There's a mole in the agency and their duplicity has resulted in the dead of three operatives. With the help of a Russian defector, MacGyver must find out who the leak is.
Tropes:
- Autopsy Snack Time: Mac is present at an autopsy that has the coroner halting his duties for an eggroll.
- Commie Nazis: The episode begins with Mac on a mission behind the Iron Curtain narrowly escaping from East German troops dressed in World War Two-era Wehrmacht uniforms.
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: MacGyver and a friend apply CPR to the victim of an induced heart attack, demonstrating a technique that would make a first aid teacher fail them on the spot, and keeping at it only long enough to show they tried before giving up and saying "He's dead" in a suitably dramatic voice. Later in the same episode, there's also a dodgy scene involving an improvised defibrillator.
- Deep Cover Agent: Ingrid Bannister hypnotises her husband into telling her secrets on a frequent basis. Played by Lynn Holly Johnson, in case you're interested.
- Magical Defibrillator: Mac jury-rigs a defibrillator out of two candlesticks, a floor mat, and an electrical power cord. The idea was not to reverse fibrillation, but to counteract some kind of magnetic field that was causing an absorbed plastic in the victim's blood to expand, causing an embolism. It worked.
- Magic Brakes: A car with a punctured brake fluid cable accelerates out of control down a gentle slope for several miles while MacGyver climbs out onto the front of the car and does emergency repairs. (The driver does actually think to try the handbrake, but it's not working either.)
- The Mole: Mac must discover the identity of a mole within the DXS who has caused the death of four agents.
- Near Misses: There's a good example of bullets kicking up dust always just behind the running hero.
