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8	The 2016 SpyFiction-oriented television ContinuityReboot of ''Series/{{MacGyver\|1985}}'', trading the focus the original series had on social justice and civic responsibility, [[DarkerAndEdgier with a lot more guns and terrorism]]. It stars Creator/LucasTill, Creator/GeorgeEads, Creator/TristinMays, Creator/JustinHires, Creator/SandrineHolt, Creator/LevyTran, Creator/MeredithEaton, and Henry Ian Cusick. The series premiered September 23, 2016 on Creator/{{CBS}} and has aired for five seasons from 2016 to 2021.
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10	The series centers around Angus "Mac" [=MacGyver=], an agent working for the Department of External Security (DXS), an American black ops agency that operates as a Washington-based think tank foundation. The main storyline of season one begins during an op to secure a WMD, when he's forced to relinquish said WMD to save Nikki Carpenter's life. After she was killed in the field, Mac is forced to reevaluate himself and recruit someone else. After they realize that Nikki is a mole, DXS stops her, but not before Patricia ordered the DXS to be shut down due to being compromised by Nikki. From there on, Mac and the others continue to work in the Phoenix Foundation, protecting the U.S from domestic and foreign enemies.
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13	!!This show provides examples of:
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15	* AIIsACrapshoot: "[=CO2=] Sensor + Tree Branch" centers around an autonomous drone competition, in which the CIA's entry goes out of control, blows up every other entry, and tries to attack the Pentagon. [[spoiler:It had been hacked by the founder of the competition, in protest over the DOD converting his competition to create unmanned medevac vehicles into one for creating unmanned combat vehicles.]]
16	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In "Cigar Cutter", Murdoc recruits an assassin to infiltrate Phoenix Foundation and seize a virus seized previously by DXS in "The Rising".
17	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Desi is subjected to this by her parents when she and Mac eat lunch at her family's house in "Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason".
18	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: One episode has Bozer provided with a genetic profile so detailed and so well understood that he's able to use it to reconstruct the man's face from a blood sample.
19	* AncientConspiracy: The leader of Codex claims that the organization started in the 14th century and has been protecting the world from itself for centuries.
20	* ArtisticLicenseCars: In "Guts + Fuel + Hope", Mac and Riley are sent to Georgia ([[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaEurope the country]], not the state) to recover a truck of liquid oxygen for a children's hospital after a rebel attack caused the driver to abandon it. At one point, they are spotted by the rebels and get into a [[ChaseScene high speed chase]] that reaches 120 km/h. Except they're in a European-style cab-over semi, which has a [[PowerLimiter speed limiter]] that prevents the accelerator from working if the truck is going over 90 km/h, and Mac didn't mention removing it when modifying the truck for going off-road. Also, during the chase, Mac has to fix a leak on the trailer, which reveals it's missing the placards stating that it contains a class 2.2[[labelnote:*]]non-flammable gas, which oxygen is [[ArtisticLicenseChemistry contrary to what Mac states]][[/labelnote]] hazardous material.
21	* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: In "Guts + Fuel + Hope", Mac states that the liquid oxygen is flammable. Oxygen by itself doesn't burn, it needs another material to reduce in order for there to be a fire.
22	* ArtisticLicenseEducation: Almost all universities require their professors to have a doctorate in their field. As an MIT dropout with an honorary bachelor's from a far less prestigious university, Mac would not be able to become a professor in only 18 months.
23	* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In "Bullet + Pen", Mac is detained by the L.A. police in relation to one of his Phoenix operations, and the detectives say they're "charging him with domestic terrorism". While classifying a criminal act (murder, bombing) as being motivated by domestic terrorism can impact many things -- sentencing, flight risk, etc. -- there is no ''crime'' of "domestic terrorism", and no-one can be "charged" with something that isn't a crime.
24	* ArtisticLicenseMedicine:
25	** Surgery is not something that can be performed by one person, especially not a surgery as complex as a heart transplant. It takes a medical team, including nurses and an anesthesiologist.
