MacGyver (1985–1992): Season 5, Episode 10 - Two Times Trouble - full transcript

A rock-star friend of MacGyver's is filming a video for the Rock Against Drugs campaign. A series of mysterious accidents that occur during filming convinces her that her twin sister is attempting to kill her.

♪♪

Come on!

1, 2, 3, 4!

♪ Come on in,
gonna party all night ♪

♪ we're gonna rock
'cause we won the fight ♪

♪ on the war on drugs ♪

♪ here in paradise ♪

♪ ohh ♪

♪ if the people don't see
this heaven on earth ♪

♪ wasting all their time,
don't know what it's worth ♪

♪ they've given up ♪



♪ they don't know
how to live their ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're living the ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪ and you know
we won't give in ♪

♪ you got one life ♪

♪ and we're here to win ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're living the ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪ we're staying clear,
will be staying clean ♪

♪ 'cause this life
means everything ♪



♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪♪

♪ Stay clean! Stay straight! ♪

♪♪

♪ the devil's always
there to pull you down ♪

♪ to the pool of drugs,
he'll watch you drown ♪

♪ but we're staying strong ♪

♪ to get our dreams ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're living the ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪ and you know
we won't give in ♪

♪ we've got one life,
and we're here to win ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're living ♪

♪ the higher life ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're staying clear
we're staying clean ♪

♪ cause this life
means everything ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪♪

♪ Stay clean! Stay straight! ♪

♪♪

♪ Life's too short!
Stay clean! ♪♪

Cut! Ok, ok.

Get her out of the tank!

Dry her off and
rearrange for the stunt!

Roxy, real nice job.

Pretty good.

You think so?

So, MacGyver, what'd you think?

I'm impressed.
It's a catchy tune.

Roxy!

Roxy.

You're playing it too light.

We need a more sober attitude.

Maybe try to be a little more
serious about what you're singing.

Look, Eve, I'll decide
what attitude I should have.

It's my tune, and I
like the way I played it.

Roxy, we're doing
a video about drugs!

About how getting high
on drugs is bad news.

It doesn't call for sexy
looks and toothy smiles.

What about it, MacGyver?
You said it worked for you, right?

Oh, yeah, thanks a lot.

Come on.

Roxy, I'm a fan, not the
director. She might have a point.

Dan, get everybody
ready for another take.

We're gonna do it again,
and again, and again,

Until we get it right.

All right, everybody,
reset for another take!

MacGyver,

when you came to me about this
Phoenix foundation anti-drug gig,

I cancelled some
nice dates for you.

I know, roxy,

and we appreciate it, a lot.

Listen, we really do.

I mean, rock against
drugs would not carry

half the weight that it
does without people like you

donating their talents.

I'm glad you appreciate it,

but I didn't count
on having to deal

With a lot of garbage
from dragon lady over there.

Look, if you had as much
talent as you have mouth,

you would just begin to be the
kind of star you think you are.

- Now look, ladies, ladies...
- That's it!

That's it, fellas,
I am out of here.

If you want me
back, get rid of her.

Roxy, come on.

Wait!

What...

- Well, now what?

You're the boss.

You want to fire me? Fine.

Better yet, replace her
and the Phoenix foundation

will wind up with
a better product

because I'll tell you something.

That girl is not the
singer she used to be.

She's lost something.

That's
it for today, Dan.

Then again, maybe that's it.

All right, everybody,
that's a wrap!

Make it safe and walk away.

If there's a tomorrow, we'll
give you a call, let you know.

Well, what do you
think, MacGyver?

Is there gonna be a tomorrow?

I don't know, Pete. Not
much I can do about it.

Well, you have been friends
with roxy ever since you were kids.

I mean, that should
count for something.

Well, we'll find out.

Listen, mister,
I have had it with you.

Get out of here, frank, you
lousy crook. I said, get out!

Soon as we get
something straight.

This complaint you made
to the district attorney

about how you were cheated out
of some of your record royalties.

Some?

You call ripping me off for
more than $300,000, some?

Look, roxy, out of the
whole album we cut,

you had one lousy
hit on the charts.

