MacGyver! Here it is!
- Yeah, it checks out. - Okay. Thank you.
The new dialysis machine.
Yeah, see? I told you not to worry, doc.
Yeah, I should have known.
The Phoenix Foundation has never let me down before.
Yup, yup, yup, yup, now, now, now, now.
Mr. Colton.
Take care of that, will you?
- Hey, Jesse. - Hey.
How was the flight?
Flying coach and eating off of my lap for 17 hours
ain't no day at the beach.
Jesse Colton, I want you to meet Dr. Sumlee Triwai.
Are you the doctor that's been treating my lady?
- Yes. - How is she?
I'm sorry, Mr. Colton.
Wanda Tran was very ill for a long time
before Mr. MacGyver found her and brought her to the clinic.
She died late yesterday afternoon.
Your plane was already in the air.
There was no way to let you know.
Damn.
It's been 15 years since they pulled my unit out of Nam.
I had to leave her behind.
I've been searching all these years.
Why should I suddenly get lucky now?
I'm sorry, Jesse.
Uh, there's something else.
You have a son.
A son?
A 15-year-old boy named Willie.
You're telling me this kid is 15 years old?
Well, like I told you, man, that's about how long I've been out of Nam.
For 15 years.
So?
So she had a kid.
That doesn't necessarily make me daddy warbucks.
Hey, man, she could have met somebody else.
Jesse,
she told me Willie is your kid.
It was a lousy war.
Screwed everybody up.
Hey, shut him up, will you?
Come on, Gus, come on.
Hustle, throw it in there. Come on, that's it. All right.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Hey, now, hold the phone. Now, wait a minute here.
Now, you're not taking off without a little bit of profit
to show for all our work, are you?
Now you go on back there and get your hands full.
Go on, or I'll feed you to the sharks, you little slime.
Come on, let's go!
That's the way it's done, my boy. That's the way.
- Is that it? - Yeah.
We're out of here. Let's go!
All right, go!
There you go, Suzie. It's a work of art.
Just in time.
The old one broke down yesterday.
Am I going to be attached to it all the time?
Not all the time, Suzie.
Just for a three hour treatment every other day.
And when I get to America,
and you give me that new kidney you promised me,
MacGyver,
will I be able to play,
and go to school,
And do all the things I used to do?
Yeah.
That's right.
Ta-da!
That's what happens when you eat too much.
Nothing here, nothing there.
Whoa! Is something in there? Let me see.
Whoa!
Look at that!
Look at this!
That's it, folks.
That's all I know is three tricks, and you've seen 'em all.
Bye!
Have you ever considered giving up bounty hunting
and going on the stage?
Once. When this, uh, dude I was tracking
threw me out a sixth floor window.
All right.
So, the Phoenix Foundation is gonna fly the sick kids
to America for treatment?
No, just Suzie and the five emergency cases in here.
As soon as the visas come through.
Well, this ain't the Middle Ages, folks.
They can get those kind of operations here
as well as anywhere else.
Not Amerasians, Mr. Colton.
They are very low-priority when it comes to expensive,
lifesaving operations.
Half-Asian, half-American, they are treated as outcasts.
They have nowhere else to turn, except to private institutions
like the Phoenix Foundation and other charities.
What about the others? The, uh, kids in the street?
Good question.
May the Lord receive her into His peace,
and raise up her body on the last day.
Amen.
I will keep my promise to you.
I will put a headstone on your grave,
like all the rich people have.
I swear it, mama.
Willie?
This is Jesse Colton.
While my mother was in the bed
waiting for God to take her to heaven,
she told me my father was coming to Bangkok.
Are you my father?
I can see in your face that you are my father.
Can you not see in my face that I am your son?
Go easy on me, boy.
I never knew about you.
This is kind of scary.
Then you are my father?
I guess so.
You slime!
Willie?
Well, I'll be a son of...
That kid stole my wallet!
