Wilton Newberry, attorney at law.
Hold for a moment, please.
You may go in now, Mister MacGyver.
Mr. Newberry?
Hi. My name's MacGyver...
You might remember me from the reading of my grandfather's will?
Harry Jackson?
I'm supposed to be here at 7 a.m.
I'm a minute early.
So?
Your grandfather instructed me
not to conduct any business at hand until 7 a.m.
He said, "Mr. Newberry,
I have chosen you because of your adherence to detail."
I can see why.
Thank you. Please.
Now, Mr. MacGyver, I am in a panic.
I do not seem to have a record of your first name in the file.
Yeah, it's just MacGyver.
Isn't that wonderful?
You must save so much ink signing checks.
Signing ch...
The codicil to your grandfather's will,
which I'm supposed to give you at this
precise moment.
Dear bud,
if you're readin' this note, I guess I'm pushin' up daisies.
Well, at least I'm not payin' taxes.
There's somethin' very special that I want you to have.
You can pick it up at Mel's storage, 1420 Minton, before 10 a.m. today.
Love, Harry.
Any idea what this is about?
I was not privy to your grandfather's intentions,
nor did I pry. Why?
Because I am a professional.
The, uh, card in the envelope might give you a clue, however.
Uh, a guess.
"Bud, keep your eyes on the road,
and your hands on the wheel."
That's very cryptic.
Just keep your eyes on the road,
hands on the wheel.
You're doin' fine.
Just fine, bud.
Cody!
- Are you forgetting something? - Like what?
Your recipe book.
Keep it.
Well, gee, Cody, I know I'll never be as good a cook as you.
I know that.
But if I could come close.
You know, I just love the way you do your goulash
and your scalloped potatoes.
Oh, and your broccoli.
Uh, Tiny, you'll do fine.
- Dent. - Yeah, Big Mama.
Put your helmet on.
Whoa! Take it easy, Big Mama!
Yeah, MacGyver, your Grandpa Harry
made arrangements for everything.
- Arrangements? - Yeah.
Trailer to tow it, a slot in Speedy's garage,
and, oh, yes, this note.
Uh, I'm sorry about the coffee stains.
"Our larcenous friend slipped out of the noose,
take him to Robin,
the chicken's a wild goose."
Aha, aha, just what I thought.
- What? - Oh, that Harry is one clever fella,
I'll give you that.
Harry, Harry, Harry.
- So, what does it mean? - It beats me.
That's what I mean about Harry.
Anyway, here she is.
Mel, I called you last week,
- you said it was here! - It was.
Then where is it?
Try Speedy's garage.
- On Second Avenue. - I know, I know.
Garage. Second Avenue. Speedy's. Hurry.
Do it.
Excuse me?
Uh... Uh...
Oh, oh, I... I'm sorry, I just...
- MacGyver. - Yeah?
- Who are you? - Give you a hint.
Dealer's got a six up,
you're holding 12. Hit or stand pat?
Well, stand pat.
Cody?
Direct from the slammer to you.
Man, it's been, what?
Seventeen years, three months.
- Long time. - Two weeks, four days.
I wanted to pay my respects to Harry.
Of all my friends,
he was the only one who visited me on the inside.
I loved your grandpa.
Well, thanks, Cody, I appreciate that.
I appreciated him, too.
Anyhow, the Nomad lives on!
I feel... I feel good about that.
Yeah, she's a beauty, isn't she?
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, you didn't find anything unusual in the car, did you?
Unusual. Like what?
Nothing. Nothing.
I was just, uh... You know...
Forget it.
Cody,
you're up to something. You got that look.
MacGyver, I've known you since you were a kid.
How could you think such a thing?
Because I've known you since I was a kid.
Yeah, but don't forget, I'm a changed man.
I've been rehabilitated.
How's it run?
We're about to find out.
- Dent. - Big Mama.
What it is?
The man said Cody's looking for a '57 Nomad.
This dude named MacGyver is supposed to have it.
Check it out.
Think it's in the Nomad?
I do, Dent, I do.
Ditto.
All right, she's warm. Let's go. Hop in.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold it!
- What? - You're missing a radiator cap.
What?
I don't see it.
Oh. Oh, there's an auto supply right across the street.
All right. I'll be right back.
Harry, what are you... What are you up to anyway?
There's nothing here.
Looking for something, Cody?
Dent.
- Bonk him. - Bonk?
Bonk.
Hey! That's my car!
Too bad about your Nomad.
Car's a classic.
Sign right there at the bottom.
