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** On waking up chained in a bunker, Jack is reminded of ''Film/{{Saw}}''.
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** On waking up chained in a bunker, Jack is reminded of ''Film/{{Saw}}''.''Franchise/{{Saw}}''.
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* CallBack: {{Flashback}} Jack offers to introduce Mac to [[Recap/Macgyver2016S1E1TheRising Nikki]] after the mission.
-->'''Jack:''' She's a real egghead, just like you are. You'll like her a lot.
* CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker: How Griggs communicates his demands before revealing himself.
-->'''Jack:''' She's a real egghead, just like you are. You'll like her a lot.
* CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker: How Griggs communicates his demands before revealing himself.
-->'''Jack:''' Next time, we're faking ''your'' death, pal, 'cause getting killed hurts.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Griggs is behind the abduction, intending to take revenge on Mac and Jack for leaving him and his partner for dead in Indonesia. However, his own supervisor ordered them to leave, wrongly informing them that Griggs and his partner were dead. He presumably told them that because there was no chance of saving them anyway. Somewhat justified as Griggs is traumatised by his experiences of captivity and clearly not stable.
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* LeeroyJenkins: When Mac notices a hidden camera behind an air vent, Jack takes the lead on how to handle the situation.
-->'''Mac:''' How do you want to play this? We act like we don't see it, or...?\\
'''Jack:''' Hey, hey, whosever watching! Ha, ha, ha, we get it. Very funny, joke's on us! I tell you what. Come in here, and we'll have a little chat. Okay? We can work this out like adults. This is ridiculous!\\
'''Mac:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I'm glad we talked that out first.]]
* MercyKill: Mac's fake killing of Jack is staged this way, so he won't slowly drown as a lacerated aorta fills his lungs with blood.
* MisplacedRetribution: Griggs is behind the abduction, intending to take revenge on Mac and Jack for leaving him and his partner Hadley for dead in Indonesia. However, his own supervisor ordered them to leave, wrongly informing them that Griggs andhis partner Hadley were dead. He presumably told them that because there was no chance of saving them anyway.dead. Somewhat justified as Griggs is traumatised by his experiences of captivity and clearly not stable.
-->'''Mac:''' How do you want to play this? We act like we don't see it, or...?\\
'''Jack:''' Hey, hey, whosever watching! Ha, ha, ha, we get it. Very funny, joke's on us! I tell you what. Come in here, and we'll have a little chat. Okay? We can work this out like adults. This is ridiculous!\\
'''Mac:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I'm glad we talked that out first.]]
* MercyKill: Mac's fake killing of Jack is staged this way, so he won't slowly drown as a lacerated aorta fills his lungs with blood.
* MisplacedRetribution: Griggs is behind the abduction, intending to take revenge on Mac and Jack for leaving him and his partner Hadley for dead in Indonesia. However, his own supervisor ordered them to leave, wrongly informing them that Griggs and
-->'''Griggs:''' [''Over loudspeaker''] One lives, one dies. One lives... one dies.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: The bunker is filled with references to Mac's disastrous first DXS mission, such as Sago worms which are an Indonesian delicacy.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: The bunker is filled with references to Mac's disastrous first DXS mission, such as Sago worms which are an Indonesian delicacy. In addition, although their shoes, socks and belts have been removed, Mac still has his Swiss Army knife, which suggests their circumstances are a specific message.
* SpottingTheThread: Mac and Jack realise the EnhancedInterrogationTechniques they're being subjected to are from the CIA textbook, suggesting their captor is a former ally. Between that and the Jakarta memorabilia, Mac works out Griggs or Hadley must be the culprit.
-->'''Griggs:''' [''In {{Flashback}}''] But Hadley's right about one thing, [=MacGyver=]. When you sit down with a terrorist, you should be packing more than a pocket knife.
* SpottingTheThread: Mac and Jack realise the EnhancedInterrogationTechniques they're being subjected to are from the CIA textbook, suggesting their captor is a former ally. Between that and the Jakarta memorabilia, Mac works out Griggs or Hadley must be the culprit.
-->'''Griggs:''' [''In {{Flashback}}''] But Hadley's right about one thing, [=MacGyver=]. When you sit down with a terrorist, you should be packing more than a pocket knife.
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Meanwhile, the Phoenix team hold a fake fashion shoot to steal a diamond.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Jakarta, Indonesia is an Asian Metropolitan city, but is shown looking an awful lot like the Middle East. Sago worms are apparently a Papua New Guinean delicacy.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Jakarta, Indonesia is an Asian Metropolitan city, but is shown looking an awful lot like depicted as the Middle East. Sago worms are apparently a Papua New Guinean delicacy.delicacy.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite what he put them through, after overpowering Griggs Mac and Jack carry him out of the bunker with no apparent resentment. They discuss how what happened to him could easily have happened to them, and intend on getting him help.
* FakingTheDead: Mac forces Griggs to show himself by rigging a fake gun and pretending to shoot Jack. When he does, they both take him down.
* EasilyForgiven: Despite what he put them through, after overpowering Griggs Mac and Jack carry him out of the bunker with no apparent resentment. They discuss how what happened to him could easily have happened to them, and intend on getting him help.
* FakingTheDead: Mac forces Griggs to show himself by rigging a fake gun and pretending to shoot Jack. When he does, they both take him down.