Willie!
Oh, forget it!
Forget it, man, forget it. Let him go.
I guess it's plain he didn't wanna have anything to do with me, huh?
He didn't get very much.
My mama taught me
never to keep a picture of Andrew Jackson in your wallet.
Now, you come back soon, folks.
Bring your money, all right?
Come in, sir. Come right this way, pal.
Okay, got some great deals for you. Step right up.
See that man right there. He'll take good care of you.
Whatever you need, we got.
Whatever you don't, we've got that, too.
Heck, we've got it all.
Come right over here, sir.
Yes, sir, I got some great deals for you.
Oh, step this way, ma'am. You'll like it, too.
Then we're gonna talk cash discount, all right?
Where else can you find merchandise like this at such bargain prices?
It's a steal, folks, I tell you, a steal.
Now, go in there and take a look around.
We got a lot more stuff, sir.
Ringe, show these people what we got.
Typewriters, tapes, videos, you name it.
You like that motorcycle, kid?
You got the money, you got it. We got lots more to look at.
Socks, we got acrylic, nylon, all kinds of socks up there.
More sneakers, more... You like those ties, ma'am?
Your husband would look great in those.
We got more sandals, too.
Ringe, I told you to keep these tapes neat!
- Skinner. - You looking for a meal, kid?
The garbage pails are out on the pier.
A friend told me that you sell things. And that you buy things also.
- Yes, that's right. Get on with it. - I found this on the street.
You found it? Sure you did, kid.
So what happened to the money?
There was none. Only the cards.
They say credit cards are worth money.
"Jesse Colton."
Seems this Colton person had some connection with the Phoenix clinic.
- That mean anything to you? - No.
How much will you give for it?
Ordinarily, not much.
But you're lucky, my boy. 200 baht.
Maybe even five.
500?
Sure, kid, sure.
But it's not that easy.
Something you got to do first.
Hi, MacGyver. Look at me.
I'm flying.
Yeah, it's a piece of cake, huh?
It's fantastic. Look at how good she looks.
You're going to be all right, Suzie.
Of course I am,
With you and MacGyver to look after me.
Yep, see? That's what friends are for.
We have a problem with the embassy, MacGyver.
What, the kids' visas again?
Yes. They still haven't issued them.
If we don't have them by at least noon tomorrow,
you'll have to postpone the flight again.
These kids are sick, and they're getting sicker.
Don't those people understand that?
Baan jar, number 10, Poi Dang Road.
Yeah, got it.
Any other stonecutters in the area?
Thanks.
Hey, I didn't think you were interested in tracking Willie down.
It's not the kid, it's the credit cards.
You know what a hassle it is trying to get new ones?
Oh, yeah, sure.
So what'd you come up with?
Five headstone cutters I gotta check out.
Wanna come along?
- If you're not busy. - Yeah, sure.
Just got a quick stop to make along the way.
Look, MacGyver, you have to understand.
The Thai government isn't very sympathetic to your Amerasians.
They're your Amerasians, too, Rog.
The point is, there are some in the government
who don't like the idea of being shown up by the Phoenix Foundation.
You wanna spell that out for me?
It's simple enough, isn't it?
Flying those kids back to the States for medical procedures
is a form of charity.
There are those who feel that charity begins at home,
And don't want the government embarrassed in the eyes of the world.
They say they'll look after it themselves.
Yeah, sure. Six months, a year, whenever they get around to it.
These kids don't have that much time.
I'm sorry. My hands are tied.
Well, okay.
Then I guess we'll have to spring this story
to the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek...
Shh.
It's a good idea, slick.
You never know what a little publicity like that'll do.
It'd get me called up before a congressional committee,
that's what it would do.
Oh! Darn.
All right. I'll see what I can do.
When?
Give me a week.
Tomorrow, Rog.
Tomorrow noon, 6 visas.
Make that 7 visas.
The extra one's for a boy named Willie Tran.
