The Rising
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 2016
After losing their head of intelligence, special U.S. government agents MacGyver and Dalton recruit a new hacker, Riley Davis, and go looking for a stolen virus that could wipe out millions.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 2016
After losing their head of intelligence, special U.S. government agents MacGyver and Dalton recruit a new hacker, Riley Davis, and go looking for a stolen virus that could wipe out millions.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 30, 2016
After Jack's former CIA partner is captured on a mission to take down a drug dealer in Caracas, Mac and Riley help him rescue her. Meanwhile, Mac continues looking for a clue to Nikki's whereabouts.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2016
The team heads to Malaysia to capture a terrorist money man, Ralph Kastrati, who can tell the Foundation what the next target is. However, things go awry when a terrorist shoots Ralph in the chest.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2016
To defuse an old-school Russian bomb, the team has to find the Russian scientist who designed it and his KGB handler who knows the passwords.They then head to Kosovo to find and defuse the bomb before a Cold War Russian ex-officer uses it to wipe out a U.S. army base.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2016
Mac and his team go aboard a Berlin-to-Frankfurt train to protect an executive assistant who can testify against her crooked boss... who has sent killers to dispose of her before she does.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2016
Mac goes up against a bomber who killed Mac's CO in Afghanistan... and is now trying to disrupt a UN peace conference.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 4, 2016
To find out where a drug lord's base of operations is, Mac has to go into an escapeproof prison to free the man and have him take him to his base. First, Mac has to survive prison life long enough to make contact.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2016
Nikki hires an assassin, known only as S-218, to kill Mac. The killer goes after Mac at his home... and blows Mac's cover with Wilt.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2016
The team take refuge in an American embassy with the terrorist leader that they captured, and his men come after him. Meanwhile, Patricia considers what to do with Wilt.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2016
Mac and Wilt return to their hometown and try to help out a young child prodigy who is abducted by crooks who want her father to do a job for them.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 16, 2016
Riley disappears after the Chinese learn that a cyber-weapon has been stolen from the NSA, and the government thinks that the team's hacker is responsible. Mac, Wilt, and Jack set out to prove them wrong... and discover that they're right.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2017
Nikki comes in from the cold and tells the team that she's an undercover agent... and she can help them find a government mole that works for the mysterious Organization. Meanwhile, Jack deals with Sara's upcoming wedding.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2017
After grabbing a war criminal, Mac and Jack's helicopter goes down in hostile territory. They try to recover their prisoner, avoid his men, and signal for help. Meanwhile, Wilt and Riley conduct rescue operations and nervously await for the new Phoenix director to arrive.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2017
Matty sends Jack and Mac to Atlanta to track down a Most Wanted fugitive who apparently has a mole in the FBI working for him. When the two men get there, they discover that the truth isn't what they were told and soon find themselves on the run. Meanwhile, Matty holds performance reviews with her new team.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2017
When Matty's goddaughter Vanessa is shot to death, the team discovers that the MO matches that of San Francisco's Zodiac Killer... who was never caught.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2017
Mac and Jack head down to Louisiana to capture a fixer who can deliver the goods on his boss. However, a family of bounty hunters--the Coltons--get to him first.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2017
Matty sends the team to Amsterdam on a supposedly easy surveillance run: so easy that she sends Wilt with them on his first field mission. However, things go south when someone frames the team for a terrorist bombing.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 10, 2017
The team heads to Hawaii when an earthquake strikes Hilo. While Jack and Mac help Chenand Keno of the Five-0 team, Riley works with an attractive IT man to fix the city's cell network and Wilt rescues a dog.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 31, 2017
When an old friend of Mac's dies in a lab fire accident at MIIT, he goes to the memorial and Jack tags along. They soon learn that the fire was no accident and that someone wanted Frankie dead.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Apr 7, 2017
To find out who a new terrorist organization, Omnus, is targeting, Mac is forced to impersonate Murdoc. However, he finds himself getting too deep into the hitman's head. Meanwhile, Wilt and Riley try to find a killer that a couple hired Murdoc to dispose of.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 14, 2017
