Season 3

Lost Love Part 1

  • In the third-season opener, MacGyver is assigned to protect a Chinese artifact, when a ghost from his past appears, needing his help to escape from Soviet agents who want her and the artifact. Part 1 of two.

Lost Love Part 2

  • Conclusion. Risking a diplomatic crisis to save Lisa, MacGyver has less than 24 hours to steal a precious artifact for the Soviets who hold her hostage.

Back From the Dead

  • A former hitman who has given the government too many mob secrets becomes a baseball manager, which draws the attention of syndicate thugs. Hank Aaron has a cameo.

Ghost Ship

  • On a mapping expedition, MacGyver finds a girl who's being hunted by a creature resembling Big Foot.

Fire and Ice

  • A thief kills MacGyver's old friend, leaving a trail of stolen jewels that leads straight to a foreign consulate.

GX-1

  • A secret high-tech plane goes down in the Alps, and MacGyver reluctantly allows Nikki to accompany him across the East German border - racing to beat the Soviets to the wreckage in the mountains.

Jack in the Box

  • MacGyver gets a taste of redneck justice when he gets tossed into a prison labor camp during a mission to the rural South.

The Widowmaker

  • MacGyver goes into mourning when a friend dies in a mountaineering accident, but a pyromaniac with a score to settle forces MacGyver to concentrate on matters at hand.

Hell Week

  • A frustrated physics student at MacGyver's alma mater becomes a ticking time bomb when a school contest turns into a family war.

Blow Out

  • Political terrorism hits close to home when Nikki is targeted by a bombing suspect who fears she can identify him.

Kill Zone

  • Wildlife begins to perish mysteriously, and MacGyver discovers the culprit: an uncontrollably mutating organism that speeds up the aging process.

Early Retirement

  • Thornton mediates the Phoenix Foundation's talks between the UN and a rabidly anti-American subversive, until a suspicious explosion forces him to resign - and the man who takes his job could be connected to murder and sabotage.

Thin Ice

  • A high-school hockey player has a chance to go pro - if he plays dirty enough. But when a fight on the ice lands an opposing player in the hospital, MacGyver tries to teach the youth about sportsmanship.

The Odd Triple

  • Jack's back and his latest scheme is to pilot an heiress back to France after she purchases a fortune in jewels. But when MacGyver and Jack accomplish the mission, they're arrested.

The Negotiator

  • MacGyver is tasked to do an environmental-impact study before builders can start a project, and when bribery fails, the builders sic a beautiful killer on him.

The Spoilers

  • MacGyver enlists a mountainous recluse to help track whoever is dumping toxic waste in mountain streams.

Mask of the Wolf

  • Jack Dalton talks MacGyver into accompanying an elderly Native American on a search for a legendary wolf mask, but two mercenaries have plans of their own for the mask.

Rock the Cradle

  • Jack Dalton nearly kills MacGyver in a plane ride and later, in the hangar, finds a baby tagged "Jack Jr." strapped into the cockpit, and fortune in counterfeit bills in the bassinet.

The Endangered

  • MacGyver visits an ex-girlfriend, a ranger at a wildlife reserve, only to have his vacation turned into a bloody confrontation by poachers who are killing off endangered species.

Murderers' Sky

  • The takeover of a Chinese mogul's company involves a deadly ninja, and it's up to MacGyver and the mogul's young grandson to halt the escalating bloodshed.