Explosions are incredibly interesting... when you aren't about to be killed by one.
—Angus MacGyver
MacGyver must defuse a bomb in the U.N. set by his nemesis from his Army days, bombmaker The Ghost.
Tropes:
- Badass in Distress: Jack is stuck on a pressure plate attached to a bomb.Jack: I don't want to die in Queens. Please don't let me die in Queens, man.
- It's Personal: The Ghost killed Mac's mentor.
- Shout-Out:
- Mac's friend and old colleague Charlie Robinson is a character from the original series. This episode reuses an element in which Mac and Charlie realise the obvious bomb they're defusing disguises a much deadlier bomb.
- Jack's comment about a dream of being buried references the CSI two-parter "Grave Danger", in which George Eads' character Nick Stokes was buried alive.
Riley: How'd it end?
Jack: I died, that's how it ended! - Where There's a Will, There's a Sticky Note: Trapped on a bomb and convinced he's about to die, Jack starts dividing up his stuff.Jack: My Shelby Cobra. If something goes wrong, I go boom boom, I want you to have it.
Riley: No, Jack. We are not talking like that... Did you say "Shelby Cobra?"
