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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Mac breaks his ankle while abducted.
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->"Immersive training is the best training."
->--'''[=MacGyver=]'''

Mac, Riley and Bozer's weekend of wilderness survival training takes a turn when bank robbers encounter the team on a search for their stashed money. With Mac taken prisoner, the others must figure out how to save him.

Meanwhile, Matty and Jack take Ethan's family into witness protection.

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Mac breaks his ankle while abducted.
* ChekhovsGun: One of Mac's early survival tips is to avoid burning poison oak as it does bad things to the lungs. Later, Bozer uses this information against the kidnappers.
-->'''Mac:''' Good job, Bozer. You officially know what poison oak looks like.
* HowWeGotHere: The episode opens with Riley and Bozer hearing a gunshot in the woods and saying it's "got to be Mac!" Then it jumps back to the group arriving in the woods for their training.
* ShoutOut:
** Shares similar themes with the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "The Survivors".
** Bozer is discouraged when one of the gang produces a banjo.
-->'''Bozer:''' He's got a banjo. [[Film/{{Deliverance}} I've seen this movie.]] [[BlackDudeDiesFirst I die first.]]
* SpottingTheThread: Bozer and Riley find a cigarette butt they recognise from a campfire they found earlier, and a footprint that isn't Mac's, and realise Mac's been abducted.
-->'''Bozer:''' So that smoker was watching us while we were sleeping, and now Mac suddenly vanished?\\
'''Riley:''' I'm getting a really bad feeling.
* TooDumbToLive: Getting a guide to help you navigate the woods you need to search is smart. Kidnapping a guide, thus making it clear you're up to no good and will presumably kill him when you're done so he has no reason to help you, is this trope.

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