Now how do you
think it got there?

Not on your pipes, babe. They're
gone. Have been for months.

What?

I'm singing as well
as I ever did. Better.

You want to fool yourself? Fine.

But I made that song a hit through
promotion, and promotion costs money.

Oh, not that much.

Not over 60% of everything I
took in on that album. No way.

You got no complaints.

You get royalties in
north and South America.

My people get the rest of
the world. That was our deal.

No, no, that was
your deal, not mine.

Who do you think you're
playing with, some sort of bimbo?

Calm down, ok?

Maybe we can work out
something on the next album.

You want to work
something out, frank? Fine!

You work it out with the d.A.!

But let me tell you something.

The d.A. Isn't gonna be
much interested in a deal

when he sees the
evidence I put together.

You understand
something, sweetheart.

I'm not in this
business for myself.

This evidence, if
you use it to blow the whistle,

you'll be in more trouble than
you ever wanna know about.

Hey, hey, whoa! Whoa.
What's going on here?

None of your business.
You remember what I said.

Nice guy.

My manager. Ex-manager, that is.

Turns out he's a thief.

I'm looking for a new
one. You interested?

Handling temperamental
talent? No way.

Not me.

It sure was a lot simpler
when I was first starting out.

And all I had to worry about
was getting Sammy caruso

And his dumb band
to play in my key.

Do you
remember Sammy?

Oh, yeah, Sammy.

He kept trying to drag your twin
sister up on stage to play a set.

He never could tell
you and Carla apart.

How's she doing?

Carla is Carla.

All right, let me guess.

You're here to try to talk me into
going back to work on the video.

It shouldn't be
such a hard sell.

Come on, roxy,
you've been out there.

You see what drugs do to kids.

Some your own fans.

You're right.

And that's what rock against
drugs is all about, isn't it?

Ok, MacGyver.

Tell Eve I'll be there tomorrow.

You can give me a lift home.

I'd like to show you my place.

Deal?

Deal.

You know, MacGyver, I
decided to work on this video

As a favor to you, right?

- Yeah.
- So you owe me.

What do I owe you, rox?

Have dinner with me tonight.

That's a pretty
heavy price to pay,

but, uh, it's for a good cause.

No, no, no, no. Not that one.

I'm in the penthouse.
I got my own elevator.

Penthouse, eh?

I'm impressed.

At last.

When I think of all the times I tried to
impress you when we were in high school.

I was impressed.

Oh, really?

Took you long enough
to ask me for a date.

What happened?

Oh, my god.

It's dead.

Nothing works. What
are we gonna do?

These cable mounts are loose.

And I don't think
they're gonna hold.

What?

Give me your hand.

It's gonna go.

Grab the pipe.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

Heights still get to you, huh?

Yeah.

That door is bolted
shut. I don't believe it.

They're all that way
except for the penthouse.

Oh, you're kidding.

That means we're gonna have to free
climb. You remember how to do that?

Just like when we were kids.

Toe hold and finger
jam on a 90 degree pitch.

I still remember, how about you?

Yeah. Go ahead.

MacGyver.

You got it?

Yeah. Keep going.

You've been practicing.

It's one of those
things you don't forget.

Watch yourself.

- Watch it!

Ok, come on.

You ok?

I've had better days.

You should think
about buyin' a house.

This, uh, guy you had the
fight with, this manager?

Rogan.

Yeah, you think you made him
mad enough to sabotage the elevator?

It wasn't rogan.

It was her.

Carla?

Why would you say that?

Because my sister hates me.

MacGyver!

Hi, Carla.

Oh, I can't believe it!

Hi.

Oh, look at you.

You're still the best
looking guy on the block.

It's great to see you.

Whoa!

With a welcome like that,
you mind if I come in again?

So what are you
doing here in Chicago?

Oh, well, I talked roxy into
doing an anti-drug video.

We're shooting down
at the lakeshore studios.

- You and your causes.
- Yeah.

That's just great.

So did roxy tell you
where to find me?

No, phone book

I was just on my way to the
studio, thought I'd stop by.

What do you got going here?

Oh, wow!