The arrival of a new scientist, Zito, sparks off an attack by the Organization to recover the virus and take over Phoenix's servers.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 29, 2017
A CIA agent asks the team to help her bring home a former co-worker that was believed in killed two years ago, but is supposedly being held prisoner by terrorists.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2017
After botching a mission, Riley goes undercover to infiltrate a hacker group that is targeting the U.S. Secretary of Defense for death.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2017
The team has to break into a vault at a high-stakes East European casino and steal a fortune in diamonds that a terrorist group plans to use to buy a WMD.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2017
Murdoc captures Mac as part of his newest scheme, which involve an elementary school teacher named Henry.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2017
As Halloween approaches, Matty sends the team to the Bermuda Triangle to rescue a squad of soldiers after their plane goes down while they're transporting a mysterious prisoner.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2017
After eluding killers in Finland, the team heads to Nigeria to put out a wellhead fire set by rebels to burn up the country's oil resources.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2017
The team has to help a pro-democratic leader in Ecuador live long enough to get to election day, by transporting a heart to him along with the doctor who will put it in. Meanwhile, Wilt sets out to find Jack's stolen belongings.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2017
While the team steal a rare painting to lure an art dealer and terrorist financier out of hiding, Wilt finds a mystery while attending training. Meanwhile, Riley's father approaches her about becoming part of her life again.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2017
The team goes after a terrorist who has sent a mercenary to recover a stolen canister of lethal nerve gas. Meanwhile, Jack gives Elwood a warning, and Wilt faces an important test at spy school.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2017
While Mac communicates with the leader of a group of students stranded on a sinking ship in the Arctic, Jack teams up with Elwood while Wilt and Leanna find themselves on the run from mysterious gunmen.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2017
The LAPD interrupts the team's Christmas celebration to arrest Mac for domestic terrorism when they find a body in a building destroyed by a bomb Mac built while on a LA mission.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2018
While Mac tries to defuse a bomb hidden beneath his home, he remembers how he and Jack met in Afghanistan.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2018
While Jack attends his high school reunion, the others participate in a challenge to create a military land drone. Unfortunately, the drone created by Mac's major rival goes berserk and heads for the Pentagon.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2018
When someone uses one of Jack's old CIA cover identities in New Orleans, Jack, Matty, and Mac head there to find out who. Meanwhile, Riley discovers that Wilt and Leanna have been texting.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2018
The assassins that Murdoc has been gathering turn against him and sell him to Phoenix. However, Murdoc's mentor Nicholas Helman wants Murdoc dead and will do whatever it takes to kill him. Meanwhile, Jack considers his relationship with Diane when she moves back to LA.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Mar 2, 2018
The partying son of a Serbian war criminal takes his new bride to an exclusive French chateau for their honeymoon, and Matty assigns Leanna to work with Wilt, Mac, and Riley to go undercover and find out where the father is. Meanwhile, Jack convinces Elwood and Jill to help him break into Matty's house to find out what she's hiding from Mac.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Mar 9, 2018
In the Ukraine, a mob snitch's trail leads to Chernobyl, and Mac, Jack, and Riley follow him. Meanwhile, Matty asks Wilt to investigate the break-in at her home.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Mar 30, 2018
The Phoenix agents go after a traitor who has been spotted by a police officer that he subsequently killed, and run afoul of the Coltons when the bounty hunters go after the same man.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Apr 6, 2018
Jack discovers that Dawn is living in LA, working the for the CIA. Meanwhile, Dawn tells them that her supervisor was murdered investigating one of his superiors who was making fake passports.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Apr 13, 2018
The team tracks down the EMP that they lost months earlier, and discovers that a mercenary plans to use it to kidnaps a billionaire's son as leverage to force the man to release the mercenary's brother from prison.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Apr 20, 2018
Mac and his friends travel to Puerto Rico to help Mac's Army build a new home after Hurricane Maria, and get involved with bank robbers.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Apr 27, 2018
Matty sends Mac and Riley to a lab near Area 51 to investigate what appears to be an alien spaceship. She then confronts Jack about breaking into her house and what she knows about Mac's father.
Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: May 4, 2018
Mac finds his father, and is immediately swept up in a cartel's efforts to make a performance-enhancing drug. Meanwhile, Wilt learns that Leanna has been offered a job at Phoenix, and Riley considers a career change.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2018
When Jack apparently goes rogue, Oversight approaches Mac at his new home in Nigeria and asks him to come back to bring in his friend.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2018
One of Jack's old Delta buddies comes to him saying that another old buddy needs help. Meanwhile, Matty sends Wilt, Riley, and Leanna on a mission of their own while Jack and Mac are out of the country.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 12, 2018
While his teammates infiltrate a tech college to learn who is recruiting students to plant terrorist bombs, Jack works with Billy to track down a skip... and learn more about Riley's lover.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2018
With Jack reporting to the Secretary of Defense and Wilt in LA, Mac and Riley are the closest agents to Georgia when a children's hospital runs out of air and rebel activity prevents anyone from delivering a vital tanker of liquid oxygen. Riley helps MacGyver decide whether or not to allow his father back into his life.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2018
When an operation that can lead Phoenix to Walsh goes bad, Oversight calls in Mac and Jack to rescue him. Meanwhile, Wilt and Riley go undercover as newlyweds to get the goods on a Chinese spy.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2018
Murdoc abducts Nasha as leverage to force Mac to help him recover his kidnapped son Cassian. As the two men work together, Mac gets an up-close view on the sociopathic killer... and his equally amoral wife.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2018
After a senator contacts her about his being blackmailed, Matty sends the team on an off-the-books mission to Ghana to recover the senator's hard drive... which also has a secret file named Dragonfly on it.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2018
While Jack is in Brazil, Mac, Wilt, and Riley team up with Mac's old partner Charlie to go after the Ghost when a British agent brings them intel on the bomb maker's location.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2018
A vial with a deadly virus goes missing from the CDC, and Mac, Wilt, and Jack are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Billy takes Riley on a cross-country drive and promises a surprise at the end, but their car is stolen.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2018
When Matty's former husband Ethan's undercover assignment is blown and the CIA disavows him, Matty asks the team to help her rescue Ethan before the criminals he's with realize who he really is and kill him.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2019
A mysterious captor takes Jack and Mac captive while they're on their way to Las Vegas for their yearly Maniversary. Meanwhile, Matty sends Wilt, Riley, and Leanna on a mission to copy data inscribed on a diamond belonging to the niece of a terrorist.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2019
When a team of thieves is captured by the government, Matty calls upon the leader--a soccer mom by day, a thief by night--to help them steal a dirty bomb that someone in Russia is selling from within a highly-guarded tech company.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2019
Mac takes Wilt and Riley on a wilderness survival trek and they run into robbers. Meanwhile, Jack accompanies Matty as she takes Ethan and his family to a secure location, and someone sends Jack a photo of a man from his past.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2019
An international crime lord offers to turn himself in and give evidence against his former organization in if Matty will make sure that he gets to attend his daughter's wedding. Matty agrees, but soon finds out that there are other people that want the crime lord dead. Meanwhile, Jack tells Mac that the mission will be his last one for Phoenix.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2019
The team deal with Jack's replacement while helping an ATF agent find her missing dog Cody... which is the key to breaking up a gun-smuggling operation.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2019
Mac persuades Matty to let him bring back the body of a test pilot who was flying over a foreign country with a lidar that Mac designed... and may have caused the jet to crash. Elwood prepares for his first day on the job, and Desi stumps Sparky with a riddle.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2019
Mac, Desi, and Riley go to Greenland to investigate the disappearance of a guard at a top-secret international seed vault. Wilt follows Oversight at Mac's request to find out what their boss is doing in secret.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Apr 5, 2019
Phoenix discovers that Murdoc's mentor, Nicholas Helman, is killing the team responsible for flipping a syndicate member to testify against his employers. They consult with Murdoc on how to stop Nicholas, only to discover that Murdoc and Nicholas have plans of their own.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Apr 12, 2019
While Mac and Desi help migrants in Bosnia, Wilt finds himself in a booby-trapped SUV with no way out.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Apr 26, 2019
When two American backpackers disappear during a No-Go Challenge scavenger hunt in South America, the parents' tearful pleas reach James. He orders the Phoenix team undercover as backpackers to find the missing kids and bring them home alive.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: May 3, 2019
Ethan asks Matty to help him recover his abducted wife and daughter... by betraying the CIA. Riley accompanies Billy and Mama to Paris to bring in a terrorist financier and bail jumper, and learns something shocking about Billy.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: May 10, 2019
The man responsible for the team doxxing and the rigged SUV reveals himself and his motive for targeting Phoenix. This cunning new adversary's carefully crafted plans force Mac to make an impossible choice: save the life of a friend or save the lives of hundreds of innocents. Mac receives new information that will drive a wedge between him and his father.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2020