Thank you very much.
"Take your... Take your best friend's counsel,
then talk to the bird.
Go... Go to the Habit,
over on third."
You see? Thieves get a hold of one of these puppies and poof!
Stripped faster than you can say "black market."
Thank you very much.
Okay, partner. We're out of here.
So, are you hungry?
- Hungry? - Yeah, yeah. So am I.
- For some chicken. - Chicken?
Chicken, yeah.
How about the Chicken Habit on Third?
I've had a craving for one of their drumsticks for years.
Speedy, phone.
Sp...
- Hello? - You MacGyver?
Yeah, who's this?
Your Nomad's at 2211 Thatcher.
Bring Cody. He's the key.
And no cops.
All right, Cody, let's go. I got a lead on the Nomad.
- What about the chicken? - Later.
What was that?
Maybe I ought to stay here, hold down the fort.
Yeah, sure.
On second thought, you might need me inside.
- Anybody in there? - Shh!
Come on.
Can you teach me how to do that?
I don't think that's such a good idea.
Probably right.
There's a phone booth outside. Call the police.
What about my chicken?
Forget your chicken.
I don't have any change.
Just dial 911. It's free.
911. Got it.
Cody!
My toe!
My trike!
It's that MacGyver guy!
Freeze, dudes!
- You hurt? - Just my pride.
Better let me do the talking.
My trike!
Look at what you did to my trike!
Uh-oh.
You better do the talking.
We want the diamond pendant.
Diamond pendant?
I don't know anything about a diamond pendant.
Cody, I spent six years in the cell next to yours.
We're talking a million-dollar diamond pendant.
I never said anything about a diamond pendant.
You talk in your sleep.
Cody, we know it's in the Nomad.
The question is, where?
I got nothing to say.
Convince him.
Cody!
Hold it.
Cody.
The pendant's mine.
Law says finders keepers.
I did 17 years hard time for that piece of jewelry.
Go ahead, kill me. I ain't talking.
Cody.
What about your friend here?
Maybe I'll put a couple of holes in him.
- I'm sorry, MacGyver. - Cody!
Okay, okay.
Harry,
MacGyver's grandfather,
owned the Nomad.
He moved the diamond and left this note.
Give me that.
"Take your best friend's counsel,
then talk to the bird.
Go to the Habit, over on Third."
No wonder you wanted chicken so bad.
Yeah, and the one on Third has the big chicken
where you place the order.
Yeah! The bird on Third!
The pendant's in the chicken!
Sometimes the man is frightening.
Excuse me, ma'am?
You got what you want.
Why don't you let us out of here, huh?
After what you did to my trike?
Get real!
Dent.
Sorry this place is such a pit.
Ditto.
I'm so depressed.
I don't want to hear it.
When I pulled that jewelry store heist,
I was hired by the owner.
A guy named Biff Arnold.
I don't want to hear about it.
The deal was
that he was to collect the insurance money and keep all the jewels.
The diamond pendant was my payment for pulling the job.
I never told the cops about the jewels.
That's why they threw the book at me.
Can we discuss this some other time?
The insurance company went out of business,
and Biff Arnold was never paid.
I guess not.
- Why are you telling me this? - Because Big Mama was right.
Legally speaking, the pendant is finders keepers.
When I found out five years ago,
who do you think I called? Right.
My childhood buddy, Harry.
I told Harry.
When he found out about the heist, he was steamed.
Do you know I wanted to cut him in for half?
But no, he didn't want any part of it.
Started talking about the immorality of theft.
Yeah, well, Harry was right.
Yeah, yeah, tell me something. How could a million bucks be immoral?
Anyway,
at least Harry agreed to keep the pendant safe for me.
Then a year ago, he writes me,
he put the Nomad in storage.
So,
is the pendant still there when I go to get it?
Of course not.
He leaves some stupid riddle instead.
I was gonna open a restaurant with the money from the pendant.
I always dreamed that I would be truly appreciated for my culinary skills.
Harry always said you were a whiz in the kitchen.
I can give Wolfgang Puck a run for his money.
But now, Dent and Big Mama have
got the pendant,
and the world will never taste my eggplant parmesan.
Hey.
Hey, that's nice. Real nice.
All right, let's go. Use me as a step.
Hey!
- It's got a leak! - Well, hurry up!
Okay, here.
Keep adding pressure till I get out.
Let up for a second. It's getting too full.
Cody, let up.
- It's stuck! - Well, pull it out!
Sorry, I'm not very mechanical.
