MacGyver (1985–1992): Season 1, Episode 8 - Hellfire - full transcript
MacGyver visits some friends who are are drilling for oil. Their oil well catches fire and burns out of control. MacGyver is the only one who can stop the fire and save his friends' oil strike.
MacGYVER: Some people say
there are no more frontiers
left for us to conquer,
but then again, some people
still go out into the wilderness
in search of their dream.
MacGyver!
Hey, Mac!
Trouble is, sometimes that dream
can become a living nightmare.
( both laughing)
Oh!
Darlin'! Oh...
Oh, I've missed you, MacGyver.
Oh, elegant as ever.
As beautiful as ever.
And, oh, so sexy!
( chuckles)
How did Bill ever
see you before I did?
Oh, just lucky, I guess.
Yeah, I'd say.
How is he?
Terrific.
Really.
And how's the project?
Wonderful, exciting,
and Bill says it's
gonna make us rich.
Always said you're
my best friend.
Okay, Torg, tie her
off! Slow it down.
Okay, Bill.
Hold the drilling bit steady.
Okay, I got it.
Hey, come on, let's go.
That'll take us down
to about 1,800 feet.
Yeah, maybe we'll have
to go down another 2,000.
You gotta have faith.
( laughs)
I smell hydrocarbons.
There's oil down there, son!
Hold it!
Wow! Gas pocket! Whoo!
But it means there's
really oil down there, Bill!
Yeah!
Come on, baby! Come on up!
♪ Hey-uh, hey-uh,
hey-uh, hey-uh, hey. ♪
Oh, I thank you, God.
We gotta let the gas bleed
out before we can drill.
Hey, MacGyver!
We're gonna be rich!
Hey, Pete,
I want you to meet
my best friend.
Oh, yeah!
Whoo!
Damn, MacGyver!
I don't hardly recognize you.
That's 'cause I'm
not me anymore.
Where have you been?
( both laughing)
Oh, you, get over here!
Get over here with me.
Get over here.
Hey, glad you could
drop by my estate.
I was in the neighborhood.
What can I say?
It's good to see ya.
You, too.
It's been a while.
Master of the understatement.
"It's been a while."
What was it, Sumatra?
Yeah.
Flew straight in from Texas
all duded up in your fancy hat,
your ten-gallon boots
and put on a party.
Didn't even know
where Sumatra was.
I had jet lag...
from heavy-duty partyin'.
Yeah. Before I met you, hon.
Oh, sure, sure.
Was he as hopeless a liar
when he was a kid, huh?
I'd be lyin' if I said no.
Mm-hmm.
Hey, I'm about to
forget my manners.
Hey, Pete!
Get over here.
Got somebody I want you to meet.
MacGyver,
Pete Torgut.
Hey, Pete, how you doin'?
Pleasure. Heard a lot about you.
Hellcattin' with this clown?
No way! No, I'd
help rig the well,
but he'd blow it out.
Oh, MacGyver's
just being modest.
Listen, I got some
more pickin' up to do.
Thanks for droppin' down.
MacGYVER: So this is what
you gave up hellfightin' for.
You know, wildcat drillin'
isn't exactly the greatest
way to make a living.
BILL: "Make a living."
Mac, if today's core
samples check out
with the geological
reports you brought me,
man, we're sitting on an empire.
You wanna buy a share?
Yeah, line it up
here, Pete. Yeah.
Have a look.
This is our area.
That could be our gas pocket.
Where is that striation overlay?
Let's see if it matches up.
Laura, look, look.
Oh, you're just amazing.
Man of many, many, many,
many, many, many talents.
I'll say.
Fresh coffee.
Get it while it's hot. Bill?
Thanks, hon. Pete?
Oh, thank you.
Put the light on, would you?
Oh, sure.
See how that lower
level juts down...
TORGUT: Yeah, but we've
gone deeper than that already.
( electrical zapping)
LAURA ( sighs): Fuse blew again.
Oh, no!
Got a fuse box?
Uh-huh.
See, I was right, Pete.
Where's that second overlay?
Well, there's the problem.
Got a spare fuse?
You're holding it.
I, uh, tried to make do
with shorter orders on
the supply runs... fuses,
batteries for the radio...
Guess it's kinda
catching up to me now.
Gum?
No, thanks.
So things are kinda tight, huh?
Yeah, kinda.
What're you doing
with that gum wrapper?
Well, maybe we can get around
this fuse problem...
temporarily.
Great!
You fixed the fuse.
Now why can't I come up
with money-saving
ideas like that?
Listen, Laura, when Bill
got hurt, how bad was it?
I thought he was gonna die.
Three months in the burn ward.
It was my worst nightmare.
So he quit?
He was the best, you know.
Sure, and probably tough
enough just to last forever.
But I'm not.
And I asked him
to make a choice:
hellfighting... or us.
He chose right.
I don't know.
We've put all the
money we saved into it,
every cent that we could borrow.
Nothing's left.
It's all out there...
this land and that derrick.
If this doesn't work out...
