Plot

With the help of MacGyver, an elderly German man is reunited with his long-lost granddaughter. However, she is now an agent involved in a plot to steal her grandfather's gold.

Mac goes to Germany to find the grand daughter of a man who fled East Germany years ago. He finds her and brings her to the US and reunites her with her grand father. But some men are keeping an eye on them. Later one of them goes after the man. He admits that some corrupt Stasi men have been forcing him to be the receiver of things sent from East Germany. The girl is shocked to hear her grand father did this. Later when the man returns, the girl kills him and that's when she reveals she's also a Stasi and knows what they are after.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Collaborating with Huber's German organization for the Phoenx Foudation, MacGyver finds in Leipzig schoolteacher Maria, the now adult granddaughter of Cold War Iron Wall-trespasser immigrant Otto Romburg. After an initial scolding of the 'traiptor' who left her shot father's family behind, she accepts cheerfully to visit him in LA, where he runs an old-fashioned toy store. Mac mistrusts her detailed knowledge of the American ways, but humors enthusiastic Otto. Alas, they are spied on by Huber's ex-StaSi (East German secret police) team, which is after gold entrusted to Otto, and has a human secret weapon.—KGF Vissers

MacGyver is in Leipzig, Germany speaking to an old friend of his on the phone. Otto Romburg (Milton Selzer) is an elderly toy shop owner who is seen carefully tending to a setup of miniature toy soldiers in his window display as he speaks to MacGyver. Otto escaped from communist-controlled East Germany fifteen years ago, and has been living in the United States ever since. MacGyver is helping Otto locate his granddaughter, Maria, who is still in Germany.

A German official named Rolf Mossel (John Horn) has been helping MacGyver research old files from the Stasi-- East Germany's communist secret police force before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Though the files are incomplete and not conclusive, what Mossel has found for MacGyver, points to a young woman named Maria who is a schoolteacher in Leipzig-- she may be Otto's granddaughter.

MacGyver finds Maria (Brigitta Stenberg) in the school courtyard, playing a game of Blind Man's Bluff with the children. He introduces himself to her and tells her how Otto has been trying to find her. Taking MacGyver aside, Maria angrily tells him that as far as she is concerned, her grandfather is dead. When Otto escaped from East Berlin, Maria and Eric Romburg-- Otto's son and Maria's father-- went with him. During the escape, Eric was killed by the Berlin Wall guards and Maria was seized and taken away. Maria blames Otto, in the belief that he ran to save himself, abandoning her and Eric to the Stasi guards (the escape scene is shown in memory flashbacks). MacGyver assents to Maria's decision, but asks her to read a letter he's brought, written by Otto. MacGyver will stay in Leipzig for a few more days in case she changes her mind; he also gives her a card so she can find him.

As MacGyver returns to his car, he catches a glimpse in the car's side mirror, of a German man (Reiner Schöne) discreetly taking a photo of him. Walking away from his car, MacGyver ducks behind an alley. The man follows, and MacGyver grabs him to confront him on the photograph. The man cheap shots MacGyver and throws him into several trash cans, buying himself enough time to get to his own car and escape.

MacGyver is talking with Mossel the next day when Maria comes hurrying up to him, carrying two suitcases. She's read Otto's letter and has changed her mind-- she will go with MacGyver back to America and meet her grandfather. Mossel is pleased to have been able to reunite one more family that was separated during the old East German communist government reign.

But as a car begins carrying MacGyver and Maria to the airport, the man who took MacGyver's picture approaches Mossel, and it's revealed they are involved in a plot to get their hands on a fortune in gold-- and that Otto and Maria are also involved somehow.

Maria and MacGyver arrive in the United States. As they're heading out of the airport, the pass a vending machine for soft drinks. Maria is quickly very excited as asks MacGyver for three quarters so she can buy a can of root beer. MacGyver seems to hesitate briefly before giving her the money, and she smiles in delight as she takes her first sip of the beverage.

They arrive at Otto's toy shop where Otto is in complete delight at being reunited with his granddaughter. MacGyver decides to give the two of them some time to themselves before he needs to pick Maria up at 4 pm so they can handle some paperwork with immigration services.

Across the street from Otto's toy shop, a German-American man named Kurt (Oliver Becker) rents a second-floor apartment which he has been using for purposes of surveillance on Otto. Kurt is also involved with Mossel, whose real name is Huber, and the man who took MacGyver's picture, whose name is Weise. Huber and Weise have also arrived in the United States and with Kurt, they are eavesdropping on Otto and Maria as they begin to get re-acquainted in Otto's apartment which is just above the toy shop. Maria is supposed to subtly lead conversation with Otto to where he'd let slip a clue that would help Huber and his accomplices locate the gold... but Otto doesn't bring it up, and Weise begins to get very impatient, very quickly.

Meanwhile, MacGyver is back at Phoenix headquarters talking to Pete. In just the very short time he's been acquainted with her, MacGyver has begun to grow very suspicious of Maria. She had said that she'd never set foot outside of Germany before and had never traveled-- but during the flight on the plane, Maria displayed subtle signs of knowing a lot about riding a commercial airline: she knew how to buckle an airline seat belt, she knew how to make her seat recline, she knew how to plug her headphones in, and she'd asked the flight attendant if any magazines were available. Furthermore, when Maria bought the root beer from the vending machine, which cost 75 cents, she asked MacGyver for 'three quarters'-- the exact change required to cover the price of the root beer. This means Maria knew the American currency system, even though she'd never been in the States before. MacGyver gives Pete an old photograph of Maria's face when she was a child, taken from the Stasi files when she was captured during Otto's escape from Berlin, and asks Pete to run it through a computer 'virtual aging' program designed to help find children missing for many years, to show what Maria should most likely look like at her current age of 23.