- You've really gotten to be good at this.
- Thanks.

I remember that.

It's lost arrow, right?

You remember?

Oh, yeah.

Especially the polished
marble to the summit.

Mmm, it is a hard
climb to forget, isn't it?

I still love to climb.

I just wish I could
have kept roxy into it,

But it seems all she's
interested in now is her singing.

I understand the two of you
are having some problems.

What makes you say that?

Well, she said she thought
you were trying to hurt her.

What is it?

Did she have another accident?

What do you mean,
another accident?

About a month ago, she had a car
crash because her brakes went bad.

And a few weeks before that,
there was a fire in her apartment,

supposedly an
electrical short circuit.

So what happened now?

Oh, her private
elevator went haywire.

And she thinks I had
something to do with it?

Terrific.

I thought she was finally cured of
dumping her paranoia all over me.

Whoa, whoa. What? What?

It was kept really quiet,

but roxy had a
serious breakdown.

She spent about a year
at pine valley hospital.

God knows I love my sister,

but this psychotic behavior
of hers is really getting to me,

And I just don't know
what to do about it anymore.

Roxy?

MacGyver.

Roxy showed up?

No, not yet.

Oh, wait a minute. Here she is.

Spunky kid.

Coming in here after what you two
went through yesterday in the elevator.

- I'll see you inside.
- Yeah.

I just saw rogan coming
out of your motor home here.

He was probably looking for the
evidence I gathered against him.

But he won't find it, not here.

Is there anything I can do?

Yeah.

You can start believing
in me, MacGyver.

Do you think I invented those
things I told you about Carla,

that I imagined all of it?

You talked to her?

She called to gloat.

To laugh at me for
making up stories about her.

Roxy, I don't get it.

What happened between you two?

Call it jealousy,
sibling rivalry, whatever.

And it's all coming from Carla.

Now that you're back,
you've been added to the list.

Carla's jealous of you and me?

Come on, that was high school.

We're ready for
your rehearsal, roxy.

One minute.

Look, MacGyver,
it's not just you.

She's jealous of every man
who's ever come into my life.

I've had to put up
with a lot from Carla.

Don't you turn against me, too.

Have we, uh, got a problem?

I don't know.

Something's going on
between roxy and her sister.

Quiet, please. Stand
by first positions.

Rehearsing. And playback!

And action!

♪♪

Come on!

1, 2, 3, 4!

♪ Come on in,
gonna party all night ♪

♪ we're gonna rock
'cause we won the fight ♪

♪ on the war on drugs ♪

♪ here in paradise ♪

♪ ohh ♪

♪ if the people don't see
this heaven on earth ♪

♪ wasting all their time,
don't know what it's worth ♪

♪ they've given up ♪

♪ they don't know
how to live their ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're living the ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪ and you know
we won't give in ♪

♪ you got one life ♪

♪ and we're here to win ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're living the ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪ we're staying clear,
will be staying clean ♪

♪ cause this life
means everything ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪

♪♪

♪ Stay clean! Stay straight! ♪♪

♪♪

Cut!

- That's better, roxy.

We're gonna do it one more
time. Dan, one more time.

Ok, people,
one more rehearsal,

then we're going for a take.

Well, this thing you mentioned
between roxy and her sister.

Do you think that's
what's bothering her?

Carla told me roxy had a nervous
breakdown a couple of years ago.

A breakdown?

Yeah, and all roxy can talk
about is Carla's jealous streak.

Pete, can you pull
some strings for me?

I think I should talk to the
people out at pine valley hospital.

Sure, I can do that.
I'll get right on it.

Great.

Roxy?

Is that you, frank?

Come on in. Fix yourself
a drink. I'll be right out.

I really appreciate you changing
your mind about bringing charges, rox.

It was the right decision.

Now we can start to think
about your next album.

You're right, frank.

It's time we straightened
everything out.

The papers are on the terrace.

Have a look at
them. I'll be right out.

Ok, thanks.

MacGyver, over here.

Hey, Pete. Where's roxy?

She's up in her apartment.
They just finished questioning her.

It's pretty rough.

- She see it happen?
- No. She wasn't home at the time.