Bill'll go back to hellfighting.
And... I...
Hey, Bill, look at
this! It all checks out!
Let's see.
There it is. That's it. Oil!
Laura, we're gonna be rich!
( laughing)
( screaming)
It looks good!
We did it, babe! We did it.
Yeah! Yeah!
LAURA: We did it!
All right!
We're gonna be rich!
( humming "Blue Danube Waltz")
LAURA: Oh, I love you!
( humming continues)
( lightbulbs clicking)
Pete, cut the power!
One of the bulbs blew!
No! Get back, it's gonna blow!
Get outta here! Get out!
Help!
( screaming)
Pete!
Pete!
Oh, God!
Stay back!
Get back!
( screaming continues)
Come on, get him!
TORGUT: Get it off!
( screaming)
Oh, God.
( Torgut moaning)
Turn him over!
Come on!
LAURA: Hurry!
God, hurry!
( moaning)
( explosions continues)
LAURA: Easy, Pete.
You'll be all right.
You know, you got yourself
a simple fracture there.
Got off lucky.
Yeah, I'm a real lucky guy.
Couldn't get any better.
Of course, you know
we're going to have
to give it a pretty good yank
to straighten it,
get a splint on it.
Well, what are you
waiting for, Doc?
Let's do it!
Oh, I was just wondering...
Do you have any
doubts you can do it?
MacGYVER: Oh,
no, that's no problem.
It has to do with Curie's Law.
Curie's what?
Curie's Law?
MacGYVER: Yeah.
You know, the one that says
the magnetic susceptibility
of a paramagnetic substance
is inversely proportional
to the absolute temperature.
You know.
The magnetic
susceptibility to the...
( screams)
On the other hand...
don't think about it.
Oh... whew.
You're real slick, MacGyver.
Well, naked dancing girls
might have been a little better,
but... you know.
Just let everything flow, okay?
Okay. All right.
MacGYVER: Good man.
I get the feeling we're
not rich anymore.
You know, you guys
are losing me here.
You know, there are
all kinds of hydrocarbons
coming out of that hole.
Even with my limited experience,
that generally means
there's "oal down thar."
I agree.
Just wait for the supply
plane, hire a fire-fighting crew.
Your credit ought to be good
with all that oil coming in.
BILL: Not inside
the next two weeks.
Which is when
our lease runs out.
No way we can get a crew
here inside two months.
Well, maybe we ought to
consider putting it out ourselves.
With what?
Know-how, ingenuity...
dynamite wouldn't hurt.
The last time I did
that kind of thing,
I used $5 million worth of
equipment and explosives.
We don't have any gear.
And the dynamite
blew away yesterday.
Bill, they used dynamite
up at Tenstrike Mine.
Where's that?
It's an old strip
mining operation.
Played out six, seven years ago.
It's abandoned.
Maybe they left
some stuff behind.
We could maybe do it.
No.
I almost lost you once, Bill.
You made me a promise.
No more hellfighting.
You know, Laura, I've
worked with Bill before.
Bet you I could handle it...
with Bill backing
me up, of course.
He wouldn't have to go in?
MacGYVER: No way.
Who needs him?
I can do that part
myself, providing we find
some dynamite up at the mine.
Listen, does that truck run?
Damn well better.
That mine's 40, 50 miles
other side of the hills.
Well, then, why don't
we take off at first light?
MacGYVER: This road would
definitely be an "E" ride at Disneyland.
BILL: Yeah, it's a
roller coaster, all right.
We ought to be reaching
that old mine pretty soon.
Unless we're lost.
Hey, there she is!
BiLL: Tenstrike Mine up ahead!
MacGYVER: Where do you think
they stored the dynamite around here?
BILL: Powder shack.
Look for the powder shack.
MacGYVER: What do
you say... over there?
BILL: Yeah, it looks like it.
Cross your fingers
that they left something
we can use behind.
Yeah, finders keepers.
Well, if there's any dynamite
around, it'd be in here.
Look at that.
Plenty for what we need.
Oh! Oh, right!
You always did have great moves.
I wonder if I could
sue the builder?
You know this
building's coming down
with the first strong wind.
Hey, you want to live forever?
Thinking about it.
Stuff's been here for awhile.
Yeah. Could be touchy.
MacGYVER: Let's
see what we got here.
It's dry.
Yeah, too dry.
I'll bet you a lot
of the nitroglycerin
has leaked out already.
Well, let's try it.
BILL: Pure nitro.
That stuff will go
off if you sneeze.
Let's try not to sneeze.
( chuckling)
The stuff works good.
Well, that may be unstable,
but there's nothing
worse than pure nitro.
Still...
It's going to be fun
putting it on my fire.
Two... three!
Oh!
You okay? Yeah.
How does that feel? Good. Good.
What was it you
said to me one time?
You'd rather be
burned than bored?
Sure would.
And you know all
about that, Mac.
Yeah, but I'm not married.
Laura's the reason I gave it up.
There's no question about that.
I have no regrets.
You know, Laura, I'm
starting to understand
what Bill used to do.