Can you remember that name, Rog?
Thanks, Rog.
Thank you very much!
Like I told you, my boy, honesty is the best policy.
I'll be waiting around back.
Well, hello, Willie. How can I help you?
This belongs to the man who calls himself my father.
Mr. Colton?
I found it. Now I want to give it back.
Well, he's out with Mr. MacGyver just now.
I expect they'll be back soon. Do you want to leave it?
No. I'll wait.
All right. Make yourself comfortable.
Bingo.
Stonecutter said Willie was here a couple of hours ago.
He ordered a stone.
Any idea where he went?
No. Just that he was going to get the money for it and come back.
Willie.
Willie!
Hi, Suzie.
I've been wanting to see you.
I'm so sorry about your mother.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
I... I see you got the new machine.
Yes. Just in time.
The old one stopped working.
Real complicated-looking thing, isn't it?
How does it work?
I don't know.
But it keeps me alive.
- Wow. - Yes.
I would die without it.
Why do you ask?
Are you gonna be a doctor someday?
Maybe.
A boy like you...
Yes, I believe you can.
Oh, yeah.
All right, come on, you little monsters, let's clear it out.
What did I tell you about honesty, my boy?
It works every time.
Come on, get out of here.
Hustle!
Listen to me, I don't want anything damaged, all right?
If it says "fragile," it means don't break it.
Take everything. Everything.
Take the dust off the walls!
Get this one out of here.
3, 4, 500 baht.
You join our little group, my lad, and that is just the beginning.
Mr. Skinner, no, they mustn't take that machine.
Get serious, kid. Everything goes.
- No, not that! - What are you doing?
Let go of it!
Leave off, you little sewer rat!
Come on, let's get the rest of this stuff.
Yes. Mr. Colton?
Yes, at the clinic. Thank you.
You're a very lucky man, Mr. Colton.
Very few people lose their wallet and get it back.
What are you talking about, doc?
Willie. He found it somewhere, and came to give it back.
He's here? Where?
Wandering around.
Dr. Triwai! Strange people, Dr. Triwai.
What people, Ko Lin?
In the back. Strange people.
I'll check it out. Come on.
I'm gonna dig up Willie.
Where'd you see 'em?
They have a truck parked near the back.
Why don't you go get in the truck?
We got ourselves a good haul today, huh?
I'll just clean off this bottom shelf.
You never know what's stashed away in these places.
Go on, go! Go, go, go!
- What happened? - They cleaned out the joint.
It's Willie!
All right. Thanks, Pete.
What did Mr. Thornton say?
Is the foundation going to replace the dialysis machine?
Yeah. The problem is, it'll take four or five days to get here.
Suzie can't wait that long, MacGyver.
If she misses a treatment, it could be fatal.
I'll try the other hospitals again.
Come on, boy, talk to me.
Why didn't you just tell me you needed money for a tombstone?
I would've given it to you. You didn't have to steal my wallet.
How you doing, Willie?
Man.
He is one stubborn kid.
Look,
I'm not putting you on.
How much is that stone gonna cost?
Come on, how much?
I don't need your money.
Man!
He must be my kid, all right! He's got a lot of dumb pride!
Why won't you let me help you?
Because I hate you.
You show me this money,
you think it's going to make you my father?
Where were you when I needed a father?
Hey, Willie, that's not quite fair.
He didn't even know about you until he got here this morning.
But he knew about my mother.
Where were you all those years she worked day and night
just to put food on the table?
I loved your mother.
Many years ago, when they pulled me out of Saigon,
I told your mother that I was gonna come back for her.
When I did, she was gone.
To Cambodia, Thailand...
There were all kinds of rumors.
But I never stopped looking for her.
I show you my money.
I will buy a stone for my mother with my money.
I will do this without the help of a father who was never my father.
Where did you get all that?
It's none of your business.
Hey, Willie.
Come here.
