Macgyver s02e01 Episode Script
The Human Factor
When James Bond gets an assignment it's on the Riviera.
Up to his 007 in bikinis.
Me, I end up Couresy of my buddy, Pete Thornton, new operations director of the Phoenix Foundation.
And the guy who conned me into running a security test at STRADA: Strategic Research And Development Administration.
Run by a military hard-nose named Colonel Scott Woodward who didn't like civilians or civilian think tanks like Phoenix even after Pete's introduction.
This is the acid test I promised you.
MacGyver, meet Colonel Scott Woodward.
- MacGyver.
- Woody and I - were in combat together.
- Colonel.
Follow me.
STRADA was new, not even open yet, and top-top-secret.
Guards, dogs, alarms, electronics, gas and maybe nuclear bombs.
All I had to do was check the security out by breaking in single-handed into a high-tech mountain.
If I did, the military went back to the drawing board.
If I didn't, Woodward got the Phoenix Foundation's seal of approval.
Don't worry, Woody.
This is the last test.
If MacGyver can't get in, no one can.
Colonel, I hear Dr.
Ludlum designed the place.
Yeah, but to military specifications.
We have the ultimate security system.
That's my little contribution.
You like it? You're standing on a pressure-sensitive floor.
You forget to deactivate it, and the entire area is sealed off.
And if you are lucky enough to break in, you probably aren't gonna break out.
At least not alive.
We don't take chances with national security.
Gentlemen.
Entrance noted.
Three individuals.
Surveillance units activated.
Elevator descending to central core.
This way.
Arrival noted.
Initiate proper procedure.
Palm reader.
- Strictly state-of-the-art.
- Entry approved.
- Right down here.
- Welcome, Colonel Woodward.
This wing houses the physics lab.
- What's in here? - Exercise room.
There's one on every floor.
The scientists insisted on it.
Civilian overhead.
Well, now, come on, the scientists know what they need, don't they? - I mean, they are closest to the job.
- That same old song.
- Look, Pete, I did what I had to-- - Excuse me.
Mind if I look around? No.
No, go ahead.
Thanks.
So this is your main guy? What makes him so special? He doesn't even have any gear.
That's what makes him so special.
Lab looked pretty normal.
Funny, security seemed to stop at the front door.
State-of-the-ar radiation scanner.
Wonder what it was scanning.
Making waves already, Mr.
MacGyver? - Motion detectors? - Heat seekers.
They zero in on your body temperature.
Do they bite? Thirty thousand watts of laser is a whole lot more than a peck on the cheek.
Good dogs.
Containment simulation completed.
All drones deactivate.
MacGyver: Sometime consultant for the Phoenix Foundation, alleged hockey player, camel smuggler.
Jack-of-all-trades.
Jill Melissa Ludlum: Born in London.
Ph.
D.
, systems design, Oxford University, 1 980.
the Ludlum cybernetic circuit.
'82 to '83 took a year off for personal reasons.
'83 to '86, immersed in the STRADA project.
Hasn't come up for air yet.
Purported to be a premier technocrat.
- You've done your homework.
- So have you.
Is it true? The technocrat part? Let's just say that my faith in machines has created a fifth-generation computer.
It's just a blink away from true artificial intelligence.
A machine that thinks for itself? That's right.
I don't know, Pete, I never figured that you'd end up as director of operations for a think tank.
I really believed that the military life agreed with both of us.
It agreed with you.
Are you here to certify this place or to open up old wounds? - Listen, why don't we just forget it.
- Why don't we.
So tell me about Louise.
How's she doing? She's all right.
Now.
- We split up.
- Sorry, I didn't know.
It was coming.
Oh, there you are.
We were beginning to wonder what was keeping you.
MacGyver ran into our security patrol.
Nice guys.
A little short, but nice.
- Peter Thornton, I'm Jill Ludlum.
- How do you do? - This is Steven Lee, my assistant.
- Hello.
How do you do? And this is Sandi, the computer that runs STRADA.
Sandi, access the facility schematic, please.
Voice pattern identified.
Good morning, Dr.
Ludlum.
Complying with schematic request.
We're going to give you all the advantages an insider would have.
Though I doubt it would make a difference.
Looks like this is gonna be a tough lady to beat.
The complex has five levels around an inner core, of laboratory space on each level.
I'd hate to be the one that had to do the floors around here.
Sandi, would you like to continue? Operations controlled.
Level three.
Surveillance maintained.
Video monitors.
Laser drones programmed.
Dr.
Ludlum has decided to go without guards once the system's online.
That's right.
We've completely eliminated the human factor.
- Now, why would you wanna do that? - Ninety percent of security breaches are due to human error.
Machines don't make mistakes.
Come on, doctor.
- No machine is invincible.
- This one is.
I built her.
- Right.
- A quarter says she is.
I think the gauntlet just got thrown.
Wouldn't wanna take the lady's money, Pete.
The bet is for 25 cents, Mr.
MacGyver.
And you wouldn't be taking it.
You'd have to come get it.
It's a deal.
Undetected.
Level two physics lab.
The last security shift leaves at midnight.
After that, it's just you, me and Sandi.
