MacGyver (1985–1992): Season 4, Episode 2 - Blood Brothers - full transcript

As a blood brother,

I promise that, no matter what,

I will meet here in exactly
25 years from today,

At high noon to dig
up this time capsule.

Good, let's go.

Okay, MacGyver, fill it in.

In 25 years,

we'll be lucky if we
even remember where

- we buried it.
- We'll remember.

My home
town had grown a whole lot

in the years since
I'd been back,



but coming home was still

like reaching into a
grab bag full of memories.

Some of them good,

Some of them not so good.

And you could never be sure

Which memory you
were gonna come up with.

The decisions we
make shape our lives.

When I was a kid,

I made a bad
decision about a gun,

and my life was never the Sam.

Now I was back,

25 years later, to
follow up on a promise.

One I had to keep,

no matter how much it hurt.



How much did you get, MacGyver?

56 cents.

That makes $3.42
with what we've got.

How much is a box of bullets?

Ah, four bucks at least.

Hey, guys...

Hey, Jess, we've
been waiting for you.

Well, how much you get, Jess?

A buck.

- That's a whole month's allowance.
- Choice!

- That's enough; We're in business.
- Great.

You guys sure
this is a good idea?

I mean getting that
gun and everything?

It's gonna be cool,
Jess, just wait.

Just wait.

Way
to go, Danny, whoa!

Cut him off.

Sean.

Buddy, where you been?

I expected to see
you two days ago.

I'm through, man, no more.

I need a little more time.

That is not how it's
done, middle america.

Where I come from,
if you want to play,

You got to pay.

Now, the first
time you don't pay,

I'm gonna remind you a little.

The second time,

I'll cut you.

Maybe I'll break something.

The third time, you
don't have to worry about,

'cause you'll be dead, man.

Now, do you see
how easy that is?

Let him go!

Let him go, spider.

Get off my car!

Let him go.

Now!

Run, Sean.

Come on, Danny.

You lay off Sean, you hear me?

Goes for all of you.

You are dog meat, man.

That is my car
you're messing with.

Danny, come on!

I'll kill him!

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Stupid, little...

What?

I could have nailed 'em.

Yeah, right.

You told me you were clean.

I am.

Don't give me that, Sean!

You've been hooked on crack

Since the first
time you tried it.

I'm not using it, I swear.

I owe some money, 200 bucks.

Sean, it's me, Danny, remember?

You can lie to your
folks or the kids at school.

Anybody, but not me!

I just saved your
butt back there, man,

but no more!

You want to kill yourself?

Huh?!

That's fine.

Just don't expect me to watch.

Wait, man.

Look, you, you can't leave.

Why not?

'Cause you're the
only friend I got.

♪ ♪

Yeah, the
automatic is excellent.

We sell a lot of these.

Nice and light, easy to fire.

Holds an 18-load clip.

One in the chamber.

Hey, hombre!

Excuse me just a second.

I was wondering when you
were gonna blow into town.

Chuck, how are you doing, man?

Well, you certainly
look... healthy.

Yeah, well, I still like to eat.

Listen, I sent you
and Neil a letter

the day I hit the road.

I assume you got it?

We got it.

You still want to go
through with this, MacGyver?

We made a promise.

Nobody keeps kid
promises, not 25 years later.

Look, Chuck, I'll go up there

On my own if I have to.

Won't mean as much
without you and Neil there,

but I'll do it.

Just a minute, let me
take care of business, huh?

Yeah, looks good.

Uh, why don't you
wrap it up for me?

Oh, I wish I could.

Problem is, hand guns
require a police permit.

Well, I don't know, Chuck.

Uh, how long till I
can take it home?

Only takes about seven days.

But you can have any rifle

in the place you want,
cash and carry, no problem.

Well, uh, what rifle
do you recommend?

Well, let's see.

We've got

a good selection of
semi-automatics here.

Any of 'em are just the thing...

No!

Better deal, if you ask me.

Well, take this one here.

Semi-automatic, pulls
a 30- or a 90-round clip.

Ultra-lightweight.

Micrometer sight.

The works.

Nice balance, feels good.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a nice piece of work.

I'll take it.

Put it on my account,
will you, Chuck?

Great. I'll wrap it up for you.

