7.7/10601 votes#1 - Resort + Desi + Riley + Window Cleaner + Witness
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 12/4/2020
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
7.8/10602 votes#2 - Thief + Painting + Auction + Viro-486 + Justice
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 12/11/2020
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
Writer: Peter M. Lenkov, Andrew Klein
7.5/10617 votes#3 - Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 12/18/2020
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
Writer: Jim Adler, Stephanie Hicks
8.0/10622 votes#4 - Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/2021
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
Writer: Justin Lisson, Sophia Lopez
8.1/10634 votes#5 - Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 1/15/2021
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10665 votes#6 - Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 1/22/2021
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
Writer: Andrew Karlsruher, Stephanie Hicks
7.9/10569 votes#7 - Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/5/2021
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
Writer: Andrew Karlsruher, Josh Brown
7.8/10569 votes#8 - SOS + Hazmat + Ultrasound + Frequency + Malihini
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/12/2021
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
7.7/10570 votes#9 - Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/2021
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
8.0/10618 votes#10 - Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2021
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10736 votes#11 - C8H7ClO + Nano-Trackers + Resistance + Maldives + Mind Games
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/26/2021
Mac and Riley head overseas together to prevent a governmental collapse and inadvertently inhale new deadly microscopic technology.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10573 votes#12 - Royalty + Marriage + Vivaah Sanskar + Zinc + Henna
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/2/2021
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
Writer: Andrew Klein, Monica Macer
7.6/10553 votes#13 - Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 4/9/2021
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
Writer: Andrew Karlsruher, Alessia Costantini
7.5/10503 votes#14 - H2O + Orthophosphates + Mission City + Corrosion + Origins
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 4/16/2021
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
Writer: Teresa Huang, Josh Brown
7.5/10531 votes#15 - Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 4/30/2021
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 5
Every episode of MacGyver Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 5!
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.
Genres:DramaAction & Adventure
Network:CBS
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Resort + Desi + Riley + Window Cleaner + Witness" is the best rated episode of "MacGyver" season 5. It scored 7.7/10 based on 601 votes. Directed by Avi Youabian and written by Stephanie Hicks, it aired on 12/4/2020. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Thief + Painting + Auction + Viro-486 + Justice".