26	** In the same episode, Mac connects the donor heart to Jack's bloodstream in order to keep it alive. Mac says that it had to be Jack because he's type O negative, the universal donor. However, "universal donor" only applies once the blood has been separated. What Mac did was a whole blood transfusion, and for that the donor and recipient have to have the same type. So unless the organ donor was also O negative, Jack's antibodies would have attacked the heart, ruining it.
27	** Also, the surgeon touches her non-sterile mask with her sterile gloves. The mask has to either be applied before scrubbing, or by someone else.
28	* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: In "Wire Cutter", Agent Bannister mentions nuclear [weapon] materials and depleted uranium in the same breath. The "depleted" part of depleted uranium specifically means that it's had the fissionable material that makes uranium suitable for use in a nuclear fission device removed. She should have said "enriched uranium."
29	* ArtisticLicensePrison: In ''Can Opener'', Mac has to befriend a cartel boss in supermax and escape with him in order to find his [=HQ=]. The method he uses wouldn't work as it involves things like light fittings that wouldn't be in supermax and areas that prisoners wouldn't have access to. This is presumably because the showrunners didn't want to show an escape method that would work, or couldn't think of one.
30	* TheAtoner: Russ Taylor's main motivation for restoring Pheonix was to make up for the harm that his company has done in the past.
31	** In "Bahn Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason", Mason helps Eli because [[spoiler: Eli's parents died under Mason's watch years earlier.]]
32	* BatmanColdOpen: Several episodes open with Mac in some situation unrelated to the plot of the episode that requires him to use his skills.
33	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
34	** Tesla, Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell were DXS agents.
35	** Gavrilo Princip was a Codex operative, and he started World War 1 on purpose.
36	* BehindTheBlack: A ridiculous case occurs in "Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage". Having just found that two of his acquaintances has just been murdered within the last couple minutes, Mac takes a good look in one direction, then turns away. Over the next three seconds, the camera turns to reveal that a large and sinister man with a gun was standing within arm's length of Mac in the first direction he looked -- a man that comes very close to putting a bullet in Mac's head.
37	* BittersweetEnding: In the series finale, Mac learns that the nano-tracker project was funded by [[spoiler:the US Government, which then saw nothing wrong with distributing a larger supply of them in the middle of DC to get further test subjects without bothering with such legal niceties as informed consent.]] Once Mac finally frees himself of the nano-trackers in his body, he resigns in protest, with his entire team deciding to follow his example until Russ comes up with an alternative plan: [[spoiler:Phoenix cuts all ties with the government and goes independent.]]
38	* BloodySmile: In "DIY or Die", Mac and Jack first appear tied back-to-back and enduring a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Jack keeps antagonising their interrogator, so he keeps hitting him instead of Mac, finally taunting the guy with a bloody grin of triumph... because while the man was occupied with Jack, Mac was busy sawing through the ropes.
39	* BrandX: In "Fire + Ashes + Legacy = Phoenix", ZEN is the show's counterpart for TED (as is TED Talks).
40	* BrickJoke: In the opening for "[=CO2=] Sensor + Tree Branch", Mac give his Swiss Army Knife to a monkey to get it to drop a bomb detonator. He spends the entire episode in situations where he has to improvise a tool to replace something he could have used the knife for. And then the episode's final scene shows the monkey wreaking havoc with the knife in South America.
41	* BusinessTripAdultery: Variation. Billy Colton ''is'' on a business trip to Paris with his girlfriend Riley, but it's definitely heading towards "with benefits" territory... until she sees his phone, and finds a series of texts from his ''other'' girlfriend, who's been told he's on a business trip. Example of the cover story being [[ExactWords true but not honest.]]
42	* BusmansHoliday: In "Pliers", the team goes to Mac's hometown for a vacation and stumbles into a kidnapping plot.
