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Every Time She Smiles
Season 1, Episode 16
Every Time She Smiles
Airdate 19th February 1986
Written by James Schmerer
Directed by Charles Correll
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Every Time She Smiles is the 16th episode of Season 1 in the original version of MacGyver.

Summary[]

MacGyver is on his way out of Bulgaria with a secret microfilm, when he meets Penny Parker, a beautiful, talkative American, who is on the run from her lover, a man named Stephan Frolov. She stashes some jewels on MacGyver, thus making him a suspect, and now MacGyver and Penny must flee Bulgaria together.

Opening Gambit[]

There is no opening gambit for this episode.

Act One[]

  • Mac is on vacation in Bulgaria, but has to complete one task first. He finds a man playing chess, they begin speaking in code and Mac plants a piece of film on a postcard and seals it over with a stamp.
  • At the airport, he runs into Penny Parker, who begins talking his ear off.
  • She sees her boyfriend, Stephan, arrive with armed men and plants the jewelry Stephan gave her on MacGyver. Stephan tells her he needs the jewelry back, but Penny insists that since he gave it to her it should be hers.
  • Mac is stopped at the metal detector and they find the jewelry in his bag. Realizing he can't hope to convince them he wasn't collaborating with Penny, Mac hits the guard with his bag and takes off running through the airport. He is stopped at the ladies' room and taken into custody along with Penny.
  • Mac and Penny bicker at each other while handcuffed.  Mac figures that Penny is hiding something from him.  Mac tries to figure out how to get out.  He listens through the wall and hears something. Grabbing a coat rack, he busts a hole in the wall and sees a conveyor belt, but can't break through the chicken wire inside the wall.
  • Mac and Penny bend coat hangers into a figure 8, tie it to a chair, and hook the end of the hanger to the belt, which pulls the chair through the wall.
  • They escape and go on the run.

Act Two[]

  • Stephan meets with his uncle, a government big wig, and says that the jewels that were given away belonged to Stephan's mother, which were priceless.
  • The uncle explains that the microfilm is missing has evidence that he's been stealing money from the government for years and that he must retrieve the microfilm or face severe consequences.
  • MacGyver and Penny meet up with Burak, the chess player from earlier, who is an underground agent and tells them that the militia is after MacGyver.
  • He and Penny leave only to immediately be found by the militia and Stephan.  Mac and Penny run onto the merry-go-round from earlier. MacGyver turns the speed up as fast as he can get it, eventually causing the merry-go-round to fry and send the militia flying off.
  • Mac and Penny have dinner. Mac reasons that Stephan is probably keeping the things in his apartment. He leaves Penny and heads out to break in.
  • The uncle is torturing Burak on the whereabouts of the microfilm.  They threaten harm on his family.  He eventually gives up the information, and Penny’s name. Stefan is sent back to his apartment to get the microfilm and kill MacGyver.

Act Three[]

  • Mac breaks into Stephan's apartment and finds his postcard. Penny joins him; she ran from the restaurant as it was filling up with guards and was allowed in through the front door.
  • Stephan shows up. To escape, Mac creates a diversion. He unhooks the gas line from the stove, and points the gas out the window. He places rat poison, 4 cups of soap flakes and tile cleaner in a pan in the sink. Then, using a healthy layer of lard, newspaper, and oven cleaner, he places the pan under the flow of natural gas.
  • The poison, soap flakes and tile cleaner bubble up, which triggers a flame out sending a fireball out the window. Mac knocks Stephan out, and tells Penny to get changed so they can leave. Penny changes into a negligee, and they escape.

Act Four[]

  • Stephan, in trying to find them, says that based on the gas left in his car, which they stole, they shouldn’t get far.
  • When MacGyver mentions they are running low on gas and cannot risk going to a gas station due to their fugitive status, Penny tells him that there is a gas can at Stephan's uncle's house.
  • Stefan arrives. He accuses Penny of being a spy, thinking she was working with MacGyver from the beginning and got close to him in order to get the jewels. Penny denies this and rebukes him for aiding in government corruption. Then his uncle shows up and MacGyver gives up the microfilm.
  • The uncle tells Stephan to kill them now, because they know too much.
  • Stefan decides that he believes Penny about her being involved only by circumstance and betrays his uncle, overpowering him with MacGyver. MacGyver, Penny and Stephan run, and the uncle and the militia give chase.
  • The militia's car is faster than Stephan's, so they cannot outrun them. Partway down the road, Mac climbs out of the sunroof of the car, and onto the hood, jumping onto the truck in front of him. He essentially creates an oil slick on the road, thus causing an explosion, rendering the militia and uncle useless.
  • They cross the border to Greece, and run into a border patrol. The guard asks for their passports, and they don't have them. Penny recognizes Constantine, the border guard. They hug, and Mac smiles.

MacGyverisms[]

  • A chair is tied to a conveyor belt and is used to break through a wall.
  • MacGyver creates explosives with various household cleaners.

Trivia[]

  • Per MacGyver's passport, it states that his birthday is January 23, 1951. Richard Dean Anderson's birthday is January 23, 1950. MacGyver is one year younger than his real life counterpart.
  • This is Teri Hatcher's first of six appearances throughout the series.

Cast[]

Main CastRecurring CastOthers
  • Kai Wulff as Stephan Frolov
  • Michael Fox as Burak
  • Milos Kirek as Petrovich
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