The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 5

#1 Fan Favorite
7.7/10(607 votes)
#1 - Resort + Desi + Riley + Window Cleaner + Witness
S5:E112/4/2020
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 identity, including a completely new face.
Director:Avi Youabian
Writer:Stephanie Hicks
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Director:Avi Youabian
Writer:Stephanie Hicks
7.8/10(606 votes)
#2 - Thief + Painting + Auction + Viro-486 + Justice
S5:E212/11/2020
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 heist before it’s sold to a terrorist cell.
Director:Duane Clark
Writers:Peter M. Lenkov, Andrew Klein
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Director:Duane Clark
Writers:Peter M. Lenkov, Andrew Klein
7.5/10(622 votes)
#3 - Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma
S5:E312/18/2020
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 forced to confront their relationship issues.
Director:David Straiton
Writers:Jim Adler, Stephanie Hicks
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Director:David Straiton
Writers:Jim Adler, Stephanie Hicks
8.0/10(629 votes)
#4 - Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason
S5:E41/8/2021
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 assistance when their new recruitment candidate is kidnapped.
Director:Peter Weller
Writers:Justin Lisson, Sophia Lopez
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Director:Peter Weller
Writers:Justin Lisson, Sophia Lopez
8.1/10(640 votes)
#5 - Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO
S5:E51/15/2021
Using a cryptic postcard as their only clue, Mac and the team must solve a fallen friend’s final case and bring him justice.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.3/10(675 votes)
#6 - Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance
S5:E61/22/2021
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 takes on a longer and more complicated turn when they quarantine together.
Director:Andrew Ahn
Writers:Andrew Karlsruher, Stephanie Hicks
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Director:Andrew Ahn
Writers:Andrew Karlsruher, Stephanie Hicks

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7.9/10(576 votes)
#7 - Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage
S5:E72/5/2021
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 powerful new nerve agent.
Director:David Straiton
Writers:Andrew Karlsruher, Josh Brown
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Director:David Straiton
Writers:Andrew Karlsruher, Josh Brown
7.8/10(575 votes)
#8 - SOS + Hazmat + Ultrasound + Frequency + Malihini
S5:E82/12/2021
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 infiltrate a Codex cell.
Director:Yangzom Brauen
Writer:Cindy Appel
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Director:Yangzom Brauen
Writer:Cindy Appel
7.7/10(579 votes)
#9 - Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
S5:E92/19/2021
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 himself to prevent the info’s transmission.
Director:Christine Moore
Writer:Rob Pearlstein
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Director:Christine Moore
Writer:Rob Pearlstein
8.0/10(627 votes)
#10 - Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower
S5:E103/5/2021
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 working with Andrews, as they plot to kill thousands and reveal each Phoenix member’s most-guarded secrets.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.2/10(741 votes)
#11 - C8H7ClO + Nano-Trackers + Resistance + Maldives + Mind Games
S5:E113/26/2021
Mac and Riley head overseas together to prevent a governmental collapse and inadvertently inhale new deadly microscopic technology.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(580 votes)
#12 - Royalty + Marriage + Vivaah Sanskar + Zinc + Henna
S5:E124/2/2021
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 wedding, Bozer suspects Riley is up to her old hacking ways and Matty runs down a lead in hopes of getting to the bottom of Mac and Riley’s ingested nano-trackers,
Director:Anne Renton
Writers:Andrew Klein, Monica Macer
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Director:Anne Renton
Writers:Andrew Klein, Monica Macer
7.6/10(560 votes)
#13 - Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer
S5:E134/9/2021
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 to control his hands. Also, Mac and Desi move in together and Riley reveals the truth about her secret team of hackers to Russ.
Director:Katie Eastridge
Writers:Andrew Karlsruher, Alessia Costantini
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Director:Katie Eastridge
Writers:Andrew Karlsruher, Alessia Costantini
7.5/10(509 votes)
#14 - H2O + Orthophosphates + Mission City + Corrosion + Origins
S5:E144/16/2021
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 contaminated water supply. Also, Riley, Matty and Russ continue to follow leads on their nano-trackers investigation.
Director:Christine Swanson
Writers:Teresa Huang, Josh Brown
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Director:Christine Swanson
Writers:Teresa Huang, Josh Brown
7.5/10(540 votes)
#15 - Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal
S5:E154/30/2021
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 rid of the nanotrackers in their bodies, no matter the cost.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Monica Macer
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Monica Macer