43	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: "Seeds + Permafrost + Feather" has a man pulling a huge plot to come face to face with the crime lord who ordered the deaths of the man's wife and daughter when the guy testified against his organization. It's clear the crime lord's talk of "I don't know you" is serious as he no doubt treated the murders as just an everyday work incident.
44	* ChekhovsGun: While on a wilderness survival training excursion teaching bozer and Reilly how to survive by starting a proper campfire, Mac teaches them both to avoid putting poison oak on a fire because the fumes cause major lung problems, and to use SMALL amounts of fireweed to get a campfire with damp kindling to start but not too much or the fire will practically explode in your face. Later on when one of the goons of the VillainOfTheWeek finds them while they're searching for a now kidnapped Mac, Bozer spots both poison oak and fireweed near the signal campfire they built to attract park rangers and convince the goon, wearing wet cotton clothing, that he'll get hypothermia if he doesn't dry off. He allows them to work on the campfire so he can warm up, and they proceed to immediately take him out by putting too much of both plants on the fire and leaping out of the way as the campfire explodes poison fumes right in the goon's face, taking him out and allowing them to run off to track down and rescue Mac.
45	* ChekhovsSkill: In a flashback scene, Mac teaches Nikki how to pick locks with a hairpin. At the end of the episode, Nikki, [[spoiler:who has just been arrested for stealing and selling a WMD]], is handcuffed in the back of a car, and then a minute or so later is gone, leaving behind an open set of cuffs and a bent hairpin.
46	* ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome: The Ghost likes to have a webcam live-stream people trying to disarm his bombs so he can watch them fail and die - and he keeps copies of the videos on his personal laptop.
47	* ClearMyName: In "Bullet + Pen", Mac is charged with blowing up a building and killing a man inside, and the team has to clear him. The problem is, he ''did'' blow up the building in question (it was full of guns awaiting an illegal arms deal), and "I made sure the building was empty before I planted the bomb, so I didn't kill anybody" isn't a good defense in the eyes of the LAPD.
48	%%* Commended For Pushback: In "Fish Scaler", Bozer realizes the criminal they're hunting is a red herring and he confronts Matty over it. Matty is skeptical given Bozer's inexperience, but it turns out Bozer's instincts were correct, and she later praises him for insisting his voice be heard.
49	-->'''Matty:''' You might not know a lot about tradecraft, but that I can teach. What I can't teach is speaking truth to power, and that is the most valuable skill that an agent can have.
50	* ColdEquation: In the climax of "War Room + Ship", after an attempt to remotely seal a damaged waterproof hatch on a sinking ship from the outside fails, [[spoiler:the woman who Mac has been talking through the construction of various devices to keep the ship afloat long enough for a Coast Guard rescue enters the flooding room and ignites the epoxy seal manually from the inside, sacrificing herself to save the other thirty-one people on board.]]
51	* CreateYourOwnVillain: File 47, which is basically Codex's mission statement, was [[spoiler:a thought experiment by Phoenix's precursor organization DXS. An experiment originally started by Mac's mother, of all people.]]
52	* {{Crossover}}: With ''Series/HawaiiFive0''. Which, by the transitive property, means that the show is in also in a SharedUniverse with ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'', ''Series/{{NCIS}}''[[note]]In which the actress who played Matty once had a guest appearance as a college friend of Abby's[[/note]], ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'' and ''Series/{{JAG}}''.
53	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Merchant, a money gatherer for the Titan and CODEX who has no problem manipulating and murdering hapless debters, takes cruelty to animals extremely seriously and wouldn't dream of hurting an innocent bunny rabbit named Stella.
54	* FakeOutMakeOut: Mac ends up doing this with the witness he's trying to protect in "Toothpick". [[spoiler:They go at it so long that by the time they come up for air, the man they were hiding from was heading back the other way and found them.]]
55	* FarEastAsianTerrorists: "Python", the codename of a North Korean terrorist and hacker, who was detained by the South Korean Army in the DMZ after Mac showed proof of his detainment.