Man against machine.
How cosy, huh? We're depending on your human factor, Mr.
MacGyver.
We'll be in the mobile unit monitoring your progress.
Or lack of.
Oh, just one piece of free advice: I've already changed the entry code.
I'll see you later, doc.
Don't count on it.
The simulation program is up and running.
My estimate is Sandi will catch him in 1 5 minutes.
Wouldn't be so sure this time, Steven.
Oh, come on, Pete.
He's giving MacGyver the benefit of the doubt.
We got your last expert in ten.
Colonel Woodward dumped me a mile down the road, just to make it a little more interesting.
And that gave me a chance to get the pattern of the security patrols.
I was kind of hoping to catch a ride from a couple of the guards and here they were.
Calgary lost again.
A map light.
That's a star.
Comes with its own magnifying lens.
Nice.
It took the human race I figure I had about 35 seconds.
On the other hand, I knew it could be done.
Take the magnifying lens add a watch crystal.
Roll them up in the ever-useful spors pages, and it ought to work.
Besides, I didn't have much choice.
Yeah, I got it.
Four-seven-one-zero.
Beautiful.
Sandi, how's the perimeter security? Perimeter security intact.
All guards preparing to leave premises.
Attention, all guards must leave compound immediately.
All guards must leave compound immediately.
Little problem here.
I had forgotten to bring along a card key.
But you can't let something like that throw you just because of a laser trap.
One of the things I used to love about the circus was the way they worked without a safety net.
Scared me then.
Still does.
Especially with a 20, 000-volt laser ready to zap me.
Four-seven-one-zero.
Arrival noted.
Initiate proper procedure.
The view from the second floor was terrific.
More of Jill's patented security, and my handprint wasn't cleared.
Lucky thing most people have sweaty hands.
Even Colonel Woodward.
Enough plaster dust, and I could pick up the pattern of the last handprint.
Kind of like dusting for fingerprints.
Cover the sensor plate press down gently and what do you know? An instant copy machine.
Entry approved.
Welcome, Colonel Woodward.
Thanks, Woody.
Sixty-four degrees.
That's low.
Variable is within limits of standard deviation, Dr.
Ludlum.
Readjust to 68, please.
Readjustment is not required.
Execute adjustment.
Very well, Dr.
Ludlum.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Guess you owe me a quarter, huh? - I don't think so.
I got in, didn't I? You came in with the truck, didn't you? - Under it.
- Perfect.
I've been arguing with Colonel Woodward about installing a scanner outside the cave.
- Now he'll have to spring for it.
- Wait.
Wait a minute here.
You mean to tell me this was a setup? You let me win to make a point? Let's call it a draw.
Unauthorized voice pattern.
Identify.
Possible intruder.
Deactivate the simulation, Sandi.
We're done for tonight.
I want a rematch.
- Without the truck.
- You're on.
Unauthorized voice pattern.
Possible intruder.
I said, it's over, Sandi.
Deactivate.
Sure you're up to it? Someone once told me that losing is quite an emotional experience.
I'll just bet you it wasn't Sandi.
How did you bypass the number code? Sports section.
Unauthorized voice pattern.
Exterior access denied.
Sandi, release the door, please.
Stage-one security aler initiated.
Sandi, this is Dr.
Ludlum.
The game is over.
All vocal override commands inoperative.
Excuse me.
You wanna let me know what's going on here? I don't believe this.
Sandi's initiated containment.
A stage-one alert.
What does that mean? You have 30 minutes until air supply is withdrawn.
Does that answer your question? Woody, come here.
What's that? What does that mean? Well, looks like we got your specialist.
Only 37 minutes.
I don't believe it.
Colonel, we have a problem.
Sandi's gone to stage-one alert.
Well, how could that happen? It looks like a program response error.
Sandi doesn't know it's a simulation anymore.
She actually thinks she's under attack.
- Run the override codes.
- I can't.
She's malfunctioning.
- We're locked out.
- Well, what about our people inside? Hey, come on, don't worry.
We're fully prepared for every emergency situation.
Steven, go to Evac One.
Access denied? It's simple.
All we have to do is override the program.
If Sandi won't listen to voice command, what makes you think she's gonna listen to a terminal? It's obviously just a malfunction in one of the audio processors.
User 1001 identified.
Security clearance, AAA.
That's funny.
We're not getting a prompt.
This isn't right.
I'd say.
Look out! This system must remain online.
I am programmed to defend STRADA.
She was never programmed to do that.
Guess she doesn't like to be touched.
Oh, no.
It's incredible! I did it.
True artificial intelligence.
Sandi's not just executing commands anymore, she's actually thinking.
She's-- She's deciding how to defend herself.
Wait a minute, hold it.
You mean to tell me she's trying to think up ways to get rid of us? - It looks that way.
- What can you do about it? I built it.
I can fix it.
I'd say our best shot is Is the mainframe terminal in the control room.
She shorts that one out, and it's, "Goodbye, memory.
" I don't know what your man MacGyver did, but we'll straighten it out.
Evac One now initiated.
- Your card key is invalid.
- I thought this was - supposed to override everything.
- It was.
