The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 3
Every episode of MacGyver Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 3!
20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Season 3 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "MacGyver" season 3 is "Improvise", rated 7.5/10 from 625 user votes. It was directed by Stephen Herek and written by Peter M. Lenkov, Craig S. O'Neill. "Improvise" aired on 9/28/2018 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Bravo Lead + Loyalty + Friendship".
7.5/10 625 votes#1 - Improvise
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2018
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 dictator he double-crossed.
Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: Peter M. Lenkov, Craig S. O'Neill
7.8/10 600 votes#2 - Bravo Lead + Loyalty + Friendship
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2018
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 rest of Jack’s old Delta team and stage an unsanctioned rescue op.
Director: Duane Clark
Writer: Brian Durkin
7.8/10 577 votes#3 - Bozer + Booze + Back to School
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2018
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. Also, Jack joins bounty hunter Billy Colton in the hunt for a bail jumper but is concerned when he finds out Billy offered Riley a job.
Director: Tessa Blake
Writer: Nancy Kiu
7.3/10 589 votes#4 - Guts + Fuel + Hope
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2018
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 children’s hospital before they run out. Also, Riley helps MacGyver decide whether or not to allow his father back into his life.
Director: Peter Weller
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.7/10 557 votes#5 - Dia de Muertos + Sicarios + Family
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2018
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 Dia de Muertos celebrations. Also, Bozer and Riley use Halloween as a distraction to gather intel on a man accused of treason.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Andrew Karlsruher, Jim Adler
8.0/10 587 votes#6 - Murdoc + MacGyver + Murdoc
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2018
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, giving Mac a glimpse into the villain’s past.
Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: Craig S. O'Neill
7.7/10 561 votes#7 - Scavengers + Hard Drive + Dragonfly
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2018
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 drive, other than a mysterious file called “Dragonfly,” the team speculates about what could be so important to her.
Director: Gabriel Beristain
Writer: Andrew Karlsruher
8.0/10 581 votes#8 - Revenge + Catacombs + Le Fantome
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2018
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 lethal bomb maker whom Mac has been hunting for years.
Director: Lily Mariye
Writer: Brian Durkin
7.8/10 541 votes#9 - Specimen 234 + PAPR + Outbreak
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2018
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.
Director: Michael Martinez
Writer: Lindsey Allen
7.8/10 546 votes#10 - Matty + Ethan + Fidelity
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2018
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 comes out, Matty needs MacGyver to find and extract her husband before it’s too late.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Andrew Karlsruher
7.9/10 554 votes#11 - Mac + Fallout + Jack
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/2019
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. Also, Matty tasks Riley, Bozer and Leanna with stealing a diamond encoded with terrorist intel from a princess in Milan.
Director: Carlos Bernard
Writer: Jim Adler
7.9/10 553 votes#12 - Fence + Suitcase + Americium-241
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/2019
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 bomb.
Director: Ron Underwood
Writer: Brian Durkin
- 8.0/10 564 votes
#13 - Wilderness + Training + Survival
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/2019
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 rugged backcountry for a lost crate of money. Also, Jack and Matty go on a road trip to place Matty’s ex-husband and his family in witness protection.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Andrew Klein, Josh Brown
8.2/10 618 votes#14 - Father + Bride + Betrayal
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/2019
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 walk down the aisle. MacGyver and team crash the wedding to ensure the crime lord doesn’t run, only to discover they’re not the only ones lying in wait at the event.
Director: Avi Youabian
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 569 votes#15 - K9 + Smugglers + New Recruit
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2019
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 a bounty on his head, only to discover they’re not the only ones crashing the weapon drop.
Director: Gabriel Beristain
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.8/10 531 votes#16 - Lidar + Rogues + Duty
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2019
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 who tricked a SWAT team into arresting her and Elwood.
Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: Don Perez
7.6/10 530 votes#17 - Seeds + Permafrost + Feather
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/2019
MacGyver and team are asked to solve a locked-door mystery when a man working inside a remote, ultra-secure international seed vault disappears.
Director: Alexandra La Roche
Writer: Lindsey Allen, Nancy Kiu
8.1/10 544 votes#18 - Murdoc + Helman + Hit
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/5/2019
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.
Director: Roderick Davis
Writer: Lee David Zlotoff
7.8/10 523 votes#19 - Friends + Enemies + Border
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/12/2019
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.
Director: Andi Armaganian
Writer: Justin Lisson
7.8/10 520 votes#20 - No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/2019
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 find them and bring them home alive.
Director: Andrew Karlsruher
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.7/10 517 votes#21 - Treason + Heartbreak + Gum
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/2019
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 order to help him save his family. Also, Riley joins Billy Colton and Mama Colton on a mission to Paris and makes a heartbreaking discovery.
Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: Lindsey Allen, Nancy Kiu
8.0/10 530 votes#22 - Mason + Cable + Choices
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/2019
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 hundreds of innocents. Also, Mac receives new information that will drive a wedge between him and his father.
Director: Maja Vrvilo
Writer: Jim Adler