56	* FunWithSubtitles: Part of the show's humor when a new location is seen that the subtitles tell the locations. Although it has its DeadpanSnarker moments.
57	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each season premiere has a unique name, but every other episode follows a pattern. In season 1, every episode is named after a tool on a swiss army knife. In season 2, each episode name is a combination of two things that are used in the episode. In season 3, each episode name is a combination of three things, in season 4, each episode name is a combination of four things, and season 5 accordingly has titles being a combination of five things.
58	* InstantSedation: In "Eclipse...", Mac turns Eric's paint into chloroform. Eric sniffs it and immediately passes out. Eric is fairly muscular, and wakes up a few minutes later with no ill effects.
59	* [[IWarnedYou I Told You So]]: The various intelligence agencies have a contest to build what amounts to an AI controlled tank. Jack predicts that it's going to go horribly wrong. When it inevitably does, these are practically the first words out of his mouth.
60	* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Matty has this talk with Riley's abusive dad, when he appears to be trying to start over and mend fences with his daughter.
61	** And the next episode, Jack does it, just to drive home the point.
62	* ImprovisedArmour: Mac improvises a sedan with discarded metal plating to protect it from small arms fire in "Metal Saw".
63	* ImprovisedWeapon: Mac does this regularly.
64	* IndyPloy: Since Mac generally doesn't know what he has to work with when MacGyvering more than a minute or so in advance, plans involving his makeshift gadgets are this by necessity. Matty doesn't particularly care for that habit of his at first, but in later episodes mellows.
65	* JackTheRipoff: "Magnifying Glass" pits the team against a copycat of the Zodiac Killer.
66	* LatexPerfection: The second episode shows that Bozer has quite a talent at making masks. [[{{Foreshadowing}} This will undoubtedly come in handy at some point.]]
67	** [[spoiler: As of the end of "Chisel," this is Bozer's new job at the Phoenix Foundation.]]
68	* LibationForTheDead: At the end of "Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + [=MkNO3=] + GTO", the team share a toast to [[spoiler: Jack]], and Bozer starts to pour out his drink. Averted, as Russ stops him and tells him not to pour out expensive single malt.
69	* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Lampshaded in "Corkscrew" when Mac is placed in protective custody and Thornton makes a point of removing all furnishings from the room on the grounds that he'd probably be able to turn a chair into a cannon or something if they didn't. He still managed to escape, using wire from the ceiling fixtures and an electrical outlet.
70	* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler: Mac, Desi, and Riley have one going as of the fourth season.]]
71	* MacGyvering: Given that this show is a remake of the TropeNamer, this is a given. How [=MacGyver=] will take any ordinary items that he can see and combine them together to make helpful gadgets or weapons.
72	* MadeOfIron: Murdoc gets electrocuted and suffers two nasty falls in his first appearance and none of them manage to incapacitate him for more than a minute or so.
73	* MillenniumBug: [[spoiler: The episode "Wire Cutter" centers around a fifty-year old Russian nuke that has been seized by terrorists. Mac disables it when he realizes that the bomb isn't [=Y2K=] compliant (Everyone thought that the bomb would be used or destroyed well before the turn of the century), and has his team alter the system clock to buy another 99 years before it's programmed to explode.]]
74	* MistakenForTerrorist:
75	** In "Ruler", the team's effort to move a bomb out of a crowded area to an empty parking lot gets them accused of being the bombers.
76	** In "Bullet + Pen", the LAPD charge Mac with murder and domestic terrorism after they find a dead body in an illegal gun warehouse he blew up because he didn't have nearly enough time to remove the guns as originally planned.
