Titled: “Cigar Cutter”
CBS’ MacGyver wrapped its freshman run on Friday night with a finale that served up few MacGyverisms yet delivered some dramatic stakes for a character who pulled the trigger on their first kill.
The larger overall schism somehow felt “small” to me, as a locked-up Murdoc (the always-compelling David Dastmalchian) sent a well-tutored prison pal (played by Mark Sheppard, of course) to don a latex mask and infiltrate the Phoenix complex. As the team members initially split up, and with the building’s grid hacked, the idea perhaps was to ask, “What if Jack didn’t have Mac? What if Riley didn’t have computer access?” But I was frankly distracted by Bozer’s plight, seeing as how he got pretty badly stabbed by “Dr. Zito” — a callback to the original series, yet was never tended to by anything close to a medical expert. And yet after 40 minutes of lying supine, merely clutching his wound, he didn’t pass out (or worse) but instead had the strength to get to his feet and walk down the hall to trigger the sprinklers (and thus melt the baddie’s mask, which you knew was going to be stolen the minute Bozer showed it off/mentioned its one liability. #ChekhovsProsthetic)….
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