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* MisplacedRetribution: Griggs is behind the abduction, intending to take revenge on Mac and Jack for leaving him and his partner for dead in Indonesia. However, his own supervisor ordered them to leave, wrongly informing them that Griggs and
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* MisplacedRetribution: Griggs is behind the abduction, intending to take revenge on Mac and Jack for leaving him and his partner for dead in Indonesia. However, his own supervisor ordered them to leave, wrongly informing them that Griggs and his partner were dead. He presumably told them that because there was no chance of saving them anyway. Somewhat justified as Griggs is traumatised by his experiences of captivity and clearly not stable.
* OhCrap: Jack has misgivings about Mac's plan to use some thermite he made from metal shavings, potassium permanganate and hand lotion.
-->'''Jack:''' It'll burn through chains! Let's do it!\\
'''Mac:''' ...And maybe our feet.\\
'''Jack:''' Our feet!? C'mon, dude! [''Muttering''] I need my feet. How we gonna run outta here without our feet?
* SadisticChoice: After being forced to kill his partner to survive, Griggs tries to force either Mac or Jack to kill the other before they can escape. They TakeAThirdOption as Mac fake-shoots Jack.
* OhCrap: Jack has misgivings about Mac's plan to use some thermite he made from metal shavings, potassium permanganate and hand lotion.
-->'''Jack:''' It'll burn through chains! Let's do it!\\
'''Mac:''' ...And maybe our feet.\\
'''Jack:''' Our feet!? C'mon, dude! [''Muttering''] I need my feet. How we gonna run outta here without our feet?
* SadisticChoice: After being forced to kill his partner to survive, Griggs tries to force either Mac or Jack to kill the other before they can escape. They TakeAThirdOption as Mac fake-shoots Jack.
* {{Technobabble}}: Played with when Matty starts to explain how Princess Zahra's diamond can act as a data storage device.
-->'''Matty:''' Colored lasers negatively charge tiny defects in the... You know what? Ask Mac when he's back. The bottom line is the tech works, and the data in her possession needs to be in ours.
-->'''Matty:''' Colored lasers negatively charge tiny defects in the... You know what? Ask Mac when he's back. The bottom line is the tech works, and the data in her possession needs to be in ours.
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* YouWakeUpInARoom:YouWakeUpInARoom: After being run off the road to Vegas, Mac and Jack wake up chained to the floor of a concrete room, and must figure out who took them and why, as well as how to escape alive.
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Mac and Jack's "manniversary" weekend in Vegas is rudely interrupted when they're run off the road and abducted. Waking up locked in a fallout shelter, they find themselves subjected to CIA-style interrogation that echoes Mac's first ill-fated mission with DXS.
!!Tropes:
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Jakarta, Indonesia is an Asian Metropolitan city, but is shown looking an awful lot like the Middle East. Sago worms are apparently a Papua New Guinean delicacy.
* HypocriticalHumor: Jack's Vegas plans leave very little room for disagreement.
-->'''Jack:''' And finally, ending our first night with a show, a show of your choosing.\\
'''Mac:''' What? I get a choice?\\
'''Jack:''' Yeah, as long as it's the Legends of Metal tribute or the Blue Man Group, which, really, I think there is no choice there.
* MisplacedRetribution: Griggs is behind the abduction, intending to take revenge on Mac and Jack for leaving him and his partner for dead in Indonesia. However, his own supervisor ordered them to leave, wrongly informing them that Griggs and
* ShoutOut:
** In a flashback, Jack introduces Mac as [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap "Derek Smalls"]].
** On waking up chained in a bunker, Jack is reminded of ''Film/{{Saw}}''.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: The bunker is filled with references to Mac's disastrous first DXS mission, such as Sago worms which are an Indonesian delicacy.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Mac's unspoken reaction to some of Jack's Vegas plans.
-->'''Mac:''' You want us to ride a roller coaster after hitting ''eight'' buffets?\\
'''Jack:''' I like a challenge.
* YouWakeUpInARoom:
!!Tropes:
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Jakarta, Indonesia is an Asian Metropolitan city, but is shown looking an awful lot like the Middle East. Sago worms are apparently a Papua New Guinean delicacy.
* HypocriticalHumor: Jack's Vegas plans leave very little room for disagreement.
-->'''Jack:''' And finally, ending our first night with a show, a show of your choosing.\\
'''Mac:''' What? I get a choice?\\
'''Jack:''' Yeah, as long as it's the Legends of Metal tribute or the Blue Man Group, which, really, I think there is no choice there.
* MisplacedRetribution: Griggs is behind the abduction, intending to take revenge on Mac and Jack for leaving him and his partner for dead in Indonesia. However, his own supervisor ordered them to leave, wrongly informing them that Griggs and
* ShoutOut:
** In a flashback, Jack introduces Mac as [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap "Derek Smalls"]].
** On waking up chained in a bunker, Jack is reminded of ''Film/{{Saw}}''.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: The bunker is filled with references to Mac's disastrous first DXS mission, such as Sago worms which are an Indonesian delicacy.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Mac's unspoken reaction to some of Jack's Vegas plans.
-->'''Mac:''' You want us to ride a roller coaster after hitting ''eight'' buffets?\\
'''Jack:''' I like a challenge.
* YouWakeUpInARoom:
