Elaine was a social worker at Soledad State Prison who fell in love with and married one of the inmates. She arranged for him to get early parole so that they could set up a half-way house to help other inmates re-engage with normal life outside of prison. Elaine is nine months pregnant when she finds that her husband has used her to get other friends released early. He has sprung them so that he can have his own little army trained thieves and strong men. When she confronts him with her discoveries, he tells her that she needs to be eliminated. She crowns him with a heavy object before he can shoot her and flees. At her car, she realizes she has left her keys inside. So, she heads down the street trying to evade pursuit. Mac has just finished fixed a flat tire at a gas station when she runs up desperate for help. He has her climb in. They pull out of the station just as two goons sent by her husband arrive in their car. A chase ensues that eventually leads MacGyver and Elaine to a dead-end wall behind a big waterfront warehouse. They quickly open a bay door and try to drive through. But a ramp over a depressed floor bay collapses and traps Mac's Jeep. Mac uses a couple of tricks to temporarily take out the two pursuers. It gives him enough time to winch and ramp his way out of the bay. Just as they are about to escape out another door, Elaine's husband arrives to join in the pursuit. It takes a crane ride and some camouflage to hide Elaine until Mac can raise some signal flags in s helium-filled sail bag.
—Garon Smith