Fighting something like that...
That would scare
the hell out of me.
We can put out the
fire, we bring in the well.
That's all I want.
And then I'll settle down.
I'll get fat, I'll have kids.
Uh-huh.
And I'll tell dumb stories
about how great I used to be.
And how we put
out that fire, Mac.
I just love Bill so much.
And there's something in
him that... really scares me.
Come on, this
one last time, man.
One last time.
That's all I want. Okay?
It's a rush, Mac!
You got that right.
Come on.
All right, let's do it.
All right!
You know, back in the 1920s,
they used to truck
nitro out to the fields.
Yeah? Yeah.
They used to call that
the suicide run, didn't they?
You scared? You bet.
Me, too. Ain't it great?
Yeah.
Yeah.
TORGUT: Laura, you really
think we still got a chance?
LAURA: With Bill and
MacGyver together?
They can work miracles.
We gotta get this hose laid out
before they get back.
I'll unwrap it.
Okay.
Uh, give me the connection.
All right, take it.
BILL: You ever
drop one of these?
MacGYVER: Not recently. You?
Well, in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
a guy once bet me
that I couldn't balance
a stick of burning dynamite
on my forehead.
( wind blowing)
Yeah, what happened?
Blew my head off.
( wood creaking)
Ooh, MacGyver?
You know what I said
about blowing my head off?
Yeah.
Joke, man.
A dumb joke.
Be right back.
Ah. I'm not going anywhere.
Hold, darling.
Hold it, baby, hold it.
Okay, uh...
Pow. You better hurry.
Hand me... Oh, my...
Hand me your case.
Got it?
Yeah.
Whew.
That's definitely
not going to work.
Bill? What?
Take this case.
Give me one good reason why.
Laura.
Get outta here.
Take it.
Okay.
Now, gently, will ya?
Tell that to be gentle.
Hurry.
Hurry.
( yelling)
( screaming)
You are crazy!
( laughs): I mean, certifiable.
Yeah?
What does that make you?
( chuckles)
Oh...
( laughs)
Oh...
Well, let's get
this fire food...
on the road.
Yeah.
All right, first
thing we got to do
is build a little
cradle for that nitro.
Hey, these wagon springs
ought to give that
stuff a safe ride.
MacGYVER: And some
nice absorbent sand,
in case anything drips out.
BILL: Hey, I'm with you, Mac.
I want those
blasting sticks to feel
real comfortable
on the ride back.
Listen, Bill, you know
any other way home
besides that washboard
road we took?
BILL: You don't want it
to be too easy, do you?
Well, nitro looks cozy.
Oh, terrific.
Just 54 bumpy miles to go.
Watch that back wheel, Mac.
Here comes the ditch.
Could you wind
down a little, please?
Thank you. You're fine, fine.
It's okay.
I'm sure we'll
know when it's not.
Oh, boy, you're a real comfort.
Okay, Pete, crank it about
a quarter of the way open.
Okay.
You must know a
lot about hell-fighting
working with Bill, huh?
Too much.
Do you use the water
to wet down the fire?
No, the firefighters.
Most importantly,
the explosives.
You go in carrying
an explosive charge.
Has to keep being hosed down
so it doesn't just
blow from the fire.
Okay, Pete, cut it.
You rig the charge so that, uh,
they can go right into the gut
of the fire, and
when it explodes,
it eats up all the
oxygen, and...
it blows out the fire
like a birthday candle.
PETE: Simple, huh?
LAURA: Yeah... when it works.
( explosion)
MacGYVER: You know,
Laura's real shook up
over what happened
in that last fire.
It ain't my happiest
memory, either.
Hey, watch that bump.
So, what happened in that fire?
Oh, come on, that's...
that's a long story.
I'll tell it to you sometime.
If that's what it's like
going over little rocks,
stay clear of the boulders.
Well, how do you feel
about crossing streams?
Just dip in one toe at a time.
See? No problem.
( engine sputtering)
MacGYVER: What
was it you were saying?
Well, must be one of those days.
Your linkage spring is busted.
You got a ball-point pen?
There's one in the
glove compartment.
Should I bother to ask why?
Thank you.
You always got an answer.
It doesn't always work.
No, your batting
average is pretty good.
Just get us back.
Why? Thought you
were having fun.
Well, yeah, but
there's oil under that rig,
and I think I can
handle being rich.
Yeah?
Yeah. Mansions, yachts,
maybe even a new truck.
Try it, will you?
( engine struggling to turn)
All right, try it again, Bill.
( engine starts)
Yeah.
( laughs)
Hey! Nice going!
Voila!
You can forget
about that new truck.
I'll take a dozen of
those ballpoint pens.
I got a good feeling, Mac.
We're gonna beat that fire.
We're gonna win, partner.
The eternal optimist.
That's why I like you.
Yeah.
( gears grinding)
♪ ♪
BILL: Boy, I can hardly
wait to see Laura's big smile
when we come bouncing in there.
MacGYVER: Don't say bouncing.
Fasten your seat belt, Mac.