Oh, that's okay.

I'll take it like this.

Let's go, son.

So, Chuck, tell me...

How is the "sporting
goods" business?

Don't start, MacGyver.

Everybody has a right
to defend themselves.

If he doesn't buy it from me,

he'll just buy it
someplace else.

Oh, now, that's original.

Did you come up
with that yourself?

what do you say we go
up to bell lake and snag us

a couple of pike?

We can stay at Neil's cabin.

It'll be just like old times.

Chuck...

I didn't come back
here to go fishing.

Look, I don't feel
good about these guys.

Come on, Sean, it's over.

- Just stay away from them.
- Danny, Danny,

You destroyed spider's
windshield, man.

He's not just gonna
forget about it.

What am I supposed to do?

Go to the cops?

I didn't think so.

Hi, dad.

Hi, Mr. MacGyver.

Dad said you were coming.

Danny?

Wow. Last time I saw
you, you were a little kid.

Sure, six years ago in L.A.

I still remember that
homemade volcano

You showed me how to make.

Oh, yeah, did
you get it to work?

We had to repaint the kitchen.

I don't think you
ever met Neil's son.

This is Sean.

Hey, Sean, how you doing?

I'm MacGyver.

Hi, Mr. MacGyver.
It's good to meet you.

Well, I got to go,
so I'll call you later.

All right.

Bye.

I guess, uh, i'd
better get to work.

It was nice seeing you.

You, too, Danny.

Look, what happened
out there that day

With Neil and me...

Well, I never told
Danny about it.

I don't want him to know.

It wasn't just what
you and Neil did.

I was responsible.

Don't you get that yet?

That's why we all have
to go out there, together.

I don't know.

If you can talk
Neil into it, I'll see.

Okay.

Thanks.

♪ ♪

Excuse me.

I'm looking for Neil Ryder.

He's down the hall,
in the property room.

Should be back in a jiffy.

Oh, this darn thing.

What seems to be the problem?

Oh, the darn pin

that holds the ribbon spool

Is busted off.

I guess I should've given up

on this old clunker years ago.

Oh, nonsense.

Let me have a go.

Now we'll trim
it up a little bit.

There.

That'll hold it for a while,
least till you can get it fixed.

You know, there used
to be a kid around here

Could fix just about
anything like that.

Used one of those
pocketknives, too.

Rigged up the darndest
thing you ever saw

to mow our lawn once.

How you been, sergeant Olson?

All right, uh, that's it.

I'm getting sick
of hearing about

How they do it in L.A.

Chill out, watts.

You know, you chumps
would be nothing without me.

Come on.

Having a ride, meat.

Come on, man, we're
gonna kill a guy over a car?

Yeah, we are.

If we're gonna own this town,

it's gonna take power.

Do you know how
to get power, j.D.?

No.

Fear.

We're taking your car.

This is the city.

Mission city, Minnesota.

My name is Ryder.

I'm a cop.

I carry a badge.

My name?

MacGyver.

I'm his partner.

I carry everything else.

Dragnet.

Show that made you what you are

today, huh, Neil?

Nah, I couldn't get in the army.

How you been, Mac?

Good.

Can't complain.

You know, when
I got your letter,

got me wondering if
it was still down here.

It took me

Till just now to
get up the nerve.

Yeah, you know, sometimes
I can't even remember

what his face looks like.

I don't want to go, MacGyver.

I don't, either, Neil.

I have to.

Maybe he
went out the back.

No, he's in there.

We wait.

When the man comes in
from L.A. next Tuesday,

I want him to see I got
this town in my back pocket.

There he is!

Let's go.

Oh, no.

Danny!

All right, everybody back.

Come on, give us
a break here, huh?

Back please.

All right.

They shot the place up.

They almost killed Danny.

I'm all right, I'm fine.

Did you see who it was?

Dad, dad, what happened?

Everything's fine, son,
everything's all right.

You okay?

Yeah, we're fine.

Were you able to
get a description?

I saw a blue car.

An old four-door.

It's probably those
same punks again.

What punks?

Mac, we got a full-blown
crack problem in this town.

Some hot shot from
California rolls in

about six months
ago, and took in some

of the local kids
to set up shop.

Come on, what's that all about?