Ex-MI6 agent Russ Taylor recruits former Phoenix Foundation members Mac, Riley, Bozer, Matty and Desi to hunt down a bioweapon that's planned to be used by a mysterious organization for a devastating attack on a major U.S. city.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2020
Department of Defense General John Acosta recruits MacGyver to steal a highly classified project from a military lab in order to find flaws in its security. But when it's discovered that the general is planning an attack using the weapon, Phoenix must stop Acosta before the weapon is uploaded.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2020
MacGyver and the team board a plane that's mid-flight when the pilot has a heart attack, and discover the medical emergency was intentional.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2020
As MacGyver works quickly to rescue survivors from a collapsed building in Germany, he discovers a new safety threat – a 1,000-pound undetonated bomb from World War II hidden beneath the rubble.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Mar 6, 2020
In an attempt to find the main players in the Codex and cut off their match-fixing funding, Desi goes undercover to infiltrate a soccer team and find the corrupt player working with the shadow organization.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Mar 13, 2020
When Russ' first love, Emilia, is kidnapped by the same rebels he fought during his private military contract days, he takes the Phoenix team to a small, impoverished town to rescue her and rid the town of the rebels for good.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Mar 27, 2020
A double date descends into chaos when Mac and Desi witness a murder in the back of the restaurant, and as they work to find the killer, Riley tries to keep the secret about her and her friends' "day jobs" from her new boyfriend, Aubrey.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Apr 3, 2020
After Oversight is almost killed in a bombing, he recruits Mac to help him find the suspected bomber, Mason. However, when Mason reveals he didn't plant the bomb, the three team up to track down Codex, the shadow organization that set them up. Also, Mac meets his aunt Gwendolyn.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Apr 10, 2020
While Mac's friends surround him during his time of grief, Los Angeles' power grid is taken hostage in a ransomware attack resulting in a citywide blackout, and the team discovers the code used was written by Riley years ago.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Apr 17, 2020
When Mac is put into a dream state to help him recall key evidence found in Nikola Tesla's secret lab that could stop Codex's deadly plot, he encounters Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison…and his mother.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Apr 24, 2020
Mac is placed inside a fake prison cell with a top Codex operative, The Merchant, in order to gain his trust and get intel on their next move.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: May 1, 2020
The Phoenix team is forever altered when MacGyver's Aunt Gwen gets into his head about family and connection and convinces Mac and Riley to join Codex. Also, Matty and Russ take their concerns about Codex to the White House.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: May 8, 2020
With Mac and Riley undercover with Codex, hoping to stop the organization from within, their mission is interrupted when Russ, Desi and the Phoenix team move to prevent Codex from detonating a weapon of mass destruction, with Mac and Riley caught in the crosshairs. Also, the team discovers Russ' real reason for purchasing the Phoenix Foundation.
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: 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 identity, including a completely new face.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: 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 heist before it's sold to a terrorist cell.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: 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 forced to confront their relationship issues.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: 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 assistance when their new recruitment candidate is kidnapped.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: 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.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: 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 takes on a longer and more complicated turn when they quarantine together.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: 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 powerful new nerve agent.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: 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. Also, Taylor and Bozer work with Jerry Ortega to infiltrate a Codex cell.
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: 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 himself to prevent the info's transmission.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: 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 working with Andrews, as they plot to kill thousands and reveal each Phoenix member's most-guarded secrets.
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Mar 26, 2021
Mac and Riley head overseas together to prevent a governmental collapse and inadvertently inhale new deadly microscopic technology.
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: 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 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.
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: 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 to control his hands. Also, Mac and Desi move in together and Riley reveals the truth about her secret team of hackers to Russ
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: 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 contaminated water supply. Also, Riley, Matty and Russ continue to follow leads on their nano-trackers investigation.
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: 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 rid of the nanotrackers in their bodies, no matter the cost.