The hills are coming.
MacGYVER: Everything
still looks secure.
Hey! Homestretch!
( honking horn)
Pete! Yeah!
They made it! (
whoops) All right!
( loud bang)
Hey, did you feel that?
We could be in a
little trouble here.
MacGyver!
Brakes are gone.
Hang on!
Pete? They're
going awfully fast.
Oh, God!
Oh, no!
Oh!
God!
♪ ♪
Piece of cake.
Yeah.
MacGYVER: Let's not drop it,
or we might not be around
to pick up the pieces.
BILL: Set it down easy.
All right, Billy
boy, you tell me,
how do we put that thing out?
Well, the last time I
used a heat-proof vehicle.
Sort of a tank,
with an extensor arm on it.
It was computer-controlled
with a directional
mechanism for fine-tuning.
This time I think it's gonna
be more like the old days.
Prayers and guts.
Uh, wait a minute, here.
He's thinking.
I can hear the
gears grinding away.
How close am I gonna
have to get to that thing?
BILL: Near enough
to drop a charge
down to the well casing.
But the closer you get,
the temperature
goes up exponentially.
Eight, maybe ten
degrees a foot squared.
So you gotta go
in far as you can,
extending the charge
on the end of the pole.
Looks like I'm gonna need
a longer pole or I'm gonna fry.
Yeah, it looks that way.
Well, I guess I'm
gonna have to entertain
a couple of theories
a few of my buddies
came up with a while ago.
Archimedes and Euclid,
you may have heard of them.
But we're definitely
gonna need some stuff.
Yeah, we're gonna
need a heat shield
like this old refrigerator.
We got that.
We got our
transportation.
And the track for it.
And we got our dynamite.
There you are.
You know what? I
think that could work.
Where do we start?
Well, the way you
start any railroad.
You lay track.
You ready?
PETE: Ready.
Move it.
MacGYVER: Laura,
fill this thermos with all
the liquid nitro you can
squeeze out of those sticks.
And need I say, be careful.
How's it going?
That's great.
Wait a minute.
Bill!
LAURA: MacGyver, soup's on.
Keep it moving, honey.
Get it down in that sand.
Okay.
Careful now.
Yeah.
Hey, Bill.
Come on, we need
some help here, bud.
No.
You can't handle it by yourself.
Not in there.
Bill...
I think that's my choice, son.
No!
And you know why.
That wasn't your fault.
My God, three
months in a burn ward,
I think that's enough
punishment, don't you?
For three lives.
The guys on my crew,
man, they bought it.
They all bought it.
They're dead, Mac.
If you go in there by yourself,
you're gonna die, too.
So, no.
This one's mine.
You made me a promise.
To let a good friend
kill himself, Laura?
MacGYVER: I think I said
that was my choice.
All right?
No, Bill!
Stop it!
What's the matter with you?
Please!
Stop it, you two! Stop!
MacGyver!
Please!
Stop it! Have you
both gone crazy?
Stop!
What's the matter with you?
Stop, I said!
Stop it!
Stop it!
I said stop it!
Stop!
Get off him!
Bill's right.
You can't do it alone, MacGyver.
And don't say
another word, Farren!
Okay!
Honey...
Look, you're going in.
This one last time.
But the two of you together.
That's the way you got this far.
Laura, you know, I...
Look, you'll fry your
tail in there without Bill.
Damn it, he's the best!
So are you.
You heard the lady.
Yeah.
Ow.
Okay, baby, I want you
MacGYVER: Let's go!
To keep that water cool Okay.
While we head into the fire.
Come on.
Good luck.
Keep it up, honey.
MacGyver, this is as
close as we can get.
Water!
Careful!
That was close.
Very close.
Better check the hitch release.
It has to open easy
so the charge will pop.
Okay, it works fine.
Now let's get it to the shaft.
BILL: It's too hot in here.
Turn it all the way up, Pete!
Turn it up!
Keep it coming, Laura.
That's the right amount
of tension, MacGyver.
Oh, it's stuck.
I gotta go out!
Right here, Laura.
BILL: Slide it forward, Mac.
You got it!
Now get back in
here or you'll be fried!
Laura!
Mac, come on!
Let's keep that
canister moving forward.
( wire creaking)
MacGYVER: It's just
about over the shaft.
Turn it up, Pete.
Turn it up.
Pete, come on, yeah!
All right, get ready to move!
Are you ready?
Yeah! Let's go!
Go! Go, go, go!
All right.
For sure.
PETE: Yeah.
For damned sure.
( cheering, laughing)
So what's next?
BILL: Well, we
know there's oil there.
We just need to build
up a new derrick...
Start drilling that hole,
soon as I can work again.
You'll heal.
I know it, buddy.
Think you oughta
do that a little sooner.
Like maybe get
someone to help you.
Hire somebody.
Out here?
Where in the world
are we gonna find...?
I've been wanting to
take a nice long vacation,
a little rest and relaxation.
Spend some time with friends,
party down.
I'll help you bring in the well.
Then you're hired.
