Episode
MacGyver: Skull + Electromagnet
Overview
The team is pulled away from their Halloween plans when they head into the dreaded Bermuda Triangle to retrieve the Vice President’s son after his plane goes down with a mysterious prisoner on board.
Details
- Series
- MacGyver
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2017-10-27
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Skull + Electromagnet is Episode 5 in Season 2 of MacGyver. It aired on 2017-10-27. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 4: X-Ray + Penny
When Murdoc drugs and kidnaps MacGyver, Mac uses a needle and his teeth to escape and join the team to save Murdoc’s next victim.
Episode 6: Jet Engine + Pickup Truck
Using a cassette player and a plastic bucket, Mac and the team attempt to extinguish a massive oil wellhead fire in a Nigerian village, set by a rebel group, which is trying to topple its government by destroying their most valuable resource.
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Episode 8: Packing Peanuts + Fire
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Episode 1: DIY or DIE
Using a cell phone and soccer ball, MacGyver and the team search for a Navy SEAL who is believed to be alive in captivity in the Middle East.
Episode 9: CD-ROM + Hoagie Foil
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Episode 10: War Room + Ship
When 32 college students are stranded on a research ship in the Arctic Ocean with no heat and erupting fires, Mac develops an emotional connection to the group leader, via video chat, as he relays how to stay alive as they await a rescue ship. Also, Jack kidnaps Elwood to find out what scam he’s up to next, and Bozer’s feelings toward Leanna grow stronger.
Episode 11: Bullet + Pen
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Episode 12: Mac + Jack
When Mac and Jack are trapped inside Mac's house, which his nemesis, The Ghost, has rigged with explosives, Mac uses a karaoke mic and an audio transformer to let the team know that this bomb is a distraction for a bigger one. Also, through flashbacks, Mac and Jack's contentious first meeting unfolds.
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While Mac participates in a challenge for government operatives to create robotic combat machines, he must help his biggest competitor, Allie, when her vehicle is hacked and heads to the Pentagon. Also, Jack attends his high school reunion, hoping for a showdown with his old rival who beat him out for homecoming king.