- [first lines]
- MacGyver: [voice-over narration] When James Bond gets an assignment, it's on the Riviera up to his 007 in bikinis. Me? I end up eighty miles past nowhere... courtesy 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, Strategy 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.
- [last lines]
- MacGyver: It was the elevator shaft.
- Pete Thornton: What elevator?
- MacGyver: The fire at Brookhurst Chemical. I used the elevator shaft, not the exhaust system.
- Pete Thornton: [thinking about it] No...
- MacGyver: Yep.
- Pete Thornton: It couldn't be.
- MacGyver: It was.
- Pete Thornton: 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.
- Colonel Woodward: Pete, you can't be sure of anything.
- Steven Lee: If you're right, Mr. Thornton, MacGyver only has two choices for another way out. The maintenance shaft or the exhaust outlet.
- Pete Thornton: Well, now we're getting somewhere.
- Steven Lee: There's a catch. Both of them are mined with explosives from the outside access ports. We only have time to dismantle one.
- Pete Thornton: Mined? So you're telling me if Mac tries to exit either way before we diffuse the explosives...
- Colonel Woodward: He's gonna blow both of them to kingdom come.