All right!
I like that.
You're the best.
BILL: Right.
( laughing)
BILL: Ready... break.
Whoo!
( theme music plays)
there are no more frontiers
left for us to conquer,
but then again, some people
still go out into the wilderness
in search of their dream.
MacGyver!
Hey, Mac!
Trouble is, sometimes that dream
can become a living nightmare.
( both laughing)
Oh!
Darlin'! Oh...
Oh, I've missed you, MacGyver.
Oh, elegant as ever.
As beautiful as ever.
And, oh, so sexy!
( chuckles)
How did Bill ever
see you before I did?
Oh, just lucky, I guess.
Yeah, I'd say.
How is he?
Terrific.
Really.
And how's the project?
Wonderful, exciting,
and Bill says it's
gonna make us rich.
Always said you're
my best friend.
Okay, Torg, tie her
off! Slow it down.
Okay, Bill.
Hold the drilling bit steady.
Okay, I got it.
Hey, come on, let's go.
That'll take us down
to about 1,800 feet.
Yeah, maybe we'll have
to go down another 2,000.
You gotta have faith.
( laughs)
I smell hydrocarbons.
There's oil down there, son!
Hold it!
Wow! Gas pocket! Whoo!
But it means there's
really oil down there, Bill!
Yeah!
Come on, baby! Come on up!
♪ Hey-uh, hey-uh,
hey-uh, hey-uh, hey. ♪
Oh, I thank you, God.
We gotta let the gas bleed
out before we can drill.
Hey, MacGyver!
We're gonna be rich!
Hey, Pete,
I want you to meet
my best friend.
Oh, yeah!
Whoo!
Damn, MacGyver!
I don't hardly recognize you.
That's 'cause I'm
not me anymore.
Where have you been?
( both laughing)
Oh, you, get over here!
Get over here with me.
Get over here.
Hey, glad you could
drop by my estate.
I was in the neighborhood.
What can I say?
It's good to see ya.
You, too.
It's been a while.
Master of the understatement.
"It's been a while."
What was it, Sumatra?
Yeah.
Flew straight in from Texas
all duded up in your fancy hat,
your ten-gallon boots
and put on a party.
Didn't even know
where Sumatra was.
I had jet lag...
from heavy-duty partyin'.
Yeah. Before I met you, hon.
Oh, sure, sure.
Was he as hopeless a liar
when he was a kid, huh?
I'd be lyin' if I said no.
Mm-hmm.
Hey, I'm about to
forget my manners.
Hey, Pete!
Get over here.
Got somebody I want you to meet.
MacGyver,
Pete Torgut.
Hey, Pete, how you doin'?
Pleasure. Heard a lot about you.
Hellcattin' with this clown?
No way! No, I'd
help rig the well,
but he'd blow it out.
Oh, MacGyver's
just being modest.
Listen, I got some
more pickin' up to do.
Thanks for droppin' down.
MacGYVER: So this is what
you gave up hellfightin' for.
You know, wildcat drillin'
isn't exactly the greatest
way to make a living.
BILL: "Make a living."
Mac, if today's core
samples check out
with the geological
reports you brought me,
man, we're sitting on an empire.
You wanna buy a share?
Yeah, line it up
here, Pete. Yeah.
Have a look.
This is our area.
That could be our gas pocket.
Where is that striation overlay?
Let's see if it matches up.
Laura, look, look.
Oh, you're just amazing.
Man of many, many, many,
many, many, many talents.
I'll say.
Fresh coffee.
Get it while it's hot. Bill?
Thanks, hon. Pete?
Oh, thank you.
Put the light on, would you?
Oh, sure.
See how that lower
level juts down...
TORGUT: Yeah, but we've
gone deeper than that already.
( electrical zapping)
LAURA ( sighs): Fuse blew again.
Oh, no!
Got a fuse box?
Uh-huh.
See, I was right, Pete.
Where's that second overlay?
Well, there's the problem.
Got a spare fuse?
You're holding it.
I, uh, tried to make do
with shorter orders on
the supply runs... fuses,
batteries for the radio...
Guess it's kinda
catching up to me now.
Gum?
No, thanks.
So things are kinda tight, huh?
Yeah, kinda.
What're you doing
with that gum wrapper?
Well, maybe we can get around
this fuse problem...
temporarily.
Great!
You fixed the fuse.
Now why can't I come up
with money-saving
ideas like that?
Listen, Laura, when Bill
got hurt, how bad was it?
I thought he was gonna die.
Three months in the burn ward.
It was my worst nightmare.
So he quit?
He was the best, you know.
Sure, and probably tough
enough just to last forever.
But I'm not.
And I asked him
to make a choice:
hellfighting... or us.
He chose right.
I don't know.
We've put all the
money we saved into it,
every cent that we could borrow.
Nothing's left.
It's all out there...
this land and that derrick.
If this doesn't work out...
Bill'll go back to hellfighting.
And... I...
Hey, Bill, look at
this! It all checks out!
Let's see.
There it is. That's it. Oil!
