MacGyver: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of MacGyver Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Improvise
Sep 28, 2018 · 42 min
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
Bravo Lead + Loyalty + Friendship
Oct 5, 2018 · 42 min
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 re
Bozer + Booze + Back to School
Oct 12, 2018 · 42 min
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. Als
Guts + Fuel + Hope
Oct 19, 2018 · 42 min
MacGyver and Riley, with the help of Vasil, 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
Dia de Muertos + Sicarios + Family
Oct 26, 2018 · 42 min
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 Di
Murdoc + MacGyver + Murdoc
Nov 2, 2018 · 42 min
Murdoc abducts MacGyver’s girlfriend, Nasha, to force Mac to help him rescue his son, Cassian, from a kidnapper. Also, a dangerous individual from Murdoc’s personal life shows up,
Scavengers + Hard Drive + Dragonfly
Nov 9, 2018 · 42 min
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. But when Matty refuses to reveal what’s on the dr
Revenge + Catacombs + Le Fantome
Nov 16, 2018 · 42 min
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 letha
Specimen 234 + PAPR + Outbreak
Nov 30, 2018 · 42 min
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
Dec 7, 2018 · 42 min
Matty reveals a shocking secret to the team: she has a husband who’s been undercover in a criminal organization called S-Company for eight years. When his status as a CIA agent com
Mac + Fallout + Jack
Jan 4, 2019 · 42 min
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
Jan 11, 2019 · 42 min
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 bom
Wilderness + Training + Survival
Jan 18, 2019 · 42 min
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
Father + Bride + Betrayal
Feb 1, 2019 · 42 min
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 wal
K9 + Smugglers + New Recruit
Feb 15, 2019 · 42 min
After a surprising introduction to Phoenix’s newest recruit, Desi, MacGyver and team are assigned to escort and protect an ATF (alcohol, tobacco, firearms) gun-sniffing dog who has
Lidar + Rogues + Duty
Feb 22, 2019 · 42 min
The Phoenix must recover the body of a pilot whose plane crashed while testing an experimental laser mapping system that MacGyver designed. Also, Riley tries to identify the hacker
Seeds + Permafrost + Feather
Mar 15, 2019 · 42 min
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
Apr 5, 2019 · 42 min
When Nicholas Helman 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
Apr 12, 2019 · 42 min
MacGyver and Desi help a group of Syrian refugees who are being pursued by human traffickers. Also, in Los Angeles, Bozer is trapped in Oversight’s car which is rigged to explode.
No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue
Apr 26, 2019 · 42 min
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
Treason + Heartbreak + Gum
May 3, 2019 · 42 min
Matty’s ex-husband, Ethan, 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 o
Mason + Cable + Choices
May 10, 2019 · 42 min
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 hund