Johnson, dismantle the control box.
See if you can set up a manual override.
Yes, sir.
We'll just bypass this level of security.
We'II be inside in five minutes.
Is he all right? - Can you get up? - Yeah, I-- Here you go.
Get him to the infirmary right away.
I don't believe it.
She's programming her own responses.
You mean the computer did that? We're Iucky it was just an electric shock.
You can bet next time she'II shoot to kill.
Which means we just used up our one free turn.
And MacGyver's.
Steven, round up your design team on the double.
We'II go to Evac Two.
Wait.
There's a power substation at Twin Pines.
- What if we shut it down? - Reserve generators will just kick in.
- No, they won't.
- What are you talking about? The control program's in place, but I haven't activated it yet.
I was gonna do that tomorrow.
Look, by my count, we've got 20 minutes Ieft.
What are we waiting for? Twin Pines supplies the power to the only hospital within 1 00 miles.
Besides, I'm not gonna risk the Iives of those two people in there on some unproven procedure, since Evac Two has been successfully tested against every emergency in the book.
Woody, for crying out Ioud, you've got a computer in there - that's writing its own book.
- Come on, Pete, it's a machine.
Looks Iike we'II have to find another way to Sandi's control room.
Wait, I have a card.
Reject.
Card invalid.
Thirty thousand watts of Iaser protection and no way to turn it off.
Let me see that.
Works good.
Listen, I thought you said you could fix everything.
I said I could fix everything from the control room.
I didn't say anything about getting there.
Yeah.
There a Iadies' room around? A Iadies' room? What are you doing in there? A mirror? Oh, come on, MacGyver.
Well, I figure if I hit it at the right angle, I can blow out both Iasers at the same time.
They'II burn through that in half a second.
I'II buy you a new one.
Yeah, that's good.
Let's go.
AII right, here we go.
Watch yourself.
- You were right.
- So were you.
Warning.
Do not proceed through inner core.
Now would you be willing to admit there's something wrong with your program? Maybe-- Let's go! The system is programmed to defend.
You have entered the inner core without clearance.
Containment procedures are in effect.
Come here! - This was a bad idea.
- Why is that? Excess waste is automatically dumped into an acid bath.
- How much do you weigh? - One-seventy-five.
- This is programmed to 280.
- So if you weigh more than 1 05 -we're in trouble.
- I think we're okay.
I Iied, 1 08.
Intruders must be eliminated.
It's not gonna work! - Why are you taking your pants off? - You got a better idea? I'm still trying to figure out what yours is.
Come here.
Grab this.
How strong are your pants? Stronger than your pipe.
Hand over hand, all right? AII right.
Hang on.
Oh, I can't! - You all right? - Yeah.
Hang in there.
Oh, hurry! Yeah.
Here we go.
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
Twin Pines power station confirms.
They're ready to shut down when we are.
Good.
Do it.
When we get the go-ahead from General Braddock.
General Braddock doesn't know what's going on in there.
We do.
There's a whole town out in that valley.
And we do not black it out unless we have an official state of emergency.
Official.
Woody, two people are gonna die out here if we don't do something! Now, how much more official do you wanna get? This is just Iike Nam, Pete.
We don't do anything until I give the orders.
Well, old Sandi sure has a mind of her own, doesn't she? Yes, but she thinks Iike me.
So I should be able to think it through and find her pattern, Iogically and rationally.
Without the emotion, right? That's what gives her the edge.
People and emotion can't get in her way.
Look, I say we trust our instincts, go with our gut.
You can't program that.
That's our edge.
A power disruption has been detected.
The system must remain online during a stage-one aler.
Pete, you old son of a gun! I knew you were out there somewhere! - How do you know it's him? - Because I got a feeling.
Is the hospital on emergency power? Good.
I owe you one.
Sandi's trying to kick in the reserve generator.
Reserve power must be initiated.
The system must remain online.
- Yeah! - The whole mountain's out.
The power's out.
We're on emergency battery Iights.
Time to go home.
Sandi, we gotcha now.
Looks Iike you got Iucky.
Reserve power must be initiated.
AII right, Iet's get those people out of the mountain.
- Here, take it.
- Let's go! Let's go! - Take it on the other side.
- Watch your step.
Now what the hell is that? - She's coming back on.
- No, no, it's just a surplus charge.
It can't Iast more than a minute.
Incredible! Sandi's searching her memory for the control command to activate the generators.
Control command activated.
Control command activated.
Damn it.
She's found it.
It's impossible, but she's turning on the generators herself.
Shutdown has been circumvented.
- Shutdown has been circumvented.
- What do we do now? Start depending on one another, I guess.
- Whoops, one of your Iittle friends.
- We'II never outrun it.
Oh, come on.
Where's your sense of adventure? What are you doing? - Taking out the magnet.
- What for? Can you get that other one? - I take it you have a game plan.
- More or Iess.
Would you mind explaining what's going on? Yeah, in a minute, but I need paper.
Get me some paper.
- Yeah, that'II do it.
- Do what? The drones zero in on heat, right? So we Iight these up, and they'II zero in on each other.
- Brilliant! - AII right, I need matches.