Well, how'd he get in?

Well, the police aren't sure.

Apparently, rogan was looking for
some evidence that she had on him.

They found it on a
table out on the terrace.

Where was roxy when
this was going on?

Doing her morning workout
down in the health club.

You know, I only had
one run-in with this rogan,

but he didn't strike me as the
type that would commit suicide.

Ah, he'd been drinking.
You never know.

The police think that the
evidence that roxy had on him

was more than
he could deal with.

Until something better
comes along, that's the theory.

Mmm. I better check on her.

MacGyver, the office did make
contact with the pine valley hospital.

The resident psychiatrist
will see you any time.

Great. Thanks, Pete.

Hi.

You ok?

I don't care what
the police said.

Rogan wouldn't commit suicide.

I mean, he would fight me
to the end for those royalties.

You were down in the gym
when all this happened?

Yeah, it's a good
thing I was, too,

Because if I wasn't, I'd be
the one lying down there dead.

What do you mean?

Oh, MacGyver, do I
have to spell it out for you

after what happened
on the elevator?

What, Carla?

Did you tell the police that?

I couldn't say something like that to
the police without having any evidence.

I know it was her.

Well, the police said there
was no sign of a break-in.

So how would Carla
or rogan get in here?

Carla had a key.

She always had a key.

She used it to come up here and
freshen up whenever she was in town.

I...

I just never asked for it back.

Could've changed the locks.

Yeah, I suppose I could have.

There's just something so
final about changing a lock.

I'd always hoped that someday
we'd have the chance to reconcile.

Be sisters again,
like it used to be.

Remember all the
fun we used to have?

Yeah, I do.

That smile.

You have the nicest smile
of anybody I've ever known.

Uh... I
don't get it, roxy.

I mean you and Carla used to
be as close as 2 sisters could be.

You used to protect
each other like wild cats.

It doesn't track that
she'd try to hurt you.

Look, MacGyver, you haven't seen
us in a lot of years. Things change.

All right. Things
aren't the same,

But we're not talking about
some petty misunderstanding here.

We're talking about murder.

I already told you,
my sister hates me.

Well, does that mean
she hated rogan, too?

Why did he have to die?

Because he was close to me.

She thought I was
in love with him.

I was once.

So she figured that by
hurting someone you loved,

it was the same as hurting you?

That's the way
Carla's mind works.

- Mr. MacGyver?
- Yeah.

I'm Dr. Farrell.

Nurse tells me you're the one
from the Phoenix foundation

who wants to talk
about miss yates.

She was a patient
here a while ago.

Yes. Uh, admitted
in may 2 years ago.

Nervous breakdown,
severe mental depression.

Her sister, now there
was an angel of mercy.

I remember her well. She
came to visit almost religiously.

When was she finally released?

About, uh, 9 months ago.

Remarkable
girl, Roxanne.

Big rock and roll star, but
always stayed close to her roots.

I wish all my patients had
someone close to them like her.

She was better for Carla than
all the medicines and doctors.

Better for Carla?

Carla was the patient?

Not roxy?

Yes, of course.

Carla yates.

Carla?

Carla?

That girl is not the
same singer she used to be.

She's lost something.

She was better for Carla
than all the medicines and doctors.

Carla was
the patient? Not roxy?

I still love to climb.

I just wish I had been
able to keep roxy into it.

You've
been practicing.

It's one of those
things you don't forget.

♪ no, you won't give in ♪

♪ we've got one life ♪

♪ and we're here to win ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're living the ♪

♪ higher life ♪

♪ we're staying clear
we're staying clean ♪

♪ 'cause this life
means everything ♪

♪ oh, yeah ♪♪

So this is the blue screen
everyone talks about?

Yeah.

Is this gonna cost more?

No, actually less. It's gonna
save going back to location.

See, by shooting her
against this blue screen,

we can optically place her against
any background we've already shot.

- So we save money?
- Yeah.

- Cut!

That's a cut.

So that does it for
you, roxy. Thanks.

I'll call you in for the
rough cut when it's ready.

All right, everybody,
that's a wrap!