Laura, we're gonna be rich!
( laughing)
( screaming)
It looks good!
We did it, babe! We did it.
Yeah! Yeah!
LAURA: We did it!
All right!
We're gonna be rich!
( humming "Blue Danube Waltz")
LAURA: Oh, I love you!
( humming continues)
( lightbulbs clicking)
Pete, cut the power!
One of the bulbs blew!
No! Get back, it's gonna blow!
Get outta here! Get out!
Help!
( screaming)
Pete!
Pete!
Oh, God!
Stay back!
Get back!
( screaming continues)
Come on, get him!
TORGUT: Get it off!
( screaming)
Oh, God.
( Torgut moaning)
Turn him over!
Come on!
LAURA: Hurry!
God, hurry!
( moaning)
( explosions continues)
LAURA: Easy, Pete.
You'll be all right.
You know, you got yourself
a simple fracture there.
Got off lucky.
Yeah, I'm a real lucky guy.
Couldn't get any better.
Of course, you know
we're going to have
to give it a pretty good yank
to straighten it,
get a splint on it.
Well, what are you
waiting for, Doc?
Let's do it!
Oh, I was just wondering...
Do you have any
doubts you can do it?
MacGYVER: Oh,
no, that's no problem.
It has to do with Curie's Law.
Curie's what?
Curie's Law?
MacGYVER: Yeah.
You know, the one that says
the magnetic susceptibility
of a paramagnetic substance
is inversely proportional
to the absolute temperature.
You know.
The magnetic
susceptibility to the...
( screams)
On the other hand...
don't think about it.
Oh... whew.
You're real slick, MacGyver.
Well, naked dancing girls
might have been a little better,
but... you know.
Just let everything flow, okay?
Okay. All right.
MacGYVER: Good man.
I get the feeling we're
not rich anymore.
You know, you guys
are losing me here.
You know, there are
all kinds of hydrocarbons
coming out of that hole.
Even with my limited experience,
that generally means
there's "oal down thar."
I agree.
Just wait for the supply
plane, hire a fire-fighting crew.
Your credit ought to be good
with all that oil coming in.
BILL: Not inside
the next two weeks.
Which is when
our lease runs out.
No way we can get a crew
here inside two months.
Well, maybe we ought to
consider putting it out ourselves.
With what?
Know-how, ingenuity...
dynamite wouldn't hurt.
The last time I did
that kind of thing,
I used $5 million worth of
equipment and explosives.
We don't have any gear.
And the dynamite
blew away yesterday.
Bill, they used dynamite
up at Tenstrike Mine.
Where's that?
It's an old strip
mining operation.
Played out six, seven years ago.
It's abandoned.
Maybe they left
some stuff behind.
We could maybe do it.
No.
I almost lost you once, Bill.
You made me a promise.
No more hellfighting.
You know, Laura, I've
worked with Bill before.
Bet you I could handle it...
with Bill backing
me up, of course.
He wouldn't have to go in?
MacGYVER: No way.
Who needs him?
I can do that part
myself, providing we find
some dynamite up at the mine.
Listen, does that truck run?
Damn well better.
That mine's 40, 50 miles
other side of the hills.
Well, then, why don't
we take off at first light?
MacGYVER: This road would
definitely be an "E" ride at Disneyland.
BILL: Yeah, it's a
roller coaster, all right.
We ought to be reaching
that old mine pretty soon.
Unless we're lost.
Hey, there she is!
BiLL: Tenstrike Mine up ahead!
MacGYVER: Where do you think
they stored the dynamite around here?
BILL: Powder shack.
Look for the powder shack.
MacGYVER: What do
you say... over there?
BILL: Yeah, it looks like it.
Cross your fingers
that they left something
we can use behind.
Yeah, finders keepers.
Well, if there's any dynamite
around, it'd be in here.
Look at that.
Plenty for what we need.
Oh! Oh, right!
You always did have great moves.
I wonder if I could
sue the builder?
You know this
building's coming down
with the first strong wind.
Hey, you want to live forever?
Thinking about it.
Stuff's been here for awhile.
Yeah. Could be touchy.
MacGYVER: Let's
see what we got here.
It's dry.
Yeah, too dry.
I'll bet you a lot
of the nitroglycerin
has leaked out already.
Well, let's try it.
BILL: Pure nitro.
That stuff will go
off if you sneeze.
Let's try not to sneeze.
( chuckling)
The stuff works good.
Well, that may be unstable,
but there's nothing
worse than pure nitro.
Still...
It's going to be fun
putting it on my fire.
Two... three!
Oh!
You okay? Yeah.
How does that feel? Good. Good.
What was it you
said to me one time?
You'd rather be
burned than bored?
Sure would.
And you know all
about that, Mac.
Yeah, but I'm not married.
Laura's the reason I gave it up.
There's no question about that.
I have no regrets.
You know, Laura, I'm
starting to understand
what Bill used to do.
Fighting something like that...
That would scare
the hell out of me.
We can put out the
fire, we bring in the well.
That's all I want.
