Set 18 months after the Phoenix Foundation was disbanded and its members blacklisted, the team has moved on to civilian lives—including Angus MacGyver, who is seen teaching a university class. The status quo is disrupted when (played by Henry Ian Cusick), a wealthy ex-MI6 agent and owner of the mercenary group Spearhead Operations, approaches MacGyver with evidence of an imminent biological attack on a major U.S. city.

Believing the established agencies are ignoring the threat, Taylor recruits the former Phoenix team—Mac, Riley, Bozer, Matty, and Desi—to hunt down the bioweapon and stop the mysterious organization behind it. Director: David Straiton. Writer: Terry Matalas.

Henry Ian Cusick joins the series as Russell "Russ" Taylor.

is the season 4 premiere episode (S4E1) of the 2016 MacGyver reboot, which originally aired on February 7, 2020. Episode Plot Summary