You see, Willie, the thing that's got me puzzled
Is that door.
Since you're the only eyewitness,
maybe you can tell me how the thieves might have gotten in
without breaking the lock, hmm?
I don't know. They were already in.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that it was an inside job.
Does that make sense to you, Willie?
That somebody from the inside opened the door for 'em?
Who?
Hey, Willie!
I don't see him anywhere.
This crowd of people swallowed him up.
Forget it, man. He's gone. Long gone.
What about Suzie?
She gonna be able to make it without that machine?
The only way she's gonna make it is if we get that machine back.
Yeah, how are we gonna do that? We don't even know who ripped it off.
Willie knows.
Yeah, but we gotta find him first.
Out in these streets, that could take forever.
We don't have forever.
Well, then you got to fix the old dialysis machine, don't you?
Jesse, if it was in the least bit fixable, I would.
You're the man! You can do it.
While you're working on it, I'll call an old army buddy of mine.
Maybe he can give us a lead on who fences hot property around here.
I don't know, Jesse, it looks pretty hopeless.
Come on, man, you can fix anything.
Yeah, sure. No problem.
George, Jesse Colton here.
Hey, buddy, how are you?
Yeah, I'm in Bangkok.
Listen, um, I need you to do me a favor.
I'm looking for some local creep
who knocked over a bunch of medical supplies at a friend of mine's clinic.
Yeah.
He uses kids to do his dirty work.
Any progress?
Well, the pump that circulates the rinsing liquid is pretty much shot.
I can get it to circulate, but not perfectly.
Any irregularity or turbulence in the blood flow
could cause clotting.
Got it fixed, slick?
No, I don't have it fixed!
There are some things in this world that can't be fixed,
and this happens to be one of 'em.
And we don't need a seat-of-the-pants patch job.
What we need is the new dialysis machine.
Can't risk Suzie's life on this thing.
MacGyver,
am I gonna die now?
Jesse Colton, call on line 1.
Excuse me.
No, baby, you're not gonna die.
You think if you lie, I'll feel better?
No.
I think I'm gonna find that machine and get you back on it.
Hey, I appreciate it, baby.
It's my army contact.
He gave me a lead on a guy named Skinner.
Says he loves to gamble.
That's p-pathetic!
Hit the sucker, don't blow him a kiss!
Kind of place that sticks to the bottom of your shoes.
Watch where you're stepping, then.
Yeah.
This is like coming home.
You've been here before?
No, not this joint. But the good ones are all alike, aren't they?
That's him.
How do you know it's him?
My man told me he was about six feet,
curly hair, mean, wears a red bandanna.
Slightly pale.
Works for me.
So what do you think?
He's a businessman.
Let's do some business.
- Yeah! Hit him! - Go on up there.
The nest of the eagle is empty, man.
- What? - What do you mean, "what"?
What does he mean, "what"?
The nest of the eagle is empty.
Look, pal, I have got a lot of bread on this fight.
Now get away from me or I'll punch your heart out.
Hey.
He doesn't know the password.
This ain't Frank Skinner, man.
I'm Skinner, all right? I am Skinner.
Now, who the hell are you guys?
Colonel Mugwana. This is Major Bright.
We were told we had to do this password bit
in order to do business with you.
This creep in Manila was putting us on about the password, man.
Wait a minute, what kind of business?
The revolution business.
The major and me are running a little war on the island of Mindoro.
That's a little south of Manila.
I know where it is.
See, the thing is,
we need more guns, more ammunition,
and everything.
We were told you were the guy that could handle it.
Yeah, I can handle it, if you've got the money.
Does the sun rise in the east?
We've gotta see the merchandise first, though.
All right, you got it.
I'll get right on it.
As soon as this fight's finished.
Come on, hit him!
Uh-oh.
What "uh-oh"? What?
Uh-oh, you'll see.
- It's him. - What?
It's the one from the clinic.
What are you saying?