On the counter, behind the test tubes.
Great.
Intruders must be eliminated.
Intruders must be eliminated.
Look out! I still need matches.
Over there.
Intruders must be eliminated.
Hurry! Intruders must be eliminated.
Go! Three down, one to go.
Come on.
One to go, remember? - It's Ieaving.
- Sandi's pulling it back.
Stage two has commenced: Eliminate all oxygen.
Reduce environment to vacuum.
Final countdown commencing.
She's taking this kind of personally, isn't she? We've got 1 2 minutes of oxygen Ieft.
Drone's gone.
Makes sense.
Sandi sent it to the control room.
So even if we go through this door, it's gonna be waiting for us, huh? That's right.
And that shoots down our only chance to override Sandi's program.
- Are you sure? - Of course I'm sure.
Ten minutes of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
I got an idea.
- Sandi thinks like you, right? - Right.
Well, if you're sure that our only chance is to get to the mainframe, so does she.
But it is our only chance.
There might be another one.
Through the ventilation system.
Right to the oxygen outlet and the exhaust fans.
Woody, these bypass codes are never gonna get us through the front door.
MacGyver's got to know that by now too.
I'm sure he's looking for some other way out.
- Pete, you can't be sure of anything.
- If you're right, Mr.
Thornton, MacGyver only has two choices for another way out: The maintenance shaft or the exhaust outlet.
- Well, now we're getting somewhere.
- There's a catch.
Both of them are mined with explosives from the outside access ports.
- We only have time to dismantle one.
- Mined? So you're telling me, if Mac tries to exit either way - before we diffuse the explosives--? - He'll blow both of them to kingdom come.
Seven minutes of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
Vacuum pumps operative.
Oxygen being withdrawn by outlet fan.
Six minutes of oxygen remaining.
Where's the power cable? Over there.
If we can cut the power to the fan, she can't take all the air out.
Warning.
The exhaust outlet is not an authorized exit.
It worked.
The fan stopped.
Sandi's locking the complex! The door's airtight.
I'm sorry, colonel, but Sandi's overriding all evac commands.
- Run the displacement codes.
- I did.
Twice.
There are still those two possibilities, the maintenance shaft and the exhaust outlet.
We can't roll the dice on something like this.
Look, we don't roll the dice.
We make a calculated choice.
It's time we tried to think like MacGyver.
His mind doesn't work like yours or mine.
- We've gotta put our gut to work.
- Instinct doesn't cut it, Pete.
We've got plans.
They have been thought out.
They have been reviewed, they've been approved.
Some of the finest military minds in this country-- We lost three good men in Nam when those military minds were sitting behind some desk I was under orders to spot enemy troop movement.
Now, what the hell did you want me to do? We didn't have to be so close! We were there, Woody.
We knew what to do.
Headquarters didn't! And we're here now.
It's our decision.
These are our friends.
Four minutes of oxygen left.
Colonel? Woody? All right.
All right.
You know MacGyver best.
It's your call, Pete.
What about that wheel? Will it manually override the door? Yes, but the whole exhaust outlet is mined from the outside.
You can't open that door unless someone outside dismantles the explosives first.
Well, then we gotta get back to the main entrance.
We'll never get anywhere while Sandi's still online.
What about that control box? Does that run to the computer? Yeah.
Holds the control wires.
Well, then if we overload the wires We override the program.
Yeah.
That's the idea.
Where are you gonna get the electricity? Two minutes of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
Ninety seconds of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
It's gonna be kind of a stretch.
Interference forbidden.
Increase power.
Look out! She supercharged the cable! All right, that's it! Overload.
Overload.
Intruders must be-- Defend-- Defend.
Intruders interfend-- Intrude.
Intrude system.
Defend.
Def Come on.
Gonna get you to the main entrance.
Let's go.
Come on.
I can't.
I can't.
Come back.
Come back for me.
Not enough air.
Come on, Pete, be there.
No, MacGyver.
It's mined.
If it's not disarmed, it'll explode! I got a feeling.
I got a feeling.
They're in there! They're alive! Get the oxygen equipment in there! On the double! MacGyver, are you all right? - Never felt better, Pete.
- Looks like we guessed right.
Thought you might be hanging around.
You know, I'm almost sorry we had to short her out.
We were on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough.
It's gonna take me a while to get the kinks out of the system.
Well, just don't take the people out of the system, all right? Well, they are unreliable, and they're definitely irrational.
But I guess we do need them.
Thanks, Mac.
You're all right for a camel smuggler.
I returned that camel.
Pete, it was good seeing you.
Real good.
You ever get tired of the easy life, you Not a chance.
Pete, what made you so sure we'd choose the exhaust system? You only had a 50 percent chance of being correct.
Well, actually I remembered that Mac had used an exhaust system to get out of a big fire at Brookhurst Chemical last year.
And I figured he'd remember too.
Take care of yourself, Woody.
- MacGyver.
- Nice meeting you.
Bye, Pete.
Thanks.
It was the elevator shaft.
- What elevator? - The fire at Brookhurst Chemical.
I used the elevator shaft, not the exhaust system.
- No.