I've heard of these crack
dealers franchising out

to places like Kansas
City and Seattle, but here?

What...

Come on.

Towns grow up, too, MacGyver.

You haven't had any
trouble with those punks,

- have you, son?
- No sir.

Come on, Chuck. We got
to fill out a crime report, huh?

I'll call in a
description of the car.

Look, uh, we'll get some
brooms and clean this up.

Yeah, okay.

Come on, Sean.

Danny, Danny, listen,
man, I'll do something.

I'll talk to them,
maybe, or something...

Oh, get real, Sean!

Those guys just tried
to kill me out there,

and they're gonna do it again!

You gotta tell your
dad what's going on.

I can't.

What do you want from me?!

Do I have to take a
bullet for you, too?

No!

Why don't you just take
off, disappear for a while?

Oh, sure, and then what?!

Look, I don't know.

Maybe they'll slip up and
get arrested or something.

Yeah, that's it!

What if the cops get a tip

on the new shipment
that's coming in.

Man, they'll nail them!

What are you talking about?

Listen, spider's been talking

about how his L.A. connection

Is coming in with some
new stuff on Tuesday.

I could call the cops.

They'd catch them
with the goods.

They'd have to
lock them up, man.

We'd be in the clear.
It is a great plan.

Even if this plan works,

What am I supposed to
do from now until Tuesday?

Just disappear,
man... Yeah, bell lake.

You can hide out in our cabin.

Oh, sure, and what
do I tell my dad?

Tell him the truth.

I mean, we've been fishing
up there since we could walk.

I don't know, man, it...

Danny, Danny, it's the only way.

It is, man.

Please, I swear
this is gonna work.

All right, I'll do it.

Great. Listen, you're gonna
need a key to the cabin.

I'll run home and get it.

Meet me in one hour
up at the pump station

behind the state hospital.

It's abandoned,
you'll be safe there.

Okay.

Two thumbs up, buddy.

I still need Danny's side
of it for the paperwork.

Hey, where are
those kids, anyway?

I'll get 'em.

That's about right.

♪ ♪

Danny?

You want to tell
me what's going on?

You wouldn't understand.

I understand this!

Now, what's going on?

Those punks that Sean's
dad was talking about?

They've been dealing
to a friend of mine,

and I got caught in the middle.

And you figure the best way out

is to pick up a gun?!

Hey, nobody's gonna get killed.

I might need it
to scare them off.

It never stops there, Danny!

You got a gun, things happen.

People die!

Why didn't you just
go to your dad, or Neil?

I can't!

You can!

Where's Sean?

Look...

This isn't your problem.

Just let me handle it, okay?

Please?

I can't do that, Danny.

We'd better go talk to your dad.

Come on.

Danny?

Danny, don't!

Now what?

It's Danny.

He just ran out the back.

- He took a gun.
- What?!

Why would Danny need a gun?

Oh, it's got something
to do with those punks

And your crack problem.

- I think Sean's involved.
- Oh, my god.

Let's get after them.

I'll put out an a.P.B.

"You got to do it in the daytime

with people around,
like they do in L.A."

man, I don't know
why I bought into you

and your big talk.

I'm walking.

You run now,

and you are never
gonna stop running.

If the cops don't find
you, my people will.

But, see, if you do it my way,

you're gonna be numero
uno in this town, man.

It's gonna all be yours.

- Do you hear me?

Yeah.

Okay.

Now, we find that schoolboy.

He's the only witness.

We cap him off, the
cops can't touch us.

Yeah, what about the other one?

We already own him.

Let's get out of here.

Sean!

Buddy.

Let's take a ride.

Come on, hurry up!

It's your lucky day, man.

I'm gonna forget about
the bread you owe me.

I'm gonna give you a free taste.

Hmm?

I'm looking for a
missing person.

I won't give you Danny.

Yeah, you will.

Come on.

It's party time.

Sean.

Sean, where's Danny?

I didn't want to tell 'em.

Sean!

You sold him out for this?!

No, they made me do it.

They were gonna cut off
my fingers with a razor, man.

Danny is my best friend.

I don't think you
have friends anymore.

You have sources.

Now, where is he?

Where'd you send 'em?

Down to the old
pump station behind the old hospital.