77	* MurderByRemoteControlVehicle: The episode "[=CO2=] Sensor + Tree Branch" had a hacker taking over "Bruno", the military-grade (read:tank-like) car drone developed by Mac's GirlOfTheWeek and going on a destructive rampage that was going to culminate with it shooting up the Pentagon unless the Phoenix team stopped it. The hacker turned out to be the (former) computer mogul who originally organized the drone competition that "Bruno" was built for, who was protesting [[ScientistVsSoldier the military's decision]] to take over his contest (even ruining him when he refused) and use it to find tech for next-generation [[AttackDrone Attack Drones]] when he explicitly wanted the drones to be used for ferrying wounded soldiers trapped in hostile territory.
78	* MythologyGag:
79	** In "Pilot", the homemade missile was found on the front yard of the house he shares with Wilt.
80	** [=MacGyver=] christens the name "Phoenix Foundation" after Patricia said that [=DXS=] was closed [[spoiler:due to Nikki working for the bad guys trying to secure a WMD in "The Rising".]]
81	** Jack criticizes Mac's leather jacket and asks him if he dresses up in the dark near the end of "Wire Cutter".
82	** Murdoc was originally referred to as Suspect 218, which is a reference to the original show, where his first appearance there was in Season 2, Episode 18.
83	** In "Murdoc + Handcuffs", Murdoc's former mentor is played by Michael Des Barres, who was Murdoc in the original series.
84	** "Bullet + Pen", the LAPD detective who arrests Mac is played by Bruce [=McGill=], who was the original Jack Dalton.
85	** "Bozer" was the name of a minor character (Mac's neighbor) in the original series.
86	* {{Nanomachines}}: What are described as nanites or "nano-trackers" are used by the evil East European government, in "[=C8H7CIO=] + Nano-Trackers + Resistance + Maldives + Mind Games" They are only used for tracking, and don't display the superpower-like abilities of most s.f. nanites. They can be administered to any subject that breathes in the tear gas the nanite are put in, however.
87	* NebulousEvilOrganisation: Codex, introduced in Season 4.
88	* NeverTrustATrailer:
89	** The original promos for this show had scenes that where never explored in any episode, plus Mac had longer hair.
90	* NoodleIncident:
91	** The team doesn't want to talk about what happened during a [=DXS=] op in Cairo, except that it's [=MacGyver=]'s fault. "Cigar Cutter" showed part of it: [[spoiler:Mac tried to rescue Jack from a hostage situation by threatening to detonate the terrorist's own dirty bomb, only to find out that they wanted it set off in the middle of Cairo anyway]]. [[spoiler: in "Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MkNO3 + GTO" it was explained: Mac and Jack hid in a sarcophogus behind a hidden door.]]
92	** Mac's visit to his home town is rife with references to science experiments gone awry, one of which resulted in the school suddenly no longer having a football field.
93	** Whatever happened between Jack and Matty back when they worked for the CIA.
94	** Most episodes start with [=MacGyver=] and at least one other of the group, usually Jack, on some mission trying to get out of a dangerous situation and [=MacGyver=] building his way out of it, cue title. It's rare that these situations have much if any explanation.
95	** In "No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue" Man and Desi spend the episode one-upping each other on stupid stories. Highlights include Desi getting busted for venturing into an active volcano and Mac eating a Carolina Reaper.
96	-->'''Mac:''' "I was blind for two days!"
97	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Russ gets to be called "Leroy Jenkins" by Bozer after the op in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex almost went wrong.
98	* OncePerEpisode: Mac destroys someone's phone to make a device. Usually Jack's.
99	** One episode, Jack's phone gets destroyed early in the mission, and Mac lampshades that he didn't get to destroy it. Jack still blames him.
100	** In the season 3 premiere, a message from Jack to Mac during the latter's TenMinuteRetirement includes the former marking exactly how many days it's been since he last needed to replace his cellphone.
101	* PaintingTheMedium: Similar to ''Splinter Cell'', the show paints it by showing off the names of various objects/devices that [=MacGyver=] stumbles onto. They're used as clues as to what he'll use to make his improvised devices. As the show continues, it's used less and less.
