THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Episode 2-07 [029]
10 November 1986
MacGyver and Pete travel to Southeast Asia to help evacuate an orphanage that is threatened by Chantara and his government troops. Unfortunately, Chantara storms the orphanage prematurely, thereby forcing Deborah Easton and Sister Margaret, who run the orphanage, into hiding underground with the children before help arrives. MacGyver suddenly meets up with Deborah in the underbrush, and she shows them the way to the tunnel, where they find Sister Margaret and the children. A rescue helicopter arrives and successfully lifts off with Pete, Sister Margaret, and the orphans. However, Deborah falls from the helicopter, so MacGyver jumps out after her. After the others land at a nearby refuge, the helicopter is sabotaged by double-dealing Arnaud. It must be repaired for the return rescue. Left behind, MacGyver and Deborah are captured and locked in the orphanage kitchen and must deal with their captors until they overcome them. They cannot get to the pickup site in time but send up a bamboo flare from the orphanage. The chopper picks them up after all.
Deborah: I've got to have time to think.
MacGyver: Don't think. Feel...