Arriving back at Otto's home, MacGyver invites Otto to accompany him and Maria to dinner. Otto declines, saying he has to tend his books. While MacGyver and Maria are away, Weise breaks into Otto's apartment, unwilling to wait anymore. He ties Otto to a chair and tries to beat him into revealing the location of the gold. MacGyver and Maria arrive back at the apartment and surprise Weise. MacGyver tries to pin Weise against the wall with a table while Otto tells Maria to run and call the police. Weise breaks free and makes a run for it-- finding Maria waiting for him at the top of the stairway. He tries to grab her, but she expertly breaks his grip on her, and fires a devastating blow squarely into his throat before pushing him down the stairs. When MacGyver finds her, Maria is shaking, telling him that Weise tried to grab her and then tripped. Weise survives but is taken to the hospital in a coma.

MacGyver brings Maria back inside and thinks he notices something strange. He goes downstairs to his truck, grabs a flare and ignites it, and then tosses it to the curb across the street. Still at their surveillance post, Huber and Kurt realize that the flare will expose the laser beam they have trained at Otto's window, but cannot do anything about it. They hurry out of the apartment and escape in their car before MacGyver and Pete can catch them.

The next day, MacGyver and Pete are at Phoenix headquarters. Weise is still in a coma and they cannot question him. But preliminary medical examinations have revealed the deadly blow he took to his throat-- one that had to have come from a precisely executed attack, not by falling. Maria is the only possible suspect as nobody else was near Weise when he fell down the stairs. The results of the computer aging on the photograph are not ready yet, so MacGyver tries to simply confront Maria at Otto's toy shop.

Maria tries to feign innocence and ignorance at first, but she accidentally lets slip that she knows Weise's name, despite neither MacGyver nor Otto having told it to her-- MacGyver himself had only just learned Weise's name from his identification at the hospital. Finally Maria breaks down and tells her story-- as an orphaned child and prisoner of the Stasi following her father's death and grandfather's escape, Maria was taken by the Stasi and trained as a special forces operative, code named 'sparrow.' She's been all over North America and Europe on intelligence missions for the Stasi. She reveals Huber as a former Stasi agent, and that the Stasi used threats against her to force Otto to aid Huber in funneling large sums of money out of East Germany, and to launder it by converting it into gold. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the East German communist government, that operation ground to a halt, and Otto has had the gold ever since. When Huber found Maria while pretending to help MacGyver for Otto's sake, he enticed her into helping him seize the gold, playing on her long-standing bitterness toward Otto over her father's death, and offering her a share of the gold for her services. Otto is completely disillusioned with Maria after hearing the story, becoming convinced that she is an impostor.

As if to lend emphasis to Otto's words, back at Phoenix headquarters, the computer aging on Maria's child photograph are finally in. Pete looks at the photo and notes that it doesn't match Maria's face-- the computer aged image shows a markedly different chin shape. He hurries out to bring the photo to MacGyver.

But MacGyver, along with Otto and Maria, now have their hands full as Huber and Kurt arrive with drawn guns. MacGyver is tied to a chair in the back of the shop, while Otto and Maria are taken to the basement. Otto is tied to another chair in the basement, while Maria is bound and gagged and stood against a wall of crates. Kurt tries to force Otto into revealing the location of the gold by shooting crossbow bolts that narrowly miss Maria's throat, but Otto does not break, especially now that he believes Maria to be an impostor. Huber pulls Maria's gag down and offers for her to say goodbye to her grandfather before Kurt kills her. Maria breaks down into terrified sobs as she begs her grandfather to save her. Despite Otto's current demeanor, the girl's frightful pleas remind him too much of his granddaughter crying out to him, as she was caught and carried off by the Stasi during his escape from East Berlin fifteen years ago. Otto gives in and tells Huber that the toy soldiers in his window display are fashioned out of the gold. Huber, impressed at the cleverness of the plan, hurries to the display and scratches the paint off of one soldier with a coin, to reveal solid gold underneath.

But, in the meantime, MacGyver had managed to work his way to one rack against a wall, and use his teeth to pull the lid off of a tube of play 'slime.' The tube dropped the goop all over MacGyver's hands and wrists, and he's worked himself free. Hiding this from Huber and Kurt as they rushed to the window display, he is out of the chair when they turn back around. Of course, no matter how they twist and turn to guard all sides, MacGyver is still directly behind them at just the right moment to knock Kurt out, and then distract Huber with one of Otto's toy zeppelins so he can climb a ladder and dump a large toy drum onto Huber's head.

Pete shows up with police to take Huber and Kurt into custody, then goes downstairs with MacGyver to confront Maria on the computer-aged photo. But Maria has an explanation-- she was on assignment in London and suffered a broken jaw in an accident. She can put them in touch with the hospital where her jaw was reconstructed, and they will have records of the surgery they performed on her. When Otto still doesn't believe her, Maria shows Otto her favorite childhood doll, which Otto had kept the past fifteen years after Maria accidentally dropped it during the escape, and returned to her now after she arrived in the United States. She points out that the doll's arm had been sewed back on after her puppy chewed it off, when she was still little. Unfortunately, Otto does not remember the doll's arm having had to be sewed back on... and he is certain that family photos seized from their home by the Stasi would have enabled them to know even about the family dog.

But Maria then reminds Otto of how he allowed the puppy to sleep in her bed with her, while her parents were away on holiday. Otto breaks down in tears-- nobody alive could have known that secret except for his granddaughter.

In the epilogue scene, Maria goes to see MacGyver at his home to tell him that the German government is going to use the recovered gold to start a fund in Otto's name to reunite families separated by the Berlin Wall, and that Pete is considering putting her to work at Phoenix foundation... and she is interested in seeing MacGyver again.