102	* PoisonRing: "Father + Bride + Betrayal" has the VIP under Phoenix protection being taken out by a poison ring laced with cyanide.
103	* ProductPlacement: The series is co-sponsored by Victorinox, the maker of Swiss Army Knives.
104	* ResignationsNotAccepted: Mac's visit to his home town to guest lecture an eighth grade science class gets interrupted when the daughter of a smuggler who wanted to quit gets kidnapped by his associates to force him to stay in the game.
105	* TheReveal: "Screwdriver" has two ''massive'' ones that change the entire series: [[spoiler: Nikki is actually a deep cover agent the entire time who's been hunting a mole inside the Organization. The mole turns out to be Patricia who's been trying to silence Nikki all along and is arrested.]]
106	* RevealingCoverup: One episode had a man try to kill one of Mac's college friends because her DNA profiling project had been given samples from a crime he had committed years previous to work with. Had he just left her alone, he would have gotten away scot free - even with a profile from that blood sample, the police didn't have DNA known to be from him in any database to compare it against - until Jack publicly punched him in the nose for attacking Mac's friend, that is.
107	* RoguesGallery: In "Mac + Jack", Jack lampshades that they're making too many psychotic enemies like Murdoc and The Ghost.
108	* RunningGag:
109	** Mac's crappy home security. Murdoc (multiple times), The Ghost and Desi are among those who've broken in with no difficulty whatsoever. Seriously, a stack of cans by the door would be an improvement.
110	** In season 2, Jack can never remember Jill, the lab technician, no matter how many times he interacts with her.
111	* SadisticChoice: The Season 3 finale, "Mason + Cable + Choices", has Mason, a mysterious new adversary forcing this on Mac, to save either his friend Charlie or save the lives of hundred civilians. [[spoiler: Charlie ultimately decides to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice himself]].]]
112	* ScoutOut: A rare aversion. "Windmill + Acetone + Celluloid + Firing Pin" shows Mac and Riley volunteering as Den leaders in a Cub scout Pack. Mac's uniform is accurate. It has the correct council strip, Greater Los Angeles Area Council. his silver shoulder loops suggest he has a position in the council, possibly camp staff, though its odd he's wearing them as a den leader as they should be blue, though its likely he just didn't change them up or he is only there as a guest speaker. He also is spotted with and Arrow of Light loop but not the Eagle scout loop which makes sense since he had said in another episode he was kicked out of scouts
113	* ShownTheirWork: The Australian [=SASR=] has a 4th Sabre Squadron. Canberra and the Australian military has recently revealed its existence in the 2000s.
114	** "Mac + Fallout + Jack" shows the correct usage of Bahasa Indonesia. Samrozi and Jack were speaking it when they greeted each other with Selamat siang (Good afternoon) and the former saying Apa kapar (How are you).
115	** "Lidar + Rogues + Duty" has Desi mention that using Turkish in Azerbaijan is close enough. The two languages are classified as part of the Turkic language family.
116	* SimilarSquad: In "Wire Cutter", Phoenix has to recruit the last two surviving members of a Soviet nuclear weapons project so they can disarm a bomb they once made which had fallen into terrorist hands. The two people are an eighty year old nuclear physicist who thinks like Mac (His first scene has him attempt to repair a TV remote using a steak knife and some needles) and his equally old KGB handler who thinks like Jack (Carrying three handguns on his person while making an Uber pickup). Riley even comments that it's like her teammates were fed into a copy machine and came out as grumpy old Russians.
117	* SoftGlass: In "Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt", Desi and Riley jump through a second-story glass window. Neither are harmed by the glass.
118	* TechnicianPerformerTeamUp: Part of the premise for the reboot is that the original intent of the organization that would eventually be the Phoenix Foundation is to team up soldiers (performers) and scientists (technicians) so that the team would be greater than the sum of its parts.
119	* ThisIsReality: Jack tries to smash a skyscraper window by tossing a chair at it. It just bounces off as Mac dryly points out that unlike the movies, skyscraper windows are specially designed not to just easily shatter under the slightest pressure.