I'll try to remember that.
So, come on.
Let's get to the Chicken Habit.
Uh, I don't think the pendant is there.
- What do you mean? - Harry left me a note, too.
Come on, I'll explain on the way.
Ah! Radiator cap.
Right.
Hi. Welcome to Chicken Habit. Can I take your order?
Oh, yes.
I'd like six chicken nuggets,
and three corn on the cob.
Can you speak a little louder, sir?
I can't hear you.
Oh, okay. Quiet.
Quiet!
I'd like six chicken nuggets, and three corn on the cob.
Repair. Just go on with your order.
Oh. Okay.
Uh, we'd also like three colas and a root beer.
"Our larcenous friend slipped out of the noose."
Do you think Harry's talking about me?
Probably right.
"Take him to Robin.
"The chicken's a wild goose."
Robin's an old friend of Harry's and mine.
So what's he mean, "The chicken's a wild goose"?
Well, I think that was Harry's way of telling me
that the Chicken Habit was a wild goose chase.
Okay.
That all makes sense to me.
Except...
"Habit."
MacGyver! It's so good to see you!
Hi, Sister.
Uh...
Sister Robin, this is Bill Cody.
- She's wearing a habit. - I know that.
It's so nice to meet you, Mr. Cody.
Uh, same here, Sister.
Bill Cody, I know your name.
Buffalo Bill. I get it all the time.
No, from somewhere else.
Harry. He said you'd be coming here with MacGyver.
He left a package.
A package?
But before I give it to you,
Harry wanted us to have a meal together.
Meal? Why?
I don't know.
But when I read that note, I said to myself,
"Harry, what are you up to, anyway?"
- Did you figure it out? - No.
But, he was very insistent.
No meal, no package.
Uh, pardon me, but my manager wants to know
what you're doing to our chicken.
We're replacing it with a duck!
Where is that pendant?
Well, why don't you try Sister Robin's kitchen
just up the street.
What?
I didn't say anything.
I did.
Mr. Cody, this is quite possibly
the best soup I've ever had,
and I know, because my Stanley was a first-rate cook.
Oh, thank you.
Would you divulge a recipe to a harmless old lady?
To a harmless old lady? Not a chance.
But to you, I might consider it.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Cody.
Cody, I'm impressed. You can cook.
Mr. Cody, I am speechless.
Well, actually, not really, you know.
But you are simply wonderful.
Oh, that's very kind of you. Thank you.
And now I suppose you'd like the package.
Seventeen years I've waited for this.
"Bud, I'd teach Cody myself, except that I died,
your lesson at center,
four notes, side by side."
Isn't this a beautiful thing?
Okay, everybody, freeze!
Can't you ever wait? All right!
Hand it over. Now!
You heard the lady. Hand it over.
No.
Give it to him, Cody.
Have a nice life.
Ditto.
Cody,
they have got a gun.
So what? Without that pendant, life is worthless anyway.
That pendant is a piece of costume jewelry.
Costume jewelry? No way.
I had it appraised before I went to prison.
It was almost worth a million back then.
Not that pendant.
The diamond had a big scratch right down the middle of it.
It was glass.
Harry...
Harry must have, must have made a switch.
"I'd teach Cody myself, except that I died,
your lesson at center, four notes, side by side."
Four notes side by side.
Come on, what is this?
A hockey rink.
Why would Harry bring us here?
Hey, we made it.
Now your skates and stick are behind the back seat.
You coming or what?
Just a second.
Harry,
you never forgot a thing.
Come on, MacGyver, how is skating going to solve anything?
I don't know.
"I'd teach Cody myself,
except that I died,
your lesson at center."
My lesson at center.
...Cyclone Taylor Arena,
and the first period of sudden death overtime
to decide this Minnesota state Pee Wee Hockey Championship.
MacGyver, number 11 of the Wildcats
facing off against Steve Smith of the Eagles.
MacGyver wins the draw...
...a long pass up the middle! MacGyver gets the...
MacGyver scores!
Wins the State Championship in OT!
What a beautiful goal from MacGyver!
He took a super pass...
The Wildcats win this game,
one-nothing in sudden-death overtime.
You intentionally tripped that boy.
But we did it, Grandpa. We won!
You're no winner, bud.
The Wildcats are still celebrating
their dramatic win here at Taylor Arena.
MacGyver, the last man to leave the ice,
is skating over to Referee Boss Jones.
He's pointing to center ice.
I don't know what he said to the referee.
The referee going back to the timer's bench has disallowed the goal.
