MacGyver: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Resort + Desi + Riley + Window Cleaner + Witness
Dec 4, 2020
Mac and the team infiltrate a glamorous hotel used as an international hideout for criminals to find a woman with vital information on Codex. However, their target has a new secret
Thief + Painting + Auction + Viro-486 + Justice
Dec 11, 2020
When Taylor’s former protégé is killed while preventing a bio-weapon from falling into the wrong hands, Mac and the team must find the weapon so Desi can pull off the ultimate heis
Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma
Dec 18, 2020
When Russ is kidnapped, Mac and the team must break out a previously murderous psychopath, now pacifist, from prison to help find him. Also, while on the run, Mac and Desi are forc
Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason
Jan 8, 2021
Mac's meeting with Desi's parents goes sideways when her brother finds himself in trouble and desperately needs their help. Also, Russ and Matty must ask an old nemesis for assista
Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO
Jan 15, 2021
Using a cryptic postcard as their only clue, Mac and the team must solve a fallen friend’s final case and bring him justice.
Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance
Jan 22, 2021
During COVID-19’s first stay-at-home order, as Mac, Bozer and Riley quarantine together, they try to stop a crime in progress at their neighbor’s house. Also, Russ’ romantic fling
Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage
Feb 5, 2021
The secret experimental cancer treatment Mac’s developing with a friend is discovered when culprits ransack their lab, kidnap Mac’s partner and plan to use the research to create a
SOS + Hazmat + Ultrasound + Frequency + Malihini
Feb 12, 2021
Mac and team rush to help when Matty’s former mentor, Ian Cain, and his embassy staff come down with a deadly, mysterious illness. Taylor and Bozer work with Jerry Ortega to infilt
Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
Feb 19, 2021
When Mac and the team are unable to prevent Department of Defense intel from falling into Codex’s hands, Mac must scale a vertical cliff using only gear he can cobble together hims
Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower
Mar 5, 2021
While on a mission to hunt down a Codex lead, Mac and the team discover Murdoc hacked their comms and has recorded them for months. Now, Mac and the team must stop Murdoc, who is w
C8H7ClO + Nano-Trackers + Resistance + Maldives + Mind Games
Mar 26, 2021
Mac and Riley head overseas together to prevent a governmental collapse and inadvertently inhale new deadly microscopic technology.
Royalty + Marriage + Vivaah Sanskar + Zinc + Henna
Apr 2, 2021
Mac, Desi and Russ go undercover during a royal Indian wedding to protect a princess whose policies could put her life in danger. Also, Russ and Sophia come face-to-face at the wed
Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer
Apr 9, 2021
While Mac and the team delve into the world of Italian car culture in order to track down a crime boss-in-hiding, Mac must lean on Desi when he discovers that he losing the ability
H2O + Orthophosphates + Mission City + Corrosion + Origins
Apr 16, 2021
Mac and Desi travel with Bozer to his childhood home when his aunt dies in a tragic accident, however, they soon discover she may have been murdered for trying to expose the city’s
Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal
Apr 30, 2021
When Mac and Riley go missing and wake up 24 hours later in a corn field with no memory of how they got there, they must unravel the mystery to find who took them, and how to get r