MacGyver enlists a recluse nicknamed Earthquake to help find a person who is dumping toxic waste and polluting mountain streams, but his flashbacks to Vietnam may hinder his ability to be a credible witness.
As part of a Phoenix Foundation program to lower the drop-out rate, MacGyver tries to inspire a promising, but unmotivated, high school student, despite the negative efforts of a cynical teacher and the boy's skeptical father.
Although forensics proves that a third gun was fired the night Officer Tower was killed, a jury finds Hanson guilty of murder.
Two sisters pose as nuns to swindle unsuspecting townspeople.