- Yep.
It couldn't be.
It was.
Up to his 007 in bikinis.
Me, I end up Couresy of my buddy, Pete Thornton, new operations director of the Phoenix Foundation.
And the guy who conned me into running a security test at STRADA: Strategic Research And Development Administration.
Run by a military hard-nose named Colonel Scott Woodward who didn't like civilians or civilian think tanks like Phoenix even after Pete's introduction.
This is the acid test I promised you.
MacGyver, meet Colonel Scott Woodward.
- MacGyver.
- Woody and I - were in combat together.
- Colonel.
Follow me.
STRADA was new, not even open yet, and top-top-secret.
Guards, dogs, alarms, electronics, gas and maybe nuclear bombs.
All I had to do was check the security out by breaking in single-handed into a high-tech mountain.
If I did, the military went back to the drawing board.
If I didn't, Woodward got the Phoenix Foundation's seal of approval.
Don't worry, Woody.
This is the last test.
If MacGyver can't get in, no one can.
Colonel, I hear Dr.
Ludlum designed the place.
Yeah, but to military specifications.
We have the ultimate security system.
That's my little contribution.
You like it? You're standing on a pressure-sensitive floor.
You forget to deactivate it, and the entire area is sealed off.
And if you are lucky enough to break in, you probably aren't gonna break out.
At least not alive.
We don't take chances with national security.
Gentlemen.
Entrance noted.
Three individuals.
Surveillance units activated.
Elevator descending to central core.
This way.
Arrival noted.
Initiate proper procedure.
Palm reader.
- Strictly state-of-the-art.
- Entry approved.
- Right down here.
- Welcome, Colonel Woodward.
This wing houses the physics lab.
- What's in here? - Exercise room.
There's one on every floor.
The scientists insisted on it.
Civilian overhead.
Well, now, come on, the scientists know what they need, don't they? - I mean, they are closest to the job.
- That same old song.
- Look, Pete, I did what I had to-- - Excuse me.
Mind if I look around? No.
No, go ahead.
Thanks.
So this is your main guy? What makes him so special? He doesn't even have any gear.
That's what makes him so special.
Lab looked pretty normal.
Funny, security seemed to stop at the front door.
State-of-the-ar radiation scanner.
Wonder what it was scanning.
Making waves already, Mr.
MacGyver? - Motion detectors? - Heat seekers.
They zero in on your body temperature.
Do they bite? Thirty thousand watts of laser is a whole lot more than a peck on the cheek.
Good dogs.
Containment simulation completed.
All drones deactivate.
MacGyver: Sometime consultant for the Phoenix Foundation, alleged hockey player, camel smuggler.
Jack-of-all-trades.
Jill Melissa Ludlum: Born in London.
Ph.
D.
, systems design, Oxford University, 1 980.
the Ludlum cybernetic circuit.
'82 to '83 took a year off for personal reasons.
'83 to '86, immersed in the STRADA project.
Hasn't come up for air yet.
Purported to be a premier technocrat.
- You've done your homework.
- So have you.
Is it true? The technocrat part? Let's just say that my faith in machines has created a fifth-generation computer.
It's just a blink away from true artificial intelligence.
A machine that thinks for itself? That's right.
I don't know, Pete, I never figured that you'd end up as director of operations for a think tank.
I really believed that the military life agreed with both of us.
It agreed with you.
Are you here to certify this place or to open up old wounds? - Listen, why don't we just forget it.
- Why don't we.
So tell me about Louise.
How's she doing? She's all right.
Now.
- We split up.
- Sorry, I didn't know.
It was coming.
Oh, there you are.
We were beginning to wonder what was keeping you.
MacGyver ran into our security patrol.
Nice guys.
A little short, but nice.
- Peter Thornton, I'm Jill Ludlum.
- How do you do? - This is Steven Lee, my assistant.
- Hello.
How do you do? And this is Sandi, the computer that runs STRADA.
Sandi, access the facility schematic, please.
Voice pattern identified.
Good morning, Dr.
Ludlum.
Complying with schematic request.
We're going to give you all the advantages an insider would have.
Though I doubt it would make a difference.
Looks like this is gonna be a tough lady to beat.
The complex has five levels around an inner core, of laboratory space on each level.
I'd hate to be the one that had to do the floors around here.
Sandi, would you like to continue? Operations controlled.
Level three.
Surveillance maintained.
Video monitors.
Laser drones programmed.
Dr.
Ludlum has decided to go without guards once the system's online.
That's right.
We've completely eliminated the human factor.
- Now, why would you wanna do that? - Ninety percent of security breaches are due to human error.
Machines don't make mistakes.
Come on, doctor.
- No machine is invincible.
- This one is.
I built her.
- Right.
- A quarter says she is.
I think the gauntlet just got thrown.
Wouldn't wanna take the lady's money, Pete.
The bet is for 25 cents, Mr.
MacGyver.
And you wouldn't be taking it.
You'd have to come get it.
It's a deal.
Undetected.
Level two physics lab.
The last security shift leaves at midnight.
After that, it's just you, me and Sandi.
Man against machine.
How cosy, huh? We're depending on your human factor, Mr.