120	* {{Trainstopping}}: In the climax of "Toothpick", the team is stuck on an out of control train that they have to stop before it can crash into the station.
121	* TrappedWithTheTherapySession: In "Scissors", Jack and Riley get in an argument about Riley's recent actions and Jack's prior relationship with her mother. Since they're in a lift and he can't leave, poor Mac suddenly becomes fascinated with the panelling on the walls as they have it out.
122	* UnexplainedRecovery: Nicholas Helman gets shot by Murdoc, and his corpse is taken away in a body bag. He then returns in season 3, and his grave is found to be empty. Nobody could explain how that's possible and since he's [[TheDreaded Murdoc's]] [[TheMentor mentor]], no-one questions it further.
123	* UrbanLegend: Mac and the team investigate sightings of the Zodiac Killer in "Magnifying Glass".
124	** "Skull + Electromagnet" has the PF team check on Goat Island in an abandoned base used by the 13th Division.
125	* VillainTeamUp: In "Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower", Murdoc and Eric Andrews team up to take on the team. Neither of them betrays the others, but Andrews several times makes clear his disdain for Murdoc going off-script, gloating, and doing various other nutjob things.
126	* WatchThePaintJob: Jack signs the lease on a rental van, and thus is responsible for any damage. Mac ends up destroying the engine when he uses cleaning chemicals as an impromptu nitro booster.
127	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Codex claims to be trying to shape the world to deal with issues like global warming, overpopulation, and diminishing natural resources, and believes that performing acts of terrorism to do such is acceptable.
128	* WheresTheKaboom: In "Chisel", when an improvised explosive fails to go off, Jack asks, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that supposed to go kaboom?"
129	* WesternTerrorists: Dieva Roka from Latvia.
130	** Throughout the fourth season, Codex.
131	* WhamEpisode:
132	** "Screwdriver" which reveals that [[spoiler: Nikki is really a good guy after all while Patricia has been a mole against Phoenix all along.]]
133	** "Father + Son + Father + Matriarch" reveals that [[spoiler:Codex is being run by Mac's aunt, that their agenda is derived from a thought experiment cooked up by his late mother, and his father dies buying time for Mac to escape from Codex's custody.]]
134	** "Lidar + Rogues + Duty" has the PF team's personal data on the Dark Web, except for Desi since she just joined up.
135	** "Loyalty + Family + Rogue + Hellfire" shows that Codex has secretly built an underground city in anticipation of a global war that they plan to unleash.
136	** "Royalty + Marriage + Vivaah Sanskar + Zinc + Henna" shows Riley is the hacker known as [=Artemis37=] running a training program for upcoming female hackers.
137	* WireDilemma:
138	** In the pilot, Mac faces a bomb with twelve wires, and they're all green. [[spoiler:Mac guesses wrong, so he removes the bioweapon the bomb was intended to disperse from the explosives and runs away.]]
139	** The Ghost has his own twist on the trope: He sets up multiple bombs in the same general area, and if they're disarmed in the wrong order (And if someone finds the first bomb the hard way, they might not be in a position to reach the other bombs without help), they'll all go off.
140	** Upon encountering an armed suitcase nuke with only fifteen minutes before it blows, Mac doesn't even try to disarm it, instead settling for moving it into an underground vault capable of containing the blast.
141	* WorstAid:
142	** In "Awl", Mac has to perform surgery on a man using a car jack as a rib spreader and the windshield cleaner as a suction tube.
143	** In "Cigar Cutter", Mac uses various chemicals found in Phoenix's lab to make an epoxy to glue shut [[spoiler:Bozer]]'s gut wound.
144	* YouGetMeCoffee: In "Chisel," when [[spoiler: Bozer is offered a job at the Phoenix Foundation]], he says he [[InvokedTrope absolutely will not fetch coffee for Mac.]]

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