While Desi stalls by tying her shoe, Mac finds himself locked out of the field. He improvises a hang glider from a large sign to reach the pitch.
The Merchant captures Desi and injects her with a lethal microchip that can stop her heart instantly via remote control. The Climax: The Penalty Kick
The Merchant forces Desi to throw a crucial game by missing a penalty kick.
Using an improvised jammer made from an old radio, Mac disables The Merchant’s remote. Desi makes the kick, ruining Codex's gambling payout. The Reveal: Who is Titan?
The team identifies an operative known as who blackmails players into sabotaging matches. To infiltrate his network, Desi goes undercover as a star player for an international women’s soccer team in Milan.
It is later revealed (in subsequent developments teased here) that Titan is actually Gwen Hayes , MacGyver’s aunt and his mother’s sister. An ex-agent presumed dead, she is the actual leader of Codex. MacGyverisms used: A magnet from a handbag to stop a roulette wheel. A bin lid to improve a microphone's range.
An and a hang glider made from stadium signage.
The episode ends with major revelations about , the mysterious head of Codex.
