him for the first time tonight.
I was picking up a package.
He's talking about a bomb.
The recruiter's planning another attack.
Where was this meeting supposed to be taking place? Uh, I don't know.
I don't know.
Um But my-my contact e-mailed me GPS coordinates.
I'm supposed to be there in, like, 20 minutes.
He's telling the truth.
Well, then, we need to get to this meeting now.
I'm the king of the world! [WHOOPING.]
MACGYVER: Bozer, get down.
You know what? Suddenly, I don't feel so great.
Leanna, can you maybe slow down? If we're gonna ID Simon's contact, fast is the only option.
We are ten minutes late already.
Leanna, you can't go any faster, can you? My foot is literally on the floor, Mac.
Riley, any luck with the cameras in the area? No.
The only one is three miles away from these GPS coordinates.
This location was chosen for a reason.
- Here you go.
- The CIA just confirmed what we already suspected.
There's no officially sanctioned Agency ops running out of Western Tech.
This is a "false flag" operation.
So Simon's contact is pretending to be CIA to trick students into betraying the U.
S.
Okay, guys, satellite's up, but perimeter's empty.
There's nobody there.
We missed the meeting.
When Simon didn't show, they must've assumed he'd been exposed.
So we just lost our best chance to catch this guy.
Now what? I dunno about you three, but I'm gonna try really hard to not puke.
[GAGS.]
No, that way.
No.
Oh, man.
I'm having that dream about the woods again.
MATTY: It's not a dream, Bozer.
This is where Western Tech's Meteorology Department conducts its weather experiments.
Hey.
Look.
There.
That's a weather balloon.
BOZER: Maybe, or maybe it's an alien orb.
MACGYVER: Trust me, it's a balloon.
And that one should be able to tell us who was here earlier.
Leanna, I'm gonna need you to start the car.
[ENGINE STARTS.]
Good job.
I hate balloons, too.
And clouds.
Okay, Mac, I'll bite.
Other than pissing off a few meteorology nerds, what's popping that thing gonna do? Well, weather balloons can do a lot of things.
INCLUDING: suspend a thermal camera high above a corn field to measure the heat impact on crop yields.
This camera, every ten seconds, was snapping a high, wide-angle thermal photo of the field, including the road that runs through it, to show the progression of sun damage on crops.
And since this is the only road out here, whoever was meeting Simon must've driven down it.
Exactly.
There may be a photo on here that can help us ID our recruiter.
Guys, this car drove up right before Simon's meeting, parked for five minutes and then left.
Gotta be his contact.
Does everyone else see a red squiggly shape or is it just me? No, it's not just you, but we might be able to use that red squiggly shape to help us ID Simon's contact.
Yeah, look at the heat signature.
There's no engine.
It's running off a battery.
- It's an electric vehicle.
- Uh-huh.
Matty, can, uh, you run the chassis shape and see if you can get a make and a model? If we do get a hit we can cross-reference it with staff and faculty vehicles.
I can, but it might take some time.
Right now, it's our only option.
MATTY: All right.
Stand by for a name.
BILLY: The guy I spoke with said Victor's headed down here to sell some stuff for some quick cash.
But if he doesn't turn up, Mama's gonna be pissed you lost him.
So? She really doesn't like when people mess with her money.
Well, you tell Mama I really don't like it when people mess with my family.
And I consider offering Riley a job behind my back messing with my family.
She's with us now.
Okay, for the record, that wasn't my intent.
I just I don't want to think about a future that doesn't involve Riley.
Well, join the club.
[LAUGHS.]
Riley's amazing.
If she wants to have a future with you, consider yourself very lucky.
I agree with you, Jack.
But you do realize she's not a little girl, right? And whatever Riley decides for her future, that's her decision.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, there's Victor.
Okay.
Can we please be on the same page this time? Oh, yeah, you chase him down, I'll cut him off.
Hey, Victor.
Don't, don't do anything stupid and make this situation worse than it already is now.
Be smart.
If you turn yourself in we'll clear all this up.