Unbelievable.
I've never seen anything like it!
They're taking the goal off the scoreboard.
Hey, Cody.
I think I figured it out.
The pendant's in the ice?
My lesson at center.
The one he wanted to teach you.
By slipping me a fake pendant?
Well,
in case you ran off with it before the meal, I guess.
Harry always saw something in you.
Something decent.
And he knew Sister Robin's kitchen was the perfect place to tap into it.
By having me make lunch?
Well, yeah.
Cooking is what you do best,
and it's what the people at the soup kitchen need most.
It was all a part of Harry's lesson.
That success isn't a matter of how much you've got,
it's how well you live.
Which is what?
I'm supposed to give my pendant to charity?
Well, as a matter of fact,
Sister Robin is losing her lease.
Hold it, hold it, wait a minute.
Sister Robin has gotten along just fine without me.
People have been eating her lousy food for decades.
All of a sudden they need me to stay in business?
It's not that sudden.
Harry knew about the lease coming due.
It was all part of his plan.
That's what he was up to.
That no-good schemer.
Why couldn't he have just died like everybody else?
No, not Harry. He's too stubborn.
Holy mackerel!
This is the real thing.
So what do you say?
Young man, you get your hands off of me!
Just let go of me right now!
Play it straight, or say goodbye to the penguin!
All right, take it easy, relax.
And this one better be real.
Our fence laughed at us.
Oh, this is real, all right.
Come on, let's go. Toss it over!
Okay.
Get him, MacGyver!
Give me that!
Are you all right?
Herr Cody and associates!
Welcome.
Perhaps you noticed my black van tracking your every move.
That was I.
The one behind the scenes.
The one who pitted each of you against the other,
so that I may step in at the end,
and annex mein just desserts.
You don't remember me, do you, Freinholtz?
No.
I am Herr Arnold.
I own this pendant
and I am reclaiming it.
Biff Arnold?
The owner of the jewelry store?
You weren't German.
Right.
Well, as you can see, the years have been very stressful for me.
Uh, Mr. Arnold,
that pendant is not yours.
Is that right, sonny?
Well, as you can see, I still have possession of it,
Don't I?
And possession's nine-tenths of the law, pilgrim.
Besides,
I earned it.
The old-fashioned way.
It all started when I was very young.
I said, "Daddy, Daddy, can I have some money,
"Daddy, please?"
Tarnation, boy!
I said get out in them fields
and shuck that cotton, and shovel out that mule pen.
And get yourself a haircut, you look like a sissy.
And so I did.
I wandered off into the world to build my own business.
A jewelry store.
Very respectable, but, I didn't have enough.
I wanted more. Do you hear me?
More, more, more!
And, now look at me.
A shadow of the man I once was.
I've waited years for this moment.
And now the pendant is mine.
Do you hear me? Mine! All mine!
Can I see it?
See it?
Uh, what do you mean, see it? I, I don't understand.
Look at it.
I want to look at your pendant.
Oh, sure, have a look.
But don't get any ideas.
I'm a crack shot.
Yeah. I know you are.
Notice the quality.
And the fine cut.
It's not the size that makes the gem, you know.
Stop that, sonny!
You're a pervert.
Mommy, Mommy, forgive me, Mommy.
Let's ask Daddy, Mommy.
I want some money, Mommy.
Hold on there, pilgrim.
- I told you to... - Is this how you remember him?
Nah, the years haven't been kind.
He's gone over the deep end.
...dang ballet classes again.
Yeah.
But Daddy, I gotta be me.
Hold it right there.
What?
The gun.
Give me the gun.
Sure.
Good. Now, stay put.
Someone will be here soon.
Stay put?
Yes, stay put.
Put my foot.
Call 911?
Put me down.
Putting. Ah, yes, yes. Tapioca pudding.
Definitely.
T-T-T-That's all, folks!
Cody, Cody!
Just listen to them.
Word got out that Cody's going to start cooking today.
You don't think he's changed his mind about paying off our lease?
Ah,
I think he just stopped off to deposit the check. He'll be here.
He's just late.
Yes, he'll be here.
Cody! Cody! Cody!
But he is awfully late.
What are you staring at? The shirt?
The suitcase?
What would you do if you had a million dollars?
All of a sudden, I was in back of a taxi on the way to the airport.
The cabbie turns on the radio, and do I hear music?
No, I hear Harry.
He says, "What are you up to, Cody?"
How can I deal with that?
Well, am I late?
I'd say you were just in time.
Your public awaits you.