THE HUMAN FACTOR
Episode 2-01 [023]
22 September 1986
On his first Phoenix assignment MacGyver and Pete are testing the security at S.T.R.A.D.A., the Strategic Research and Development Administration. Dr. Jill Ludlam, the system designer, challenges MacGyver to bypass the underground facility security system. He succeeds and arrives at Jill's lab. She then attempts to deactivate the security system, but the fifth-generation computer system "Sandy" doesn't realize that the exercise was a test. MacGyver and Jill are then forced to combat laser beams and robot drones as Sandy attempts to eliminate the "intruders". Using his ingenuity MacGyver shorts out Sandy, and he and Jill rush to the exhaust fan maintenance shaft hoping to find an escape there as oxygen is rapidly depleting. Outside the facility with the rest of the S.T.R.A.D.A. team Pete guesses correctly that MacGyver would try to exit through the shaft, so they shut down the exhaust system, thereby providing MacGyver and Jill an escape from the facility.
Jill: Why are you taking your pants off?
MacGyver: You got a better idea?
Jill: I'm still trying to figure out what yours is.
