Season 3

Episode Guide

Improvise

S3 E1
Sep 29, 2018
Three months after quitting the Phoenix Foundation and moving to Nigeria, Mac puts aside his differences with his father and returns when he hears Jack is the target of a murderous dictator he double-crossed.

Bravo Lead + Loyalty + Friendship

S3 E2
Oct 6, 2018
When Jack receives an emergency distress signal from one of his old Delta buddies who is falsely accused of terrorism in a foreign country, MacGyver and Jack quickly recruit the rest of Jack's old Delta team and stage an unsanctioned rescue op.

Bozer + Booze + Back to School

S3 E3
Oct 13, 2018
MacGyver, Riley, Bozer and Leanna go undercover on a college campus to smoke out a deep-cover operative who is recruiting students to carry out deadly attacks around the world.

Guts + Fuel + Hope

S3 E4
Oct 20, 2018
MacGyver and Riley, with the help of Vasil (C. Thomas Howell), a distraught father, must find a way to drive a tanker filled with liquid oxygen through a region occupied by rebels and deliver it to a children's hospital before they run out.

Dia de Muertos + Sicarios + Family

S3 E5
Oct 27, 2018
When Oversight's attempt to capture a drug cartel's leader goes bad, MacGyver and Jack rush to Mexico to pull their boss out while racing through the heart of the country during Dia de Muertos celebrations.

Murdoc + MacGyver + Murdoc

S3 E6
Nov 3, 2018
Murdoc abducts MacGyver's girlfriend, Nasha (Sibongile Mlambo), to force Mac to help him rescue his son, Cassian (Brady Bond), from a kidnapper.

Scavengers + Hard Drive + Dragonfly

S3 E7
Nov 10, 2018
Matty sends MacGyver and team to Ghana to recover a hard drive from an e-waste landfill that is run by a powerful and violent man.

Revenge + Catacombs + Le Fantome

S3 E8
Nov 17, 2018
MacGyver and the team set off on a dangerous capture operation after an Irish military intelligence officer approaches them claiming to know the whereabouts of 'The Ghost,' a lethal bomb maker whom Mac has been hunting for years.

Specimen 234 + PAPR + Outbreak

S3 E9
Dec 1, 2018
When a vial containing a deadly virus is stolen from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, MacGvyer and team race to recover it before the thief unleashes a global pandemic.

Matty + Ethan + Fidelity

S3 E10
Dec 8, 2018
Matty reveals a shocking secret to the team: she has a husband who's been undercover in a criminal organization called D-Company for eight years.

Mac + Fallout + Jack

S3 E11
Jan 5, 2019
Mac and Jack hit the road for a weekend of relaxation in Las Vegas, but their mini-vacation is cut short when someone from their past abducts them and locks them in a concrete room.

Fence + Suitcase + Americium-241

S3 E12
Jan 12, 2019
The Phoenix teams up with a woman who's a soccer mom by day but a master thief by night to catch one of her contacts, an underworld criminal, who has hired her to steal a dirty bomb.

Wilderness + Training + Survival

S3 E13
Jan 19, 2019
When MacGyver takes Riley and Bozer into the wilderness for a weekend of survival training, things take a turn when they run into a violent group of criminals who are searching the rugged backcountry for a lost crate of money.

Father + Bride + Betrayal

S3 E14
Feb 2, 2019
An international crime boss offers Matty a deal she can't refuse - he'll surrender himself into her custody if he's allowed to return to the United States to watch his daughter walk down the aisle.

K9 + Smugglers + New Recruit

S3 E15
Feb 16, 2019
After a surprising introduction to Phoenix's newest recruit, Desi (Levy Tran), MacGyver and team are assigned to escort and protect an ATF (alcohol, tobacco, firearms) gun-sniffing dog who has a bounty on his head, only to discover they're not the only ones crashing the weapon drop.

Lidar + Rogues + Duty

S3 E16
Feb 23, 2019
The Phoenix must recover the body of a pilot whose plane crashed while testing an experimental laser mapping system that MacGyver designed.

Seeds + Permafrost + Feather

S3 E17
Mar 16, 2019
MacGyver and team are asked to solve a locked-door mystery when a man working inside a remote, ultra-secure international seed vault disappears.

Murdoc + Helman + Hit

S3 E18
Apr 6, 2019
When Nicholas Helman (Michael Des Barres) resurfaces to carry out a killing spree, the Phoenix is forced to get help from the one person who knows him best... his protégé, Murdoc.

Friends + Enemies + Border

S3 E19
Apr 13, 2019
MacGyver and Desi help a group of Syrian refugees who are being pursued by human traffickers.

No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue

S3 E20
Apr 27, 2019
When two American tourists go missing while doing a 'No-Go Scavenger Hunt' through some of the world's most dangerous countries, the Phoenix team goes undercover as backpackers to find them and bring them home alive.

Treason + Heartbreak + Gum

S3 E21
May 4, 2019
Matty's ex-husband, Ethan (Brendan Hines), asks her for help when a criminal organization, S-Company, kidnaps his wife and daughter, forcing Matty to decide if she's willing to commit treason in order to help him save his family.

Mason + Cable + Choices

S3 E22
May 11, 2019
MacGyver faces off with a cunning new adversary whose carefully crafted plans put Mac at the epicenter of an impossible choice: save the life of a friend, or save the lives of hundreds of innocents.