MacGyver.
We'll be in the mobile unit monitoring your progress.
Or lack of.
Oh, just one piece of free advice: I've already changed the entry code.
I'll see you later, doc.
Don't count on it.
The simulation program is up and running.
My estimate is Sandi will catch him in 1 5 minutes.
Wouldn't be so sure this time, Steven.
Oh, come on, Pete.
He's giving MacGyver the benefit of the doubt.
We got your last expert in ten.
Colonel Woodward dumped me a mile down the road, just to make it a little more interesting.
And that gave me a chance to get the pattern of the security patrols.
I was kind of hoping to catch a ride from a couple of the guards and here they were.
Calgary lost again.
A map light.
That's a star.
Comes with its own magnifying lens.
Nice.
It took the human race I figure I had about 35 seconds.
On the other hand, I knew it could be done.
Take the magnifying lens add a watch crystal.
Roll them up in the ever-useful spors pages, and it ought to work.
Besides, I didn't have much choice.
Yeah, I got it.
Four-seven-one-zero.
Beautiful.
Sandi, how's the perimeter security? Perimeter security intact.
All guards preparing to leave premises.
Attention, all guards must leave compound immediately.
All guards must leave compound immediately.
Little problem here.
I had forgotten to bring along a card key.
But you can't let something like that throw you just because of a laser trap.
One of the things I used to love about the circus was the way they worked without a safety net.
Scared me then.
Still does.
Especially with a 20, 000-volt laser ready to zap me.
Four-seven-one-zero.
Arrival noted.
Initiate proper procedure.
The view from the second floor was terrific.
More of Jill's patented security, and my handprint wasn't cleared.
Lucky thing most people have sweaty hands.
Even Colonel Woodward.
Enough plaster dust, and I could pick up the pattern of the last handprint.
Kind of like dusting for fingerprints.
Cover the sensor plate press down gently and what do you know? An instant copy machine.
Entry approved.
Welcome, Colonel Woodward.
Thanks, Woody.
Sixty-four degrees.
That's low.
Variable is within limits of standard deviation, Dr.
Ludlum.
Readjust to 68, please.
Readjustment is not required.
Execute adjustment.
Very well, Dr.
Ludlum.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Guess you owe me a quarter, huh? - I don't think so.
I got in, didn't I? You came in with the truck, didn't you? - Under it.
- Perfect.
I've been arguing with Colonel Woodward about installing a scanner outside the cave.
- Now he'll have to spring for it.
- Wait.
Wait a minute here.
You mean to tell me this was a setup? You let me win to make a point? Let's call it a draw.
Unauthorized voice pattern.
Identify.
Possible intruder.
Deactivate the simulation, Sandi.
We're done for tonight.
I want a rematch.
- Without the truck.
- You're on.
Unauthorized voice pattern.
Possible intruder.
I said, it's over, Sandi.
Deactivate.
Sure you're up to it? Someone once told me that losing is quite an emotional experience.
I'll just bet you it wasn't Sandi.
How did you bypass the number code? Sports section.
Unauthorized voice pattern.
Exterior access denied.
Sandi, release the door, please.
Stage-one security aler initiated.
Sandi, this is Dr.
Ludlum.
The game is over.
All vocal override commands inoperative.
Excuse me.
You wanna let me know what's going on here? I don't believe this.
Sandi's initiated containment.
A stage-one alert.
What does that mean? You have 30 minutes until air supply is withdrawn.
Does that answer your question? Woody, come here.
What's that? What does that mean? Well, looks like we got your specialist.
Only 37 minutes.
I don't believe it.
Colonel, we have a problem.
Sandi's gone to stage-one alert.
Well, how could that happen? It looks like a program response error.
Sandi doesn't know it's a simulation anymore.
She actually thinks she's under attack.
- Run the override codes.
- I can't.
She's malfunctioning.
- We're locked out.
- Well, what about our people inside? Hey, come on, don't worry.
We're fully prepared for every emergency situation.
Steven, go to Evac One.
Access denied? It's simple.
All we have to do is override the program.
If Sandi won't listen to voice command, what makes you think she's gonna listen to a terminal? It's obviously just a malfunction in one of the audio processors.
User 1001 identified.
Security clearance, AAA.
That's funny.
We're not getting a prompt.
This isn't right.
I'd say.
Look out! This system must remain online.
I am programmed to defend STRADA.
She was never programmed to do that.
Guess she doesn't like to be touched.
Oh, no.
It's incredible! I did it.
True artificial intelligence.
Sandi's not just executing commands anymore, she's actually thinking.
She's-- She's deciding how to defend herself.
Wait a minute, hold it.
You mean to tell me she's trying to think up ways to get rid of us? - It looks that way.
- What can you do about it? I built it.
I can fix it.
I'd say our best shot is Is the mainframe terminal in the control room.
She shorts that one out, and it's, "Goodbye, memory.
" I don't know what your man MacGyver did, but we'll straighten it out.
Evac One now initiated.
- Your card key is invalid.
- I thought this was - supposed to override everything.
- It was.
Johnson, dismantle the control box.
See if you can set up a manual override.