Y-You gotta let me go, man.
Please.
Look, I had to do it.
That's what guys in your position say to guys in my position all the time.
Yeah.
I'm sure they do.
But, look, if you take me in I don't know what'll happen to her.
Happen to who? My mom.
What's the matter with her? 24-hour care isn't cheap.
She's so behind in payments as is, I just I needed that money.
I need the money to get her square.
Look, I'm trying to sell everything I can.
That's why I came here.
And I got friends, they owe me money and If I can just get that money and pay off her bills, I will turn myself in.
I swear.
24-hour care, huh? Yes, sir.
Go on.
Get out of here.
Hey, hey.
Take care of your mom.
Thank you.
- [PANTING.]
- Jack.
What are you doing? Did he come this way? No, no, no.
I came around the corner.
I seen this.
So he I don't know He must've doubled back.
No, he didn't.
He didn't.
You sure you didn't see him? You sure you didn't see him? Yeah, no, I'm-I'm positive.
All right, come on.
If we hurry, he might still be in this area.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
MATTY: Julian Sloane, I'm Matilda Webber, and I work for an agency you never heard of.
You have a lot of explaining to do, Ms.
Webber.
Your people just kidnapped me off the street.
Oh, you want to play private citizen? Fine.
But you're not really a citizen of this country, are you, Mischa Burov? Born in Moscow, 1963.
Joined the KGB in 1981.
In 1985, you were sent to the States to recruit spies.
And in 1986, you applied to the Western Tech Admissions Department under the name Julian Sloane.
You were hired and since worked your way up to head of admissions.
Then, in '91, the USSR crumbled.
So, what did you do? You turned your recruitment ring into a private moneymaking operation.
Working in the admissions department gave you access to students' profiles and records, allowing you the opportunity to handpick who you wanted to admit and recruit.
A nice story.
But it's just a story.
Except it isn't.
I've got ten years of e-mails sent from your account to your student recruits ordering dozens of bombings.
LEANNA: Bombings that directly correlate to deposits made into your offshore bank account.
Oh, yeah.
We found that, too.
Your last three deposits all came from the same place, which tells me that you were hired to set off three bombs.
Two already detonated.
So where's the third, Mischa? We know you didn't make the handoff to Simon.
And there's no bomb in your car, your office, or your home.
Which means you planted it yourself.
The only way to stay out of jail for the rest of your life is to tell us where that third bomb is before it goes off.
What was Simon's target? Turn on the news at 9:00.
All your questions will be answered.
MATTY: It's just after 8:00 a.
m.
, which gives us less than an hour before that third bomb goes off.
That's just not a lot of time.
GPS in Sloane's car has been turned off.
There's no way to tell where he's been.
The, uh, time stamp on the weather balloon photos, it said that Sloane drove away from the cornfield at 2:00 a.
m.
, and we grabbed him at 7:00 a.
m.
So he drove two and half hours max to the target and two and a half hours back.
The list of potential targets is massive.
Okay, let's review what we already know.
The students involved in these attacks used their employee access to sneak the bombs into the buildings.
What did Simon have access to? Well, he's a Chinese and business double major.
Did a semester abroad interning at the Shanghai National Bank.
Shanghai doesn't fit our timetable.
No.
But the Shanghai National Bank does have a corporate services branch located on the 20th floor of a building half an hour from Western Tech.
Well, that's got to be the target.
RILEY: Without Simon's access, Sloane couldn't have snuck his bomb into the bank.
So where'd he hide it? MATTY: Probably somewhere in the building he could easily access.
Like the lobby? Like the lobby.
Go.
Now.
- [TIRES SCREECHING.]
- [HORNS HONKING.]
- [BEEPING.]
- RILEY: Damn it.
I can't see it anywhere.
Isn't that the whole point of a transparent bomb? It can't be seen to the naked eye? BOZER: Yeah, but it's not invisible.
- Got to be some way to detect it, right? - [GRUNTS.]
There is.