And then I'll settle down.
I'll get fat, I'll have kids.
Uh-huh.
And I'll tell dumb stories
about how great I used to be.
And how we put
out that fire, Mac.
I just love Bill so much.
And there's something in
him that... really scares me.
Come on, this
one last time, man.
One last time.
That's all I want. Okay?
It's a rush, Mac!
You got that right.
Come on.
All right, let's do it.
All right!
You know, back in the 1920s,
they used to truck
nitro out to the fields.
Yeah? Yeah.
They used to call that
the suicide run, didn't they?
You scared? You bet.
Me, too. Ain't it great?
Yeah.
Yeah.
TORGUT: Laura, you really
think we still got a chance?
LAURA: With Bill and
MacGyver together?
They can work miracles.
We gotta get this hose laid out
before they get back.
I'll unwrap it.
Okay.
Uh, give me the connection.
All right, take it.
BILL: You ever
drop one of these?
MacGYVER: Not recently. You?
Well, in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
a guy once bet me
that I couldn't balance
a stick of burning dynamite
on my forehead.
( wind blowing)
Yeah, what happened?
Blew my head off.
( wood creaking)
Ooh, MacGyver?
You know what I said
about blowing my head off?
Yeah.
Joke, man.
A dumb joke.
Be right back.
Ah. I'm not going anywhere.
Hold, darling.
Hold it, baby, hold it.
Okay, uh...
Pow. You better hurry.
Hand me... Oh, my...
Hand me your case.
Got it?
Yeah.
Whew.
That's definitely
not going to work.
Bill? What?
Take this case.
Give me one good reason why.
Laura.
Get outta here.
Take it.
Okay.
Now, gently, will ya?
Tell that to be gentle.
Hurry.
Hurry.
( yelling)
( screaming)
You are crazy!
( laughs): I mean, certifiable.
Yeah?
What does that make you?
( chuckles)
Oh...
( laughs)
Oh...
Well, let's get
this fire food...
on the road.
Yeah.
All right, first
thing we got to do
is build a little
cradle for that nitro.
Hey, these wagon springs
ought to give that
stuff a safe ride.
MacGYVER: And some
nice absorbent sand,
in case anything drips out.
BILL: Hey, I'm with you, Mac.
I want those
blasting sticks to feel
real comfortable
on the ride back.
Listen, Bill, you know
any other way home
besides that washboard
road we took?
BILL: You don't want it
to be too easy, do you?
Well, nitro looks cozy.
Oh, terrific.
Just 54 bumpy miles to go.
Watch that back wheel, Mac.
Here comes the ditch.
Could you wind
down a little, please?
Thank you. You're fine, fine.
It's okay.
I'm sure we'll
know when it's not.
Oh, boy, you're a real comfort.
Okay, Pete, crank it about
a quarter of the way open.
Okay.
You must know a
lot about hell-fighting
working with Bill, huh?
Too much.
Do you use the water
to wet down the fire?
No, the firefighters.
Most importantly,
the explosives.
You go in carrying
an explosive charge.
Has to keep being hosed down
so it doesn't just
blow from the fire.
Okay, Pete, cut it.
You rig the charge so that, uh,
they can go right into the gut
of the fire, and
when it explodes,
it eats up all the
oxygen, and...
it blows out the fire
like a birthday candle.
PETE: Simple, huh?
LAURA: Yeah... when it works.
( explosion)
MacGYVER: You know,
Laura's real shook up
over what happened
in that last fire.
It ain't my happiest
memory, either.
Hey, watch that bump.
So, what happened in that fire?
Oh, come on, that's...
that's a long story.
I'll tell it to you sometime.
If that's what it's like
going over little rocks,
stay clear of the boulders.
Well, how do you feel
about crossing streams?
Just dip in one toe at a time.
See? No problem.
( engine sputtering)
MacGYVER: What
was it you were saying?
Well, must be one of those days.
Your linkage spring is busted.
You got a ball-point pen?
There's one in the
glove compartment.
Should I bother to ask why?
Thank you.
You always got an answer.
It doesn't always work.
No, your batting
average is pretty good.
Just get us back.
Why? Thought you
were having fun.
Well, yeah, but
there's oil under that rig,
and I think I can
handle being rich.
Yeah?
Yeah. Mansions, yachts,
maybe even a new truck.
Try it, will you?
( engine struggling to turn)
All right, try it again, Bill.
( engine starts)
Yeah.
( laughs)
Hey! Nice going!
Voila!
You can forget
about that new truck.
I'll take a dozen of
those ballpoint pens.
I got a good feeling, Mac.
We're gonna beat that fire.
We're gonna win, partner.
The eternal optimist.
That's why I like you.
Yeah.
( gears grinding)
♪ ♪
BILL: Boy, I can hardly
wait to see Laura's big smile
when we come bouncing in there.
MacGYVER: Don't say bouncing.
Fasten your seat belt, Mac.
The hills are coming.
MacGYVER: Everything
still looks secure.
Hey! Homestretch!
( honking horn)
Pete! Yeah!