Yes, sir.
We'll just bypass this level of security.
We'II be inside in five minutes.
Is he all right? - Can you get up? - Yeah, I-- Here you go.
Get him to the infirmary right away.
I don't believe it.
She's programming her own responses.
You mean the computer did that? We're Iucky it was just an electric shock.
You can bet next time she'II shoot to kill.
Which means we just used up our one free turn.
And MacGyver's.
Steven, round up your design team on the double.
We'II go to Evac Two.
Wait.
There's a power substation at Twin Pines.
- What if we shut it down? - Reserve generators will just kick in.
- No, they won't.
- What are you talking about? The control program's in place, but I haven't activated it yet.
I was gonna do that tomorrow.
Look, by my count, we've got 20 minutes Ieft.
What are we waiting for? Twin Pines supplies the power to the only hospital within 1 00 miles.
Besides, I'm not gonna risk the Iives of those two people in there on some unproven procedure, since Evac Two has been successfully tested against every emergency in the book.
Woody, for crying out Ioud, you've got a computer in there - that's writing its own book.
- Come on, Pete, it's a machine.
Looks Iike we'II have to find another way to Sandi's control room.
Wait, I have a card.
Reject.
Card invalid.
Thirty thousand watts of Iaser protection and no way to turn it off.
Let me see that.
Works good.
Listen, I thought you said you could fix everything.
I said I could fix everything from the control room.
I didn't say anything about getting there.
Yeah.
There a Iadies' room around? A Iadies' room? What are you doing in there? A mirror? Oh, come on, MacGyver.
Well, I figure if I hit it at the right angle, I can blow out both Iasers at the same time.
They'II burn through that in half a second.
I'II buy you a new one.
Yeah, that's good.
Let's go.
AII right, here we go.
Watch yourself.
- You were right.
- So were you.
Warning.
Do not proceed through inner core.
Now would you be willing to admit there's something wrong with your program? Maybe-- Let's go! The system is programmed to defend.
You have entered the inner core without clearance.
Containment procedures are in effect.
Come here! - This was a bad idea.
- Why is that? Excess waste is automatically dumped into an acid bath.
- How much do you weigh? - One-seventy-five.
- This is programmed to 280.
- So if you weigh more than 1 05 -we're in trouble.
- I think we're okay.
I Iied, 1 08.
Intruders must be eliminated.
It's not gonna work! - Why are you taking your pants off? - You got a better idea? I'm still trying to figure out what yours is.
Come here.
Grab this.
How strong are your pants? Stronger than your pipe.
Hand over hand, all right? AII right.
Hang on.
Oh, I can't! - You all right? - Yeah.
Hang in there.
Oh, hurry! Yeah.
Here we go.
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
Twin Pines power station confirms.
They're ready to shut down when we are.
Good.
Do it.
When we get the go-ahead from General Braddock.
General Braddock doesn't know what's going on in there.
We do.
There's a whole town out in that valley.
And we do not black it out unless we have an official state of emergency.
Official.
Woody, two people are gonna die out here if we don't do something! Now, how much more official do you wanna get? This is just Iike Nam, Pete.
We don't do anything until I give the orders.
Well, old Sandi sure has a mind of her own, doesn't she? Yes, but she thinks Iike me.
So I should be able to think it through and find her pattern, Iogically and rationally.
Without the emotion, right? That's what gives her the edge.
People and emotion can't get in her way.
Look, I say we trust our instincts, go with our gut.
You can't program that.
That's our edge.
A power disruption has been detected.
The system must remain online during a stage-one aler.
Pete, you old son of a gun! I knew you were out there somewhere! - How do you know it's him? - Because I got a feeling.
Is the hospital on emergency power? Good.
I owe you one.
Sandi's trying to kick in the reserve generator.
Reserve power must be initiated.
The system must remain online.
- Yeah! - The whole mountain's out.
The power's out.
We're on emergency battery Iights.
Time to go home.
Sandi, we gotcha now.
Looks Iike you got Iucky.
Reserve power must be initiated.
AII right, Iet's get those people out of the mountain.
- Here, take it.
- Let's go! Let's go! - Take it on the other side.
- Watch your step.
Now what the hell is that? - She's coming back on.
- No, no, it's just a surplus charge.
It can't Iast more than a minute.
Incredible! Sandi's searching her memory for the control command to activate the generators.
Control command activated.
Control command activated.
Damn it.
She's found it.
It's impossible, but she's turning on the generators herself.
Shutdown has been circumvented.
- Shutdown has been circumvented.
- What do we do now? Start depending on one another, I guess.
- Whoops, one of your Iittle friends.
- We'II never outrun it.
Oh, come on.
Where's your sense of adventure? What are you doing? - Taking out the magnet.
- What for? Can you get that other one? - I take it you have a game plan.
- More or Iess.
Would you mind explaining what's going on? Yeah, in a minute, but I need paper.
Get me some paper.
- Yeah, that'II do it.
- Do what? The drones zero in on heat, right? So we Iight these up, and they'II zero in on each other.
- Brilliant! - AII right, I need matches.
On the counter, behind the test tubes.
Great.