I didn't want to tell them.

I didn't want to tell them!

All right, settle down.

Calm down. Listen to me.

Look, if Danny really
is your best friend,

Now is the time to prove it.

Go find your dad.

Have him meet me up there.

You hear me?

Yeah.

All right?

Yeah.

All right.

Do it. They could
have him already.

Go!

There he goes!

Let's go.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Young This is so cool.

I still don't like this, guys.

What if we get caught?

We won't, if you
stop your belly-aching.

Pow!

Pow!

Spider!

Look... bullets.

You think he's got a gun?

Let's find out.

All right, that way.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Whoa.

All right!

Where'd you learn
how to shoot like that?

My dad taught me.

Your turn, Jess.

I'll keep score.

What about me?

Sure.

♪ ♪

Yeah.

Look at that.

- No!

I think I got him!

Danny!

Danny!

- Oh.

Jesse!

It...

Can't hurt...
Can't hurt this bad.

All right, hang on, hang on.

You're gonna be all right.

Come on...

All right, take it
easy, try to lie still.

- Young He's dead, he's dead!

You killed him!

It wasn't me!

He's not dead. Now, help me.

There's blood all over him!

Let's get out of here.

- Let's go.

Hurts.

I can't breathe.

Hold on, Jesse.

Stay with me, come on.

Hang on, Danny.

- Hang on.

All right, let me see it.

You're going to
be all right, Danny.

Ow. Oh.

Your dad and Neil
are on the way.

They were...

They were... they were after me.

Two of 'em.

I locked 'em in
a room upstairs.

They're come... they're coming!

Kick it in.

All right, let's go.

All right, he's got to
be looking for a way out.

You go back where we came from.

I'll check up here.

If you find him, you kill him.

It's all right. Don't talk.

I'll find us a way out of here.

Wait, don't leave me.

Don't leave me. Don't leave me.

I won't, Jess. I'll
get you to a doctor.

I'll be back, Danny.

Wh-wh... what are
you going to do?

I'm going to make
sure we get out of here.

♪ ♪

I'll be back.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Hey!

Who are you?

Who are you?

Where is he?

Who?

Do you want to die,
too, smart mouth?

Look, I don't know
what you're talking about.

I just work here.

Sure you do.

Why don't we just go see
where you were going?

Open the door.

Come on.

Come on, move over there.

Where is he?

I told you, I haven't
the slightest idea

what you're talking about.

You've got one
second to find the truth.

Okay.

He's down in the kitchen.

Let's go.

Oh, come on, stay
with me, Danny.

Stay with me.

It hurts...

I know, Jesse. Just hang on.

Stop!

Help! Stop, please!

Oh, come on, Jesse,
please don't die.

Stop!

Stop!

Please!

What is it, son?

Help, please. My friend's hurt.

He needs a doctor.

Danny?

Danny! Oh, my god!

Get an ambulance
out here, quick!

He's going to be all right.

He's going to make it.

Neil, come on!

One l-30, requesting

an ambulance, code three.

Up behind the old state hospital

On river road.

Repeat, code three.

Copy, one l-30.

Ambulance responding.

Fight for it, Danny.

Come on.

Look at this kid.

When are they going to
do something about guns?

It was an accident. It
was only an accident.

You've got to help him.

He's lost an awful lot of blood.

Get a line in him.

I'm sorry, son.

I've got a pulse.

He's reactive.

Let's get him out of here.

Right. Let's go.

He's going to make it.
He's going to make it.

Sean on crack.

I still don't know
how I missed it.

Oh, don't beat
yourself up over it, Neil.

You got him in a
treatment program.

That's a start.

And Danny's going
to be all right, too,

Thanks to you.

Yeah, there it is.

Let's do it.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

You put that on the cake
at your tenth birthday party.

Your mom had a fit.

First she screamed, then
she beat the cake to death.

How about this for you, honch.

Ah...

I was going to
play for the twins.

You still got a
pretty mean slider.

Oh, yeah.

What is it?

Oh, you remember this.

The world-famous
MacGyver mousetrap.

Snag 'em and let 'em go.

Figured it'd be worth something
to the Smithsonian by now.

Maybe in the next 25 years.

Yeah, right.

We miss you, Jesse.