They made it! (
whoops) All right!
( loud bang)
Hey, did you feel that?
We could be in a
little trouble here.
MacGyver!
Brakes are gone.
Hang on!
Pete? They're
going awfully fast.
Oh, God!
Oh, no!
Oh!
God!
♪ ♪
Piece of cake.
Yeah.
MacGYVER: Let's not drop it,
or we might not be around
to pick up the pieces.
BILL: Set it down easy.
All right, Billy
boy, you tell me,
how do we put that thing out?
Well, the last time I
used a heat-proof vehicle.
Sort of a tank,
with an extensor arm on it.
It was computer-controlled
with a directional
mechanism for fine-tuning.
This time I think it's gonna
be more like the old days.
Prayers and guts.
Uh, wait a minute, here.
He's thinking.
I can hear the
gears grinding away.
How close am I gonna
have to get to that thing?
BILL: Near enough
to drop a charge
down to the well casing.
But the closer you get,
the temperature
goes up exponentially.
Eight, maybe ten
degrees a foot squared.
So you gotta go
in far as you can,
extending the charge
on the end of the pole.
Looks like I'm gonna need
a longer pole or I'm gonna fry.
Yeah, it looks that way.
Well, I guess I'm
gonna have to entertain
a couple of theories
a few of my buddies
came up with a while ago.
Archimedes and Euclid,
you may have heard of them.
But we're definitely
gonna need some stuff.
Yeah, we're gonna
need a heat shield
like this old refrigerator.
We got that.
We got our
transportation.
And the track for it.
And we got our dynamite.
There you are.
You know what? I
think that could work.
Where do we start?
Well, the way you
start any railroad.
You lay track.
You ready?
PETE: Ready.
Move it.
MacGYVER: Laura,
fill this thermos with all
the liquid nitro you can
squeeze out of those sticks.
And need I say, be careful.
How's it going?
That's great.
Wait a minute.
Bill!
LAURA: MacGyver, soup's on.
Keep it moving, honey.
Get it down in that sand.
Okay.
Careful now.
Yeah.
Hey, Bill.
Come on, we need
some help here, bud.
No.
You can't handle it by yourself.
Not in there.
Bill...
I think that's my choice, son.
No!
And you know why.
That wasn't your fault.
My God, three
months in a burn ward,
I think that's enough
punishment, don't you?
For three lives.
The guys on my crew,
man, they bought it.
They all bought it.
They're dead, Mac.
If you go in there by yourself,
you're gonna die, too.
So, no.
This one's mine.
You made me a promise.
To let a good friend
kill himself, Laura?
MacGYVER: I think I said
that was my choice.
All right?
No, Bill!
Stop it!
What's the matter with you?
Please!
Stop it, you two! Stop!
MacGyver!
Please!
Stop it! Have you
both gone crazy?
Stop!
What's the matter with you?
Stop, I said!
Stop it!
Stop it!
I said stop it!
Stop!
Get off him!
Bill's right.
You can't do it alone, MacGyver.
And don't say
another word, Farren!
Okay!
Honey...
Look, you're going in.
This one last time.
But the two of you together.
That's the way you got this far.
Laura, you know, I...
Look, you'll fry your
tail in there without Bill.
Damn it, he's the best!
So are you.
You heard the lady.
Yeah.
Ow.
Okay, baby, I want you
MacGYVER: Let's go!
To keep that water cool Okay.
While we head into the fire.
Come on.
Good luck.
Keep it up, honey.
MacGyver, this is as
close as we can get.
Water!
Careful!
That was close.
Very close.
Better check the hitch release.
It has to open easy
so the charge will pop.
Okay, it works fine.
Now let's get it to the shaft.
BILL: It's too hot in here.
Turn it all the way up, Pete!
Turn it up!
Keep it coming, Laura.
That's the right amount
of tension, MacGyver.
Oh, it's stuck.
I gotta go out!
Right here, Laura.
BILL: Slide it forward, Mac.
You got it!
Now get back in
here or you'll be fried!
Laura!
Mac, come on!
Let's keep that
canister moving forward.
( wire creaking)
MacGYVER: It's just
about over the shaft.
Turn it up, Pete.
Turn it up.
Pete, come on, yeah!
All right, get ready to move!
Are you ready?
Yeah! Let's go!
Go! Go, go, go!
All right.
For sure.
PETE: Yeah.
For damned sure.
( cheering, laughing)
So what's next?
BILL: Well, we
know there's oil there.
We just need to build
up a new derrick...
Start drilling that hole,
soon as I can work again.
You'll heal.
I know it, buddy.
Think you oughta
do that a little sooner.
Like maybe get
someone to help you.
Hire somebody.
Out here?
Where in the world
are we gonna find...?
I've been wanting to
take a nice long vacation,
a little rest and relaxation.
Spend some time with friends,
party down.
I'll help you bring in the well.
Then you're hired.
All right!
I like that.
You're the best.
BILL: Right.
( laughing)
BILL: Ready... break.
Whoo!
( theme music plays)