Intruders must be eliminated.
Intruders must be eliminated.
Look out! I still need matches.
Over there.
Intruders must be eliminated.
Hurry! Intruders must be eliminated.
Go! Three down, one to go.
Come on.
One to go, remember? - It's Ieaving.
- Sandi's pulling it back.
Stage two has commenced: Eliminate all oxygen.
Reduce environment to vacuum.
Final countdown commencing.
She's taking this kind of personally, isn't she? We've got 1 2 minutes of oxygen Ieft.
Drone's gone.
Makes sense.
Sandi sent it to the control room.
So even if we go through this door, it's gonna be waiting for us, huh? That's right.
And that shoots down our only chance to override Sandi's program.
- Are you sure? - Of course I'm sure.
Ten minutes of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
I got an idea.
- Sandi thinks like you, right? - Right.
Well, if you're sure that our only chance is to get to the mainframe, so does she.
But it is our only chance.
There might be another one.
Through the ventilation system.
Right to the oxygen outlet and the exhaust fans.
Woody, these bypass codes are never gonna get us through the front door.
MacGyver's got to know that by now too.
I'm sure he's looking for some other way out.
- Pete, you can't be sure of anything.
- If you're right, Mr.
Thornton, MacGyver only has two choices for another way out: The maintenance shaft or the exhaust outlet.
- Well, now we're getting somewhere.
- There's a catch.
Both of them are mined with explosives from the outside access ports.
- We only have time to dismantle one.
- Mined? So you're telling me, if Mac tries to exit either way - before we diffuse the explosives--? - He'll blow both of them to kingdom come.
Seven minutes of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
Vacuum pumps operative.
Oxygen being withdrawn by outlet fan.
Six minutes of oxygen remaining.
Where's the power cable? Over there.
If we can cut the power to the fan, she can't take all the air out.
Warning.
The exhaust outlet is not an authorized exit.
It worked.
The fan stopped.
Sandi's locking the complex! The door's airtight.
I'm sorry, colonel, but Sandi's overriding all evac commands.
- Run the displacement codes.
- I did.
Twice.
There are still those two possibilities, the maintenance shaft and the exhaust outlet.
We can't roll the dice on something like this.
Look, we don't roll the dice.
We make a calculated choice.
It's time we tried to think like MacGyver.
His mind doesn't work like yours or mine.
- We've gotta put our gut to work.
- Instinct doesn't cut it, Pete.
We've got plans.
They have been thought out.
They have been reviewed, they've been approved.
Some of the finest military minds in this country-- We lost three good men in Nam when those military minds were sitting behind some desk I was under orders to spot enemy troop movement.
Now, what the hell did you want me to do? We didn't have to be so close! We were there, Woody.
We knew what to do.
Headquarters didn't! And we're here now.
It's our decision.
These are our friends.
Four minutes of oxygen left.
Colonel? Woody? All right.
All right.
You know MacGyver best.
It's your call, Pete.
What about that wheel? Will it manually override the door? Yes, but the whole exhaust outlet is mined from the outside.
You can't open that door unless someone outside dismantles the explosives first.
Well, then we gotta get back to the main entrance.
We'll never get anywhere while Sandi's still online.
What about that control box? Does that run to the computer? Yeah.
Holds the control wires.
Well, then if we overload the wires We override the program.
Yeah.
That's the idea.
Where are you gonna get the electricity? Two minutes of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
Ninety seconds of oxygen remaining.
Thank you.
It's gonna be kind of a stretch.
Interference forbidden.
Increase power.
Look out! She supercharged the cable! All right, that's it! Overload.
Overload.
Intruders must be-- Defend-- Defend.
Intruders interfend-- Intrude.
Intrude system.
Defend.
Def Come on.
Gonna get you to the main entrance.
Let's go.
Come on.
I can't.
I can't.
Come back.
Come back for me.
Not enough air.
Come on, Pete, be there.
No, MacGyver.
It's mined.
If it's not disarmed, it'll explode! I got a feeling.
I got a feeling.
They're in there! They're alive! Get the oxygen equipment in there! On the double! MacGyver, are you all right? - Never felt better, Pete.
- Looks like we guessed right.
Thought you might be hanging around.
You know, I'm almost sorry we had to short her out.
We were on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough.
It's gonna take me a while to get the kinks out of the system.
Well, just don't take the people out of the system, all right? Well, they are unreliable, and they're definitely irrational.
But I guess we do need them.
Thanks, Mac.
You're all right for a camel smuggler.
I returned that camel.
Pete, it was good seeing you.
Real good.
You ever get tired of the easy life, you Not a chance.
Pete, what made you so sure we'd choose the exhaust system? You only had a 50 percent chance of being correct.
Well, actually I remembered that Mac had used an exhaust system to get out of a big fire at Brookhurst Chemical last year.
And I figured he'd remember too.
Take care of yourself, Woody.
- MacGyver.
- Nice meeting you.
Bye, Pete.
Thanks.
It was the elevator shaft.
- What elevator? - The fire at Brookhurst Chemical.
I used the elevator shaft, not the exhaust system.
- No.
- Yep.
It couldn't be.
It was.