It's called an induced secondary emission generator.
Do all those big words mean - "transparent bomb finder"? - Pretty much.
When I pass this over the bomb, it will shoot ions at it, causing it to glow orange.
The fire department's on its way.
How far out are you guys? Yep.
We are nearly there.
Mac, you have 20 minutes to find that bomb before it goes off.
So, no pressure.
Thanks.
- [ALARM BLARING.]
- BOZER: There's 28 floors in here.
We'll never get everybody out in time.
Well, then I guess it comes down to Mac - and his bomb detector.
- LEANNA: Come on.
- Everybody.
Out.
- [DETECTOR CLICKING.]
- We got 12 minutes, Mac.
- Not helping.
I hate to say this, but are we sure we picked the right building? At least if we die, I'm spared a massive hangover.
Yeah, that's a bright side, I guess.
[CLICKING.]
Wait a second, I got it.
- It's right here.
- Can you disarm it? No way.
There's too many redundancies.
If I try, I could set it off.
What about trying to contain - the blast? - No.
There's just too much explosive.
Wait, this is a green building.
Okay.
Means there are solar panels.
Is anyone else following this? Is this lobby spinning? [GRUNTS.]
We got to get to the roof.
Now.
LEANNA: Come on.
He's just not gonna tell us what he's doing, is he? He could, but it'd be all weird and nerdy.
Solar panels have hydrogen fuel cells.
I'm gonna use 'em to get rid of the bomb.
Can you do it fast? We got two minutes.
MACGYVER: Come on, get up there.
Higher.
Higher.
Come on, come on.
Higher.
That would've looked so much prettier at night.
[CHUCKLES.]
- [CHUCKLES.]
: Hey! - [CHUCKLES.]
Not so boring now, huh? - Drink up.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
All right.
[SIPS.]
There.
Okay? Everybody happy? All right.
- Whoa.
- MACGYVER: What was that? My equilibrium's off.
MACGYVER: Dude, it's soda, not beer.
You have no excuse.
Really, guys? Whose idea was it to play beer pong with soda? I've had enough beer for one lifetime.
Thank you.
You want to get in on this, boss? First things first.
We were able to connect the dots between the two attacks in Morocco and Shanghai National.
Turns out the Moroccan government was doubling its efforts to fight terrorism and secured a loan at the Chinese bank to fund both a weapons development facility and a training center for their anti-terrorist troops.
Oh, so a local radical group was trying to hurt the government's efforts to stop terrorism.
Yeah.
And they hired Sloane to maintain control over the region.
But when they failed, they all went on the run.
Which is good news for us and Morocco.
LEANNA: So what's gonna happen to the students that Sloane recruited? Phoenix agents have already started to round them up.
But they're victims in this, too, so they're all gonna need to be debriefed.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Hey.
What happened yesterday? Billy said you lost the skip.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, sometimes they're a step faster, I guess.
First chance you get to be a Colton and a bail jumper gets the best of Jack Dalton, huh? I'm okay with not being a Colton.
Really? Mm-hmm.
What can I say, I guess skip chasing just ain't my thing.
Hmm.
Dig that T-shirt, by the way.
Yeah.
Geez, Bozer, what's up? You look like the south end of a northbound mule.
Thanks, Jack.
The good news is I feel the south end of - whatever you said, too.
- Mm, mm, mm.
Hey, blondie, I've got something for you.
Really? Another gift? Well, this one's not from me.
In light of everything you did for Western Tech, the administration wanted you to have this.
You are no longer a college dropout.
Aw.
You know what they say about diplomas, don't you? No.
You gonna tell me? Great for when you run out of toilet paper.
[CHUCKLING.]
Are you jealous, Dalton? Girl, I don't need a piece of paper to prove how smart I am, okay? Well, I don't need a piece of paper to prove how smart you're not.
[CHUCKLING.]
- Was that an insult? - [LAUGHTER.]
No.
You're a genius.
- Oh, thank you.
- All righty, who's ready to take me on? Drink up, Bozer.