He's the one who came running into the alley
when we were driving away.
Let the games begin.
Let's get out of here.
They're splitting!
Whatever you want, man.
Morning, Willie. Hold it.
I just wanna talk.
About what?
Frank Skinner. Where do I find him?
I don't know anybody by that name.
I think you do.
Your dad took off after him yesterday afternoon.
He hasn't been seen since.
So, who cares?
Willie, we know you let Skinner into the clinic.
Hey, come on!
Your dad's not the only one in trouble here.
Suzie's life is at stake, too.
She needs that dialysis machine.
Now, come on!
Where do I find Skinner?
All right.
I will show you where to find Skinner,
but not for that man who says he's my father.
For Suzie.
Okay. For Suzie.
There it is.
All right. Wait here, Willie.
The one from the bar yesterday.
You come looking for more trouble?
Huh?
No. Not really.
Not really.
You're gonna die, pal.
You go that way.
Don't make me hurt you.
If this boy means anything to you, come out!
If you don't, I'll blow him away!
You hear me?
Come on.
It's a big ocean out there with a lot of hungry fish waiting for you.
Could start a feeding frenzy.
Arrange for a boat to pick 'em up. I want them gone, out of here.
Got it.
The cavalry's come for me. How about that?
- You feel as bad as you look? - Oh, man, I've had better days.
Yeah, you had me worried.
Hey, thanks for trying to give me a hand, Willie.
I was helping MacGyver for Suzie, not you.
I have to give it to you, kid. You are consistent.
So what do you think?
Stay here and keep an eye on 'em. Come on.
I think we need a plan.
Here, use that to blow the lock.
Chloroform?
How's an anesthetic gonna do that?
We'll put fire to it. It'll blow, believe me.
What do I do for a fuse?
Soak something in alcohol.
A shoelace.
Yeah, good.
- What about the guard? - I'm working on that.
Hey, Willie.
I wanna make my peace with you
in case we don't get out of here with all of our bones.
I have nothing to say.
Well, I do.
All I'm asking for is you to listen to what I have to say.
Talk is cheap and you got lots of it.
Look, kid,
I know you haven't had an easy time of it.
We live in a world where most people don't have it easy.
You rich Americans, what do you know about it? You have everything.
Not all of us are rich, Willie.
We don't all live in... in fine houses, and... and drive big cars,
and eat three steaks a day.
In fact, a lot of us live from hand to mouth,
just like some of the people in this country.
Words. You speak words, and the words say nothing.
I've heard too many promises already in my life.
You're not the only one who's an outcast in his own country.
I've been there.
In fact, in some ways, I'm still there.
Hey, I don't blame you for being angry.
But you've got to learn to overcome it.
Anger only gets in your way
when you're trying to make important decisions
that's gonna affect you the rest of your life.
My mother.
She spoke of you many times.
"Someday he will come back for us," she said.
Only someday came too late for my mother.
God, I wish it could have been different.
Hey, guys, sorry to break this up,
but I think it's time we bust out of here.
Go to work. Willie, give me a hand.
Stay down.
- I'll call you back. - Hurry. Come on.
Lighter.
Get the key.
Get the key!
You did soak it in alcohol, didn't you?
Yeah, I soaked it.
Willie?
How's the machine?
It's okay, it's not hurt.
Suzie's gonna be fine, isn't she?
Yeah.
She'll be just fine.
Well, come on, Jesse. You gotta at least ask him.
Man, bounty hunting is nothing compared to this.
MacGyver's, uh,
got some visas to fly the sick kids to America for medical treatment.
I'm going... I'm going with them.
Um, listen, uh,
he also managed to work an extra visa out of the embassy.
You think you might want to come along?
I don't know what kind of father I'd be. I...
Well, I never thought about it.
But I'm willing to give it a try if...
What should I do, Mama?
Couldn't pull it off, slick.
Goodbye, Mama.
You sure?