Thank you very
much for a great shoot!

Roxy, uh, I just
wanna thank you, too.

You know, doing this video is
a... a really important public service,

and you can be proud
of yourself. Thanks.

Is that Carla?

Your sister?

What's she doing here?

Carla!

Carla, where are you?

Carla?

Why, Carla?

Why are you doing this to me?

Why?

Oh, Eve, there's a
couple of questions

about final costs
I wanna clarify.

Give me a minute, and
then meet me in my trailer.

Yeah, I'll be right there.

Well, it's in the
can, as they say.

Is roxy around?

Yeah, I think so. Last time I saw
her, she was looking for her sister.

- Where? Which way?
- I don't know, maybe in her trailer.

What's the matter with
you? You look spooked.

Give me
a minute. I'll tell you.

So what's this about?

Well, this is
Carla's fingerprint.

And this is roxy's.

Take a look.

They're identical.

MacGyver, identical twins
don't have identical fingerprints.

I know, Pete. You better
shoot a call to Dr. Farrell.

Get him over here quick.

Roxy?

Roxy isn't
here, MacGyver.

I've been looking
for her myself.

Come on down, Carla.

You won't find her up there.

Then where'd she go?

She went away.

A long time ago.

She went away?

Yes.

First I couldn't figure it out.

But the director
noticed something.

- So did her manager.
- What?

Well, her voice,

it wasn't the same.

I don't understand.

She didn't
sing the way she used to.

Then the elevator.

The way roxy climbed.

Roxy's a good climber.

Not that good.

Not like a cat. That's not roxy.

And then I took a close
look at your painting.

What about it?

It tells the story of what happened the
last time you went climbing with roxy.

I hate that painting.

The two of you were climbing.

Roxy was in the lead.

Something happened.

I don't wanna talk about it!

She fell, didn't she, Carla?

Roxy fell.

I...

And you tried to pull
her back, didn't you?

Do you remember that?

You tried to pull her back?

Come on, Carla, try to remember.

You tried to pull her back.

But I couldn't.

I told her to swing
into the ledge,

but she couldn't reach it.

That's right. That's right.

And all the time she
was pulling on you,

Forcing you closer to the edge.

She was pulling on me.

I tried to pull her up.

But you couldn't.

I tried.

Oh, my god, I tried!

She knew that, Carla.

She knew you were trying.

I was slipping.

I just kept slipping.

Roxy knew that, Carla.

She knew she was pulling you
with her, so she took out her knife.

No!

Just the way you painted it.

No! No!

And she cut herself free.

Roxy!

She cut herself free. She
did it to save you, Carla.

No.

Roxy's not dead.

Yes. Yes, she is.

Carla, you gotta let her go.

You gotta let her go.

She's alive.

She's not dead.

I won't let you do this to her.

I won't
let you kill her.

She's alive!

Yeah, I'm glad they
found you, doctor.

Uh, we've got a problem.
It's... it's the yates girl.

Carla?

Carla?

I can't let you kill roxy.

Carla!

It's all right, roxy.

No one's gonna hurt you.

They won't hurt you.

They won't hurt you, I promise.

They won't because i...

I won't let them.

It's ok.

It's ok now.

It's ok 'cause i...

I know what to do now.

They won't find us.

We'll both go away together.

Don't do it, Carla! Please.

I have to. It was my fault.

I know that's what you thought.

But believe me, it
was not your fault.

You hear me? It
wasn't your fault.

I loved her so much.

I didn't want her to die.

So you brought her back
the only way you knew how.

By becoming roxy.

Carla, you gotta let her go.

You've got to let her go.

MacGyver.

She's dead.

My sister's dead.

It was an accident.

You know that now.

It was an accident.

It's nice here,
MacGyver. It's quiet.

I can do a lot of painting.

Take care of yourself, huh?

Smile for me.

I love that smile of yours.

I'll always remember it.

Is she gonna be all right?

Well, you know that old bromide
about time healing all wounds.

It's not that easy. It
takes a lot of work.

Would it help at all if I
stopped by once in a while?

A great deal.

More than anything
else, she needs a friend.